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lA iianrhpstpr HrralJi Weekend Edition, October 27,1990 Voted 1990 New England Newspaper of the Vbar Newsstand Price: 35 Cents State man seized by Iraqis By LAURA KING The Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi occupation forces have seized two Americans who had been hiding in Kuwait to avoid capture, Western diplomats disclosed Friday. Uwc Jahnkc, 47, of Washington Depot, Conn., and John Stevenson, 44, of Panama City, Fla., were brought to Baghdad on Oct. 22, a day after their arrest in Kuwait, said the diplomats, who spoke on condition of anonymity. They said the pair was taken to the government-run Mansour-Melia Hotel, where scores of other foreigners are being held. Baghdad has refused to allow thousands of foreigners trapped by Iraq’s Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait to leave. Foreign women and children were eventually allowed to depart, and some men were released at the intervention of officials from their governments. But hundreds of others, including more than 1(X) Americans, were sent to strategic installations to deter a possible attack by U.S.-led multinational forces that as sembled in Saudi Arabia after the invasion. Western diplomats were allowed access to the recently captured Americans, tiicy said. “They’re obviously upset at being held by the Iraqi authorities but otherwise they’re just fine,” one diplomat said. The sources said Jahnke had worked with an invest ment company in Kuwait and Stevenson was an Raglnald Plnto/ltanch«ator Harald employee of the Bank of Kuwait. GOODBYE TO DAYLIGHT-SAVING — Don’t forget to turn your clock back one hour before Jalmkc’s wife, who refused to give her full name, said in a telephone interview from her Connecticut home that you go to sleep Saturday night or by 2 a.m., Sunday morning, which is when daylight-saving ends. the State Department had told her of her husband’s cap ture. She said he had been in hiding in Kuwait since the Iraqi invasion. He worked as a banker for the Gulf Investment Corp. in Kuwait and had lived in the emirate for the last 4V2 Munns: Genga is grasping years, she said. are being used against other The two were seized by Iraqi soldiers at an apartment By ALEX GIRELLI was flawed and because crimes are Republican candidates. Edward where they had been hiding in Kuwait City, the Manchester Herald committed with stolen guns and un Krawiccki Jr. of Bristol, deputy registered guns. diplomats said. Republican leader in the House, State Rep. Paul Munns Friday Munns said he is accused of chas “They shifted together to the apartment from their charged that his Democratic op joined Munns in the conference and ing industry out of East Hanford be homes to evade being detected, but apparently they were ponent is using misleading generic said the Republican leadership does cause he voted against spending turned in by some informers,” one diplomat said. not tell legislators how to vote, as $50,000 to create a task force to 1 advertising and failing to detail They said they had no other details about the seizures. claimed in two of the brochures. where he stands on key issues. study manufacturing in the state. The two men were brought to Baghdad aboard a bus in Munns said he doesn’t need a Munns, incumbent Republican in He said some of the same a 19-hour desert journey, the diplomats said. $50,000 study to learn why com the 9th Assembly District is being brochures are being used in Senate One diplomat said he feared Iraqi authorities would panies are leaving the state. “Just challenged by Democrat Henry races. punish the pair by sending them to be held at potential look at the Democratic policies that Genga of East Hartford. One of the brochures states Munns would give a gun to a have given us the highest corpora military targets. At a news conference Friday criminal. Munns said that charge is tion and sales tax in the the “Our concern starts now,” he said. morning, Munns displayed country,” he said. Also on Friday, Kuwait’s exiled prime minister was brochures which criticize, among ludicrous, “and I’m sure my op ponent knows that.” Munns said a brochure states that quoted as ^pealing for a military strike to oust Iraqi for other things, his votes on gun con he voted to pass up a $100 million ces from his homeland. trol and the creation of a task force Munns said he voted against a savings by voting against the crea- Iraq gave new indications it might be willing to to study state manufacturing. gun control law because an amend negotiate a settlement Munns said the same brochures ment on semi-automatic weapons Please see MUNNS, page 2. Smokers Legislator im * '* Mte.. puff back charges M.' By MATTI HUUHTANEN for advice The Associated Press HELSINKI, Finland — Delegates from 22 countries COLCHESTER (AP) — Legislators usually offer free puffing on pipes, cigars and cigarettes urged the United services to constituents, so a retired Colchester man was Nations on Friday to allow smoking in the name of stoned when state Rep. Edith Prague told him her help human rights. with a Medicare question would cost $50 an hour. “Smoking is a human right and should be respected Joseph Kablik, a 64-year-old retired National Guard according to the Declaration of Human Rights of the technician, said he wrote Prague in care of her advice United Nations,” said a declaration adopted on the open column and was told he would have to go through her ing day of Smokepcace 90, the first international $50-an-hour counseling service. smokers’ conference. Prague, a Democrat from Columbia, has been writing The 123 delegates came from Europe, South America, a semiweckly advice column, “Medicare Mailbox,” for the United States, Japan and Australia to the two-day The Chronicle, a Willimantic newspaper, since the meeting. They said they represented 1.7 billion smokers mid-1970s. worldwide. Prague said she does not really operate a private coun The meeting was sponsored by Finnish hotels and res seling service, but told Kablik in a letter that she did be taurants as well as large multinational tobacco corpora cause his question would take too much time and tions including Philip Morris and Rothmans. research to answer. “We are not puffing into the faces of nonsmokers. We Prague said she has used this same tactic three or four are just fighting back and want them to be aware of our times to discourage people from asking difficult ques feelings, as we are of theirs,” said Steve Handman, a tions. spokesman for the American Smokers Alliance. “I get requests from people all over the place, and “It seems to be a last-ditch effort by the smokers, but I some people send me oodles and oodles of stuff. I can’t think to have this many people is amazing. Obviously, do that, and 1 want to discourage that,” Prague said. there’s a little lashback here,” said Maureen Gail Mul- She said if Kablik had decided to pay the $50 and vaney, a conference speaker from the United States. come in for advice, she would have turned him away. Th« Assoclalad Prasa Other delegates, including nonsmokers, maintained Kablik is to go on Medicare when he turns 65 in May, WHAT’S FOR LUNCH! — A polar bear stands up against a glass partition of his compound they were attending the conference to fight for civil but he was confused about several supplemental health as a group of Penguins pass by at the Munich Zoo. A baby penguin, third from left, who was rights. programs. He said he was angry about Prague’s response. born in the zoo in July, can be recognized by its dark feathers. “What the whole world is facing is a barrage of in tolerance and, indeed, the outright infringement on per sonal liberty,” said Chris Tame, British director of the Freedom Organization For The Right To Enjoy Smoking Tobacco. House approves $268B spending bill “I don’t smoke, but the threat to the freedom of MANCHESTER BALLERINA — Janet Popeleski, daughter of the late Vincent Popeleski and smokers is a threat to the freedom of all of us. Smokers Shirley Popeleski of Helaine Road, Manchester, is a dancer with the Pittsburgh Ballet By DONNA CASSATA lion request for SDl and a reduction in funds for the B-2 cluding aerodynamic performance, low observability now, drinkers next,” Tame said. The Associated Press Theatre. She will perform in the classic ballet, “Swan Lake," on Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Jorgen stealth bomber that keeps the program alive for at least and engine capability, before beginning full-scale Finland has banned smoking in most public places and one more year. development. sen Auditorium, campus of the University of Connecticut in Storrs. For ticket information, call is among countries with the strictest anti-smoking laws. WASHINGTON — The House approved a military “This bill shows restraint. It’s a lean bill,” said Rep. The Pentagon plans to begin buying the aircraft, in 486- 4226. However, delegates soon filled the conference room in spending bill Thursday that slashes President Bush’s John Muriha, D-Pa., chairman of the House Appropria tended to replace the Air Force’s F-15, in 19%. The Finlandia Hall with smoke. 1991 budget request for the Sttategic Defense Initiative tions subcommittee on defense. total number of fighters to be bought is 750. but adopts the Pentagon’s plan for a high-tech fighter The legislation largely tracks the military blueprint The spending bill concurs with the administration’s aircraft.