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THE REGISTER/CAROLINE E COUIO HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU - Dorothy Shapter, Asbury 300-GAME WINNER Park, takes a closer look at the racers in the men's final of the Great Canoe Race. Pitcher Tom Seaver of the Chicago White Sox struck out seven and scattered six hits to beat the Yankees, 4-1, yesterday to earn his 300th career pitching win. Great Canoe Race IB NATION raises charity funds AIDS discrimination The race, sponsored by the •y KEVIN FRECHETTE Asbury Park Fire Fighters, The Indiana Civil Liberties Union is The Register was held in conjunction with interested in pursuing a ASBURY PARK - The the Cystric Fibrosis Foun- discrimination case against a school racers grew tense as they dation of America to help raise system that has barred a 13-year-old manuevered on Deal Lake yes- money for medical research. AIDS victim from attending classes terday getting their canoes into Although the proceeds from this fall. position for the start of the sixth previous races had gone toward annual Great Canoe Race. fighting multiple sclerosis, 2A More than 100 spectators Race Chairman Edward Con- were on hand as teams from ners said the Asbury Park across the county battled stiff Firefighters decided to sponsor Airline crash ' winds and shifting currents to yesterday's race for CF re- Two "black boxes" Irom a Delta Air vie for the coveted title and search after learning that the Lines jumbo jet provide no raise money for cystric fibrosis son of a city fireman had been indications of trouble in the minutes research. diagnosed as having the fatal betore the plane crashed, killing 133 Two-man teams, many of disease. people which were sponsored by local While half of the 13,000 raised businesses, competed for by the event will go to the CF 5A awards in three separate Foundation, Conners said half categories — mem, women*, will be lent to former city LOCAL THE REGISTER/CAROLINE E COUIQ and mixed crew races. Plaques fireman, George Van Ness, to AND THEY'RE OFF - The star: of the final in the proceeds will go to Cystic Fibrosis Foun- were awarded to tint, second, help pay for hit son, Eric's, Drunken boaters the mixed division of the Great Canoe Race held dation. and third place winners in each medical expenses Boating and beer may go hand in annually at Deal lake in Asbury F'ark. This year category. See CANOES, Page 3A hand for some, but legislation is being considered which would leave drunken boaters high and dry. 3A Bill Bradley says tax STATE Capitol is rocking Afternoon massacre reform is born to run One person was killed and a pregnant woman and a 4-year-old to The Boss's beat for weeks by the House Ways and boy were among at least eight injured KUAN HUM Means Committee and the Senate Hammonton, a farm town in when gunfire broke out at a swim club The Associated Press finance Committee Congress is EDITOR'S NOTE - southern New Jersey, Reagan — in Oakland. WASHINGTON - Sen Bill on vacation until September, but Christopher Coonell, a Wasblag- and his speechwriters — apparent' 41 Bradley has been dancing in the Eiradley inalsu that the move to ton-based reporter for The As- ly couldn't resist adding the home- dark here lately, compared to the change the tax taws is going sociated Press, is a veteran of rock state hero to his retinue, at least They're on their way attention that is riveted on his strong concern, ranging; back to the rhetorically. fellow New Jerseyan, rock super- "Things are right where they Woodstock extravaginu In 1IM. The northward migration of 1 "America's future rests in a star Bruce Springsteen. should be at this stage, ' he said Most recently, he covered the thousand dreams inside your Africanized "killer honeybees is But the Democratic legislator Friday after Congress recessed. Beach Boyi' Fourth of July con- inevitable and cert In Washington. hearts," the president told insists that it won't be long before "Last night we finished the thousands of loyalists. "It rests in New Jersey should devise strategies his favorite legislative initiative - budget, and now we turn to tax ly CHMSTOTHER CONKU the message of hope in songs of a now to keep the unwanted insects reform." tax revision — enjoys its glory The Associated Press man so many young Americans from crossing state lines. days. Bradley uld that Thursday eve- admire: New Jersey's own Bruce Bradley Is a serious Springsteen mng, after Congress approved a WASHINGTON - As staid old Springsteen. And. helping you 5A fan who keeps pictures of the $967.6 billion budget for 1M6, he Washington, with Its legions of make those dreams come true Is. singer on the walls of his Senate saw Senate Majority Leader Rob- lawyers, lobbyists and legal sec- what this Job of mine is all about.'' office and who plans to attend ert Dole, R-Kan. He said he retaries, goes nuts tonight over rock star Bruce Springsteen, it is That was too much for Walter F. WORLD Monday night's opening here of the c ongratulated Dole on the budget's Mondale, who spent much of oil rock star's U.S. tour. He wrote an passage and told htm, "Now let's time to recall the Boss' cameo performance in campaign '84. hapless campaign accusing Re- A fair trade essay on Springsteen that was get to tax reform." According to agan of trying to steal Democratic Four Soviet soldiers lost while on slated to run in Monday's editions E radley, Dole raised his fist at him Springsteen, the hard-rocking, Born-in-the-U.S.A, blue-collar heroes such as Harry Truman and maneuvers in Czechoslovakia trade of USA Today, and has been sought triumphantly and said, "Yeah, tax John F. Kennedy. their tank to a tavern owner for two out by reporters in recent days for reform, tax reform." hero from Rumson, sounded one of the few discordant notes in Presi- Two weeks later, Mondale went cases of vodka and were found his thoughts about the Springsteen The New Jersey lawmaker uld to New Brunswick, N.J., and phenomenon. hie believes the House will approve dent Reagan's storybook cam- sleeping off the liquor in a forest two paign theme - "it's morning accused Reagan of trying "to steal But the lawmaker prefers to be a rewriting of the tax laws by mid- days later. again in America." one of new Jersey's most import- known for the income tax revision October, and that the Senate ant heroes." 6A bill he has composed with Rep should be able to finish its work by The president had no problem surrounding himself with stars last "Bruce may have been bom to Richard Gephardt, D-Mo , which Thanksgiving run, but he wasn't born yesterday remains the leading Democratic year Frank Sinatra warmed up some of his crowds. Boston Col- And when Bruce heard what plan for rewriting the nation's tax "The only question is whether a President Reagan had said, here's LIFESTYLE laws. Republican Senate will deny a lege quarterback Doug Flutie joined him on the hustings. Even what the Boss had to say to him," Hearings on tax revision — a Ftepubllcan president the major said Mondale, pulling out a U.S.A. Dancing shoes Initiative of his second term," said Michael Jackson trooped through subject now dominated by an the Rose Garden with his glove Today article in which Springsteen Dance has been a consuming Bradley. initiative presented by the Reagan and epaulets. was quoted as saying: passion for Lynn Scheps of Molmdel administration — have been held See TAXES, Page 2A Bruce Springsteen Last September, at a rally in See SPRINGSTEEN, Page 2A since she was three and old enough to toddle off to dancing school in her first tutu. 10A New Jersey firm makes air bag breakthrough

"This technology can save a lot of lives. $587,970 award from the National Highway a method which safeguards people who LINCOLN PARK (AP) - A U.S. Defiiiue The Breed system can be the thing that handle the explosives. Department contractor here has found a Traffic Safety Administration. provides the breakthrough with regard to About 70 percent of Breed's business is "The car now becomes more or less the INDEX way to manufacture automobile airbags at the cost Issue," said Brian O'Neill, presi- a fraction of the current cost, a development defense-related. The firm makes fuses for projectile. Whether your shoot a projectile dent of the Insurance Institute for Highway mortar, anti-tank and artillery shells and or stop it, you have the same impulse," he that could make the safety device more Safety, a research organization funded by BRIDGE N appeaaVuj to automakers and motoristri. other explosive projectiles. Thuen said said. Insurance companies. The company was founded in 1961 and In the current airbag system, electrical BUSINESS 71 The firm, Breed Corp., has designed a Consumer safety advocates argue that air began working on air bags in the mid-1960s sensors are attached to the sides and front CLASSIFIED M mechanical sensor that fits into the stee ring bags could save thousands of lives a year, COMICS N wheel, eliminating the need for electric "We have developed a number of timing of a car. Upon impact, the sensors cause the but automakers contend that buyers would devices for the Department of Defense. And CROSSWORD N circuitry that drives up the cost in the not be willing to pay for them and that they electrical circuit to close, which activates ENTERTAINMENT N current model, said executive vice president this is more or less an outgrowth from that. the airbag. would not protect riders in certain types of It's very similar — it's got to be rugged, it's HOROSCOPE 1U Ted Thuen. crashes. The Breed sensor eliminates the need for got to take temperature extremes, it's got LIFESTYLE 10A Two airbags, one for the driver and one Breed is currently test-crashing cars with the electrical circuitry, monitoring equip- for the passenger, would sell for 1150, to work the first time, every time," he said. OBITUARIES U the new sensor in Ohio, said Thuen,' adding ment to make sure the system is working compared to the current price of shout that In the fall, the system will be installed The explosives fuses activate the projec- and backup electrical sources. OPINION 7A $1,000, he added. tile only after the impact caused by firing, SPORTS II in 100 police cars nationwide under' a See AIR BAGS, Page 2A TELEVISION M YOUR TOWN M Your business will do more busi- Action Frsat Page Readers Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! $1000 Reward for info leading to Flowers • Fnlt Baskets • Gifts ness in our Business Directory in got fast results. Attract 68,000 Read the Help Wanted columns in arrest/conviction of persons re- Send something nice to show you today's classified section. nsaders with your ad here. today's Classified section sponsible for burglary-Donovan's care. The Directory of Florists is Reef. Sea Bright Police. 842-0010. on the Obituary Page. 2A The Krgi.irr AUGUST 5, 1985 Springsteen — Is hard, honest work and evidence of remark about college students' PEOPLE Continued from Page 1A column that conservative pundit stereos, Secretary of Education "There's something really danger- George Will wrote a (ew days before the astonishing vitality of America's regions and generations." William J. Bennett is an un- ous happening to us out there. We're the president visited Hannmonton. regenerated rock 'n' roll fan who slowly getting split up Into two Will had been exposed to Spring- Springsteen's fans overloaded the United SUtei had continued its fire- capital's phone circuits two weeks grew up to the beats of Buddy Holly bomb raids on Japanese cities. different Americas ... I don't think steen's music at Washington's In Brooklyn. Capitol Centre last August as the ago when the tickets (or tonight's LeMay, who ran (or vice-president the American dream was that every- Asked if he had tickets for the one was going ... to make a billion guest of the Boss's litera ry-minded 40,000-seat Robert F. Kennedy in 1M8 on a third-party ticket headed drummer, Max Weinberg. Through stadium concert went on sale. Springsteen concert, Bennett re- by Alabama Gov George Wallace, dollars. But it was that everyone was plied, "None of my friends can get going to have a chance to live a life the cotton that he stuffed into his Almost 2 million calls from out of said be tried to convince the Joint ears to deaden the din, the bow-tied me tickets. Do you know some- Chiefs of Staff in the spring of IMS with some decency and some digni- town were made in a single hour. ty." Princeton Ph.D. liked what he One shameless scalper pandered body?" that "the war could be won without heard. an Invasion and without the atomic "That's the real Bruce Spring- in the classifieds of The Washington Washington and Minnesota may Post, "Wanna dance with The Boss? have been the only places in the bombs." steen, and he's for the Mondale- "I have not got a clue about Front row dead center, «,500 pair." U S.A. that went for Walter Mondale Ferraro ticket," Mondale said to Springsteen's politics, if any, but But he said Gen. George Marshall, A local law firm assigned staffers last November, but it's a safe bet who was Army chief of staff at the cheers. But his press secretary later flags get waved at his concerts while and Interns to wait in line for four that most of those who pass through time, "slept in his chair while I was admitted there had been no formal he sings songs about hard times. He days for tickets. Twenty-seven em- the turnstiles at R.F.K. tonight will giving the briefing. He was very endorsement. is no whiner, and the recitation of ployees took turns in shifts and be people who, like (0 percent of all tired. He had been working awfully Springsteen also told Rolling Stone closed factories and other problems wound up with 68 of the coveted American voters, pulled the lever hard." last October: "You see the Reagan always seems punctualed by a 118.50 ducats The firm will raffle for Ronald Reagan It is not un- Marshall helped persuade Truman re-election ads on TV — you know: grand, cheerful affirmation: 'Born them off today. employed steelworkers who will be to order the A-bomb attacks. 'It's morning in America.' And you in the U.S.A.!'" said Will. say, 'Well, it's not morning in Last year Pepsi-Cola, the corpor- keeping the scalpers In business. Pittsburgh. It's not morning above "If all Americans ... nude their ate sponsor of Michael Jackson's 125th Street in New York. It's Victory Tour, helped members of But the Springsteen phenomenon products with as much energy and is really beyond politics. Unlike Raring to go midnight, and like, there's a bad confidence as Springsteen ... there Congress and the White House staff moon risin.'" secure tickets. But there was no set- George Will, with cotton In his ears, would be no need for Cong ress to be most of those fans will be there (or ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) - aside for the Boss's concert. Reagan's salute to Springsteen thinking about protectionism," the music, not the • lessage. Alabama Gov. George Wallace has may have had its roots in a rapturous reasoned Will."... Springsteen's tour Notwithstanding his disparaging Pop* John Paul II gradually increased his strength- building therapy to four hours a day since his July 24 surgery and may be Incentives for peace released from the hospital this week, his press secretary says. CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) The "phantom pains" that Japan rebuffs officials on trade - Pope John Paul II said yesterday Wallace, 65, had complained about that the memory of the nuclear before surgery are apparently gone, devastation of Hiroshima, Japan, Japan to reduce trade terriers. very helpful" in enactment of a world trade and world economy, thus and the governor is slowly getting IT MMD should spur efforts (or world peace. an Sununu dismissed recent con- larger deficit-reduction package in hurting everybody." - back into the swing of things, said The Associated Press Congress. The United States' trade deficit In his weekly address from his aide Billy Joe Camp. No discharge cessions announced by th«' Japanese BOISE — The nation's governors, "The economic philosophy of the was a record 1123 billion last year, summer residence outside Rome, date has been set, he said Saturday. as "token changes that... lire merely complaining about token trade con- president allows Mm to be less and together, Japan and Canada John Paul said he would mark the "It will probably be a couple of a reflection of a Japanese policy to cessions from Tokyo, bluntly told the concerned, considerably less con- accounted for nearly $57 billion of Aug. 6 anniversary with a special weeks before he's back to full make no change at all." Japanese ambassador yesterday cerned, than a lot of us with the issue that total. Mass at the parish church. speed," Camp said. He said it was difficult to tell that his country must reduce export of the deficit," he said. The National Governors' Associa- "We must pray to God that Wallace, confined to a wheelchair someone who recently lost his job barriers or risk U.S. retaliation. Ironically, It was Carlin, a Demo- tion issued a report disclosing that 30 humanity be spared the horror of since he was shot during his 1972 that "a little bit of protectionism is But Ambassador Nobuo crat, who expressed reluctance to states have some form of official atomic disaster, and that the nuclear presidential campaign, underwent OK in Japan, but no protectionism is Matsunaga insisted at the annual impose trade restrictions against overseas representation in a bid to holocaust which struck Hiroshima surgery to have nerve cells in his the rule here." meeting of the National Governors' Japan, citing a fear of retaliation boost exports. and Nagasaki be an incentive to spine destroyed. The nerves had The trade issue dominated the Association that Japanese markets that would hurt his state's agricul- renew our efforts for peace," John been sending out pain impulses that first day of the annual governors' are more open than is generally tural market. Nearly all states make some Paul told his audience. seemed to come from parts of the meeting, just at it dominates the believed. That was Matsunaga's response, funding and personnel available to On Aug. 6, 1945, a U.S. plane body that otherwise had no feeling. agenda (or the three-day c< inference "Protectionism is certainly not an as well, delivered in diplomatic trade programs, ranging from the dropped an atomic bomb on being held here. 17,000 that New Hampshire had in Hiroshima. Three days later, a bomb answer (or either of us," he said. terms. Treasury Secretary Jarr.es Baker 1984 to the 12.5 million earmarked by was dropped on Nagasaki. A total of The confrontation with Matsunaga He said that even a limited action is on the schedule for today's New York and Illinois. about 200,000 people died immedi- was led by conservative Republican to restrict the American market- meeting, followed by a panel of ately or within three months of the governors, who Indicated rising im- place to Imports could lead to a Taxes seven provincial premiers from Export programs reported by the bombings. patience with their party's tra- chain reaction that would "be in the Canada. states run the gamut from seminars The pope also said he will com- Continued from Page 1A ditional free trade doctrine. interest of no country." to language banks to trade missions memorate the seventh anniversary The senator said he has been "Would it be more helpful If the But other economic issues are on Matsunaga cited recent changes overseas led by governors to the of the death of Pope Paul VI on Aug. pleasantly surprised by the "real United States created more barriers the minds of the governors! as well, announced by the Japanese govern- foreign offices 6 when he says Mass in Castel commitment" the administration to take them down together with and Gov. John Carlin, UM Demo- ment as improvements In trade Gandolfo. your barriers?" asked South Dakota cratic chairman of the governors' relations, and suggested that Ameri- Illinois recently became the first has shown for pushing the tax state to establish a trade office In the changes. GOP Gov William Janklow. association, opened the session with can businessmen work harder to Gov. John Sununu of New Hamp- an attack on the Reagan adminis- penetrate the Japanese markets People's Republic of China, while An unnecessary end "I've liked the willingness of the Ohio is investigating opening an president to identify with a speci- shire added that "there really is a tration for failing to provide the But, he said, "certainly, protec- OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Retired very small time window left" for "leadership that could have been tionism will lead to the shrinking of office in Africa, the report said Gen. Curtis LeMay, who relayed the fic proposal, and to formulate it in orders to drop nuclear bombs on terms of broad themes," he said. Japan in 1945. says the bombings of "For example, the president Hiroshima and Nagasaki were un- doesn't campaign against the capi- tal gains treatment for timber, he Air bags — Britons celebrate Queen's birthday necessary to force an end to World ContinuePnntinna^d fro(mm DanPagae 14A A ^- * War II. talks about fairness, about econ- omic growth. In doing so he admits The Breed sensor eliminates the "We felt that our incendiary panied by her grandson and heir-to- Scottish family, there was no bombings had been so successful there are a number of ways to get need for the electrical circuitry, LONDON (AP) - Britons toasted to those objectives. And that gives monitoring equipment to make sure the-throne Prince Charles. thought of her one day becoming that Japan would collapse before we the 85th birthday of their favorite "It's a pity it's such a cold and queen. Rostenkowski flexibility." the system is working and backup grandmother — Queen Mother Eliza- invaded," LeMay, former head of miserable day," the told well- In 1RJ, she married the Duke of the Strategic Air Command, told the Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill , electrical sources. beth — who celebrated the milestone chairman of the ways and means The Breed device looks like a wide wishers as rain soaked her chiffon York. She became queen after the Omaha World-Herald in a copyright yesterday with prayers, ctiampagne cocktail dress on her arrival at the panel, will be writing the House's and flat loaf of bread. The sunthetic, and cello music. duke's elder brother Edward, ab- story published Sunday. concert. "Typical English weather ' dicated In int to marry American "We went ahead and dropped the version of the tax revision legis- rubber-lined bag is encased in "Isn't it marvelous," she re- For many other 85-year-olds, it divorcee WalUs Simpson. bombs because President (Harry) lation this fall. plastic, with four open flaps on top. marked as thousands of wel I wishers Bradley conceded that objec- The flaps correspond to fragile would have been a hectic day. Truman told me to do it. He told me braved pelting rain to' shower her But for the queen mother, who The first commoner queen since in a personal letter." tions from business and labor over seams on top of the . with flowers, presents and a rendi- certain provisions of the lax The round metal sensor is accepts about 100 invitations a year the 17th century, she earned fame Truman was "fully aware of the tion of "Happy Birthday" outside St and who exhausted members of her for refusing to quit London during colt in casualties an invasion would proposals have been loud, but he embedded underneath. When a crash Mary Magdalene Church in Sand- said they were not unexpected. occurs, the fuse ignites chemical entourage on an official visit to the German blitz, and declaring entail. He was going to do everything ringham. Canada last month, it was routine. after Buckingham Palace was hit. possible to save those lives," LeMay "You'll probably hear all kinds pellets, which release pure nitrogen The queen mother, flankiid by her of threats in the fall," he said. gaa. The gas causes the 30 inch- Britons hailed their "Queen "Now I feel I can look the East End said by telephone from his Newport daughters Queen Elizabeth II and Mum" with tributes on radio and In the face." Beach. Calif., home. "But the point is if you have (0 diamater bag to rapidly inflate and Princess Margaret, started the day people in the Senate, a good pop out of the steering wheel. television, hundreds of bouquets But LeMay, 78. said he felt the praying with local residents at the including 85 red rotes from the Since her husband's death from United States could have defeated majority, you can overcome The entire process takes less than tiny church near the queen's Sand- cancer In 1852, the queen mother has that.'" 50 milliseconds, Thuen said. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and Japan in "a (ew more days" if the ringham estate in Norfolk. 80 miles . more than 2,000 cards and presents turned up at thousands of events and The key to the twa-inch cylindrical northeast of London. The bells of St. Paul's Cathedral in taken on the presidency of over 300 sensor is a marble-sized stainless Then, refusing to open an um- London rang for four hours at dusk organizations ranging from the steel ball, delicately calibrated to brella, she stood in the rain acknowl- Saturday in her honor. Royal Philharmonic to the set off a firing pin if a sudden, rapid edging cheers and accepting pres- Dachshund Club. She U colonelln- Reagan to meet with reporters impact over 12 miles an hour causes ents before returning to the estate "You're GREAT Grandma!," cfalef of eight regiments or service it to move. for a champagne birthday lunch with headlined the tabloid Sunday People units in Britain and 10 others In the spokesman Edward Djerejian. "It Is friends and relatives. "Everyone's Favorite Gran," 4J-member Commonwealth WASHINGTON (AP) - President Thuen said company research not a full-blow press conference." shows the (ailure rate of the device Last night she attended