rangement. iManfhrstrr Hrralft Manchester — A City o( Village Charm Saturday, Jan. 10,1987 30 Cents PREZ HAD SECRET MEMO UNKING ARM& HOSTAGES WASHINGTON (AP) — A memo­ randum prepared for President Reagan in January 1986 drew an unmistakable link between ship­ ments of U.S. arms to Iran and the release of American hostages in I^banon. It also asserted that arms transfers would stop unless all U.S. captives were freed after the first delivery. ¥*■ \ The memo, dated Jan. 17 and kept secret by the White House until Friday, said Israel suggested sel­ ling arms to moderate elements in Iran and it documented a feud among top Reagan administration officials about the wisdom of the proposal. The White House released the document in the wake of published and broadcast accounts of its details, based on a draft Senate Intelligence Committee staff report summing up that panel’s investiga­ tion of clandestine arms sales to Iran and diversions of sales pro­ ceeds to Nicaraguan rebels. Reagan, who insisted from the beginning of his presidency that he would not make concessions to terrorists, has repeatedly denied that he swapped arms for hostages. Instead, he has argued that the weapon shipments were part of a larger initiaUve to estabUsh con­ tacts with "moderate” elements within the fundamentalist govern­ ment led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. However, the memo makes clear that the delivery of U.S. arms was the foundation of renewed Ameri­ can ties to Tehran. “ In that we have been unable to exercise any suasion over Hizbal- lah (a radical faction) during the ' i r course of nearly two years of kidnappings, this approach through 4.1 the government of Iran may well be our only way to achieve the release JL. of the Americans held in Beirut," the memo said. AP photo CANINE CONFRONTATION - An unidentified Friday morning in Vienna, N.Y. Deputies were man swings a maiibox at a police dog held by an investigating a house fire in the area earlier that Please turn to page 3 Oneida County sheriffs deputy during a scuffle Winnipeg sinks the Whaiers MAGAZINE PULLOUT ffiCTION Turgeon's return doesn't help ... page 56 ' “ ----------------------------------------- -----------------______________________________ . 11600 IMIM CrMI E-Z TERMS: • CASH M U n1 i by Blue* BMttto Hundreds mourn teen sisters killed in Maryland train crash MYSTIC (A P) — Schoolmates of HiTD two teenage sisters killed in Sun­ day’s Amtrak wreck joined hundreds of others Friday to mourn the girls at a memorial service. "There are no guarantees that life will be sweetness and light,” PPPII said the Rev. Keith Greer, one of three ministers who conducted the ... -.1 .y.»- service at the Union Baptist f Church. Kirsten Marie Luce, 16, and Corinne Deborah Luce, 13, were among 15 people who died aboard an Amtrak train after it slammed FREDERICK HAUCK RICHARD COVEY JOHN LOUNGE GEORGE NELSON into three Conrail locomotives in DAVID HILMERS Chase, Md. The girls were on their way home to Westerly, R.I., from "Ma, core the apples next time, OK?" Washington. More than 400 people, including Five space veterans named to shuttle crew three busloads of the girls’ Wes­ Connecticut Weather terly High School classmates, were SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) — It was the first time a space shuttle associate administrator of NASA for shuttle and attempted to capture the crowded into the church for the Five astronauts who have flown some of crew was comprised entirely of astro­ external affairs since August. He is a ailing Solar Max satellite by hand. A memorial service. Among the the most ambitious shuttle missions nauts who had flown in space before. Navy captain who flew as pilot on a capture device failed, and the satellite ministers was the Rev. Alfred ever attempted were named Friday as Shuttle flights were h a lt^ after the Central, Eastern Interior, Southwest Interior: shuttle mission in 1983, and commanded was later snared using the shuttle’s Luce, the girls’ grandfather. the crew of the first U.S. space flight Jan. 28, 1986, explosion of Challenger Winter storm watch for Saturday night and eariy the satellite recovery the following robot arm. Luce turned to religion for solace, since the Challenger accident. that killed all seven crew members. The Sunday. Saturday, becoming cloudy. Snow jikely year. It was brought into the cargo bay and told the mourners that his Frederick H. Hauck, who led a 1984 flights are scheduled to resume in during the afternoon. High 30 to 35. Southeast wind 10 In November 1984, Hauck guided the where Nelson and another astronaut granddaughters were with Christ in shuttle mission which plucked two February 1988, but some experts believe mph. Chance of snow 70 percent. Saturday night, snow space shuttle to a rendezvous with the made repairs before the Solar Max was broken communications satellites from that first mission may be delayed until becoming heavy at times. Low in themid20s. Chance of heaven. Westar and Palapa communications placed back into orbit. Nelson also flew "They are more alive than they orbit and returned them to Earth, will later in the year. snow 90 percent. Sunday, a 60 percent chance of snow. satellites. The broken craft were on the last successful shuttle flight, in ever were on earth,” he said. command the crew, NASA administra­ “ The naming of the crew for the next captured and placed into the cargo bay January 1986. High 30 to 35. ^ ^ "Kirsten and Corinne are riot dead, tor James Fletcher said at a Washing­ flight is a major event in the process of West Coastal, East Coastal: Saturday, becoming of the shuttle for a return to Earth. Covey was the pilot on a 1985 mission liiey have only moved to a better ton, D.C., news conference monitored returning the shuttle to flight,” said cloudy. Mixed rain and snow likely during the The satellites had been launched by an during which two spacewalking astro­ here. Richard H. Truly, NASA’s associate afteriioon. High 35 to 40. Southeast wind 10 to 20 mph. hotrie.” earlier shuttle, hut failed to achieve the nauts repaired a large communications Luce recalled the time over The other members of the crew are administrator for space flight. “ I am Chance of precipitation 70 percent. Saturday night, proper orbit after rocket engine mal­ satellite called Syncom. Lounge was a Christmas when the girls told him Air Force Col. Richard O. Covey, 40, the particularly pleased to assemble a rain or mixed rain and snow. Low in the mid 30s. functions. The satellites were refur­ mission specialist on that flight. pilot; and mission specialists John M. group of such experienced individuals, Chance of precipitaUon 90 percent. Sunday, a 60 separately that they loved him. bished and have since been sold and Hilmers was a mission specialist for "That’s a meiriory I cannot Lounge, 40, and George D. Nelson, 36, led by one of our senior space flight percent chance of rain. High 35 to 40. scheduled for relaunch. an October 1985 shuttle flight that forget, I will not forget,” he said. and Marine Maj. David C. Hilmers, 36, veterans, and I am very proud of them.” In a 1984 spacewalk. Nelson flew conducted secret experiments for the the space agency said. He recalled a few stories from the Hauck, 45, has been acting as untethered on a jet backpack from the Department of Defense. girls’ lives, induding the time they “ conned Grandpa to brave the AP photo Lottery Winners elements (of a snowstorm) and go roller-skating.” David Luce, his wife, Jean, and her son, Andrew, ieave White House releases secret arms memo Many people, including some of Union Baptist Church in Mystic Friday after attending a Connecticut daily Friday: M2. Play Four: 7987. the girls’ classmates, cried during Continued from page 1 Connecticut Friday Lotto: 1,3, 15,19,22, 34. memoriai service for Luce’s daughters, Kirsten, 16, and justice Department’s foreign agent countries and determined that such the hour-long ceremony that was registration office, UNO said it paid filled with hymns, prayers and Corinne, 13. The two giris died in the coliision between deals could be made outside the In fact, all of the U.S. hostages in its office expenses over a six-month provisions of American laws and s^ p tu re lessons. two trains outside Baitimore, Md., Sunday. Lebanon were not released after period ending Nov. 14 with $91,608 reporting requirements for foreign Greer read a short message from the first arms delivery, and there provided through three deposits — former U.S. Supreme Court Chief military sales, if the president Index were at least four more transfers of May 9, Aug. 11 and Nov. 6 — “ from signed a “ finding” authorizing such Justice Warren Burger, who heads some of Kirsten’s thoughts, which friends’ deaths. arms after the Jan. 17 intelligence foreign source.” sales. the Commission on the Bicentoi- he said she had written on Aug. 6. Kirsten was in the 11th grade and “ finding” was signed by Reagan. The sworn UNO declaration, While Reagan did not sign an . IB Entortainmont. nial of the U.S. Constitution, for “ I feel liketellingthe whole world ’The administration has not ex­ Advioo. (>irinne in the eigth. Kirsten was an signed by its Washington represen­ arms-sale authorization until early .20 Local n o w s _ which the girls’ mother works. that I love them. I love everyone honors student, took piano lessons plained why it persisted in selling tative, Ernesto Palazio, last Mon­ in 1986, the first known shipment of .10-11 Obituaria “ We convey our profound S3im- arms to Tehran. Business — and 1 mean it,” he read.