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MONDAY. DECEMBER 22, 1986 6A Liquor sellers try insurance pool Nuclear plant restarted; review pending Forked creek (ap) The Oyster Creek nuclear power plant was restarted yesterday, marking the end of a refueling and maintenance shutdown that began in April, officials said. Plant spokesman Sandy Polon said the plant will slowly be brought up to about 15 percent power and remain at that capacity while the S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission completes its review of an inspection of the unit's drywell. GPU Nuclear Corp the General Public Utilities Corp.

subsidiary that operates the plant, recently found that the steel shell surrounding the plant's reactor had thinned areas from corrosion, officials have said. The drywell is a 120-foot- Initially, the subscribers are required only to make the surplus fund payment, which would be held in an escrow account. If the minimum requirements for the exchange are not met, Grasso said, the money will be returned. Grasso said awards for liquor liability suits are becoming outrageous. He said one drunken driver recently was awarded 1 .5 million in damages after an accident left him a paraplegic.

Insurance companies do not want to provide coverage when awards like that are being handed out, he said. Because the companies are not allowed to cancel policies, they have been raising premiums, he said. Bossone said his group does not want the state liquor liability law abolished, but it has lobbied fo changes. A bill recently passed by the Assembly and Senate clanfies the alcoholic beverage servers responsibility for his customers. The measure has been sent to Gov Thomas H.

Kean. sociation, a lobbying group that represents the states 7,500 onpremise liquor licensees. "This is the best thing that onpremise dealers could get involved in, said Bossone, who has signed up for the exchange. He said the premiums for the insurance package at his restaurant, The Squan Tavern in Manasquan, went from $13,500 to $31,000 in 1985. About $8,000 of the increase was for liquor liability coverage; the rest covered increases in general and fire insurance costs, Bossone said.

He said that about 300 bar and restaurant owners faced with similar increases have been forced to close down in the past year. Paul J. Grasso, of Trubek, Hen-ker and Grasso, a Woodcliff Lake insurance agency, is collecting subscriptions for the exchange. He said 75 of the 250 liquor-license holders he has talked with in recent weeks have agreed to sign up. The others are taking a wait-and-see attitude.

he said. Although were offering basically the same coverage for half the price, it is still far too expensive for some. to pay damages resulting from any lawsuits. McDonough, who was insurance commissioner from 1972-74, said that even with the surplus fund payment, policies offered by the exchange would be cheaper than those offered by insurance companies. He said tavern owners now pay an average annual premium of $7,000, and that the exchange would offer the same coverage for $3,500.

The subscriber would have to pay an additional $1,750 half the premium price toward the surplus fund, McDonough said. He said a similar program for hospital workers established in 1975 has been very successful. McDonough, who also was director of the state division of Alcoholic Beverage Control from 1970 to 1972, runs Professional Property and Casualty Co. Underwriters Inc. in Princeton with James J.

Sheeran, who was insurance commissioner from 1974-1982. The idea for a liquor sellers exchange belongs to Dominic Bossone, president of the New Jersey Licensed Beverage As Jury resumes kickback deliberations house fire CAMDEN (AP) Jurors who failed to reach a verdict last week in the federal trial of three men accused of accepting from fugitive former state Sen. David Friedland were scheduled to resume deliberations today. The jurors Saturday began deliberating on charges against the three former Teamsters union officials, but U.S. District Judge John F.

Gerry recessed the trial after about 5'A hours of unsuccessful deliberations. Kenneth P. Zauber, Frank Scotto and Robert Coar are charged with accepting kick-backs from Friedland in return for giving him control of $20 million of a pension fund for Local 701 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in North Brunswick. Prosecutors say Friedland and former state Assemblyman Joseph Higgins swindled the pension fund out of $3 million through a phony mortgage loan company and conspired to steal the remainder of the $20 By JULIA DOLAN Associated Press NEWARK Owners of the state's bars and liquor stores, faced with spiraling liability insurance costs, are trying to form their own insurance program. More than half of the 9,000 licensed alcoholic beverage dealers in New Jersey are operating without insurance, said former state insurance commissioner Richard C.

McDonough. They cant afford it or it is not available to them, said McDonough, whose insurance underwriting firm in Princeton is sponsoring The Licensed Beverage Exchange, which wants to offer policies for half the present average cost. However, the non-profit exchange cannot get state certification for 1987 unless at least 200 people sign up and a surplus fund of at least $300,000 is established by Dec. 31, he said in a recent interview. To join the exchange, bar and liquor store owners must pay a one-time contribution to the surplus fund, which would be used Elizabeth ELIZABETH (AP) A fire in three-story rooming house on the waterfront here killed two residents and injured two others, and left at least 15 people homeless, authorities said.

Firefu'Mers said the Saturday ingnt blaze spread quickly 1 1. rough the brick -taced buildings wood interior, preventing them from entering parts of the 33-room structure. About 15 people on the ground floor were rescued when city police officers David DeRosa and Michael Bednarz kicked in a locked door and let the residents out, Detective William Evers said yesterday. Other residents were rescued from balconies and second-floor rooms, said city fire Chief William Neafsey. The fire, reported at 9:21 p.m., was so intense that it prevented firefighters from entering the third floor for more than two hours, he said.

The building housed the Penn Jersey Rod and Gun Club on the first floor, and apartments on the upper floors. A preliminary report by investigators from the Union County Arson Squad showed that an overloaded electrical outlet in a second-floor room caused the fire, Evers said. One of the victims was found on Professors By DONNA GORDON Associated Press NEWARK Most people do what theyre told by family members, bosses and even the man on the street. Rutgers University professor G. Ray Funkhouser says people never realize how much of their lives are dictated by the persuading abilities of others.

Funkhousers new book, The Power of Persuasion, explains the mechanics behind the art of influence. The core of the book comes from his classes in marketing communications and consumer behavior, but the ideas relate to all aspects of life. Most people dont really recognize how much persuading goes on around them because it goes by too fast, Funkhouser, 48, said in a recent telephone interview from his home in Fort Washington, Pa. Persuasion is a mother telling her child to put on a warmer coat. rooming a third-floor balcony, hi? body so badly charred that officials will have to identify him by his jewelry, Evers said.

The victim was a ball of flame when he came out, said Tom Sullivan, an investigator with the county medical examiner's office. The other victim, Betty Martin, 40, appeared to have died from smoke inhalation, authorities said. Her body was discovered just inside a first-floor exit. The owner of the 50-by-150-foot structure, which is at least 50 years old, said he was at his home when the blaze broke out. When I looked out, it was burning, said owner Louis Barkee, adding that flames were shooting out of second-floor windows.

One of the injured, Geraldine Rhodes, 45, was in stable condition yesterday at Elizabeth General Medical Center with second-and third-degree burns over 40 percent of her body, said spokesman Doug Harris. Also injured was city fire Capt. William Scott, who was treated at Elizabeth General for an ankle injury and released, police said. Police said some residents of the building spent Saturday night at a hotel, while others slept at nearby Washington Grammar School. Trooper slaying defendant to testify high structure designed to contain radioactiye steam and water the event of reactor failure.

Polon said the NRC review is expected to take several days. The reactor will not produce enough power for the 1 7-year-old plant to resume commercial production of electricity but it will allow various tests and training to be conducted, he said. John Zwolinski, on-site project director for the NRC, said last week that tests have shown that corrosion of the drywell is not as severe as originally thought. GPU officials have said leaking water apparently was responsible for the corrosion. The area from which the water leaked has been plugged, said Zwolinski.

million. Higgins, who pleaded guilty to mail fraud and perjury in October 1985 and awaits sentencing under a plea-bargain agreement, was the key government witness against the three defendants. Zauber, 48, of Princeton, a former state and federal prosecutor; Scotto, 65, of Flushing, N.Y., a trucking industry analyst, and Coar, 59, of Manalapan, former Local 701 president, are charged with mail fraud and conspiring to commit a racketeering offense through a kickback scheme. Coar and Scotto, who were the sole trustees of the fund, also face wire fraud charges, and Zauber, former general counsel of the fund, is also charged with accepting kick-backs. Friedland has been missing since September 1985, when he disappeared a few weeks before he was to be sentenced for his role in an earlier kick-back scheme involving the same pension fund.

state 80 in rural Warren County on Dec. 21, 1981, after he pulled over a car for a traffic violation. The defense's witness list also contains the names of other avowed revolutionaries and several state troopers who participated in the murder investigation. Mannings attorney, William Kunstler, has said he may even attempt to subpoena Col. Clinton Pagano, state police superintendent.

Defense attorneys have complained that they might have to mount their case without expert witnesses. sponsor cruise year who hadnt been anywhere in the last 15 years because of their respiratory problems. With this cruise, all you have to do is pack your bags and show up on the dock. Giovannoli said in a recent interview that people who suffer from emphysma, asthma and other chronic lung conditions usually are homebound because they are capable of little physical activity. As a result, she said, their spouses also have to stay home to care for them.

The cruise on the Bermuda Star is scheduled to depart from New York on May 23 and return May 3(J. i ASSOCIATED PRESS FATAL FIRE Bystanders congregate yesterday at a rooming house in Elizabeth, where a fire Saturday night killed two people and left at least 15 homeless book explains the art of influence kills two Although his book is not a how-to" manual, Funkhouser did point out a few ways for people to combat persuaders. The first problem is recognizing persuasion. "Some of the best persuaders get their way by persuading people not to do things, he said. Sometimes it goes right past you." Knowledge of persuasion should help keep victims alert.

Funkhouser said victims also should recognize personality traits that attract control people to them. Control people prey on weaknesses and vulnerabilities. One of the best defenses is to live an upright life and not have any vulnerabilities, he said. That's easier said than done, Funkhouser admitted. 'Si SOMERVILLE (AP) One of two revolutionaries accused of gunning down a state trooper five years ago is expected to be the key witness as the defense presents its case the 6-week-old murder trial.

William Albrecht an FBI firearms identification specialist who was the state final witness Thursday, is scheduled to be the first defense witness when the trial resumes today. But the star defense witness is expected to be Thomas W. Manning, who is on trial with Richard C. Williams for murder of Trooper Philip Lamonaco. The officer was slain on Inter Respiratory groups Newark (ap) People confined to their homes with chronic lung ailments will have a chance to take a vacation this summer on a special cruise that will cater to their medical needs.

The Respiratory. Health Association of Paramus and the Better Breathing Club of Norwalk Hospital in Connecticut are recruiting travelers for the groups second cruise to Bermuda with a tour package that includes a staff of doctors and nurses. Its just a wonderful, worry-free vacation, said Shirley Giovannoli, executive director of the respiratory association. We had people last i A It's a teacher telling her student to come to class on time. It's an advertising executive convincing a consumer to buy a car.

Persuasion works by engineering the decisions that people make, Funkhouser said. He said there are two kinds of people who use persuasion the power people and the control people. Power is the ability to accomplish objectives, the professor says, and control is the ability to dominate what others dq. Funkhouser said most people confuse the two categories, and he used the television show Dallas to explain the difference. "Dallas star J.R.

Ewing is a control person. All he basically does is cause trouble. He never accomplishes anything, Funkhouser said. Bobby Ewing is the power person on "Dallas because he accomplishes his objectives. Funkhouser said other control people include a boss who de- lights in keeping his people on their toes with arbitrary, dictatorial commands.

He said most people are a mixture of power and control, although one attribute usually dominates a personality. It's too bad that people get confused," he said. "People tend to think that if you push people around you are being powerful. Thats for losers." People that raise decent children are power people. They are accomplishing important objectives, Funkhouser said, adding that religion and education are two ways to train power people.

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