Hijackers Holding out for Prisoners' Release
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The weather Inside today Partly cloudy tonight, low near 60. Area news ... 14-15 Fam ily.................6 Friday partly sunny, less humid, high Classified____16-18 Gardening........ 20 near 80. Chance of precipitation 10 per Dear Abby....... 19 Obituaries........ 10 cent tonight and iFriday. National Editorial ............4 Sports.............11-lJ weather forecast map on Page 17. Hijackers holding out V. for prisoners’ release NAIROBI, Kenya (UPI) - Pro- Sunday their deadline for release of deadline they had ket for Israel and Palestinian guerrillas announced imprisoned guerrillas from five the four other countries to release 53 today they would free about 100 more nations. “freedom fighters” in exchange for hostages from a hijacked French air The dramatic announcement by the the lives of 209 hostages they were liner — ail but those with Israeli or hijackers came just minutes before holding at Uganda’s Entebbe airport. duai nationality. They extended to the expiration of the original 8 a.m. The new move would leave more than 100 hostages still held by the hijackers at the airport. It was broadcast by Uganda radio Thunderstorm causes shortly after the Israeli government announced it had decided to open negotiations for the release of 40 im many power outages prisoned guerrillas demanded by the gunmen who seized the Air France jet. airbus from Athens to Uganda More than 1,000 Manchester homes moving out to sea by early morning. Sunday. and businesses lost their electrical Tonight’s forecast ii^ for_partly The Israeli national radio said the power Wednesday night In a fast- cloudy weather, with Friday cabinet agreed to authorize a team of moving thunderstorm which caused expected to be partly sunny. m: In northwestern Connecticut, ministers “to open negotiations with little flooding. the view of releasing the prisoners.” Elsewhere in the state, the high Connecticut Light & Power said The Israeli cabinet met in the winds and heavy rain knocked down about 2,000 homes and businesses were without power for periods Defense Ministry buildingjn Tel Aviv trees and power lines, blacking out as dozens of relatives of Israeli large areas of northwestern Connec ranging from a few minutes to several hours. About 1,550 customers hostages gathered outside to ticut. demonstrate for the release of the A Hartford Electric Light Co. were affected in Waterbury, Goshen imprisoned guerrillas. spokesman said there were three and Comwali, while 200 customers The hijackers’ statement today set blackouts in Manchester during the were blacked out in Prospect, 175 in Colebrook and 17 in Winsted. a new deadline of 7 a.m. EDT Sunday Drive-in banking colonial style storm. At 9:46 p.m., an estimated 24 for compliance with their demands. customers on W. Center St. and 1,034 In Massachusetts, about 4,000 Boston area homes were blacked out, It said that in addition to the Jewish Bonney Scudieri gives an old-fashioned look to modern-day banking at the drive-in window customers on Broad St. and W. Mid hostages and those of "dual dle Tpke. lost power. Service was lights were delayed at Logan Inter of the Manchester State Bank. All of the bank employes wear the colonial look for business national Airport, heavy rain closed nationality” — presumably non- during this week in honor of the nation’s birthday. This is the second year the bank has re sto i^ in about an hour. At 10:20 Israeli Jews — they would continue to p.m., service blackouts affected six roads into Williamson, Mass., and a observed July 4 in this manner. Manchester State Bank is the only bank in the area doing foot of water covered roads in North hold the airliner and its crew. customers on N. Lakewood Circle; The guerrillas did not repeat their business in this colonial way. (Herald photo by Dunn) lights came back on in two hours. Adams, Mass. In Vermont, Bennington officials previous threat to massacre hostages HELCO officials said another 440 by blowing them up in the Air France customers lost their power for 40 estimated $10,000 in damages from a airbus. minutes, starting at 12:15 a.m., while separate storm which tegan late President begins busy round repairs were being made. Tuesday and ended at 9 p.m. The Southern New England Wednesday. Apple crops in the area The hijackers had released 48 Telephone Co. reported "minimal” were heavily damaged and state hostages Wednesday — women, trouble in the Manchester area, with emergency funds were being sought. children and elderly passengers. The of Bicentennial activities service interruptions affecting about Rains roamed the leng& of the promised release of 100 more would 50 customers, most of them in Atlantic Seaboard and stretched into leave 109 still held at the Entebbe air Bicentennial schedule which will Glastonbury. the Ohio Valley, eastern Michigan port, four days after the Air France WASHINGTON (UPI) - President prediction that “the best of the Flooding problems were reported and the Gulf Coast area. A few tor jet airbus was/hijacked as it left Ford today began a busy round of American adventure” will be in the take him to Valley Forge, Philadelphia, New York City and In a parking lot at Green Rd. and nadoes were reported near Buffalo, Athens on a flight from Tel Aviv to Bicentennial activities with a salute future. Woodbrldge St. and on property at N.Y., causing some tree damage. Paris. to the nation’s past and present and a “Our country must never cease to Charlottesville, Va. during the Dougherty and McKee Sts., accor be a place where men and women try holiday weekend. Thousands of visitors thronged into ding to the town Highway Depart the untried, test the impossible and ment. Slate starting new fiscal year take uncertain paths into the un the city for the weekend events, Highway crews were out in full known,” Ford said in a prepared although hotels in the area still had vacancies. force this morning, cleaning up after speech for the dedication of the new several minor erosion problems. Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. The Air and Space Museum, The Town Fire Department on ^cautiously optimistic' note ’The next 100 years of American covering three city blocks in the Mall reported a handful of emergency adventuring, the President said, can area between the Capitol and the mean harvesting “the great riches of Washington Monument, cost $41.5 calls about flooded cellars, fewer complete the year with a $11 million tion of sales tax revenues from every HARTFORD (UPl) - Having sur the oceans,’’ developing farm million and is expected to attract up than expected. surplus, a far cry from the $80 three months to every month should vived 12 months of changing expec methods "so all the deserts of the to 50,000 visitors a day. It features Few storm-related Incidents were million deficit Gov. Ella T. Grasso help prevent a recurrence of last tations about its financial health, earth can bloom” and curing cancer U.S. progress from Kittybawk to the reported in Manchester area towns. warned of last November. year when there was no warning until Connecticut began a new fiscal year and heart disease. first moon landing. In Vernon, there was a washout near She ordered a series of austerity November the state was in trouble. "cautiously optimistic” today. “The hallmark of the American a construction site on West Rd.; In measures to eliminate part of the “We will know much sooner if The state began operating on a $1.8 adventure has been a South Windsor, minor flash flooding deficit — including laying off 500 we’re going to have any problems,” billion budget, which gives business willingness—even an eagerness —to was recorded; and in Coventry, state workers. he said. "Last year we were four tax relief, but avoids higher levies reach for the unknown,” the Presi Town offices police said a few street lights were for the citizenry, mostly through use The legislature approved her months into the year before, we got hit by lightning. bookkeeping devices — and added our first indication.” dent said. of a series of bookkeeping devices. Ford, also was presiding at the to be closed After dumping between an Inch and some of its own — to enable the state Mrs. Grasso hopes an upturn in the State Comptroller Edward Capitol'opening of a Centennial Safe an inch and a half of rain in southern to finish the year in the black and economy will take care of the Caldwell said Wednesday when the with mementos of 1876. New England, the storm began give expectation of the same for the revenue problem that this year will on Monday books were closed the state would A parade, a protest march and a fiscal year beginning today. be met by a new method of collecting gigantic fireworks display were on MWSiiirwi-tasJSSSS:::; I But they rejected two key parts of taxes on corporate profits, public The Municipal Building will be tap for the next three days in obser Coming Friday plan, lengthening the week of state utilities and out-of-state Insurance closed Monday, July 5 in observance vance of the 200th anniversary of the employes without a pay raise and companies. of the July 4 holiday. In case of nation’s birth. Ford’s appearance at liquidation of a $29 million veterans ’The largest source of state revenue emergency, the following phone the opening of the Air and Space fund. is the seven per cent«^ales tax and numbers will be in service: Highway, Happy Birthday, U.S.A. Museum and the Capitol’s "I’m cautiously optimistic” about receipts from the levy rise and fall 649-5070; refuse, 649-1886; sanitary "safecracking” kicked off a busy the coming year, Mrs.