New Jersey Nightly News; New Jersey Nightly News Episode from 02/13/1980

Either profet is a New Jersey chiropractor who believes even a well-balanced diet is not enough to protect us against vitamin and mineral deficiencies he uses a trace mineral analysis to determine mineral levels in the body. We will take a sample of hair taken from the nape of the neck. Sent to the lab. The way of using spectral photometry will send an analysis of 17 different minerals. And telling us what the. Content of the hair is which reflects the content of the entire body. When you start to take the vitamins you kind of like say these are all you know I really feel good. Is this real or is this you know my imagining it. But then you found after about a week or so two weeks you can actually feel that you have some type of. Not exactly elation but some kind of feeling when you know that you wake up in the morning and you really feel good. Our next question to you is this. Should we eliminate all fats from our diet. The answer is No. Even on a

reducing diet we need some fat intake. A healthy diet consists of 30 percent of its calories from fat 60 percent from coughing is a disgrace. We ought to be able to train our troops without killing them. And the lighter sentences would appear to indicate that the general tenor of the army dealing with matters of this kind was not to regard them very seriously. Congressman looking into the incidents recommended tougher standards for drill instructors and more thorough physical examinations for recruits and New Jersey's first all female class of state troopers reported for training today. It's part of a federally ordered effort to get more women into the state police ranks. Now there are only two women among nearly 2000 troopers. Mary Amoroso was there among the crush of news people today at the police academy in seegar. If sometime in the future you happen to be preparing for your first day of state trooper training. Take this advice. Don't break too much luggage

and keep this in mind too. It's hard to run in high heels. It was not an easy day for New Jersey's first all female class of state troopers. Not only do they have to adjust to the rigors and the regimentation of military training but they also have to cope with the marauding hordes of media people there to record every historic moment. How was the first day. It's a little tedious see man. We're not running a guy. We're not going to do anything different in this 96 class because the happen to be of the female gender. Any future classes will make sure that we tell them on the first day no high heels. For the record one hundred and four women showed up for training today. Average age 23. Some single some married some divorced some with children. The women will learn everything from hostage negotiations to the psychology of the alcoholic

to how to fire a pistol. It's certainly a high risk profession. It's not as frequent as everybody makes it out to be OK. The women will have the same exercise regimen as the men but with modified less demanding chin ups and push ups. This supposed late because women have less upper torso strength. 20 weeks from now at least some of these women will emerge as full fledged troopers. The drop out rate for male trainees is about 50 percent. And state police say they expect about the same with these women but it's a safe bet to say that come spring. Will be a lot more female troopers patrolling our roads even this afternoon though you could see the beginning of the transformation in khakis and regulation shoes. The women learned something critical to being a state trooper right down the road in Seagirt Mariama Rosso. Federal officials today filed a motion to bring former Essex County Sheriff John Cryan to trial for a second time on extortion and racketeering charges. Bryant's first

trial ended last month when Judge Herbert Stern declared that some of the evidence had been presented improperly. Today's request includes a bid to admit that evidence again evidence. Government prosecutors say it is proper and helps prove conspiracy. A spectacular fire was touched off this afternoon after an explosion at a warehouse that stores most of the East Coast supply of plastic flowers. Hundreds of workers were evacuated from both the Markovitch plastic company and a neighboring warehouse where the fire spread observers from three counties reported seeing the blaze. Two hundred firemen from 20 different companies were on hand to help out. Officials suspect a warehouse fire has caused the explosion. No one was seriously hurt. A high ranking U.S. Customs Service official in Newark pleaded guilty today in trying to thwart a corruption probe George Davis was arrested last November on charges of intimidating witnesses in the ongoing probe of corruption in the Customs Service. Davis who served as chief of merchandised control faces up to five years in jail and a $5000

fine. Norberto Gotti is expected to come home to Lodi sometime today. Even though the speculation about whether he is a U.S. citizen continues he was grabbed in Puerto Rico two weeks ago by U.S. immigration officials who said his citizenship papers were probably forged and that he was wanted on some sort of criminal charge in Guatemala. It all gets very confusing from there. The U.S. Immigration Service claims Gotti admitted he was a Guatemalan. So they deported him. The Garcia family says he knows no more about Guatemala than he knows about some planet in outer space. In any event Immigration officials say he's allowed back in this country until the whole thing is straightened out. And if you've gotten a ticket for illegal parking at the Metro Park train station lately you're not alone. Police in England said today that 452 tickets were given out in that area in an 18 day period which ended last Friday. Police took up the ticket blitz after fire officials complained illegally parked cars were jamming access roads and in an

emergency fire vehicles could not get in. The State Department of Transportation has been pushing carpooling as an alternative but so far it's had limited success. A special state commission began hearings today into a possible sex discrimination in marriage and family law. The commission charged with reviewing all state statutes containing sex based classification. But these hearings are especially emotional because of the question of child custody laws. Phelps Hawkins has a report. The question of who gets custody of the child is no new problem but it has gotten a lot of attention lately due to the incredibly popular movie Kramer versus Kramer. Dustin Hoffman is the father who has had custody of his son for a year and a half. And Meryl Streep his ex-wife who returns and wants custody. Well I've learned that I love my little boy. That I'm capable of taking care of him. What do you mean.

I want my son. You can't have that. It's that kind of emotion that's making the Commission's job so tough. Just how do you go about making statutes the law specifically responsive to the emotions involved in a divorce and custody dispute for lawyer Howard Danziger Short Hills who handles mainly custody cases. The answer is you can't. Not in our current courtroom process. There's some Midwestern states Wisconsin. Where there's a female judge who is just routinely awarded custody to fathers. And when asked why she she explains that her father her mother died when she was very little and she was raised by reform so she knows what to serve. Basis. To work because. Frequent comments today is emptive not very successfully to discourage the bickering between male and female perspective and concentrate instead on the object of the tug of war the child

the problems of daycare are also being tackled by the commission. Several more hearings around the state are planned and the report expected by the end of the year in New Brunswick. I'm Bill Socrates. And now here is the weather forecast for this day. Tonight will be partly cloudy with temperatures in the mid 20s inland and near 30 along the coast. Tomorrow should be partly cloudy but a little warmer than today. The high should be in the low to mid 40s. And Friday it will be partly sunny. A loss for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. Bill Perry has details.

Bill thank you. Karen Rutger's felt a 500 last night 11 up 11 down with a loss in the Palestra in Philly to Villanova 70 to 60 a tough tough loss for the Scarlet Knights Nova with the win took over first place in the Eastern 8 7 up and down now in the league 8000 and five overall rectors six and 3 in the league. And Rutgers went for most of the way last night but they needed this bucket by Darryl Strickland to not at 68 with 30 seconds left. Going over brought it down and got a shot from the corner with five seconds left. Not a good shot. You'll see Stewart Granger fire no good. But number three Rory Sparrow will be there for the long rebound on the off balance turn around banked to win at 70 68. The nights may fall below 500 for the first time on the coach Tom Young Youngs in a seventh season because tomorrow night Rutgers meets tough North Carolina at Madison Square Garden. It hasn't been the greatest year for Seton Hall coach Bill Raftery either but last night the hall went above five hundred twelve and 11 by beating Fordham 62 57. It was all pirates early. Their press rattled the Rams. And after this stealing bucket by Dan Cowan drill it was 3:47 it went to

8:42 but then Fordham had a run outscoring the hall 10 once it tied at 19. By halftime it was a one point ballgame. FORDHAM 13:29 early in the second half. Steve Greco drilled a jumper but the hall up 33 32 went up to State College Drogo number 20 was the offensive spark throughout. Danny had a game high 27 points and Seton Hall was able to maintain their lead. That final score again Seton Hall 62 Fordham 57. The Rutgers women beat Cheney state 82 59 last night the Nets play on the road tonight at Indiana tomorrow night New Jersey is back home to meet Utah. The Nets have lost three in a row playoffs. I think you can forget it. One thing is hurt and that's the season and I'm not paranoid but the refs seem to cost the nets more than you would expect. Kevin Lockerby just isn't the most popular guy among the zebras. Witness this last Friday night at home against L.A.. No call in the final seconds while it's obvious that Mike Nolan got hammered. The score was tied at the time so the no call cost and that's the game they lost in overtime. Send new ones to the line and then that's when Kevin had a right to go

wild. But just two nights earlier when they lost it used in that no call was the right call no foul. Roger Feg we try to jumper which would have tied it down the stretch Kevin went wild on that no call too. But as you can see on the slo mo no foul sometimes Kevin's right sometimes he's wrong but rarely does he get a call and it hurts. Then that's Dr John Marshall a Giants team physician and a consultant for the Mets was among three men killed last night in a private plane crash. The accident occurred as the three New Jersey men were on their way to Lake Placid for the Winter Olympics. New Jersey will be represented at Lake Placid by two men in the luge competition. What's the illusion that so luge the thing between the two men. Anyway you race on it down the snow bank track. No thank you. But Raymond Bateman of Somerville and Richard Healy of the Shaddock are among the seven men on the United States team looks a little scary. And that's our sports as I said. No thank you. Thank you Bill.

With the beginning of what some are calling the second phase of a Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union American attention is again being focused on Russian motives in Perth Amboy novelist Victor Morvan a Russian dissident and expatriate talked with reporter Jack comedy about Russian involvement in Afghanistan and the effects of a possible U.S. Olympic boycott this summer. Here's his report. Fifty year old Victor Barabant has spent much of the past year in Perth Amboy where he now lives with his wife Mary. He works in the Merchant Marine as a radio operator. The sea has always been his first love but Moravec spent many years Karpen the water in the work camps of Soviet Siberia. And his experiences there on the ground work for his first novel The Diary of the Kennedy and Garang. It's a story of a fictionalized Russian dissident his tortures and trials following his arrest under the Stalin regime in 1937. It's a story of

imprisonment exile and escape and is very close in spirit if not fact to Moravec his own life. Broadbent says the motives behind the Russian incursion into Afghanistan are being misread by Western observers. The tanks and soldiers are there to squelch all possible Muslim uprising within the borders of the Soviet Union. It was caused by Russians perhaps in an internal political stability. It was destabilized by the dismissal of the show and the violence of Muslim religion and time in around which influences the Soviet Muslim republics it may invent the whole empire and they say that the run around is enough. So in Afghanistan they want to suppress it Marxism because they were taken into deep roots and local religions are alive especially Muslim. If you go into the country in. Soviet scintillation republics you will find a mentality jingoes come things to the third century. So they were really careful about it.

If any disturbance is no cause and destabilisation of a loyalty to the regime it is breakfast at President Carter's response to call for an Olympic boycott by U.S. athletes at the Games in Moscow this summer has short term value and long term liabilities. Temperamentally it's a very good idea because it shows him as a strong man of decision and that makes this Snoopy Americans a little. And it reminds the Kremlin that they should mind Western public opinion temporarily OK but in the long run if we're going to stake one and because the regime will survive it very easily you can never heard it but millions of Russians will be disgusted. They way for you. Most of the bright virgins and the second hand were less than the comes to Russia. It's a great windfall for the West. It means a lot of Russians because they like their way of life and the wealth and freedom and every religion is useful for the West. Berar that is now a U.S. citizen. He says he will always miss his native Russia

but he doesn't expect to go back even for a visit. The risks and personal danger for the author and the Soviet Union will always be too high in Perth Amboy. I'm Jack Cuttery. The media has been pretty busy lately thanks to daily developments in the Abscam corruption

scandal. In tonight's commentary Richard Hickson takes a look at how the press has been handling this highly sensitive story. It's too soon to analyze fully the news media's coverage of the Abscam revelations. But I would like to comment generally about press responsibility on such delicate stories. The question is. Did the media jump the gun by publishing and broadcasting leaked information before a grand jury investigation. Yes of course they did. But there are strong historical and constitutional reasons for such behavior. So long as the press is investigating and reporting public affairs especially the behavior of public officials. It has the constitutional protection of the first amendment. This protection stems from a landmark Supreme Court decision of 1964 which broadened fair comment about a public official by insisting that awards of damage to his reputation be determined by proof of actual malice knowledge that it was false or reckless disregard of whether it was false or not. To be sure all the facts are not yet in.

And when they are some people may ultimately be acquitted of these early criminal charges. But can we wait that long. Doesn't the press have the responsibility to report developments in the meantime. In addition the court expand press immunity in this area by enlarging the concept the public official to include public figures who are involved in issues in which the public has a justified and important interest. The court has cited on several occasions the nation's profound national commitment. To the principle that debate on public issues should be an uninhibited robust and wide open. And it may well include basement cost and can sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials. Whether the information was prematurely leaked by the FBI or prematurely dug out by the press becomes moot when the issue is thus put into this larger framework. This is Richard Nixon. Tonight we take a closer look at the role of the media in the Abscam revelations. The two men with me don't necessarily agree it's too soon to begin analyzing newspapers and broadcasters

actions in the now famous leaks of 10 days ago. John McLaughlin is one of our regular commentators on politics and a columnist who has been following the Abscam scandal since it broke. Jerome Manty approaches this subject from more academic perspective. He is director of the journalism research institute at Rutgers. Mr. mentee do you think that the press and broadcasting mediums have been excessive in reporting the Abscam situation the last two weeks. No I think that there was nothing else they could do it and follow the way the story developed and enormity of the story itself. They had to cover it. I think that that's a. Given. I think what we have to look at is. What was the quality of the coverage and what was the fairness of the coverage. And here you know sort of balancing off rights of the public the no rights of the press to really. And then the rights of the individual not to be accused of guilt before their trial. We're reporters. That's the how.

I think in some cases you've got to remember what it's like to chase a story that someone else has broken. I read the stories on the morning I'd been on Saturday night and read the Enquirer and The Times in some of the papers. I was astounded. I mean I never seen a story quite like it. It originated with three news organizations NBC The New York Times and news which is a newspaper on Long Island as far as I understand. Tony morrow from the Newsday Washington bureau I've been working on this story for a couple of months. NBC got into it somehow into what early enough that they could set up cameras in front of Senator Williams's house. So why is the senator being interviewed by FBI agents. And I think it's fairly obvious that somebody gave the New York Times a press prosecutors memo what happened in a case by case detail by detail times prices personalities conversation saying that the Justice Department officials or are some kind of officials law enforcement officials sought out reporters in this case. It's hard to say if. These news agencies were chasing you and the department and the

FBI were worried about pre-mixed somebody breaking you prematurely they may may have worked out a deal with the news agencies won't get together. At the same time and then we'll give it to you. You know it's hard to tell. This may be one of the things that is troubling. What is the what is the distance between the press and the government and in this case was there almost the equivalent of collusion. What when are we going to break the story as convenient to break the story. Does the press become a of an unpaid publicist for them for the FBI in this we won't know for a while so I think Dick's references to too soon too soon in the sense of making a final judgment but not too soon to get a look at it while the bodies warm I think that right now the most critical evidence in terms of how the FBI performed how the press performed and this is falling out right now and I think in that sense we have to go after it. I think. You know I try to as a disinterested viewer look at the first coverage Saturday night and then also to read the print press on this. And I saw some decent pieces being done on the air and read

some good things some nonsense in the way of a desperate attempt to localize the story we were talking about the whole idea of shoving a microphone in the face of a chopper coming out of a store in Staten Island saying Are you outraged about your congressman. And the I think on the part of the chopper to say well look you know let's wait and see with this. But the facts are I think in that sense the press has the obligation to clear this thing carefully and say Look. It's an allegation that it's not an it is not an indictment it is not it is not a condemnation it is not the end of the trial. It's a fever that takes over and these things are true. There is no such thing as too soon and this is not when somebody else not one competitor has it. All bets are off. Frankly when most free news organizations from a story was being run all over the country what was happening was a lot of reporters were rewriting. Those newspapers which had it. And if you call the Eastern District on Long Island where the. Where the investigation was centered. Federal sources and federal authorities would say

well you had a story in The Times. All right you can go with that and it's the kind of thing we have to proceed. As you mentioned once that story breaks and are all sorts of follow ups What about the quality of the follow ups that we've seen this is a local level. All right a good example of this is what is entrapment is somebody getting their foot caught in a bear trap of a an investigator with money hanging out of his pocket saying take it. And the first stories on the entrapment question were just messed up. The press didn't understand what was the inner and outer limits of entrapment. With a little bit of enterprise and a lot of fast phone calling that could at least have gotten some lawyers out of bed and started to get some information on this. And I'm like I'm like Fox news stories we're following things up. I think Newsday held out a lot of information from the initial story. Let the Times run with the entire thing and then hit him with a news story on Tuesday. I mean I don't want him gone so you got to get the word. Are are you concerned about the Justice Department's probe of the leaks very quickly. Yes as long as it doesn't get into the two dozen sources and doesn't get us back to the

subpoena issue. I would be astounded if the department or the FBI finds out the guy who leaked this. We don't here in the room. Thank you. Once again our top stories tonight the state Supreme Court has delayed deregulation of liquor prices in New Jersey to allow an appeal by opponents of the plan and casinos now under construction in Atlantic City could be allowed temporary licenses according to a spokesman for the state attorney general and the state police academy got its first class of all female cadets today. The women got more media attention than training. And finally there's this touching Valentine's story for those of you who are going ape over that someone special for $25. Vicki Kristiansen of Scotch Plains will dress up in a monkey suit and deliver flowers candy a special song or even a personalized poem to your loved one. We're not sure where but it sounds like just the thing for the gorilla. Your dreams and that's the news for Bill Perry. I'm here help. Good night. Here is the nightly news. New Jersey Nightly News is a joint presentation of New Jersey Public Television and

w any TV. Program is broadcast weeknights at 6:30 p.m. on Channel 13. And it's 7:30 p.m. on New Jersey public television. There was a repeat broadcast at 10:00 p.m. on New Jersey public television and at 7:00 the following morning on Channel 13 portions pre-recorded