CONNECTICUT U.S./WORLD Access to polls Death suspect Laker comeback under scrutiny eager to talk tops the Celtics ...pag«5 ... paga 7 ... page 9 mxdmtn ) Manchester -- A City o( Village Charm Monday, Feb. 16,1987 30 Cents State’s use of outside consultants raises doubts F Z ' Agencies use their accounts for By Brent Loymon outside expert," state Auditor Leo inflation. government.” The state police hired a consul­ outside professional services for a The Associated Press V. Donohue said last week. “ It comes with the changing of Donohue also said it’s too easy for tant four years ago to negotiate a times and the state’s inability to state officials to blame the consul­ lease contract for its cruisers. The wide range of purposes. Agencies use money set aside in The state welfare department HARTFORD — State govern­ their budgets for "outside profes­ attract people with the expertise we tant when something goes awry, as state Office of Policy and Manage­ need,” Caldwell said. they have in the case of the ment contracted a consultant for will spend about $20 million on ment’s spending on outside consul­ sional services” to pay for every­ consultants this year for several thing from special prosecutors, Donohue, however, fears that long-delayed University of Connec­ $46,000 in 1982 to help develop a new tants has soared from $44 miilion massive computer projects to auto­ three years ago to nearly $71 prison chaplains and doctors to farming projects out to consultants ticut sports center, which has been method of state budgeting. E mate and expand its operation, said computer experts and contract sometimes amounts to an abdica­ plagued by cost miscalculations. “ Hey, we’ re paying some of our iiilllion this year, budget figures department spokeswoman show. tion of responsibility by state Donohue said he’s convinced commissioners $80,000 a year,” negotiators. Claudette Beaulieu. Officials defend their use of officials. Connecticut doesn’t have the kind Donohue said. “ If they can’t Critics say the 62 percent in­ The $60,000 in the consultants’ consultants as an economical way “ I find it disturbing that the more of situation recently publicized in negotiate a lease ... there’s some­ crease indicates an over-eagerness budget of the attorney general went to handle short-term projects or complicated and probably more Massachusetts, where state agen­ thing wrong.” among state agencies to hire mostly for expert witnesses in consultants for any Job that falls ones that fall outside the expertise important things are being dele­ cies allegedly used consultants to Of OPM’s budget consultant, Donohue said, “ I seriously doubt utility rate cases before the state outside their normal purview. of their staff. gated to people who probably don’t avoid hiring full-time employees. they could bring in any expert from Department of Public Utility “ It appears we have fallen into ‘ T m really not surprised by it nor have the experience we think they But too many agencies in Connec­ anywhere in the country who knew Control. the m in ^ t in state bureaucracy that much concerned about it,” said have,” Donohue said. “ It's Just a ticut use consultants for Jobs that more about Connecticut’s budget The $7,000 in the state Elections th a t... when anything with a little state Comptroller J. Edward Cald­ policy decision whether we want to should be done by their own system than employees they al­ different wrinkle comes along, we well, who attributed the increase in entrust the development of major professional staff members, Do­ Please turn to page 8 immediately start looking for an consulting costs at least partly to state policy to persons outside state nohue said, citing two examples. ready had on staff.” Soviets claim .''I’’"''’' new policy on )5 human rights By John-Thor Dohlburo The Associated Press MOSCOW — Soviet leader Mik­ hail S. Gorbachev told a interna­ tional peace forum today that the Kremlin has adopted a new ap­ proach to human rights, but he said it was not doing so to please the V ... Iff West. In a wide-ranging speech in the Grand Kremlin Palace, Gorbachev repeated his government’s opposi­ tion to the U.S. “ Star Wars” space defense program and charged the White House was trampling the agreement he and President Rea­ 6 gan reached at their 1985 summit in L Geneva to spur arms control talks. There had been speculation Gor­ bachev might use the occasion to make new arms control proposals. But the speech contained no new plans, stressing instead proposals \ 4 Maybe the lake was chilly Gorbachev made at November’s summit in Reykjavik and in a MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Visitors to Middle Bolton Lake in Vernon have taken proached them, they charged at him as If to protect January 1985 speech outlining a . pressure didn’t help their territorial rights. blueprint for disarmament by the over a section of lakefront "near Hatch Hill Road. year 2000. When Herald photographer Reginald Pinto ap­ Gorbachev spoke to about 1,000 chev’s remarks on human rights, people from 80 countries who took leaned forward and applauded. part in a weekend forum of Last week, the ^ v ie t Union scientists, cultural figures, reli­ announced the release of 140 gious leaders and businessmen. imprisoned dissidents and a go­ It’s cold, but it’s not a record Andrei Sakharov, the nation’s vernment spokesman said another most famous dissident, was in the 140 cases were being reviewed. But Soviet security agents last week ported business as brisk as the “ Sunday was supposed to be a audience. In an address Sunday to a By Andrew Yurkovsky Manchester was kept busy helping used force to break up a series of weather. day off — and we had six people group of scientists at the forum, he Herald Reporter out motorists with stailed cars this demonstrations on behalf of a Jailed morning. Bob Acelin, garage man- Lynn Vedovato, a clerk at Impe­ working,” he said. suggested the Kremlin consider Jewish activist, Josef Begun. rial Plumbing and Oil Co. in South But Bob Regius, owner of Man­ negotiating Star Wars, formally Bitterly cold temperatures over , ager, said his crew of three men A high Soviet official said Sunday Windsor, said the phone was chester Oil Heat Inc., said the cold called the Strategic Defense Initia­ the weekend and today were an was behind about two hours ans­ that Begun had been released, but wering no-starts. ringing off the hook this morning. had not affected business at all. tive, separately from other arms inconvenience to many Connecticut authorities told his family today When temperatures drop, custo­ “ This is not bad,” he said. control issues. residents unable to start their cars, Saturday, the garage had three that he still was in prison. mers become concern^ about Though an inconvenience for Sakharov also said “ an open and but officials said the cold spell set wreckers on the road, helping the Turning to arms control, Gorba­ running low on oil, she said. most, cold weather is a serious democratic” Soviet Union would be no records and was not unusual for American Automoble Association chev said, “ One strategic subma­ Ed Havens, Imperial’s owner, problem for the homeless. Man­ an Important step toward interna­ this time of year. garage in East Hartford when it fell rine today carries a destructive said the company wopid have 10 to chester’s Samaritan Shelter served tional trust and disarmament. Temperatures are expected to behind. Two wreckers worked the punch equivalent to several Second roads on Sunday. 12 employees performing service 29 people Sunday night and about Gorbachev did not discuss human rise gradually during the week, World Wars. ... The imagination is work today. Normally the service the same number Friday and rights in detail, but said; “ Our reaching the 30s Tuesday, with Mike Klein, a spokesman at powerless to envision the hell, the crew, which handles plumbing and Saturday, director Connie Grant- humanitarian problems ... is there continued sunshine and clear skies, AAA-Hartford, said about 2,000 negation of the idea of man if any calis in eastern Connecticut were furnace repair, numbers four or Scott said. She described traffic at for all to see. And I must disappoint a spokesman at the National part, however small, of the present answered Saturday and Sunday, flve, he said. the shelter as heavy, but said the those who think that this has been Weather Service at Bradley Inter­ nuclear arsenal is used.” Ed Boland of Boland Bros. Inc. shelter has had busier days this the result of pressure on us from the national Airport said today. Satur­ the usual number for this kind of Goriaachev said Soviet arms weather, he said. Early this morn­ said this morning that five workers year. West, that we want to gain day temperatures reached a high of control proposals “ mirrored the ing, the auto club received 250calls. were busy Sunday delivering oil, Because of the cold, the shelter somebody’s fancy in pursuit of 21 degrees and a low of minus 1, U.S.S.R.’s wish and preparedness About 00 percent of them were servicing furnaces and repairing stayed open until about 9:30 this some ulterior motives. No, we do while Sunday the low was to minus 4 to give up its status of a nuclear frozen pipes. He expects today to be morning and probably would open not.” 9 no-starts, Klein said. and the high was 14. Sakharov, listening to Gorba- power. Anderson Bros, service station in Local heating-oil dealers re­ Just as busy. early in the afternoon, she said.