Reagan Warns Plane Hijackers SPORTS Give in to Demands
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Winfield leads Yanks; Mets fall again, 1B The Register Vol. 107 No. 299 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER SINCE 1878 MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1985 25 CENTS INSIDE Reagan warns plane hijackers SPORTS give in to demands. We do not encourage Speakes said Reagan was aware of a WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan other nations to do this." yesterday warned Moslem gunmen "for letter said to be signed by 32 people held During the meeting with Vice President More on the hijacking, aboard the hijacked TWA jetliner appealing their own safety" to free American hostages Bush, Secretary of State George P. Shultz, on * hijacked airliner in Beirut as the White page 4A and 5A to him to convince Israel to free the Shiite Secretary of Defense Caspar. W. Weinberger prisoners whose release is sought by the House reaffirmed U.S. policy of not giving and others, the president said he "remains in to terrorist demands. hijackers. The letter also urged Reagan to hopeful for an early peaceful resolution of Beirut and were being held at an undisclosed refrain from direct military action to free "The U.S. government policy as far as this incident," Speakes said. location. terrorist hijacking type of incidents remains the hostages. "I will not consider the matter resolved One passenger was killed by the hijackers The spokesman would not say whether the the same," presidential spokesman Larry until all passengers and crew are safe," Saturday and his body tossed onto the Speakes said following a hastily summoned letter was discussed during the 75-minute Speakes quoted Reagan as saying. He said tarmac at Beirut airport. The hijackers meeting. meeting at the White House between Reagan this included the six to 10 passengers that claimed that the victim was a U.S. Marine, and his top advisors. "We do not have any comment on it," he the White House said were removed from but Pentagon officials have denied that any added. "We do not make concessions. We do not the hijacked TWA jetliner Saturday in Marines were aboard the jet. See HIJACKED. Page 2A General Store is Middletown couple's dream t| STEPHANIE 6LUCKMAN The Register MIDDLETOWN - Kate and Oakley Smith want to be the "old mom and pop " of a restored antique General Store on Red Hill Road They want to line the shelves with penny candy, The Champ sell pumpkins in the fall and offer hot cider in the Andy North rallied past Taiwan's Tze- winter Chung Chen and Canada's Dave For Christmas, they want to go all out — "the Barr to capture the 85th U.S. Open place'll be totally magic at Christmas time. " says golf championship yesterday. Chen Mrs. Smith fell victim to quadruple bogey on the Sounds harmless enough. But after years of par 4 fifth hole. work, the fate of the young couple's dream rests on a decision the Zoning Board of Adjustment is IB scheduled to make tonight. The Smiths need a zoning variance to conduct a business in a residential area, and some fear that LOCAL Red Hill Road — historic and narrow — cannot safely accommodate traffic entering and exiting Hospital co-founder the store Charles C. Schock Jr., a concerned But according to township police and planning citizen who helped to build an area departments, traffic is not a problem. "I see no hospital 13 years ago, was problem as far as traffic is concerned as there is pronounced dead Saturday at the off street parking area and a pull-in in front," medical facility he co-founded. writes Chief Joseph M McCarthy "The circular drive would appear to provide adequate ingress and egress to the site and is of sufficient length to prevent cars from sucking into the street. The number of parking spaces provided Recruits graduate THE REGISTER/CARL ANDREWS conforms with the code requirement," writes The 102nd Recruit Training Class TASTE OF HISTORY — Kate and Oakley Smith want to restored antique general store but they're facing some Senior Planner Faith Hahn graduate from the State Police sell hot cider in the winter and pumpkins in the fall in this local opposition. See GENERAL STORE. Page 3A Training Center in Sea Girt. 3A WORLD Leonardo State Marina gets police attention Hostage returns have a serious problem." be closed The DEI* did not seek ui icceive are looking into a more permanent solution * mnuiK SLUCUMN The first of the Americans freed from He said he spoke to Chief Joseph M. any township or state building approvals to the problem, involving directing traffic The Register McCarthy about the problem, and received before clearing the area and covering it with over a single route to the marina "They're a hijacked airliner in the Middle East MIDDLETOWN - Detective Michael returns to the United States, while authorization to patrol the area on his free stones. The Township Attorney has been trying to figure out a way to make the Slover said that after his child was nearly time. "McCarthy supports the citizens down authorized to investigate whether permits of residents happy." he said. relatives of others who remain aboard sideswiped by a car and boat trailer running here," Slover said. any sort are needed. Committeeman Rich- the commandeered jet wait anxiously Saturday's patrolman was William a stop sign, he decided to join forces with "It's not harassment, but we're going to ard McKean. who visited the site yesterday, Stranerio. Between Slover and Stranerio. 16 for word on their safety. a group of Leonardo activists. be very, very strict in issuing moving and said he would ask the attorney, Peter tickets were issued by 1 p.m. for running 5A But unlike residents who have been parking violations," he said Carton, to reconsider whether the marina stop signs, parking illegally, parking on the fighting for months to keep boat trailers could be considered a public nuisance Starting Saturday, McCarthy assigned a beach, and emptying bilge water in front of using the Leonardo State Marina from Carton already stated that there was not patrol car to cover the area from 10 a.m. to neighbors' homes. breaking traffic laws and littering. Slover is WORLD 8 p.m. yesterday. The practice was to enough evidence to win a public nuisance Pointing down Concord Avenue Slover a policeman. continue today and in future weekends. The lawsuit against the state. said, "Sometimes there's eight or nine of Fighting continues Saturday, the detective, who said he never Township Committee asked the chief to look McKean said that barring a suit, the them down there. I saw one guy cutting fish really is "off duty" came down to the into the matter, after angry Leonardo township does not have the authority to close up, dumping the guts out." Shiite Moslem forces pound two marina area on his day off, and issued a the parking lot, and that a solution must be Slover said he planned to visit the marina besieged Palestinian refugee camps residents showed up in force at several number of summonses to boaters for moving committee meetings to voice their com- found on a state level. every day to enforce traffic laws. with mortar and tank fire(t>ut the and parking violations. plaints. Slover said even with police efforts, he He said a few boaters answered his defenders hold out with the help of Slover, who lives on Center Avenue in was not hopeful that safety would be insured enforcement efforts with wisecracks like supporting rocket fire from the Leonardo, said he had been reading about The residents are primarily concerned around the state-owned and operated "What do you mean we can't park here This overlooking hills. the situation in the papers, but had not about a new parking lot that the state marina. "Nobody's going to do anything 'till is the U.S.A." But ninety percent were 5A involved himself before Saturday. created on part of a 5 5-acre tract that the someone gets killed. If anything ever polite and coooperative when they were told "Finally my kid almost got killed on a state Department of Environmental Protec- happens, I want to say that back there in '85. of the local concerns, he said "Most of them bike last week. That's what really rattled tion recently purchased adjacent to the I tried to do something about it," he said come all the way from northern New Jersey. my brain," he said. "You got to live down marina. Slover said that the McCarthy, Deputy They don't know what's going on down NATION here every day to realize that these people The residents have demanded that the lot Chief Robert Letts, and the Traffic Division. here." Shuttle takes off The Space Shuttle Discovery is scheduled to fly at 7:33 this morning. 5A Geologists not sure shore protection makes sense "Has New Jersey recognized that?" he millions of dollars of damage to Sea Bright's in front of the seawall. WASHINGTON (AP) - Millions of va- said last week. "Probably so, but it becomes beach and seawall, raising questions about Under the plan, a 6-mile-long beach would cationers love the New Jersey shore, but a political question." whether another disaster is just waiting to be built by using 3.8 million cubic yards of Mother Nature likes to give it a hard time. BUSINESS The "political question" that government happen. sand dredged from the ocean bottom, says Wind-driven storms, sometimes reaching officials must face focuses on established Bruce Bergmann, chief of the Army Corps Doctor bills hurricane force, periodically pound com- seashore communities that are battered by "I don't think anything has changed," said of Engineers' navigation and coastal sec- munities along the state's 127-mile Atlantic Norbert Psuty, geology professor at Rutgers The head of the American Medical the sea and require ever-growing aid to tion.