THURSDAY LOCAL NEWS INSIDE ■ Bolton revises school use policy. ilanrhpHtpr ■ Educationai groups endorse Genga. WhaVs ■ Meotti proposes economy study. News ■ Probate incumbent couidn’t finish. Nov. 1.1990 Local/Regional Section, Page 7, Gulf at a Glance Here, at a glance, arc the latest developments in the Per­ Vbur Hometown Newspaper Voted 1990 New England Newspaper of the Year sian Gulf crisis: I Iraq is offering to let rela­ tives visit Western hostages over Christmas and New Year’s, and W f denies reports that foreigners arc being mistreated. Affadavit Information Minister Latif V Jassim said it’s possible the United Sutes is spreading false reports on the condition of “foreign guests” to seek an ex­ details events cuse to attack Iraq. 'j- “It’s probably just another psychological ploy,” said Dawn f I Bazner of the offer to visit the of tragic death hostages, one of whom is her husband. ■ President Bush says he’s By RICK SANTOS The cannon was made from a fed up with the ucatment of Manchester Herald cylinder for a carbon dioxide fire American diplomats at the U.S. extinguisher, packed with mortar Embassy in occupied Kuwait, where reports have suggested MANCHESTER — Details from and black powder, wimesses told they arc running out of food. an affidavit for the arrests of two police. The men accused of ignit­ In his harshest condemnation Manchester men in connection with ing the cannon, Paul F. Morrissette, yet of Saddam Hussein since the the accidental death of a third town 24, of 596 Gamder St., and John F. Iraqi invasion of Aug. 2, Bush man include information that the ac­ Hawkins, 23, of 29 West Street, ini­ said Wednesday the diplomats cused had fired a homemade cannon tially had fired the device about 75 “are being starved by a brutal three times during an all-day beer feet away from a gathering of about IA dictator.” party before the fourth attempt 15 young men and women who The U.S. and British embas­ ended with a death. were attending a keg party in woods sies in Kuwait are the only In the fatal Oct. 14 accident, Greg located about a quarter of a mile be­ O H Western missions still defying Lukas, 21, of 24 Dudley St., died hind 575 Gardner St., according to 30 r- Baghdad’s orders to close. from severe head injuries after the affidavit. s s ■ Families of the hostages shrapnel from the cannon, which But as the party continued, the > m held in Iraq and Kuwait in recent fired incorrectly, sheared off the top men set off the cannon at locations weeks have expressed concern S ^ portion of his skull, the affidavit Reginald PInlo/Manchestar Herald to the U.S. government about O DO states. Please see DEATH, page 6. their relatives’ need for food and Z < TRICK OR TREAT — Above, Dave Stone of 111 Birch St. hands out candy to some young proper clothing. H H trick-or-treaters at his front door Wednesday evening. Below, Meredith Edwards of Alburquer- French hostages freed this m I que, N.M., peeks out of the mouth of a giant Jack-O-Lantern costume during Alburquerque’s week confirmed their fears: 0 m Barrett ousted “Please, please tell your govern­ annual Halloween costume contest. ment it must get their men some cold-weather clothes,” said one 1 ^ Frenchman who spent much of O o for suspension his captivity with 50-ycar-old John Cole. n o ^ Barrett added that he has prepared Spokeswoman Diane Salis­ 2 0 ) By ALEX GIRELLI a seven-page press release on the bury of the State Department’s m O) Manchester Heraild New Jersey ethics charges. / Kuwaiti Task Force said it is However, on Sunday, he said, looking into sending packages to P O MANCHESTER — Attorney Leo John Garside, Republican town hostages in Iraq through the U.S. J. Barrett said this morning he had chairman, and other Republican Embassy in Baghdad, which m f. been prepared to stay in the race for leaders asked him to withi-aw be­ would try to have the Iraqi probate judgeship despite the release cause they thought he would capture government forward them. of information about the suspension all the headlines during the last days ■ More expressions of pes­ 3 0 > . of his New Jersey law license for of election campaigns, diverting at­ simism about the situation in the three years. He withdrew after being tention from Republican candidates. Persian Gulf: asked to do so on Sunday by Garside could not be contacted Egypt’s President Hosni Republican leaders. this morning for comment. Mubardc and a British com­ The license suspension was or­ At a brief news conference T\ies- mander on Wednesday joined a dered by the New Jersey Supreme day morning, Barrett announced his growning chorus that says war Court in 1982 as the result of five withdrawal with no mention of the now seems increasingly likely. complaints. The Disciplinary ethics case, saying that his On Thesday, the Los Angeles Review Board of the New Jersey withdrawal was due to personal, Times quoted an unidentified Bar Association had recommended health and business reasons. He senior U.S. official as saying he disbarment, but the high court declined to elaborate. considers war almost inevitable decided that action was too severe. Garside, who was at the con­ and that an attack is most likely Barrett said Republican can­ ference, also declined to elaborate. to occur in December or didates and the Republican execu­ Barrett said the charges in New January. tive committee agreed at a meeting Jersey were brought three years after last week that he should remain a he had already left the state and v.^ Halloween candidate. moved to Florida. incidents “They all voted that I would con­ He said he had been persecuted tinue,” he said. “I wanted the voters SANTA MONICA, Calif. to make the decision.” Please see BARRETT, page 6. The Associated Press (AP) — A 7-year-old girl col­ lapsed and died while trick-or- treating, and police were inves­ tigating today whether her death Sierra Club charging was caused by a heart condition Officials praise or poisoned candy. Ariel Katz had been collecting candy with a group of children Preble misrepresents chaperoned by two adults when changes in SAT she collapsed Wednesday night, By BRIAN M. TROTTA Democrat John Thompson in the campaign literature without permis­ said police Lt. James Dawson. By SCOTT BREDE James Spa^ord, principal of > Manchester Herald 13th house district race implied that sion. Her parents told authorities Manchester Herald Manchester High School, ap-: he had the endorsement of the group She also said candidates in each she had a heart murmur, but when there had been no such endor­ of the house and senate races arc police said they were checking and The Associated Press plauded the proposed revision b ^ J MANCHESTER - The president sement in the race. sent a short general questionnaire by her candy to see if it was cause it would judge students’ of a natiotud environmental group The disputed information is the Sierra Club, and that based on poisoned. MANCHESTER — Local answers by reviewing the says Republican Reginald Preble, a procedures sce n ts used to arrive printed on a flyer in w’.iich Preble favorable reaction to his responses, “She had been eating some 1 candidate for the State Legislature, educational officials praised the states that his “specific proposals for Preble “may have felt entitled to an candy as she went,” Dawson at them. has been misusing her organiza­ Educational Testing Service for protecting the air, land and water in endor.scment.” said. considering changes to the Spafford said that, with the tion’s name in his campaign litera­ Connecticut have been very well While one or more members of In nearby Los Angeles, an Scholastic Aptitude Ibst, which revision, students will have- to ture. received by the Sierra Club.” the club may have reacted favorably 11-year-old was shot and the Princeton, NJ.-based office show their work to con^lete the Susan Merrow, national president Merrow said the Sierra Club has to the proposals, that does not con- wounded on Halloween when he puts ouL math section of the test of the Sierra Club, said this morning sent a letter to Preble asking him to refused to hand over his candy “I am pleased that ETS is con­ “Rather than just answering a that the challenger to incumbent stop using the group’s name in his Please see PR EBLE, page 6. to four teen-agers, police said. sidering alternative testing multiple choice question, students methods,” said Coventry School have to go through steps to ^ t to Superintendent Michael the answer,” Sp^ord said. “It k Malinowsky, noting that past SAT no loner just a guessing gaine." The principal said that students Few arrests on Halloween tests have favored white males by Inside Today,.. 9 now will be allowed to use cal­ asking questions that female and Coventry, and Hebron. reported. The party was at culators while doing the math s e e -. By RICK SANTOS non-white students might not be Manchester Herald In Manchester, numerous cases of Ledgecresl Terrace and Valley View as familiar with. tion, but that won’t cause a mqjcff vandalism were reported. Police ar­ Road. impact on test results. 20 pages, 4 sections “Colleges reach out to different rested a town man for breach of The town’s fire department “One of the oiticisms, in tem i Halloween’s ghosts and goblins sectors of American society, so peace and criminal trespassing after reported that it responded to only caused some devilment Wednesday Business__ why give a test that is g e W i of the use of calculators, has b e ^ i he egged a cruiser in the area of one minor incident related to the night in Manchester, with police ar­ Classified__ toward white males?” asked that the inachme is doing evey^^ holiday.