MONDAY LOCAL NEWS INSIDE ■ Town manager blasts water tax. A ■ Developer to present mall plans. ■ Assistants addressed in charter. WhaUs ■ Preble works against income tax. News Local/Regional Section, Page 7. April 1,1991 Base w age up; labor objects Manchester’s Award-Winning Newspaper H o « » : 3(R WASHINGTON (AP) — Mil­ lions of Americans begin earn­ ing larger paychecks today as the federal minimum wage jumps by 45 cents an hour to Iraqi, rebel forces continue battles $ 4.^, but organized labor says the boost falls well short of lift­ ing many workers out of pover­ ty- Kurds flee to mountains Post-war a US. quagmire; agony of victory “They can’t support a family on this and in many cases can’t OUTSKIRTS OF DOHUK, Iraq homeland in northern Iraq. By GEORGE GEDDA support themselves,” said Rudy — Hundreds of thousands of While battles thundered around None of the alternatives the administration faces in Oswald, chief economist of the Iraq seems palatable. If Saddam Hussein is forced from Kurdish rebels and civilians fled Dohuk and Erbil on Sunday, the The Associated Press AFL-CIO, which wants the base power, the northern-based Kurdish population could opt into snowcapped mountains today government proved its control over wage increased to $5.75 an hour after government forces using heavy the northern oil city of Kirkuk by WASHINGTON — There was a time last January for independence from Baghdad — no small considera- by April 1994. artillery won control of the northern showing the battle-ravaged city to when critics opposed to the use of force in the Persian The increase in the minimum cities of Dohuk and Erbil. Western reporters. Gulf had an apocalyptic vision. “Goodness,” they wage from $3.80 an hour is the Having retaken the two cities, Kurds fled today by any means whispered, “what happens if we win?” Analysis second step of a two-part in­ pro-Saddam forces reversed the possible into the mountains along One month after the humiliation of the Iraqi army by crease Congress enacted in 1989 greatest gain of the decades-long the Iranian border, turning roadways the allied coalition. President Bush is learning about the after a long and fierce battle Kurdish rebellion against Iraqi con­ tion l^cause that could fuel separatist tendencies by their into ribbons of moving humanity. agonies of victory. The New World Order he has been with the White House. President trol — the capture of three major Kurdish brethren in Syria, Thrkey and Iran. touting doesn’t seem that much more promising than the Bush had vetoed an earlier ver­ cities in the traditional Kurdish Please see KURDS, page 6. old one. sion he considered too hard on Please see AGONY, page 6. businesses. The first step of the increase look effect a year ago, when the minimum wage went from $3.35 Success blooms an hour to $3.80. It was the first increase in nearly a decade. About 3 million Americans sV cam the minimum wage. But each semester millions of higher-paid workers also may benefit becau.se the boost could put pressure on employers to boost their wages within Bennet by comparable amounts. Parking workshop By SCOTT B. BREDE is pursuing her diploma. MANCHESTER — The I n k ­ Manchester Herald Every Tuesday and Thursday ing Authority plans to hold a night, each of these people converge workshop to determine how MANCHESTER — Each sming, on Bennet Junior High School /o at­ many off-sircct spaces are c at the start of planting season, Qyde tend Adult Regional Basic l o c a ­ needed in the downtown area to Levesque left school to work on his tion classes. accommodate motor vehicles of father’s farm in Maine. By fourth “I think its about time I got my employees who work at local grade, he was so far behind his other GED (High School Equivalency businesses. classmates that he lost interest in Diploma),” Henry said. “1 don’t Downtown mei chants were school and dropped out. Now, at the think it’s ever too late to get it.” recently polled about their park­ age of 66, Levesque, of South Henry, one of more than 50 adults ing requirements. Preliminary Windsor, is learning to read. who attend the Adult Education’s tallies show there arc only 659 Anna and Lech Sokolowski came GED program this semester, said spaces, but about 740 employees to Manchester after escaping from her decision to go back to school did who need parking spaces. Poland a few years before political not come without difficulty. Once the number of spaces " / change swept through Eastern “It was just the thought of coming needed is determined, the Europe. Twice a week, the couple back and learning again,” she said. authority will determine how takes time to improve their English Now after nearly 12 weeks in the many spaces each business Tha Assoclatad Praas skills. program, Henry and the other stu­ should be allocated and issue FIRST VOTE — Albanian President Ramiz Alia casts his vote Sunday in a polling station in Phyllis Henry, of Manchester, dents are off the verge of obtaining parking stickers for those cars Tirana, Albania, in the first multiple-party elections held since Stalinists seized power in 1944. quit school when she was 15 to get a authorized to park in authority job. Now, nearly 40 years later, she Please see ADULT, page 6. lots. A date for the workshop will be announced, officials said. Psychiatrist facing three-year suspension Firefighters win HARTFORD (AP) — A state panel has recommended that HARTFORD (AP) — After end of that period. In addition, the state alleges that Pet had sex with all four of a Manchester psychiabist accused of having sex with four six years, Hartford firefighters If the board determines he is fit to resume practice, he the women during individual therapy sessions, and that the female patients be barred from practice for three years. have won the right to wear should only be allowed to do so within a group practice and he relationships all began in the late 1970s and continued for leather helmets in a recent That recommendation comes nearly five years after the state must be supervised, the panel ordered. several years. Three of the women also worked at Pet’s clinic decision by an appeals court. Department of Health Services first opened a hearing into its From 1986 until 1989 the board held an ongoing hearing in either as volunteers or paid employees. case against Dr. Donald Pet. Pet has been charged with at least But Fire Chief John B. the case, the longest in its history. The 30-pagc decision issued All of the women told state investigators they fell in love Stewart said he hopes the city 10 violations of state health law in connection with his this month by a board subcommittee details sexual relation­ with the psychiatrist, and some admitted that their feelings for relationships with the four women. will appeal the Connecticut Ap­ ships Pet maintained for several years with the four patients. him became obsessive. pellate Court’s decision. A subcommittee of the state’s Medical Examining Board One was a substance abuser with suicidtil tendencies who Two of the women, both from Manchester, filed a malprac­ In 1984, Stewart ordered the has issued a preliminary order that the psychiatrist’s license be described her feelings for Bet as “an addiction.” Between 1979 tice lawsuit against Pet seeking $1 million in damages. It was firefighters to wear federally ap­ suspended for three years. The decision also states that Ifet and 1980 she was hospitalized twice after she consumed al­ must apply to the state for reinstatement of his license at the proved thermoplastic helmets, cohol and prescription drugs that Pet ordered for her. Please see SUSPEND, page 6. replacing the leather ones \ preferred by firefighters. The firefighters’ union filed a grievance in January 1985, con- ^ Catch tending that Stewart violated the , Still delighted union’s contract. The firefighters/ complained that the replacement of day: helmets restricted their hearing and were uncomfortably hot. by pachyderm Some firefighters said they had difficulty hearing radio tured youthful imaginations like no toxins transmissions and would not be Vive Babar! fictional character since Asterix able to tell the intensity of a fire 1 GLOUCESTER, Mass. (AP) — if they could not hear crackling the Gaul embodied the national Fishermen casting their nets off the By MARILYN AUGUST spirit in comic strips. embers. The Associated Press coast of New England say they are A poll of 5- and 6-ycar-olds frequently hauling in an unwelcome Bush angles conducted by a television station catch — barrels filled with PARIS — In hiy seventh decade found that 88 percent knew about ISLAMORADA, Fla. (AP) — as king of the elephants, Babar has poisonous wastes. President Bush to ^ y plied the Babar. Only Mickey Mouse fared One fisherman, Salvatore survived competition from ninja better. balmy waters off the Florida LoGrasso, said he has been unable turtles, become a movie star and Bookstores cairy Babar editions Keys for the region’s feisty reached new heights of popularity to work since he hauled in a leaky bonefish, saying he had caught for every budget and all ages, in­ barrel two years ago that emitted with French children. cluding plastic ones for toddlers « * only barracuda on the first day Signs of Babarmania are fumes so suong he was knocked un­ of his fi-shing vacation. who chew them first. conscious. His son, Marco, who everywhere: baby bloomers and “Le Triomphe de Babar” has kiddy perfume, coat racks and bath called the U.S.