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SPORTS

Manchester boys take Invitational

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Ruling on jobs major blow to anti-bias pians

W ASH IN GTO N (AP) - The Supreme Court, in a blow to affirmative action in the American workplace, today struck down a plan aimed at protecting the jobs of black school teachers in Jackson. Mich., at the expense of whites with more seniority.

The 5-to-4 ruling said the affirmative action plan violated the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection for all under the laws.

But the ruling was based on narrow grounds. "The court still has two other major affirmative action cases under consideration, with decisions expected by July.. Four justices agreed that the Jackson. Mich., plan I'or laying off teachers was not based on convinc-

Pole fault bums man, cuts powerBv Herald Staff

A Manchester man suffered minor burns this morning when a switch failed on a utility pole on Broad Street near the intersection of Center Street, shooting flames and scorching the ground where he

' was working.The cause of the incident is not

known, but some 3.700 customers in central Manchester were left without power for about .50 minutes. according to a spokesman from Northeast Utilities. Power was restored at 12:12. the spokesman said.

Neal Murphy, who works as an assistant in the new vehicle department at the Moriarty Brothers automobile dealership in front of which the pole is located, was taken to Manchester Memorial Hospital. Murphy. 21. of Center Street, was being treated today at the M M H walk-in clinic for what a spokeswoman said were minor injuries.

Traffic lights at the intersection of Center and Broad streets were not working for awhile, but there were no reports of accidents, police said.

The switch failure occurred at 11:24 a.m. at a utility pole located along the southbound lane of Broad Street some 200 yards from where it meets Center. The injured man was apparently cleaning a section of parking lot near a chain-link fence when observers say a flame shot out of an insulator.

A 10-stjuare-foot section of grass was scorched, and a piece of metal had fallen from the utility pole onto the sidewalk below,

A spokeswoman from Southern New England Telephone Co. said the company was not aware of .telephone service being disrupted in Manchester.

ing evidence of prior discrimination by the school board.

Justice Lewis F. Powell, in an opinion for the four. said. "This court never has held that societal discrimination alone is sufficient to justify a racial classification. Rather, the court has insisted upon some showing of prior discrimination by the governmental unit involved before allowing limited u.se of racial classifications in o r d e r to r e m e d y s u c h discrimination."

Powell was joined by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and Justices William H. Rehnquist and Sandra Day O’Connor.

Justice Byron R, White provided the fifth vote to strike down the Jackson affirmative action plan. But he wrote a separate opinion explaining his reasons.

In other cases:• The court ruled that police do

not need court warrants before searching from airplanes for marijuana growing in fenced-in residential yards. By a 5-4 vote in a California case today, the court treated fenced-in residential backyards the same as open fields rather than as part of someone’s home.

• Agreed to decide whether a federal voting rights law may bara city from annexing all-white or undeveloped areas when the town refuses to annex neighboring areas where blacks live. The coUM said it will hear an appeal by city officials in Pleasant Grove, a practically all-white suburb of Birmingham. Ala.

• Cleared the way for judicial consideration of a convicted Florida murderer’s contention that the state metes out death sentences in a raciaily discriminatory way. The justices, without comment, refused to hear state prosecutors’ arguments that death row inmate Kenneth Griffin is not entitled to such consideration.

• Let stand a ruling that people applying for police jobs may be required to have a certain number of coliege credits even if the rule hurts more blacks than whites. The justices, without comment, rejected a challenge to a requirement that applicants for the Dallas police force have at least 45 hours of college credits.

• Upheld a former government policy of cutting off some Social Security benefits to divorced spouses over 60 who remarry. In a 6-3 ruling, the court said the policy did not violate the Constitution. The court ruled against a Los Angeles-area couple who challenged the policy.

• Granted the Reagan administration a hearing in its bid to limit those eligible for Social Security disability benefits. The court said it will review a ruling from Washington state that the government improperly denied benefits to some disabled individuals.

TODAY’S HERALD

Sentencing delayedSentencing for Marshall Cren

shaw of 40 Olcott St., who was recently convicted of killing his infant daughter last year, has been delayed until next month so that a psychiatric review can be conducted. Story on page 10.

Partly sunnyPartly sunny today with a high in

the middle 80s. Partly cloudy tonight with a low around 60. Becoming mostly cloudy Tuesday with a 60 percent chance of afternoon and evening thunderstorms, High in the 70s. Details on page 2.

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HuddleManchester was one of the entrants in Saturday’s Special Olympics Soccer Tournament at Manchester Community College's Cougar Field on Wetherell Street. From left, Som Daolugay

(partially hidden). Coach Sira Berte, Peter Francis of the Regional Occupational Training Center, Jeff Morin and assistant coach Amy Barrera get in a huddle before the action begins.

Educator A rth ur IHing diesRetired School Superintendent

Arthur H. filing, 90. of 153 Porter St., died Sunday at Rockville General Hospital.

Tiling Junior High School students and staff observed a moment of silence this morning in memory of Tiling, for whom the junior high school is named.

Tiling was superintendent of schools in Manchester from 1935 to 1961, heading the school system when the town was in its most ambitious school building period.

During his tenure as superintendent. Bowers and Verplanck schools were built in 1950. Waddell School in 1952. Buckley School in 1954, Keeney Street School and Manchester High School in 1956. and the North End Junior High School in 1960. This school was later renamed the Arthur H. Tiling Junior High School. During these years, additions were also built on the South and Washington schools.

In later years. Tiling, who retired in 1961, showed continued interest in Tiling Junior High School. He often visited the school and spoke

at special events, including the school’s 25th anniversary celebration in 1985 and when it received a national award for excellence in 1983.

"He was remarkable in his later years for his insights. He kept up with education.” said Richard Lindgren. Tiling’s principal.

Tiling’s schnoi flag will be flown at half-staff and the picture of Tiling in the school foyer will be draped in black, Lindgren said. The student council also plans to conduct a memorial ceremony and establish a permanent memorial for Tiling. Lindgren said.

Tiling assumed the superintendent’s job in 1935 when Fred A. Verplanck retired. Tiling started the push for audio-visual aids in the classroom, occasionally dismissing students so they could go home to watch important events, such as presidential inaugurations, in the living rooms of neighborhood homes equipped with the new device, lie helped get social

Please turn to page 10ARTHUR H. ILLING . led school expansion

Engineer may face chargesBv John F. Kirch Herald Reporter

Manchester police are seeking an arrest warrant for Walter Senkow. who was fired Tue.sday after 18 years as the town’s top engineer for what official sources say was sexual harassment of female employees.

Although police refused to disclose whether the requested warrant charging Senkow with disorderly conduct is connected with the circumstances surrounding his discharge. Town Manager Robert Weiss confirmed today that the firing was related to allegations of sexual harassment.

Police applied for the warrant in Manchester Superior Court this morning after a woman who works at the municipal office complex filed a complaint against Senkow with police last week, spokesman Gary Wood said today.

Wood said he did not know the specifics of the complaint, and Capt. Joseph Brooks, who is investigating the case, could not be reached for comment.

It should take about four days to get the warrant. Wood said. Conviction on a charge of disorderly conduct carries a maximum penalty of three months in jail and/or a $500 fine.

Weiss, who personally fired Senkow. would not comment on the specifics of the situation except to say: " It ’s all related tothat matter (sexual harassment) ”

One official close to the town government, who asked that his name not be used, said he heard Senkow had sent potentially offensive photographs to a number of female town employees. He did not know what the photographs were of or to whom they had been sent.

Senkow could not be reached for comment and Weiss would not confirm any of the reports.

Weiss would not comment on whether Senkow had been asked to resign before the dismissal or whether he had received earlier warnings. He aiso refused to comment on Senkow’s performance as town engineer.

“ That has no relevance to this situation." Weiss said.

In a related matter. Public Works Director George Kandra. Senkow’s immediate supervisor, said he had received a letter from the Civil Service Empioyees Affiliates Inc., the labor union that represents Senkow.

The letter informed Kandra that the union was taking the first step in a grievance procedure to fight Senkow’s termination. Kandra has 10 days to respond to the letter, but he would not comment on what his response would be.

" I just saw it this morning forthe first time.” he said.

If the union is not satisfied with Kandra’s response, its recourse would be to send a similar letter to Weiss. The CSE A ’s next step would then be to go to the state Board of Mediation and Arbitration in Wethersfield.

H daine Swirda. C S EA ’s staff representative for Manchester, said today that Senkow was fired for alleged "sexual harassment.”

“ But it (Weiss’s letter to ^ n - kow) gave no specifics,” Swirda said.

Assistant Town Engineer William Camosci is currently acting as chief engineer, Kandra said.

‘Verbose’ wins for Nathan Hale girlBv John Mitchell Herald Reporter

A sixth-grader at Nathan Hale School who spelled the word “ verbose” correctly won a statewide spelling bee Sunday.

Annie Breen, who lives on Academy Street, beat out 43 other spellers from about 25 other towns to win a $190 savings bond. The afternoon contest, sponsored by the Connecticut Junior Women Inc., was held at the Snow School in Middletown.

“ I didn’t really practice,” the 11-year-old said this morning, adding that her only preparations were the few quizzes her parents gave her.

She said she won the school’s competition last year and came in eighth in the townwide spelling bee.

Tom Breen. Annie’s father, said she spelled the word “ syncopation,” which the other finalist had missed. According to the rules, she had to spell that word correctly,

"verbose." Breen said

both contestants had missed five s t r a i g h t w o r d s b e f o r e “ syncopation.”

’’The first time, I was really nervous.” Annie said. She said her parents and friends were in attendance and that made her more relaxed.

"She reads a lot,” her father said, explaining why she might have won. He said that the contest took 2‘A hours, the last 40 minutes of which was spent only with the two finalists.

Although there is a national

competition, but Connecticut doesn’t enter it, Breen said. He said the Junior Women are considering entering for next year.

Annie said she was hoping to enter the national contest and plans to participate in the junior high spelling bee next year.

Breen said his daughter looked "very relaxed” and called the c o m p e t i t i o n a d r a i n i n g experience.

"We were spelling along with her," he said.

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Partly sunny today. Chance of an afternoon or evening thunderstorm in the western hills. Highs in the mid-SOs inland, the 70s coast and the 60s Cape Cod. Partly cloudy tonight. Chance of a shower from Connecticut Valley west. Lows 55 to 65. Mostly cloudy Tuesday with scattered showers and thunderstorms, most numerous in the western portions. Fog near Cape Cod and islands. Highs in 70s except 60s Cape Cod.

Maine: Showers and a few thundershowers likely north today. O ver the south, increasing cloudiness with a chance of showers and thundershowers in the afternoon. Highs in the 70s to lower 80s. Occasional rain north and scattered showers south tonight. Lows mostly in the 50s. Occasional rain north and showers likely south Tuesday. Highs in the 60s.

New Hampshire: Scattered showers and thundershowers north today. Over the south, increasing cloudiness with a chance of showers and thundershowers'in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s to mid-80s. Occasional rain likely north and scattered showers .south tonight. Lows in the 50s to lower 60s. Occasional rain likely north and showers likely south Tuesday. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s.

Vermont: Occasional showers and thunderstorms north today, chance of afternoon showers and thunderstorms south. Highs 70 to 80. Occasional showers tonight and Tue.sday possibly a thunderstorm. Lows .'50s highs Tuesday 65 to 70.

Extended outlookExtended outlook for New England Wednesday

through Friday:Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island:

Periods of showers and thunderstorms a1 any time during the period. Highs in the 70s. Lows in the 50s and low 60s.

Vermont: Wet and cool through the period. Highs in the 60s. Lows 45 to ,55.

Maine: Periods of rain likely Wednesday through Friday. Highs in the 60s. Lows in the 40s.

New Hampshire: Periods of rain likely Wedne.s- day through Friday. Highs in the 60s. Lows in the 40s.

Across the nationThe eastern third of the nation will have showers

and thunderstorms today, with a good chance of thunderstorms from northern Georgia across the central Appalachians to the eastern Great Lakes. Rainshowers will be scattered over western Oregon and Washington .state. Much of the nation will have highs in the 70s.

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National forecastDuring early Tuesday morning, rain/showers are forecast for parts of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Rain is forecast for parts of the North Atlantic Coast States with showers and thunderstorms in the Mid Atlantic Coast. Scattered showers are possible in parts of the Northern Intermountain Region and rain/showers are possible in the Upper Ohio Valley. Scattered showers and thunderstorms are possible in parts of the South Atlantic Coast States. Elsewhere, the weather will be fair.

The state Department of Environmental Protection provides daily air pollution reports and seasonal pollen count information from the Department of Health Services. The recorded message is provided at 566-3449.

Weather radioThe National Weather Service broadcasts

continuous. 24-hour weather information on 162.475 m Hz in Hartford. 162.,55 m Hz in New London and 162.40 m Hz in Meriden.

PEOPLEWay off-Broadway

Actress Swoosie Kurtz is co-host for Monday night's Obie Awards — the Village Voice tributes to off-Broadway. 'T v e had some of my dearest experiences off- Broadway." said Kurtz, who is currently appearing in John Guare’s "House of Blue Leaves" at Lincoln Center. "Y o u can really have an intimate feeling with the audience You don't have to project to the 10th row of the balcony."

Kurtz recently finished shooting "Tru e Stories." the story of small-town Texas as seen through the eyes of the Talking Heads'

David Byrne. "Th a t was fabulous -r he's a genius." she said. " I didn't understand some of the script when I read it so 1 thought it must be good. Some of it is just off on another planet His mind is so abstract, so original, so creative." Byrne stars in "TrueS tories" and also directed and wrote most of it. Kurtz's character is an heiress who decides there is no reason she should ever get out of bed.

Full-time part-timer?The man in the middle of the Johnny

Carson-Joan Rivers affair is comedian G a rry Shandling. He will lake over the fill-in

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A R TIS T ’S W IDOW — John Lennon's widow is determined to prove that her late husband was more than a pop star who dabbled in art work. Yoko Ono, who stopped in Beverly Hills, Calif., briefly Satyrday to unveil 12 previously unpublished Lennon serigraphs, poses for cameras in front of one of the art works. But she appeared to have a single-minded purpose to her southern California stay. She told the media, "I'm here to talk about John.”

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Today In historyOn this date in 1985, an oil-drilling barge capsized in a bayou near Amelia, La., killing 11 crewmen.

AlmanacToday is Monday. May 19. the i

139lh day of 1986 with 226 to follow.

The moon is moving toward its full phase.

The morning stars are M ercury. Mars. Jupiter and Saturn.

The evening star is Venus.Those born on this .,date are

under the sign of Taurus. They include Lady Nancy Astor. the first woman member of the British Parliament, in 1879: Vietnamese revolutionary Ho Chi Minh in 1890; Black Muslim leader Malcolm X in 1925; playwright Lorraine Hansberry in 19,30. and disco diva Grace Jones in 1952 (age 34).

On this date in history:In 1536. Anne Boleyn. second of

King Henry V lII 's six wives and mother of (Jueen Elizabeth I . was beheaded.

In 1935. T .E . Lawrence — "Lawrence of Arabia" — died in a m o to rc y c le accid e n t in England.

In 1964. it was revealed that American diplomats had found at least 40 secret microphones' hidden in the U.S. Em bassy in Moscow.

A thought for the day: Lady Nancy Astor said. "One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good tim e.”

Style and design tops in windows

NEW YO R K (AP) - Americans shopping for window treatments will buy something beautiful before they consider something serviceable. according to a Better Homes and Gardens survey.

Style and design of window treatments were most important to buyers, while serviceability was the least-requested feature among those who responded to the poll.

LotteryConnecticut daily:

Saturday: 746 Play Four: 7676

other lottery numbers drawn in New England Saturday:

Rhode Island daily: 2509. Lot-I 0-bucks: 6-27-28-32-37. ;

Tri-state daily: 536 and 4693. Tri-state megabucks: 3-9-13-25- 26-33.

Massachusetts daily: 0348. Megabucks: 10-20-23-28-31-35.

spots Rivers was to have handled before she split from "To n ight" for her own show with Fox Broadcasting Co. Shandling. who has substituted for Carson three times before, has refused comment on the matter — cert ainly not want ing to offend Carson and no doubt thinking about the possibilities on the Rivers show. " I 'm writing monologues for the show but I don’t know how much of it will be topical.” Shandling said.

"Some people think I ’m on the spot with ‘The Tonight Show’ but I don’t. 1 havetoclear that stuff about Johnny and Joan out of my mind and just do the work. ” Shandling has no idea of whether he will become Carson’s regular fill-in. “ Maybe I'll havea better idea after I do these two weeks for ‘Tonight.’” he said.

On the fashion frontThere are fashion changes ahead for Elton

John and the “ Miami Vice” cast. BobMackie is working on ‘costumes for John, which should be quite a challenge considering how outlandish the singer's stage attire has begn in the past, "Th is may be his last tour and'he wants to knock 'em out with glitter and flamboyance.” Mackie says in People magazine. Mackie says it was Cher’s wild dress at the Oscars — a Mackie creation — that made sparked John’s attention. “ Elton told me, ‘I want something like that but my navel isn’t as pretty hers,’’’ Mackie says.

On the “ Miami Vice” front, Milena Canonero, who won an Oscar for the “ Out of Africa" co.stumes, is in Europe buying up clothes, including four $1,500 leather jackets. She wants Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas to shape up before they get into them. “ They are both getting heavier,” she says. “ They look better with angles in their faces.”

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Freedom by MailSeveral Arizona residents were recently convicted of harboring illegal aliens fleeing from Central America. In the days of the “ underground railroad,” abolitionists did the same for American slaves. One slave mailed himself in a wooden crate, Henry Brown spent hours in a box upside down on his head. He nearly broke his neck when someone dropped the crate. Brown survived the trip, but other slaves who tried to mail themselves arrived injured or dead.DO YOU KNOW ^ Who wrote the anti-slavery novel “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin” ?FRIDAY’S ANSWER — Artificial sweeteners called cyclamates were banned In soft drinks In 1970s.5-19>86 ̂ Knowledge Unlimited. Inc. 1986

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Pageant organizers are making Tuesday night’s Miss USA contest a reunion for the previous winners. At least 17 winners plan to attend. Some of the winners were easy to find. Deborah Shelton, who won in 1970 as Miss Virginia, stars as J .R . E w in g ’s girifriend. Mandy, in “ Dallas” and the 1975 winner. Summer Bartholomew of California,

,s4s the hostess on the “ Sale of the Century” game show. Julie Hayek, the 1983 winner from California, is frequently on T V series. Tw o winners, K im Seelbreede Cole from 1981. and Judy Andersen, Class of ’78. ended up living just blocks apart on the same New York Streep

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Chernobyl looked safe during tour, MHS teacher saysBy Susan Vauabn herald Reparter

A Manchester High School teacher who toured the Chernobyl mtclear power plant last year said Hie overriding impression given to Visitors was one of “ tremendous safety and efficiency.”- “ You ju.st had to be impressed.” said history teacher Steve A rm strong, who took a 45-minute tour of the huge plant in the Soviet Union last August.

In an interview last week at the high school. Armstrong recalled his visit to the Ukrainian plant, the site of what is believed to have been the world’s most serious nuclear accident. Late last month, a fire and explosion at the plant led to an undetermined number of deaths and injuries and the release of a large amount of radiation.

“ I got the impression that they fthe guides) were genuinely proud of the plant.” Armstrong said of the visit.

The guides implied that “ nothing can go wrong.” he said. “ That was the irony of the whole thing.”

Armstrong, who teaches Russian history and is specializing in the subject in his graduate studies, toured the plant with a group of about .30 Americans, most of them educators. He said the group saw only “ a very tiny part of the plant” after the guides explained the nuclear conversion process.

The trip was a side! rip on a three-day visit to Kiev, which is about 60 miles south of the plant. The guides stressed the plant’s ability to meet the demand for electricity in the country. A rm strong said.

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the Soviet travel agency, conveyed a strong feeling of pride in their governm ent throughout the group’s IS-day tour of the country. Armstrong said.

Although visitors were allowed to ask questions during the Chernobyl tour, they were not always given straight answers. A rm strong said. When someone asked about Josef Stalin’s role in Soviet history,, for instance, a guide Armstrong described as well- educated said he knew nothing of that era.

The Russians’ strong sense of pride is posing a dilemma for the Soviets as they try to deal with the Chernobyl disaster, Armstrong said.

“ The Soviets hate to admit they are wrong,” he said. “ This has put a damper on that.”

The Soviets have never admitted a nuclear power plant accident in the late 1950s in which people were believed to have died. Armstrong said.

Armstrong said the Russian people have a “ tremendous need to have pride in their nation. “ He said he saw huge political signs everywhere promoting Leninism. Marxism and the “ working class.” There were also signs all over the country celebrating the 40th anniversary of the end of Worid War II when he visited, he said.

D E S P ITE SOME CR ITICISM S,Armstrong had many good things to say about the country. Hesaid he hopes that nine students who are scheduled to lake a similar tour with him and history teacher Helen Jette this summer will still be able to go.

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Manchester High School teacher Steve Armstrong recalls a visit last year to the Chernobyl nuclear power

plant during a recent interview. The tour provided the impression of safety and efficiency, he said.

At this point, Armstrong said he is not worried about the radiation levels in the Soviet Union because he expects them to decrease by July, when the group will visit However, he said he has some c o n c e r n s a b o u t f o o d contamination.

Sister Mary Elaine greets two of her former students at St. Bridget School, Margaret Joy of Hartford, and Paul Templeton of South Windsor, during a reception to commemorate the school’s 20th anniversary Saturday. Sister Mary

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Elaine taught religion and math at the school from 1970 to 1975, when the school had only 54 students in grades 7 and 8. Joy and Templeton graduated from St. Bridget in 1974.

St. Bridget School turns 20-By Susan Vaughn Herald Reporter \

St. Bridget School’s first principal and a number of former teachers and students were among SOO people who attended a special ;mass Saturday afternoon to com- •memorate the school’s 20th :anniversary.• The mass in the school audito- 'rium was followed by a reception In the cafeteria at the school on Main Street.! “The school was just a junior Jtigh when it started and now it’s ■tremendous — it may get a kindergarten." said Sister Agnes Reynolds, who was principal when the school opened in 1966.- The school, which now has more Than 100 students in grades 4 jhrough 8. is considering opening a ■kindergarten in the 4311 of 1987, said Sister Helen Hart, the current principal. The staff is starting to look at plans for renovating the $chool to accommodate a kindergarten, she said.: Sister Mary Elaine taught 7th- knd Bth-grade religion and math .glasses from at St. Bridget from

A former altar boy at St. BricJget Church, state Rep. James McCavanagh, D- Manchester, related his memories of his involvement in the church as a youth growing up on nearby Homestead Street.

1970 to 1975. when the school had only two rooms and 54 students, she said as she reminisced with two of her former students. Paul Templeton and Margaret Joy, who graduated in 1974.

Sister Katherine Mary Keehan talked with another former pupil. Claudia Bertram of Manchester. “ I had her in 8th grade.” the former teacher said as they both tried to remember the exact year. Keehan now teaches at St. Augustin e ’s Cathedral School in Bridgeport.

A former altar boy at St. Bridget Church, state Rep. James McCavanagh. D-Manchester. related his memories of his involvement in the church as a youth growing up on nearby Homestead Street.

Also present for the celebration Saturday were Sister Helen Margaret Feeney, whom Hart introduced as the “ first woman chancellor of the Archdiocese of Hartford and the first woman chancellor in Connecticut” Feeney, who is assistant superintendent for the Hartford diocesan schools, will assume her new duties June 1.

Mayor Barbara Weinberg and Wilson E . Deakin, the assistant superintendent of the town’s public schools, were also on hand for the reception, along with several current St. Bridget teachers.

St. Bridget students performed in the band and cboirs and presented special projects at an open house last week to commemorate the anniversary.

lO H gets $10,000 for school poolInstructors of the Handicapped

has received $10,000 more toward the construction of a special pool for handicapped people, a co- chairman of the lOH pool fund announced Sunday.

Co-Chairman Maurice Moriarty .made the announcement at the ■29th annual lOH Day at the Manchester High School pool, which was attended by more than 100 people. Given continued community support for the fund. Moriarty said, construction should begin this summer.

■ The pool has been in the planning : stages for about two decades. The ’ $10,000 in donations leaves the lOH '• In need of about $100,000 to get the $350,000 pool built in an addition near the MHS pool, spokesman

David Moyer said.,Alfred Pariseau, speaking on

behalf of the handicapped students and parents, praised the dedication of the teenage instructors at the gathering Sunday. A group of hand^icapped students also presented a recognition plaque to their instructors.

Following a swimming competition, the afternoon concluded with the group’s traditional candlelight ceremony in the pool. Outgoing president Heather Van Dine

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The group will try to get guidelines from their travel agency or the State Department about wbat foods they should avoid, he said.

He believes tbe Soviets are extremely concerned about contamination of tbe grains grown in

the Ukraine, where the Chernobyl plant is located, because the area is the major source of food for Soviet citizens and for export.

“ God help them if this area was contaminated” Armstrong said.

Kiev is not on the students’ itinerary this summer. They will

go only to Leningrad and Moscow on the 10-day trip. Armstrong said.

The Chernobyl disaster has had at least one positive side effect locally. Armstrong said. The accident has generated more interest in current events on the part of his students.

House fire leaves man deadRescue attempts by wife, passerby fail

By Susan Vaughn Herald Reporter

Omer Beaulieu, 72. died in a burning bed inside his Bissell Street apartment Sunday morning despite attempts by his wife and another man to save him, a town fire official said today.

Town Deputy Fire Chief Robert Bycholski said that although the cause of the fire is still under investigation, officials have discovered evidence of smoking in bed at the house at 57 Bissell St.

“ It has been pretty much established that smoking materials were in contact with the bedding," Bycholski said.

The medical examiner’s report on the cause of death was not available this morning.

Beaulieu's wife. Bernice. 72, who was in another room at the time of the fire, tried to enter her husband's bedroom, but was forced back by the heavy smoke. Bycholski said. She then went out the back door of the house and called to Roy DeLong. an employee of nearby Manchester Ice and Fuel, who also tried to enter the house but was unable to because of the smoke, he said.

Town firefighters entered the house with breathing apparatus and found Omer Beaulieu’s bed on fire and knew that Beaulieu was “ beyond help.” Bycholski said. The fire was called in at 7:06 a.m. on the 911 emergency number by an unknown person, he said.

Bernice Beaulieu was admitted to Manchester Memorial Hospital

for smoke inhalation and was in satisfactory condition today, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Three residents of an apartment on the second floor of the house were not at home at the time of the fire. Bycholski said. The apartment had only light smoke damage and is still habitable, he said. He identified the residents as Mary, Patricia and Megan Sullivan.

The Beaulieu apartment had moderate smoke and heat damage and is not habitable, Bycholski said.

The Beaulieu apartment did not have a smoke detector, but the second-floor apartment did have one, Bycholski said. The owners of the house are the members of the Guinipero family, Bycholski said.

The Manchester Police Department detective division will take over the investigation of the fire after the fire department determines the cause, Bycholski said.

About 20 town firefighters, including off-duty and volunteer firefighters, responded to the fire, Bycholski said.

District fire investigatedManchester police and Eighth

Utilities District fire marshal Ted Lingard are investigating a weekend fire that destroyed an abandoned house on Pleasant Valley Road, a spokesman for the district fire department said this morning.

Spokesman Thomas O ’Marra said the fire “ was blowing from all windows and doors” of the 2‘/i- story wooden cape cod at 1497 Pleasant Valley Road when district firefighters arrived at the scene at 1:10 a m. Sunday. The blaze is being treated as suspicious, O ’Marra said.

O’Marra did not know how long the building, part of the Hartman Tobacco Co. complex, bad been abandoned. He said this»was the first report of a fire at the address in the past two years. He said he was not aware of a history of fires there.

The fire was under control at 2:04 a.m. and the last apparatus left the scene at 3:52 a.m.. O ’Marra said. Forty-eight men. three engines. a tower truck and a rescue vehicle responded to the scene, he said.

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Connecticut In BriefWoman can’t lead Boy Scouts

DERBY — A Superior Court judge today rejected a 68-year-old woman's bid to head a Boy Scout troop, agreeing with arguments from the organization that young boys need a male roie ieader.

The decision overturned a 1984 decision by the state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities that said Catherine Pollard of Milford could lead a troop.

Pollard has been battling the Boy Scouts of America since 1974 for the right to head a Scout troop. She had led the troop for four years before formally applying in 1974 to head the troop in her hometown.

State withholds radiation pillsHARTFORD — A plan to distribute radiation sickness pills to

residents living near nuclear povyer plants has been abandoned despite professional recommendations in support of the idea, state officials said.

The pills, which are considered highly effective in preventing one form of radiation sickness, were not distributed because of questions which included possible side effects and the fear of giving people a false sense of security, officials said Sunday.

However, the potassium iodide pills, which have been distributed to workers at the nuclear power plants in Waterford and Haddam, are considered highly effective in preventing thyroid cancer, the officials said.

Memorial dedicated to astronautsWEST HARTFORD — A memorial to the seven astronauts of

the space shuttle Challenger has been dedicated at the University of Hartford.

A plaque bearing the names of the astronauts was unveiled Saturday and 25 lilies of the Challenger species were planted around a pond near the campus student center.

The plaque will eventually be erected in a small park planned for the northeast end of the suburban cmpus.

infant strangied in GreenwichGREENWICH — Investigators had no suspects in the death of

a newborn infant found strangled to death in a garbage truck and had not identified the baby boy, police said.

Police Chief Thomas Keegan said Saturday the infant was apparently strangled shortly after birth Thursday night or early Friday morning.

Police said they did not know if the infant had been killed in Greenwich.

Keiiy seeks 5-year appointmentWALLINGFORD — Chief State’s Attorney John J. Kelly, who

replaced Austin J. McGuigan in July 1985 as Connecticut's top prosecutor, is seeking a five-year appointment.

Kelly, 45, has been serving on an interim basis in the post, which pays an annual salary of $57,200.

Kelly, who served 18 years as a prosecutor, said Sunday he wants to complete a grand jury investigation into allegations of corruption and iilegal gambling in Torrington and the coordination of the 12 judicial districts with his office.

The Criminal Justice Commission, which will select the next chief state's attorney, is expected to meet in mid-June to vote on Kelly and the reappointment of several prosecutors whose terms expire July 1.

Judge eyes grand jury subpoenaLITCHFIELD — A Superior Court judge is expected to hear

arguments Tuesday on whether to quash a new subpoena ordering a Torrington woman to testify before the Torrington grand jury.

Judge Walter M. Pickett on Friday refused to quash an earlier subpoena for Lousie Bill, saying such a move would be meaningless because Bill had already testified. The grand jury is investigating allegations of corruption and illegal gambling in the Torrington area.

In ruling Friday, Pickett suggested Judge Anthony V. DeMayo, grand juror for the probe, acted improperly by ordering state police to take Bill into custody last week after she refused to testify.

Bill's attorney, John A. Gawrych, sought to quash the subpoena on grounds that the longstanding grand jury investigation became invalid after Oct. 1, 1985. when new grand jury procedures became law.

State sues Hamden ticket agencyHARTFORD — A Hamden-based ticket agency is being sued

by the state for allegedly tacking illegal $20 to $40 "delivery" fees onto the price of concert and sports tickets.

Attorney General Joseph I. Lieberman said Friday that the required delivery fee is a "sham" designed by Tickets Today to hike the price pf tickets.

The state's 1984 anti-scalping law makes it illegal to sell a ticket for more than $3 over its box-office price. The $3 mark-up is considered a "reasonable service charge” The law does not mention delivery charges.

Lieberman said an important point is customers cannot buy tickets directly from Tickets Today — they have to be delivered.

Talks continue on Mianus claims Presser rival tells of death threat^ -r r\— !— LAS VEGAS. Nev. (U P I) — ̂ ^^Sfter Theodus sent Presser a letter ' ' . . . . ..

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STAMFORD (UPI) - Negotiations between the state and two remaining victims of the 1983 collapse of the Mianus River bridge on the Connecticut Turnpike continue unabated, an attorney in the case says.

The state early Friday reached out-of-court settlements worth almost $6.3 million with four of the six victims of the collapse after a marathon negotiating session.

Stamford Superior Court Judge Nicholas Cioffi approved the settlements with one survivor of the 70-foot plunge to the river below and with tOe estates of ihe three people who died.

The remaining suits against Ihe slate were filed by David Pace. 30.

and Helen Pace, 26, of Perry Ga., who were in Connecticut until Friday for the talks.

The Georgia truck driver and his wife were seriously injured when their truck toppled over the edge after the lOO-foot section of bridge broken off and crashed into the river below.

David Burke, the Pace's Greenwich attorney. said Saturday that Cioffi had made "a magnificent, unhuman effort” to reach a settlement in the ca.se. but that his clients had been unable yet to reach an accord.

“ Our clients have been seriously and permanently injured,” Burke said. “ It was a terrible event for them. I hope Ihe stale and the other

parties reach an accord that adequately compensates them."

The state's Insurance will cover only $1 million of the $6.3 million settlements.

Deputy Attorney General Cla- "•fnr Nordi Riddle said the slate will attempt to recover the cost of the settlements, and other costs, from the designer of the bridge, T ip p e tts -A b b o tt-M cC arth y - Stratton, a New York engineering firm.

The six victims al.so have pending suits against the engineering firm.

Three people were killed and three injured early in the morning of June 28. 1983. when the bridge collapsed.

Eileen Weldon, 25, of Darien, who was severely injured, accepted $2,013 million.

“ I am angry that it happened,” Weldon said after the settlement. “ I'm angry over the changes in my life and in the lives of the people who were killed."

Her spine, collarbone, shoulder blade and left arm were broken, and the left side of her face, arm and leg have been left permanently paralyzed.

The estates of Harold W. Bracy Jr., a Louisiana truck driver, Luis Zapata and Reginald K. Fischer, both of Stamford each accepted a $1.45 million settlement.

Negotiations are also ongoing with the engineering firm.

Sunken barge in good shape after liftNEW LONDON (UPI) - Divers

have reported the sunken oil barge they pulled from Long Island Sound was in “ relatively good condition" after being successfully lifted from Ihe ocean bottom. U.S, Coast Guard officials said.

The divers, who Saturday managed to raise Ihe barge with only a minimal oil spill, prepared to patch the vessel and pump out Ihe 840,000 gallons of oil still inside. Coast Guard officials said.

The divers made two inspections

of the barge Sunday in its new location but were unable to predict how long it would take to complete the salvage operation, the Coast Guard officials said.

An eight-hour operation to raise and move a sunken oil-filled barge to shallower water was completed Saturday on fog-shrouded Long Island Sound, the officials said.

As the operation began at 5:26 a m., about five gallons of thick "wax-like blobs" of oil floated the surface, which was quickly

skimmed off the surface by one of II pollution control vessels at the scene. Petty Officer Mike Kelly said.

The oil. which weighed a total of about 40 pounds, was covered with marine growth, indicating it had probably been on the side of Ihe barge since it sank in a storm Nov. 22, 1985, Kelly said.

By 2:30 p.m. the barge had been raised by the derrick Century and moved about one mile, he said.

It was then lowered again to re.sl

again on Ihe bottom of the Sound, this time in only about 45 feet of water. Kelly said.

Three vessels maintained a safety zone around the barge to prevent interference with the operation and the II pollution- control boats stood by in case Ihe barge leaked part of its cargo — an unlikely event during the first phase of the salvage operation, said Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Joseph Castillo.

E.H. father burdened with pain, money woes

EAST HARTFORD (AP) - John Coburn's life was filled with physical pain and money troubles before he killed his three children and then himself last week, according to the police and state documents.

Del. Robert Kenary of East Hartford police said Coburn, 28. "remained awake all night in a very deep depression over financial problems” the night before Ihe killings and was awake when his wife, Cathy, also 28. went to work sometime between 7a m. and 7:30 a m.

Police say sometime after that Coburn used a 9mm automatic pistol to kill daughters Tammy Ann. 9. and Christina Marie. 4. and son Richard Joseph 3. before shooting himself

Records and interviews with stale officials show Coburn was preoccupied with medical problems and pain from an accident at Ihe Millstone 3 nuclear power plant Jan. 18. 1983 Coburn's baek was injured in Ihe accident

At that lime he was making about $850 a week and after Ihe baek injury, he received about $350 a week in workers' compensation payments Those payments ended Nov. 9. 1985. when he had received Ihe maximum number of payments allowed by law for that type of injury

But records also show that Coburn often failed In keep ap- poinlmenls. even when they could have resulted in additional payments

Coburn never showed up at a hearing April 30. at which consideration was to be given to awarding him payment for a scar he received when he suffered a cut on his hand at Millstone, Dec. 1. 1983.

Robin W. Waller, commission for the second district of the Workers’ Compensation Commission, said he never saw Coburn's scar and could not estimate Ihe amount of what the award would have been.

Coburn also applied for workers' vocational rehabilitation training, but officials said that after working with him for more than a year.

they could not come up with any suggestions he was interested in.

Coburn told officials in the Division of Workers' Rehabilitation in November 1984 that he was not seeing any other professional, and had no other handicaps such as alcohol or drug problems, said Paul Goodney, acting director of the rehabilitation division in Middletown. But Coburn did say he had attended the Pain Management and Behavorial MedicineCenlerat Ihe University of Connecticut Health Center.

According to records at the Workers’ Compensation Commission in Norwich. Coburn was seeing a psychiatrist in January. 1985

Kerney said that Coburn had told him he'd been "miserable” ever since his back injury.

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Indicted Teamsters boss Jackie Presser once threatened to kill C. Sam Theodus. who is running against Presser for president of the nation's bigge.st union. Theodus said.

At a news conference late Sunday. Theodus) reluctantly disclosed the incident on the eve of the week-long Teamsters convention, held only once every five years.

The convention opens today, and ■ the election for president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters is .set for Wednesday.

Theodus, president of Teamster Local 407 in Presser’s hometown of Cleveland, said Presser threatened his life during a meeting in Pre.sser’s office in Cleveland.

The threat. Theodus said, came

Europeans hunt for terrorists

LONDON (AP) — Po)ice in Britain and six other countries today scrutinized passengers and searched cars, buses and trucks before allowing them onto ships crossing the North Sea or English Channel in an effort to forestall a possible terrorist bombing at sea.

Security was increased after the Paris-ba.sed International Police Organization, or Interpol, warned it had information that a Middle East group with ties to Libya planned to put a car loaded with explosives on a vessel and blow it up at sea in retaliation for last month’s American bombing of Libya.

"There is no specific threat to a specific port, but what we do have is a heightened awareness of the possibility of ves.sels as potential targets," said Paul Condon, assistant chief constable of Kent, who was in charge of the British operation.

He called Ihe operation a "sensible precaution against the backg r ound of i n t e r n a t i o n a l terrorism."

Police said they had tightened security at 27 ports in Britain. Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Denmark. Norway and Sweden, and on the ferries, cargo ships and hovercraft that cross the North Sea and English Channel .3.50 limes a day.

At the Kent port of Dover, u.sed by 17 million passengers a year, police said that the alert could last all summer.

Police at Dover's Eastern Docks inspected every vehicle and swept under them with mirrors before they were driven on or off the ferries. Backpackers were asked if strangers had given them parcels to take on board.

A Times of London reporter at Dover said: "We found no delays or any public unhappiness at the measures."

The British Defense Ministry confirmed that explosives experts were on standby.

Condon said 200 police officers with guns, dogs and explosive- detectors. as well as a unit that specializes in fighting political subversion had been sent to the British ports to board ferries to Calais. Boulogne-Sur-Mer. Ostend. Hook of Holland. Esbjerg. Oslo. Goteborg and other ports.

"Because terrorists may be targeting ferry .services to Britain, we are asking everyone to be vigilant," said a spokesman forthe police in Essex, who cover Harwich. Ships sail from there to Holland. Denmark and Norway.

Police in neighboring Suffolk were checking all ships from the Middle East. Libyan cargo vessels are regular callers there, at Felixstowe and Ipswich.

Leader says Libya paid for attacks

MADRID (UPI) — The alleged leader of an international terror ring told police Libya's acting ambassador to Spain planned and financed attacks against American and Israeli targets. El Pais newspaper reported.

Faisal Hanna Joudi. a Lebanese accused of heading the Call of Christ terror ring, told investigators Libyan charge d’affaires Ahmed Mohammed Nakaa paid the group $70,000 to carry out attacks, the newspaper said Sunday. quoting sources in the prosecutor’s office.

Nakaa also gave the 10-member terror group “ concrete instructions” on how to attack U.S. and Jewish interests in Madrid and Lisbon, Portugal. El Pais said.

A spokesman -at the Libyan mission in Madrid said Sunday Nakaa “ categorically denies any involvement in terrorism, in Spain or other countries, and did not know of this group until he read about it in the press."

He said the charges were part of "a plan orchestrated by the CIA and Israeli intelligence to mobilize European opinion against Libya.

Joudi and nine other suspects were detained earlier this month on charges of planting bombs in Paris. Lisbon and Madrid

asking him to resign because of what many members considered an inferior national trucking contract in late 1983.

Theodus would not repeat the exact words used by Presser. saying: “ It's something that took place between me and Jackie.”

Theodus said Presser threatened his life “ in .so many words,” and the incident occurred “ in his (Presser's) office in Cleveland.”

Teamsters officials would not return phone calls from reporters asking about the allegation.

Theodus said. “ If hewas serious. I probably wouldn’t be standing here” and would not release further details.

Theodus appeared at a news conference by Teamsters for a

Democratic Union, a small but scrappy reform movement.

Asked if Presser should resign rather than seek election to a five-year term as head of the 1.6 million member union. Theodus said, "We should let the judicial process take its course. If he’s guilty, then he'll have to step down” under terms of federal labor law.

TDU officials brought to the convention a petition they said contained the names of 160,000 Teamsters .seeking Ihe right to vote for president of Ihe union. Also, 100 Teamsters officers signed a similar letter.

Rank-and- f i l e Teamst e r s members have no direct impact on voting for top officers. The TDU has labeled Ihe convention

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Jumping jubileeLee Guidici of Santa Clara, Calif., holds Rosie the Ribiter, a frog that set a world record at the 1986 Calavera Jumping Frog Jubilee. Rosie, whose jump measured 21 feet, 5% inches, netted a first-place prize of $1,500 for Guidici.

"rigged.”Theodus conceded he could not

defeat Presser on the convention floor, despite Presser's indictment on federal charges of'siphoning off $700,000 in dues money in a payroll-padding scheme.

" I don’t believe in Ihe tooth fairy or the Easter Bunny.” said Theodus. "But f ’m running to draw attention to the needs of the rank-and-file.”

He said, “ We’ve had a dark image for years, and Ihe indictment of Presser is just one more black eye for Ihe Teamsters.”

TDU issued a statement scoring Pre.sser, saying the union is run in a totalitarian manner and charging: “ This .system is a stacked deck with Ihe members dealt out.”

China OKs release of Taiwan jet

HONG KONG (UPI) - China announced today it will hand over a hijacked Taiwan jetliner in Hong Kong, reversing its position that Taiwan's flag carrier, China Air Lines, would have to retrieve Ihe plane from Canton.

The announcement by China's official Xinhua news agency followed the third historic meeting between Taiwan and China in the

■ British crown colony in as many days.

The Chinese statement did not give details of the handover but said two of the plane's crew members also would be turned over in Hong Kong at the same unspecified time.

The que.stion of where Ihe jumbo cargo jet would be returned to Taiwan had deadlocked the negotiations since they began on Saturday. Taiwan, at the outset, said it would not send a crew to China to pick up the plane.

The talks in Hong Kong were the first face-lo-facc meetings between Ihe two Chinas since Ihe communist takeover of the mainland in 1949.

An official from Peking described Sunday’s 90-minute meeting at an exclusive downtown club as “ harmonious and friendly”

But a China Airlines spokesman said the first two days of talks deadlocked over Peking's insistence that the airline go to China to pick up the hijacked jet and the two crewmen.

Airline officials said the Chinese promised to respond today to their request to speak by telephone to Ihe crew members to verify they arc in-good health.

Mount Hood survivor loses legsPORTLAND. Ore (UPI) -

Doctors said they amputated both legs of a teenage boy who survived the Mount Hood mountain climbing tragedy that killed nine people because "it was either amputation or his life."

Orthopedic physicians at Providence Medical Center said they performed the helow-the-knees amputation Sunday on Giles Thompson. 16. of Longview. Wash., because of Ihe threat posed by bleeding and tissue damage.

"It was a difficult decision to make.” said Dr Leo Marx, “ but it was either amputation or his life.”

Thompson is one of two teenagers from Ihe high .school climbing parly who survived the ordeal in a snow cave, which they were forced to dig when they were caught in a sudden blizzard nearthesummit of the mountain last Monday.

The other survivor from the

cave. Brinton Clark of Portland, who turned 16 Thursday, the day she and Thomp.son were rescued was listed in critical bill stable condition and showed continued improvement doctors said

Clark remained on a respirator at Emanuel Hospital hut was able to communicate by pointing to letters on an alphabet board. She used it to spell out "mainly personal care needs, such as ■thirsty.” ’ hospital spokeswoman Lori Callisler said

Thompson was returned to Ihe coronary care unit at Providence Medical Center around 8 p m and began showing signs of improvement. Marx said

Grayish, dead muscle tissue in Thompson's legs had been removed in surgery Saturday night. “ He's a strong kid." said Dr. Peter Fisher. “ We were telling him scores on Ihe basketball games

last night, and he actually nodded”

But the need for amputation became evident "Any bleeding debilitates Ihe system, so if the legs were a site of continued bleeding, it would be draining his ability to recover.” said Providence spokeswoman Sister Margarita.

"Also, if tissue damage is continuing, the tissue as it dies sends toxins into Ihe bloodstream, and that is also a debilitating factor." she said.

Contributions poured in to a Portland bank for a Iru.st fund set up to purchase small "locator beacon” radios to be loaned to hikers to send a signal to rescuers.

Relatives of some victims called for an investigation into why the group was unprepared for Ihe bad weather. School officials said an inquiry will come later.

V.S./Worid In BriefSouth Africa launches raids

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — South African security forces today launched lightning raids against alleged guerrilla targets in neighboring Zimbabwe and Botswana.

Initial reports said three soldiers were wounded in a helicopter raid on the Sir Seretse Khama military barracks in the Botswana capital of Gaborone.. There were no reports of casualties in the Zimbabwe capital of

Harare where ground units blew up two buildings with explosives.

Army commander Lt. Gen. Andre Liebenberg said the raids were against African National Congress operational centers and "terrorist transit facilities.”

Reagan taps persuasive powersWASHINGTON — President Reagan, who relaxed this

weekend at the White House, will tap his persuasive powers in coming weeks to try to restore billions in Pentagon budget cuts and overcome Congress’s opposition to an arms sale to Saudi Arabia.

His advisers have told him an all-out lobbying campaign is needed on both scores.

There were indications, meanwhile, that the administration may reply today to Syrian President Hafez Assad, who claimed in a Washington Post interview that the U.S. bombing of Libya had “ won a lot of hatred" forthe United States in Arab countries.

So far the White House has declined to comment on Assad’s charges that "the United States administration is carrying the hammer of war,"

Fight kidnapping with kidnappingBEIRUT, Lebanon — A previously unknown Moslem group

said it kidnapped a professor from the American University of Beirut to publicize the plight of some 2,200 Moslems kidnapped by Christian militias since 1975.

The “ Independent Movement for the Liberation of the Kidnapped" said in a statement published in An Nahar newspaper Sunday it abducted Nabil Matar because he was a Phalangist. A Polaroid photo of Matar was attached to the statement. »

“ We announce ... the kidnapping of the Phalangist Nabil Matar for whom all hell broke loose while the lives of 2,200 persons did not deserve a single condemnation by the teachers of the American (University of Beirut) and its students,” the statement said.

Designer says Soviet plants safeMOSCOW — A designer of the Chernobyl nuclearpowerstation

said today Soviet nuclear reactors are safe and stressed there were no signs, the government would stop building the installations near residential areas.

Ivan Yemelyanov, the deputy director of the government’s Institute of Energy Technology — and one of the designers of the graphite-type reactor that exploded and burned April 26 at Chernobyl — said Soviet reactor designs were "by no means inferior” to Western ones.”

Yemelyanov said the automatic shutdown mechanisms at Chernobyl worked normally after a sudden and unexplained 10-second surge in power ouy^ut sent the reactor into the danger zone.

The reactor is now in a "deeply sub-critical state" and no threat to the environment, he said.

Coral Sea pilots welcomed homeVIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Pilots of the Navy’s Squadron 55 —

flying bombers and tankers painted with symbols depicting victory over the Libyans — came home to cheering crowds after eight months at sea.

The jets were based aboard the USS Coral Sea, which is to return to its Norfolk port today with two escort ships.

The 32 airmen flew 16 planes into Oceana Naval Air Station in formation Sunday as about 200 relatives, friends and members of the naval air community waited on the runway. The screams from the crowd nearly drowned out the roar of the jets flying above their hangars toward the runway.

Squadron 55 had been away from home for nearly eight months, and the wives of several pilots said they were nervous when tensions between the United States and Libya grew — especially after the bombing of a Berlin disco.

Police look for motive in bombingCOKEVILLE. Wyo. — Investigators are studying 15 diaries

kept by a couple killed at a Wyoming school and theirdaughter’s cryptic comment. "Tomorrow’s the day,” to unravel the motives for a hostage drama that injured more than 70 children.

Nine people remain hospitalized with burns suffered in the Friday bomb blast at Cokeville Elementary School that ended with the deaths of Dorris Young, 47, and her husband. David Young, who were holding 150 students and teachers hostage for $300 million.

The diaries. Lincoln County sheriff’s deputies say, could indicate if the Youngs were members of the right-wing, anti-tax Posse Comitatus. Comments by the couple and at least Onediary passage, deputies said, were similar to rhetoric used by the group.

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OPINIONtiling gave Manchester a great deal

It was fortunate for Manchester that a young man named Arthur H. Tiling decided to come to town in 1930 and become principal of the Franklin Building at Manchester High School.

Tiling immediately wedded himself to the community and continued making major contributions to it for the duration of his long life, which ended Sunday.

When a person of Tiling's stature dies, it is customary to say that the community has suffered a loss. That is all the more so in this case. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine how a town could have gained any more over as long a period from the efforts and the influence of any single person than Manchester did from Arthur Tiling.

When Tiling retired in 1961 after 26 years as superintendent of schools, his active interest in education did not diminish — particularly as it applied to teaching succeeding generations of young people about the history of Manchester.

During his tenure as superintendent, the town's school population grew and its school buildings became so crowded that double sessions were needed in many places. Tiling guided the construction of Waddell School. Bowers School. Buckley School, Verplanck School and Keeney Street School — one whose development was complicated by a bitter legal fight over the selection of an architect. Tiling also oversaw the building of the junior high school on East Middle Turnpike, which appropriately bears his name, and accomplished too many other things to list.

His years as superintendent were a dynamic and difficult time, but Tiling always gave the impression of calm and confidence. Though he rose to highest rank in the Manchester school system and won status in the professional associations of educational administrators, he always remained a patient teacher.

Once, when a square-foot-cost question came up during the school building boom, he took pains to explain to a dense young reporter the simple geometric truth that a square encloses more area in proportion to perimeter than any other rectangle.

Tiling did not confine his talents to the educational system. Among his many contributions were service to the Rotary Club, the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, the Lutz Children's Museum and the Manchester Historical Society.

Manchester people who value Tiling's contributions to the town will feel that gifts to the Fred A. Verplanck Scholarship Fund, 20 Hartford Road, are a good way to express their gratitude. Such a donation will be but one way to mark the departure of a unique and generous figure in the history of this community.

iLetters policyThe Manchester Herald welcomes original

letters to the editor.Letters should be b rie f and to the point. They

should be typed or neatly handwritten, and. for lease in editing, should be double-spaced. Letters .must be signed with name, address and daytim e telephone number (for ve rifica tion ).

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Open ForumTell Democrats about freedomTo the Editor;

On Tuesday in M anchester we can help to make the Dem ocratic party tru ly dem ocratic. Our votes w ill say to the Dem ocratic party bosses around the state that we either approve of the way that the party machine decides on who should be our candidates, or that we are sm art enough and interested enough in our state to m ake those decisions for ourselves. It ’s that simple.

Toby Moffett may or may not be the best candidate we Democrats can choose to lead us for the next four years But he deserves a chance to te ll us his plans and ideas Connecticut is one of the most d ifficu lt states in Am erica for a candidate to challenge an incumbent governor. That is neither good for the party, nor for the state.

No one should be a fra id of a little competition In the end it's the voter like the consumer, who

benefits from an opportunity to choose. lx>t’s put both candidates side by side this fa ll and let each one te ll us what they ^will do for our state over the next four years. Then let the best man win. That's the Dem ocratic way.

The one thing that a ll politi--< cians tru ly understand is the power of your vote. B y voting for M ayor W einberg ’s delegate slate Tuesday you can help to m ake the nom ination process fa ir and open again. Y ou r vote w ill send a signal to town com m ittee ch a irmen a ll across the state that the people, not the town committees, ought to choose our candidates.

Tuesday’s e lection is not just about whether B ill O 'N e ill w ill have any competition this fall. It's about whether our party should be open to new ideas and challenges, or controlled by the power of a few. It's our party. Now it 'sou r opportunity to te ll its leadership — one way or the other — how we believe it ought to he run

T im othy Gaffney The M ayor W e in^ rg Slate

21 Norm an St.

Effort, dollars going to wasteTo the Editor:

The m ia sm a of ch icken - e x c r e m e n t e n g u lf in g th e Manchester-Vernon area has become stifling

We have read over and over la te ly about our fearless lawmen slipp ing in and out of massage parlors w ith the ir K G B devices co llecting evidence of v ictim less crim es. (We pay taxes for that'’ )

And now we are threatened with the loss of a man of sk ills and experience needed in the town because of a s illy prank.

The current buzz-word: "sex ual h a ra ssm en t" should be viewed in the light of an old-tim er sometimes forgotten; ‘ ‘ common sense."

Russ M acK end rirk 18 E ls ie D rive

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"The IRA and real estate lobbyists are here again. QUICK — TO THE SECRET PASSAGEWAY!"

What was Chernobyl? It was peopleBy D r. A rm o n d H a m m e r

LOS A N G E L E S — On Thursday. M ay 15.1 v is ited Hospita l No. 6. a heavily guarded brown b rick bu ild ing several m iles from Moscow ’s center.

The patients I saw there were among the seriously i l l v ic tim s of the rad iation from Chernobyl. W hile they were obviously very ill. they were com fortable and rece iv ing care of the highest standard I have seen in my long years of experience in medicine.

Upon a rr iv a l. I was greeted on the steps of the . hospital by doctors dressed in im m acu late white gowns. I was given a complete s te rile outfit includ ing a m ask and hat.

Just two weeks before. I had sent D r. Robert P. G a le from U C LA to Moscow after te lexing to General Secretary Gorbachev Dr. G a le ’s offer of help.

W ithin days. I sent three add itional physicians and scientists to jo in Dr. Gale; Dr. Pau l Terasak i, the world renowned tissue-typing expert from U C LA ; D r. Y a ir Reisner. (an Israe li from the S loan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New Y o rk ) . a leader in "c lean ing ” bone m arrow to a llow use of unmatched donors; and Dr. R icha rd Cham plin . also of U C LA , an expert in bone m arrow transplants, dropped everyth ing to assist in this hum an itarian effort.

We sent supplies from the world over, some 15 nations in a ll. W hile the Soviets are sophisticated

in the ir techniques and practices, no nation can cope alone w ith the tragedy of radiation em issions of these proportions because im mediate assistance is required if the patients are to be saved.

They took me in the hospital to the floor where some of the recent transplant patients were convalescing. I was heartened to see in the hospital the teamwork between the Am erican and Soviet physicians. /

Some interesting problems had been surmounted F o r example, the Am erican doctors had a m aster chart of a ll of the patients. However, they could not match the patients’ names w ith the Russian letters on the patients’ beds. So they assigned each patient a number.

Com munication among the doctors was su rp ris ing ly easy because m any of the (Soviet) doctors speak English, and many of the m edical term s are the same in both languages.

We had sent three large, complex ce ll-separating machines from Europe. There, in the hospital, only days a fte r they were shipped, I saw them w h irring away, conserving platelets from healthy donors for transfusion to the bone m arrow transplant patients

The hospital was abuzz with action, but the patients I talked w ith were ca lm and try ing to cope with the ir condition I gave them hope by te lling them in Russian that they were under the best care possible, that their future lopks bright, because the finest of our two nations were

com m itted to saving lives.I told the patients that we had come from

Am erica to help them. They were pleased, sm iled and thanked me in Russian.

It brought back memories of 65 years ago when I was on a s im ila r m ission bring ing help to people dying of hunger and typhus in the U ra ls when I was thanked by Lenin personally as I was this tim e by General Secretary Gorbachev.

The most im pressive and lasting m em ory this time, as in 1921. is the people; it is a lways the people. We hear of human tragedy and suffering. We hear of casualties a.nd numbers of dead or injured. But only when we see them, only when they appear before us as ind iv idual human beings in the ir hospital beds, do we realize that we could just as eas ily trade places.

What was Chernobyl? Chernobyl was people. It continues the story of human lives lost and saved, of fears and courage, of the determ ination of ind iv iduals to give the ir a ll to benefit the ir fellow man. Fronri th is we must learn lessons of peace and cooperation.

Hospita l No. 6 manifests that sp irit; fences, brown brick, dull buildings, but inside the grounds and inside the wards, people saving people.

Armand Hammer returned Friday from the Soviet Union, where he visited the hospital treating victims of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. He wrote this dispatch for United Press International.

JackAnderson

Vote could kill a way of lifeTo the Ed itor:

The follow ing is a letter to a ll c itizens of Manchester:

What the E ighth I ’ t ilit ie s D is trict doesn't pay in taxes is raised by time, effort and donations. Come November you won't just be voting a consolidai- ton The vote can put an end to a way of life.

We have lived on the South side of town and d idn ’t understand what they had here. How many times have you heard "The Good Old D ays?" You w ill be voting away a com m unity glue, the pulling together for a common project. The d istrict has this good.

It w ill be a sad day if this is lost P lease don’t vote away this togetherness. We w ill a ll lose

M arion Thomas 30 Hudson St.

Nuke leaks are no hazard, company says

W ASHINGTO N - The United States has crit ic ized the Soviet governm ent's fa ilu re to g ive its people tim e ly infoVmation on the Chernobyl nuclear d isaster. But for 25 years the residents of Apollo. Pa., a sm a ll town about 20 m iles northeast of P ittsburgh, have been wondering if the ir government has w ithheld in form ation on rad iation exposure they m ight have been subjected to from a p a ir of nuclear m ateria ls plants.

The plants, which process rad ioactive m ateria l for m ilita ry and other use, made headlines in the 1960s when several hundred pounds of its weapons-grade uran ium d isappeared Speculation was that it wound up in Israel.

But the m issing uran ium might have been dum iied into a huge pit behind one of the plants. The I rouble is. the N uc lea r Regulatory Com m ission doesn't know.

Now the com m ission is considering a plan by the fa c ility ’s current owners to m ake one plant the first com m ercia l inc inera tor for rad ioactive

„ wastes. The owners. Babcock and W ilcox, ’ acknowledge that some rad ioactive partic les w ill escape into the environment from the disposal method, but insist that the em issions w ill be at such a low level that they pose no health threat to the com m unity.

B U T P O SS IB LE R A D IA T IO N in the past has residents just as worried as future em issions. The orig ina l owners. N uc lea r M a te ria ls and Equipm ent Corp sold the plants to A tlan tic R ich fie ld in the late 1960s; Babcock and W ilcox purchased them in the ea rly 1970s. Federa l o ff ic ia ls c la im the plants have been operated safe ly over the years but federal documents obtained through the Freedom of Inform ation Act •by our associate Corky Johnson tell a different story Here are just a few of Apo llo 's problems, cu lled from hundreds of reports;

• The P it. In the 1960s rad ioactive m ateria l was dumped in a 15-acre site only a few yards from severa l homes. The dumping was then legal, though federal law stopped such bu ria ls in 1970. The pit rem ains, and tests have shown dozens of "hot spots" in it. w ith rad iation readings far above acceptable lim its

Some discarded uranium was left in open conti'iiners And both plant and state health agency documents indicated a problem w ith rad ioactive runoff into nearby streams.

• The R iv e r One plant is in the m idd le of Apollo, less than half a m ile from two schools and s itt ing on a r iv e r that feeds into the A llegheny a few m iles upstream from P ittsburgh. Rad ioactive m ateria l and cancer-causing poisonous wastes have been discharged into the r iv e r by the plants. Incred ib ly , one regu latory com m ission report in the mid-1970s said the high pollutant levels were nothing to get excited about because the r iv e r was a lready "dead" from pollution.

In one 12-month period, from June 1975 to M ay 1976. there were 30 occasions when high-level rad ioactive m ateria l was dumped into the sewage system. A form er plant employee charged that thousands of gallons of rad ioactive wa.stes per day were dumped into the r iv e r in the 1960s.

When the plant began dumping chem ica l and rad ioactive pollutants into the r iv e r above the legal lim it, the regu latory agency raised the lim it. • Em issions. Throughout most of the 1960s, the plants released unfiltered rad ioactive partic les into the air; they were cited by federal inspectors for broken a ir monitors and faulty em issions equipment. A 1973 uran ium leak was 20.000 tim es greater than acceptable lim its . M ore than 60 cases of workers' overexposure to rad iation have been reported. ^

IN 1976, a state inspector wrote: "There seems to be some po.ssibility that sm a ll amounts of rad ioactive dust are being em itted to the atmosphere, which d isturbs (us). There are homes very close to th is p lan t.”

When the plants started em itting rad ioactive dust at h igher levels than the regulations allowed, they were granted exemptions in 1969. a llow ing new levels 100 tim es h igher than the old one. The plants even exceeded the new levels.

Footnote: C iting a recent state cancer study, a Babcock and W ilcox o ffic ia l said: "The study c le a r ly shows no h igher cancer rates. I don’ t know how anyone could conclude there has been a health hazard”

Intelligence digestThe People ’s Repub lic of China is qu ietly

m aking moves to establish itse lf as an in fluentia l presence in the M idd le East. Envoys have been establish ing relations w ith several A rab leaders, and they point proudly to the im proved conditions for M oslems in China, who are allowed much more freedom since the bruta l repression of the Cu ltu ra l Revolution.

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PUT TH E CATS O UT TOMORROW.

The (mlitical fiat cats.They’ve got their hacks up.They say the Democratic party is their turf.

But the fat cats have one fear.. . Tohy Moffett.

Toby Moffett wants to bring good government in, a government where competence counts more than political connectiorw, where people come before the powerful.

As long as we have fat cats in government and bureaucratic waste, we’ll never have property tax relief or real solutions to the problems facing our state,

Toby will make property tax relief for overburdened homeowners a top priority for the state.

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Toby Moffett

He’ll toughen state oversight of insurance companies to rein in out-of-control insurance rates. He’ll beef up the inspector general’s office to rein in out-of-control government waste and fraud, Toby will work to assure the best education for all Connecticut’s children and he’ll take strong stands against the utility company’s mismanagement, overbuilding and over billing.

If this is the kind of government you want for Connecticut, you’ve got to put the fat cats out and put Toby Moffett in,

Toby Moffett. . . he can’t be bought, and he won’t back doiVn.

Vote tomorrow, May 20, in your local primary. Polls are open from noon to 8 PM.

V )te for die Toby M offett Slate: M ayor Barbara Weinberg, Row B .

For rides or information call 643-5156

Phid for by Citizens for Moffett 86, Roy DeBarbieri, treasurer.

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