NJ Tries Countering Soviet Espionage Springsteen Fans Jam up Phone Lines
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Lyle wins British Open with 2-overpar 282 1B Cloudy Chance of showers Highs 80 to 90 The Register Complete torecast/2/l Vol. 107 No. 329 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER .SINCE 1878 MONDAY, JULY ',22, 1985 ?5 CFNTS INSIDE NJ tries countering Soviet espionage gational systems are all coveted seriously SPORTS By ALAN FMM prizes for Russian agents, according Fort Monmouth in Monmouth The Associated Press to a booklet. "Counterintelligence County. where the Army does Second of two parts Awareness Seminar," which is dis- work on electronics and communica- WASHINGTON (API - The work tributed to New Jersey businesses by tions equipment, is a lucrative performed by hundreds of New the Federal Bureau of Investiga- target for hostile intelligence Jersey businesses reads like a tion's Newark office sources. " said the base's security checklist of technologies that are "Since at least the 1930s, the chief. Lt. Col Lucius Wright pursued by intelligence agents work- Soviet Union has devoted vast He said the base security program ing for the Soviet bloc amounts of its financial and man- covers personnel, industrial oper- ations, communications, physical, And it is those companies — along power resources to the acquisition of computer, control of visitors, docu- with schools, research facilities. Western technology that would ment control and a high visibility defense contractors, military bases enhance its military power and security awareness program ' and immigrant residents — that improve the efficiency of its military make New Jersey a key intelligence manufacturing technology, the FBI Other particularly sensitive mili- target for espionage, according to booklet says tary installations in the state include government and corporate officials Today this Soviet effort is Naval Weapons Station Earle in and academicians massive, well planned and well Colts Neck, where naval weapons for managed — a national-level program the Atlantic fleet are stored and Computers, semiconductors, approved at the highest party and where a new book. Nuclear Battle- transportation systems, lasers, op- governmental levels.' the FBI fields. " claims 100 nuclear warheads tics, nuclear physics, microbiology wrote are located, and Picatinny Arsenal Lt. Co'l. Lucius Wright and communications and navi- The military also takes the threat See ESPIONAGE Page 2A Fort W onmouth security chief For ten years, osprey duo keep returning to Locust BRITISH WINNER Ba.y, JOHmulNl Ec . lifUITWHITEr Sandy Lyle of Britain won the 114th The Register British Open yesterday at the Royal LOCUST High in the air. witri a St Georges Golf Club with a 2-over majestic view of the Navesink river, par 282 lives a family of ospreys. perched precariously, vet proudly in a state of IB nature that has not always been kind There are two of the unique ospreys STATE here on Hartshorne Drive - a couple - that has migrated to their summer nest Drink policy 125 feet up in the bare limbs of a dead oak tree on the property of Lawrence The free drink policy at resofl casinos and Barbara Carton m Atlantic City may be partly to For ten years, Mrs Carton says, the blame for the sharp increase in the eagle-like birds with six-foot wingspans number of drunken driving incidents have made it back to enlarge their nest m Atlantic County, and the casino and their family So far they ve hotels are being asked to help curb produced 14 offspring, two every yeaV the problem for the past seven summers 5A The Cartons ospreys are unique because they are reminders of a bird that was once indigenous to this part of NATION the country as far north as the Hudson river Spies Unfortunately, humans are to blame A Russian master spy who defected for today's scarcity of Osprey s, which. to the West estimates that as many as Mrs Carton said, used to have nests in 40 percent of Soviet diplomats and various locations, even on top of tourists traveling in the United States telephone poles up and down the coast are intelligence officials "DDT. a pesticide for killing bugs on farmlands, got into soil which washed 7A into the rivers. Mrs Carton said. fish, which the birds eat absorbed the DDT. WORLD THE REGISTER/CAROLINE E COUIG and that caused Osprey eggs to break A RARE OSPREY — Flying high over Locust, this bird and its mate have been under the weight of the mothers " Thus, Anti-apartheid the bird s gradual loss in population South African police swooped on returning to a private home on Hartshorne Road for a decade The pair has raised See BIRO. Page 2A anti-apartheid activists arresting 113 a family ol 14 to date people on the first day of a state of emergency aimed at ending 10 months of unrest against blacks 7A LIFESTYLE Springsteen fans jam up phone lines Marathon Nun Remember that television show — were made problems occur so infrequently that "it's Pascack Valley Hospital in Westwood to Police, hospital and emergency workers called "The Flying Nun" where Sally The extra calls burdened the phone very difficult to make reasonable arrange- in New Jersey say they are concerned about schedule a procedure for a patient Field used to fly through the air in her cables, and many callers were frustrated by ments on such a short-term basis the slowdown in phone service caused by an white dress and habit9 Well, m the busy signals and delays in getting dial tones You just couldn't get through, he said onslaught of calls made by Bruce Spring- "We have no solutions today, but we re case of Sister Manon Irvine of San Dave Gato. president of Aero Ambulance After an hour; I had to drive over there and steen fans, and one slate official said the going to see if this can be stopped from Francisco, who was in New Jersey Service in Hackensack. said some people do it in person " problem should be reviewed in hopes that happening again." she said this past weekend, it seems that truth who called the service complained that its there won t be a repeat performance Ms Curran added that there are methods Something has to be done about this." is stranger than fiction. lines had been busy for hours Gato said the Zealous fans of the rock star logged phones sat in their cradles all day. and to handle suet) a volume of calls, but said said Wesley Young, a patrolman with the 11A millions of calls on Friday for tickets for criticized a phone system that couldn't implementing such a system would raise Bergen County Police Department "What is Springsteen's four concerts next month at accommodate the surplus of calls rates, and no one wants that.' she said someone supposed to do^ Have a heart Giants Stadium Those lines have to stay clear," he said Among those having difficulty making attack by appointment so the emergency LOCAL New Jersey Bell reported that 67 million Barbara Curran. president of the New calls on Friday was Dr Andrew Bender of call doesn t conflict with people trying to calls - 24 million more than on a typical day Jersey Board of Public Utilities, said such Westwood He said he was unable to call call into a concert"' Intersection The Branchport-Allantic Avenue intersection should be completed by ' Aug. 1 Study at coal plant complete, BUSINESS yet health threat still unclear 'Ponzi' The surface soils in the park, closed l» GAYLE E. MBIK September 1983, have been determined to Consumers should be aware of a The Register contain "relatively high concentrations of recent upsurge in "Ponzi" schemes, PAHs and coal related compounds." Pallone LONG BRANCH - Despite a two-year which lure investors by promising a said study, further investigation is needed to tremendous rate of return but actually Results of the two-year study were bilk most of them out of their money. determine whether a park on the site of a former coal gasification plant can be re- released to the Department of Environmen- 8B opened, state Senator Frank Pallone Jr I) tal Protection IDEPI. Pallone said Monmouth. announced last week The park, he said, was once used as a playground for children living in the nearby The 15-acre Long Branch Avenue site, federal housing complexes of Seaview where coal was converted into gas until the Manor. Grant Court and Garfield Court mid-1950s, is owned by the Jersey Central Pallone. who is also a member of the Long Power and Light Company Branch City Council, also said the city The process of producing gas — heating received a green acres grant of over $100,000 INDEX coal and passing steam and oil vapor over for the park that it was unable to use due it — produces toxins classified as polycyclic to its contamination aromatic hydrocarbons IPAHSI. which are He said assessment is necessary before suspected carcinogens BRIDGE N clean-up or containment of the area so Pallone said the purpose of JCP&L's JCP&L can determine the direction which BUSINESS N investigation was to assess any impact to tar could flow in CLASSIFIED M the soil, surface water and ground water the They'd" IJCP&LI like to open the park COMICS M coal gasification process may have caused again. " Pallone said "The question is to CROSSWORD 71 While it is not yet known whether the what extent are the contaminants in the ENTERTAINMENT 71 plant site poses an immediate threat to park at various levels " THE REGISTER HOROSCOPE M public health, "the potential does exist for Testing procedures used thus far include NOT YET — After two years'ot testing, the owners of this lormer coal gasification LIFESTYLE 11* public exposure to contaminants in the Jerry geophysical surveys, test pit excavations, site on Long Branch Avenue.