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THE ASBURY PARK Coastal monmouth EDITION Store Price 25 cents Your Complete Newspaper April 7, 1989 Gagliano gets nod to head NJ Transit 6 1 Increase in fares gets OK Transit panel backs rise 4-3 By ALYN ACKERMANN Press Transportation Writer S. Thomas Gagliano, a Monmouth County lawyer who has been a state senator since 1978, has long been involved in transportation issues. Now, after actively seeking the appointment, he has been designated as the next executive director of NJ Transit, and the transportation problems with which he has dealt in the Senate Assemblyman John O. Bennett III is likely choice to fill Gagliano's Senate seat. Story, A5 Tl A Gagliano, a lawyer, will become only the second executive director in NJ Transit's 10-year history.

He said he expects to begin his new job during the first week of May. The first director, Jerome Premo, was forced by the board to resign after a nine-month investigation into his personal finances by the state attorney general's office. The investigation uncovered a personal loan to Premo from a bank with which NJ Transit does business and discovered that Premo borrowed money against an insurance policy annuity taken out for him by the agency. Transportation Commissioner Ha- ing for NJ Transit, and agreed that his background may have swayed board members to vote for him. "I don't know if I have more credibility in Trenton, but I know more of the niches and corners," he said.

"I have the expertise. I hope that was part of the decision they made. I will do all I can to convince my colleagues that mass transit is a necessity." Plea For Urban TV: A I i J--J wi JL- iiii ii'nJias 5 And You i 'p it a I locjcthcr iirf wit in 1 1 ma -i ii Hifamir By ALYN ACKERMANN Press Transportation Writer NEWARK State Sen. S. Thomas Gagliano was named the new executive director of NJ Transit by the agency's board of directors yesterday.

"I really had in mind that I would like to make a change in my career," Gagliano, R-Monmouth, said yesterday. "When this started, I thought, what a great opportunity to continue in public service and get into this I've always had an interest in mass transit" Gagliano, 57, said he believed his years in the Legislature will help him win support for increased state financ- Eastern sale deal revealed Ueberroth group pays $464 million The Washington Post A GROUP of investors led by former baseball commissioner Peter V. Ueberroth agreed yesterday to buy Eastern Air Lines for $464 million in a deal that could begin to get the grounded airline back in the skies within days. As part of the agreement, Eastern employees would receive 30 percent of the airline in exchange for wage and benefit concessions that they had Union concessions are the still the key for Eastern. Story, C12 American announces new Miami mini-hub.

Story, C12 refused to concede to Eastern's current owner, Frank Lorenzo's Texas Air Corp. Ueberroth and the Eastern unions have until midnight Tuesday to agree to details of the new contract. A union spokesman said last night he was cautiously optimistic the deal could end the month-old walkout Ueberroth's group is seeking around $210 million back from the See EASTERN, page A7 North says CIA chief guided him The Baltimore Sun WASHINGTON Oliver L. North, telling his story for the first time in his own fashion, insisted in court yesterday that the then-director of the Central Intelligence Agency guided or approved almost everything he did in secretly running the war of the Nicaraguan Contras. Taking the stand in his own defense against 12 criminal charges, North repeatedly invoked the name of the late William J.

Casey, CIA chief throughout the Iran-Contra affair, as his mentor and as his source of authority. North also linked President Bush, in his former role as vice president, to North's role as a White House staff member seeking to fend off communism in Central America. He described a meeting he attended in El Salvador in 1983, at which Bush warned that U.S. aid would be cut off unless more was done to protect democracy. That was one of a series of revelations about Bush to come out at the trial yesterday.

See NORTH, page A6 Tridewlndi! Drlverl Trdwlnd! bar drinks 9-11. SatyThe Vvatcn. 842-4466 Yakety Yak Cafe, Seaside Heights. After work party today! 5-9pm. Complimentary buffet, drink spe-cials 50 60 s.

70 Dance 630-1999 Cafe' Bar tonight. The Big, Bkj Party! 229-9823 Anticipation, Mike Daltoo 4 The Push. 681-7422 will face him day to day. ProfileAlO zel Frank Gluck, who chairs the NJ Transit board, said Gagliano will be given a three-year contract paying him $135,000 a year. That is the same amount as budgeted for Premo, Mrs.

Gluck said, except that under his contract Premo received some of his St "I'm overwhelmed myself," said Smock, who runs a woodworking business in Long Branch. "I never thought we'd be able to do it. The magnitude of it just overwhelms me. "My main purpose was just to make people aware of the budget, and vote it down," he said. Smock, 306 Broad received 390 write-in votes, and Perucca, 6 Reynolds Drive, received 365.

Newcomer Susan B. McCusker, 57 Raleigh Court, won the third seat with 248 votes. She did not wage a write-in campaign. See WRITE-INS, page A14 Green Parrot 'Fear Of Falling' Record Release 4-8 TGIF Sat. "The Connels' Free Jamet Brown Party.

Wine Cellar, 7934245 Find decorating ideas in Sunday's Press. Krones Lavallete. The Burn, Fri i Sat, 830-3133 Lost Weekend, JB's Inn, Rt. 9, Howell jm 1 NEWARK Bus and train fare increases averaging 12.5 percent were approved yesterday in a 4-to-3 vote by a sharply divided NJ Transit board of directors. The board's vote came during a special meeting, after more than two hours of public debate.

The deciding vote was cast by the board's newest member, Eva Lerner-Lam, who was appointed by Gov. Kean two weeks ago as one of four public representatives on the board. The three other public representatives, John McGoldrick, Martin Brody and Prentis C. Nolan III, all voted against the fare increases in what they termed a symbolic gesture to convince the Legislature to provide enough funding to close $60 million in budget deficits and shortfalls facing the agency. Ms.

Lerner-Lam said she wished to avoid a confrontation with the state's politicians. "I have a feeling that a vote against the fare increase is going to buy us a lot more trouble than we can handle," she said as she cast her vote. In so doing, she joined with the three board members representing Kean's administration Hazel Frank Gluck, transportation commissioner, Jean Bogle, assistant counsel to the governor, and Richard B. Standiford, representing the Treasury Department The governor appoints all NJ Transit board members. The board did approve an amendment offered by Ms.

Lerner-Lam to See FARES, page A10 Prisoner released in error By PAUL D'AMBROSIO Press Freehold Bureau FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP Another inmate at the Monmouth County Jail was mistakenly released, this time by a lieutenant who didn't notice the prisoner had two months of a sentence left to serve, according to the Monmouth County sheriff. The premature release of James Mclntyre, 23, of Long Branch, on March 28 marks the third mistaken release by senior jail officers in the last five months. In a fourth incident, in February, a hospitalized inmate escaped from two armed corrections officers by climbing out a window. This latest jail-house error has led Sheriff William M. Lanzaro to order a second review of the jail's release procedures and a departmental hear- See PRISONER, page AS Business C12 Obituaries B8 Classified E4 Panorama 01 Comics F20 Real Estate F1 Editorials A16 Sports CI Local News Bl Television D11 Movies 02 Wheels E1 News summary, complete index, page A 2 Friday Night Dance Party Tonight At Joe's New York Cafe At The Ok) Mill Inn With DJ Mr.

Bill No Cover Call 449-1800 You'll find all your favorite funny folk every day in the comics section of The Asbury Park Press. Timmy Gough Fri. 8pm-12pm-The Rescue. Belmar Playpen! Tonight Cats! Sat. TLC, 721-0100 money in deferred compensation instead of cash.

"There is no difference to the agency in terms of the pay," she said. Gagliano will resign his Senate seat this month, and will also arrange See NJ TRANSIT, page A10 Beatrice Lange (top photo), Newark, protests at the War -Memorial in Trenton during a demonstration for more aid to cities. Carrying sign (far left photo) is Brian Pshar, who works for a sewer utility. Gov. Kean (left) speaks to protesters regarding budget cuts; Capt.

Terrance Weldon (above), Asbury Park Fire Department, urges continued protests. Stories, A3. NOAH K. MURRAYAsbury Park Press Inside LEE TREVIN0 (right) leads the Masters golf tournament after the first round. SportsCl A $300,000 GRANT will be used to help rehabilitate Tinton Falls' historic Pine Brook section.

CountyBl EXCEL WOOD PRODUCTS in Lakewood may close, idling about 500 workers. BusinessC12 MORE CLOUDS and cooler weather are on the way, with highs of 50-54 and lows of 34-38 WeatherA2 Enclave Night Club. Happy Hour, Complimentary buffet. Dance contest. 922-8200 Stay healthy.

Read the Health section, Sundays, in The Press. Prime Rib S8 95 Sunday. Cronins, Neptune. Silk I Steel Country Rock Doc 223-1850 Aid their upstart candidacies. More significantly, neither thought he could win.

All they hoped to do was stir taxpayer ire over the proposed budget and work for its defeat. But when the votes were counted Wednesday morning, Smock and Perucca both former members of the borough school board had pulled off a major upset, winning seats with resounding write-in victories that eliminated two incumbents. School officials said their victories marked the first time in recent years that two write-in candidates had defeated incumbents in the same election. Spectacular Whirlpool Appliance Salel Now thru Sat. Barnes Appliance Outlet, 2015 Wyckoff Tinton Falls, 493-8017 Vacation Timel Ran an ideal holiday with The Press' Travel section.

Grad School PubNFB! DJ Doug. 364-6732 Headliner The Watch Tonight! 775-6200 MM: (y 'cr: j. ssi!) -t- i 0 if IU Wf VtV rs Board write-ins time it right Improbable winners just wanted to stir taxpayer ire By WAYNE PARRY Press Coastal Monmouth Bureau EATONTOWN "Go for it, the timing is right," Ken Hampton told his friend, Thomas Smock, urging him to wage a write-in candidacy for the borough Board of Education. But after hanging up the phone, Hampton thought to himself, "He'll never make it." Smock and his running mate, James Perucca, faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles. They decided to run just three days before Tuesday's election.

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