NJN News; Wednesday, January 23, 1991

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it's an upbeat assessment of the us war effort in the persian gulf from the chairman of the joint chiefs here in new jersey is a boisterous demonstration of support for us forces in operation desert storm and the wire air force base officials ready a hospital to treat gault casualties than half brothers have a permit and spirit coming up next the point major funding for new jersey network news is provided by the geraldine are dyed foundation and first ability bank ms bair right good evening the second week of the war on a rack is beginning

to do was lose a search the first leak is having on world but that iraq may have a few surprises at this we all are coalition a rack today suspended gasoline sales and said last night scud missile attack that killed at least three israelis was for the sake of palestine israeli leaders promise eventual retaliation and on this seventh day of the war did not rest israel says patriot missiles intercepted a scud missile over northern israel patriots also work part in saudi arabia and at least one scholar said we've been hit over rio the scud attacks have you know secretaries or shading and us joint chiefs chairman general colin powell reporters on the fundraising operation still all says the us is paying air superiority and is turning our attention now to the iraqi army first for the kill powell says the unknown operating nuclear reactors and the chemical weapons production facilities and that iraqi radar has been cut

to ninety five percent of what it was when the us forced to act as cool report saddam hussein has begun of hunkering down to the only safe assumption for us to make especially were talking to francis will be cautious there were trying to be cautious and no one wants to declare that you know on a cost to this threat gen powell says allied losses so far have been low for this type of war but he cautioned there will be more losses and late today five north african arab nations' call for an urgent security council meeting to arrange a cease fire to get saddam hussein a chance to withdraw troops and state officials that mcguire air force base today unveiled a two hundred fifty bed field hospital that will be used to treat possible casualties from the persian gulf war larry steve nagle reports the facility will be located within the walls an army hospital at nearby fort dix since august the sea won forty ones based on wire air force base have been supplying operations desert shield and desert storm it seemed they could be returning the back of the united states

require officials have taken over the house lourdes at the nearby watson hospital afford to treat those who could be wounded if a ground war starts in the middle east asians would then be stabilized in europe so the likelihood of us getting a very fresh carefully here would be a very slow most places will be have to be stabilized before they move on to the other states service will be called up to help the wounded in the one hundred and fifty six beds and one hundred cots in the hospital home and says he got the orders to activate the hospital last week is one of six military processing and transportation facilities ordered into action nationwide we don't have any information that would indicate that there is an imminent at all you just want to make sure the medical system we were ready to take care of any contingency that that might happen the wounded who arrive at walter hospital will be transported to other facilities but in today's twenty years says sixty year korman in up to fifteen doctors are prepared to help the wounded

here but the staff hopes it never comes to that but we keep saying is that we hope we get a whole lot of work and lost a whole lot of sleep to do nothing to not have to have any casualties here but with ground troops moving in often see positions in saudi arabia this facility could soon be treating those wounded in the war pro war demonstrators marched today on a highway in north jersey region oil reports union construction workers and gordon kelly waved the flag and raise the news our shower trafficking was screaming warm glowing halt when hundreds of protesting construction workers seventy eight aunties troops in so many like demonstrations soldier but it's also

force against saddam hussein he's behind hussein in effigy <unk> need later burned in those in that country dozens of the reaction of the many anti war demonstrations of today and yesterday and he's going to pursue the convention no religious images as we reported earlier defense

secretary dick cheney and joint chiefs chairmen colin powell gave up fairly upbeat assessment of the war so far in an afternoon briefing one who has been less upbeat in recent days as us senator bill bradley michael aaron talks to the center via satellite from washington and tonight special segment michael although they wouldn't give a time estimate cheney said the war quote won't take that long summer bradley how long do you think you will take very difficult to tell michael a lot depends on whether we have to make a land invasion of iraq and kuwait if we do that'll take longer if we're able to achieve our objectives by pulling him from the air that i think will be a short time you think that's possible to win this as an air war well it's conceivable the key is a psychological state of iraq infantry units now in kuwait and republican guard we can hit them with enough from the air that it could break their spirit and they couldn't cave you can be sure that though and my hunch is that we are going to

ultimately have to move by land into kuwait and that will be bloody and it will take longer than we had anticipated and you have some fears connected to that got a grant or not you well a lot of my fears are only that it will be longer and will take more lives there's no question that we will prevail there's no question that we should give our full support to our men and women who are around the persian gulf defending our interests as i'm actually chooses and sometimes in perfect way to define the need to defend those interests but a land invasion clearly will mean they'll be more alive still be a longer war and that means no cost more we told the bar editors of the bergen record yesterday that you fear that if we end up killing tens of thousands of arabs were going to be the enemy of the arab people is that correct quote yes when i i preferred that way give economic sanctions and military deterrence a chance to

work before we moved into an offensive military mode then when that i made the my case that one of the things i've focused on where the longer term impacts that could flow from a war that succeeded and one of the longer term impacts that can flow from a war that succeeded and succeeded in taking tens of thousands of rocky lives and decimated regime is there could be a power vacuum in the area that would be very difficult to fill and we could be fighting the war to make it safe for iran and syria in a second problem could be of course that if we kill tens of thousands of the rockies arabs that we could be essentially get identified her negatively in the region vast anti western wave of anti americanism those are things in the longer term but the key thing now is that we want the war to be over as quickly and successfully as possible and that means that we have to pursue it in a way that

will give us the result soon and at the least last live senator bradley thank you very much for joining us this evening to cast it back to you i'm michael thank you know and coming up next a new jersey network news team that's ever want to look at the game business and many mid level managers and state governments based this scene was happening were shooting with your home video camera and others know about it by dialing new jersey never use a hundred years and one k u r s u live it's both fb governor florio drop the first

issue in the state's budget crisis today announcing the layoff of six hundred senior and middle managers in a written statement put out this afternoon florio said all six hundred are unclassified employees in policymaking or managerial positions and are not part of the civil service system as two of the six hundred are a spokesperson for the governor says they are in the process of being identified by the department and buy the governor's office all six hundred people will get layoff notices by the end of february the announcement comes just two days before state workers' unions who have been calling for the elimination of

middle managers data trenton rally to protect their jobs and wages up to four thousand state employees may soon be taking early retirement of governor florio's budget saving plan to save fifty six million dollars a year makes it through the legislature the buyout proposal would allow workers over age fifty who've been on the job twenty five years to retire with an additional five years' service credit that into their pension some union officials say they have not had a chance to thoroughly review the early retirement plan they're not saying or oppose her retirement we discuss if the incentives for early retirement or are good for people to process has not done the process is just now beginning and if audacity of the political leaders the republican leadership as well as a democratic leadership to help refinance in of course will be an opportunity for romney the un trade union organizations take a role in that as well another incentive would be free medical benefits for the eleven hundred state employees over age sixty with at least twenty years of work and the government is closed today that he intends to veto a

proposed fare hike for pat writers as trish to guess press reports the announcement has already prompted the port authority to postpone tomorrow scheduled meeting to consider the increase they will not have the republican party which ran the ingredients needed to raise revenues but many carolina must be approved by governors florio and while mild and today governor florio said is no way i listened to the port authority in making its presentation i listened to commuter groups a listen to the political leaders to the experts and more subordinate the path riders having done that i cannot approve this proposed increase for the governor said that he wants to make mass transit in new jersey as attractive as possible and he said that fare increases are not attractive we need to encourage people to

use public transportation we've got to do that and the way to do it is to make it more convenient and more accessible as well as more affordable have writers and they were breathing a collective sigh really good i'm glad to hear it transportation is very essential to people's lives i think that if we can hold the fader down that it would be a tom one way of him fulfilling the pledges that he'd made to be concerned about peak but our commuters are out of the woods but we're the party also wants to raise tolls on all the tunnels and bridges from three dollars to four dollars but the governor has not given its ok for those increases but he has said he would give the port authority could justify julie satisfaction meanwhile the port authority said today it did not know what event the governor's announcement would have on an overall budget and the proposed toll writes for the bridges and christie gets arrested or news jersey city the state supreme court

overturned to more death sentences today bringing to twenty seven the number of consecutive deford it's a court has overturned walter opel's been murdered his ex girlfriend and a cherry hill motel room in nineteen eighty four stanley or more killed his wife and child after a domestic argument and there a starch apartment in nineteen eighty six both used quote diminished capacity in their defense but a federal appeals court recently redefine diminished capacity and so the state supreme court felt compelled to overturn these verdicts an order new hearings tomorrow the court releases its decision in the celebrated case of robert marshall the toms river businessman sentenced to death for hiring a hitman to kill his wife state prosecutors say new jersey got a detailed look today at organized crime's video poker operations in north jersey linda morgan reports a former member of the bruno scarf oh crime family testified today before the state commission of investigation the state's witnesses i didn't have to be disguised testify before the

state commission of investigation detailing how he and his associates operated video gambling nations and say is there is a delicious bananas jeeves figure is jihad those were some of the violations of the damage witnesses or family as well as on the kc gambino when colombo organizations in the illegal video gambling his testimony today was significant because it shows video games are doing to our people and if you're young people as cia members say it's important for the public to know that organized crime has its tentacles in video games like this one and it proceeds are

feeding into other forms of organized crime like drugs and payoffs to public officials assistant attorney general robert carroll says the video gambling problem is similar to the one that existed in the twenties and thirties with the one armed bandits not be seeing what happens is they are placed in stores liquor stores sell buttons local teenagers and that's where the power and they'll be able to participate and to commit they often paid off the shopkeeper person one of them sutton was responsible does that constitute illegal gambling under our criminal code and many kids are becoming addicted to it and substantial amounts of money are being thrown away by the population on these games here see i will hear more testimony tomorrow the commission will issue its report at a later date making recommendations to the legislature melinda morton new jersey network news when we talk about the management shakeup at donald trump's casino and then an employer makes it clear where

our no it's b gen van sickle joins us now the business reporter who had a nickel for every water for what we work you could say that again how many times do we ask what if that hadn't happened unexpected events change what might have to take for assistance you have to make even a helicopter take one that killed several top officials of donald trump's atlantic city in an orderly steve pike who headed up the whole complex in stem

nothing but trouble losses of all the trump casinos failure to meet some debt obligations we organization for the thighs and has analyzed are today one symbol of trouble is management shake ups and there have been those and now another ad tracey tracey headed up trump castle suicide staff the post as ceo of all three casinos and some analysts say he gave the drug empire in some degree of stability of now taking over the top spot trump's casino attorney nicholas rivers trump issued a brief statement i have great confidence in a grimace and the future of atlantic city reverse also made a brief statement but neither could be reached for comment at tracy will remain with the trump organization as president of the taj mahal all those pictures of dreadful events in israel a scud missiles have passed offenses and many faithful americans telephones hoping for good reports from loved ones and friends that an at and t hastens to assure that they are doing their utmost thought of course creating log jam zocor

is getting no cigarettes available messages at and t offers the assurances the citizens not been damaged urges course keep it short so others can get through moore said singing of those real estate booms by the jersey banks among them united jersey had reporters slim profit first half of last year rao says non performing assets of more than fifty six million mostly residential real estate and with a nineteen point nine million dollar fourth quarter losses the bank winds up down five point six million on the year there were a lot of things for wall street like today the firm conference expressed their top military people the fed chairman's promise of the central bank does stand ready to use if necessary and his assertion again the season and the economic unpleasantness beef for long on top of that greenspan also say doesn't think the wars cost will require additional taxes doll and volume pretty good but the best indicator just might be the breadwinners to

one and then look at the nasdaq is high tech stocks continue attractive one thing greenspan remarkably by the way the cold war morris behind us we will not have to fully replaces the weapons were using which might be a word to wise speculators in the market jan thank you when we come back out of the deep freeze but not for long at the forecast and in sports bill parcells talks about getting back to the big show really a lillian this bill last week in january will feel like that

where i just want a little today but another arctic blast is on the way and will likely get as cold weather through sunday still enjoyable recreation as little on what comes out of us with mr schimmel and the tonys tonight much warmer than the single digits of lasting several small storms are on the weather map of the most they are expected to do the majors is undoubtedly forest and i wanted to make fighting early saturday mornings probably in the thirties that was partly cloudy and working for nuclear and atlantic city the forecast cloudy tonight looking for is close twenty two to thirty to nothing to be concerned about thursday's important over the morning that partly sunny highs in the thirties for friday partly sunny winter and colder again hires mostly in the point is generally cold and dry weather is expected luckily a whole lot more down south and have that little chilly though janet jackson buffalo bills continue to carefully twenty fifth edition of the super bowl and bill's wild really talk to the press today so the giants bill parcells and for years and still stands in the giants' crush the denver broncos the rose bowl

thirty nine twenty as the giants won their first super bowl championship my coach bill parcells would live another good rain shower on sunday or former bear dave duerson is happy to make a return engagement the players do you get that to cut back the second is that there's a greater thrilled because of a preview the ocean loses tomorrow for the people at this proper perspective i don't no one from sanders is going to tampa bay but the jets are finally our bill passed them i judge i stayed in any sort of the new jersey another disney op stealth already please all right let's talk about interesting college basketball with really dickinson one of four winners last night up a fifteen point victory over st francis for one he was

sidelined with an injury that seat obviously peter's sixty seven seasons with the meadowlands the parcel of my newest menu a twenty one points and seven we were perfectly parts are played the pirates lead by just to hear when toni walker went to the rebound in trouble running the hall then hung on tv we did a yeoman job and it all came down to one position where any game is to get the ball make sure you win a game and what they can as reading morgan says as a bit is toni walker bro the one thousand points in white with a sixteen point nine we don't have a beat now as a sixth of the waves are get to worry a little bit however the hearts that twenty one voice instantly today william wallace jumped out to a nine homicides life lived twenty one well you know when i say and a big win for robb was elected as they beat notre dame sixty two fifty two today last night he views would

be the key and they sit on the thin i wish my wife is at twenty five points and seven rebounds has won a third straight nba news announcer chicago matchup with roy jenson has played his last game or too politically charlotte last night it says ney is a still bothering any stinking retirement we will all sides and i have three way trade with annette who did jazz and patrick cadillac ends and goes to denver walter davis lives in portland also tonight philadelphia was indiana well jonathan of watches on as the devil's of now remain was eleven games have been beaten by three lot like he's going to hold last night or fell behind by nothing they haven't won a game since december twenty third and john cullen on the brake way we will always wise won their third straight bidding requirements would appear as well as close to four points so now we know why

you got that in lockstep democrat and says the governor finally tonight the giants our shores of the world that for government for help and there's no doubt in his mind which state the team belongs to this lecture is a gift and a reminder for new york governor mario cuomo floor hasn't officially present a team of super bowl twenty five new jersey giants and this governor has a lot of wagering wisdom for his empire state counterparts and it has stressed that there's some point of it didn't know just try to help them understand who is more than happy to engage in a modest modest wage and the governor did not elaborate further on the day about investing a super bowl party at the meadowlands with veterans and family members of servicemen illegal recapping our top stories tonight secretary defense dick cheney today said the us will outlast iraq and that the first week of the war went well for the us but cheney and joint chiefs chairmen general colin powell also urge caution secretary says a rack they

have a few surprises general powell says the us is achieved effective air superiority over a rock patriot missiles reporter fired again tonight against their missiles into israel and sodium and a ford administration the base's six hundred managerial state workers mid level and senior will be legal notices will go out by the end of february and so news for tonight i'm steve thank you for being with us at age eighteen it's been the pittsburgh has

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