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20 TDK HKHALU. Tucs,. Uec, 29, 1981 Latest Research Results Conclusive: Recipes from Peter DiRosa ... p a g 6 13 Cold tonight: sunny Thursday Manchester, Conn. — See page 2 Wed., Dec. 30, 1981 iJIatirltpalpr MpralTi 25 Cents Percy met O p e school Taste Palestinians due to close By Nancy Thompson Herald Reporter Superintendent of Schools James P. Kennedy will recommend closing an elementary school in June, he in AAideast said today. , Kennedy said the Board of Education planning com mittee will meet Jan. 7 to begin considering individual JERUSALEM (UPI) — U.S. SQB?*~t5Srder residents were assured “of my school buildings that are candidates to be closed. I The committee will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the school ad Charles Percy revealed today he met unstinting efforts to encourage continued with three Palestinian leaders during his ministration building at 45 N. School. Administrators adherence by all parties to the cease-fire will report on the candidates for a elementary school three-day visit to Israel because a solu in southern Lebanon,” Percy said. closing. The committee will then begin to consider tion to the Palestinian problem is the Earlier, Israel Radio said Percy eased which school to close. only way to attain a lasting Middle East Israeli concern during his trip that peace. Previously, Kennedy has only hinted at the possibility Washington might back U.N. Security that a school building could be closed at the end of this In a statement read to reporters before Council sanctions of the Jewish state academic year because of declining enrollment. Today crossing the Allenby Bridge to Jordan, because of the Golan Heights annexa Percy also criticiz^ the annexation of he said he will recommend in his proposed budget, tion. which will be presented to the Board of Education Jan. the Golan Heights as one of recent The U.N. Security Council meets nextn “unilateral Israeli actions without Tuesday to consider sanctions against 11, that a building be closed. regard to American regional interests." Israel after it ignored a previous resolu "A number of schools are still being considered as “In all my meetings, I have stressed candidates," Kennedy said, adding that the administra tion urging it to rescind the annexation tion will not recommend a specific school be closed. my concern about the current state of bill rammed through parliament Dec. 14. The first draft of the budget will include a minimum American-Israeli relations and urged a President Reagan has ordered punitive figure that could be saved by cjosing a school. That moderation of the rhetoric which has measures on his own, including the aggravated the situation further,” Percy figure will be adjusted after the decision is made. suspension of a strategic cooperation Some schools have already been eliminated from con said. agreement with Israel that drew a sharp itt Noting his private meetings with sideration for closing by the administration, including blast from Begin and sent U.S.-Israeli Keeney Street School and Verplanck School, Kennedy Prime Minister Menachem Begin and relations to their lowest point. other Israeli leaders, Percy said, “I also said. The planning committee will look mostly at the Percy’s two-hour meeting with Begin smaller schools in the district, he said, because the met at length with three Palestinian Tuesday appeared to have dispelled con leaders. other schools do not have the capacity to absorb cern in ^Jerusalem the United States students from the larger schools “I have long held that there will not be might back a U.N. sanctions bid, the radio said. The planning committee will tour the schools under any real basis for a lasting pejice in the consideration on Jan. 9. Middle East without resolving the “We came together on many mis The decision of which building to close will be based Palestinian problem,” he said. understandings from the past and I hope The chairman of the Senate Foreign on a set of 14 criteria devised by the administration, it will characterize the new spirit, new planning committee and Parent-Teacher Association. Relations Committee also said beginning that we are going to make in negotiations on an autonomy scheme for Those criteria will be applied to all schools under con the special friendship the United States sideration. the 1.2 million Palestinians in the oc and Israel have had,” Percy told cupied West Bank and Gaza Strip “must reporters after meeting Begin. be pursued.” Begin, still recovering from a thigh Herald Photo by French Percy said his visit to the Israeli towns broken in a bathroom fall, met Percy at of Kiryat Shemona, Nahariya and his Jerusalem residence after the Illinois Metullah on a helicopter tour Tuesday Republican took a helicopter tour of A logger’s life was part of efforts “to learn personally Israel’s northern border area with Polish union E of the tragic experience of innocent Lebanon. civilians on both sides of the border as a Tom Neubelt, a Manchester native who grew up on Strickland Street, The trip excluded a tour of the Golan at has worked as a journeyman logger throughout New England but finds result of cross-border rocketing, shelling Percy’s request. Israeli officials said and bombing.” Percy also refused to visit the occupied himself back home again in a logging operatio'n off Line Street. For a Extensive smoker survey proves MERIT taste The residents of the Israel’s northern West Bank. look at a logger’s life, see page.three. to negotiate Economy beat him to if By United Press International C key to switch from higher tar brands. Lech Walesa, leader of the shattered Solidarity union, has abandoned a two-day hunger strike and agreed to negotiate with Poland's military leaders, reliable reports reaching the West say. The bottom line: taste. Environmentalist loses land bid The Polish governpient said Tuesday organized op MERIT Beats position to martial law had crumbled but in Los Angeles, President Reagan ordered seven economic That’s the result of the Toughest Competitors. sanctions against the Soviet Union in an effort to force By Paul Hendrie They saw stopping the Economy the banks of Union Fond, as well as Economy’s deposit has been received, relaxation of military rule. Herald Reporter purchase as a way to stop further in larger recreation zones at each end of the board's real estate subcommittee “Today is the first day in Poland there is no strike or latest wave of research with Further, extensive unmarked dustrial development there, Berman the park. will consider the offer and set final sale Environmental activist Michael other form of tension," said Gen. Tadeuzs Szacillo, a said, since the town plans to use the But Berman said that’s “inadequate.” conditions. member of the 21-officer military council Szacillo. smokers who have switched pack tests confirm that MERIT Dworkin was thwarted last week in his money raised in the sale to Economy to He suggested one compromise might be The sale then has to be approved by the bid to buy 10 acres of town land near "It is the first day of peace, " the general said in news develop the rest of the park. to sell less of the land in the area for in Board of Directors. conference comments reported by UPI correspondent Union Pond because Economy Electric Berman said his client’ is not dustrial use and earmark half the money from higher tar cigarettes to , delivers a winning combina- beat him to it. Berman reiterated the threat of legal Ruth Gruber in a censored dispatch from the Polish necessarily opposed to the sate of the 10- raised in the land sales for recreational capital. The company paid a deposit on the acre lot to Economy, provided purposes. action to block the' industrial park MERIT tion of taste and low tar when property, upon which it intends to build a development, but he said no lawsuit However, he conceded Poland 's Communist Party had recreational needs in the area are met. This, he said, would remove the lost its "credibility" in the upheaval of recent months, new headquarters. He said the Board of Directors should would be filed until the board actually Dworkin, a pharmacist,-and his obstacle to recreational development approved the sale because “they haven't . although it still “preserves its leading role. " He also ad MERIT Takes Taste Honors. compared with higher tar not have passed the resolution at its last raised by Mayor Stephen T. Penny and mitted an eighth Pole had died in martial-law violence. Manchester Environmental Coalition ' meeting setting conditions for the $150,- done anything yet, " had planned to preserve the land as open others, who said recreational develop ^ Berman and other attorneys in his Reliable sources said Tuesday. Walesa decided , leaders. 000 land sale-once opposition to the in ment is impossible because funds do not Christmas Day to negotiate with the government, Nationwide survey reveals space, according to attorney-Jon D. Ber dustrial development became apparent. firm have charged the Board of Direc man. exist, tors gave inadequate public notice of the reports to the West said. Instead, Berman said, the board “There's plenty of land to accom The sources confirmed Walesa, 38, had gone on a two- over 90% of MERIT smokers Confirmed: The overwhelm Berman is a member of the Beck & Should have “taken a step forward” by industrial park and land sale plans and Pagano law firm, which represents modate Economy Electric and for failed to consider properly the en day hunger strike at military headquarters where he is trying to reach a compromise between recreational use,” said Berman.