Iraq Says It Captures Major Port

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Sot M lor ptint tnO ttrvlot wtito you pitn your twit oroltci. statement 0 M.WdllKSTKR — Park and ^7 Johnson PAINTCO Recreation Commission members it captures y^jbave been questioning a statement i.eoiui PAW yOu" .'•rOMMNJMD inoepenocnt Recreation Department Director ^udTY MmnMutT •41-4B01 Mel Siebold made at the Sept. 18 meeting of the group. PD At the time, Commissioner John DiDonato asked Siebold about the major port 763. payment an out-of-town group made / « S f O MAINS! to use the local YMCA, which the BAGHDAD, Iraq (UPI) - Iraqi "simply intended to restore the town leases. said its forces virtually captured the 6 4 3 - 1 1 9 1 morale of a misled army, an army Siebold had said the group. Valley key Iranian port of Khurramshahr 191 which had been told that within 24 Student Tours of Glendale, Calif., today in a major victory of the 15- hours Iran would be finished.” MAIN ST stays at the Y two nights in the day-old Persian Gulf war. Iran in designs, me MANCHESTER Bani-Sadr said that although Iraqi summer. Each time about 80 youths sisted its forces were holding out. President Saddam Husein claimed 341IROAD STHKtT. MANCHESTER. CONN. 00040 6 4 3 - 1 9 Q 0 sleep on the floor of the building. Baghdad radio broadcast a claim the largest army in the Middle East I Manchtster Professional Park, Suite A-1 Betty GallAgher^Prop^__ Siebold said the tour group paid of the city’s capture, saying, “The the army had no morale. He said the 6 about $1 per person to the town's heroes of the battle are loftily stan O f Iranian army had gained morale WE SERVICE AND INSTAU INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL Servicemaster general fund for each of the six years ding in Al-Muhammarah and its was strong and would triumph. AIR CONDITIONING - REFRIGERATION Manchester-Rockville SPEC IAL8 it has come to town. port.” Ai-Muhammarah is the Arabic Iran contested Iraq’s version of Later, in a confidential memoran name for Khurramshahr. events qll along the line. HEATING and ^ EET METAL 040-3433 2 Bays Left dum to General Manager Robert Iraqi commandos and armored In an unusually detailed review u. /diiLL FOR NQ^OBLIQATION ESTIMATE) Weiss, Siebold said he checked the troops completed the capture of all the fighting fronts, an Iranian records and found thht the tour group Khurramshahr's port area along the military communique said, “Iraqi New England Mechanical Services, Inc. 'Continental Cuisine had only paid during the 1980 summer Shatt-al-Arab waterway Sunday. armored forces have been driven Restaurant, Catarars visit. He said the money went to the They had the city center surround^ back from around Khurramshahr." 16S TUNNEL AO. J general fund for that year only, and and seemed content to starve out the Stop down Sept 30 A Oct 1 Reading from the northern front to VERNON. CT. O9O60 THINGS WE CAN DO FOR YOU that in earlier years, the group had few Iranian defenders left. the south, Iran said it had "strongly 871-1111 1099 Main 8 t, Msnchwter 949-4979 used the Y’s facilities for free. No sounds of fighting within the resisted concentrated Iraqi attacks" Siebold said today, “What I should city center could be heard from the near Qasr-i-Shirin, had "halted ” an Sen'injf. Mancheller over 30 yri. • Wash windows and glass doors • Diaaatar raatoratlon fira A watar have said at the meeting, and didn’t, port area. Iraqi artillery on the out “ Iraqi advance at Merhan” and p .p AUTO damagad matarlala claanad was that this was the first year the skirts of Khurramshahr fired over “crushed" an Iraqi column near group had paid." the city, not into it, to pound Abadan. Susangerd and Ahvaz. PARTS • Cloan walls and callings • Claan and aanitlxa bath tuba and pendand The The owner of the tour group. Bill "AUTO PARTS FOR LESS’ tllaa, ainka, taucata, dralna Florist Shells set the biggest fires in Abadan It said Iranian aircraft “art 24 BIRCH ST. Brown, contacted in California today seen since the fighting broke out on carrying out non-stop bombing of HOURS confirmed Siebold's memo to Weiss. Sept. 22. • Vacuum and polish furniture • Claan upholstarad furnitura TEL. 943-9247 - — — military targets ... as well as oil anc S TO S MON.-FRI. Brown said the group never paid a Despite scattered resistance military-industrial installations” in 643-4444 a TO 5 SAT. A SUN. • Vacuum grilla ot heating and air .P.T.D. fee until the 1980 year. He said many within the city, Baghdad claimed side Iraq. • Cloan and aollproof earpating places had been free for a number of Khurramshahr “has become an ad 307 E. CENTER 8T. (REAR) conditioning outlata MSTR CHS WORLD W IM UPI Correspondent Joseph A. AMIR fXPRtSF years around the country, but that vance stronghold for our valiant Reaves report^ from the key Ira MANCHESTER • Claan and ra-wax hardwood floora • Daordoriza SIRVICE recently, towns were asking the BEHIND LENOX PHARMACY forces, who are implementing the nian port of Khurramshahr Sunday roup to pay for custodians, lighting, holy tasks” given to them. that Iraqi forces controlled the city’s • Dual lampa and bookthalvaa • Cloan kitchan doors and cablnata FLO'S Cake Decorating Supplies Inc. tnd other expenses of having it. “Our valiant forces have achieved port area on the Shatt al-Arab He said Siebold, whom he had their objective with incomparable waterway, but said Iranian forces 049-0221 ' S7S-3252 known for years, informed him the valor,” Baghdad said. “Our forces defiantly held out in the city center. ServiceMASTER « OOMHITE UK OF, IRnMGWEBOMinB group would have to pay a fee for are now rendering various services Another eyewitness report today 1980 in 1979. Brown said the group to the people of the area and are dis said Iranian resistance was fierce, rOUNMNCT. paid SO cents per participant to use tributing drinking water to them.” iti CMm rr. NOCKVIUI,CONN. with house-to-house battles still ir MMWHHTIII, CONN. the Y. Despite the Iraqi announcement of the balance In the city that has held HOUR9 Weiss said today the fact that TOTAL CLEANINQ SERVICES CLOtID TURD. the virtual fall of Khurramshahr, for 14 days. HOME AND BUaiNRaa HOUSE-WIDE CLEANING DAILY 10-S Siebold said one thing about the Iranian FYesident Abolhassan Bani- An Iranian tank rumbled to within payments at the meeting and another Sadr said today it was Iran whose 200 yards of the main Iraqi command CALL 649-3433 Wedding Cakes A Specialty thing in the memo has left two Lutz Octoberfest troops had the would not give up. post in the city before being disabled different impressions. He said "it is “Yesterday’s Iraqi air raids on by a rocket. a matter of concern on everybody's various parts of the country involved “Run for it!’’ Western reporters I MOHAWK INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY, INC. by o vE n 4 5 Lutz Junior Museum celebrated Oc St., Manchester demonstrates the art of M U a i S I B I part." Weiss said he would issue a toberfest Saturday with a morning Hayride in one or two planes which fled after were told as mortar shells and sniper Supplien of Safety Protection Y E A 6 S statement on the matter soon, to pottery-making for the crowd. A full page of aircraft guns opened fire. They were Coventry and events in the afternoon at the fire rained near them. MEMORUL GO. E X P E 6 I E N C E clear up the concern." Octoberfest photos appears on page 20. not considered to be attacks.” Iran claimed nine Iraqi jets were oFOUL WEATHER SUITS museum. Cynthia Bernier, 323 Woodbridge (Herald photo by Pinto) Bani-Sadr said the Iraqi raids were OPP.kSrtC#l|»|N^ shot down Sunday, T oBOOTS aHOSE CALL 649-5807 aOLOVESoTARPS oRESPIRATOI QUALITY HARRISON 8T. ! FBI agents officially enter bombing probe 5 Gian Rd.«Manehaatar*643^8107 MEMORIALS MANCHESTER . By MARTIN KEARNS to escape the room harmed. as a molotov cocktail, exploded Harriss later theorized those respon Police are investigating the incident The girl's be/lroom was badly . 'Vrank ASnorl Herald Reporter Richard Farley, supervising agent shortly after the two youths fled. It OPTICAL STYLE BAR sible for the bombing knew the but have not connected it with the Ku damaged by fire and smoke but EVERYTHING IN GLASS for the FBI's Hartford office, said set fire to the carpet and mattress. parents were away. KIux Klan. A department spokesman Mfk7mi MANCHESTER - The FBI the "action taken there could be dis flames were extinguished before "WE C A N T HIDE BEHIND OUR PRODUCT" The remainder of thos^ at home - At the tim e of the incident, said the investigation will determine Friday began investigating the fire criminatory." He said the FBI had they spread to other rooms in the two other youths and Meggett's 18- Meggett was working his regular if the bombing was racially Grqoms Tux FREf bombing of a black family's home jurisdiction in the case because a house.

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