BUSINESS Human Rights Report Rips Soviet Bioc

'.Ml - MANCHKSTKH IIKRAl-D. Tiicsdîy. l-fli li MANCHESTER FOCUS SPORTS WEATHER Bolton park improvements College union sees Capt. Davis knows Manchester cagers Icioudy, cold tonight; movement in talks how to feed an army come from behind Iflurries Thursday to displace sports programs ... page 2 ... page 6 ... page 9 Townspeople voted to spend ... page 3 By Sarah Passell the owner for permission to $41,760 in federal revenue-sharing Herald Reporter regrade part of his land, Pronovo,st and Missari said. funds for the first two phases, during which the two existing Most Bolton sports programs When PBC members met Mon ba.seball fields are to be refur- will have to forego at least one day, they told Ruel and Scorso that bi.shed and two new fields in season of play if residents hope to under the less exi>ensive plan all stalled. The project includes in see a planned expansion and the fields would have to sit idle for stalling backstops and a fence refiirhishing of the playing fields at at least 18 months to let grass grow around the entire playing area. Herrick Memorial Park in "Can't do that," responded Selectmen expected all three completed. Ruel. phases to cost about $100,000, with That was the message given But Scorso agreed to deliver the the third and most expensive phase Monday to two members of the news to Recreation Director Ro m being the installation of lights for Ulanrteatrr Hrralft town Recreation Commission — nald Avery: Either do all the night games. ....... * Wednesday.Wednesday, Feb. Feb. 13, 1985 — Single copy: 25C Claude Ruel, Head of the town grading and seeding in one year or But Missari said Monday that Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm soccer program, and Clifford lose the entire project to cost when former Recreation Director Scorso, head of the Bolton Football overruns. Avery did not attend the Gary Mortenson first presented Association — by an engineer and PBC meeting and could not be the improvemeni plan to the Board the Public Building Commission. reached Monday night for of Selectmen in late 1983, Morten The project would affect Little comment. son assumed the work could be Iêaguc. adult softball and youth The PBC will not give Lombardi Associates orders to complete the done in two phases. That plan Human rights report rips Soviet bioc football schedules. called for first refurbishing the The Recreation Commission had plans and put the project out tor existing ball fields and later today." Pre-school children "are favored a two-step, two-year plan contract bids without the Recrea Salvador. The report .said that in Afghanis adding two more. burned, to Iran, where "prisoners unprecedented step in 1984 of drilled in homage to Kim Il-.sung for the park improvements. But tion Commission's blessing. By M atthew C. Quinn The report saved its harshest tan, where rebels have been PBC members hope to award a are beaten on the soles of their feet declaring that the Universal Dec and his family, while adults are PBC Chairman Michael Missari "A very is going to hit the roof," . Ml United Press International words for the Soviet Union, saying fighting to repel the December 1979 contract for the first two phases until they can no longer walk," laration of Human Rights does not required to participate in daily said breaking up the work would Missari predicted after Monday's its human rights performance Soviet invasion, prison .survivors this spring. But Pronovost warned Herald photo by Tarqulnlo The exhaustive 1,453-page report apply to them," raise the price beyond the $42,000 meeting. "Y ou 're going to have a WASHINGTON - The State “ fails to meet accepted interna report the continued use of brutal ideological training.” that it will probably take two to Congress covering 1984 said in a Nowhere was a contrast more the town has set aside for it. lot of upset people." Department today chronicled hu tional standards.” torture, "involving electric .shock, months to prepare bid documents general introduction more nations apparent than in Central America, In South Korea, where the fir.st Arid Project Engineer Mark J. Missari suggested that the Re Reviewing the troops man rights abuses around the “The regime's common re beatings, extraction of fingernails and advertise for bids. apparently are accepting “ the where the administration is aiding national elections in four years Pronovost of A.R. Lombardi Asso creation Commission seek permis world by regimes backed by botk sponse to efforts to exercise and burning of genitalia." The site work could take up to validity of a international human the government of El Salvador in were held Tuesday following the ciates in Vernon said the two-step sion to play on fields in neighboring Reviewing the troops for the upcoming tive for the Herald. Standing at atterition Washington and Moscow but le freedom of expression is to incar two more months, with seeding the rights agenda.” its fight against lefti.st insurgency The report said China's 1 billion chaotic return home of opposition plan calls for a different slope on towns while the Herrick Park veled its harshest criticism at the cerate tho.se concerned in prison, final step. Unless the seeding can downtown President’s Day Sale are are Tom Marvin, owner of Marvin’s of But nations where the United and supporting right-wing guerril people live in a society where the leader Kim Dae Jung to house each half of the field area with the project is underway. Soviet Union and its allies. labor camp or psychiatric hospi be done before June, Pronovost Manchester; Bernard Apter, owner of States "has little acce.ss and las battling the Nicaraguan Communist Party places "com slope on one half extending onto The Board of Selectmen last Fred Nassiff of Nassiff’s Sports, second tal,” the report said. arrest, the government was cre said, the town should delay the The department's annual human leverage” re.strict human rights regime. prehensive restrictions on funda private property adjacent to the year approved a lhree-pha.se plan from right, as George Washington, and Regal’s Men’s Shop; and Mike Fi- In Poland, "serious human dited with “ several significant project until August to encourage rights report recounts lurid tales of and resist any foreign pressure to The report blasted the Nicara mental political and civil rights.” park's southwestern border. The to upgrade the playing fields at the lomeno, owner of Fairway Department rights problems remain” despite positive steps." although "there the best possible growth of grass. three colonial ladies. From left they are physical torture ranging from change. guan government for “ intimida town would probably have to pay park. the communist military govern Communist North Korean so were continuing reports of beat Tina Zinchuck, manager of Michaels Store. Nassiff’s assistant at right is Al Soviet-occupied Afghanistan, "As an extreme example,” the tion and the re.strietion of basic ings by police during interroga human rights” while pointing to ment's "professed desire (or na ciety was called "one of the most Jewelers: Donna Strattman, owner of Coelho, owner of Personal Tee. All the where prisoners have their finger report said, “ a representative of tions of prisoners." "c.ihctantial progress" in El tional reconciliation" highly and controlled in the world Leaf, Stem and Root; and Denise stores are on Main Street. nails extracted and genitals Iran al the United Nations took the Area Towns Facility wants Roberts, advertising sales representa In Brief Phantom Storm ûts power, Firehouse delay predicted license back BOLTON — The Chairman of the Public KENT (U PI) — State agencies and one of the olde.st BUSINESS payment shuts Bolton school Building Commission Monday told fellow com alcoholic rehabilitation centers in the country have mission members that the town may face a clashed in a dispute over licensing requirements for earth around the underground two-month delay in pians to build a new central The windy storm that started the High Watch Farm. J- pipe. fire station at the corner of Bolton Center and charged Tuesday morning left more Ilian The facility, forced to close its doors Jan. 1 for the Boston bank officials say 100 Bolton residents and the high Notch roads. first time since 1939, recently resubmitted the latest in school without power overnight The rain also opened up potholes PBC Chairman Michael Missari said members By M ark A. Dupuis a series of applications for a license in the hope that a after wires went down on Bolton all over town, most of them old of the Board of Selectmen do not expect to close a United Press International compromise can be reached and the farm can reopen. Center Road at about 7:15 p.m. ones that had been filled with deal to buy the three-acre site at the northwest error led to cash transfer temporary "cold patch” used Although men and women from throughout New HARTFORD — The state was corner of the intersection until mid-March. Last Bolton school officials who can during winter months, Brouder England have been traveling to the farm for nearly overcharged at least $60,000 on fall, owner Claude Ruel granted the town a said. half a century to dry out from alcoholism, state By Steven W. Svre paving contracts issued in 1981, __ celed high school classes today one-year option on the land, with an agreed said the decision was made before officials now want to license and regulate the United Press International paying for blacktop that was never The Manchester power outage purchase price of $35,000.

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