A B ust H onoree Reunion Colombia nabs Hail of Fame to fete Subject meets A 10,000 in sweep /5 Obuchowski at dinner /II photographer /9 i®anrl|PBlfr IrralJi u Monday, Aug. 21, 1989 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm Newsstand Price: 35 Cents African Democrats Yankees fire Green; ieaders meeting fUauthfatpr Hrrato Dent is new manager lose first HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Egyptian President Hosni Mu­ barak today told African leaders — see page 42 beginning a four-day summit that the two main guerrilla-backed FOI ruling SPORTS groups in South Africa should unite in their effort to end white rule. By Alex GIrelll expects the full FOI Comnimis- Mubarak, chairman of the Manchester Herald sion will support the Organization of African Unity, recomendation, challenged the guerrilla-backed A Freedom of Information “ I ’d like to see the constitution­ African National Congress and Commission hearing officer has ality of this law examined by an the rival Pan Africanist Congress ruled that gatherings of the impartial body like the courts,” of South Africa to become one Democratic town directors with Cumming said. “ I don’t feel liberation organization. Democratic Town Chairman either Director Osella or the FOI “ We stand ready to bring Theodore R. Cummings present are impartial.” together both organizations in are meetings, not caucuses, Cummings said he has not conditions acceptable to their under the state’s freedom of decided whether to appeal the By Jim Tierney leaders,’ ’ he told the OAU’s ad information law. decision in court, but that is a Manchester Herald hoc Committee on Southern The hearing officer, Deane C. possiblity. Africa. Avery, has recommended that Town Attorney John Cooney, It took only one swing of the bat Moriarty Western diplomats, speaking the FOI Commission order Cum­ who represented Cummings and on condition of anonymity, said Reginald PInto/Mancheeter Herald. mings and the Democratic direc­ the Democrats at a Feb. 6 hearing Brothers’ one ouUn the bottom before Avery, could not be With the score m Mubarak was seeking agreement tors to comply with the require­ on a common African policy NEW COMMISSIONER — Thomas F. Braden McBreairty, a district public ments for giving notice of the reached for comment. Neither toward South Africa, possibly Ferguson, left, public works commis­ works employee. Ferguson’s appoint­ meetings and holding them ac­ could Mayor Peter P. DiRosa Jr. modifying some radical demands sioner for the Eighth Utilities District, ment to the post, replacing Samuel cording to the law. In his recommendation, Avery *th?cente%e^^^ by the liberation movements as discusses progress on installation of a Longest, has thrust him into a district A hearing before the full concluded that at gatherings of preconditions for talks with the commission is set for Sept. 13 at 2 the Democrats Nov. 21 and Dec. Newington• 4 /<>«(28-3-1) 1 n remainsrem unbeaten sanitary sower in North Main Street with political controversy. Pretoria government. p.m. in the Hartford offices of the 12 a quorum of the Board of S S f o r t ! anSerVerM allove’s. this morning Today’s summit was scheduled FOI. Directors was present along with to discuss proposals for a new Republican Town Director Ro­ Cummings and that part of the at 11 at Moriarty Field. approach to South Africa’s racial North Main Street sewer job nald Osella, who brought the gatherings were devoted to dis­ policies from thetwo movements, complaint to the FOI over two cussion of matters over which the but no details of the written gatherings at which Cummings board has jurisdiction or control proposals have been released. was present, predicted the full and thus they were “ meetings” Seven heads of state of the 13 keeps commissioner busy commission will support the under the terms of the FOI law. African leaders normally repres­ recommendation. The view supports the Osella ented on the committee attended By Alex GIrelll $400 allowance. ‘If so,” he said, “ a blow will complaint. Democrats had the opening session in Harare. Manchester Herald In his full-time job, Ferguson is a real estate have been struck for better argued in testimony before Avery '“S i wmne‘’r" S 5 e Zimbabwe’s President Robert salesman. government in Manchester and and in briefs that no town Mugabe said the leaders of South While a controversy has been smoldering over District President Thomas E. Landers did not the 20-year era of decisions being business was transacted and thus • rcLwe\gh,J.er'|£nP^^^^^^^^ Africa’s voteless black majority his appointment as Eighth District public works include Longest, who had been in the public made in the secrecy of Demo­ they were not meetings. were ready to engage in serious director, Thomas H. Ferguson has spend the last works post for 12 years, when he recommended cratic Party ‘caucuses,” orches­ Osella said in a prepared negotiations with the white- couple of weeks carrying out some of the duties of appointments to commissionerships,Longest trated by a long-time town statement,“ The people of Man­ dominated government. his job. had opposed Landers in his successful bid for chairman, will finally come to chester have a clear choice in this year’s town wide election. Do they ., k„o. It - a But “ they and the people of free Ferguson said his chief concern now is the re-election as president and had taken part in a end in our community.‘ ’ Africa must be convinced that the construction of a district sewer along North effort to challenge the election because more Cummings, informed of the w'ant another two years of arro- regime is serious about wanting Main. people voted than were checked off on a list of decision by a reporter, said it to negotiate,’’ Mugabe said. He said he has talked with a number of the eligible voters. came as no surprise to him and he Please see FOI, page 10 Mugabe said mediation efforts residents who are concerned about where The failure to reappoint Longest has drawn fire Newington threatened to end conflicts in the black- laterals from the sewer to their homes will be from some district residents who charged that With runners on MB’s Ray Gliha governed former Portuguese col­ located. Landers was conducting a political vendetta. rorSdTiSfheVdim Sehlavone who onies of Angola and Mozambique Sewer lines within the houses are connected to Ferguson had said that when he accepted the Hostages are edge had made positive progress. septic tanks in back of the houses and some of the appointment he was unaware that Longest applied the tag on Bo Ortiz. But because of “ very difficult residents are concerned about the direction and wanted to continue in the job. He said he might and delicate conditions’’ these length of the runs from their houses to the new resign the position, but later decided to continue MB’ s took a 1-0 lead ^® ^‘'^’^rd^base'^on^a Tony initiatives needed more backing main. in the post. with a double Q „ g burner then reached on against intervention Reginald Pinto/Mancheater Herald from the 50-member OAU and Ferguson said he has also acted on a billing He said the technical expertise in sewer ^n^'er'^V/selJond bainan Dave Rose which other world nations, the Zimbab­ problem involving the Oak Forest Condomimium matters comes from Lombardi Associates of Association, which has been paying the electric NICOSIA, Cyprus (A P) — An banon as the “ escape of the scored Schiavone. League playoff game at wean leader said. Vernon, the district’s consulting engineers, and Gliha’s throw beat Newington s Bo Ortiz The African National Congress, bill for operation of a pump station. He said there from the district's public works employees. Iranian daily said today that American and French forces.” IN COMING - Moriarty holding Western hostages can be On Sunday, the Revolutionary Newington ^^JT^n^pete Ba"rtlew with a catcher Jim Schiayone aiwaits the throw who was out at the plate. Newington the main guerrilla organization was an agreement under which the association The North Main Street sewer, long delayed for the sixth. Meucci at tSe corners with fighting in South Africa, has in the was to pay the bill for one year and the district a number of reasons, is the major district public used as a way to prevent foreign Justice Organization threatened ?rom centerfielder Ray Gliha during the intervention in Lebanon, accord­ to kill Cicippio and Edward won, 2-1. St past resisted calls for it to merge was to assume responsibility after that. He said works project now under way. It is being nrsT inning of Friday night's Tw.i.ght with the Pan Africanist Congress that as the result of an oversight on the part of installed by Jack James Inc. of Columbia at a ing to Iran's official Islamic Austin Tracy if there is interven­ to end long standing antagonism both the district and the association, the change base contact price of $965,955, Republic News Agency. tion by France, which dispatched ym two warships to the eastern between the two groups. had not been made when the year was over. While at the site of the project Monday, The report came a day after a Mediterranean reportedly to Both groups use armed resist­ Ferguson, elected a new district director May Ferguson commented that one of the problems pro-Iranian group holding Joseph evacuate 7,000 French nationals g a m 7 s e h w m ffe " r ’le?^^^^^^ ance against the white-led go­ 24, has been the focal point of a controversy since connected with the installation is that traffic Cicippio and another American CO Brewers beat Red Sox, 5-2 from war-battered Lebanon if the vernment.