Police Besiege Two Snipers in Hotel
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. - • ; f? /, ■ , - '. i^iji /■•:;/, V:% [\\'-f'-\. '■ Restore Farm. Loans , The Weather Ooudy and very cold tonight, the low from Andover Selectman zero to 10 above. Partly cloudy, windy and Asks^ See Page 8 '’ cold Tuesday, the high in the teens. MANCHESTER — A City of Village Charm MANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, JANUARY 8. 1973 - VOL. XCII, No. 82 EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS Seven Dead In New Orleans r \ ________ __ j ^ ,, P * * f §1 • W w * i* > ♦ » ♦ U i-" - -k Police Besiege Two » k ''' 4 -Vts# Snipers In Hotel reported a total of 10 persons NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A right-angle elbow s in the was paralyzed, with streets many assaults on the concrete killed. Early today, they * vCii ^ massive cordon of heavily stairway, making it impossible blockaded around the hotel. Of structure atop the roof where lowered the count to seven and armed policemen warily^ held to shoot up and perilous to even ficials allowed no one through. the snipers holed up. said the mistake apparently their circle around a downtown check out. At midmorning there was A firefight flared before dawn was made in duplicate count of hotel today, watching for two Police said they did not know only speculation about what when another pass overhead by the dead found on the top floor surviving snipers whose the identity of the three men prompted the shootings. the chopper, with policemen of the hotel. marathon shooting spree left who began their siege from the Louisiana Atty. Gen. William firing, forced one of the snipers seven dead and 17 injured. But hotel Sunday morning. A Guste said he would ask for a down a stairwell — where three Mayor Moon Landrieu said the shooting had stopped. sharpshooter, watching the federal investigation because, policemep were trying to get that efforts to negotiate with The men were believed still gunmen's movements with a 20- "I am now convinced that there into firing range. the snipers were fruitless. on the roof of the Downtown power telescope, described is an underground national The three policemen were “They said crazy things,” he Howard Johnson Hotel. A them as black men, at least one suicidal group bent on creating superficially wounded in the said. “Things like, 'com e and Marine Corps helicopter, with with a goatee and bush haircut. terror in America." gunfight before it was broken get us,’" police sharpshooters at the In the daylight, the chips and Police were moving cautious off. ready, hovered a few feet over pocks from the thousands of ly in an effort to prevent further It all started at about 10:30 the roof shortly after dawn, and rounds of high-powered am fatalities. The 18-floor hotel a.m. Sunday when the snipers, Parley again at midmormng, but there munition were visible on the was deserted except for police described by police as blacks, was no gunfire, or movement of face of the building, especially and the surviving snipers. began setting fires in the hotel. Sniper Bastion any kind. at the back of the bunkers. One of the snipers was killed When firemen arrived, they Off To Icy The two passes were among At one place could be seen the Sunday night, gunned down by came under gunfire. This concrete cubical atop the Downtown Howard Johnson’s Hotel is where snipers, who the few by the big Chinook holes, hammered out of sheer policemen riding the big At one point during the Start have killed at least seven persons, and wounded many others, were fending off police early choppers — the type used in concrete by persistent police Marine Sikorsky during one of predawn darkness, one of the today. Police were attacking the stronghold from a Marine helicopter gunship. The sniping Vietnam — that did not draw fire. A three-foot opening was surviving snipers was reported PARIS (AP) - Henry A. to have crawled to the other end attacks began Sunday. (AP photo) sniper fire. torn in the side of the concrete Kissinger and Hanoi’s Le Due A Marine lieutenant said one bunker used as a base by the of the hotel roof. Police Tho resumed their peace talks sortie included close-up snipers. It came from repeated Heating Oil sharpshooters in surrounding in an a p p a ren tly icy a t photographs of the bunker-like barrages by the high-velocity Import Quotas buildings opened fire, but mosphere today, conferring for :V enclosures used as cover by the weapons aboard the helicopter. Police Supt. Clarence hours in a suburban villa Union Official men. Police used extreme caution, Increased Giarrusso ordered all firing owned by the French Com News' The disclosures, five-inch and did not explain why there stopped except by marksmen munist party. thick oiincrete-slab rooms at was no attempt to use fire, WASHINGTON (AP) - The 600 yards away in the federal It was the first meeting of the Accuses Manager Capsules the end of the roof, are chemicais or explosives to Nixon administration today building. two top negotiators since the coverings for the steep stairs force the men out.. authorized increased imports of His order came when talks were suspended Dec. 13 from _|he 18th floor to the roof. As the drama continued, most heating oil to help alleviate policemen on the 17th floor of and followed by massive O f ‘Scare Tactics’ Officials said there are two of the city’s business district shortages in various parts of the hotel said they were being American bombing raids on Draft Set - the nation. fired upon, apparently by their North Vietnam. The Office of Emergency own men. Resumption of the peace By IMH <; BEVINS WASHINGTON (AP) - Preparedness said the action Giarrusso, who lost his No. 2 talks was reportedly part of a (lliTulil K.«‘|iurlrr) Secretary of Defense Melvin R. would make available up to 250 man and two other officers in backstage deal under which Laird Reports the sniping which began Sun The Manchester Police Union, in a statement released Laird told Congress today the million gallons of additional No. President Nixon ordered the day, had said earlier he would today by President James Sweeney, has accused Town Pentagon plans to draft only 5,- 2 fuel oil for the current winter raids halted above the 20th (X)0 men before the induction season. take no chances. parallel on Dec. 30. North Viet Manager Robert Weiss of “ scare tactics” in the dispute “Time is our ally," he said. authority expires next June 30. I To Congress , The office made the ad namese public statements since over an emergency sick leave provision in the police con This is far below the “ less ditional oil available by in “ They’re at our will now. We’re then have given no hint of a tract. than 10,000" figure he used last creasing quotas from the Virgin going to win.' softening in Hanoi’s position. WASaW^Q’TON (AP) - Defense Secretary Melyin R, The snipers had started their The statement issued today medical and insurance benefits, November. < Islaads' during the January- Tho, as host of' today's Laird, the first Cabinet ofHcial to face Gongrew ^ilhce last shooting before noon Sunday, was in response to Weiss’ state- education bonuses and a In his final report to the ApriLperiod. meeting, seemed to go^put of peppering the area with gunfire ' ment Saturday which allegedly longevity plan. H9use"Arm^ Senices' c ^ - "Inonth's Msavy bombing of North Vietnam, said today that The Department of the his way to demonstrate Hanoi’s throughout the day after setting questioned the police union's in Today's union statement was mittee before giving up his Vibthatnizatlbh. has made possible the total wiUidrawal of Interior soon will publish an of anger over the bombing. For sections of the hotel afire. The tegrity. as follows; Cabinet post, Laird said plaits U.S. forces once POWs are released. ficial notice informing sellers the first time since the secret are to draft fewer than 2,500 in hotel is about six blocks from talks began, Kissinger and his Last Friday. Weiss charged "What has Mr. Weiss to hide “ The South Vietnamese peo- enough to hold on even with the that;imports may be increased March and an average of 1,000 the city’s famed French aides were not given to tlie union with unfair labor from the Police Union? Why is pie today, in my view, are fully presence of an estimated 140,- in districts one through four, in each of the following three Quarter. handshake when they arrived practices, after the union he resorting to scare tactics capable of providing for their 000 North Vietnamese troops which includes all areas east of months. Police on Sunday evening had and left the meeting. membership voted Thursday and refusing to negotiate with i own in-country security against within its borders. the Rocky Mountains. night to rescind its ratification the union? The Police Union tlfe North Vietnamese,” Laird of the 1972-1974 contract. stands ready to negotiate with Bombing Error said in a final report to The dispute apparently Mr. Weiss, as we have nothing Congress prepared for the centers on the contract wording to hide. We know that we have SAIG O N (AP) - F iv e House Armed Services Com American fighter-bOmbers . of the emergency sick leave negotiated honestly and fairly, mittee. provision. The union claims that we have not made a flying above a heavy dvercast Hose Honors Barrett He said the Saigon accidentally dropped y34 500- that Weiss changed the contract mockery of the collective government’s ability to defend pound bombs on the: western Ingenuity was often He has served in many Beatrice Sipples of Manchester wording of the provision from bargaining process, and that we itself makes possible a settle By JOHN A.