Baseball players go back to work today, 1B Cloudy Chance of showers Highs in the low 80s The Register Complete forecast/Pip 2A Vol. 107 No. 344 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER .SINCE 1878 THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1985 ?5 CENTS AMERICANS INSIDE Contras kidnap Americans KIDNAPPED United States for the incident and said: "We has sent three embassy officers by auto to the SPORTS MANAGUA, Nicaragua (API - US-backed hold the government of the United States area. It's a three-hour drive. We expect them to rebels firing automatic weapons kidnapped 29 responsible for the physical integrity of the be be there sometime tonight " American peace activists and 18 journalists kidnapped." And in San Jose, Costa Rica, U.S. Embassy yesterday from a boat on the river dividing In Washington, a spokesman for the peace spokesman Mark Krischik said: "The embassy Nicaragua and Costa Rica, spokesmen for the group, Richard K. Taylor, made a similar is sifting through information and if any U.S. group and the government said statement to reporters. "We will hold President citizen has been kidnapped we will work to Herb Gunn, of Fayetteville, Ark., deputy Reagan and those members of Congress who achieve their release, just as we would in the coordinator of the Witness for Peace group, told voted for Contra (rebel) aid responsible for any United States or in Beirut or anywhere " reporters in Managua he contacted the rebels by injuries inflicted on the people in our group," he The communique, broadcast by state radio, radio and was told the Americans were said. said 29 Americans of the U.S. Witness for Peace unharmed and were being held in the jungle. He State Department spokesman Peter Martinez group and 18 Nicaraguan and foreign journalists, said the guerrillas, who are fighting to said the U.S. Embassy in Managua "was trying were kidnapped by Revolutionary Democratic overthrow the Nicaraguan government, refused to send a small plane into the area where we Alliance insurgents to specify exactly where the group was believe the group is. But as a result of heavy fog, A Foreign Ministry communique blamed the the plane cannot get in Therefore the embassy See Page 10A Tavern bills New command could save for USS Butte By KEVIN FRECHETTE The Register MCK TO WORK — Philadelphia Phillies' MIDDLETOWN - "Executive officer.haul down catcher Ozzie Virgil, the rest of his nightclubs my pennant," the captain said as the tiny flag was teammates and all of the baseball lowered from its place beside the ship's crows nest and placed inside a mahogany frame world will return to work today now it CHRIS HAND that the baseball strike is over "Captain Madison, your pennant has been The Register lowered," Commander Charles C Olsen, Jr said, 1B TRENTON Two bills are pending in the state handing him the frame Legislature which could provide bar and nightclub "Very well. " Madison said, "I stand ready to be owners with some relief against rising alcohol relieved." STATE liability-insurance premiums and the scarcity of Slowly, Davis' pennant was hoisted into place companies willing to write the insurance, a The officers saluted one another The ceremony was Polluters will pay spokesman for the state Department of Insurance completed USS Butte Capt William R Madison had just New Jersey environmentalists say said yesterday turned over his ship to Commander Vernon Joseph polluters should pay to clean up The Tradewinds. a nightclub which had operated in Sea Bright for almost 30 years, was forced to W Davis hazardous waste sites and proposed Behind the Navy's ritualistic change of command an $825 million five-year program discontinue serving alcohol last weekend after its insurance company canceled its liability insurance ceremony lies the elements of leadership that unite that would tax businesses to linance and the bar s owner was unable to find another a commander and his crew This was the message the project company to write it a policy of Capt William H Reed, Commander Serv QPJ Other nightclub owners are reporting large Squadron Two and keynote speaker yesterd.i, increases in their alcohol liability insurance costs aboard the ship as the command changed hands A bill sponsored by state Sen John A Lynch, Dr "The principle means employed by the successful New Brunswick, would place a cap on liability for commanding officer is leadership," Reed said "He NATION bars in suits brought against them by victims of is by no means the only leader in the command, drunken driving accidents, slate insurance spokes- nevertheless, his personal experience, expertise, Shipyard extinction man Lin Karp said yesterday J Paul Solander grew up in Ouincy resourcefulness, imagination, judgment and com- Under the slate's host liability law. bar owners mitment are the glue which binds the command into and started working as a ship can be sued by victims of drunken driving accidents pipefitter when he was 18 and the a cohesive unit and the force which gives the if they were the last establishment which served the command direction ' 180-acre shipyard was in its heyday driver alcohol When the announcement came that The bill is currently being considered by the state Joined by several local dignitaries, a battalion of the 101 -year-old yard would shut Senate. Karp said, adding he did not have further junior officers and enlisted men, clad in dress down and 4,200 workers would be details on the legislation whites, stood motionless as the change of command laid oft by next year, Solander found A second bill known as the California bill" would orders took place upon the ammunition ship's flight himself |ob hunting for the first time m "shift host liability back to the person involved in deck yesterday morning 37 years a drunken driving accident. Karp said To one side, the khaki summer uniforms of Fort This bill, sponsored by Assemblymen Newton E Monmouth's 389th Army Band clashed with the 7A Miller, R-Wayne. and Gerald H. Zecker. R-Clifton. THE REGISTER/CAROLINE E COUIG backdrop of Navy whites is pending in the Assembly, according to Karp US3 BUTTE — A sailor aboard the USS Butte takes part in LIFESTYLE See HOST LAW. Page 2A yesterday's change of command ceremonies. See USS BUTTE. Page 4A Corps panel continues dredge-dumping probe to develop a Dredged Material Management draft, said Corps representative John F IT UYU E RUIN Plan, targeted for completion in 1988 Tavolaro. The Register At issue are the 10 million tons of dredged "We don't want people to stand up and SANDY HOOK - The U.I Army Corps sand and silt laced with PCBs, hydrocarbons give us a lot of. Yeah, but you didn't look of Engineers spent three hours yesterday and toxic metals the Corps annually dumps at this, " added Committee Chairman John discussing alternatives to dumping dredge at the 50-year-old site to keep New York L. Buzzi spoils at a site six miles offshore without Harbor open to shipping Alternatives discussed include upland coming up with a concrete solution While the Environmental Protection disposal, sanitary landfill cover, underwater And judging by remarks made by partici- Agency ruled last year that the Corps could pits, containment islands, wetland stabiliza- pants during the session, it appears the use the mud-dump site for another 10 years, tion areas, ocean disposal and beach fill. solution will be as much political as the corps has been studying alternative Most hotly debated were the underwater, environmental, since it will require cooper- disposal methods for the past four and-a-half or subaqueous, pits and upland disposal ation from agencies in two states before a years. plan can be finalized The studies must end by December. 1986. Disagreement over dumping in under- The Steering Committee of the Corps with a comment and possible revision before water pits centered around who would dig Public Involvement Coordination Group — submission to the EPA two years later. the pits and whether state agencies, composed of Corps members, environmen- Before the studies conclude, however, all including the Department of Environmental tal leaders and labor, industry and state committee members must agree on sites for Protection, would issue fill permits Tired of retiring representatives - is looking for alternatives the seven alternatives presented in a rough See DUMPING. Page 2A Dr. John L. Buzzi The novelty of retirement was beginning to wear thin for Harry Smith, a former Tampa, Fla . postal worker. True, it was a time to relax and finally Never mind the killer bees, play golf to his heart's content. But soon, Smith became restless, finding that retirement years weren't all golden. „ we've got beasts right here 12A stung, they just assume it's a bee." •f TED LOW But chances are, that "bee" buzzing TIN Register around your head at an outdoor picnic is COLTS NECK - Never mind the a yellow jacket or a hornet, Barth said "killer bees" Invading the US from Bob Cain, a Millstone beekeeper, INDEX South America. agrees that the plain old. inoffensive This summer, beekeepers in Moo- honey bee is a much maligned creature mouth County are giving more time and that is wrongly blamed by most people effort to a serious insect problem that for ruining picnics and inflicting painful stings. BRIDGE N already exists: the growing scourge of hornets and yellow jackets. The hooey bee, which loses its stinger BUSINESS H and quickly dies after the attack, goes CLASSIFIED m Beekeepers like Hairy Barth of Colts Neck are on the leading edge of the on the offensive only when it fears that COMICS M county's battle against a mid-summer its nest and queen are in danger.