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U - MANCHESTER HERALD, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 1985 $ - MANCHESTER FOCUS EXTRA WEATHER More Rhody teachers face jail Hydro project hopes 11 Greyhound discovers 11 Manchester’s fall 11 Fair, cool tonight; By Jam es H, Ludwin dim even further 11 a Manchester home 11 recreation program 11 sunny, warm Friday United Press International By R ...p ag es I I ... page 11 I | ... supplement inside I I ...page 2 Unit) PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A nego tiating session headed by Gov. WJ) Edward DiPrete failed to end the Unioi IJ-day-old Pawtucket teachers’ em t 5,000 strike as 34 more union members ‘ f 4.. f faced the prospect of being jailed iU 0 and fined today. DiPrete intervened late Tuesday after Superior Court Judge Co- are i rinne Grande sent the first group of dup 23 teachers, including union Presi cosu dent Mary Anne Kaveny, to jail in fens< handcuffs for ignoring her back-to- berg iEanrhfHtf r HrralJi Di: work order. ........ ____ * ThiiraHax/Thursday, Sept. 19, 1985 — Single copy: 25C The talks broke up about 12:30 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm sitioi a.m. today with a promise to men return again tonight to resume Unit negotiations, DiPrete said. perc ”I can sense what I preceive to deta be an honest^nd sincere desire by publ both sides to reach a settlement,” Weir says captors proposing swap by tl DiPretesaid. ’’Idon’tthinkthetwo \ sides are that far apart.” Weir said, ” I urge that new understood there was hope that one Robert Paquin, chairman of-the terian Church. Anderson, a reporter for The UPl photo Bv Thomas Ferraro efforts be made and that new and or more of the other hostages Pawtucket School Committee, did The minister said ’’They have Associated Press, joined Weir at United Press International creative options be explored for might be released very soon and to A- not share the governor’s optimism, released me as a sign of their good the news conference and, along Eighteen leaders of the Pawtucket, R.I., ior Court Judge Corrinne Grande also with other family members were negotiating their release.” protect that possibility there saying, “We are no further along.” WASHINGTON - The Rev. intentions. However, they are not should be no publicity whatever for Meanwhile, the 600-member Teachers Union, found in contempt of gave them $500 fines or back to school Benjamin Weir, released Saturday willing to wait much longer. to meet with administration, offi In his statement, Weir also orders as talks broke off late Tuesday in cials this week to push for provided for the first time some a day or two.” Pawtucket ’Teachers’ Alliance, court, enter the Adult Correction from 16 months of captivity in ’’They state that if there is not a ”It was mutually agreed that I which went on strike Sept. 4, was the 11-day-old strike. Lebanon, said today he has told postive response to their demands increased efforts to release their details about his sudden and Institution in Cranston Tuesday, Super loved ones. surprise release. go into temporary seclusion with denied an immediate stay of President Reagan his former in the near future they're prepared my family. ... Consequently, I Grande’s order by state Supreme captors are demanding freedom to kidnap other Americans and Weir, a Presbyterian minister ’’Just before midnight last Sat hour session, which began Monday from Berkeley, Calif., said in his urday, Sept. 14, I was suddendly proceeded to announce this news Court Justice Florence Murray. A told Grande before she was led 8,500 students at the district’s 10 for 17 Moslem prisoners in Kuwait that though they do not want to conference for today,” he said. full hearing may be scheduled from the courtroom Tuesday by a elementary, three junior and two night. as the price for the release of six harm anyone, they will go so far as statement that he relayed the released by my captors.” later in the week. sheriff’s deputy, handcuffed and high schools. The school district hiked its offer other Americans. to proceed to execute their hos message from his captors to He said, ”I made contact with Weir said he had occasionally In addition to considering con then taken to the Adult Correc ”I apologize for defying the from a one-year contract with a 5 Weir said the captors have tages if the demand is not met,” President Reagan Wednesday by the American Embassy whose seen four of the hostages and ’’they tempt charges against 34 more tional Institutions. court, but I do believe I need a percent raise to a three-year deal, threatened to execute their hos Weir and the other Americans telephone. ambassador and officials are well.” He said he last saw the teachers today, Grande said she During individual questioning of contract,” said Richard Petrella, which would have provided a 5 tages and to kidnap other Ameri were kidnapped during the pasl 18 ”I personally believe the appeals promptly and efficiently arranged four on Saturday and identified from my captors should be taken for me to be transported to the them as Terry Anderson, the Rev. UPl photos would also review the school Kaveny and the other 22 union one of the teachers sent to the state percent salary increase the first cans if their demands are not met. months and held in Lebanon by district’s request for a contempt leaders and members, Grande prison. year, a 6 percent hike the second ’’They have one demand, Shiite fundamentalist Moslem seriously,” Weirsaid. ”I am aware U.S.A. Late Monday evening, I Lawrence Jenco of Joliet, 111., citation against the union as a declared, “I have heard no justifi The contempt hearing came year and a wage reopener the final namely the release of 17 prisoners group called Islamic Jahid or Holy that U.S. governmnt officials are arrived by U.S. government air David Jacobsen of Huntington Members-of the curatorial staff of the New England concerned for the safety and plane. landing near Norfolk, Va.,” Beach, Calif., and Thomas Suther corporate entity, which would add cation” for the strike. after a court-ordered mediation year. BENJAMIN WEIR in Kuwait,” Weir, 61, said in a War. Aquarium (top) carefully move an electric eel, even more pressure on the union to ’’There is no justification,” she session broke up at 2:45 a.m. Union negotiator Robert Casey statement prepared for a news Peggy Say, sister of one of the six welfare of the remaining six site of a naval and air base. land, whose wife lives in Fort affectionately know as "Zap." back on display Tuesday. end its waikout. said. ”It’s just out-and-out de Tuesday without a settlement. The said a counter-offer was made but . reports to Reagan conference at the National Presby- Americans still being held. Terry American hpstages.” Weir said, "Upon my arrival I Collins, Colo. At bottom, a close-up of the shocking fellow. ’ ’I do not have a contract and so I fiance of a court order.” union rejected a new offer from the that the school district had not do not return to work,” Kaveny The strike has idled classes for school committee during the eight- responded. ‘Z a p ’ earns his respect Prospective bidders mount Talks Firehouse change BOSTON (UPl) It was not a shocking experience, but it - wins PZC approval could have been. Turner considers UPl purchase Officials at the New England England Aquarium Tuesday very key on two lots east of where the district by restructuring the current con Bv John F. Kirch carefully moved a 6-foot-long electric eel to a new home. By Gregory Gordon company’s employees union, UPl Patricof, who said he manages plans to build. The town’s station tract with the Wire Service Guild Herald Reporter "The transfer went quite well,” said aquarium spokeswoman United Press International reported this week. $240 million in pension and insu has emerged as a major issue in Newly identified prospects rance company funds, said he and and offering stock to employees. Mimi Brown, noting the eel weighs between 50 and 60 pounds and The Eighth Utilities District won the Nov. 5 election campaign, with included: the Pritzkers seek additional He said turning around a company m is capable of emitting 650 volts from its tail. WASHINGTON - Gulf & West summit approval from town zoning offi Republicans arguing it should be • Gulf & Western Industries, partners to allow for “the broadest like UPl is "the lifeblood of an “It’s enough to kill you, and it’s enough to stun a horse,” said ern Industries and venture capital cials Wednesday night to use all of sold and Democrats saying it owner of major book publisher participation from the media” in entrepreneur.” Phillips acknowl Brown, adding that a common household electrical socket puts ist Alan Patricof are among more a parcel of land it owns on Tolland should be kept. Simon & Schuster, Paramount an ownership group. He said the edged two publicly held companies out 110 volts. than 15 parties who have submitted Turnpike for construction of a The town built the station in the Pictures and Madison Square group also would consider grant he purchased out of bankruptcy, GENEVA, Switzerland (UPI) - " I don’t think you’d want to touch it,” she said, adding, ”It’s not expressions of interest in purchas satellite fire station. 1970s, but the Buckland area was ing equity to UPl employees, Acton Corp., a cable television U.S. and Soviet negotiating teams something you do nonchalantly.” ing United Press Internationai, Garden.