THURSDAY LOCAL NEWS INSIDE anrhratpr ■ Ride service for handicapped Begins. ■ Health studies revised By school. ■ NeighBors compiain aBout noise. W hat’S ■ Church to get new home. News Local/Regional Section, Page 7. Oct. 25, 1990 >ur Hometown Newspaper Voted 1990 New England Newspaperof the Year Students, workers Newsstand Price: 35 Cents OK after gas leak MANCHESTER — All is well at filing Junior High School Budget this morning after Wednesday’s 16 Meotti, toxic gas leak that sent five stu­ cv dents and 13 cafeteria and cus­ todial workers to the hospital. approval [ Googins All 18 people were released from Manchester Memorial Hospital without injuries shortly after their admission into the is close hospital, said Manchester SUITS ON SALE TWEED SPORT COATS clash Deputy Fire Chief Graham Mac­ Donald. MacDonald said Barry Bas- Huge Selection • All Sizes •100% Wool at hand By ALEX GIRELLI kcrvillc, a janitor at the school, •38 to 46 Reg. 38-42 Short Manchester Herald accidentally ruptured the fuel •40 to 46 Long $0090 line of an old refrigerator, • Free Alterations •VALUES to *195 MANCHESTER — Republican releasing into the air a sulfur By JIM LUTHER Sonya Googin Thursday night con­ The Associated Press dioxide compound, which is tinued to link Democratic Sen. more irritating than Freon or Michael Meotti with the Democratic WASHINGTON — Congres­ ammonia. majority she says is responsible for Despite the scare, the students ALL WEATHER COATS sional leaders were putting the the stale’s budgetary and economic finishing touches today on a deficit- got back from the hospital and woes. returned to their classes, said fi­ "OLEG CASSINI" reduction package of tax increases Countering the attack, Meotti, for and spending restraints that ap­ ling’s assistant vice principal ^300 ZIP OUT LINER who is vying for his third term in the Karen Smith, who escorted them parently has the support of a ■VALUES to «275 • FREE ALTERATIONS Reg. & Big Sizes office, continued to cite his record in to the hospital. $9990 majority of lawmakers and President the state Senate on behalf of his con­ Bush. •VALUES to $150 stituency. — Scott Brede BiLsh early this morning averted The two candidates for the 4th shutdown of the government by Senatorial district met in a debate at signing a temporary spending Brian M. Trotta/Manchastar Harald BLAZER SALE TWO-CAR ACCIDENT — A young boy watches as his mother is loaded into an ambulance Lincoln Center. About 30 people at­ Gulf at a Glance measure that will keep operations tended. going until midnight Saturday. following an accident Wednesday morning on West Middle Turnpike. At least two people, in­ ■ Five freed Americans had a "BOTANY 500" NAVY BLAZER The opponents each tried to un­ homecoming that was over­ Assuming no unexpected hitch, cluding another young boy, were inJured in the two-car accident which occurred shortly before dermine the other during the debate. for 5 4 0 0 Plus Grey, Blue, Black final votes could come Friday in the shadowed by fears for col­ noon. Googins said Meotti cites his role House and Senate. That would close leagues still held captive in Iraq, •VALUES to 5350 • HUGE SELECTION Reg. & Big Sizes Reg. *160 in cutting 61 employees from the and nine more former U.S. another chapter in a long-running state payroll, but ignores the issues * ®® fight between the executive and hostages prepared to 'cave for 109 of binding arbitration, which she legislative branches and remove the the United States today. says forces the state to spend too The five American men who SWEATER SALE major obstacle to final adjournment much money. She also said Meotti of the 101st Congress. Agenda for Tomorrow arrived in the United States on has called for a bipartisan budget Wednesday were freed by Iraq "Do not despair; the end is in approach, but is resisting budget •CRU AND VEE NECK sight,” Rep. Silvio Conte, R-Mass., for medical reasons. They ar- reduction efforts by the rivett at New York’s Kennedy for •Patterns & Solids $|Q90 said in pleading with the weary Republicans. Airport aboard a Royal Jor­ $600 •M-L-XL House to pass a stopgap bill extend­ plans course of action In addition, Googins said the state danian Airlines flight. ing the government’s spending budget has reached a point of crisis •VALUES to *400 • FREE ALTERATIONS recommendations would be an al­ tions to town road projects in that Freed hostage Jack Frazier, authority through the week. By RICK SANTOS management and that had not hap­ 53, of Santa Ana, Calif., said That bill cleared the House on a most insurmountable task. planning can go back as far as 10 pened overnight. She distributed a FLORSHEIM SHOE SALE Manchester Herald Paprzyea’s response: Silence. years. leaving his fellow hostages be­ 380-45 vote and the Senate with no one-page flier contrasting hind “was the hardest thing I’ve formal vote at all. It averted a partial Then, "I don’t know.” “A lot of things don’t take that Republicans and Democrats in their SALE ENDS Oct. 27th MANCHESTER — Members Paprzyea later said she ex­ long,” Weiss said. “A lot of things ever done in my life.” shutdown of tne government and of the Agenda for Tomorrow, a budget performance over the past The hostages’ release came gave Congress three more days to pect^ town officials to have take longer.” five years. citizens’ group dedicated to shap­ begun responding to the Agenda One technique the group has after a meeting Sunday between pass the deficit-reduction plan and ing the town’s future, met Wed­ Defending himself, Meotti said Iraq’s leaders and members of the 13 regular appropriation bills for group’s report and recommenda­ decided on as a method of keep­ the state has to change the way it nesday night and agreed on tions — released six months ago ing group concerns in the th e Washington-based the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. specific plans to keep its recom­ does business, but he said no one American-Iraqi Foundation. 2 for ®/<O off The plan will mean higher taxes — with action by now. forefront of town issues is to send legislator is going to be able to ac­ 20 mendations on the minds of The report is the culmination of a short batch of questions related ■ In Baghdad, Western •ENTIRE STOCK OF IN-STOCK SHOES on tobacco, alcoholic beverages, air­ complish that alone. The senator •VALUES to *525 • FREE ALTERATIONS '' policy-makers. to the Agenda recommendations diplomatic sources said today line tickets, cars, boats, furs and more than a year’s work of said he has “earned punishment •EXPRESS SHOP SPECIAL ORDERS to candidates for local seats in the that French citizens given per­ jewelry. A gasoline tax increase of 5 The meeting, held in the offices hundreds of townspeople divided from the inner circle” for stands he General Assembly. The plan is for mission this week to leave Iraq or 6 cents a gallon is likely and of the town Water Division, was into committees to explore issues has taken. the candidates' responses to be will begin leaving on Saturday. retirees probably will have to pay interspersed with momentary such as environment, transporta­ He also said that when publicized by media outlets. More than 300 French citizens more for Medicare coverage. pauses, when discussion was tion and housing. Manchester stood to lose state fund­ MANY MORE UNADVERTISED Also, after the Nov. 6 election. are among the thousands of Several changes whose details reduced to silence as members Former Town Manager Robert ing for education, he joined an effort pondered the job before them. B. Weiss told other members they Agenda members will review the foreigners who were trapped in SPECIALS THROUGHOUT were still being negotiated will that restored more that $800,000. Iraq after the Aug. 2 invasion of “How big of a task do you should recognize there is a lag entire list of recommendations, mean heftier income taxes on those And when a business was dumping think this is?” Charles Colpitts time between the planning stages edit them for contradictions and Kuwait. THE STORE with higher incomes, especially thousands of tons of out-of-town asked Grace Paprzyea, a groi^) and enactment of certain repetitions, determine whether France has said it would not those above the $100,000-a-year garbage at the Manchester landfill member who had said that im­ municipal objectives. He com­ make any concessions in ex­ plementing the group’s 100 pared some of the recommenda­ Please see AGENDA, page 6. change for the freeing of its na­ Please see BUDGET, page 6. Please see DEBATE, page 6. tionals, but the Iraqi govem- ment-run daily newspaper Al- Jumhouriya said today that France would withdraw some of Pumpkin Weicker its forces from the Persian Gulf region. France has about 5,000 troops in Saudi Arabia, plus an estimated 2,000 sailors aboard painter dismisses 14 ships in the region as pait of the predominantly American multinational force. charges ■ In Washington, congres­ prospers sional sources said Iraq is offer­ 903 Main St. ing to free Canadian and Ger­ By JUDD EVERHART man hostages in return for high- Downtown Manchester By DIANNA M. TALBOT Open Mon. Thru Sat. 9:30 to 5:30, Thurs. Nite Till 9 The Associated Press level diplomatic visits from Herald Features Editor those countries. The sources said 643-2478 HARTFORD (AP) — Connec­ U.S. officials view the offer as MANCHESTER — What’s ticut Party gubernatorial candidate an Iraqi bid to divide the round, bright orange and comes with Lowell P. Weicker Jr. says his Western alliance against Iraqi 1 cartoon and Disney characters? Republican rival, John G.