BUSINESS Blast Rips Shiite Center in Lebahon
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/ 20 - MANCHESTER HERALD. Saturday, March 2, 1985 U.S./WORLD CONNECTICUT SPORTS WEATHER BUSIN ESS Blacks remember Century Brass head Manchester icemen Rain, wind tonight; march in Alabama wants plant closed ousted from tourney more rain in sight Consumers, business benefit Business ... page 4 ... page 7 .... page 11 ... page 2 Coalition finds new uses of arbitration In Brief arbitration plans for General Motors under a Federal Extraordinary coalitions of business and consumer Trade Commission consent order and other programs representatives are now emerging in New York state to promote the use of arbitration in settling with individual companies. consumer-business disputes — and thereby to help Your New- York'* arbitration law is unique so far — but it eliminate the evils that are both undermining the could be copied the nation over, along with other Money's measure.--- to protect consumers as well as businesses. value of arbitration and hurting legitimate industry. ■ m . These are Exceedingly important developments For instance: Worth • Supervision of "default " judgments for collection that can lead the entire nation to new uses of MumhtBtn Mrralh arbitration and new respect for it as a tool to protect Sylvia Porter of debts entered when you don't answer a summons ... _ * Monday, March 4, 1985 — Single copy: 25<t The New York courts can now- throw out these Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm business and consumers. As just one illustration, legislation has been passed judgments by- default en masse if they- find lack of in New York that assures you, a consumer, of the proper notice, fraud or other malpractices. In the option to accept or not to accept merchants' offers of office at a convenient time for a business person. most spectacular case, about 4.500 judgments arbitration when a dispute arises. You are no longer But for you, an individual consumer? The obtained by- a burglar alarm company were tossed out precommitted by the fine print in a sales contract to arbitration couldn't be more inconvenient — with one stroke of the pen. go to court to settle a dispute. necessitating time off from work or hiring a baby • A ban on suits against emsumers in counties other than where they live or where the transaction Blast rips This law was passed to stamp out a long-standing sitter. This, of course, is the purpose evil. Previously, a hidden clause in an agreement for, Or you might have to pay a fee of as much as $100 for took place. ' y say, the installation of aluminum siding or even a submitting your claim, and the arbitrator might well' • A requirement that a copy- of any summons sales slip for the cleaning of a rug might say that any be an "expert" from the very industry involved. This against you to collect a consumer debt be mailed to ■ dispute must be submitted to arbitration at the home is often helpful in disputes between two members of you, in case the process server never delivers your county of the seller (which could be across the nation the same industry. But it isn't necessarily fair in a copy to you and a "default" is entered against you for Shiite center from you). dispute between an industry member and you. the not answering. The clause would then bind you to rules you had consumer. • .A major step-up in enforcement of Small Claims STERGIOS "STEVE" KARAMESINIS never seen and of which you weren't even given a Being pushed into arbitration under circumstances Court judgments obtained by consumers — so . with Gerri and Nikki copy. This could be fine for members of ah industry such as these has obviously irritated consumers companies are hesitant to defy consumers who understand how these matters are "conducted." involved in the procedure and has understandably hit • A restriction on how- much a correspondence But with a contract shoved in front of you when you deeply into the value of arbitration itself. school can keep if you drop out of the course. The Nikki’s joins chamber in Lebahon school can no longer demand that you pay- 50 percent buy something, the oddk that you'll read the fine print Under the New York law, merchants are not barred Nikki's Rc.staurant, 254 Broad St , has joined from offering arbitration once a dispute has arisen. of a course's price after taking a few lessons! are minimal and it's likely you'll end up on the outside the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce. Bv David Zenlan Maarakeh during the weekend in And the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New Consumers can demand and get fair treatment in looking in. The family restaurant, in busine.ss since late United Press International search of guerrillas. New- York. Now- let's go national! Or the rules might ask for arbitration at a lawyer's York, in tact, administers many truly voluntary- last year, is owned by Stergios "S teve” The Moslem Voice of the Nation, one of Beirut's several private Karamesinis. BEIRUT, Lebanon — An explo radio stations, reported “ a mas Karamesinis has been in the restaurant sion ripped through a Shiite business fd r ^ years. From 1969 to 1975, he and his Mo.slcm religious eenter in south sive explosion at the Husseiniyeh Forecasters Americans of Maarakeh where the local BUSINESS TAXES family ran tlic Egg 'n' You restaurant on Main ern l.ebanon and hiortar shells Street. He owned CJ's Giant'Grinders and Pizza, crashed into Beirut airport today villagers had gathered for a ceremony. There are casualties Broad Street, for six years before he sold it to as the Cabinet met in emergency see doubling and .sections of the mosque has Rates vary widely by industry buy houses open Nikki's, Karamesinis is a graduate of the session to discuss the Israeli collapsed.” University of Hartford with a master's degree in withdrawal. Another private radio station, at Seabrook EFFECTIVE FEDERAL TAX RATE (1983) business administration. The number of people killed in (taxes paid on pretax profits) in Britain He lives in Glastonbury with his wife. Gerri, the explosion varied widely, from the Christian Voice of Lebanon, said reports it received from civil and daughter, Nikki, both of whom help with the four to 200. mr- CONCORD, N.H, (UPI) - Electric Government sources said the defense units in southern Lebanon LONDON (UPI) — The surge of the new business. rates charged by the principal owner of Cabinet, summoned the ambassa "say that the Israelis blew up the "Bk ” - I n ! 1 ' V -fiTATTfiliV dollar has created a boom in the British the Seabrook nuclear plant would dors of the five permanent Husseiniyeh of Maarakeh on the housing market as Americans rush to Emhart plans partnership double in two years based on a $5.5 members of the U.N. Security heads of tho.se inside." invest their capital in the best of billion final cost for the project, FARMINGTON — An international research Council for a meeting later today The broadcast said President according to a forecast released Britain's town and country homes. partnership has been formed to develop glass for at the Baabda Presidential Palace Wealthy Americans, instead of buy Amin Gemayel ordered civil de Friday. containers ten times stronger and half the weight to discuss the situation in southern fense and ambulance crews in ing their second or third home in the of glass presently used, Emhart Corporation has Lebanon. The forecast is based on assumptions nearby towns and villages to rush United States, increasingly are sinking announced. "The decision to summon the provided by Seabrook opponents, who to Maarakeh. their money into centrally located A mutlinational consortium of seven glass ambassadors of the United States, project the first reactor will cost $5.5 News of the explosion reached London townhouses or the grand container companies have formed International the Soviet Union. Britain, France, billion, begin operation in October 1987 Beirut as the Cabinet was meeting ■f J estates of the English countryside, Partners in Glass Research (IPGR), the first and China was taken after the and have a 55 percent capacity. The in an emergency session to discuss London real estate agents say. worldwide technology cooperative of its kind, palace received reports of the assumptions were fed into computer south' I.«banon and the latest "Ovej-thelast 18 months, the number south Lebanon village blast,” a runs by Public Service Co. of New Emhart officials said. shelling of Beirut airport. of Americans inquiring about buying The partnership includes leading glass manu government source said. Hampshire, the lead Seabrook owner. m m c •m mIS ^ • 9 9 o c m o u C e homes in London has risen by about 65 facturers such as ACI International Ltd., State-owned Beirut radio said, No casualties were reported per cent,” according to Nigel Conradi, The forecast shows the cost per o o e « <•« Australia: Consumer Glass Co., Ltd., Canada; "T,he Israelis blew up the (Mos from the shelling of the airport, u hm« a •1 *ig •I I i a residential expert at the Chest e r t o n kilowatt-hour rising from 8.7 cents in 3 £ 3 u • • Rockaware Glass, United Kingdom: Yamamura lem) center ... More than 200 which was forced to close briefly. Herald photo by Pinto w • ’C 3 o O • s estate agency. "Demand rose espe 1986 to 18.2 cents in 1988 and hitting 21.4 > •1 •o c Glass, Japan and the Glass Machinery Group of people were killed or wounded and Police said they did not know who IS II c • • cially around the start of '85 after the cents by 1991.