*'< ■- -..r'-•■'■•'i'; , -■*■ -44 'k Getting off 2 ^ re tiin ^ Hostage viifeo r : . ‘Enforcement is lax Offense, goes on vacation Aga|n^<^ U.S. M arine lists,,-. on parklngilaws /4 V '■ as islanders sweep HeiHford /ll^^ captor demands /5 ff', ■ »a-' :j -<•»> , iliiar;....... —uikta—JK- - HanrhpBtrr MpralJi Monday, Feb. 22,1988 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm 30 Cents Officials debate new town hall or addition By Alex GIrelll Center. elsewhere. At the outset of the meeting, building with 144 employees. troyed under state law. Manchester Herald It was decided to have Richard Although no firm decisision Mark Pellegrini, director of plan­ The space difference is ac­ Among the possible sites menti­ Lawrence, a Manchester archi­ was made, a consensus developed ning and economic development, counted for by halls, bathrooms oned this morning for a new When Manchester voters go to tect who has done some prelimi­ against what the participants reported that a survey conducted and other common areas. building were these; the Gorman the polls in November to help pick nary work on planning an addb labeled a "Band-Aid” solution. by his department indicates that Pellegrini’s report was based block on Main Street, a parcel in a president, they also may be tion to the Municipal Building, That step, adding enough to the about 43,400 square feet of office on a survey of department and Center Springs Park northwest of asked to vote on a proposal to compare the cost and feasibility Municipal Building to meet im­ space will be needed in about five division heads who were asked to the Municipal Building, the build a new town hatl<or build an of adding to the present town mediate needs, has been esti­ years when there are expected to estimate what office office facili­ Mount Nebo area, and Charter addition to the preseiitjone. buildings and building a town hall mated to cost about $2 million. about 191 employees in the offices ties they expected to need in five Oak Park. That possibility grew out of a on some other site. Town Manager Robert Weiss involved. To get that amount of years or so .' The central post office at East meeting today at which a sub­ At the hourlong discussion in roughly estimimated the cost of space inside offices, the town No firm population figure was Center and Main streets was committee of the Board of Direc­ the office of Town Manager more extensive additions at $10 would need a building with about used as a basis for the estimates. mentioned, but most of those at tors and town administrastive Robert Weiss, the town officials million and the cost of a new 80,000 square feet. He said major problems were the meeting felt it would not be officials discussed a.variety of talked about measures that building on a site the town would Lincoln Center and the Munici­ lack of office space, lack of suitable for office use, partly ways to ease crowded conditions ranged all the way from minor have to buy at $15 million, but he pal Building combined now have conference space, and lack of because there is too little parking in town offices at the Municipal additions to the Municipal Build­ labeled those figures as guesses about 23,000 square feet of office space to store documents that are Building and at nearby Lincoln ing to building a town hall with no research behind them. space in 43,200 square feet of needed or that cannot be des­ Please turn to page 10 No arrests Negotiators given planned in deadiine on treaty L’Ambiance By Mark J. Porubcansky on Sunday, met until 1:30 a.m. The Associated Press today with Foreign Minister By Linda Stowell Eduard A. Shevardnadze, then The Associated Press MOSCOW — The United States held talks with Premier Nikolai I. and Soviet Union today gave their Ryzhkov before meeting WALLINGFORD — State pro­ arms control negotiators one Gorbachev. secutors said today that they month to complete the key In response to questions from won’t seek criminal charges provisions of a new treaty to reporters during a picture-taking against contractors of the L ’Am­ sharply reduce their strategic session, Gorbachev said the So­ biance Plaza apartment building, nuclear weapons. viets would “ do our best to which collapsed in Bridgeport The decision was taken as U.S. achieve peace in Afghanistan and last year, killing 28 workers. Secretary of State George P. to have a non-aligned, neutral Shultz wound up two days of talks Afghanistan which would have Chief State's Attorney John_ in Moscow. He said negotiators in good relations with its neighors, Kelly and Bridgeport State’r* Geneva who have failed to make with the United States and with Attorney Donald Browne said the significant progress toward a SO the Soviet Union.” cause of the collapse, as deter­ percent cut in long-range nuclear An estimated 115,000 Soviet mined by federal investigators 'A weapons were directed to report troops have been in the country and state police, "did not involve to him and Soviet Foreign Minis­ since December 1979, backing a intentional criminal conduct on ter Eduard A. Shevardnadze in pro-Moscow government at war the part of any contractor in­ Washington March 22-23. with U.S.-armed Moslem volved in the construction.’’ Shultz also told a news confer­ guerrillas. "While investigators have dis­ ence the Soviets indicated they Gorbachev has promised to closed the most probable cause of would be more flexible in han­ begin a withdrawal on May 15 if the building collapse, we do not dling emigration applications, the Kabul government and Pakis­ believe that they have demon­ except for those from people who tan can agree on terms of a strated either a gross deviation have had access to state secrets. settlement by March 15. from a reasonable person’s Shevardnadze confirmed On nuclear arms, Gorbachev 7- ’ ■■ standard of conduct or that the "categorically” that only those said “ there is still a chance” of an prosecution could demonstrate with information the government agreement to reduce U.S. and responsibility for criminally neg­ considers important to national Soviet long-range nuclear wea­ ligent homicide beyond a reaso­ Divid Kool/Minchntar Henid security would be barred from pons by the spring. The idea nable doubt,” the prosecutors emigrating, according to Shultz. would be to have the pact ready said in a statement. MASSAGE TRAINING — Regina Barnes massage class Saturday. Tina Jan­ Earlier today, as he opened for him and President Reagan to “ Our decision certainly does (left) and her 11-month-old son, Kyle kowski (center) and her 11-month-old talks with Shultz, Soviet leader sign at a Moscow summit not minimize the tragic results of Bullis, listen to instructions during daughter, Ashley, listen, as does Mikhail S. Gorbachev pledged to meeting. But, above all, Gorbachev said this shocking incident,” Browne Manchester Memorial Hospital’s infant Carmine Filloramo (right). achieve peace in Afghanistan and and Kelly said. "It merely to try to reach a new nuclear he hoped to have "a good talk” indicates that our scrupulous arms agreement by spring. with Shultz on a variety of topics. investigation of the cause of the "W e will just have a good, frank Shultz met for more than eight incident does not disclose Light massage conversation,” Gorbachev said. hours on Sunday with Shevard­ Shultz and Gorbachev smiled nadze, and called their three The lift-slab method was used broadly as they shook hands and sessions on arms control, human during construction of L ’Am­ sat down with their aides in rights and regional conflicts biance Plaza. In that method, provides bond, opulent Catherine’s Hall in the "very worthwhile.” huge concrete floor slabs are Kremlin. poured and allowed tp harden in a Shultz, who arrived in Moscow Please turn to page 10 stack on the ground before they keeps tot quiet are jacked into place on steel columns. Bv Andrew J. Davis Federal authorities who inves­ Manchester Herald tigated the collapse on April 23, Officials uncertain 1987 concluded that it was trig­ Mary Pranckus, physical therapist assistant gered when a small bracket that at Manchester Memorial Hospital, gently was part of the lifting system bent massaged the Cabbage Patch doll on the floor about lawsuit impact under heavy pressure. before her. With her fingertips, she massaged The National Bureau of Stand­ the doll’s head in small circular motions. Directors Tuesday, and claims ards concluded that builders By Nancy Concetman the agreement constitutes an failed to conduct stress-analysis “ It helps the nervous system," Pranckus said. Manchester Herald “ improper use of public funds.” tests to find out if the lifting “ Another thing it does is promote their Town officials said today they The suit says the town has brackets, steel pieces measuring well-being.” didn’t knqW if a suit filed Friday “ unlawfully utilized public funds about 4 by 12 inches, could hold up Pranckus’ words rang out in the hospital in Hartford Superior Court by for private benefit ...” and has the concrete slabs. conference room Saturday during the first opponents of the tax-break fi­ violated the state Constitution by The Labor Department as­ "Dads and Infant Massage” class. Though the nancing plan for the proposed sessed a record |5.1 million in injuring the plaintiffs’ property class was designed for men, only one man turned Mall at Buckland Hills would fines against five companies for out for first class, along with two women. delay the start of the mall project. Please turn to page 10 violations at the apartment Pranckus said the class was originally started Mayor Peter P.