16—MANCHESTER HERALD, Saturday. May 18.1991 THE NEW BREED BLONDIE by Om k ¥Dung B SUn Otaka Crossword THA.TS WBBVIL BUMSTBAD. THE ROLITICIAN U A «r TIMB HE WAS RUNNING ^NVBOPy SAW HIM... PO a THE BORDER shade Answer to Previous Puizlo 42 Marchers' 1 P «M I« word S Pair 43 Offica 8 Ghra outNI worker to 46 CityInTeias 12 W N dibM p (2 wds.) 13 Skirt adga 50 PK ilic 14 Land Island rM a tu rt 51 Pol cover 15 Ocaan 53 Buckeye movtnMnI Slate 16 Ai far — 54 Tennis play- — know ar — E R |A j 17 Enckclad Nastasa R 1 M | j | 18 Taatar- 55 Energy unit U L 7 s \ iianrhFBtpr Hrraib tottar 56 John Len­ P £ £ 20 Groupt M non's son T R £ Y j ARLO AND JANI8 by Jimmy Johnson 22 Printar'i 57 Marshas Newsstand: 35e - Home: 30c maaaurat 58 Golfpag to Unpopular 40 Withstand Manchester's Award-Winning Newspaper 23 Go to court 59 Jana Austen person (si.) 41 Ten-cent HaiO.' 16 a r io there.? 5 24 Oamuraly title 11 Makes lace pieces SOMETIMEe? I W OMDE^ Monday, May 20,1991 A 27 502, Roman 19 Poet — 42 Row of 28 Murmuring Lowell shrubs aound 21 Tobacco 43 Weekend- 31 — and cry 1 Containers chaw welcoming 32 Not bad 2 Pennsylva­ 24 Buddy abbr. 33 Numaro — nia port 25 Belonging to 44 Christmas Directors again seeking concessions 34 Coffaa 3 Unclothad us 45 Hurt diapantar 4 Railroad 26 Longs (sl.| 47 Throat- By RICK SANTOS resulting savings would les Inside Today. 35 FruiUau locomotive 2 7 --------------------clearing imminent reductions 36 6ordar 5 Mans yourself word Manchester Herald programs and staff. He made the proposal to, school board members Thomas 37 Future bkf. 6 Film director 28 Toss 48 Thailand Shendan and Terry Bogli, but does not know whether they for­ 38 Down and — Craven 29 Entity 49 Mrs. Charles "This is an attempt on our part to give the Board of Educa- A warded it to the MEA. ■ Bat bedevils local im l- 7 Oversight 30 Mothers Chaplin MANCHESTER — The Republican majority of - the Board T “ u gestu'e,” said Republican Director Wally 39 Indianapolis 8 Undeter­ 32 Glove 52 Anger SNAFU by Bruco Boattls of Directors has asked again that teachers renegotiate their cur­ Inshw We re willing to keep the door open.” “It’s something that’s totally in the hands of the Board of ly BSQO 3a team mined 35 V in RSVP Education,’’ Irish said. 41 Brown 9 Assam worm 39 — -de-sac rent contract, this time offering teachers a payback in their next msh, one of the authors of the proposal, said the five Bo^i would not say specifically this morning whether the contract majority members have agreed on specific contract terms that ■ Tax relief assistance of­ SPIOER4 IA N by Stan Loo offer ^ been given to MEA officials, who could not be T" T“ 3 mey would apprwe if approved by the school board and the 3 ■13 TT The direaors say the puipose of renegotiating the current reached this morning. fered R ag e 3. r lorua has Been Poin& a imion that represents the teachers, the Manchester Educa- HAMBAMPeWM contract is to lower salary increases in the coming year. The 1J 14 writing abou t Tne/tmz4.‘ AtS M/ASSISTANT, YOUV£TOHei^ ti<m Association. r u e TOAST OF H&N yORK me tub ninja / Please see DIRECTORS, page 8. ■ Park projects up for 15 17 debate__________ R a g e 3. lit Debate expected Y News 31 In Brief 33 on death penalty 34 Ise Red Cro^ closing 37 By JUDD EVERHART defendant is under the age of 18 or The Associated Press mentally incapacitated, if the defen­ 53 blood centers EEK AND MEEK by Howl# SchnoMor dant was only an accessory to a Wi^HINGTON (AP) — The HARTFORD — After putting it murder, and if a death occurred American Red Cross will close imintentionally during the commis­ its 53 blood centers in rotation THATS RI6HT..N0 off for a week to avoid having to y L s share the headlines with the gover- sion of a felony, such as in an arson next year to install a new com­ fO P THE. FAT ncn, Connecticut lawmakers will case when a homeless person is puter system and make other “Is he surrendering or revisit an issue that has become an sleeping in the building and is changes to protect the natimi’s drying his iaundry?!" almost annual debate: the death killed. blood stqiply fr«n the AIDS penalty. Aside from those circumstances, virus and other threats, sources Ae death penalty could be imposed This year’s bill is similar to the familiar with the plan said. if a jury concluded that aggravating most recent ones and is designed to Red Cross President Elizabeth Stumped? Get answers to clues by calling “Diai-a-Word " THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME factors in a murder, such as if it make the death penalty easier to im­ H. Dole, in announcing a news at 1*900-4S4-3535 and entering access code number 184 • by Henri Arnold and Bob Lee were particularly cruel, outweighed pose in murder cases. Opponents cmiference in San Diego today, 9Sc per minute: Touch-Tone or rotary phones. Unscramble these lour Jumbles, mitigating factors, such as whether one letter to each square, to form I Still haven t think they can kill the measure, if called the plan a “complete four ordinary words. heard any bids the defendant had a difficult chil­ transformation of the Red Cross not this week in the House, then by dhood. •^rfaiinftniiK rn if the end of the legislative session in blood program to address the PYNOH WINTHROPbyDiekCavalH the Senate. Bills with similar weighing tests problem of AIDS in the blood have been consistently defeated in Debate was scheduled for last siq)ply.” recent years in the General Assemb­ VOLIR QAILM'HOpaoSCOPE NOT ASPIRE Wednesday, but the House leader­ ‘Hte S3 centers nationwide UO WHAt Is A FLASFOLE ly. Current law stipulates that if one CELEBRITY CIPHER VOU HAVE A TER RIBLE T O b e c o m e a ship agre^ to put it off until this will be divided into 10 regions, cmebnly Ciphor crypiogramj are created Irom quotations by lamous SEN SE OF BALANCE. _ & I T T E R - 2 mitigating factor is found, the rlpjth with as many as eight centers people, past and present Each letter m the cipher stands ior TERN ELAQfOLE SITTER." week because of Gov. Lowell P. penalty cannot be imposed. being closed at a time next year. another. Today's clue F equals G Weicker’s address on the budget to a Rep. Michael P. Lawlor, D-East The length of time each center joint session of the House and Haven, has an amendment that Senate that day. will be closed will vary, some would allow television news potentially for up to two months, ■ V BJZP 2 VTM gib SHRAID « . ReginaldPlnlo/lUnch»«t«rHwraW The bill, which cleared the cameras to record executions. the source said Sunday night SEASON FINALE Gary Allen, director of the Manchester High School cable television Judiciary Committee last month by a TVJRC BA UMJ; There hasn’t been an execution in W HAT THE AUCTIONEER news program, prepares to turn over a cue card for the program’s anchors during taping of single vote, specifies four cir­ Ctmnecticut in 31 years. Two men DOESN'T &IVE. cumstances under which the death Tanker explodes; RBUMCGVN' EJR the students’ final production of the school year. are now on death row in the state DAGPOAI V ________________________________ penalty could not be imposed; if the prison a Somers. stores engulfed Now arrange the circled letters to NEW YORK (AP) — A ABOMVFJ.' — UEM form the surprise answer, as sug­ ERNIE^by Bud Grace gested by the above cartoon. gasoline tanker collided with a I M C G . SIX CARKorrS*.. 120 CAir see/ Maa HAD A car, overturned and then ex­ STALKS OF C€La<y.. ORIES/..HALF A HEAD OF O O E l A B t E - k A A ^ 30 C4tORieS/- g r Q w Weicker fights ‘ghost’ budget ploded when it crashed into a teA“rTTT-ron[UJJX |-frtUCE...35'CALOWeS/ CUrTH.^^160 intended us to fly, imkee pozem kadis h el. CALORIES... row of stores in the Bronx early (Answers Monday) 36 CAlORieS... HARTFORD (AP) — As momentum builds behind a Details of the bipartisan plan have leaked out, leaving Flandms*^ ^'® '^r have given us railways.” — Michael Jumbles: MURKY KNIFE RAVAGE TYPING iM CAiones.r today, killing five people and Yesterday’s bipartisan tax plan that avoids an income lax, the Weick­ little doubt that it will have as its centerpiece an expan­ Answer The bachelor claimed he had lots of chances to sparking a raging eight-alarm get married but kept saying - - - er administration finds itself in a difficult positicHi: it is sion of the 8 percent sales tax to now-exempt goods and fire. PM NOT TAKING ANY trying to defeat a pn-oposal that does not yet exist. services such as gasoline and inexpensive clothing. That “There were rivers of blazing WASHINGTON (AP) — If your Mrs.VRoss, who is both To make matters worse for the Independent ad­ Now back m Block, Jumbl« Book No 49 >t avatiBblB tor 92.K. wMeti inckitfoB pottaoB neighbor has lost his job to the expansion alone could bring in as much as $5(X) million. fuel,” said Lt.