...^ *'■* • — 1 - V ' - ' j ’ AT&T stock: w Connecticut GOP split Feast for four’s fine on opening primaries for Turkey Day menus Do nothing? ... page 25 ... pag« 6 page 13 Manchester, Conn. Some showers tonight; Wednesday, Nov. 16, 1983 breezy, cool Thursday Single copy: 25<t — See page 2 Hanrl^fatrr Hfralfi Israeli jets bomb pro-Iranian rebeis Bv Barry James reported accurate hits,” the spo­ tains for today’s shelling in Beirut, United Press International kesman said. Military sources in but the Moslems said the Chris­ Tel Aviv said the planes bombed tians started it. BEIRUT, Lebanon — Israeli tents, vehicles, buildings and anti­ Preliminary reports said five warplanes bombed guerrilla bases aircraft batteries at the base. people were wounded today and in the Bekaa Valley today in a Sixty-one people died in the the radio appealed to residents to retaliatory strike against pro- attack at Tyre, including 29 border stay inside ’ ‘until we see if the new Iranian guerrillas believed respon­ policemen, and 239 U.S. soldiers cease-fire agreement holds.” At sible for the suicide-bombings of and 58 French soldiers died Oct. 23 least three people were killed U.S., French and Israeli military irftwin attacks on U.S. and French Tuesday in the shelling. installations. headquarters. This vvcek’s shelling marked the The air strike was Israel’s first In Damascus, Syrian Foreign worst violation of a Sept. 26 in Lebanon since Nov. 4, when it hit Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam cease-fire that ended fighting guerrilla positions overlooking told Parliament Tuesday “ certain between Christian-led government Beirut to retaliate for an attack American parties” blamed Syria forces and Syrian-backed Druze that killed 61 people at Israeli for the bombings and warned the and Palestinian fighters in the military headquarters in the south­ United States and Israel were Shouf mountains. ern Lebanese city of Tyre. planning action a'^inst Syria. Political sources said the shel­ In northern Tripoli, police said The rightist Christian Voice of ling over the past two days could the Beddawi refugee camp fell Lebanon radio blamed the Syrian- lead to the total collapse of the after fierce fighting to Palestinian backed Druze in the Shouf moun- accord. rebels seeking to oust Palestine Liberation Organization chief UPt photo Yasser Arafat from Lebanon. suite to congratulate him on his victory. Red Cross and hospital officials Bostorn mayor-elect Ray Flynn (right) said that at least 62 people were Catholic teachers walks with Mel King, who was defeated Flynn wears a King campaign button killed and nearly 130 wounded by Flynn in the city’s runoff election after the meeting of the candidates. Tuesday when rebels launched a three-front tank assault on Arafat Tuesday. King went to Flynn’s hotel loyalists defending the refugee delay strike'vote camp north of Tripoli. Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Khaddam met with Lebanese Race issue dominates President Amin Gemayel in Beirut as parents join in only hours after an intense ar­ tillery barrage pushed the 7-week- old cease-fire around the capital to By Sarah E. Hall school met Tuesday night at the the point of total collapse. Herald Reporter Knights of Columbus hall in vote in Boston, Miami Lebanese security sources said Newington. two U.S. warplanes today streaked Now both parents and local The parents did not formally low over the capital toward the administration have entered the request a strike vote postpone­ Bv United Press International Cuban-Americans of Miami’s for about a minute after the mountains to the east to spot the labor fray between area Catholic ment, but teachers decided to give sprawling Little Havana to counter applause died. artillery batteries pounding the high school teachers and the them more time for input anyway, City Councilor Raymond Flynn the lead. They didn’t. Ferre ^ k ' He said historians will recognize capital. A U.S. Marine spokesman Diocesan School Office. McConville said. According to rolled to decisive victory in Bos­ nearly 30 percent of theKJub^ the success of his campaign “ as declined comment. him, the decision was made by ton's mayoral election, turning vote. k the turning point in the social, The Israeli warplanes struck two For the second time in less than a union members meeting at their back civil rights activist Melvin “ It sounds like we have a cultural and political history of pro-Iranian guerrilla camps that month, the Greater Hartford Ca­ individual schools over the past King’s bid to become the first black political machine that we can’t Boston.” the Israelis said were used to train tholic Teachers Association has two days. mayor in the city’s 353-year give up,” Suarez told reporters He challenged Flynn to “ eradi­ the terrorists who bombed the U.S. agreed to postpone a vote on •Basically, the parents are bistory. In Miami, Puerto Rican- after conceding defeat in a tele­ cate the pervasive and destructive Marine base and a French bar­ whether or not to strike. To give going to try to get both sides back born Mayor Maurice Ferre won phone call to Ferre, aspects of racism” in Boston. racks in Beirut Oct. 23 and the parents time for further action, to the negotiating table,” McCon­ ’There were at least four violent Israeli military headquarters in union members at each of the five ville added. He said parei^ts W ll re-election to a record sixth term. A final tabulation of the city’s 85 incidents in an otherwise peaceful Tyre two weeks later. schools involved have decided not try to meet with DSO administra­ Flynn, promising to heal Bos­ precincts gave Ferre 36,096 votes, campaign in a city once tom by Official Beirut radio and the to hold a second strike vote tonight, tors and Archbishop -John F. ton’s deep and long-standing racial or 54.8 percent, and Suarez 29,747 racial strife during court-ordered right-wing Christian Phalange Vo­ as ..was originally planned. Whealon in an attempt to get wounds, Tuesday night told jubi­ votes, or 45.2 percent. The turnout busing in the 1970s. ice of Lebanon said the Israeli contract talks moving. lant campaign workers, “ Tonight was a strong 61.78 percent, slightly At East Catholic High School, the Flynn Campaigned on a platform warplanes scored direct hits and Earlier this fall, a state mediator ^ston made history." less than predicted by election Rev. William Charbonneau, prin­ of cleaning up City Hall, trimming left the bases destroyed and declared an impasse in negotia­ “ We have a united city. We have officials. cipal, has gotten involved in the excess spending and focusing blazing in less than 30 minutes. tions. McConville predicts that the proven that the hopes that unite us In Boston, with 246 of the city’s dispute for the first tirne. He has attention and money on blue collar “ Israeli airplanes this morning upcoming Thanksgiving holiday are stronger than the fears that 252 precincts reporting, Flynn had asked teachers not to picket out in neighborhoods, which have been attacked a terrorist base contain­ will delay further contract action divide us.” 125,141 votes, or 65.8 percent, to front of the school this morning, as plagued with high unemployment, ing terrorists linked to Iran, 4 for some time. Ferre’s victory Tuesday cli­ King’s 65,142, or 34:2 percent. The they had on Tuesday morning. maxed a bitter campaign against rising crime and spreading urban miles east of the Rayak military The administation’s and record turnout exceeded 66 Charbonneau said the sign- Cuban-born lawyer Xavier Suarez blight. airfield," a spokesman a t, the teachers’ three-year salary pack-f percent. carrying violated a section of the that divided Miami’s voters along In Miami, Ferre, 48, invited his Israeli military command in Tel ages are now fairly close, differing One of the most moving scenes of defeated adversary to breakfast Aviv said. existing teachers’ contract which by no more than 1 percent during racial lines. prohibits work stoppages and any Miami’s black voters, warned by the year-long campaign came with today and Suarez accepted. Rayak, in the Bekaa Valley, is any one semester. Both proposals kind of interference with the Ferre’s backers that Cubans were the thunderous 10-minute ovation “ I think it has been a tough located about 15 miles southwest of are set up.on a split-year basis!^ normal conduct of the schools. He trying to take over the city, gave King received from campaign campaign, but I think it is Baalbek and 30 miles east of Beirut Teachers want an 8 percent raise added that he decided to step in Ferre as much as 97 percent of workers as he made his concession important for us to heal the wounds near the Syrian frontier. in the first half of the contract’s because the picketing, which up till their vote in some precincts. speech. The reception moved King and to bring this community “ All Israeli planes returned first year and a 3‘/i percent then had been done only in Suarez had counted on the to tears and he was unable to speak together,” Ferre said. safely to base and our pilots increase in the second half. In the Hartford, was being done out in second and third years of the front of his school. contract, they want raises of 8'A “ I think we turned a lot of and 3'/i percent and 8‘A and 4 heads,” said East Catholic union percent, respectively, O’Neill reviewing tentative budget representative John J. McConville The archdiocese has offered an 8 of the Tuesday picket, which was percent salary increase forthe fall done before school started.