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Impact Children of the Holocaust If boys make babies and men take care of them, these teen mothers could use a few more good men. Beyond Their Years, section Sunny and brisk Today, sunny, cool and gusty. High 58. Tonight, clear and brisk. Low 31.

7b- Business B1 Classified 1-1 Editorials C2 Explorations C4 Impact CI Lotteries A3 Movies E4 Obituaries A22 Puzzles F5 Real Estate G1 Section E6 Seniority CS Travel F1 Yesterday All Entertainment sytnorrow, mostly Vfsunny, brisk. WEATHER A2 The Oscars are like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're going to get. Eleanor O' Sullivan's choices, section 'How could this happen? Why did people do these How do parents, survivors of the Holocaust, answer these questions? A haunting legacy, section asburyS park WWBI Road to broken dreams Real-estate deal ruinous for trio who lost assets NCAA TOURNAMENT WEST: UCLA returns to the Final Four after 15 years by beating Connecticut, 102-96. SOUTHEAST: North Carolina is smiling after its defeat of Kentucky, 74-61. EAST: It's "Big Country" versus Marcus Camby at Meadowlands Arena today.

SOUTHWEST: Long Branch's Chris Alexander leads Virginia versus Arkansas today. WOMEN: Connecticut rallies to defeat Virginia, 67-63, to capture the East Regional and earn a trip to the Final Four in Minneapolis. Coverage begins on HI or Associated Press Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, with his girlfriend, Monica Turner, following behind, leaves the Islamic Center of North America after his release from prison yesterday. Ex-champ embraces freedom, Islam "I have some very bitter feelings about life, the legal profession and people in general as a result of what I've been through. I'm just trying my best to get through it I keep my bitterness to Robert S.

Susser, Red Bank lawyer, facing possible disbarment A new life murder? Man gone since May Authorities are not ruling out foul play In the disappearance of a Holmdel Township man. By RICK LINSK PRESS STAFF WRITER JOHN CREMEANS goes down to the half-finished Neptune housing development that was his dream, on a quiet cul-de-sac named after his daughter, and cries. Robert Cremeans, John's father, sifts through a file cabinet full of documents, trying to figure out how the project ate up his life savings. And Macdara Lyden files lawsuits and rages against lawyers, judges, bankers and others he says have conspired to defraud him. The three men have this in corn-.

mon: They plunged into New Jersey's booming real estate market in the mid-1980s, to ruinous results. They now say their lives are a wreck, their finances in tatters. And they blame Bob Susser. Susser, once their lawyer and business associate, now finds himself pursued persecuted, he says over real estate deals gone bad. Before declaring bankruptcy, he racked up a trail of litigation and nearly $900,000 in debts, from would-be home buyers to an Atlantic City casino where he bounced checks.

Next month Susser, a Red Bank lawyer and the borough's former municipal prosecutor, will face his biggest test yet: A state ethics panel will consider whether he should lose the right to practice law for tampering with $5,000 of escrow money in a real estate closing. Susser insists his detractors are greedy or untrustworthy and are unfairly scapegoating him for business failures. He insists Robert Cremeans coerced him into diverting the money at the heart of the ethics charges. "We tried to build a real estate project," Susser said. "There are a lot of people who tried to build real estate projects in the 1980s that didn't work out." Susser, who is divorced, lives in Please see Real-estate, page A16 By GREG LOGAN NEWSDAY PLAINFIELD, Ind.

Saturday, March 25, 1995, will be remembered as Independence Day for Mike Tyson in more ways than one. First, the disgraced former heavyweight champion stepped out- side the double chain- By CHRISTINE FEDERICO PRESS MIDDLETOWN BUREAU ON A MAY DAY last year, Christopher Allen Zahl quietly walked out of the' small red and white house he shared with his mother on his family's Christmas tree farm in Holmdel Township. It was the last time anyone remembers seeing or hearing from him. For nearly 11 months, local police and the Monmouth County prosecutor's office have been investigating a Mike Tyson's coming out "tougher, better, more spiritual." Story, HI Ex-champ has a rare second chance. Story, H13 link fence at the Indiana Youth Center for the first time in three years since he was sentenced for the rape of beauty-pageant con testant Desiree Washington.

Then, he symbolically distanced himself from the control of promoter Don King by heading directly to a mosque, where Tyson prayed, ate breakfast with former champ Muhammad Ali and let the world know he is sincere about his conversion in prison to the Muslim faith. "Everything I had planned my entire life for my children, my grandchildren, my wife's safety on this Earth, I had it all planned out till I met this fellow." Robert Cremeans (left, with his son, John) speaking about lawyer Robert Susser, a partner in a failed home-building venture missing persons case. But as time passes, Zahl's friends and his lawyer have become increasingly convinced that Zahl isn't missing at all. Instead, they think he may have been murdered. Please see Tyson, page A17 (Ell Christopher Allen Zahl Amtrak ending gamblers' run The railroad Is cutting Its Phlladelphla-to-Atlantic City route, and there's no assurance NJ Transit will pick up the slack.

past. Shelly Davis of Washington, D.C. taught her three traveling companions how to play blackjack. "Don't forget, Amy split double-down, split double-down," Davis said to her sister, Amy Webb, a school counselor from Baltimore. Webb's husband, physician Mike Webb, and Davis' Bell Atlantic co-worker, Peg Ricca, joined them.

The 3V2-hour trip on March 18 "He didn't just get up and go away," said a close friend, Geoffrey M. Brothers of Middletown Township. "Something happened to him. We just want it resolved." But Chris' two brothers, James and Harold, don't agree. They believe Chris a brilliant man with little direction planned an elaborate scheme to begin anew, the latest swing in an erratic life.

He will return, they said, with his head together and in a fruitful career. Authorities aren't quite so sure which theory is correct, but said they view the case as suspicious. ''At this point it is still a missing Please see Area man, page A20 a Saturday was their first to Atlantic City by train. And it was one of Amtrak's final runs to the East Coast's gambling mecca. The foursome walked less than 20 minutes from the Atlantic City station to the day's first destination an antiques show at the convention center on the Boardwalk.

"Two of my favorite things in one day antiquing and gambling. I'm in heaven," Davis said. "I didn't realize the station was this close I'm so excited. I love doing things for the first time. Please see Amtrak, page A18 00085 By GREG TREVOR PRESS TRANSPORTATION WRITER ABOARD THE GAMBLER'S EX-PRESS Atlantic City was more than an hour away, but the action on Amtrak was already animated.

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