SPORTS FOCUS Plans for mall UConn triumphs Waddell students faking shape over Fairfield list their wishes ... page 3 .. page 9 ... page 13 HaitrhpBlpr Hpralh ) Manchester — A City ol Village Charm Wednesday, Dec. 24,1986 30 Cents \ Casey memo NA said to detail nat E for« swap strategy NEW YORK (AP) - In a The newspaper said it was unable memorandum written at the begin­ to learn to whom the memo was ning of U.S. arms sales to Iran, CIA addressed, and quoted officials as C Director William Casey said the saying that the it may have been U.S. was selling the arms in written for Casey’s files or by a exchange for the release of hos­ subordinate under Casey’s name. tages. according to an official The Times said one congressional quoted by The New York Times in official who has read many other its Wednesday editions. Casey memos called it out of The memo further said that if the character. The Times quoted the secret arms sales were publicly official as saying that in other revealed. President Reagan would documents Casey argued in favor describe them as a political opening improving U.S.-Iran relations. rather than an arms-for-hostages CIA spokeswoman Kathy Pher- trade, according to the official. son, reached by The Associated The Times said its source was a Press, declined to comment on the high-ranking official who said he Times report. White House spokes­ had seen the memo, but also quoted man Mark Weinberg said, “ A another senior official who doubted document review by White House the memo’s existence. A White officials has not turned up this House spokesman said a search had document.” failed to turn up the document. A senior White House official The official could not remember contacted by the Times said he M< the exact date of the memo, but said didn’t believe the memo exists, and lar the newspaper said that White H*r«ld photo by Pinto it was written about a year ago. The stc official paraphrased it and said it House counsel Peter Wallison had thi described Reagan as “ taking the been inspecting hundreds of thou­ Minda Muong, 19, (left) shows her father, Thann Sinath Muong, 7, Kosal Muong, 11, and Tin Khner, 7. attitude that we can retroactively sands documents but had failed to Lo Christmas in the United States has a special meaning explain it (the arms deal) as an turn it up. 2 Muong, a plaque the family brought from war-torn for the Muongs, who live on Lincoln Street. opening to Iran,” the Times said. The White House official said the Cambodia while her mother, Yath Vin (back right), Reagan has said that the arms arms sales were intended to im­ looks on. The three children (from front to back) are sales were part of a diplomatic prove relations with Iran, but effort to improve relations with added. “ It may be that other people Iran, and were not meant primarily at the working level had other I to secure the release of U.S. conceptions or other agendas and Thankful family celebiates In town hostages held in Lebanon. used the memo route.” In Those worries ended for the Muongs in 1981, 4 Bv John F. Kirch They gave me clothes.” when, under sponsorship of the Manchester Ja Herald Reporter Muong. his wife, Yath Vin, and their four children. Minda, 19, Sinorng, 16, Kosal, 11, and Area Conference of Churches, they came to bum A green wreath on the door greets visitors, Sinath, 7, are from Cambodia. They live with America. The Khners followed in 1985, but Senators say Reagan her I while inside the modest house on Lincoln relatives, Khon Khner, his wife. Yearn Vin, neither family’s trip was without incident. annti Street a small artificial Christmas tree stands and their children, Chantha, 13, Tho, in, and In 1975, when the communist Khmer Rouge Tr rebels took control of Phnom Penh, Moung, in the living room comer. Tin, 7, in a three-bedroom house. request is off course Jack Under the tree lie a few gifts. Nearby, on then a military nurse, was sent to into the Tues The family endured fighting in Southeast couches on either side of the room, a family fields with his family to do manual labor. He daug Asia and made it successfully to a country .decided to bring his family to the United States that has everything to be grateful for sits WASHINGTON (AP) - A trio of legally goes out of business. Houi where a holiday like Christmas can be in 1979, when the Vietnamese army invaded quietly together, bathing in the typical holiday Senate Democrats say President Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., vice He celebrated with some peace of mind. Cambodia and took control of its government. scene. Only this family is not so typical. Reagan should look within his own chairman of the panel, said Rea­ tions The Moungs and Khners traveled 93 miles For Thann Muong and his family, Christ­ “ We kind of escaped it,” Minda Muong said, White House, rather than to the gan’s request, which the president gory on foot to escape their homeland. It took them mas cheer hasn’t come easily. But it did come. referring to war-torn Cambodia. “ Over there Senate, if he wants to get the facts first made last week, is misplaced. voca “ People in Manchester, they really helped we used to worry about the bombs, out on the diversion of profits from “ In effect, what he is doing is favo Please tnm to page 8 me,” Muong said. “ They gave me food to eat. everything.” Iranian arms sales to guerrillas asking Congress to tell him why he Fi fighting the Nicaraguan made the decisions he did,” said Bill: government. Leahy. ’“This is a foreign policy daug disaster and they’ re trying to treat Reagan renewed his request and it as public relations problem.” Tuesday to the Senate Intelligence Run- Committee to send him a report on Leahy, speaking by telephone French hostage set free in Lebanon Fo its three weeks of closed-door from his Middlesex, Vt., home, Rebi hearings into the matter. said, “ I don’t know if there’s point for some hostages brought out anything the committee found out wavi BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Shiite Two of the foundation’s em­ Chirac, Syrian President Hafez Reagan told a White House of Lebanon. that the administration isn’t aware long Moslem kidnappers freed French ployees recognized Cornea and Assad and Iran to go to the audience that the panel’s report Beaurivage for the release. Revolutionary Justice, a group of and could make public anytime Awa hostage Aurel Cornea, a soundman walked him to the Beaurivage. would not be definitive since five believed made up of pro-Iranian they want. I ’m somewhat mystified In for France’s Antenne-2 television where reporters and photographers It urged reporters and photo­ witnesses took the Fifth Amend­ graphers to head at once to the Shiite extremists, said in a commu­ by the president’s request because I in 27 network, at west Beirut’s Hotel rushed to interview him. ment and refused to testify. But, he Beaurivage. where two other nique Tuesday night that it would don’t know of any information we Til Beaurivage on Christmas Eve at said, “ It will be the most complete But armed French Embassy French hostages were freed last free one of two French hostages it have that they don’t have in greater will 5:55 p.m. (11:55 a m. EST), wit­ report available and I call on the guards took hold of Cornea and put holds within 48 hours. committee to release it so the detail.” ABC nesses reported. June. him in an embassy gray metallic This was the third statement Sen. Dennis DeConcini, D-Ariz., The Revolutionary Justice Or­ Revolutionary Justice still holds American people can judge for Dick Peugeot that was quickly cordoned issued by Revolutionary Justice in who participated in the panel’s ganization said earlier today it another television crewman from themselves.” tion! off by French and Syrian security two days about the imminent Committee spokesman Dave Hol­ hearings because he will be a would release one of two French Antenne-2, lighting engineer Jean- Dial men, witnesses said. The car’s release of a French hostage. liday said the panel’s staff is trying committee member next year, hostages it holds. The hotel is near Louis Normandin, 34. At destination was not immediately The British Embassy earlier to finish a report before the new said. “ I find it a bit difficult that the the headquarters of Syrian army known. winr appealed to Moslem kidnappers to They were abducted March 8 Congress convenes Jan. 6. But he president is asking the Intelligence 9 of : observers in charge of west Beirut reveal the fate of two British along with correspondent Philipe noted that the full committee would Committee to tell him what went on security. Revolutionary Justice an­ nom Journalists, saying Christmas have to vote to send it to the White in his White House, And that’s what The bespectacled Cornea, 54,. nounced that a hostage would be Rochot, 39, and cameraman char would be a time of “ agony and Georges Hansen, 45, after covering House and said it is not clear I think he’s doing.... Why he would kidnapped nearly 10 months ago. handed over today in a handwritten indu doubts” for their families. want this committee’s report to tell was dropped by a black Mercedes- statement delivered to a Western a mass rally for the Iranian-backed whether that can be done before the A French military plane and a him what happened in his own Benz about 200 yards from the hotel news agency office in west Beirut Hezbollah, or Party of God, in existing Congress — and with it the second plane bearing a French flag White House is beyond me.” in the Ramlet al-Baida district in about two hours earlier.