U.S. Insists Air Attack Unprovoked

I- Clearing tonight; Manchester, Conn. sunny Friday Thursday. Aug. 20,1981 — See page 2 25 Cents U.S. insists Ninth t i t 1 ■■■■ 4 i grade air t attack unprovoked moving By Nancy Thompson Herald Reporter After 25 years in a separate By United PreM IntarnaUonal our people there are comfortable," m i. building, the ninth grade at Bennet said a spokesman for Conoco. Junior High School is moving across Ttw Reagan admlniatration says Secretary of State Alexander Haig Main Street to join the other grades the attadc by two Libyan planei on a said -prior experience with the on campus. pair of Navy Jeta w u not entirely radical Khadafy regime, Including The result, according to Principal mwipected, bvt hialfts it waa un 70 intrusions into the exercise area Thomas' Meisner, will be improved provoked aixl, that U.S. pUota were Tuesday by Libyhn aircraft, safety and security, increased JnaUfled in b l a a ^ the Libyana out suggests the attack wad not entirely school spirit among students, and "a of the aln. unexpected. snug fit” into the available In what turned into a war (d worda "There is no question that past buildings. after Wedneaday’a dogfight over dla- experience with the Libyan govern “The overall effect of moving the puted Mediterranean Watoa, Libya ment has suggested that we were ninth grade across the street means accuaed'the United Statea of ataging keenly aware of the possibility — we we are using all classrooms to the an “ambnah” In ita air apace like a h o ^ that such a thing would not fullest,” Meisner said. "We’ve gun-fighting cowboy and “en h a p ^ , Iwt unfortunately it did,” he stretched these rooms and buildings dangering world peace.’’ said. as much as we possibly can.” The United Statea formally The Washington Post rqtorted Adding to the tight fit at the protMted the “unprovoked attack’’ today the admiiiistratlon meant the Bennet campus are 50 ninth grade and warned Libyan atrongman exercises as a challenge to the Li students who were originally slated Moammar Khadafy any further byan goVenunent, and was prepared For many people along the South Carolina people at Myrtle Beach took advantage of for transfer to filing Junior High diallengea will be reaiated with for the results. coaat. Tropical Storm Dennis was more of an the time to collect shells or just go for a walk. School when the Boaid of Ekiucatlon force, if neceaaary. - “We have long been bugged by Inconvenlenoe than a throat. With the center (UPl photo) decided to close the ninth grade The Pentagon aaid the two U.S. F- Khadafy’a territorial claim, and this of the storm just a few miles off the coast. building, also known as the main 14 Tomcat fitfitera, taking part in a was meant to test it and show we building. TTie Board voted to allow routine training CKWciae "over in don’t go along,” the newspaper the students to stay at Bennet for ternational watera’’ 60 milea off the quoted one senior official. their final year of junior high after Lilqnui coaat, ahot down a pair of The commander of the Navy task their parents protested the planned ^Soviet-built SU-SS Jeta after being force patrolling the Mediterranean Dennis heads to sea transfer. fired upm. was called b a ^ to Washington to According to Meisner, the ad ditional 50 students were more of an In the honra that followed, U.S. of- make sure he understood all At least three storm-related ficiala repeatedly diaputed Libya’a operating rules — including rules of WILMINGTON, N.C. (UPI) - administrative problem, in terms of Tropical Storm Deunis shrieked deaths have-been Reported since .scheduling classes and rooms, than claim of aovereUpity over the gulf engagement, the newspaper said, Dennis came ashore Sunday in south Little effect area, firat made in IVTS. a ^ the briefing extended to the thrmigh North Carolina’s desolate a space problem. Outer Banks today with gale-force Florida and then turned into the Tropical storm Dennis “It affected our planning more In London.fl)r a three-day official Natimial 8ot»^ty Council. In addi- Atlantic forJts northbound Journey. vialt, D e f c ^ Seeretary :,Caapar winds and blinding Kahii.and f probably won’t have much of an than it's going toAftocLoperations,” -.--«CMI8M6sniu8»wisre ineffeetfrom effect on local weather, accor Weinhejiifir told i SIRWIWB' Ih*^ awfliUr (0R ’'niM « fmiu normally/^ oirt to sea Meisner said. “It’s made things a Cape Lookout, N.C.) north to Chin- ding to Earl Gillette, a weather United Statea doea not have "any given the strain in U.S-Libyan-t wators threatened to strengthen it little tighter, but it’s not disasterous toto a hurricane. , t '■ ^>. cotMque Inlet, including the Outer specialist at the National at all.” more naval eierciaea planned in relations, it said. Banks and on Chesapeake Bay from . that area in the near futwe.’’ Newsweek magaxine had reported ^ Pushing rains as fv north as Weather Service at Bradley Meisner said the additional 50 Maryland, the storm dumped up to Windmill Point southward. Gale Field. students will not affect class size “We conaider the incident earlier this week that the ad- warnings were lowered south of cioaed,’’ Frank Carlncci, dewty minlBtration — seddng Its "first IS inches of rain in some areas of the Gillette said that if the storm because they are divided into two fInger-like stoetch of barrier Islands Cape Lookout. holds to its present course, It will full classes rather than added into defenae lecretary, aaid on ABC direct challenge’’ to Khadafy,— At 6 a.m. EDT the broad center of television thia morning. “The ordered the exercise over the Gulf off tte North Carolina /xMst, pop head out to sea south of us. He other classed. ulated with flsjdng vUlqges and the storm was located about 45 said there may be some heavy Hie real squeeze, be said, comes proteata have been filed. The exer- of Sidra, which Libya added to its miles west southwest of Cape ciae la over and the shipa are moving territorial waters eight^ears ago in small resort towns. surf on Cape Cod beaches and In trying to fit the 300 total ninth Hatteras, N.C. Dennis was moving there may even be some rain on out of the area.’’ a claim not recopized by other Some wind gusts reached 58 mph grade students into the caiimus Just off Cape Fear, N.C., but the toward the northeast at about 15 the Cape, but here in Connecticut buildings on the east side of Mjain The State Department issued a nations. mph and forecasters said it should -fresh call to the 2,500 Americans But in Los Angeles, White House brunt of the storm’s sustained 55 we shMld be unaffected, Street. mph winds stayed offshore. Some move northeastward off of the Outer "But with a hurricane, you To fit the extra classes in, four living In Libya to leave the country. counselor Edwin - Meese told Bulks later today. Bnt there was no immediate sigh the reporters the maneuvefs were not roads were under water and never know,” Gillette cautioned. rooms In the recreation building scattered power outages were Highest winds were 55 mph, main "It could always change dlr^' Americans, most oil company meant to test Khadafy, with whom ly in squalls, and forecasters said >es, would heed the advice, reported, but there were no im tion.” Please turn to page 8 situation there la calm and Please turn to page 8 mediate reports of injuries. Please lum lo page 8 Residents like Bolton the way It Is is being updated is because con Maxwell determined the old one was By Richard Cody town plan sometime next spring. persons wanted to be assured their names would not be recorded. He ditions predicted in 1971 for the 70’s comprehesive and provided a solid Herald Reporter I^ p er interviewed 60 residents door-todoor, 30 officials and a total said this particularly happened did not come true. base. BOLTUN — Residents here like of 20 business executives, farmers when questions came up on sensitive Administrator Alan H. Bergren Bergren said though there were tbeir town Just the way it is — "a and professionals. Tbey answered issues in this town, like building a cited, for example, the 1973 energy demographic discrepancies, the nice, friendly, rural, surburban questions on zoning and subdivision new fire complex, reorganizing the crisis and declining school enroll topography of the town remained community” — and they hope to regulations, the environment, school system, renovating the town ment as unforseeable changes that fairly constant. keep It that way, says Platming economic development including hall and evaluating town services. affect new town planning. Maxwell also recently finished the ’Technician Stuart B. Popper. farming, public facilities, residen In fact, he notes, many people ’The plan predicted a 43 percent capital Improvement plan which ’ Popper and Regional Planner tial development and other topics. refuse to answer these questions at population growth in town during outlines the projects town officials Wilfred Maxwell, have Just com- Response was "great. Only two all. the 70’s, but population actually have discussed over past years and pletad a random survey of residents, people refused to answer the Tlie entire project is being coor grew by only 7 percent to a census what their subsequent fiscal and officials, and professionals to assist questionaire,” he said. dinated through the town’s Planning bureau total of 3,951 in 1980. social impact might be on the com- the updating of the 1971 town plan.

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