Upset ABC’s baby-boomer series / / end NBC Emmy dominance/lO ifflanrh^fitrr Mrralb Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm 30 Cents A Germany suspends P&W to eliminate ■ n ' \ U air shows 1,042 salary jobs RAMSTEIN, West Germany (AP) — West Germany today suspended military airshowsand By Nancy Concelman Analysis, a cost analysis study white-collar positions would be called on NATO to abandon such /Manchester Herald that will save the company an eliminated from its Government stunt flying spectacles after three estimated $300 million annually G Engine Business in West Palm Italian fighter Jets collided and EAST HARTFORD - Pratt & and help make it more competi­ Beach, Fla. one slammed into a crowd in a Whitney Aircraft officials said tive in the Jet engine market. During the cost anaiysis study, fireball, killing at least 45 people. today that the company will As a result of all rounds, a total started in March, Pratt's 46,000 About 500 people were injured, eliminate 1,042 salaried positions of 1,225 Connecticut employees workers suggested ways the including dozens who were criti­ from its manufacturing opera­ lost their jobs, Linke said. company could save money. cally burned by Jet fuel, in the tions in Connecticut, Georgia and Pratt announced July 30 that it Linke said at a July 30 news accident Sunday at Ramstein Maine as part of a cost-cutting would eliminate 700 white-collar conference that employees were U.S. A ir Base. Bodies were plan that brings the total number jobs in its Commercial Engine aware when they made the charred and clothes burned off of jobs eliminated this year to Business and Group Administra­ suggestions that they m ay be victims in what appeared to he 2.650. tion at its Connecticut plants. Of eliminating their own Jobs. the world’s worst air show Of that total, 1,492 were filled those positions, 695 were filled The company, a division of tragedy involving spectators. positions. The net figure includes and 314 were vacant. United Technologies Inc., was Many of the dead were children. positions eliminated through nor­ Of the 1,042 positions to be once the world’s dominant Jet- Defense Minister Rupert mal attrition, employees who eliminated in Connecticut, Geor­ engine builder, but saw its share Scholz quickly canceled a mil­ have left, unfilled positions and gia and Maine for the final round of the Jet engine market drop itary air demonstration show contract positions. of the study, 526 people will leave from 100 percent in 1974 to about scheduled for next month, and At the company’s Connecticut the company over the next three 40 percent in 1987. today annnounced that Bonn plants in East Hartford, Middle- days, and 231 will leave by the end Analysts said General Electric officials and their NATO allies town. Southington and North of the year, Linke said. ’The Co., Pratt’s chief competitor, saw were suspending any further Haven, about 523 white-collar remaining 285 Jobs have been its share during the same period military air shows in West positions will be eliminated over eliminated by attrition since the grow from nothing to nearly 50 Germany. the next three days beginning beginning of the year, he said. percent. In military business. More than 300,000 people, most today, said Curtis Linke, vice Linke said about one-third of General Electric’s pre-tax profit of them Americans and West president for communications. the 526 employees will be offered margin on engines is about 10 Germans, were watching as the The layoffs announced today other Jobs within the company. percent, compared to 8 percent Italian air force team's 10 Jets, represent the third and final The company also announced 2 flying about 180 feet off the W' • round of the Activity Value earlier this month that 599 See LAYOFFS, page 10 ground, intersected over the field from three directions. Two planes plunged to the ground and a third careened in Storm pounds the Carolinas, flames into the crowd, setting off an inferno more than 100 feet high and 100 feet wide. Terrified spectators ran for their lives as kills one before weakening 9 the flames scorched scores of people and destroyed buses, GREENSBORO, N.C. (A P ) - astated mobile homes, said Bob closed while authorities cleared it trucks and cars. Reginald Pinto/Manchester Herald Tropical Storm Chris spawned Kelly, a meteorologist with the of debris from the battered "Some were missing skin on tornadoes that damaged houses, Columbia office of the National mobile homes, he said. their arms," said DeeDee Arring­ INTERIM PRINCIPAL — William Freeman, former destroyed mobile homes and Weather Service. “ It was a mess,” said Carl ton Doke, a reporter for the principal at Robertson School, reviews materials at caused at least one death in the "The winds took a swath, Floyd, an engineer with the unofficial U.S. military news­ Waddell School. Freeman retired two years ago, but Carolinas before gradually weak­ probably a half a mile long and county Fire Department. "It took paper Stars and Stripes.“ A lot ening, losing its name and head­ quarter of a mile wide,” said will be principal of Waddell School until a permanent trailer houses and threw them had black bum s." ing toward Virginia today. (Clarendon County Fire Chief principal is chosen. clear across the road. It was a She said that after the crash High wind from the third Carter Jones. complete disaster for the area.” “ people started crying and named storm of the 1988 Atlantic Mary Lemon, 78, was killed screaming. The ones who were hurricane season also left thou­ when winds leveled her mobile One tornado in North Carolina stopped were hugging each other sands temporarily without power home while her granddaughter, threw a tractor-trailer rig into a and crying like they were saying Retired principal in the Carolinas, and heavy rain 12-year-old Celessie Pearson, suf­ building at an Iredell County ’What are we going to do?’ The flooded highways in South fered a severe back injury, said industrial park, officials said. ones who were running were Carolina. County Coroner Ranny Stephens. At 7 a.m., the center of the screaming." hits books again The storm, which sprang to life Thechild was listed in critical but storm was over south-cOntral AFN, the U.S. military radio from a tropical depression off stable condition today at Rich­ Virginia, about 30 miles south of network, today quoted American Florida, packed its strongest land M em orial Hospital in Roanoke, and was moving toward officials as saying at least 46 By Andrew J. Davis Freeman taught at the punch when it came ashore Columbia. the north-northeast at 20 mph, people were killed — including /Manchester Herald former Buckland School, was Sunday in South Carolina. Between 15 and 30 mobile forecasters reported. Rain from the pilots of the three Italian a teaching principal at the old About 75 miles inland from the homes in Clarendon County were the storm was expected as far planes — and 500 injured at the Even though it is only Robertson School and at Na­ historic port city of Charleston, destroyed when the tornado hit, north as southeastern New York base 60 miles southwest of temporary. William Freeman than Hale School, and a S.C, a tornado touched down in a said county Fire Chief Carter by later today, said the weather Frankfurt. has given up hitting the golf supervising principal at Ver- sparsiy populated area and dev­ Jones. U.S. Highway 301 was service in New York City. Authorities issued no list of ball to hit the books again. planck School. He then ended dead or injured and said identifi­ Freeman, who retired as up back at Robertson for the cation of victims would be a principal at Robertson School final 11 years of his 35-year lengthy process becaused many two years ago, is once again career in Manchester. Thousands join Polish strike; people were badly burned. The head of a school. Because a School Superintendent nationalities of the dead were not successor to Gail Rowe has James P. Kennedy said he known. not been named at Waddell chose Freeman as interim “ They’ve been working School, Freeman has been principal because he wanted leaders OK ‘round-table’ talks throughout the night to identify chosen as the school’s interim someone with experience to the bodies. Then the next of kin principal. open the school, especially WARSAW, Poland (AP) — 18,000-worker plant closed Friday In a speech broadcast to the must be notified,” said Ramstein But why would someone because it is in the midst of Strike leaders said thousands of because of a strike that began a nation at the end of a two-day spokesman Sgt. Eddie Lee. He who is enjoying the fruits of reconstruction. workers Joined a stoppage at a week ago, but allowed workers meeting of the communist party’s said he did not know when a retirement want to come back “ He is an experienced prin­ huge southeastern steel mill into the yard this morning and policy-making Central Commit­ casualty list would be available. to the 9 to 5 grind? cipal who was available when today when management tried to more than 5,000 Joined the tee, he directed his most severe Rudolf Tartter, head of the " I 'like this business. I feel we needed an experienced reopen it two weeks into Poland’s roughly 1,000 strikers, said Piotr criticism at the party-appointed local West German government,, good. If I didn’t feel physically person.” Kennedy said.