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OCTOBER 23, 1990 MORRIS COUNTY'S LOCAL NEWSPAPER VOL 3 NO. 333 25 CENTS Monet Olive tarjk'jrolblbsd. -I t'V ij I GOOD MORNING WET Expect rain today with highs 55-60. Rain will end tonight, lows 46-51. B16 MORRIS COUNTY SMOLDERING ASHES from a pipe sparked a fire 4 at a Mine Hill Township home yesterday, leaving two men homeless.

A3 A NINErMEMBER law enforcement team has been formed to investigate new evidence in the case of Lisa McBride, whose decomposed body was found by a hunter Saturday. A3 SOME PARSIPPANY residents were pleased to learn last night of the Morris County Park Commission's desire to seek state money to enlarge Old Troy Park.AS WORLD SADDAM HUSSEIN will free some sick and elderly Americans from among the hundreds of U.S. citizens detained since its invasion of Kuwait, the leader of an Iraqi-American group said yesterday. A2 HOUSE AND SENATE negotiators approved a clean-air bill yesterday that is expected to eventually cost the economy $22 billion a year and affect most of American society by toughening pollution controls on automobiles, factories and power plants. A2 A TEST-TUBE baby boy belongs with his genetic parents rather than the surrogate mother who gave birth to him, a California judge ruled yesterday.

A2 SPORTS MARK CIBELLIS took over at quarterback and led Par-sippany to its first victory of the season Saturday, 27-6 over Dover. The Redskins had not scored a point during their first four games of the season. B2 BUSINESS FIRST BABIES may be very dear to Grandma, but they are dearest to retailers, who estimate that families spend as much as 30 percent more on their first child than they do on subsequent children. A7 KAREN FuCITO Daily Record Unit prepares to bust into a townhouse to investigate a reported just before Lakeland Savings Bank was robbed. until door was kicked in minutes after a man caller reported to a police dispatcher that "there's been a shooting and my mother and sister have been shot," Kane said, paraphrasing the caller's message.

The caller gave an address of a Stedwick Village townhouse, later. See REPORT A13 I. ftfi 1" Morris County Sheriff's detectives Ed Williams, left, and Bill Wall dust the doors of the bank for fingerprints yesterday. Steve Conte Daily Record Hoax wasn't By Peggy Wright Daily Record MOUNT OLIVE TWP. Fifteen heavily armed police officers surrounded a Stedwick Village townhouse for three hours yesterday before they kicked the door open and learned that a report of a double shooting there was a hoax.

A Oriental girl hides behind a in Parsippany. For a story on Immigrants' offer bit of By LlV OSBY Daily Record Less than 10 years after escaping from Soviet-occupied Afghanistan as a political refugee, Bassir Bayat started his own business in Morristown. Bayat, like a growing number of immigrants, took a look around and decided that his future didn't include working for someone else. So he chose to market what he knows best his own ys, Mount M)liye If yJaf Dudd III A ft Lake I Lakeland jSyr Savings (v jBank -riisStedwick sCJ village A tys Apartments the 'Murder' report diverts police By LlV OSBY Daily Record MOUNT OLIVE TWP. A gunman robbed the Lakeland Savings Bank of $3,000 in cash yesterday morning and fled on foot, moments after police were called to investigate a reported double murder at Stedwick Village, a lead that turned out to be false.

Authorities will not confirm whether the phone tip claiming two people had been murdered was actually a ruse to divert their attention from the armed robbery at the Route 46 bank about two miles away. But after staking out the Stedwick Drive condo for three hours, police forcibly entered the dwelling and found it empty. The call to police about the alleged shootings came in at 11:15 a.m., authorities said. The bank alarm sounded a few minutes later. "A phone call was received at the (Mount Olive) police station about five minutes before the bank incident," said Ann McDade of the Morris County Prosecutor's Office.

"There did not appear to be any murders or any hostages. But we will not comment on whether it was a diversion." The bank was robbed by a white man who approached a teller and demanded money, gesturing to a handgun he had in the waistband of his blue jeans, authorities said. After the teller gave him about $3,000 in cash, he put it into a small red cloth bag with drawstrings and fled on foot in an unknown direction, See ROBBERY A13 missed without merit. The commissioners did not name an acting director last night. On Thursday, the commissioners met to review the administrative charges filed against Taylor and to discuss a finding of the subcommittee that investigated the charges.

The board took a vote in closed session, but did not disclose what action was taken. In his letter of resignation, Taylor said he met with members of the subcommittee and acting chairwoman Dorothy Johnson the morning after the vote. He then See RESIGN A1 3 PRESIDENT BUSH vetoes major civil rights bill. A2 file to see how much support there was for that idea. With the two sides advancing otherwise similar proposals to raise taxes on the wealthy, agreement on this matter would be a major step toward completion of a $250 billion deficit-reduction pact.

Leaders would like to bring a compromise bill to the House and Senate floors by midweek. Early in the day. Chairman Dan See BUDGET A16 227 0164. Mount Olive's Special Operations murder yesterday. Call came in discovered Police are investigating whether the phony shooting report was made to purposely prevent officers from quickly responding to a report called in minutes later of a robbery at the Lakeland Savings Bank on Route 46.

The two reports were called in between 11:09 and 11:15 a.m., police said. 3 i Hi Housing director resigns Morristown authority job -it By Christine Federico Daily Record MORRISTOWN After a 10-month tumultuous tenure, the executive director of the Morristown Housing Authority resigned from his position last night. John J. Taylor, 45, handed in his letter of resignation to the board of commissioners yesterday. It took effect at 7 p.m.

In a statement, the board acknowledged his letter at a special meeting of the authority last night. It also announced that most of the numerous administrative charges filed against Taylor were dis 7 "It's an avenue we're looking at," Police Chief Edward Kane said, referring to the coincidence of the two calls. He declined to comment further, but did say that at least seven officers were dispatched to the bank robbery. Members of the township police department's Special Operations Unit surrounded the townhouse SE8 Mr SWS 7 C. Third In A Series passports he bought on the black market, he had escaped to Iran and then to Islamabad, Pakistan, where he applied to the American Embassy for asylum.

See BUSINESS A4 HOME DELIVERY, CALL Momfcvs infants BOB KARP Daily Record program during Sunday services at the Chinese Christian Church struggles of a Chinese immigrant couple, see A4. Gas, millionaires, Medicare still block budget's approval Index Ann Landers B7 Around Town B7 Bridge B10 Business A7-12 Classified B10-16 Comics B8 Crossword B10 Horoscope B7 Morris County A3, A5 Obituaries A6 Opinion A14 People B16 Sports B1-6 Television B9 businesses themselves culture and opened an Afghan restaurant. Immigrants traditionally have played a vital role in America's economy. Today, they are purchasing franchises for convenience stores and gas stations, opening international restaurants, and starting hightech computer companies and other service industries. Bayat, 33, opened his Afghan restaurant, Pamir, on Washington Street a year and half ago.

Only 9V4 years earlier, using By Alan Fram Associated Press WASHINGTON Democrats considered dropping their call for a surtax on millionaires yesterday as lawmakers dickered over Medicare cuts and gasoline taxes in a drive to resolve the yearlong budget standoff by week's end. In the face of adamant opposition by Republican senators to a surtax on the rich, Democrats were weighing a GOP alternative that would limit the deductions millionaires can itemize on their income taxes. House Democrat leaders were sounding out their rank-and- 428-4444 OR 1 800 Daily Record, 629 Parsippany Road, P.O. Box 217, Parsippany, N.J. 07054.

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