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WhaVs News Monday J LOCAL NEWS INSIDE anrhf atpr H rrali ■ Social service agencies seek $50k more. Page 7. Newsstand Price: 35 Cents Monday. July 9,1990 Manchester, Conn. -- A City of Village Charm ■ School board mulls physical exams. Page 7. Choosing u ■ Church group gets bucks for energy pilot. Page 7. schools China flooding kills 27 BEUINO (AP) — Floods killed 27 people in three days in the northern Chinese province of nixed here Shaanxi, an official report said today. Torrential rains that began Friday swefrt through iHaurhpatpr H ralh Mets continue hot 18 cides and counties in northern Shaanxi, causing By NANCY FOLEY at least $63 million in damage, the English-lan M anchester Herald_________________________________ guage China Daily said. beating the Braves Up to 7>/2 inches of rain fell in parts of Shaanxi, MANCHESTER — Nationally, the idea of competi and thousands of villagers were stranded when tion among schools may be gaining support, but those dikes along the Hanjiang River broke, the report involved in local education have some reservations said. It quoted local officials as saying such severe about the idea. — see page 47 flooding happens only once every 20 years. In June, the Brookings Institution issued a report, SPORTS Heavy rains also fell in northeastern, “Politics, Markets and America’s Schools," contending northwestern and southern China, with rainfall in that the way to improve a mediocre public school sys some places recorded at 4*/2 inches in a 24-hour tem is to eliminate government control over education. Y period duiing the weekend, the paper said. It recommended that parents be given tuition vouchers Hailstones measuring up to 3 inches in diameter to be used at a school of their choice, either public or hit parts of Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Heilongjiang and private. Hebei provinces in northern and northeastern The report also said that burcacracy and top-down Yanks’ Hawkins is snake bit China. management in the public school system is stifling in novation and reform. The study, from a liberal Death penalty sought in Fla. thinktank, joins the voices that have been heard throughout the 1980s proposing some form of parental BARTOW, Fla. (AP) — A man accused of d u r choice as a solution to an allegedly failing public Red Sox blanked ing his 2-year-old stepson headfirst into a toilet school system. President Bush is among the concept’s The Associated Press goes on trial on murder charges this week in a case supporters. ABORTION ARGUMENT — John Herasymiak, a pro-choice advocate from New Orleans, ar that raised questions about social workers’ failure to Manchester’s Superintendent of Schools James P. by Rangers, 4-0 protect the toddler. Kennedy is not. Kennedy said that the schools that do gues with an unidentified pro-life supporter on the steps of the Louisiana State Capitol in Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for have major problems arc found in the inner city, not in Baton Rouge. The Louisiana legislature is trying to pass the toughest anti-abortion law in the Thomas Coe, who told police he was punishing Manchester. NEW YORK (AP) — Five days after tossing a no-hit- Bradley McGee for soiling his diaper. The boy’s country. ter and losing, Andy Hawkins pitched 11 shutout innings “If all the school systems in the country were death brought unprecedented charges against four achieving at the level of Manchester, you wouldn’t against Minnesota on Friday. He still came away a loser. social workers, one of whom was convicted of child Brian Harper’s nm-scoring two-out single snapped a have a proposal for vouchers,” he said. Although abuse. Manchester is creating a special focus program at scoreless tie in the 12th inning to help Minnesota beat “If nothing else, all this has made caseworkers be New York 2-0 in the first game of a doubleheader. The Nathan Hale School to attract students from other dis La. lawmakers fashion more careful to realize they’re making life-or-death tricts, Kennedy docs not forsce creating other magnet Yankees came back for a 5-3 victory in the second game, decisions here,” said Kirkland, the boy’s foster snapping a five-game losing streak. schools. mother before he was returned to Coe and the He said he doubts “schools of choice” could solve Sunday at Chicago, Hawkins became only the mother who abandoned him. “With every child, the cities’ problems. Fronts with the money and second major leaguer ever to lose a complete-game no they have to stop and ask — ‘Could this be the next new anti-abortion law H means would move their children out, leaving the 5 hitter when the White Sox scored four runs in the eighth Bradley McGee?’" m _ inning with the help of three errors and two walks for a urban schools with even more students who are mastermind of the revised legisla eliminating the flag-burning Coe, 23, goes on trial Hiesday in Ibrt Myers. achieving poorly or have special needs, he said. “So I By GUY COATES 0 H 4-0 victory. Defense attorneys have acknowledged the dunking tion. provisions, which would have sec it as divisive.” The Associated Press but say Coe did not intend to kill the boy, so it The bill approved Sunday night reduced the penalty for beating up a 1 m The same concern was expressed by Pamela bans all abortions except those to flag burner to a $25 fine. The of wasn’t murder. Broderick, president of the lownwide PTA Council. BATON ROUGE. La. — After AL Roundup failing to override the governor’s end pregnancies that endanger a fense currently is punishable by six O T) Parents who are interested in their child’s education woman’s life and those caused by months in jail and a $500 fine. would research tlie school Uicy send their child to very veto of a stronger anti-abortion bill, Like Dave Stewart and Fernando Valenzuela on Wed Bus, train collision kills 27 the Legislature passed a measure rape or incest. The maneuver, completed 30 carefully, she said. But, she asked, “What happens to hours before the legislative session nesday, Hawkins was trying to match Johnny Vander MOSCOW (AP) — Twenty-seven people were llial would ban most abortions and The measure is intended to chal SO O“n Mecr’s record of two consecutive no-hitters for Cincin killed when a bus following several cars whose punish doctors who perform them lenge Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 U.S. ends at midnight tonight, enabled nati in 1938. Hawkins didn’t do it, but he continued his drivers were nishing home to watch the World Cup Please see CHOICE, page 6. with up to 10 years at hard labor. Supreme Court decision recognizing the Senate to circumvent the usual m rn remarkable rejuvenation. soccer final ran a red light at a rail crossing and was The law, which includes excep the right to an abortion. process of referring new legislation “That’s the way it goes," Hawkins said. “I’ve had hit by a trmn, Tass reported today. tions demanded by Gov. Buddy Rocmer had vetoed the Legisla to a committee. games where I’ve gotten a lot of runs but gave up a lot, The official Soviet news agency said the ac- Rocmer, still would be the strictest ture’s original bill Friday because it “I would have preferred a too. I’m just happy to be throwing good again." cidednt occurred Sunday at Petrozavodsk, 200 state abortion law in the nation. made no exceptions for victims of stronger bill, but we don’t have the Hawkins (1-6) was masterful against the Twins in the miles northeast of Leningrad. It quoted the slightly Soviet aid “This is the children’s hour. Let’s rape or incest. He said he would not votes for an override,” Saunders told longest outing of his career and actually pitched better injured driver as saying he mistook the traffic lights vote for the 15,000 unborn children comment on the new bill until he his colleagues. than in the no-hittcr. Nevertheless, no runs meant no win for moonlight. who are murdered in this slate every had a chance to read it. The Senate vote on the bill was again. Of the 50 bus passengers, 21 were killed instant year, for the 2(X),000 murdered in The bill was created by amending 32-7. Less than an hour later, the Fred Manrique walked leading off the 12th and was ly and six died later of their injuries, Tass said. requested the nation. The nation is watching a flag-burning measure the Senate replaced by pinch-runner Greg Gagne. After Gagne None of the uain passengers or crew members us,” said Sen. John Saunders, had refused to consider, then Please see ABORTION, page 6. moved to second on Kirby Puckett’s groundout, Kent were injured, it said. An unspecified number of bus Hrbek was intentionally walked. One out later. Harper passengers were hospitalized with injuries, it said. and Gene Larkin delivered RBI singles, and Alan Mills at Summit relieved. Hawkins allowed two runs and six hits in 11 2-3 in Survey finds discrimination Pension board member nings. He struck out eight and walked four. It was the By MARTIN CRUTSINGER longest outing by a Yankee since Aug. 27, 1976 when NEW YORK (AP) — A fourth of all Americans say they have experienced discrimination at work, The Associated P ress_____________________________ Catfish Hunter worked 13 innings against California. and nearly eight in 10 believe some employers Juan Berenguer (6-1) pitched two innings for the vic lashes at critical audit practice discrimination in hiring or promotion, ac HOUSTON — Leaders of the world’s richest na tory and Rick Aguilera got the last three outs for his 21st cording to a poll.