Deal Likely for Release of Hostag^

MANCHESTER ‘Glean campaign’ MHS, EC enjoy Manchester's \ in 9th District successful days i f " store of plenty ... page 3 ... page 11 r ... magatine Inside iManrlipatpr HpralJi Manchester — A City of Village Charm 30 Cents Saturday, Nov. 1,1986 N Loans sjseed replacement Deal likely of creches for release By Alex GIrelll Associate Editor Figures for two Manchester nativity scenes will be ordered Monday to repiace two scenes of h o s ta g ^ destroyed by fire Oct. 17 at Center Springs Lodge. By Joseph Panosslan Waite, the special envoy of The decision to buy the two The Associated Press Archbishop of Canterbury Robert^ scenes was made by an ad hoc Runcie. made three previous trips V committee Thursday after two of LARNACA. Cyprus — Anglican to Beirut to win the hostages the committee members offered Church envoy Terry Waite flew release. Waite was whisked away loans to finance the purchases. The here Friday night by U.S. military in a U.S. Embassy car after loans will be repaid from a public helicopter after a surprise visit to landing in Cyprus, reporters and fund drive. Beirut, where he reported progress airport officials said. William Johnson, president of in efforts to free the American An immigration official who did the Savings Bgnk of Manchester, hostages. not give his name said Waite was said the bank wouid loan about A Christian radio station in , expected to return to Lebanon on $10,000 needed for one set of figures Beirut said a hostage release was ' Saturday. to be used in the center of town, in the works, starting with the Throughout the more than two while Daniel Reale said he would transfer to Syrian hands of two years foreigners have been held ask the Manchester Board of French captives. The report could hostage in Lebanon, there have Realtors to put up about $3,500 for a not be verified, and France said been repeated erroneous reports of second, smaller set of figures for there was no basis for it. an impending release. In other Robertson Park in the North End. At least six of the Americans cases, some hostages were freed SBM plans to make an outright kidnapped in Lebanon still are held with no advance word. contribution of $1,000. Reale said captive. A seventh missing Ameri Earlier Friday, Waite revealed he hopes the Realtors can hold can has been reported killed. his presence in the Lebanese some kind of internal fund drive to President Reagan, questioned by capital in a telephone call to The pay back their own loan. Herald photo by Pinto reporters while on a campaign trip Associated Press office in Moslem The decision to go foward with Hospital. The tests found nothing wrong in Washington state, said of the west Beirut. the purchases were made at a Celeste Jackson-White, an X-ray techni reports: “I’ve got my fingers “Simply, I’m here,” he said. meeting hastily organized by cian, checks children’s Halloween treats with any of the candy brought for crossed.” John Poindexter, Rea "Something might happen. No Mayor Barbara B. Weinberg, who as they pass through the X-ray machine testing. gan's national security adviser, thing hard yet, but it’s moving.” invited representatives of various Friday night at Manchester Memoriai said the administration had only When Waite spoke to the AP in organizations. About 10 people seen reports that Waite was in Beirut, he declined to say where he attended. Weinberg said she will Beirut and told reporters, “Be was Or when he arrived. set up another ipeeting in about a cautious.” “r ve been here quietly. ’ ’ he said. wccic In Washington, the State Depart "It appears to be moving. You keep Eariy in the brief meeting, those treat ment s.aid it had reduced an an eye. just keep an eye. Bye-bye attending oensidered bolding a Halloween already scaled-down embassy for now.” fund drive immediately, but post staff in Beirut for what departitient A Lebanese Christian radio poning the purchaseof figures until Witches, ghosts and goblins roamed the officer said. spokesman Art Berger called station said two French hostages next year because so little time is streets oL^anchester Friday as Halloween Police said they checked certain areas of town “security reasons.” He refused to were turned over to the Syrian left before the Christmas season. pass^ smoothly and quietly. where students traditionally hold beer parties. say how many people were in military intelligence chief in Le They also considered buying only Children from all over town dressed up in Meanwhile, at Manchester Memorial Hospi volved or to elaborate. banon, Col. Ghazi Kenaan, at the one set of figures thW year, for the tal, technicians rolled children’s candy under Depiartment officials, speaking Bekaa Vajley town of Anjar in various costumes and walked from house to preparation for their release along center of town, and another 1iext house looking for candy or playing tricks on one the X-ray machine to ensure that none of it on condition of anonymity, said the year, for the North End. contained any sharp objects. evacuations were completed Sat with the six Americans. The loan offers changed that. another. „ urday but kept secrqt in line with a The report by the Voice of Both sets of figures could be Police said they had 14 patrol cars out Friday “It detects if there’s any metal in the candy,” policy of not describing American Lebanon, which is anti-Syrian and purchased through Melnick’s Dis night, about double the normal number. said Candy Debella, who worked at the machine movements in Lebanon. affiliated with President Amin play and Decoration of East Although police said the night was relatively Halloween night. “It was (started) because of An administration source, Gemayel’s right-wing Christian Hartford. quiet, they did receive a report that a masked the big scare with razor blades in candy and speaking on condition of anonym ^^Phalange Party, could not be TTje committee saw color pic man was walking on Summit Street with a gun. apples.” ity, said the reduction was carried ^confirmed independently. i tures of the two displays, but Police who were on the scene said late Friday About 30 children aged 3 to 10 came to the out gradually and was decided on “Marcel Carton and Marcel Robert Harrison, park superin night that there was no shooting and they had no hospital with their parents between 6 and 9 p.m., after Britain broke relations with Fontaine have been moved to tendent, said there is no way to see suspects. They could not confirm some reports when the hospital offered the free candy Syria and the United States re Anjar. TTiey are in Ghazi Kenaan’s the figures themselves anywhere that a window had been shattered by shots at one checking program. The Hospital has been called its ambassador from Syria, custody within the frame of a plan nearl^. house. checking children's Halloween treats for nearly the major power broker in to release them along with six Patrol cars circled streets and broke up a few 10 years, officials said. Lebanon. American hostages,” Voice of He said the smaller scene to be Lebanon said. ordered is very much like the one teenage fights, police said. A State Department official said. “The more they see us, the more they 11 think Debella said they found nothing wrong with "Somehow the hostage stories and The radio reported without elab- that was used in Robertson Park. It any of the candy checked. contains 20 pieces and costs $3,557. before doing something wrong,” one police the embassy reduction stories He said the human figures in it are were intertwined.” Please turn to page 10 about 5 or 6 inches less than life-size. The larger scene has 17 figures and costs $10,085. Some committee members O’Neill and Belaga clash in final debate Julie, if and when you ever get asked who would decide if the previous debates, Belaga attemp state workers and said none of scene at the center would be placed By Judd Everhart its economjr strong. He noted that those accused of wrongdoing were there (as governor) which I the state now has one of the lowest ted to portray O’Neill as an inept seriously doubt.” at Center Park or on the lawn of The Associated Press leader who reacts to, rather than any longer working for the state. Center Congregational Church. unemployment rates in the nation He also said the governor does not while its per capita income is the anticipates, problems, and who Belaga said the state should Weinberg said the town Board of HARTFORD — In their final presides over a network of his have direct control over every make a stronger commitment to Directors would probably make debate before the election. Demo highest. state employee. He said he and Lt. Gov. Joseph J. cronies that he calls state programs for the elderly, educa that decision. cratic Gov. William A. O’Neill and government. Belaga said it was the governor’s tion, environment and transporta John Sullivan, who was co- Republican challenger Julie D. Fauliso were “an experience team job to Set the standard and that knows what we’re doing and O’Neill has had his share of tion; O'Neill said he would have to chairman for the 1969 fund drive Belaga quibbled a lot about the way embarrassments, such as commis “excellence is what the standard see how the budget picture looks that raised money for the scenes state government should be run but knows what we’re talking about.” should be.” The debate was set in the Old sioners who’ve been arrested, state next year before committing him r'that were burned, has said he will broke little new ground and there employees found goofing off and She mentioned one state tax self to any more money for any insistthat the display be put in the was no clear winner.

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