Sheik Appeals to Radicals to Spare Hostage

t - MANCl ( ONNfC TIC I T u s. WORI D SPORTS Dwnocrati tak» U A seat dyracuse, Moyas a united aland human suffering ia THE a s a * 4 19 H w A o i iHaitrlTrslrr) .Vanchesier A Cilv ol Cnr^rm Hrralft f1 Monday. K^rch 16,1987 30 Cunts Cem eteries r Sheik appeals M FROtfTS feel Impact 1 of walkout to radicals to ThsAo By Andrew Yurkovskv forscasti Harold Raportar A caltoft ond The Assocloted Press spare hostage snow flu The walkout today by grave Wests diggers at 28 Catholic cenneteries In thunde By Foroufc Nossor Revolutionary Justice issued its the Archdiocese of Hartford was peel being felt this morning at St. The Atsoclofed Rress latest death threat in an Arabic statement delivered to An-Nabar Bridget and St. James cemeteries Plains to in Manchester. BEIRUT, Lelwnon — The leader with a photograph of Normandin. The threats followed a statement Three burials at St. James and of Lebanon’s Shiite Moslems has Tuesday by President Francois one at St. Bridget were scheduled to appealed to Islamic ratHcals to Mitterrand of France in which be take place today, but three were spare the life of French hostage t Man- appeared to reject the ponibiNty of postponed because suppliers of Jean-Louis NormamHn, who the rrlday a pardon for terrorist Anis Nacc- vaults would not cross the grave kidnappers said would receive a il mat- ache, who is im|wfsoned in F m c e diggers’ picket line, said Henry “ death sentence" today. gh was and whose freedom is s o o i^ by Higgins, the manager of the two “ You cannot confront the policy ispired Silite extremists. Mitterrand also cemeterfes. One burial scheduled of a president by executing a kidnap said France would continue sMIing today at St. James Cemetery will victim,’ ’ Sheik Mohammed Hus iperlor arms to Iraq. take place because the vault was sein Fadlallab said in a sermon I Man- In iu first death threat against put in over the weekend, he said. Sunday at a moaque in southern I to the Normandin, Revoiotlonary Justice In the meantime. Higgins said, Beirut. lesday demanded clarification of Mitter management will be digging Today meanwhile marked the f New rand’s comments. The French graves to prevent a backlog of work second aimtversary of the kidnap f Hart- government did not make any when the strikers return to work. ping of American Terry Anderson, clarification, but instead vowed to ■Local 14323 of the United Steel The Associated Press’ chief Middle J-foot-8 "pursue with tenacity and firmness Workers Union voted 20-18 Friday East correspondent. Anderson, M, lliams. was snatched off a Beirut street by the struggle against terrorism, no to reject management's latest mbined matter where it cmnes from ." three-year contract offer of a $1 a mostly Miiite group calling KsHf T was Revolutionary Justice said In its hourly pay raise. The cemeteries Islamic Jihad, and is the longest ngonly held of the eight Americans now in seoDiHf statement that as a result of o ffe r ^ hourly raises of 40 cents in captivity in Lebanon. the French position, srhldi it the first year and 30 cents in each of ire an The Revolutionary Justice Or described as a “ war dedaratlon," the second and third years, said hester ganization. another mostly Shiite it was putting Normandin on trial. Gino Lamano. vice president of If they group, said Saturday It had put the Local 14323. ein the French television lin in g engineer Workers now make between 89.93 s L L "on trial" because M statements by and $10.43 per hour, except for France’s president about terrorism trainees, said Richard Meagher, Koch ickly in and arms sales. Journalist executive director of the Catholic The gar nted a The kidnappers said in their Cemeteries Association. He said 1. Koch I It quar- statement, Issued at about 8p.m. (1 full-time workers are guaranteed airwaves I ireid a p.ffl. E8T) Saturday, that they In 3rd year overtime and make an average of say be dot ited his would “ hand down the Just sentence $28,000 a year. In Sundi to execute" Normandin within 48 om the “ We are on strike. The members hours. his "C all : eight didn't feel the wage offer was of captivity Police said today they had no Koch sat fa 1 points enough." Gordon Tuccillo. presi information on whether the kid mlcrophoi lavento dent of Local 14323, said today. nappers would respond to the plea M ayor FI irter of The strike will be the first since By Lm Linder and spare Normandln’s life. The Associated Press during his 1977. when a seven-week walkout 6 1840s. Revolutionary Justice, which re le down delayed the burial of 376 bodies. veres Iranian leader Ayatollah VALLEY FORGE, Pa. - " I ’m coi or four Higgins said that, in addition to Ruhollah Khomeini, previously (televlsloi I coach postponing burials, thestrikewould Friends, colleagues and relatives threatened to kill Normandin expressed hope for the release of are peopl put the cemeteries behind In midday Saturday but that deadline Terry Anderson and frustration at Indians maintenance. He said It was that, we’ll passed apparently without the the continued Imprisonment of the ' as the difficult to predict how long the " I f they group carrying out its threat. American JournaUstlUst snatched off a West present strike would last. Harild photo by Tuefcor boring, I’l Fadlallah, considered the spirit Beirut street two years ago today. I behind “ These things — you can't say. Sunday m ual guide of Iranian-backed Shiite “ Terry is where he Is because he illiams. Right now nobody knows what's The ma; radicals in Lebanon, said an believed In the sacredness of what lade the going to happen,” he said. Getting In tune live, half-1 execution would be meaningless. be was doing — trying to tell the ichester Tom Tierney, the owner of John officials. I smiling Irish eyes were the order of the “ If he is innocent, on what basis story of a suffering people, tell It to quarter, F. Tierney Funeral Home of Ian Rankine of East Hartford, left, gets Police Co do we threaten to execute him ? And readers and listeners and viewers d IS and Manchester, said this morning that his bagpipe In tune with the help of day at the parade, which saw Manches Ward. if he was not Innocent, why wasn’t all over the world," Louis D. lalftime arrangements for a funeral sche ter send a delegation of about 300. St. Koch as James Farrell of Manchester before the he tried right from the start?" Boccardl, president and general Bstating duled for today were up In the air start of the annual St. Patrick's Day Patrick's Day Is officially celebrated on Fadlallah asked, without referring manager of The Associated Press, about his I t th e because of the strike. He said the to Normandin by name. said In a statement today. and abou home had to postpone 18 burials parade In Hartford on Saturday. Bag Tuesday. More pictures on page 3. “ This behavior does not serve our "W e owe him two pledges: First, singer am nk they during the 1977 strike. But he pipe music, green carnations and causes," he said. that we will serve, as » l y as we and W an beaten anticipates there will be sufficient In France, the hostage’s father. can, the high Ideals his sacrifice from view le West storage space for caskets at his Marc Normandin, said Sunday that evokes; and second, that we will not Issues, f ;e in the home if the present strike drags on. Fadlallah’s sermon showed the rest until he Is once again with us, ecelving The major inconvenience would Manchester’s Irish float way “ road of coipprehenslon and peace turning that bright m M and caring Pteadi I missed be for the families, he said. He said remains open." A former French heart once more toward spreading id third it is up to them to decide whether hostage called on government the truth, as bestan honest reporter A man I iffensive they want to honor the picket lines. leaders and dignitaries to appeal can know It." a string ol Tierney said a hike in wages npletely for Normandln’s life. Anderson, 89, the A P ’s chief thefts whi utes. would have a minimal effect on the through parade in Hartford The Beirut independent An- Middle East correspondent, was Included i cost of funeral arrangements. A I playing Nahar on Sunday quoted an uniden- captured by armed men on March ehlM. his lS-5 grave opening now costs $295. and By George Loyng As he walked along, many In the MANCHESTER POLITICIANS tifled Western diplomati l l as saying 16, 1988, and Is the longest held of MIehael hungry. Uiatcost would rise $10 to $15 if the Herald Reporter .crowd recognized him. “ Hi, there, were well represented. Mayor the killing of Normandin would eight Americans still In captivity in scheduled strikers’ demands are met. 1 a game Tim ,” some would yell, and he Barbara B. Weinberg, whose "signal the beginning of disengage Lebanon. Meagher said Saturday no hearing A HARTFORD - St. Patrick’s Day would respond by saluting with his mother is Irish, members of the ment between Iran and Syria." At least 16 foreigners. Including further negotiations with the union after pleat is Tuesday, but Manchester Irish- walking stick, known as a Eighth Utilities District Board of Syria, the principal power in Anglican Church envoy Terry Wa p a g a n Were planned.

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