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       [NOT FOR PUBLICATION NOT TO BE CITED AS PRECEDENT]
                 United States Court of Appeals
                     For the First Circuit

No. 99-1191

                    SIGFRIDO TORRES LAZARINI,

                      Plaintiff, Appellant,

                                v.

                          UNITED STATES,

                       Defendant, Appellee.

           APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

                 FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

        [Hon. Juan M. Perez-Gimenez, U.S. District Judge]

                              Before

                      Selya, Circuit Judge,
                Campbell, Senior Circuit Judge,
                   and Lipez, Circuit Judge.
                                
                                
                                
                                
     
     Rafael A. Oliveras Lopez De Victoria on brief for appellant.
     Guillermo Gil, United States Attorney, Miguel A. Fernandez,
Assistant United States Attorney, and Fidel A. Sevillano Del Rio,
Assistant United States Attorney, on brief for appellee.

February 17, 2000

  
  
           Per Curiam.   After a thorough review of the record
 and of the parties' submissions, we affirm.  It appears that
 appellant Sigfrido Torres Lazzarini ("Torres") did file an
 administrative claim for the mental suffering he says he
 endured as a result of the allegedly wrongful termination of
 his benefits by the Veteran's Administration; and we will
 assume that claim was filed in July 1992, as reflected in
 Exhibit F of Torres' Appendix.  Even if Torres' Federal Tort
 Claims Act claim was cognizable   a matter we do not decide  
 it is barred as untimely.  Torres' claim accrued in September
 1989, when he says Veteran's Administration officials conspired
 to withhold his benefits.  See United States v. Kubrick, 444
 U.S. 111, 113 (1979) (claim under the FTCA accrues "when the
 plaintiff knows both the existence and the cause of his
 injury.").  In order to have been timely, his administrative
 claim should have been filed by September 1991.  28 U.S.C.
 2401(b).
           Affirmed.  1st Cir. Loc. R. 27(c).