NJN News; Thursday, February 28, 1991 6:00 p.m.

jay z it's b an air with the liberation of kuwait complete iraqi agrees to negotiate terms of a ceasefire here at home family and friends wait for word on the return of new jersey's servicemen from the bill governor florio promises to

fight to save a monmouth county military base that could be targeted for elimination and legislators' near a compromise on a plan to shift education funds to property tax really coming up next major funding for new jersey network music is provided by majority in our diet foundation first fidelity bank and public service electric and gas as bell good evening steve is on vacation i'm tricia gaspar is the difficult task of securing the pieces now underway in the persian gulf the battlefields of the region were quiet to day after saddam hussein ballot to all of the allied demands president bush announced that iraq has agreed to meet with the

coalition to discuss terms for the ceasefire meanwhile military officials say that it will take months to bring us troops home from the golf although the first you could be on their way home by this weekend here at home the headlines shouted the good news and brought really i think it's great but those are reasons to have a great sense of laughter people in kuwait city today wave their flags honked their horns and cheer to welcome the allied forces into the city with helicopters hovering over the us embassy us special forces climbed down ropes to search the embassy for any possible minds or booby traps allied military officials said today that the cease fire and the galvez holding but there are few reports of violations including an incident in which a rocky tanks exchanged fire with us forces brigadier general richard neal called the massive destruction

of kuwait an outrage but was optimistic for the rebuilding of the country i think you'll see a very impressive rebuilding a resurgence of korea as a nation very quickly i'll portray the the nation quake never did die out although those attempt to make advise the white house today however that would go gerard gioia conditions for a cease fire urged next week secretary of state james baker will fly to the middle east to begin charging the future of the persian gulf that trash for new jersey reservists and national guardsman as well as their families the end of the war is bringing mixed emotions we get to reports tonight the first from marty smith of the national guard's one hundred forty four the supply company and haven't in wisconsin duty last november for the past three months worried families had sat glued to the television last night they finally heard good news singing i'm so happy i

keep the lead attorney for units like the one hundred forty four thousand five hundred transferred to she accompanied cape may court house the war is far from over their job but for many others are just starting to be recovering a lot of equipment a lot of meanness be done there's a lot of nice to be packed up and shipped to soldiers families have been calling the armory all day to try to find out when the group might be coming home and fortunately nobody knows for sure you know how sunni families can expect to see in person in their work and they could be working for a long time members of the one hundred forty four might be in saudi arabia for eight more months families back home are relieved their loved ones are out of danger but they say that's only half the battle they're happy that are a bigger danger to do everybody put pollution out of the

workforce and forty six new jersey network military air live wire air force base played a major role in us now they may be called upon to bring back military personnel colonel harvey releases the four hundred thirty eight military airlift wing commander is i see it from our perspective our job is two thirds votes because of course places that people are ready for the conflict the survey's most of the conflict itself but in the conflict over the village while the persian gulf war may be nearing an end the reserve has here but why here are cautiously optimistic today and rolled we'll be shipping out to the persian gulf this weekend larry has not sure still not sure yet but

i'm glad it's coming to an end but i still don't think so or a trench reading backward are pleasing to order planes but i'm hearing it may be a lot of steps like a battleship i would love to say they were bringing home next week and i say that means celebrating right now cautious celebration never know what saddam hussein rather silly things looked good and the parents is very promising more years of lying area for states fort monmouth played a significant role in operation desert storm providing the military with important communications an electronic systems

he commands at the monmouth county base could be faced with elimination under a new defense department plan to restructure military bases nationwide mr florio toward the dais today to get a firsthand look at the equipment researched and developed their barrios says the state will fight hard to keep fort monmouth open for patients with the technology for ages the communications skill and all the mobility with that technology and that confrontation lines for it seems to me that we weren't reinforcing that's expanding just the pentagon is scheduled to release a list of bases to be closed or restructured on april fifteen in other news tonight after days of negotiations the assembly and the senate this afternoon announced they've reached a partial agreement on a plan to shift education funds to property tax relief but there are a lot of other details that still need to be ironed out there is technical is standing by at the state house

with the latest larry well get the agreement this afternoon senate on the issue of caps for school spending over two houses had been disagreeing on how to achieve parity for new jersey's thirty special needs school districts within five years what the same time holding down spending so as to achieve property tax relief this afternoon the senate went along with the assembly plant capek is a flexible cap that the assembly wanted there are two ways to get their parity within a five year period are said a more rigid kept but had a discretionary fund for the commissioner to administer that would get the special needs to strip some of them to be able to spend up to get a parody or that five years so this is an acceptable method for us but there remains some big areas of disagreement between the senate president john luncheon speaker joseph doria over how much property tax relief to get let's take a look at some of the plans that the speaker wants to take two hundred and forty four million dollars out of the state's proposed one point one billion dollars the senate president would take for modern one million dollars right now

we're being told the compromise figure is in the three hundred and fifty to three hundred and seventy five million dollar range is also some philosophical differences between lynch and speaker joe doria that have to be ironed out most notably who's going to benefit from this that is the scope of the property tax relief gloria wood limited to homeowners the speaker wants or the senate president wants it to include businesses also there's also the matter of the duration that is how long it will go on the senate president wants it to last forever the speaker would laminate and for two years those are some big areas that have to be ironed out they plan to be working over the weekend on a time where eastern middle of the statehouse let's go back through to get parts layoff notices went out today to four hundred non union state employees with another two hundred pink slips to be mailed out within a week the workers are primarily mid level managers earning between forty five and seventy thousand dollars a year the layoffs are all part of governor florida's plan to streamline state government to try and close a six hundred million dollar shortfall in

this year's budget new jersey state government in the eighties than doubled the numbers of people on the state about twenty percent and therefore in the interest providing to the people of the state's smaller government ha we are going to be tragic an additional four hundred layoffs of middle management employees is expected three former manchester township mayors in four other ex officials will be arraigned tomorrow on charges of racketeering including the township of more than two million dollars a fifty three count indictment names former mayor's ralph rizzo low joseph murphy and joseph lynch along with other past township officials years in county prosecutor's office says the charges cover a period of seven years to nineteen ninety eight when a new government took over the group is charged with looting the township of two point two million dollars but officials say the real number may be concealed for ever because records have been destroyed in gloucester county a guilty plea today from a sixteen year old charged with murdering his mother after she nags him about cutting classes and

poor grades him a plumber jr of washington township was fifteen last year when his mother was found dead in her bedroom in the family's home shot in the head and chest prosecutors say they will seek the maximum sentence of twenty years in the juvenile case the boys' father has said the shooting was premeditated and that his son should be tried as an adult a sixty year old saudi leader is dead and a sixteen year old boy she helped is charged with killing her michael allen reports on the murder that shocked the middlesex county area of the warnings was a quaker or a classic good samaritan at a flag outside a church in piscataway are half staff who are the little basement next door he is remembered as long long before this big new role chris's fish an organization of volunteers and he appoints co founded twenty years ago to collect donated food to the poor and needy in plainfield new brunswick region and

leaders at their doors here are still shocked at the news or sixteen year old boy is in custody for a beating this is hoisted that here at her home in middlesex about a boy who lived here for several years witnesses lawyers and her late husband repeating described as venus was reportedly done with a laundry iron nearby factory the body was found stuffed in the trunk of mrs voices on clark abandoned parking lot and these friends know the boy in custody a talented kid they say from a troubled family in plainfield need and her husband took a man got a medical treatment for a long neglected like infection set in the private school gave him piano lessons in pursuit adopting him that was the leader she was attracted to anyone and everyone and again race color creed never entered into her helping anyone the boy who turned himself in last saturday lived here on and off

after neighbor's husband died he became more aggressive and his friends began to worry they believe the plainfield drug scene drew him in and because of the drugs if this was a case he turned around and actually the hand that fed him and helped him over many number of years michael hughes is state insurance department today rejected a request from state farm to race car insurance rates nearly eight percent to cover the costs of state mandated assessments insert taxes state farm is challenging a provision in new jersey's insurance reform law that prevents companies from automatically passing on the assessments to their customers the insurance department also rejected a request from keystone insurance company for twenty two percent rate hike saying that neither requests complied with new information requirements in the insurance reform law coming up next a new jersey network news events that with the look of the day business and in tonight's special segment of new jersey

congressman calls for a war crimes tribunals for saddam hussein you see new was happening or shoot it with your home video camera others know about it by dialing the new jersey network news tip line one eight hundred jersey one k e r s e y juan now it's because he's been as we reported earlier the cease fire appears to be holding tonight in the

persian gulf president bush says iraq has now agreed to talk about the terms of peace and the golf appointing military commanders to discuss points such as the return of prisoners of war joining us now from washington via satellite for tonight special segment is burlington county congressman jim saxton he's going to discuss the post war period talisman you plan to introduce a resolution in the congress next week calling on the president to urge the united nations to establish old war crimes tribunals oh that's right can gurley there have been various conventions generally referred to as the geneva conventions that does stipulate what types of activities against the civilian populations are up considered to be crimes in time of war and we know that from amnesty international reports from reports from the from civilians that were held captive and from other reports that we've had done here in this country get richer washington other saddam hussein's government officials and military officials have allegedly taken on

them many of these types of activities and therefore it is i believe in the best interest of the world and certainly in the best in our country and our citizens out to uphold saddam could take some time to task for these types of activities free military and civilian prisoners of war well we hope that that takes place very quickly as you just reported apparently the iraqis have agreed to send military representatives to meet with our representatives to i suppose the term negotiate might be appropriate taking into consideration that we hold most of the cards in those negotiations we would hope that their freedom would be up rather quickly iraq still has scud missile capability to launch an attack against israel how many allies insurer saddam hussein's capability to terrorize the region has rendered null and void well let me tell you what we can't count on first and that his word as we speak he is claiming victory in this military conflict on his radio stations and in his press

and so with that kind of a background one would not want to take his word for that for the four that he wouldn't they use cards further i believe what we need to do in these so called negotiations are going to take place between our military years in the military people from the from his from his armed services are to make it very clear to him that the first time a scud comes out there we're back into this thing a limited basis at least with regard to the scud missile threat the israelis believe that they can take out the missile threat very quickly we don't want that to happen for all the reasons that we've urged them to stay out of move on very quickly we were brief time at fort dix has been targeted for major cutbacks considering its performance as a training facility during the crisis is at whose director to keep fort dix in its present capacity very briefly i would say that since december the twenty ninth nineteen eighty eight fort dix today looks has the brightest future than it's had said during that

entire period the job that has been done by the commander in the military people at fort dix during desert storm and desert shield is a very commendable want one that's recognized by the secretary of the army in the secretary defense as a being of very very good one and so we're very hopeful that we'll be able to move forward to have to find a new activity for four dates for me coming up ncr tries a new maneuver in efforts to avoid a takeover by at and t and put away that overcoat for the moment anyway more balmy weather is on the way to stay with us kim is next day says it's a tricky business out

there was a world full of tricks right right twenty eight days ago and then denouement the battle over close to home war that struggle by at and t to take over and see are denied our share offering orleans yer stock awards meet march twenty first to consider whether to replace at least some of the members of the company board in favor a big fan of those candidates well ncr has been coming up with some shrewdly mostly report about ten percent of companies stopped in a legalese up in hobbs employees would side with the existing management at the challenges that will but as they do up pops ncr with a really cute play the board votes itself the right to expand and twenty members of the present thirteen hours of maine that means it if the stockholders were vote chairman actually i was bored c and go for at and t people out of the board the remaining ncr majority simply votes to expand their number reappoint actually and name him acting chairman as i say march twenty eight says the day will get to see a lot of the market keeps booming an

ncr shares continue rising at denied our offer will look less and less like a great deal was some economy no it's a key commerce department official protection for liquid going into recession says it will be a mild downturn economic affairs undersecretary michael garvey some much needed optimism in real estate from fdic chairman simmons says that falling interest rates is softening prices have made homes more affordable there are those who say the fed still has four ago or using weights and some support for that may be in the news that consumer spending tumbles extends percent in january in brazil income that to let things get worse the fed may have to act speaking of light at the end of the tunnel at opera set a river western union reports and bing says internet income a hundred forty nine million dollars nineteen nineteen fifty nine cents a share versus a dollar fifty three laws and eighty nine getting rid of debt does help

those that are well chrysler's stock jumped one five eighths today gm game one and five eighths ford rose to animate does that tell us anything after all the auto stocks had been devastated by the recession but here they are up while for a thirty percent up from a small twenty five chrysler up fifty four percent from its low the dial give up a bit today but the big volume tells a story and the breadth good although some broader averages like the five other officers that interest rates rose somewhat to date may be a sign of improving times but also a worry to some that the fed may be reticent at this point a long barn eight point one eight percent i hear more unseasonably warm weather is on the way while before sports records takes the atlantic ten regular season details next everywhere is going out the way march is supposed

to highs got into the fifties and south jersey today reading stayed in the forties know in northern and central parts of the state a little cool for these fellows and this getaway didn't want to let a nice afternoon goes by with tomorrow's expected mild temperatures will be able to break out their tennis whites a look at current conditions cloudy skies across the stage readings in the mid forties right near today's fries partly cloudy and cold tonight in the twenties and thirties across the state a mexican son again tomorrow but feel like the temperatures a lot more than today afternoon highs could creep up as high as sixty degrees continued warm readings on saturday but this time the clouds we'll mix the show he's not in bad an outcast and enjoy the sport that basketball although jersey showdown in the northeast conference three semi finalist emily dickinson host wanda at the first time great operas this preview we're close game here because i was long branch and house was like twenty points first time and that had forty five segments of the web will say last

iraq as one election regular season title running can save ninety to seventy injury henry reports wenzel found himself that had to close for copper battle within state in the first ten there were eleven lead changes but the compound problems read that for me that is six minutes and two without a solid vital a two point lead at halftime probably would prove to be a second half advantage they have returned with first let's end a career or performance and twenty two points and seven read that was forty one when they found out it was like a new life for the rest of the team at rutgers had more players in double figures led by keith news i'm twenty four and the second half to be best described as a contest of what is white and would not be denied their first american regular season championship since nineteen eighty three he misses the opposition turns it into a light and that's what we did

you know for the second an hour versus letterman so we play great defense which lets all those exciting place anti graft of his new jersey attack in recent rains and ugly turn at city hall lot for this double a target sanders insisted to succeed ugandan overtime trade and they're tied at fifty one all with a three pointer you can lead by one white are the challenges the way from the line to balance the first encounters stores were chamber regulated tobacco oliver tiny city at the overtime weekend on final cyprus that there's the first that like every opinion that was the rebound smith didn't miss the second time your concept of a five game win streak and jim calhoun repeated as these regional victory dance russell and probably get him back into the anc double life and the new jersey devils

continue to flounder was an interstate road into lonely to one of seven three there was bullish on brickell are five gold under sixteen shots starting to crisp rare you have the flu or continues to disappoint who is developing in stateside when you play the homerun last night the maple leafs able to write a three on one vincent to say throwing a pair of balls visigoths john patterson his players didn't show up and meanwhile general manager level rollins hired to coach him four years is not place firing coaches getting all that and that it is for the nighttime first asked her if that meant that i had from all of this year thank you say this has been a presentation of new jersey minutes it's been the piece

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