MCC a Victim in State Budget Tussle a by S C O TT B
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28—MANCHESTER HERALD, Thursday, March 28, 1991 FRIDAY > ..* /r LOCAL NEWS INSIDE ■ Commission wants treasurer eiected. ■ Library budget aiso due budget cuts. What's ■ Ethics panel part of charter change. m m m ■ Hebron development plan studied. News Local/Regional Section, Page 7. March 29,1991 Manchester's Award-Winning Newspaper ^ ^ ^ -* f'-r* MCC a victim in state budget tussle A By S C O TT B. BREDE budget cuts that may severely limit their services, said “There is irony in the situation — in tough economic times, Jonathan M. Daube, the president of Manchester Community APARTMENT COM PARTMENTS — Mail is served in style to residents of an apartment com Manchester Herald there is a greater need for community colleges, Daube said. College. During past recessions, increases in enrollments at MCC have plex on Jones Street in Hebron. MANCHESTER — As the job market tightens, layers in Under Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr.’s proposed state budget, reach^ nearly 15 percent, he explained. crease and more students find the cost of four-year universities state funds coming to MCC next year will be nearly $800,000 And unless a satisfactory resolution in the negodations be out of their price range, more people are expected to turn to lower than current appropriations, Daube said. tween Weicker and state workers is reached, “there would be a community colleges. At this level of state aid reduction, the college would be far greater impact” on the college, according to Daubed. forced to close between IS to 20 percent of its class sections, Weicker’s budget assumes that $400 million can be saved But instead of receiving more aid from the state to handle said Daube. As a result, fewer students would be admitted in GOOD FRIDAY Harald photo the extra burden, community colleges are grappling with the fall he added. FLORAL TOUCH — In warm weather, flowers surround Please see MCC, page 6. Marie Munson’s otherwise ordinary mailbox at 99 Butternut Road, Manchester. Gorbachev faces PASSOVER authority loss o By BRYAN BRUMLEY Despite the show of popular sup 03 The Associated Press port, Yeltsin failed today to win m enough votes in the Russian Parlia CD MOSCOW — Tens of thousands ment to amend the rqpublic’s con of demonstrators supporting stitution to allow direct elections, reformer Boris ybltsin surged peace rather than parliamentary balloting, fully against police lines deployed for the Russian president. Such a by Soviet President Mikhail Gor change could have challenged Gor O H bachev, further eroding the authority bachev’s legitimacy, who as Soviet of the central government. president was elect^ only by the The non-violent show of people federal Parliament. > m power in Moscow on Thursday Yeltsin’s hard-line Conununist New home seemed certain to strengthen the opponents in the Russian I^liament sales soar also managed to win time on the O ro movement among the 15 Soviet ^WASHINGTON (AP) — agenda to deliver a rebuttal to a z -< republics to take greater control over Sales of new homes recorded their own economies and introduce speech Yeltsin was to deliver outlin ing reforms. their biggest gain in almost five democratic and market reforms. years last month, a 16.2 percent Gorbachev, who emerged six “Yeltsin, da! Gorbachev, nyet!" increase that analysts said years ago as a reformer, has tried to 0 m chanted tens of thousands of backers provided f r ^ e r evidence that of Yeltsin, chairman of the Russian slow reform in the past six months, the housing Industry’s long 1 Federation’s parliament. They backing away from a market slump is coming to an end. defied Gorbachev’s three-week ban economic plan last fall, cracking O O Horald photo The Commerce Dq>artment DUCKED O U T — Waddling geese stand out on this mailbox on demonstrations in Moscow and down against the separatist Baltic said today that the February LOOK OUTS — Peanuts characters Snoopy and Woodstock demanded his resignation and that of republics in January, and trying to o along Prentice Hill Road in Hebron. gain, the first increase since o ^ keep watch for the mailman on top of this box owned by Fred the national parliament he controls. muzzle elected legislatures and the November, was led by a record 2 CD FRIENDS O F FEATHERS — Birds on a branch decorate this Barcomb, 1030 Boston Tpke., Bolton, Th* Asaoclatad Prass “We are a peaceful people, but we press since then. 70.3 percent surge in sales in the m CD FREE SPEECH— An unidentified delegate shouts his opinion during debate at the federation want freedom,” said teacher Ser After the demonstration mailbox, located somewhere in the Manchester area. Midwest O congress held at the Grand Kremlin Palace Friday. Much of the debate centered on President geyeva Vasilyeva, 37, who marched Thursday, Gorbachev seemed more Analysts said some of the arm-in-arm with her mother, Gorbachev’s deployment of the military around Moscow. strength was undoubtedly re Natalya Bogoslavska, 58. Please see SOVIET, page 6. lated to the fact that the country S I enjoyed unusually mild weather in February and home buyers were thus encouraged to look. Mosbacher: U.S. market closing unlikely But economists said mortgage rates, which dropped as low as 9.25 percent for fixed-rate loans By GENE KRAMER direction but they require lots of nudging.” “This answers some Japanese complaints that U.S. c«n- Mosbacher said he will accompany heads of 14 American last month, also helped to lure The Associated Press panies are not interested in the long haul, not willing to hang buyers. firms to Tokyo next week in a new U.S. effort to open in there to push their wares,” Mosbacher said. CD WASHINGTON — Commerce Secretary Robert Mos- Japanese markets. Twenty U.S. firms, with annual sales of $30 million and up, bachcr said Thursday he would accept the idea of closing U.S. He said the trip, his fourth to Japan, will challenge a com were selected to participate in the program. Chief executives Lower phone markets to Japanese goods only as a last resort if all else failed mon Japanese explanation for U.S. exporters’ troubles in of six could not meet Mosbacher’s travel schedule but are rates sought to persuade Japan to buy more from the United States. cracking their market — that Americans demand instant profit! making all other cotrunitments of the program. HARTFORD (AP) — The Shutting out Japanese goods, advocated by some in Gm- and don’t persevere enough to create a presence in J^ran and Mosbacher said he has “great sympathy” for the problems state Office of Consumer Coun gress, is “a bad way to go, frankly. It’s almost a last step you cultivate customers. of the U.S. automobile industry and the appeal of Chrysler sel on Thursday asked utility want to take if all else fails,” he told reporters. The executives companying him were chosen from nearly Coip. Lee lacocca earlier this month to President Bush for aid 130 small, medium and large American companies willing to against Japanese competition. The White House has indicated regulators to reduce telephone “If we can get them (Japanese) to open iq), as they have in make a five-year year conunitment to selling to Jtqran. The it plans no special action to meet lacocca’s request. reconnection fees for residents some cases, we hope we can keep the free t r ^ system open commiunent includes four annual visits, including at least two lacocca told Bush a rise in Japanese vehicle sales from their of longterm health care facilities around the world, instead of closing it,” he added. “Japan his by chief executive officers, participation in trade promotimi current 31 percent share of the U.S. market — a large fraction such as nursing homes. torically has been an exporting superpower and an importing events, translation of product literature into Jtqianese and “The OCC is concerned that ‘also-ran’... we see them moving little by little in the right modifying products to compete in Japan. Please see JAPAN, page 6. the price for this very important service for this particular group of customers may not represent the cost of providing tlds ser Atwater Co-op vice," said Acting Consumer Faithful accept crucifixion Counsel Eugene Koss. succumbs CUTUD, Philippines (AP) — A Residents fined 24-year-old fish vendor wept and seeks stared at the heavens today as he for tax gaffes OFFICIAL LOOKING — This box at 149 Haystack Road, BULLDOZER — This mailbox on Prentice Hill Road, Hebron, may roar to life one of these and other devotees were nailed to HARTFORD (AP) — About 1 Manchester, can only be for one thing. days. to tumor wooden crosses in one of several waiver 26,000 state residents have been rituals in the Philippines marking notified they’ll be fined $50 for By DONALD M. ROTHBERQ the crucifixion of Jesus. By RICK SANTOS underpayment or late payment The Associated Press At least a dozen people, includ Manchester Herald of taxes for 1989. ing two men serving life terms for Donna Soule, a spokeswoman murder, were rutiled to crosses in WASHINGTON — Lee Atwater, MANCHESTER — A not-for- for the Department of Revenue the tough and tumble political tac three areas of Manila and central profit housing cooperative, which is Services, said Thursday that a tician who managed President Luzon island. building 16 housing units on Su lot of people are angry about the Half of them were “crucified” in Bush’s 1988 campaign and went on James Street, is asking the town to penalty, which was enacted last a rice field in this community 30 year.