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ASBURY PARK COASTAL MONMOUTH EDITION ffUUUVII wnnnprs Carving their niches H0MEC1 Kean deeies policies created fecal crisis "I don't want to get into an argument with Gov. Florio," Kean said, and then quickly proceeded to do so. "For eight years, we had a triple A bond rating at a time when every other state in the Northeast lost their bond rating," Kean said. "I vetoed more legislative spending than any other governor in the state history. We had a balanced budget, and decent surpluses every single year.

"What happened was the economy declined in the Northeast, and we did See KEAN, pageA12 successor until now. But yesterday, in his first return to the Statehouse since Florio's inauguration, Kean publicly rejected Florio and the Democrats' attempts to paint his administration as a spendthrift one whose policies put the state into a fiscal crisis, forcing the Democrats to raise taxes. Instead, Kean went on the offensive, taking pride in the accomplishments of his administration, and saying it was a bad economy and not bad policy that put the state in the position it is in today. iim it" iiin'i rn -f Former Gov. Thomas H.

Kean listens to testimony at a hearing on affordable housing by commission he heads In Trenton yesterday. Where the Ax Fell Court bars sales of non-NJ. lotteries Kc-A-State owner contends it's legal By STACEY MC DONNELL Press Staff Writer ALTHOUGH a state appeals court ruled yesterday that selling out-of-state lottery tickets in New Jersey is illegal, the owner of one such service with 100 outlets plans, at least for now, to stay in business. Scott McLean, the owner and founder of Pic-A-State, said he agreed with the court ruling, but maintains that it doesn't apply to his company or to the 100 customers who have his service in their stores. "We do not sell the tickets," McLean said.

"We sell a service that obtains the tickets from other states for customers who want them." A three-judge panel of the Appellate I Division of Superior Court in Trenton yesterday overturned a lower court decision that selling out-of-state tickets was legal. The case, prosecuted by David Dembe, the deputy attorney general who represents the New Jersey Lottery Commission, involved Angelo Fiola and Lotto Express, a firm in Jersey City that buys out-of-state lottery "tickets and then sells them to customers. The court sent the matter back to the lower court and ordered an immediate See LOTTERIES, page All West agrees perestroika deserves aid By BARRY SCHWEID The Associated Press tijOUSTON However quarrelsome, the Western industrial giants took a historic and probably irreversible. turn at their 16th economic summit toward a permanent post-Cold Wir relationship with the Soviet Union. President Bush and his six partners By LISA R.

KRUSE Press Statehouse Bureau TRENTON He might not have come to the Statehouse to defend his policies, but former Gov. Thomas H. Kean yesterday wasted little time doing so during his first visit to the capital since he left office. Kean, who has been the target of repeated criticisms by Gov. Florio and the Democratic-controlled Legislature, has remained largely silent on the policies and statements of his terproposals and compromise.

Why cable operators succeeded and truck dealers failed reveals much about this process. Timing, organization and access to key resources can spell the difference between victory and defeat. Cable operators, splashing their argument across nearly 2 million television screens, garnered support of thousands of viewers. Through a well-planned public relations campaign, the state's 47 cable companies Winning feeling The Mets are raring to go as the season's second half begins, having become a formidable force In baseball under Bud Harrelson's direction. SPORTSD1 Moist of July Some rain is In the picture today, with mostly cloudy skies and temperatures In the 70s.

GATHER A2 Business BIO Lotteries A3 Classified El Movies C10 Comics E30 Obituaries B9 Editorials A16 Panorama C9 Home CI Sports D1 Local News B1 Television CI 5 NEWS SUMMARY, INDEXA2 Associated Press balmy for Joel A. Goldblatt, managing general partner of Monmouth Cablevision, Wall Township. His industry defeated a proposed sales tax on cable TV. Porcelli and Goldblatt are among millions of business people who were threatened recently by either new sales taxes or sales tax increases. In the weeks before New Jersey's $2.8 billion tax package was signed, lawmakers and lobbyists danced an intricate minuet of proposals, coun Another look A plan that would close two blocks of Main Street In Asbury Park will be re-examined.

COUNTYB1 Thrifty work The government Is recovering more than $1 million a day In misspent funds from officers and directors of failed savings and loans. BUSINESSB1P Smoking guns The cigarette war appears to heating up to new heights. PANORAMAC9 Martells TIM Bar 892-0131 Back8treets 9pm Frl. Cats 9pm Marys Husbands Pub Turtle Races DJ Steve 8:30 pm. 681-9150.

Mike Jefferies, $1.50 imports, Doc Donahues, Manasquan Tides, Oldies night. DJ Twist upstairs. Brian Kirk downstairs at 10. Lobster Dinner $9.95 7754887 PETER ACKERMANAsbury Park Press Douglas M. Gallagher, president of Coast Cities Truck Sales, said the new sales tax is "taking an ailing industry and stabbing it In the heart." Publicity, timing sway tax process Suspects in slaying say they stole cash Ex-grid star had $21,000, police say By MICHAEL A.W.

OTTEY and ELAINE SILVESTRINI Press Staff Writers TWO MEN accused in the killing of Gary "Chip" Cuozzo Jr. in Miami Monday told police they took cash that the former Middletown High School South football star had in tended to use to buy cocaine, a Miami Police Department spokesman said yesterday. Cuozzo, 22, was shot five times in the back of the head in an upscale section of Miami and dumped outside a nearby public park, Miami De cuozzo tective Ron II-hardt said yesterday. A junior at the University of of Maryland, Cuozzo was the son Middletown Township orthodontist Gary Cuozzo, a former pro football quarterback who played for the Baltimore Colts, Minnesota Vikings and St. Louis Cardinals during the 1960s and '70s.

The younger Cuozzo, who was graduated from Middletown South in 1986, was a varsity quarterback there. He had transferred to Middletown South from Red Bank Catholic High School. Cuozzo was the oldest of three brothers. The youngest, Jeff, was Middletown South's quarterback last fall, while the third, Pat, played for Red Bank Catholic High School. Luis Beltran, 19, and Charles Al-pern, who is 25 today, have been charged with young Cuozzo's slaying and are being held without bail in the See CASH, pageAlO developers, the state Supreme Court last month overturned the emergency rules on shore development that Kean ordered on Oct.

3, 1988. The rules required DEP approval of proposed residential projects with 24 or fewer units, and commercial projects with fewer than 300 parking spaces a level of development not covered by the state's 1971 Coastal See SUIT, page All 00193 9434E How does your movie theater rate? Find out on Sunday in the Press. Jenklnsons Thurs. Nobody's Fault Frl. Party Animals, Sat.

Jah Love 892-0844 Osprey Your Party Place 223-0707 George Wesley Reggae 9pm TLC, 9pm Parker House, See Girt, Happy Hour-Cool Suits Ralwkjgies Featuring Bitty Lawkx Band! 8994600 Saved subscribers about $39 million a year and saved themselves some customers. In contrast, the estimated $628 million truck sales and repair industry suffered from a small, splintered constituency and an indifferent press and public. Though they, too, wrote letters and offered an alternative revenue plan, their cause sank in a sea of special interests. See TAX, pageAlO ANALYSIS Weed Mikhail S. Gorbachev was entitled to their assistance.

They argued over details: How much? How goon? What in return? JH-rut they agreed on immediate technical assistance and dispatched a study team to recommend how to target Future aid. They gave West Germany he. green light to complete a $3.1 billion loan, and aid from the others ivin surely follow. Overall, it is a giant leap toward trust after decades of Cold War suspicion See PERESTROIKA, page AS Ex-trooper denies beating motorists Testifying In his own defense, former state trooper Robert K. Henlg Jr.

,27, of Toms River, told a Superior Court Jury yesterday that he had no knowledge of any beatings of motorists at Troop barracks In East Brunswick, or of a cover-up conspiracy. Story, A3 Shore building crackdown spurs suit against officials ByTOBIE STANGER Press Business Writer JULY, not April, has been the crudest month for Michael Porcelli Sr. His Elizabeth-based heavy truck company recently lost a 30-truck order to a Syracuse, N. dealer. The buyer didn't want to pay New Jersey's new 7 percent sales tax on heavy trucks.

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Kean yesterday and the current and former environmental commissioners. The developers are seeking compensation for what they say was the multimillion-dollar cost to them of a 1988 crackdown on shore development, which slowed building on a broad swath of New Jersey's coast, including several oceanfront tracts on Long Beach Island. Ruling in an earlier suit by the same Casablanca Hot Legs Contest $1 bar drinks. Beer specials. 5264466 Club Paradise Extravaganza Nlghtlll Dance Contest Shot Specials DJ Kirk 870-9348 Club Seduction "Hot Cash prize, 988-4681 Columns, Avon, Miller Draft $1Duo or Die.

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