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se Id Ofa J0 jM i 3 i-t Stem fife WEDNESDAY AUGUST 7, 1985 CENTRAL NORTHERN NEW JERSEY rrhihs of fen ln 0m no adbioim CO '-w Oil I Sf" Players balk at plan to alter pay arbitration Officer faulted in street killing By Patricia Alex Correspondent A veteran Paterson patrolman has been suspended for impounding a car early Monday but leaving the motorist behind in a high-crime area where the man was robbed and killed an hour later. Patrolman Michael Mihalko was put on five days suspension without pay yesterday following the death of the motorist, Robert EL Bommelyn 32, of Van Winkle Avenue, Hawthorne. Bommelyn's body was found about a.m. Monday near Graham Avenue and Van Hou-ten Street Police said he had been beaten and robbed. An hour earlier, police said, Mihalko had had Bommelyn's car towed from that scene for a traffic infraction, leaving the motorist and a male companion there without transportation.

"He set them up to be murdered," Mayor Frank X. Graves Jr. said of the patrolman's actions yesterday. While the towing of unregistered vehicles is standard procedure, Graves said the officer erred in leaving the men at the scene. 'A needless murder' "It was a needless murder," the mayor said.

"Common sense would have said the men because they were white didn't live in the neighborhood." The neighborhood is predominantly black. See SUSPENDED, Page A-9 By Bill Pennington Stiff Writ NEW YORK As both sides in baseball's labor dispute reconvened yesterday morning, it wu popular to say that the talks were in extra innings as if it were a close game soon to be decided. After more than 10 hours of negotiations that began at 8:45 a.m. yesterday and stretched into the night, it appears that the labor dispute that caused IS games to be postponed last night and threatens to cancel the remainder of the baseball season is anything but nip and tuck. The negotiations failed to avert the second baseball strike In four years.

The walkout continued today, as did talks between the owners and the players. The last of yesterday's three negotiating sessions ended at 11 p.m. A spokesman for Lee MacPbail, the owners' Player Relations Committee director, announced that they were to resume at 9:30 this morning at an undisclosed location. "In Lee's opinion," management spokesman Bob Fishel said at a press conference at the Loews Summit Hotel, "they made some progress today. Not an overwhelming amount, but some." Not optimistic Donald Fehr, the executive director of the Players Association, disagreed strongly.

"I understand that they want to put the best face on the talks," said after the final session concluded. "But we ought hot to minimize where we are. And where we are is that we've got a strike. "At the moment, I don't see a way out It is a sad day in this country, in this part of the century, that an industry that operates a monopoly insists that its employees can't have their salaries determined in a free market or by a third party. -4 -r- "If this matter proceeds much longer, the players are not going to settle for what they would have before the strike." Fehr insisted the sides were never close to a settlement yesterday, despite the many hours of talks and despite several signals from bis office that had some major league teams continuing road trips as if they were ready to resume the season.

"We never instructed any players to prepare to play tonight," Fehr said. "And I don't know where the rumors of us being close to a settlement were generated. We were not close at any time." MacPbail did not appear at the brief press conference conducted by Fishel, but his spokesman said the owners' chief negotiator felt progress was made "especially in salary arbitration and in the benefit pension fund." Fehr said the sides had narrowed "somewhat" on the pension fund issue but did not consider it a significant development Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth, who had beckoned the two sides to continue talks yesterday, was not a pari of the meetings. "People keep asking me about the commissioner," Fehr said. "I don't know, but I assume if he wants to help that will manifest itself somewhere." See TALKS, Page A-7 I 5 AP photo Atomic bombing remembered About 400 iounp people conducted a "die-in" yesterday in ront the "Atomic Dome" in Hiroshima, Japan, to commemorate the destruction of the city at the end of World War II.

Story, Page A-4 I Politics downplayed as cause Shoot-out toid to awgrs noon when a burst of automatic weaponry resulted in two deaths and at least 19 injuries. Besides Reid, bus driver Ricardo Quiles, 87, of Jersey City was killed by a shot to the chest as he dived for cover amid the terrified throng. One other man, Roy Benjamin, 37, of Boston, remains in "extremely critical" condition at Chilton Memorial Hospital in Pompton Plains, a bullet having ripped through several abdominal organs. Initial reports from eyewitnesses indicated the shootings may have been related to long-simmering political differences among Jamaicans, but McClure yesterday downplayed that "I'm not sure it's that simple," be said. "It may be giving them a little too much credit to say it was due to politics.

"I think it may be more related to basic street crime activity a turf war," he said. 1 Five men from New York who were charged Monday in connection with the shoot-out remained in jail yesterday in lieu of bail of at least 8100,000 each. A sixth, who was shot by an Oakland policeman who reportedly was returning the suspect's fire, is in stable condition at Bergen Pines Hospital See GANGS, Page A-2 By Neal Allen Staff Writer A conflict between two gangs of Jamaicans triggered the shooting spree in which two persons were killed at an Oakland picnic ground, several witnesses said yesterday. They said the gangs, the Spanglers and the Showers, are probably based in the Bronx and may be involved in drug sales. One Brooklyn woman, whose husband was shot to death after be dived into a clearing to protect his 3-year-old son, said the melee was instigated by members of the Showers, who she said arrived by car after the party had begun.

"Nothing but drugs," said Gail Chapman, the mon-law wife of Hopeton Reid, 28, when asked the tive for the shootings. Her husband was killed by three bullets from an automatic weapon. Bergen County Prosecutor Larry J. McClure said last night that he hadn't heard of the two gangs, but believed the gunfight may have been part of a turf war. At least 2,000 Jamaicans, most of them bused from New York, were celebrating their home country's independence day at a SO-acre park in Oakland Sunday after Errors, backlog bury IBS Overdue student loan means no tax refund inslds Bridge column Business Classified Close-up newt Comics -B-17 -C-12 D-8 D-3 A-14 B-21 B-1 -C-15 C-1 -B-24 according to government investigators and congressional staff members.

We're doing everything we can to prevent that from happening," said Thomas J. Laycock, assistant-commissioner for computer services. "We piled up backlogs quickly as a result of processing many more returns later than expected. There is much effort going on now to try and figure out ways for that not to happen." The problem? The new 10S-million network of Sperry Univac 1100-84 computer systems in the IRS, and a growing load of tax returns. This year, 97.7 million returns were filed.

The IRS expects 104 million returns next year and 110 million in 1987. The IRS's dilemma wu spawned in a sprawling nationwide bureaucracy coordinated in Washington, DC, by agency officials who have rarely visited except on occasional tours any of the agency's 10 regional service centers where work on many millions o( tax filings is done each year. See ERRORS, Page A-7 By Arthur Howe Knlght-RkWer News Strvies The' Internal Revenue Service is facing massive computer and management problems that are threatening the stability of the nation's tax collection The crisis first became visible earlier this year when an extraordinary backlog of unprocessed 1984 tax returns began piling up. By the middle of last month, the number was 6.3 million returns. As IRS workers have worked to clear up the backlog, the agency has performed fewer and fewer tax audits, while the numbers of tax delinquents and the amounts they owe the VS.

government have soared. Meanwhile, backlogs of unanswered inquiries from taxpayers and uncorrected tax-record errors have grown dramatically. The volume of uncompleted work is expected to remain at record levels for 'months. i It's so bad that the IRS may still be busy on this year's work when next year's tax returns flood in, Editorials. Opinion Entertainment Food Obituaries Sports Television state agencies and insured by the federal government "I think it's going to be without a doubt the most successful thing we've ever done to recover defaulted loans," said Richard Hastings, director of debt collection for the department "We're talking probably hundreds of millions" of dollars, he said.

Department officials say former, undergraduate and graduate students have defaulted on 33 billion in low-interest loans subsidized by the federal government under the Guaranteed Student Loan program. Another 31.1 billion is in default in the National Direct Student Loan pro-See LOAN, Page A-7 The Associated Prsss WASHINGTON, D.C.' Faced with billions of dollars in defaults on student loans, the government says it is resorting to "the ultimate trump card" to collect the Internal Revenue Service. Education Secretary William J. Bennett said yesterday that his department is asking the IRS to withhold tax refunds for 1 million defaulters on federal student loans unless they start paying their debts. Another 1 million borrowers will get notices from state agencies warning that they will be denied federal tax refunds next year unless they make good on their debts.

The states are acting on loans made by Mostly cloudy, mild tonight; chance of tnundefshowers tomorrow. Detailed forecast. Page C-1 6. Four Sections 84 Pages jL.