New Jersey Nightly News; New Jersey Nightly News Episode from 11/18/1979

The wait continues for the release of some of the American hostages in Iran. In sports the Giants in Tampa Bay now playing the third period the Giants taking it on the chin and in New Jersey a former top Carter trade blames much of the Iranian crisis on Henry Kissinger. In. New Jersey Nightly News with Jack Kennedy and Bill Curry with sports. Good evening for the blacks and women being held hostage in Iran. Release is likely tomorrow. But for the others the white men. There was a new danger the Ayatollah Khomeini says the white man at the U.S. embassy will be put to trial. And if they are found guilty of being espionage agents they will be punished under Islamic law. No one seems to know what kind of punishment that could mean. The ayatollah said also that those trials might be avoided if the U.S. would extradite the deposed Shaw a prospect. The State Department will not even discuss the frustration of the Iranians Iranian crisis affects even this country's senior most experienced

diplomats. As an example former undersecretary of state George Ball a resident of Princeton says he is aware of no precedent for the situation at the U.S. embassy in Tehran earlier this year. Ball served as a special consultant to President Carter on the worsening Iran situation. Today reporter Phelps Hawkins caught up with ball at Newark International Airport and was told that this country's options are as few now as they were when the embassy was first seized. There was no way in the world one can defend the embassy of the. Country and the government as it is prepared to do what they have done in Iran. The idea of marine girds is has never been anything more than to maintain a holding pattern until the local government can intervene and stop the terrorists. But when the government is is a party to this kind of criminal action there is nothing that can be done to defend the embassy. That is why he's doing nothing now. All we would do is kill the hostages. I don't think the American people are

very eager to do that. We better face up to this is the reality of the situation. But now today we hear that some of the hostages might be tried for treason. Does that really complicate the situation. Because it's quite frankly it's a very disturbing comment because a trial in a revolutionary conditions over and this is nothing at all. I mean it's farce. For now the official advice to Americans seems to be patience. Are you hopeful. I quite agree that we need patience. I think it's a real test of Americans stability and solidity that we're prepared to face the situation and recognize that our options in this matter are very limited until the hostages are out of there and that this ought to be our prime consideration and not be go around making hysterical statements and talking about how strong we ought to be when nobody has any prescription for being able to do anything about it. It's nonsense and it's a minister of Israel people took it Balsall took issue

with recent public statements suggesting that the U.S. had been directing Iran's affairs for several decades. He places most of the blame at the feet of former President Richard Nixon and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. We've come to the country full of weaponry during the days when I had something to do with it and during the Kennedy and Johnson administration we kept the show on a very short lease and 22 years before May 1972 all of the weapons that we permitted him to buy him out and in total to one billion three after custard mix and saw him in May 1972 in the next seven years there were twenty two billion five hundred million which gives some idea of the kind of megalomania we were creating because Nixon said to him you're my equal you are equal to to look after the Persian Gulf and be its protector just as we protect the rest of the world. The I began to feel that he was a man beyond and beyond constraint. And this was one of the things that led to his downfall.

The New York Daily News says today that certain officials in the police union in Jersey City are under investigation for allegedly receiving kickbacks the kickbacks reportedly were paid by a dentist and an attorney who were on the union payroll to provide professional services to union members. The news says the investigation began when the prosecutor's office received an anonymous letter providing details of the scheme and the roles of various police. The police union officials in setting it up stay dietician's report on conditions at the Marlborough psychiatric hospital warns state officials that sanitation there was slipping and the employees seemed apathetic. The Newark Star-Ledger says the dietician's on site inspection was made on October 11th. More than two weeks before an apparent food poisoning outbreak killed five patients. The newspaper says state officials kept the report under wraps despite repeated requests from the press to see it. The dietician's report severely criticized the hospital staff for sloppy food handling and said that in transporting food to bedridden patients and colleges staff employees broke

every sanitation rule in the book. There is still no official version of what led to the food poisoning that sickened almost 130 patients. But investigators suspect it involved the reheating and cooking of a chicken dinner nearly 200 years ago the city of Paterson was born because Alexander Hamilton thought the site would be ideal for manufacturing. The key was the area's Great Falls a natural source of power just waiting to be tapped. Now officials are talking about the rebirth of Paterson and again the Falls has a starring role. Sandra King explains. The falls are the second highest in the east dropping seventy seven feet. It makes for spectacular scenery. So it's no surprise that Patterson is once more becoming something of a tourist attraction. But what of Alexander Hamilton's original idea. Well city officials say it's still a good one. So the plan is to put the falls to work again as an energy source. And the first step will be the 9 million dollar renovation of this 19:14

hydroelectric plant for 10 years now the plant has been still up and the power of these falls has gone untapped. But why was the plant closed in the first place. Well amazing as it may seem in 1979 in 1969 oil power seemed cheaper than water power but oil is no longer cheap. So the hydroelectric project has a practical appeal as well as historic. In fact the Department of Energy has already kicked in a 1.3 million dollar grant. Opportunity does knock more than once here the reason the oldest industrial city in the United States was born. Was that falls and the energy that could be derived from it. Now 200 years later it's causing the rejuvenation of the city of Paterson because the energy source is available to us again. There still is a legal battle to be fought with the Hackensack water company. And bombs are yet to be sold. But if all goes well. Federal approvals should be ready within

months. And by 1983 the hydro electric plant should be producing Thirty two million kilowatt hours annually. That's equal to two and a half million gallons of oil are enough electricity to serve eight thousand homes. I'm Sandra King. Teachers and members of the Board of Education at the Essex County vocational technical schools will meet again tonight to try to settle the strike in that school system. Negotiations broke up yesterday with no progress to report. This afternoon the teachers picketed at a play at Irvington high school. Essex County executive Peter Shapiro had a role in a production of Peter and the wolf. The teachers say he's also had a big role in stalling their talks. The strike entered its 19th day today. The schools in Borden town will be open tomorrow. They had been closed since Wednesday afternoon when fighting broke out among the students. Some say the fighting was racially motivated. A claim disputed by school officials and the town's mayor. Christine Grani has more.

Bordentown and Bordentown Township Police say they are prepared for trouble at the school but just about everyone close to the situation says it's unlikely. In fact Bordon town's mayor says news reports that the fighting at regional high school was racially motivated are exaggerated to the point of being inaccurate. They really have not given the school administration the opportunity to sift through all the situation and look in and try to resolve the problem in any kind of a problem where a fight is a serious thing. But it's not I don't really feel there's a real serious racial problem to school I think several kids got involved in a scuffle. They happened to be black and white students. So I think some of them in general dislike each other not because they're black or white. Just the fact that just dislike each other when classes begin tomorrow authorities say they expect the two days school was canceled to have calmed the situation but both on and off duty police will be on standby ready to separate the students should any lingering hostilities turn violent in Bordentown township. I'm

Christine Negroni. While the weather today was gorgeous and are about as close to it as is ever going to get sunny skies warm temperatures. And it wasn't even Monday but if like us you had to work this weekend see if you can't get outside in the next couple of days. Tonight clear skies should stick around. Lows will range from the upper 30s to the mid 40s along the coast. Tomorrow should look a lot like today mostly sunny and mild temperatures in the upper 50s to low 60s. And the outlook for Tuesday will cross your fingers. Sunny and mild. Well Tampa Bay

put it to the Giants today Bill you have this story with sports excuse my smile you know I have this loyalty a man comes to us from Tampa Bay but it's not over till it's over you said put it to not it's not over but they're putting it to Tampa Bay leading the Giants 24 to 3 in the fourth quarter some other scores. Bears beat the Jets 23:13 eagles over the Cardinals 16:13 and Washington B Dallas 34 20 Washington Philly and Dallas all eight and four in the NFC East will get back to football later the jams and admires opened up last night. The women's professional basketball league the final at the Dunn sports center in Elizabeth Washington 98 New Jersey 90 and Myers number 14. Here's her historic first basket. It came in the second half is trailing 65 58 to 33 left in the third period. Meyers rallied the Gem's with 16 second half points a jumper by and tied it at 90 with one 18 to play but Washington scored the game's eight final points to win. What about the WB. What about the gems. What about admires the post-game comments from the WB as potential savior. It's going to be a long season. I think for all teams it's going to be a long season and I know last year they had the

worst record in the NBA or the WBL. And I hope to help contribute to this team. And it's very hard throughout the league because right now there's no there's not enough quality players quantity of players and those players that haven't played basketball all their life for whatever and this is a chance for a lot of women to get into a professional sport. And so you don't have the top basketball players all around. And I think next year with the Olympians coming in and you after with a lot of top college players coming with each year it will get better and better. And the gyms. We just got a lot to work on after tonight's game. I felt we didn't execute our offense at all and we didn't screen out on rebound and really got her on the boards and felt and our defense has a lot of work to do. So you know our overall game. But I think if we could pick up a few more players it would really help our team. Last night's attendance 2000 754 all time gems high and only 800 more than for last

year's opener next Saturday night the gems host Chicago the Mets won their first game on the road of the season last night 98 93 over Detroit. Down by as many as 14 but only by three at the half. Eddie Jordan 21 points and Calvin 25 brought the nets back late in the third quarter. The Nets took over they took the lead. Eddie you really playing well for the Nets now after the slow start. John along with a career high Thirty-One kept the Pistons in Detroit he's now coached by rich Adubato a former head coach at Upsala. The Nets built a lead of 12 points but Detroit came back then John Williamson had a couple of tee buckets the first with six seconds left on the shot clock the second buzzer beater down the stretch 18 points for suit coming off the bench tonight. The nets are back home to beat San Antonio in soccer today. Ryder college lost the South to the nothing that in the finals for the ECAC midatlantic title. OK now back to football college football. Garden State Ball. Still no word on an opponent for Temple the garden state Bowl committee has a morning meeting

scheduled tomorrow. The season ended for Princeton yesterday and it's all upbeat in Tiger Town yesterday. Princeton beat Cornell 26 14. The Tigers made the big plays all day on offense and on defense. The victory gave Princeton a 5 and 4 record for 1979 the first winning season since 1969. Princeton finished five up and two down in the Ivy League a second place tie with Brown. The win was the first over a 500 plus team for the Tigers since 1975 and it was the first time since 69 that Princeton beat a 500 plus Ivy League rival at Palmer Stadium. Some of the heroes yesterday Mike Moran 165 yards with a punt for a team. Russ Moyer 125 yards with an interception for a two day running backs Larry Van Pelt and Chris Christie 105 yards for Van Pelt 94 for Krissie and two touchdowns quarterbacks Steve Reynolds 11 of 18 passing 122 yards and finally coach Frank Navarro his second season is now history and as I said it's all upbeat at Princeton for Rutgers. Meanwhile it's a different story. Despite their seven and three record and Dan Newnan has this report. The Scarlet Knights travel to Louisville for their final game next week with their season really ended with

yesterday's 32 70 loss to Villanova upset Tennessee by playing good football. That means no mistakes. Yesterday the Knights fell victim to the upset and their own miscues didn't help. And the first QB Dwayne Cervi dropped a TV pass in the end zone. The Knights had to settle for a field goal later Kenny Smith coughed up the ball on the kickoff return following a Villanova TV Wildcats got the ball back and picked up three points on what next series and Nick Michael was intercepted on the first play. Wildcats didn't score but after a punt looked you had the ball on their own 12. In fact the Knights started drives inside their own 15 yard line seven times but take nothing away from Villanova. The Wildcats were able to control the ball and the clock with their ground game fullback Don Zizzle at times like Marty Zonker Kerry tacklers with him on the way to pick up one hundred fifty five yards Villanova was able to capitalize on his mistakes but they also created situations like sacking Macmichael in critical spots including one for ACTC in the third period in the fourth period to score a nice was showing signs of life. They stopped doing

over on to 37 but the personal foul was called on Rucker's instead of a funny situation. The catcher had a first in 10. They capitalized on two touchdowns and put the game out of reach. I'm Dan Newnan All right then. And that's our sports jacket. It's still time to get some money done. Almost 1000 people all the merrier in Clifton for a rather unusual convention this weekend. It's a leadership conference for a movement called Worldwide marriage encounter. And there was a lot of encountering going on as Phelps Hawkins reports. Just approaching the sixth high school in Clifton. There was an air of concentration this weekend. It seemed that people were either meditating or taking a very difficult test and in some ways they were doing a lot of both. Whether out in the sun or inside the school couples were working and rediscovering and strengthening their relationships that get together yesterday and today is not a real encounter weekend but it's much like one because after this weekend the couples here will go back to their hometowns in eight states and

lead Marriage Encounter weekends for other local couples. It's a world wide organized movement originated in the Catholic Church but now operating in many other churches and temples and Encounter weekend last from Friday evening until late Sunday afternoon. Forty four straight hours together periodically returning to a main auditorium for a presentation of some moral issue. Then they go into dialogue and discussion groups and finally into smaller groups. Four or five couples where the issues are brought to the most personal level. It's simply called sharing. Bill And Barbara if we go any are the Leadership Conference coordinators I believe that the couple can have a tremendous impact not only of one another but on their children their families and others of the others to commit to. Do you think those encounter weekends can be tough weekends. It's a tough weekend. It really is. When you get to the top this is based

on the level. At the level with which you want to communicate with each other you know how deeply you want to become involved to the topic in your own relationship in just the last six years almost one million couples have gone through Marriage Encounter weekend. But organizers emphasize it is not marriage counseling or psychotherapy. Rather they say most of the couples enjoy good relationships and that after the weekend. Their Relationships. Are great. In Clifton I'm Phelps asking for West Milford. Men face charges tonight for a cross-burning in that town the fort told police it was a prank. The police are not amused they're charging the man with criminal mischief and trespassing. James roughen isn't laughing either. It was his front lawn where the cross was burned. Roughen who is Black says he hopes the men are convicted and sentenced because as Rothmann.

You simply don't joke that way. This probably won't surprise you but it's not going to please you either. Fuel and gasoline costs are leading state officials to predict a budget gap a shortfall that could run as high as $16 billion this year. The state is set aside about 33 million for those costs and the actual bill will be closer to $15 billion.

Most of us have heard grim reports of starvation and disease afflicting hundreds of thousands of people in the war torn country of Cambodia. Earlier this week seven Congresswoman returned from a tour of the area. The delegation was able to secure a promise from Cambodian officials to speed up relief efforts. Tonight we repeat a closer look at the situation from one of those who made the trip. New Jersey Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick. Here's Karen Stone. The congresswoman returned just two days ago. The memories are still fresh in her mind and foremost in her thoughts are those too young to understand what is going on and too young to care for themselves. Pitiful children that had shame and that they had dog white. It didn't look like in my cab how I will accept the fall. I don't even like the children more like very thick it's

terrible you can't imagine what just one of those so-called refugee camp hospitals is caring for or trying to care for one hundred and seventy one thousand people. Ms Fenwick says the conditions are deplorable. I don't know whether we want to on television go into the situation of what it's like but it is right it is right for the transit center in Bangkok itself. At the camp I'm talking about is down south of Bangkok and it's 37000 people it's not the biggest the biggest is one hundred seventy one thousand. And at first with these very sick cases all they could do was to put some kind of a thatched roof or even a lot of it is just blue plastic as you fly over. You can see and that is no protection because the heat comes through easily that that group that

supports for a thatched roof and they would even this is very likely is going to have some strong matting side so that if it rained it wouldn't come in and gravel will wear it more like stone and quite shopkeeping gravestone Wistrom that tonight on the mountain which isn't very comfortable of course because. But why is that filling up slowly. Because if you lie on packed. Blood and everything else that might be there you are lying in it. At least with the gravel soaked through today and you don't you don't have to lie in it. Tell us about the type of warfare that killed everybody. Well I'm glad that everybody has been in the army everybody who had an education every teacher everybody the foreign minister they call him now. And then the 29 year old I mean they have nobody left around the country that no

host There's no mail service there's no telephone service. Everything the typewriters were destroyed credible. Can't imagine you know for the first time since that since the since 1916 we see poison gas something that the world thought was outlawed we thought. Yes. I spoke to a man in the detention center in Bangkok. He was he was Laotian because they'd taken over in Laos to happen to me there on the launch and his village was called previa and he'd seen these people who were there were three kinds of tear gas which is the least bad. Then there's the nerve gas which is very puzzling and people attacks the central nervous system. But the most immediate and terrifying is this hemorrhagic gas which starts the man described to me through the interpreter with the vomiting and then this terrible hemorrhage

and you're dead within five to 15 minutes. There are rumors that it's also being they're starting to use it in Cambodia. In Cambodia the Vietnamese army will not let the people where they were in control harvesting right. They will not let them fish in the rivers or the Lakes so that for protein they grubbing for worms and insects and then they eat leaves that tree that they can fill the stomach and so they arrive in these terrible conditions. You see those who escaped the war and are hardy enough to avoid starvation are now facing a new enemy meningitis. It's a very virulent form and they diagnosed the first four cases among children four patients and two died and then the next day five more. Now if an epidemic of that kind is starting with these famished people you know I keep thinking of the four horsemen of the apocalypse war and then follow the walking's famine because of the disruption of the parenting

life. And then with famine comes to the open to every infection. And then and then there have been reports that the aid that is being sent over to Southeast Asia will not get to enough people and get to serve the people that need it most. It's so bad. I come to the point now I don't have it. When people say they will accept 30000 tons of money then they have to study they say. The question is to whether or not foreign observers could go along to make sure who get it. I doubt we can achieve that. But never mind. Certainly if they have enough to feed those Vietnamese soldiers and to feed themselves let me sit comfortably in power certainly then you come to me. I'm not going to let the people have something that I think it is

preposterous for those of us in New Jersey who are hearing the reports and reading the reports that are coming in what can we do. Those of us who want to do something contribute to any of these organizations. As I say if you are. Prepared to give to the Catholic Relief you may be sure it's going to be well. If you want to give to the Israeli team that there was volunteers you could send that gift to the Israeli embassy and they would see to it they've made a collection among the people in Israel and collected a lot of money if you are a Protestant you can get to the joint volunteer JDA joint volunteer agency a whole group of agencies church will be done doing wonderful work which I believe though that there were dozens of them. The International Red Cross UNICEF is doing fine with. I mean that as you know you can send a donation to UNICEF at the United Nations

in New York. All of these things and all you can I can say is be proud of you even bother me as the congresswoman mentioned many of the contributions are being handled by UNICEF if you wish to contribute. The address is 3:31. It's 38 Street in New York City zip code 1 0 0 1 6. Again our top stories Toronto radio says it will be tomorrow before any of the hostages will be freed at the U.S. embassy. Eight Black women and five black men and five women are expected to be released. But there is now talk that the others will face some kind of trial on espionage charges. And that's the news for this Sunday for Bill Perry and everyone here on the weekend stop New Jersey nightly news on comedy tonight. New Jersey Nightly News is a joint presentation of New Jersey Public Television and

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