Aparo Is Acquitted

What’s News J Friday anrhpHtpr Hpralii LOCAL NEWS INSIDE ■ Bolton ed board cuts classroom. Page 11. Friday, June 29,1990 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm Newsstand Price: 35 Cents ■ Manchester celebration u is Saturday. Page 11. Cease-fire may be possible, INNOCENT ■ Court hears 8th Dist. FOI appeal. Page 11. anti-apartheid leader says Aparo is borhoods open to all races as part of By Greg Myre held their first talks in May and have Far-right leader charged the government’s plan to ease four since worked together on a docu The Associated Press decades of strict residential segrega R\RIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen, president of N ment to remove the obstacles to tion. acquitted the far-right Natitmal From, was efaarg^ with racial full-scale constitutional negotia JOHANNESBURG, South Africa On Thursday, the president ap- tions. defamation Thursday for a remark about “interna- — The white-minority government . timial Jewry” in a n e w sp ^ r interview. jwoved the integration of six rela Slovo, in an interview, expressed By Donisa LaVoie and the African National Congress No date was set for further proceedings in the tively small neighborhoods that in optimism about negotiating with the The Associated Press could soon negotiate a cease-fire case. clude one suburb each in Johannes government on a new constitution after almost 30 years of hostilities, a burg and Cape Town, a rural area . Le Pen, whose party advocates depmtation of im and an end to ^lartheid. HARTFORD — After a stunning setback, leading ANC official predicts. migrants. is a membm of the E u ro p ^ Ruliament outside Durban, and parts of three “There is a good chance that if the Hartford State’s Attorney John Bailey said his office Joe Slovo, an ANC leader and the The cunem case marks the second time his par small towns, Knysna, Messina, and obstacles are removed we will at a will regroup before deciding whether to try Karin head of the South African Com liamentary immunity has been lifted to allow Zuurbekom. The government very early stage move toward ... the Aparo for a second time on a conspiracy charge in munist Party, said Thursday the opened four neighborhoods to all defamation proceedings. negotiation of a suspension of hos her mother’s 1987 murder. government and the ANC would races in November. Le Pen said he was being prosecuted for one sen tilities,” he said. Bailey was grim-faced as he answered questions seek to work out a cease-fire once tence in an interview published by the dsuly Neighborhoods, along with public 'The obstacles, he said, include the from reporters after a Jury Thursday acquitl^ Aparo they resolve several preliminary is newspaper Present in August 1989. He said that schools and the political system, are return of 20,000 ANC exiles and the of the more serious charge of accessory to murder sues. “internatimial Jewry plays a non-negligible role in the main institutions still segregated release of about 3,000 activists con- and declared itself deadlocked on the murder-con In another developmenL President creating an anti-national spirit” in South Africa. spiracy charge. F.W. de Klerk declared six neigh Please see ANC, page 10. Le Pen denied the statement was defamatory aixl The government and the ANC “We’re going to step back from the emotions of said it should be taken in the cmitext of the full in terview. Student $33b needed fpr media American heroes LUXEMBOURG (AP) — The cost of upgrading the East German telecommunication systmn to count 'Western standards will be as high as $33 billion. .d West Gemumy’s telecommunication minister said honored for deeds S' Thursday. rising Christian Schwarz-Schilling, who was taking part 3 -n associated with a rival high school By Catherine Dressier in a meeting of European Community ministers in chased and tackled Moshinski, and The Associated Press By Jacqueline Bennett charge of telecommunications, told Us colleagues began beating him as parents and Manchester Herald the task would take at least six years. PITTSBURGH — More than bystanders watched. He said most of the necessary upgrading could be “I ran over and started throwing F i m 100 people saw five men Jump a COVENTRY — By the end of done in four or five years but re a c ^ g EC stan O o teen-ager, but only James Schmitt kids off of him,” Schmitt said. “I dards would take at least another year. didn’t mean to get involved. I Just this decade the school population in jumped in to help. town will likely increase by 23.8 The minister said the cost of buying high tedi- “Everybody else was standing wanted to make it a fair fighL not nology equipment was estimated at $21 billion, part five to one.” percent according to a study done by around watching. I figured the kid the state Department of Education. of which could be stqpplied by other East European The men turned from Moshinski needed help,” said SchmitL 20, of “There is likely to be slow countries. Philadelphia. He was among 17 and beat Schmitt before fleeing. Another $12 billion would be spent on less moderate steady growth in the com H Schmitt was knocked out with a S i Americans honored Thursday by munity linked to the economic sojphisticated equipmenL cable-laying and construc baseball bat, and was hospitalized z m the Carnegie Hero Commission. climate.” said Fred Brockman of the tion, contracted with East German companies. in critical condition with skull m More than $18.6 million has state Department of Education O "u fractures, fractured ribs and a col i been awarded in one-time pay during a meeting of the Board of Japan emperor’s son weds lapsed right lung. He also lost his ments or pensions to 7,460 heroes Education Thursday night at vision in his right eye. TOKYO (AP) — Sipping sacred rice wine in a or their survivors since the com Coventry High School. S O Moshinski was bruised and suf shrine to ^ sun go^ess. Emperor Aldhlto’s O "n mission was founded by Pittsburgh Brockman and Pat Starble were industrialist Andrew Carnegie in fered a slight concussion. youngest son and his college sweetheart were wed the consultants on a demographic The Associated Press today as millions of Japanese watched on m rn 1904. Also recognized Thursday were: study done on the town by the state television. One of those honored Thursday —Clyde E. Smith, 36, of Con RELIEVED — Karin Aparo smiles as she in relation to the schools, as re Flanked by imperial rituialists. Prince Aya. 24, died in a rescue attempt in fluence, Pa., who waded through hears the verdict of a jury finding her in quested by Superintendent of and Kiko Kawashima, 23, knelt together in the Im Louisiana. icy water flooding a road to rescue Schools Michael Malinowski. nocent of a charge of accessory to murder perial Palace shrine to the goddess Amaterasu, from SchmiU, a sophomore at La a woman trapped in her car in Ur- According to the study, which in connection with the death of her mother, whom legend says the royal family is descended. m 2 ^ Salle University, said he was wait sina. Pa., on Dec. 31,1989. relied in part on data from the town Miss KawasUma. a graduate studenL is the o > ing for his friend Bryan —Christopher Ferland, 16, of Joyce Aparo of Glastonbury. enumerator, current total enrollment second commmer to marry into the royal family, Moshinski, 15, outside a high Riverside, R.I., and Matthew T. of 1,570 will increase in 1993-94 to and the marriage was seen as another s t^ in bring school following a dance on Dec. the case and make a decision in two or three weeks,” 3 3 CO 1,738, a 10.7 percent change, and ing the imperial palace and Japan’s people closer 1, 1989. About eight young men Please see Heroes, page 10. Bailey said. together. J 3 > Please see Schools, page 10. The defeat for the state came after nearly three years of legal wrangling by prosecutors and defense The ceremony also was being hailed as the > H attorneys in one of the most highly publicized cases public’s first taste of the new imperial era, called ■D in recent Connecticut history. Heisei or “achieving peace,” whic^ began with the drath of Emperor J&Uiito on Jan. 7,1^9. Please see Innocent, page 10. Shoes sold at auction NEW YORK (AP) — One pair of shoes more or Aparo’s story less may not mean much to Imelda Marcos, but ^ they were worth $10,000 to a bidder at a charity auction. A pair of black suede pumps from the Marcos is believed, collection — which once numbered more than 1,0(X) pairs — was sold at an auction for children’s medical research, the atuxney for Mrs. Marcos’ not killer’s co-defendant said Thursday. The idea originated with James Linn, chief attor ney for co-d^endanL Saudi Arabian financier By Denise Lavoie Adnan Khashoggi. Linn is founder and chairman of The Associated Press the annual campaign to raise money for research at Qiildren’s Medical Research of Oklahoma City. HARTFORD — Dermis Coleman said he did it for “Everybody has heard about Mrs. Marcos’ love, but Jurors decided Coleman killed Joyce Aparo shoes,” said Linn, who lives in CBclahoma City. to get back at her daughter for sleeping with another “She was gracious enough to include a letter attest man. ing to their authenticity.” After acquitting Karin Aparo of being Coleman’s Mrs.

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