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Clip and save Egypt unrest escalates Coupons worth nearly $300 | Inside Obama keeps pressure on Mubarak as U.S. protests grow | A6 “There is nothing so powerful as truth” FINAL EDITION 8 DANIEL WEBSTER UnionLeader.com January 30, 2011 Vol. 65, No. 13 • 10 Sections, 110 Pages • $2.00 Widow: Lawyer stole $1 million payout Possible . for stealing $2.3 mil- Inside Thomas J. Tessier: Already jailed lion from two cousins In her Florida for theft of $2.3 million, he’s accused of he represented. VMoreaus home, former bilking an insurance policy beneficiary. Suzanne LeBlanc remembered: N.H. resident primary Dunham is now try- Store a Manchester Suzanne ing to get at least some landmark for a LeBlanc By NANCY WEST of that money back. century — Page A8 Dunham looks New Hampshire Sunday News Dunham, who with at documents her then-husband, Gerald LeBlanc, owned from a life rivalries A former Manchester woman says attor- J.J. Moreau and Son hardware store on Elm insurance ney Thomas J. Tessier got away with stealing Street, said she only discovered the theft fi ve company. $1 million from her in 1982, long before he V was disbarred and imprisoned last March See Tessier, Page A8 COURTESY PHOTO on pause .Waiting game: Presidential political activity off to slower start Panel: HOT WEEKEND ON GRANITE STATE ICE than in 2008. By GARRY RAYNO Allow New Hampshire Union Leader MANCHESTER — With the New Hamp- shire Presidential Primary only a year women away, there’s been more political “shad- ow boxing’’ but less brawling than seen in 2008. in battle That’s how some political observers see it. But they say it’s unfair to compare .N.H. view: Sen. the two cycles because 2008 was an ex- ceptional year, with open presidential Shaheen and some female races on both sides of the ticket and can- Guard members also say didates on every street corner leading up to the fi rst-in-the-nation primary. time has come to allow Behind-the-scenes courting of activ- infantry role. ists and organizers has been going on as usual. And in the past few days, word has By MICHAEL COUSINEAU leaked about some of the better-known New Hampshire Sunday News potential candidates — Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Newt Gingrich — head- Nancy Young was driving in ing to New Hampshire in the next few a military convoy in Iraq when months. a roadside bomb set up an am- The relatively slow start is not just a bush, resulting in a fi re fi ght LARISSA MULKERN New Hampshire phenomenon either, with insurgents hiding out in Cars line up for the 27th annual Latchkey Cup presented by the Lakes Region Ice Racing Club on Saturday in said University of New Hampshire po- palm tree groves. Moultonborough, where a frozen Berry Pond was converted into a racetrack. Proceeds from the event will be litical science department Chairman “We took fi re and we re- donated to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center. V turned fi re,” See Primary, Page A4 the retired Air National Guardsman Racers put on slick show for good cause said Fri- day. “I’d say . air smells like gasoline. that’s direct Latchkey Cup: Hundreds attend It’s just another day at the races — the “Daytona of Hazmat combat.” Moultonborough fundraiser to fight cancer. Ice Racing,” that is. Seven Granite Thirty-eight drivers, including fi ve teenagers in years later, the “junior” class, raced for trophies and to raise physicals the Auburn Thunder By LARISSA MULKERN money to fi ght cancer during Saturday’s 27th Annual resident said VIconic image: Sunday News Correspondent Latchkey Cup, presented by the Lakes Region Ice the military 197th Fires Brigade Racing Club. Since its inception, the race has raised should lift recalls fi rst Gulf MOULTONBOROUGH — Carloads of spectators park more than $212,000 for cancer research and patient spur debate the ban on war — Page A10 with headlights facing the frozen Berry Pond as pit services at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dart- women en- crews ready drivers and race cars on the opposite mouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. The center is the .Not in five years: Manchester gaging in direct combat roles. side of the pond. only facility in the state that has a pediatric oncology “I think women have proven Anticipation builds as the engines of stock and alderman and firefighters disagree V themselves again and again,” modifi ed race cars rumble loudly. The cold 30-degree See Latchkey Cup, Page A9 over whether doctor exams are said Young, a legal assistant who works at defense contrac- optional. tor BAE Systems in Nashua. “If a woman is physically and Passion, pride meet By PAUL FEELY mentally capable of being in a New Hampshire Union Leader specialty (job) which puts them in harm’s way, they should be in pond hockey series MANCHESTER — Firefi ghters on the allowed to do it.” Hazardous Materials Response Team This month, the Military By ALLEN LESSELS haven’t taken a department-provided Leadership Diversity Commis- New Hampshire Union Leader physical in the past fi ve years, and one sion, authorized by Congress, alderman thinks that might violate fed- recommended in a report that CONCORD — The Gov’s got game. eral regulations. the military gradually “remove So says Ray Champagne, who knows a “It’s not just about watching out for the restrictions that prevent thing or two about ice hockey. the health of the guys on the hazmat women from engaging in direct New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch and team,” said Ward 4 Alderman Jim Roy, ground combat.” Champagne, a star of the Manchester himself a former fi refi ghter. “I think More than 200 women serve Blackhawks of old, are among the 350 there’s a question of liability. I think it in the New Hampshire Army or so hockey players lacing them up this MARK BOLTON/UNION LEADER needs to be looked at. It’s spelled out by National Guard, with about 140 weekend for the inaugural 1883 Black Ice Concord’s Mark Ruddy of the Senior Turkey Pond Flyers is pressured the EPA that they need to be done, and by Gov. John Lynch, right, of the Lynch Gang during the 1883 Black VSee Combat, Page A10 VSee Pond hockey, Page A9 Ice Pond Hockey Championship this weekend in Concord. VSee Physicals, Page A4 CHEST N E A R M U Today’s Letters: S A N Today IN NEW HAMPSHIRE’S NEWSPAPER H 03108 Pages B2, Classifi ed 2 REGULAR FEATURES NEW HAMPSHIRE BUSINESS NEW HAMPSHIRE City Hall ........................ 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Forty years after Legal notices .................B5 Television ......TV, A&E 5-18 his Apollo 14 moon Lifestyles ..................F6-12 Wall Street Journal ...D4-5 the court he called 911 after his friend Vydfol stag- Some might say it’s a lofty mission, but the two Lotteries ....................... A2 Weather ........................ D8 gered up the driveway after being stabbed in the chest founders of Horizon Technology are achieving their mission, the late Menu Planner ................F7 Weddings ......................F8 with a knife during a party at 157 Bedford Road in goals. VPage D1 Alan Shepard and his Merrimack. VPage B7 accomplishments are New Hampshire Sunday News still revered by young ©2011 Union Leader Corp., OUTDOORS LIFESTYLES people. One student, Manchester, N.H. Kealey Cela, from his Best in the East Pet care trends alma mater, Pinkerton Among other matters in her First Tracks column, Many veterinarians are blending traditional and Academy, has set her Kealey Cela stands in Paula Tracy investigates why Mount Sunapee is so holistic practices, and some animal lovers are choos- sights on outer space, front of a portrait of popular with readers of Ski Magazine, who say it has ing organic foods for their pets. They explain their too. VPage B1 astronaut Alan Shepard. the best snow in the East . VPage C4 reasons. VPage F6 Page A2 • NEW HAMPSHIRE SUNDAY NEWS • Jan. 30, 2011 8 New Hampshire/Politics In Brief What about the revenue shortfall? 12 animals die City man faces IT’S A COMMON SAYING in Deerfi eld fi re robbery charge around Concord that when you’re in a hole, stop digging. Readers re-invited to Capitol DEERFIELD — A dozen MANCHESTER — An off-duty Republicans have been grab- State animals died in a barn fi re that Manchester police offi cer bing shovels. They’ve fi led a list House Now that the state’s largest bers’ concerns that guns at may have been sparked by a caught a robber trying to steal of tax cut and repeal bills that Dome teachers unions, NEA-NH, the State House have been heat lamp Saturday morning, goods from the Sports Author- would reduce state revenues has pulled the plug on its in the news lately, and they authorities said. ity on South Willow Street. by more than $240 million over Tom Fahey Read Across America event, don’t want their program to Five pigs, four adult goats On his way to work, Det.