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The The The The The The The The The The The The The The The The The The The The The Major funding for New Jersey Network Muse is provided by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Transportation Union services, and the And furthest Diderry Bank, and Jersey central power and light. The And New Jersey Network News, with Kent Manahan, Phil Bremen. Damn Good evening. Authorities say they have dealt a major blow to organize crime in New Jersey, a dozen people, including a Maplewood police officer and two ranking members of the Scarfo Crime family, were rounded up today. Trish de Gasparis reports the state's organized crime and racketeering task force says the

case is important because the people involved are noted for their violence. Authorities say that these men carry out the business in North Jersey for the once-powerful Philadelphia-based Scarfo Crime Family. In an early morning raid conducted at their homes in Bergen, Paseyek and Essex counties, officials arrested a dozen men and confiscated an arsenal of weapons at the various locations, rifles, handguns, even a crossbow. The men are charged with a multitude of offenses, racketeering, loan-sharking, arson, drug trafficking, and conspiracy to commit armed robbery and burglary. So our feeling that this type of joint effort leads to this type of wide-ranging ability for us to prosecute, charge, and prosecute these type of individuals. According to officials, there's lots of movement within the Scarfo organization right now because of Scarfo's recent conviction. And authorities say that the players today are the players to contend with in that organization. Officials say that the ring leaders are John Januska and William Layton, and that they

recruited the others to form a pool of criminals. One of those recruited say authorities was officer Philip Amudis, a veteran with the Maplewood Police Department. He's charged with carrying out loan-sharking duties for Layton, who was in jail on another offense. Defense Attorney Michael Critchley is representing the police officer who is William Layton's son-in-law. And he finds himself now involved innocently in what I come to call mega-trials. They start to frighten me because not only are they mega-trials, but they have mega-allegations, sensational in nature, involving many individuals, and it's kind of difficult to ferret out the wheat from the chair. If convicted of the charges, the men could face a lifetime behind bars. Trish D. Gaspar, New Jersey Network News, Newark. More than two weeks after their old contract expired, there's a tentative settlement tonight between one group of state workers and state negotiators. The pact covers a union representing 10,000 state health care workers. The talks remain bitterly deadlocked with a much larger union, which now is asking for

the appointment of a state mediator. Scott Moniac has the latest. The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees confirmed late today that it has reached a tentative agreement with the Cain Administration. AFSCME represents 10,000 workers at state mental hospitals and other health care facilities. Members had conducted a one-day work stoppage last month to protest the lack of progress and negotiations. Details of the agreement, now headed for a ratification vote by the end of the week, haven't been announced, but word of the tentative agreement was welcomed by officials of the CWA. We just heard that AFSCME may have settled a contract. We have not gotten all the details of it. We understand that it might be somewhat higher than the offer that is on the table for us. If that's true, then it shows that our members, by taking action with AFSCME members, have bumped those numbers up. Negotiations with the CWA, which represents 40,000 state employees, have reached an impasse over what had been the state's continuing demand for a six-month wage freeze. The union has now asked that a state mediator enter the negotiations, a position backed

by the state's chief negotiator. The impasse will bring in a mediator who acts as an intermediary between the parties, and it may be useful in the sense of trying to resolve just exactly where we both stand. As far as our table is concerned, it's just refused to move. At this point, Travelli says there is no word on when a mediator will be appointed, and talks with the state will resume. By going to impasse, we would like to bring in a third party like Mr. Messriani to say that other settlements around the state, like the Turnpike and the Parkway Authority, are much higher numbers than the governor has on the table with no freezes, and any objective third party can see that. Scott Moniac, New Jersey Network News, Trenton. In the race for governor, the polished issues of the present and future, once again, are being overshadowed by rough edges on the past. Last week, Democrats suggested that supporters of Republican Jim Quarter were really reaching. When they dredged up the fact about his rival, Jim Floreo, that 18 years ago, Floreo failed to vote on a flag-desecration bill. Today, the scrutiny goes back even further to Quarter's college days, and his membership

in a fraternity that excluded blacks and Jews. Sandra King has the story. Jim Quarter came to Somerville today to talk law and order in New Jersey in the 90s, but the questions were on discrimination in New York in the early 60s, specifically his fraternity at Colgate University, and its policy of excluding blacks and Jews. And I was there. I was on the track team, and we had blacks on the track team, and some of my best friends were blacks on the track team, and I tried to encourage them with my fraternity. But none of them ever did become members, although Quarter insists that the no blacks, no Jews policy had been abandoned by the time he joined. Still five years after Quarter's graduation, the alleged blackballing of a Jewish student led Fidel to Theta to be thrown off the Colgate campus for discriminating on the basis of race, color, and creed. My opponent obviously has to account for his own values and his own associations. All I can say is that I would not be a member of any organization that made a conscious policy of keeping anybody out on the basis of race or the basis of religion.

Fidel to Theta has chapters throughout the country, including one here at Rutgers in New Brunswick, and until 1956, there was allegedly a written policy, limiting membership to only male white persons of full Aryan blood. But critics say that even after that policy changed, the practice did continue through Quarter's years and after. And while he says that's not true, he admits that during his days at Colgate from 1959 to 1963, there were no blacks or Jews in Fidel to Theta. Whatever exclusionary charter or bylaws that was lifted about five years before I went to Colgate University. And yet there were no blacks or Jews, as I understand it, for the years that you were there as well. It's my understanding that there wasn't. But the point here is the fact that it was a fraternity that did not exclude anybody, whatsoever. Quarter says he doesn't mind the scrutiny on his college years, but he says it would be unfair to label him a racist, either then or now.

He says his record on civil rights has been a good one. Still, it's too soon to know if those fraternity days will haunt this campaign. Two new polls show that incumbent Tom Kane has lost some popularity in recent months that New Jersey voters are ready for a change. But Jim Quarter insists that does not mean a change in party. Sandra King, New Jersey Network News, Newark. When an oil spill occurs, time is of the utmost importance in order to expedite cleanup the U.S. Coast Guard should have authority to immediately take over spills of more than 100,000 gallons. According to testimony today before Congressional subcommittee in Philadelphia, looking into last month's Delaware River oil spill, 300,000 gallons of heavy oil spilled into the river when a Uruguay in tanker ran a ground in June. With some of it reaching New Jersey shores, Congressman James Sachsden today called for the local Coast Guard commander to be able to take immediate control in his spill situation. He and other officials also want legislation to allow the Coast Guard to set up booms, personnel,

and boats along waterways that carry oil and fuel. Phil? Kent, the Coast Guard is already in charge of another ongoing effort to keep coastal waters and beaches clean. And today, Senator Bill Bradley took a first-hand look at how it's working. New Jersey's senior senator went on a garbage patrol with a Coast Guard crew off Sandy Hook. After the two ruined summers at the shore, there have been no major beach pollution incidents this season. That, Bradley, said, is proof of the vigilance of state and federal agencies in enforcing the new Coastal Protection Act. We have the Coast Guard, the EPA, we have the Corps of Engineers, the States of New Jersey in New York, the City of New York, sending one message. That is, if you dump illegally, we now have the means in place to catch you and we're going to put you in jail. The floatable's waste action plan is designed to find and capture floating garbage before it has a chance to reach the beaches. The Coast Guard, the eyes of the operation, has picked up more than 300 tons of floatables mostly scrap wood since the program began just two months ago.

And about 20 miles away, long-distance swimmer Skip Storch stood ready today to take the plunge right into New York Harbor. Not the most pristine environment to begin his 100-mile week long demonstration swim to Atlantic City, all part of a show of support for what he called New Jersey's change of part towards the environment. Storchew is being sponsored by over 50 organizations and businesses, expects to cover 10 to 20 miles a day, with environmental forums scheduled for each stop. Tonight, Storch wraps up his first day soaking wet in Sandy Hook. He's been a memorable vacation at the Jersey Shore for a tourist from Hungary. He's credited with saving the life of a three-year-old boy from Monmouth County. The Hungarian was fishing in Sandy Hook Bay when he saw an Atlantic Highlands woman, apparently trying to drown the boy.

Her son, Belinda Morton, reports. The woman accused of trying to drown her three-year-old son, Kathleen Foggy of Atlantic Highlands, appeared today before Monmouth County, Superior Court Judge Lawrence Stammelman. He's charged with aggravated assault and endangering the life of her son, Daniel. According to police yesterday, around two in the afternoon, 34-year-old Foggy, mother of three, took her young son and walked into the deep water and just stood there holding him under. She was spotted by a Hungarian man fishing in the area. Police say the witness was fishing here at Sandy Hook Bay. He saw a woman standing in the water acting peculiar. He thought she was in trouble. He ran over to help her out. He noticed that the lady was in the water, but he didn't see a baby. He just heard faint cries. He thought it was sort of unusual, so he went closer to her and asked her what was the matter. Police say had it not been for the gallant efforts of the Hungarian fishermen, the child would have died. What he says he did was took the baby, turned the baby upside down, and that's when the

child exhaled the water and started to breathe again. According to the defendant's husband, the two have been happily married for 19 years. He says yesterday's incident totally shocked him. We don't know if she was trying to kill herself or just a child. Police have yet to establish a motive. The defendant remains in custody in Mammoth County Prison, with bail set at $100,000. Belinda Morden, New Jersey Network News, Mammoth County. When we come back, Jim Van Sickle with a wrap-up of the day in business. And we'll take a look at a fast, disappearing industry, the one that gave the garden state its name. After this, for part one of a preview of an NJN documentary, Farmlands on the Edge. Death on a construction site of the New Jersey Turnpike today, state police say a dump truck

backed over and killed a worker in Borden Town Township where the turnpikes knew exit seven is under construction. Investigators say the driver apparently did not see the victim until after he had run over 41-year-old Charles Vold of Trenton. No charges have been filed against the truck driver, 40-year-old Ronald Lee of Bridgerton. Time now for tonight's business report, here's Jim. And let me ask you, how much do you know about where the jobs come from in New Jersey and all that goes with that tax revenues, flow of money through the whole system? Like, who's the biggest employer? Well, that's an easy one, AT&T, by a country mile, and our own baby bell, of course, New Jersey bell, no piker either. But what about the health industry? The mighty big names, they're Squid, Merck, Johnson, and Johnson, Warner Lambert, and the like. And then a raft of small companies doing incredible things, both in R&D and in manufacturing. A report just out notes that in wages alone, the health products industry pours two billion

dollars a year into the economy, vital blood flowing through the veins of our economy. Forty-eight thousand, six hundred New Jerseyans make their livelihoods in the health products industry, facts compiled by Rutgers professor Howe Eastman. Speaking of the health care industry at Madison, Shearing Plough announced today with considerable satisfaction that the biogen patent on genetically engineered alpha interferons has been upheld by the European patent office, that office reversing an earlier decision. The action validates Shearing Plough's exclusive licensing agreement with biogen. In historic announcement by AT&T over the weekend, big telephone for the first time diversifying outside the high tech industry, with this exchange of interest in alavetti for interest in alavetti's parent company, which is into everything from financial services and publishing to engineering and auto parts, if you will. AT&T at the same time, of course, turns to Intel for its moves in personal computers.

Every sign of a slowing economy and nudge up in inventories, which could be, of course, a drag if things get slow enough, bonds dipped a bit today, a correction some call it after the gains from falling rates. The market, no ten in a row, as they say, amiss, is as good as a mile. Not much volume today, while we wait for, among other things, the trade deficit numbers, which are widely presumed to be a downer. But the secondaries may have brought joy to some hearts in the turbulence in the airline business, sent to transportation index to another record high, up 19 points. New Jersey, the garden state, yes, but in the last three years alone, the garden state has lost about 110,000 acres of farmland. And that leaves only 830,000 acres of prime farmland, a dramatic loss of land that leads many to wonder whether we can continue to call our state the garden state. Well, New Jersey, networks, target New Jersey unit, decided to look into the future of

farming here in a cinema veritate documentary, Farmlands on the Edge, produced by Janice Sallinger and Hank Sayon. During the next four nights, we'll tell you even more about this pressing problem. This sale, we run about 200, 250 hit a week, we used to run 2,500, a few of farmers, the main thing. And right now, on the probably the last six or eight months, the value of the land has jumped really looking New Jersey. This is one of the few undeveloped areas left. The development rush has not come in upon us, like it has in other areas. That's been due to zoning laws that we've had in this particular township, where building itself is discouraged. But as more and more farmers find their backs to the wall in agriculture, they're becoming

more and more willing to sell their farms. Our first inclination would be to stay here in farmers we had been. It would be very simple for us if we didn't have to worry about encroaching development, if we didn't have to worry about impending legislation on the state and county municipal levels to impact on the equity value of our land. But that's not the real world. The real world for New Jersey farmers has changed drastically over the years. Since 1955, New Jersey has lost half of its prime farmland. There was a time not so long ago when the grass was greener here on New Jersey farms. We came here because we had a good opportunity in a rural setting. We got land fairly inexpensively. We were able to bring up our children in a rural setting away from the city atmosphere

and that's disappearing here now in New Jersey. So I might not choose to come here if the situation was then what it is now. Pete from Ulan has been farming here since 1947 and he's not about to leave. His children have decided to take over the farm, farm perfectly suited to a developing state. The landscape improves not only the aesthetics, but it improves the financial worth. We're in a period where there's a high demand for our product and so it makes it worthwhile economically for us to stay. And farming does pay off financially for other farmers in the Garden of State and helps the economy as well. It's the fourth largest industry, a very big contributor to the state's economy. In New Jersey, it's the nation's third largest producer of cranberries and the fourth largest producer of peaches and asparagus.

In New Jersey we probably have 80 or 90 different crops who are very diversified from sod to flowers to Christmas trees to turkeys which we see here today and all of the vegetables and fruits that we grow. So we're very diversified. Our growth income per acre is considerably more than what you would find in the grain states. The state secretary of agriculture, Hart Brown, is one of the first to admit that New Jersey's laws of farmland is a serious problem. And that's tied in directly with the development that's going on in the state of New Jersey. Probably more development in this state than any state for the size it is. A lot of other states have witnessed the same type of thing, but we have such a limited land base in New Jersey that makes it a lot more important to us in agriculture. Tomorrow we'll meet two farm families, one decided to sell out to development. The other decided to continue farming in the garden state and you might say that there's food for thought in that. You might say that and we'll have a whole meal, the documentary itself is on Thursday night, Jim.

Coming up a week of on-again, off-again showers will have the forecast. And in sports, Pat with a look at how Bobby Rehal won the Marbow Grand Prix, that's all coming up next. Hey, who's talking to you? Hey, who's talking to you? Rutgers University is to be in the forefront of the national battle against radon.

Experts say the cancer-causing gas is a major health hazard and it's been found in high levels in several New Jersey communities. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency now has chosen Rutgers and two other universities in the Midwest and West as regional radon trading centers. Rutgers will train workers to measure and remove radon contamination. Neither New Jersey or the U.S. government currently has a standard for such training. The law creating the centers was written by Senator Frank Loughtenberg. Fill news tonight that contamination at the Johns Manville industrial site in Somerset County will be cleaned up under terms of a multi-million dollar agreement announced today. The state environmental officials say the company has agreed to spend $17 million to clean up the sprawling site. That project will include the removal of buried asbestos materials and the cleanup of groundwater.

The Manville company was the subject of scores of lawsuits by former employees who contracted asbestos-related illnesses while working at the manufacturing facility. All right, if you plan to picnic for yesterday based on our forecast from Friday, well nobody's perfect. As you know now noticed, instead of the predicted sunshine, we got another inch of rain. And fair warning this time, there is more to come. But the field at Pomona was nice and bright today for this softball game in the summer program at Stockton State College. The youngsters in the program and their parents of course have another four weeks before things get back to normal at home. Currently, mostly to partly cloudy at our reporting stations, temperatures Newark 80 the days high, Trenton 77 Atlantic City 78. The forecast, tonight, variably cloudy with a chance of a shower, low temperatures ranging from 58 North to 68 South. Tomorrow, partly sunny, warm and less humid, the highs between 78 and 87, Wednesday increasing cloudiness and a chance of showers late in the day, the highs between 77 and 88.

Actually, it's more like five, five and a half weeks. I'm counting those days. Those school starts. Pat is next with the sports report and the nets at the top of the sports tonight. Are you going back to school? Yeah, the New Jersey nets say the franchise is not for sale. Today, executive vice president Bob Cassiola responded to recent rumors, saying a substantial offer it was received and turned down by current net's ownership. Cassiola reaffirmed the nets commitment to bringing a winner to New Jersey. While Bobby Ray Hall was the winner yesterday at the MetaLands in the rain short in Mar Burl, Grand Prix. It seems rain and indie car racing go together at the MetaLands, the six Grand Prix, the soggyest in the events brief history when it started a light rain really wasn't a factor as a field of 28 ran a race against the Trishon spin offs, crashes and mechanical problems and kind of for more lead changes than drivers passing one another. Over 38,000 turned out watching the race from Grand Stands was much improved sightlines, but the weather affecting fans and drivers as you can see.

In the end, though, Bobby Ray Hall and Emerson, Fidipaldi, doled in the rain drops at the MetaLands. It was just a matter of racing against Emerson and trying hard and it was just got crazier and crazier towards the end. You just absolutely could not see a thing and you'd come flying into this cloud of water and you just sort of guessed. Ray Hall wins a second race here at the MetaLands in three years. He did it by passing Fidipaldi in a daring move early and then fending off ammo in a move that set Fidipaldi into the wall. In the end, I was chasing him twice, I tried to pass him a touch and I'm happy a second place Bobby deserved the race. Be honest with you, I don't even remember touching Emerson, I mean there's so much water in your slip and slide and all over the place and you can't see anything ahead of you and you can't see anything behind you. The cow was too flying, it was a shame that it happened to Yellow and I couldn't have any chance to chase Bobby, but my cow was great the end of the race. How was the visibility? Zero. Instruments flight. Great.

So that's how we did it. Well, the Intercontinental Cup field hockey tournament closed yesterday with Holland winning the championship. Cannon and Holland met in the title game yesterday at Drew University in Madison. The Canadians in white with Lee Tanki scoring to open the game. But Holland came back scored five straight goals for a five to one win. Tommy VanTech with a 100 international goal scores his second year. By the way, the U.S. finish 11th and a 12 team tournament. Holland is the second ranked team in the world and they win the 11-day Intercontinental Cup tournament. Oh, in baseball, the meds open an 11-game home stand with a 29 double header against Houston. While the Phillies are in Cincinnati and the Yankees visit Chicago. And the Nike basketball camp is over at Princeton, but Sean Bradley and the talk about him continues. Bradley, seven feet five, two hundred and three pounds attracting attention from PGA Carlisamo and coaches from all over the country, the Utah High School senior improved his stock. The tallest guy I play against in Utah is at top six eight. You know, so it's a big adjustment coming back here and I have to change my game a little

bit. And then also a lot bigger than me. You know, I don't, I only weigh two hundred and three pounds. I'm really light for my height, you know, so they get physical with me and they push me around, but I don't back down. I give it my own. I try my hardest to do the best I can. Amazing. Boxing tonight, Hector Macho, Kamacho fights his old sparring partner, Tommy Hanks in Atlantic City. He's supposed to fight Trenton's Kenny Bogner, but changes mine, so the very beatable Hanks steps into the ring. Cincinnati Reds reliever Kent Takolvi, the one time Philly retired after 21 years in the Biggs and the New York Rangers. Finally named a general manager after seven weeks, it's Neil Smith from Detroit. Yeah, that was an awful lot of water on the track up there at the metal lands. Was it safe to drive those cars at those speeds? Until I went 145 laps, they finally cut it short by five, but at one point, both those drivers were saying, hey, let's stop the race. They were radioing back to their pictures to say, enough's enough, and finally it came true. Who makes the decisions? It was a little late, maybe? The carte people, and yes, I think it was. All right.

Thank you, sir. Drag that out of you. That's all for this evening. I'm Phil Brimman. I'm Kent Manahan from all of us here at New Jersey Network News. Thank you for being with us. See you tomorrow. Good night. This has been a presentation of New Jersey Network. Thank you. You

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