New Jersey Nightly News; New Jersey Nightly News Episode from 11/09/1979

Feeling and that's a grand jury clears two Orange police officers in the shooting death of a high school student. In sports America on ice comes to New Jersey and we'll have a preview and dockworkers important work staged their own protest against Iran. New Jersey Nightly News with Catherine Starr and Bill Perry was born. Good evening and Essex County grand jury has dropped all charges against two Orange police officers involved in last week's shooting death of 17 year old Darryl Walker. Walker was shot and killed following a high speed chase with the officers late this afternoon Essex County prosecutor Donald Coburn announced the grand jury did not find enough evidence to indict officers Richard Conti and Ronald Martin. However Coburn indicated the investigation is not

quite over. The vision of Criminal Justice. I requested that the attorney general's office in accordance with prior practice review the entire file in this case with members of my office. For the purpose of considering whether this matter should be re presenting a statewide jury. There was no immediate comment from the group of protesters who have been camped outside the Orange mayor's office during the investigation. A spokesman said they will remain where they are for the time being. Meanwhile both police officers will remain suspended with pay until an investigation is completed. While the White House cautiously works for the release of the American hostages in Iran people across the country are beginning to take matters into their own hands. Demonstrations were held today from Washington to California with Americans and Iranians trading

insults and even blows. Here in New Jersey a longshoreman at Port Newark refused to load an Iranian ship that action prompted the national union leadership to call for a boycott of all Iranian vessels docked at ports along the Gulf and East Coast. An action that does not sit very well with the White House. More on the Port Newark situation from Phelps Hawkins. At about 2 o'clock this afternoon a phone caller to Pier 11 at Port Newark announced that a bomb was somewhere on the Iranian freighter are you shot. Officials reacted quickly evacuating Iranian sailors to a nearby shed and the FBI was called in. So far a stem to stern search of the ship has turned up no bomb. But it is just the kind of reaction to the Iranian crisis that law enforcement authorities have been afraid might happen. And at the moment American grassroots anger over the 61 Americans being held hostage in Tehran is focused on this nation's waterfronts. Earlier today at its Manhattan headquarters the International

Longshoremen's Association announced its hundred 16000 members would not load or unload any Iranian ships. I think that the United States government is really really in a round of well I happen to believe it. Vice President Gore like legacy a little bit afraid and I'm going to do everything I possibly can be and night Them guys to take the same rank because this guy is a real man. Gleason also said he couldn't understand why the U.S. hasn't taken any action like maybe closing Iran's embassy in Washington and he also had a direct message for the Ayatollah Khomeini. I go back to religion and practice that against him but he knows how to run a government and you know run it in fact Gleason's action today was in support of spontaneous action taken earlier in the week by union stevedores working at Pier 11 Port Newark the aria shot arrived at the port last Saturday empty and ready to take about 15000 tons of supplies to

Iran. But by Monday at about noon members of local 12:35 started to react to the UN changing situation in Iran. Some of them knocked off we tried to keep it going and see what the State Department was going to do and then. Definitely Monday night one niece always got home and your photos on TV were broadcasting and showing where they are burning the American flag. You know our followers just know accept that kind of thing. Now the supplies sit and wait on the pier. Everything from gun cleaning fluid and toxic acids to disposable diapers. And as one longshoremen said today he doesn't care if the ship rots in the harbor. Do you think any of your men are going to go back on that ship before the Iranian situation is resolved. No I do not. I do not. At Port Newark. I'm Phelps Hawkins. This is Steve Taylor at McGuire arena for space. Up until this week Iranian air force planes

have been landing here about once a week to pick up equipment and supplies including helicopter parts and other military material bought from American manufacturers. Iran owns this warehouse at McGuire and everything stored inside. But there have been no Iranian planes here since the trouble began that the American embassy in Tehran this week. When was the last shipment out of here last Sunday and what have you heard from coming under State Department concerning future shipments. Well we haven't heard anything specifically. We do expect to be a hold on the shipments of them. When's the next scheduled shipment. There is no scheduled shipment. And Colonel Horan said if the Iranians called today and said they were sending a plane for the rest of the supplies the Air Force would deny permission to land as long as American hostages are being held. Interestingly enough the Ayatollah Khomeini who condemned the Shah for buying so much American hardware military and otherwise has been buying almost as much himself. This port has been busy.

And that's the problem for people who hope keeping a radian equipment in the U.S. will pressure the committee government into letting the hostages go. Most of what Iran has brought has already been delivered. There isn't that much left. And this is Iran's only supply depo in the United States at McGuire Air Force Base. I'm Steve Taylor. And New Jersey Congressman William who is calling for a review of the visas and student loans to supporters of the Ayatollah Khomeini who are in the U.S. a South Jersey Democrat also wants the United Nations to get more involved in the Iranian hostage situation. He says it is time the U.N. demonstrates its ability to control international lawlessness. A spokesman for the governor's office refuses to confirm or deny published reports that say its Human Services Commissioner and Klein is being called on the carpet for her handling of the Marburg state psychiatric hospital incident. Five people died and more than one hundred twenty others were sickened when a contaminated chicken dinner was served at the hospital almost two weeks ago. The governor however didn't learn of the incident until five days later. And then he got his

information from a newspaper not Ms Klein. A report in the editions of today's Newark Star-Ledger said Klein has been ordered to submit a personal report on why the governor's office was not notified immediately. She has been quoted as saying we just didn't think about it. The state's top law enforcement official says he would like to see all juveniles who commit violent crimes or who are repeat offenders tried as adults. Attorney General John Degnan says juvenile courts should not be used to punish that he says can and only should be done in an adult court. Degen made the strong statement to a very receptive audience. The convention of the New Jersey State Education Association and Atlantic City teachers in this state and elsewhere are very concerned about the growing incidence of violence in the classroom. Some say much of that violence goes unpunished because of the way juvenile crime laws are written. Twenty year prison terms were handed out today to two men convicted of abducting Joan Dietrich the wife of the Patterson banker executive who was taken from her home last summer. Two other men who

pleaded guilty to reduced charges were given 12 year terms and the fifth suspect who became the government's chief witness was sentenced to 80 years in jail. More on today's courtroom activities from Raj wells. The four defendants all 22 years old and all from Paterson arrived in federal court in Newark this morning for sentencing in the July 20th kidnapping of Joan Dietrich. Last month they were convicted of holding her hostage until her husband William Bank's vice president paid nearly a quarter of a million dollars in ransom. Virtually all of that money has been recovered by the FBI. Mr and Mrs Diedrich were in court today and listen carefully as lawyers for the four defendants asked for leniency. Defense attorneys for a gay antónio Allison Dravot and Salvatore Locke and Jada maintained that their clients were innocent Guillermo Caceres and then hell said Daniel and admitted their guilt. Midway through their trial and their attorneys asked Judge H Curtis meaner to take into account that they had no previous criminal records. But Prosecutor William Braniff called the defendant savages and asked

the judge to protect society by putting the defendants away for a long time. But the judge said the first two defendants Allison Drell Owen Locke and Jada continued to stonewall despite the overwhelming evidence against them and they sentenced the pair to 21 years in federal prison because Sarah since the day you know were given 12 year terms all four defendants will be eligible for parole in from four to seven years. In addition to passing sentence today Judge meanor also instructed the U.S. attorney's office to see to it that all of the defendants are deported when they finish serving their sentences. None of the defendants are citizens. And the judge said the United States should not have to harbor criminals that so grossly abuse the privilege of being in this country at the U.S. district courthouse in Newark. I'm Reggie wells. When to lay on police officers went to the Conrail freight yard to investigate a grass fire last night they found three men lying in the art apparently burned to death by electrocution. Police now say the three victims and a fourth companion were apparently trying to steal copper wire from a

dead power line just three feet below a line carrying twenty six thousand volts. The men lost their balance and their aluminum ladder fell into the live wires killing the three instantly. They own police knew the victims fairly well they had been arrested several times since their teens for the same offense stealing copper wire. Police speculate if the three had survived they would have made nearly a thousand dollars from that one night's haul of wire. Sandy Hook of the Recreation Area in Monmouth County has been closed indefinitely. The National Park Service closed it today after beach erosion uncovered unexploded artillery shells until five years ago the area was used by the army for artillery test firing. Park officials say the Army has promised to investigate and remove any shell still buried along that stretch of the beach. While that is going on the entire beach will be closed except for guided tours of for Hancock. A man who gives the governor advice on the economy says the outlook for the state looks much worse than it did just a few months ago. Dr. Joseph Seneca the head of the Economic Policy Council

says the rising cost of energy is pushing inflation in the state to the 13 percent mark. He says traditionally unemployment goes when it goes up one and place it goes up. But both are on the rise in the state making the situation even worse. Residents of New York's Ironbound section have for years been plagued by noisy planes coming in and out of Newark Airport. A federal commitment to cut that noise by the mid 80s would provide a partial answer to their complaints. But now Congress is considering a move that would push back those federal guidelines. SANDRA KING reports. Jet noise may seem like just a minor annoyance but when you live within an airport's approach pattern it can be a major headache. Again we could not really know whatever you thought about you. This is distressed by the round the clock noise and dissatisfied with federal promises the

Ironbound anti-noise activists have been protesting and paraded and just when it looked like things might get a little quieter. A Senate amendment to an airport funding bill could stall planned jet noise controls the Ironbound folks are among six million Americans suffering from noise around the nation's major airports. But they do have some support and some of it from the airports themselves. Officials of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Newark Airport say the answer is federal requirements for quieter aircraft and without delay. Working with the people and I know we're going to be frustrated as we have been telling them and telling the people around them. The most effective way to reduce the noise. But residents of this neighborhood even if the congressional already answered what they really want is an end to

the Ironbound. And now here is the weather forecast for the state tonight will have cloudy skies with a 100 percent chance of rain. It will be windy with temperatures in the upper 40s to low 50s throughout the state. And tomorrow the threat of rain remains possibly in the form of a thunder shower. Temperatures will be in the low to mid 60s in North Jersey a bit cooler in the south and the outlook for Sunday partly sunny and cool. Oh. The first coaching casualty in the NBA here is Bill Perry with that and all the other sports bill.

Thank you Karen the Detroit Pistons not exactly a revitalized team fired their coach Dick Vitale revitalisation was the slogan when the Pistons hired Vitale before the start of last season. Dick Vitale a high school coach in East Rutherford then an assistant at Rutgers then the head man at the University of Detroit. Finally his dream came true a head coaching job in the NBA. My talent to the Pistons with his dynamic personality and a pledge to turn it around he didn't. The result. Good bye rich out of bottle formally a head coach at Upsala will be the Pistons interim head coach. Listen to what my towel told us last January when he brought his pistons to New Jersey to play against the Nets. No matter what happens I will never never look back and say that I made a mistake in taking a pro job. It's easy to quit. I'm not going to quit. The man up there wants me to go. The owners want me to keep banging away. And I really believe eventually at this level if you survive these battles back your

way if you survive. Hall's basketball team hosts a Yugoslavian team tonight in a special pre-season exhibition 08:00 Yesterday we told you that Howard McNeill the starting center with the last of the pirates for at least the first semester because of academic problems but the big thing for the Hall this season will be replacing Gardner Gallus gallus was the focal point last season and the leader and according to coach Bill Raftery there's no one guy who can replace us. We're just hopeful that some of the younger kids and some of the newcomers will be able to shoot as well as he can give it up but I think we'll distribute a lot of the shots around a little bit more on young Matty picking which I think's going to be a heck of a basketball player he's a junior who came over from junior college and he's going to be a great help to us and young rorts as a freshman with great speed. So between them we think we have people who are not as good as Nick was but can do a lot of the things that he did. America on ice comes to New Jersey tonight and tomorrow the South Mountain arena in West Orange

hosts the ice skating spectacular all for a worthy cause. This report. The show was presented by the figure skating club which is a member of the United States Figure Skating Association and the purpose of the club is to raise money for cancer patients and this year's proceeds will go to the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York there is a cast of hundreds from six years to 60 members. There are also guest stars like Olympic hopeful Lisa Marie Alice. Former Olympian. She says there's a big difference between skating for competition and skating for entertainment when you're trying to. Heels for a panel for eight years 72 I think. And I have a whole different approach and

I think it's more for. The Times of eight o'clock tonight evening at 8:00 at the South Mountain arena in West Orange. College football directors an army that are right back in the bowl picture coming off the down Army Not much too far in one if you are hearing the optimistic coach painting a pretty picture. Forget it. As we listen to Lou. We had Army field we've got to totally rebuild a program to be successful. How long will it take you you've moved around a little bit. Yes I take a program like this but this might be the most published task of overhead it might take right now forever but at least it's going to take several years. You commit yourself to the several year only if they want to go ahead and have good solid football and this is something that concerns me at the moment. What has been your discussion with you. Well when we first arrived they wanted to have top notch football on the course we're going through a process of growing and at this moment that we've got to make some commitment which we've got to be strong

and firm and at the moment we still talk about what we have done when you bought it. Do you feel those commitments will be made. I'm sure they should be. The man said should be not would be what is the future of Army football army and Rutgers tomorrow. At Princeton it will be the Tigers and you have an Ivy League degree and finally former Giant quarterback Jerry Goldstein cut just yesterday by Detroit back in the NFL has been picked up by the Baltimore Colts. That's what's going on. Thanks Bill. Politicians have distracted Tuesday's election to see what went wrong and what went right. But tonight our media commentator Richard Hixson takes a look at how the print and broadcast media handled the election particularly in the area of editorial endorsements. By the time this commentary is aired political pundits will already have analyzed the results of New Jersey's general election. Newspaper editors and publishers meanwhile are trying to figure out the effectiveness of their editorial endorsements of certain candidates. My own analysis is of the process by which most newspapers and some TV and radio stations come

to favor one person over another. First I should note the political endorsements are traditionally limited to the editorial page. The columns on the op ed page and the letters to the editor. News columns are reserved for objective balanced and fair coverage of the candidates and the issues. While it is questionable just how much influence indorsement have on voters there is no question of their importance to the candidates and the press. Candidates value the considered judgment of journalists whose job it is to report on government affairs. The press on the other hand has the obligation to point out the pros and cons of those running for office. It's part of the press's public service function in our society. The procedure followed by most papers weeklies as well as dailies is to invite the candidates to a series of pre election interviews at the newspaper. These are conducted by a panel composed of the publisher the editor reporters who cover state and local government and of course the editorial writers. After each interview the panel decides which candidates appear to be best. Campaign issues and the candidate's style and personality are the

biggest influence on voters. Undecided voters may turn to the press for advice. But endorsements are more a matter of journalistic tradition obligation than professional pride. A press that there's a lot speak its mind at election time. Is irresponsible. This is Richard Nixon. Going to Jersey Pinelands National Reserve is one step closer to reality tonight. Negotiators in the House and Senate have agreed to spend 12 million dollars on the environmental project. The money that was part of a much larger bill and there are still other differences with the bill to be ironed out. Then it will go to the full House and Senate for a vote if and when it is approved just over 11 million will go to actually buying the land from its present owners. The rest will go to planning a consumer activist Ralph Nader says college boards and tests like them should be abolished because they have too much power over students. Nader told the convention of New Jersey teachers today there is no way you can determine a person's career by what he or she can do in just three hours. The Atlantic City speech is

just one latest of of the latest salvos in his continuing criticism of the Educational Testing Service. The Princeton firm which makes the standardized tests and spokesman officials at several colleges and universities have disputed many of Nader's claims. They say the S.A.T. scores are just one of the many criteria used in deciding college admissions. Charles V.A. The Rutgers professor who was charged by the university with improperly holding dual professorships will not be dismissed from Rutgers the Rutgers board of governors today decided to censure view day and review his conduct in three years. A series of hearings were held last winter because he held positions at both Rutgers and CW post-college on Long Island for a 10 year period. If you're looking for something to do this weekend and your interests include art exhibits one of the biggest one

man shows is going on a tribute to part of the American past. More on that and other weekend happenings from Diana in London. Howie D'Evelyn has managed to capture on canvas the elegance and intricacy of Victorian homes an exhibit of his work called Portraits of American architecture. Now at the Morris Museum You may recognize some of the buildings many of the home of the devil and paints are found right here in New Jersey. The museum is open on Saturday from 10 to 5 and on Sunday from 2:00 to 5:00. That's on Normandy Heights road in Morristown and New Jersey Public Television has produced a film on Victorian architecture with Harry Devlin narrating that'll be on this Sunday night at 6:30. McCarter Theater moves on to its second production of the year all the way home sales surprise winning played. It's the story of a family in Knoxville Tennessee in 1915 and how they deal with a death in the family. Gordon goes up on Saturday at 8:30 and on Sunday at 2:30 and 7:30 the theater is at ninety one university place in

Princeton. And if you want to get outside on Sunday Essex County is sponsoring a family walk. You can hike through Eagle Rock Reservation. Four hundred acres of open brush and parkland. It's the highest natural point in Essex County and on a clear day you can see all the way to the other side of the Hudson. The group needs a tent in the morning rain or shine near the main entrance to the reservation. All of the Eagle Rock Avenue in West Orange and in South Jersey will be an outdoor show this Saturday. This is the eighth annual show for Hidden Valley Ranch and Tate made competition will be for English riding style mostly hunting paces and jumping. That's tomorrow from 8:30 to 6:00 on Bay Shore Road in Cape May. There isn't any charge and it's a good reason to get out and have a good weekend. Once again our top stories an Essex County grand jury is cleared to put orange police officers in the shooting death of 17 year old Darryl Walker walkaway shot and killed last week following a high speed chase with the two officers and longshoreman at post Port Newark refused to load an Iranian ship today. And that prompted the national union to call for a

boycott of all Arabian vessels along the Gulf and East Coast. And that's the news for Bill Perry. I'm Karen Stone. Good night for the New Jersey nightly news. New Jersey Nightly News is a joint recent patient at New Jersey Public Television 13. The program is broadcast Saturdays and Sundays at 6:00 p.m. both the New Jersey Public Television and channel 13 Washington free reporting.