Collision * Death Toll Near 1,500

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MANILA, Philippines — Nearly have struck the passenger vessel Meetings, speeches and general 1,500 people were missing and near the center. orientation have logjammed feared drowned today after a The crash occurred off Mindoro Daube’s calendar. His meetings passenger ship packed with holiday island, 110 miles south of Manila, in with faculty, while appreciated travelers collided with an oil tanker a well-used shipping channel. Ship by many, have also caused and went down in flames, shipping ping sources, who spoke on condi some concern among others, he sources said. tion of anonymity, said 1,490 people said. The tanker also sank after the were listed as missing and feared "Some are a little con collision Sunday night. Eight ships, drowned. cerned,” Daube said. " I ’m including a passenger vessel that The owners of the Dona Paz said making demands on them. I ’m rescued 26 people, and three U.S. they believed it was carnring 1,408 not here to decorate the office.” Air Force helicopters reported passengers and crew. But Lt. Daube, SO, Joins MCC after a seeing no other survivors in the Cmdr. Cipriano Luspo, a Philippine nine-year stint as president of shark-infested waters. coast guard spokesman, said the Berkshire Connmunity College As of nightfall today, there were ship was capable of carrying up to in Pittsfield, Mass. He came to no reports of other survivors from 2,200 people. Manchester after being the what appeared to have been one of Sui^vors said the vessel was center of a controversy at the worst maritime disasters of this very overcrowded. Berkshire that resulted in his century. The navy said 12 people were receiving two votes of no The 2,215-ton MV Dona Paz was aboard the Victor, which was confidence from staff members. bound for Manila from the Leyte carrying 8,300 barrels of oil from He received those votes after island city of Tacloban when it hit the Bataan refinery of Manila to suspending two professors ac the 629-ton Philippine tanker MT Masbate. c u s e of grade falsification. Victor at 10 p.m. Sunday (9 a.m. Gerald Huchel, U.S. Embassy spokesman, said there was no Daube has stated that he Otvid Kool/ManehMtar Hsrald ES’T), said Eusebio Go, general suspended the faculty members manager of the Sulpiclo lines. indication that Americans were Some of the survivors told Please turn to page 1 0 . Manchester Comiminlty College Prealdertt Jdhathan M.. Daube at a meeting., reportersthat ^ th ships had lights Please turn to page 18. School busing plan has doubters Campaign leaves Weinberg in debt By Andrew Yurkovsky in the state’s larger cities. Magnet schools, which specialize whether potential resistance in Manchester Herald More than 60 percent of the ina particular subjectarea, are one Manchester might be racially moti minority students in the state are way to attract urban student to the vated. but he did say, "W e have By Alex GIrelll DiRosa got 7,971 votes. Weinberg, Manchester School Superintend from school districts in Hartford, suburbs, and vice versa. Kennedy issues in Manchester schools hav Manchester Herald with 5,973 votes, was the eighth ent James P. Kennedy said today New Haven, Bridgeport, Water- said that one existing such magnet ing to do with neighborhood schools highest voter getter a m (»g the 12 that an Integration program pro bury and Stamford. school, the Greater Hartford that have nothing to do with race.” Former Mayor Barbara Wein candidates for the board. posed by the state would probably Manchester had a minority Academy for the Performing Arts Kennedy was apparently allud berg is $4,000 in debt from her Mary Ann Handley, Democrat, not remedy the imbalance of school population of 8.6 percent in in Hartford has been so successful ing to opposition to the closing of campaign for re-election to the collected and spent $2,878. Geoffrey Naab, Republican, collected and minority students In urban and 1985, or 800 out of a total enrollment that there is a waiting list for Highland Park School in 1984. ’The Board of Directors Nov. 5. spent $2,841. Kenneth Tedford, suburban schools. of 6,979, Kennedy said. In terms of Manchester students. Board of Education .now plans to A financial report filed Friday Democrat, collected' and spent He said the idea of magnet percentage of minority students, On the possibility of forced reopen that school. with the town clerk indicates that schools — one option mentioned in Manchester ranked 24th in the integration, he commented, " I State Sen. Michael Meotti, D- Weinberg collected about $8,000 $2,471. Ronald Osella, Republican, collected $2,610 and reported ex the report — might gain support in state. would be extremely skeptical that Glastonbury, also expressed skep and has already spent about that suburban communities. But he said ’The Department of Education anything like that could happen ticism about the proposal. amount, but has outstanding bills of penditures of $2,482. Theunis Werk- hoven. Republican, collected and that if integration were to be made report does not provide specifics without a court order.” " I ’ve got a lot of questions about about $4,000. mandatory through busing, there about how integration would be Kennedy, who said he had read it, and I’m not sure what they’re Weinberg confirmed today that expended ^,010. J. Winthrop Porter, an unsuc would be resistance from suburbs, achieved, although magnet schools only newspaper stories about the trying to achieve,” he said. “ I ’m she is in debt, but added, ’T il pay cessful Republican candidate, col and greater segregation could and regional schools are two integration proposal, said that the not sure where a person goes to It.” school is the key to a quality lected and spent $1,876. John result. possibilities that are mentioned. busing of students would lead to The report shows that Weinberg Garside Jr., also an unsuccessful Kennedy was reacting to a ’The report also says that forced problems because parents want to education.” collected campaign contributions Meotti said that magnet schools candidate for the Board of Direc proposal by the state Department integration should be carried out if have their children attend neigh from various sources totalling of Education to bring minority voluntary attempts fail. borhood schools. might be a good idea if they are $8,109. She spent $8,088, leaving a tors, collected and spent $1,610. established voluntarily. But he said Eugene Slerakowski, the tlilrd students from urban schools Into "The voluntary, the magnet part He said busing almost inevitably balance of $21. he is opposed to spending a great Republican candidate defeated in schools in outlying suburbs. The of the program is a good idea, and I leads to the flight of whites from However, the report also shows deal of money on transportation the race for director positions, was proposal, made public on Sunday, think it could get some support. areas where integration is carried the added outstanding debt of among candidates who did not file a apparently stems from the growing (But) I don’t think it would solve the out, and segregation problems slightly more that $4,000. Please turn to page 10 concentration of minority students problem they have,” Kennedy said. become worse. He declined to say Of the total contributions, $7,670 report because he did not spend or came from individuals. collect more that $500. While not all the candidates had filed reports by the end of the day Caprilands starts Friday, most had. Weinberg was Ring of anxiety heard the only candidate whose expendi She only needs tures exceeded contributions. She had the highest total of a soft sweater contributions among candidates. fire code repairs at some ‘Army’ ketties ’The social worker who Mayor Peter P. DiRosa Jr. was referred Letty says, "Shewas the next highest spender. He always a friend to anyone In The Associated Press New Jersey, Southern Califor collected $5,090 and has returned By Jacauellne Bennet acceptable. nia, Indianapolis, Phoenix, the neighborhood who needed "Some people say I’m picking on $631 of it to the Democratic Town Manchester Herald There is a note of anxiety at Ariz., Buffalo, N.Y., Seattle and her. Her door was always a poor little old lady,but that’s not Committee. many Salvation Army kettles Nashville, Tenn., reported fal open.” the case. My concern is the hazard. Both Weinherg and DiRosa were COVEN’TR Y — Work on fire code this season, and some other ling contributions, while support With no family of her own, My responsibility is to provide Democratic candidates for election violations at Caprilands Herb charitable agencies are also was holding up in such places as living alone on her small safety to the people in those to the Board of Directors.

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