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Sex Bulls top fixers; Phils beat Dodgers: IC'r' symbols fe II yf-A TTT 1 11 XI ennnrn lrncrvic virnrpn nrn 1 I Did pinups keep World War II soldiers on their id Demi Moore 'Mortal Thoughts' may lead to lawsuit: 6D 1 Soldier conies home to tragedy Dateline: South Jersey -5-. -vv Wife charged in son's death I 4 mmmmm i'Vif hit, Syria 1 stalls talks New peace strategy sought by Baker CAIRO, Egypt (AP) Syrian President Hafez Assad refused to yield yesterday on two of his key demands for joining a Mideast peace conference, and Secretary of State James A. Baker III began to look for fresh approaches to save a U.S. initiative on which "many, many things have been agreed." After meeting with Assad for nearly six hours in Damascus, Baker flew to Cairo late yesterday to coordinate strategy with Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bess- mertnykh, who was concluding his own tour of the region, then meet today with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. As Baker and Bessmertnykh began their session, Baker said there were more points of agreement than disagreement for forging superpower-backed talks in the region.

"The points of disagreement are relatively few," he said. "Many, many things have been agreed. One or two things, maybe three, have not." Bessmertnykh said they had come a great distance "so we have been continuing work. There have been shifts by all." After their 90-minute meeting, Baker said, "I don't think we've reached an impasse that cannot be bridged," and Bessmertnykh, striking a hopeful stance, reiterated his position that "there have been shifts in a good direction by all sides." However, Bessmertnykh added: "There are some differences stilU'5 One option under consideration is to call a conference on water resources and other regional problems with the hope of expanding it into negotiations over the Arab-Israeli dispute, an administration official said. He described it as starting at the outer circle and moving in.

Another approach under consideration is holding peace talks between Israel and a joint delegation of Jordan and Palestinian Arabs excluding Syria, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Family portrait Tabatha Weaver (above) William Weaver of Cherry Hill (below), and Timo-holds Jonathan Weaver (left), her son by Pfc. thy Daniels, her son by another man. pel "Si 3w 1 9 1 i. defender Steven Freedman, failed to return numerous phone calls placed over several days.

William Weaver's mother, Mary Greathouse of the Downs Farm section of Cherry Hill, had concerns from the beginning about her son's marriage last June, even though William and Tabatha had been high school sweethearts. She thought the couple was too young and that Tabatha wasn't mature enough for marriage, although she had a child by another man. Please see GULF, Page 2A Courier-Post photo by Tina Markoe on a $100,000 nrorjertv bond posted by her parents, Glen and Pat Daniels of Lake Shore Drive in Browns Mills, into whose custody she was released May 7. William Weaver's family now fears she will try to contact or gain custody of her surviving son. But Weaver said in an interview from North Carolina that he believed his wife was in a mental hospital.

"I think it's in North Carolina," he said. Tabatha's parents declined to be interviewed. Her lawyer, Cumberland County, N.C., public Power outage starts fire at incinerator By COLLEEN O'SHEA Courier-Post Staff CAMDEN A power outage caused a fire in a trash chute at the South Camden incinerator on Morgan Boulevard here, but no major damage or injuries were reported. John Purves, director of Camden's Pollution Control Financing Authority, which operates the incinerator, said the fire started after a power outage at 11 p.m. Saturday.

Plant manager Newt Wattis said the power was restored by 2:30 a.m. yesterday, and one of the plant's three boilers, which measure 14 feet wide by 18 feet long by 100 feet tall, was operating by noon yesterday. The other two boilers are expected to be back on line today, Wattis said. Purves said the plant is designed to rely on the electricity it produces as a backup during an outage. But that didn't happen on Saturday.

"The plant is in start-up, still, really. So it hasn't gone through all its fine-tuning and testing," Purves said. Wattis said he wouldn't characterize the fire as a failure of the plant's backup systems. He said trash had clogged the door of one of the chutes, called hoppers, that feed trash into the boiler pits where it is burned. Purves said the plant is required to shut down during a power outage, just as it did Saturday night.

However, the boiler pit fires continued to burn. Fire escaped one pit and climbed upward into its hopper. Plant employees were unable to close the door to the pit manually and the fire bumed for more than four hours, Purves said. The plant filled with heavy smoke, workers were evacuated and the fire department was called. Wattis said the door was closed manually when the trash volume fell below the level of the door.

He said the plant shut down safely despite the problem. "These were not normal circumstances," Wattis said. Jackie Donahue, a spokeswoman for Public Service Electric Gas said the power outage was caused by a failed cable that feeds electricity to the incinerator. She said many large operations, like the Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority, plan for such failures by having a backup cable. "Any kind of big plant usually does have a backup, but at the Resource Recovery Plant they have just the one cable," Donahue said.

She added that businesses must purchase their own cable lines, and "it's very expensive." Democratic Freeholder Maria Barnaby Greenwald, whose party approved of trash-to-steam as a way of dealing with the county's trash, said county officials will "definitely look into" the safety features at the plant. Purves said the fire posed no threat to residents. "This facility will probably go another 20 years and that problem would never happen again," he said. The $108 million facility started burning trash on March 25. Inside Astrology 4D Entertainment 6D Classified 4B Experts 4D Comics 5D Obituaries 3B Crossword 50 People 4D Dear Abby 40 Television 70 Editorials 6A Weather 2A By LOUIS T.LOUNSBERRY and JOSEPH BUSLER Courier-Post Staff Pfc.

William Weaver of Cherry Hill had been serving in Operation Desert Storm for four months when tragedy struck not on the battlefield, but at home. On March 10, the American Red Cross caught up with him in Dhahran and told him his stepson had died of starvation and that his own son nearly had died from the same condition. Moreover, the Red Cross told him his wife of nine months, Tabatha, 18, of Browns Mills, was responsible and behind bars in Fayetteville, N.C. Weaver, 20, who had left behind what he thought was a happy household, was devastated His wife, originally of Mount Holly, had joined him in North Carolina in November, one month before he was called to the Middle East. He left for Saudi Arabia on Dec.

9 with his unit, Headquarters Company, 313th Military Intelligence Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division. But before going, he placed his family by then including 2V4-month-old Jonathan in a small apartment at the Camelot Arms in Fayetteville, just off the Army post at Fort Bragg. The day before the Red Cross contacted Weaver, paramedics and police had found his stepson, Timothy TJ." Daniels, emaciated and in a feces-encrusted diaper, dead on the kitchen floor of the apartment at 875 King Arthur Drive. Jonathan, by then 5Vi months old, was seriously ill. He had an abnormal heartbeat caused by malnutrition and was only seven ounces above his birthweight of 9 pounds.

Tabatha Weaver was charged with two counts of felony child abuse (a charge of first-degree murder later was added), as was a soldier, Pvt. Roger Brown, 21, of the 407th Supply and Transport Battalion, found living with her. Today, Tabatha Weaver is free Wetlands law sinks dream By LEE MOORE Courier-Post Staff GLOUCESTER TWP. The land they bought 45 years ago was rich with maple trees, but Julia and Michael Bausher loved it for another reason. Having built their home on a small lot at the front of the tract, the Baushers saw the rest as an investment a future home for their children or as financial security for their own retirement Today, they are learning, the 3'a-acre parcel on Somerdale Road can guarantee neither.

According to state Department of Environmental Protection officials, the remaining land behind the Bausher home has been designated a wetland resource by the state. No building or improvements can be done there without a DEP permit, and tough wetlands restrictions enacted in 1987 make such permission uncertain. "If it was 20 feet we wouldn't say anything, but this is a lot of ground six or seven building lots. It's the inheritance of our children and grandchildren," said Julia Bausher, who is 75. Said Michael Bausher, 79: "I invested in this property in 1946 and I've been paying taxes on it ever since.

Now somebody comes along and tells me, 'You can't do that. You can't do According to Mayor Ann Mullen, who is also a Democratic state assemblywoman, the trouble began when the new Stonegate housing development was built Search for woman takes bizarre twists I 'V I fin Sf l'i Hill ''MZ 4 ByLIZAJAIPAUL Courier-Post Staff CHERRY HILL A reporter from Canada flies down and says he's a private detective. There's speculation a scam is involved. There's a hint it might be kidnapping or even murder. Or it could be a simple disappearing act.

The case of missing Yeda "Dede" Rosenthal, a Canadian national, has taken many bizarre twists. Rosenthal, 32, disappeared from her apartment at Somerset Towers on Cooper Landing Road sometime between 11 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, and Monday, Feb. 25, when she did not report for work.

Police found her door closed, but unlocked. Her cat was patrolling the apartment. All her belongings were there, and her car was in the driveway. "Nothing was disturbed in the room," said Detective John Long. "It was pretty neat." Developments since her disappearance include: Neighbors of Rosenthal said Jim Holt, a reporter for The Ham- End of a dream: Julia and Michael Bausher stand near the acreage that was turned into a wetlands protection area.

YEDA ROSENTHAL since February ilton Spectator, posed as a private detective. One neighbor, who wished to remain anonymous, said, "Dede's stepbrother told me Jim Holt was a private detective. Holt also told me he was a private detective. Please see SEARCH, Page 2A Investigators said the 20-year-, old female clerk noticed the man was not wearing a shirt then noticed when he stepped away from the counter that he was missing his pants, too. Police said they have a suspect but had not made an arrest.

next to the Baushers. Stonegate was supposed to build a swale a drainage collection ditch to collect rainwater runoff from the development. However, that was not done, Mullen said. The resulting runoff began collecting on the Bausher's land, Mullen said. When the Baushers approached the township about it, township engineer Charles Riebel suggested they have the swale installed on their own property.

The Baushers agreed and, according to Mullen, the township handled the project at no cost to the couple. James Staples, a spokesman for the DEP, said his agency got involved when the township engineer sought a DEP wetlands permit to install the swale after it had already been built. Clerk gets bare facts on cigarette thief "That got us looking at Mr. Bausher's property. We don't really go looking at every back lot around the state," said Staples.

According to Staples, the township engineer subsequently paid a $1,500 fine to the DEP for the swale violation. Mullen said she's troubled by the mistake over the swale and by the way the wetlands regulations have clouded the Baushers' future plans. "I believe in protecting the environment, but I have to wonder sometimes if we're not going so far the other way that we're impinging on people's rights," she said. "We're working people," said Julia Bausher. "We need every penny we can get.

This bums me up." ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) A man walked naked into a convenience store and stole 10 packs of cigarettes, police said. The man didn't have any clothes on, but a clerk at a Sheetz store in Logan Township, was able to get the license number of the car he fled in, police said. FYI A page of news to use: 3D I It.