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WETHERSFIELD - The unem ployment rate in Manchester for of major war October was 4.5 percent — about Death one-fifth of 1 percent under the unadjusted state average of 4.7 BEIRUT. Lebanon (U PI) - A Lebanon, a French military spo percent, which was a four-year French peace-keeping soldier was kesman said. low, according to figures released killed and another wounded In an The French soldier killed was by the state Labor Department ambush today and a lone assassin the first to die since the Oct. 23 Wednesday. There were 1,264 town shot and killed a ranking Druze suicide bombing that leveled a residents unemployed during the religious leader in his west Beirut French barracks in west Beirut period. apartment. and killed 58 French soldiers. In The rate in Coventry wps even The attacks came amid escalat all, 76 French soldiers have been lower — 3.6 percent, with 179 ing violence that threatened to killed since the French first unemployed — while Andover plunge Lebanon intoatiother round arrived in August 1982. hovered almost two percent above of civil war between Druze Mos French warplanes retaliated for the average at 6.5 percent with 82 lems, Christians, and the Lebanese the suicide bombing Nov. 17, unemployed, a Lal^r Department army. striking pro-Iranian targets near spokeswoman said today. “ A lone gunman was allowed the central town of Baalbeck. The unemployment rate for into Sheikh Halim Takieddine's The French spokesman said the Bolton was 4.6 percent, with 103 appartment by his maid,” said a ambush occurred at 5:50 a.m., residents unemployed, she said. Druze community spokesman. surprising the routine patrol in Seasonally adjusted figures put "The man asked to see the sheikh Beirut's Tayyouneh region near the state unemployment rate at 5 and on entering the room, fired a the city's southern Shiite Moslem percent, down two tenths of 1 few shots from a silencer-equipped neighborhood. The Lebanese army percent from the adjusted Sep pistol and killed him." fired back at the attackers. tember rate. Those were the lowest Takieddine was the head of the "The Lebanese army was very figures since November 1979, Druze religious courts — a title courageous. Without their rapid Labor Commissioner Joseph Pe- that ranks second to that of intervention, the patrol would have raro said. community's religious leader suffered greater casualties,” the Unadjusted figures showed that Sheikh Mohammed Abu Chakra. spokesman said. "Tw o of our unemployment dropped from 4.9 to The noon assassination came a soldiers were wounded. One of 4.7 percent during the period. day after intense artillery battles them died on the operating table. Statewide, 76,400 residents were between Druze and Lebanese The second is slightly injured." out of work in October compared to army in the mountains east of Druze leader Walid Jumblatt 79,100 in September. Beirut forced the Beirut airport to warned in an interview published New records were set in the close and sent shells slamming into today by the Kuwaiti newspaper Al economy with Connecticut resi Christian areas. The airport re Watan that a new war could trigger dents earning an all-time high of $4 mained closed today. a confrontation between the billion, the department said. U PI photo Only hours earlier today, gun superpowers. In October 1982, the state's men ambushed a French peace "The Americans and the Soviets Pro-Iranian Shiite women hold up ah protesting the expulsion of the charge unemployment rate was 7.7 per keeping patrol in what Lebanese are facing each other, and a single anti-American poster as well as Iranian d'Affaires. The diplomat was supposed cent, with 110,700 people unem wrong shot could start a war ployed, the department said. The Security sources said was a repri to leave Lebanon today but the airport sal for French air. strikes against paper flags Wednesday during a national seasonally adjusted un pro-Iranian targets in central Please turn to page 10 demonstration at the Iranian embassy was closed due to shelling this morning. employment rate for October dropped to 8.8 percent from 9.3 percent in September. A year ago, the national unemployment rate was 10.5 percent. Burns wants complete removal of toll booths The department said there were 406,400 jobs in the manufacturing By Mark A. Dupuis collecting tolls on the 129-mile tolls from the turnpike and three hand, claim toll plazas pose safety Under the plan submitted by sector, an increase of 1,800 jobs United Press International turnpike on Dec. 31,1985, and begin Hartford-area bridges already has and health hazards and that tolls Burns, collection of the turnpike since ^ptem ber and 400 more jobs SormwiBAijWtaiianwO work to tear down the eight come under fire, however, and are discriminatory in that they are tolls would end on Dec. 31, 1985, than existed in October 1982. tafOn.MYwir'iNomialwwi. ___ _ concentrated in the southern part with the removal of the toll plazas Stiund O i B w lo o «t»o l Wdwo B «u n »o . HARTFORD - The state De turnpike toll plazas on Jan. 1,1986. ' lawmakers already are talking The department also reported P oM O . rrapoHL wmi Tog And SetM partment of Transportation pro about repealing it in their next of the state. expected to be completed by Sept. 4,449,700 non-agricultural jobs, up HpToMen«maWMrXM.O- It . The toll removal law approved 30. 1986. posed today that the state remove Bum's recommendations, in a session, which begins in February. by 7,600 from Septmeber. A ».Q lii««l Tioawnofk 0( Monwiio this year required Burns to initiate Conipony. all tolls from the Connecticut report mandated by the Legisla Improvements were scattered removal of the tolls from the The Legislature did not mandate Turnpike at the same time instead ture, differed from the toll removal Opponents of toll removal claim throughout the apparel, printing, turnpike and bridges in the Hart nor did Burns recommend a plan Our 8.47, Blanket of phasing out the controversial plan approved earlier this year by the $57 million collected annually publishing and metal industries, ford area by Oct. 1, 1985, with the for removal of tolls from the Sleeperi, 4-6X, S7 levies as advocated by lawmakers. lawmakers and signed into law by at toll plazas is needed to finance said Labor spokesman C. Richard work to be completed by Jan. 1. Merritt and Wilbur Cross DOT Commissioner J. William Gov. William O'Neill. highway and bridge repairs. Ficks. 1987. parkways. Burns proposed that the state stop The law mandating removal of Opponents of tolls, on the other Women testify vs. doctor Colum bia HARTFORD (UPI) - The Con would review the evidence pres no record of his past behavior. didn’t reply necticut Medical Examining ented during the day-long hearing Roisman said Stern gave up his Board has not decided whether to before making a decision. Connecticut practice voluntarily revoke the license of a Connecticut Stern, a specialist in gastroente after the allegations were raised SOUTH WINDSOR (UPI) — doctor, now practicing in Florida, rology, gave up his narcotics and sought psychiatric help. Forty-two first graders tried accused of sexually molesting license in August 1979 and surren “ He never tried to excuse his today to talk to astronauts several patients. dered his medical license when he behavior. There never was an aboard the space shuttle Colum The board heard testimony left the state after practicing for attempt to cover up or whitewash bia as it orbited earth for the Wednesday from five women in more than 10 years. He was in his anything,” said Roisman, describ 47th time. their 20s who said Dr. P. Gary late 30s. ing his client as "tremendously Dr. Owen Garriott did not Stern fondled and seduced them The accusations against him remorseful.” respond. and photographed them in the nude first surfaced in 1980 after Women His attorneys did not attempt to Columbia was 155 miles over in his office and Bloomfield home Against Medical Abuse issued a refute the testimony of the five the Avery Street School when while practicing in Connecticut survey reporting 18 cases of sexual patients or deny he had been Sally O'Dell, a ham radio -r sexually active with his patients. operator and mother of a more than three years ago. abuse by doctors, dentists and student, tried to make contact ♦ .5 ' Department investigators said it other health professionals in the has taken them three years to state. A 29-year-old woman said she with Garriott, one of six aboard obtain statements from the pa Stern did not attend Wednes was a drug addict when she first the space lab who became an tients and convince five of them to day's hearing, but his lawyer visited Stern in 1976 for gastroin amateur radio devotee in high testify.