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Almost 8000 cheering fans many of them drunk and throwing beer cans waited outside the old north terminal for the World Series champs to arrive at about 8 o'clock. Some of the fans rushed to gate and headed toward the runway where the plane carrying the Yankees had just touchdown run. At first only about 16 Port Authority police were on hand to control the crowd. But by the time some of the fans tried storming the runway backups had arrived. The crowd was brought under control by firemen who turned on their hoses. Officials ordered the airport closed during the crowd scene. Some planes were diverted to other cities when it was all over. The fans never got to see their Yankees because the team's plane was diverted to a secluded part of the airport. Today things were back to normal. Airport officials had time to reflect on last night's incident. We wondered if they had any plans to prevent the same sort

of thing from happening again. Well I'm going to watch the Yankees very carefully if they win another pennant. I think maybe I'll ask them to go to LaGuardia or someplace at. The airport officials say the fact that they shut down and that no one got hurt is in itself a testament to good security. At Newark Airport. I'm Jeffrey Hall. In. 50 years ago Newark Airport was a giant in aviation. Sixteen hundred feet of marshland turned into the first hard covered runway in the world by 1948 though New York taxpayers could no longer support their airport so the Port Authority took over in the 1970s Newark airport became Newark International Airport. But the new passenger terminals were all but vacant. But this year in the last Newark began to regain its popular reputation. This year alone passenger

traffic is up 15 percent. Not so much because it has better things to offer than New York's Kennedy or LaGuardia but because those two airports have reached their capacities. Well today Newark Airport stands at the threshold I think of a great new beginning with the discount fares and deregulation of the industry. The public once again is squeezed out of the airports that are existing at the other fields around. LaGuardia is running 15 million passengers a year. Kennedy is up to capacity. Newark has the physical plant and the location. Frankly Jeff I believe the geography is destiny. It is in that spirit that Newark Airport began and today at its 50th anniversary there was a celebration of the past. 50 vintage airplanes soared overhead as part of the day's anniversary ceremonies. And also it was a salute to 75 years of powered flight leading the air

parade 75 year old Arthur Godfrey who has a reputation for buzzing New Jersey airports. Apparently the ole red head still wants to be Waldo Pepper even though he's better known for his ukulele and apparently Newark International Airport still wants to be a major force in aviation. Even though it's been overshadowed by its New York competitors. But today on its golden anniversary there is hope and every indication that Newark Airport will pull ahead and recapture some of its old more fuel. From New York International Airport. I'm Jeffrey Hall. It was all upbeat at the groundbreaking ceremony two weeks ago. Dignitaries from

city and state government crowding the podium to share the credit for the 16 million dollar project that is being constructed on this site about 10 acres of land right I just don't 1967 riots. Many speakers call the project wrong overdue and many of those in the audience who sat baking in the sun some of whom hope to live in the new buildings seem to agree. In all 305 apartments will be built ranging from one bedroom units to four bedroom duplexes but on an average each apartment will cost over fifty two thousand dollars to construct very close to the cost of private homes and many middle class communities in the state. The high cost is due in part to the philosophy behind the project. Lower density housing City officials say will avoid the nightmares that have resulted from the high rise housing projects that stand as a grim reminder of the efforts of earlier city

administrations to deal with the housing problems here. We do recognize though because we are pragmatists that there are some adverse conditions in the neighborhood. So here we're trying to rectify them. We're going to have garages for each unit in there we saved a lot of land that had previously previously been designated for parking. Now we're going to be recreation. We have community people hired to do the security. We have community people involved in management and part of the problem we've had with the high rises in the city is that they were put up by outside people and managed by outside people that didn't have roots in the here were at the final. A large percentage is being built by people from this community. So the people here are going to have a stake and we think that's going to make a difference. In order to keep the market value nearly a million dollars a year in federal subsidies will be paid to the management team that will operate the duplexes that will go towards paying off the 48 year uninsured mortgage for the apartments arranged through the State Housing Finance Agency. Here for a two

bedroom apartment will be about two hundred fifty dollars a month which officials say is about half of the real cost. The chairman of the agency believes the huge public investment is worth the price. I think what we need and this is an example of where our most convenient County. But everything is not tranquil here. This project does have its critics some of whom charge that this kind of expenditure to build housing where some can live in dignity in the midst of thousands who don't. It's very risky. For one thing the project stands in the middle of the most densely populated

area in the city. And despite plans for shopping centers and other support facilities in the future but little of that exists here now. The president of the greater Newark urban coalition says it will take more than museums and Essex County College to attract middle class residents to the Pilgrim Baptist housing project a public housing. Problem. So on. The project to address the services problem. But it still raises a concern with me about the high

concentration of people. In an area that is focusing on concentrating low income families in one place. Burke says that the key to the success of the Pilgrim Baptist project will probably live with tenant selection a process that sponsors here say has not yet begun but he doubts many middle class families want the problems that go hand in hand with the site for the project. I think the major problem relating to getting middle income families particularly those young children to move into Newark or into Pilgrim is the school system the major factor. Middle income families are the public schools and the crime problem. Those happen to be the least responsive. And even those who strongly support the concept of duplex housing on this site are acutely aware of the attitudes and trends of urban deterioration. There will

have to be overcome if the project is really going to get off the ground. What up. Thank you because we want and what you want. We want to know what you so the metaphore been away since in the desert to describe the Pilgrim Baptist housing project is really not accurate. What it really is is a very costly experiment in urban renewal and one that will be watched closely by other cities around the state and across the country. In New York I'm Jack Otter. Today.

I. One of the main problems that we have and we don't have any kind of political

power. So one of the things that we expect from this convention is to go it's honest try to you know how to deal with that problem. And one of the things we are going to propose today is to create a state wide political committee independent of the Puerto Rican Congress because because we are receiving. Most of the Puerto Rican Hispanics they are not very happy with our present press. And it will have to do a lot of things in the next government to prove really that he cares so he's some Puerto Rican. The

A. The department is at an all time low with nine hundred twenty one patrolmen. There are even fewer cops now than there were just after the 1979 layoffs. Those cuts sliced 200 officers from the force. But there are 37 new rookies now in training at New York's police academy and within two weeks they'll be joined by another 60 new recruits. Most of those will be assigned to the city's crime plagued housing projects. Their salaries paid from federal housing phones. But New York's police director says the whole city will feel their impact. The real question is the use of those officers that we have developed developed techniques in policing within our department that allows us to get a great deal more productivity out of the officers so 60 offers just to us could mean a hundred officers to some departments that are not functioning as efficiently as we function within the New York Police Department right now.

But even Williams concedes his department will still be under staffed with 157 fewer cops than there were before the layoffs in Newark. I'm Sandra Kaye. In. Right.