WhaVs News Coventry Resident Kicks Back -- page 4 Monday Local news inside ■ Hospital seeks rate hike. Page 7. lianrhpHtpr Hpra^^> ■ Groark stumps In Coventry. Monday, July 23,1990 Voted 1990 New England Newspaper of the Year Newsstand Price: 35 Cents Page 7. ■ 4th District GOP challenge. Rowland aims at Weicker, Page 7. wants Dems as friends governor’s office for 32 of the last commanding lead in the polls, far NCAA says UNLV By JUDD EVERHART Multiple fatal 36 years. The last time a Republican ahead of Rowland, who is just ifflanrliratrr Hrralh The Associated Press on 1-95 won it was in 1970. slightly ahead of Democrat Bruce A. The Democrats, Rowland said, Morrison, a four-term congressman MILFORD (AP) — An accident HARTFORD ■— Now that the can’t defend title “are my friends.” To prove it, he put from Hamden who faces a Sept. 11 Republican convention is over and on Interstate 95 this morning one on his ticket: former Democratic primary for the Democratic nomina­ there no primaries in the way. caused multiple fatalities, and State Treasurer Joan R. Kcmlcr. tion against challenger William J. Republican gubernatorial candidate forced police to shut down the Kcmier registered as a Republican John G. Rowland says he is ready to Cibes Jr., a six-term state repre­ westbound lanes, state police said. last week. sentative from New London. See page 41 The accident occurred near a get down to business. SPORTS Rowland and his allies believe he But Rowland shrugs off the polls, construction site on the interstate Rowland, who is forsaking his and involved a construction truck, seemingly safe congressional scat is the one to carry the GOP back to attributing Weicker’s lead only to a state police dispatcher said. after six years to run for governor, the governor’s mansion because he his high name recognition after two The dispatcher said more than was nominated by acclamation has been elected and re-elected in a decades as a statewide political Y one person was killed but that he Saturday at the 1990 Republican blue collar, traditionally Democratic figure. had not received confirmation on Slate Convention. district, to Congress and the General Rowland and most observers, in­ the exact number. Rowland, who wants to have Assembly in Hartford. cluding Weicker, expect the race to Faldo, Norman dead even tighten up as the election ap­ The crash was reported at 9 several debates before the election, Weicker, a former three-term a.m., and the highway remained said he plans to focus on Independ­ Republican U.S. senator from proaches. Rowland said he expects By BOB GREEN 1977. “A real shot in the arm, a bonus,” he said of the soft closed two hours later. ent Lowell P. Weicker in his bid for Greenwich, created his own party Weicker and Morrison to split the The Associated Press Neither Watson nor Ballesteros will be around to shot that arched against a gray Scottish sky, hit the green the governor’s office. At the same this year, the Connecticut Party, to liberal vote, while moderates and watch this latest in a series, however. four feet beyond the flag and spun back into the cup. time he is courting the Democrats. run for governor after concluding he conservatives turn to him. ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — They’re Nos. 1 and 1-A Both were victims of the unkindest cut in the history Faldo’s approach was less i-amatic but no less effec­ Spinks son killed hi a state where Democrats out­ couldn’t get the Republican nomina­ Rowland is ready to begin a new on any list of the world’s great golfers. Nick Faldo and of golf’s oldest toumamenL A score of one-under-par tive. Just as he has done so often in recent years, in vic­ EAST ST. LOUIS, 111. (AP) — number Republicans 3-to-2, he tion. Weicker lost his Senate seat in round of television commercials, al­ Greg Norman will determine who’s who over the last 36 143 — the lowest ever by three strokes — was required tories in the 1987 Open and the last two Masters, the tall The son of former heavyweight knows he needs Democratic support 1988 and said at the time he was though he says he doesn’t want to spend loo much money during the holes of the British Open. to qualify for the final two rounds. Englishman’s elegant strokes were simply relentless. boxing champion Leon Spinks was if he’s to have a chance at winning through with politics. Faldo and Norman reached the halfway point of this The old low was two-over par at Royal Troon last He compiled a bogey-free 65 — matching the best killed in a hail of gunfire as he in November. Since announcing his candidacy Please sec ROWLAND, page 6, 119th and lowest-scoring Open Qiampionship in a dead year. Eighty golfers made it then; 72 — par for the Old score of the tournament — in the chilly weather and rode home after visiting his Tlie Democrats have occupied the in March, Weicker has maintained a heat at 132, 12 strokes under par on the Old Course, and Course — advanced this time. brisk breezes off the Bay of St. Andrews. girlfriend, authorities said. set up a head-to-head due! for world golfing supremacy. Norman, who has a recent history of come-from-be- Faldo’s may have been the more difficult role. He was Leon Calvin, 19, a rookie o ' No one else was within four strokes of the run-away hind, last-round challenges that seem to meet misfortune playing behind both Norman and Ian Woosnam of Wales, professional boxer who had hoped Reginald Pinto/Manchoster Herald co-Ieadcrs, who will be paired together in Saturday’s in golf s top events, returned to an earlier format here. all of whom shared the lead at one point or another. to follow in his father’s footsteps, third round, a confrontation reminiscent of a couple of Just as he did in his only previous major-tournament “When you’re all playing well, and holing putts, you was found dead at 5:30 a.m. Sun­ RELAXING BY THE FALLS — Phyllis Glasheen of Rye, Towns, except Manchester, other recent British Opens in which leadership in the triumph, the 1986 Open at 'Rimberry in which he led all look at the leaderboard and keep going,” Faldo said. day in the bullet-tom car near a game was on the line. N.Y., works on some cross-stitching at the Highland Park the way, he wasted no time in this one. “We were all sort of like ch^ing each other. It was a bridge between East St. Louis and Falls. Glasheen works for the Travelers Companies in New Seve Ballesteros’ triumph over Tom Watson here in He holed a magnificent sand wedge shot from 75 good mode to be in, going for every pin and trying to St. Louis, where he lived. I- 1984 made the Spaniard the undisputed leader of the yards out for an eagle-three that served as the centerpiece York, but she comes to the Hartford home office every week backed Kezer for secretary o o hole every putt. It was the key to the round. Everybody game. Watson relinquished the role he’d secured in a Friday of a second consecutive 66 and now has shared Woman dies and makes a stop at the falls on the way to visit friends in Kill- CD one-stroke victory over Jack Nicklaus at Tbrnbcrry in the lead at the end of each of the first two rounds. By ALEX GIRELLI With Sehmidle out of the race said, “Certainly I’m disappointed. Please see BRITISH, page 45 ingly. during show Manchester Herald the nomination went by acclama­ I’m crying.” WATERFORD (AP) — A tion to Pauline E. Kezer of Plain- Ellen Bums Landers and Terry woman singing at a nightclub col­ Most of the Manchester villc, the choice of GOP guber­ Werkhoven, two Sehmidle sup­ o d lapsed shortly after her perfor­ delegates to the Republican State natorial candidate John G. Roland. porters, both said they were disap­ mance began and died 45 minutes Abortion likely Convention this weekend were on The Andover, Bolton, Coventry, pointed in the outcome. “Mae later at a hospital, police said. the losing side of the only con­ Hebron, Columbia and Sehmidle did a real classy thing,” O “D Maria A. Quattropani, 42, of tested nomination during the well- Marlborough delegates each cast Landers said of Sehmidle’s Colchester was pronounced dead orchestrated event, but they their two votes for Kezer. decision to drop out the race in the about 2 a.m. Sunday at Lawrence focal point resigned themselves to the out­ Coventry also had one delegate- interest of party unity. 2 o and Memorial Hospital, police come. at-large, who cast a vote for Geoffrey Naab, a Sehmidle sup­ O “n said. Ten of tlie town’s 13 delegates Sehmidle. porter, said she did the right thing “She did one song and almost voted for state Rep. Mae S. Unofficial counts put in bowing ouL because the con­ m rn finished a second song and she Just for new justice Sehmidle of Newtown, who Schmidle’s vote tally at about 200 vention was overwhelmingly for w fell backwards,” said Robin Busch witlidrcw from the race when vote to about 700 for Kezer in the initial Kezer. owner of Moby Dick’s nightclub. switching after the roll call indi­ count. The Manehesler delegates who 2 O By NANCY BENAC and predicted the Judiciary Commit­ cated her delegate support for the Asked if she was disappointed voted for Kezer were Ronald Oscl- m tee, on which he and Metzenbaum Marrow transplant The Associated Press post of secretary of state was erod­ in the outcome, former stale Rep.