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Access DSehard Road foes petition; Ryan, Texas sign; iawsuit uncertain /3 no Hurst deai yet /II iianriTPHtfr Hrrali Thursday, Dec. 8, 1988 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm 30 Cents Teachers OK ‘tentative’ 3-year pact Bv Andrew J. Dovls M EA members will vote on the The groups seemed destined for tration) good for the relationship details of the tentative Administrators and Supervisors Manchester Herald pact Monday afternoon, she said. arbitration after a mediation between the two. It shows a agreement. Association. Deakin said. session with the state Mediation willingness to w o rk" The two sides held mediation The Manchester Education As The minimum starting wage Salary was the last obstacle to a for teachers under the current and Arbitration Board on Nov. 16 settlement with the M EA. said sessions on Nov. 22 and Dec. 5, but sociation and the Board of Educa failed to produce a settlement. Assistant Superintendent Wil contract is $24,301 while the son E. Deakin. who handles Deakin. no settlement was reached. Sa tion have reached a "tentative” In arbitration, the two sides lary also is the last obstacle with maximum wage for a teacher negotiations for the board, said he "Money. It's always money.” agreement on a new three-year present their positions and a the administrators, he said. with a doctorate is $46.86)1. considers the tentative agree he said. "I've been doing this for contract, said Valerie D. Sady. panel of arbitrators decides There are about 30 members of M EA president. There are more than 500 which side is right. ment to be fair. “ Yes,” he said, 25 years. It's always money.” “ if what we outlined is acceptable the association, who.se contract Sady would not release details teachers and staff members in " I don't think anyone ever Meanwhile, arbitration has to them.” expires on June 30,1989. The sides of the agreement, which she said the union. Sady said. The current wants to go to arbitration,” she been set for Dec. 15 in the contract have agreed to negotiate a was reached this past Monday. contract expires on June 30,1989. said. "It's (settling before arbi He also would not release dispute with the Manchester two-year pact. Deakin said Armenian quake i w Mall site M wipes out cities erosion By Mark J. Porubcansky None of the reports could be improving The Associated Press confirmed. The official Soviet news agency By Nancy Conceimon MOSCOW — A devastating Tass reported destruction also Manchester Herald earthquake wiped out villages occurred in neighboring Soviet and leveled cities in Armenia, republics of Georgia and Azerbai The town's zoning enforcemciii and Soviet officials said today jan in the northern Caucasus. officer says he does not plan l(> that thousands of people were Tent cities for evacuees were set issue a stop-work order to th( killed. Other reports said tens of up virtually throughout northw developers of the $70 million mall thousands died. estern Armenia, which was hard in Buckland because they an Soviet officials rushed military est hit by the quake. working to correct erosion con surgeons and tons of medical Military surgeons "are carry trol problems at the site. supplies into the mountainous ing out a series of difficult Zoning Enforcement Officci southern republic of 3.3 million operations, including on children, Thomas O'Marra said he in people, where at least 50 children in field conditions,” army Gen. spected the site of the mall undo were reported buried by rubble Vladimir Arkhipov told Tass. The construction Wednesday and con when their school collapsed. agency said a Red Cross plane eluded the developers have “ im President Mikhail S. Gorba brought relief supplies, including proved and intensified” mainte chev cut short his visit to the 20,000 blood transfusion kits, to nance of erosion control devices. United States, and aides said he Armenia. Planning Director Mark Pellc would fly to Armenia to take The earthquake, which struck grini told Planning and Zoning command of the 'rescue Wednesday at m idm orning, Commission members Monday operation. wiped out Spitak, a town of 16,000 that the town could issue a Soviet officials reported thou near the epicenter, a government stop-work order to developers or sands of people were killed but newspaper said. Izvestia said just require additional erosion control provided no detailed casualty one of the town's eight schools measures because of drainage count. remained standing. problems. A resident had com Archbishop Mesrob Ashjian, The U.S. Geological Survey plained that runoff from the site prelate of the Armenian Apostolic said the quake measured 6.9 on was polluting a nearby pond. Church of America in New York, the Richter scale. O'Marra .said his inspection of quoted sources in Armenia as State television showed fiim of the site revealed that some saying the death toll could reach crumbied buildings in Spitak and additional maintenance is 70,000. Japan's Kyodo News Ser Kirovakan, Armenia's third- needed, but the inspection wept vice quoted Armenian officials as “ reasonably w e ll" saying 50,000 people were killed. See Q U A K E , page 10 O'Marra had written a letter Dec. 2 to Planning and Zoning Commission secretary Leo Kwash saying that numerous Gorbachev strikes up visits to the mall site during the spring and summer revealed relationship with Bush deficiencies in maintenance and Patrick Ftynn/Manchester Herald installation of erosion-control measures. By Terence Hunt The White House was informed LEG WORK — Larry Lombardi of 69 E. Middle Turnpike. Lombardi said he O'Marra today blamed erosion The Associated Press of the change of plans at 11:30 Santina Drive makes legs for a marble- often works at the shop on crafts that will problems at the site on recent p.m. E S T Wednesday. top table at the woodworking and hobby be sold at fairs to raise money for the heavy rain storms and ill-timed Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened Reagan, Bush and Gorbachev maintenance of erosion control his superpower relationship with all were in high spirits when they shop at the Senior Citizens Center at 549 center. devices. George Bush on a warm note and met for two hours on heavily “ It probably had more to dn won President Reagan's praise guarded Governors Island in New with the timing rather than the for a major reduction in Soviet York Harbor. When Bush offered method of maintenance" troops before deciding to cut a welcoming handshake, Gorba U.S. fighter crashes into city O'Marra .said. short his New York visit and chev seized it in a two-handed The developer, the Homnri return home to cope with a embrace. Development Co. of Chicago, has catastrophic earthquake. After two hours of talks, REMSCHEID, West Germany kesman for Remscheid, said The witness, who was not hired a soil scientist to evaluate Gorbachev melted diplomatic Reagan summed up the mood. (AP) — A U.S. Air Force jet three bodies had been pulled out identified by name, said flames erosion control measures at the reserve at the United Nations “ Read our smiles,” the outgoing slammed into a residential area of the burning rubble. engulfed nearby houses and mo site upon recommendation from wUh a sweeping disarmament president said. of this city in central West He said between 40 to 50 people tor vehicles. The witness said he the town, O'Marra said. pledge, met cordially for two Gorbachev and his wife Raisa Germany today, killing at least were injured, many of them spotted the pilot's parachute Members of the scientist's staff hours with Bush and Reagan and then went on a 75-minute motor three people, injuring dozens and seriously. hanging from a tree about 30 were at the site Wednesday, he even managed a quick motorcade cade tour of Manhattan from Wall setting houses on fire, officials “ We haven't even reached the yards away from the scene. added. tour of Manhattan, jumping from Street to Times Square, with the said. aircraft. It's still wedged into a The crash was likely to in O'Marra said his reports ha his limousine to greet startled Soviet leader twice stopping to Rescue officials said the death burning house," Fleischmann crease public opposition to low- ven't been completed. New Yorkers on the sidewalk. greet New Yorkers on the streets. toll could rise. Authorities were said. level military training flights Senior environmental analyst But he had little further oppor As everyone in the city had fighting flames as they tried to A witness, quoted on local radio over West Germany. That opposi Marla Butts of the Department of tunity to enjoy the afterglow of anticipated, his 4S-car motorcade reach the scene of the crash. station WDR said: "A bright tion grew in August when Italian Environmental Protection said Wednesday's summitry. Soviet left behind a snarl of traffic. West Germany's ARD televi orange fireball went up. The stunt planes collided and crashed today .she also hasn't finished officials said he abruptly decided Extending an olive branch to sion network said several build aircraft slammed into a house into a crowd of spectators at an reports on her most recent to fly home today when worsening Bush, Gorbachev said in his ings collapsed as the inferno about 50 meters (55 yards) in air show at the U.S. Air Force inspection of the site. Butts reports arrived that an earth speech at the United Nations that engulfed the area. front of me. Then there were quake in Soviet Armenia had the new administration “ will find Reinhard Fleischmann, a spo explosions." See CRASH, page 10 See M A LL, page 10 killed thousands of people.