;r/^ t-. SPORTS FOCUS Air Force wants Whalers advance Speak up, urms shuttle replaced into fourth place speaker at M CC ... pag« 5 □ ... page 9 ... page 13 HJaurliFfilrr HrralJi ) MnnnhRSlcr A City oi Uillafie Charm Thursday, March 27,1986 25 C e n ts Lotto U.S. calls off rV'' fever maneuvers in strikes Gulf of Sidra By John F. Kirch Herald Reporter By Norman Block The Associated Press Related stories, Bob Brown, owner of the Memor­ ial Comer Store on Main Street, WASHINGTON - The U.S. see page 4 stood on the roof of bis store early naval exercises in the Gulf of Sidra this morning wrapping strings of will end later today, the Pentagon. last week's Lotto tickets around announced this morning. the fight posts that jut from the A spokesman, Maj. Fred Lash, spokesman Robert Sims said. front of the building. said only: "You have to do that periodically. "Someone who buys a ticket "The exercise by the 6th Fleet in There’s nothing unusual about a from my store Is going to win this the Gulf of Sidra is ending today.” freedom-of-navigation exercise. week.” Brown, said, as people He would not be more specific. What is unusual is that Mr. passing by waved or laughed. Defense Department sources Khadafy chose to react to it with "Thank you," was his response to said that if the maneuvers within force." the passersby. the gulf do end today, the 6th Fleet On Monday morning Eastern He was one of many people vessels would remain nearby in the time, less than 24 hours after .U.S, thinking about what it would be Mediterranean Sea. planes and ships first entered the like to win the Jackpot in this First word that the exercises gulf, Libya fired at least six week’s state Lotto game, now were about to end came form the surface-to-air missiles, according estimated at $17 million. The Italian government. In Rome, a to the Pentagon. U.S. forces on figure is the biggest in Connecti­ spokesman said the United States Monday and early Tuesday subse­ cut's history, surpassing the $12.2 had informed Prem ier Bettino quently sank three Libyan boats, million record prize won last Craxi’s office that the maneuvers damaged at least one other and September, state officials said would soon be over. m twice attacked a radar-guided today. The spokesman, Antonio Ghi- missile facility near the Libyan " f f I win. I ’ll help my girls out,’’ relli, said his government had been town of Sirte, the Pentagon has said EMna Zitkovitch of Manches­ told of the decision to suspend the said. ter as she bought three tickets at operations at 6 a.m. EST. An hour Arthur Drug Store on Main Street. later, a spokesman for the 6th In the absence of military action "One is driving a ’71 car and the Fleet in Naples said the operations Wednesday, the U.S. government .other is drivinga ’76 — and they’ve were not yet over. ordered ti^tened security at its both had it." "The ships are continuing to installations worldwide. ^ Zitkovitch said she would also operate as scheduled,” said Capt. Among related developments: consider going to Hawaii for a Douglas Strole, a Navy joint • In a Kremlin speech, Soviet short vacation. information bureau spokesman for leader Mikhail Gorbachev called 'T v e never been there,” she the U.S. European Command in the U.S. missile attacks aggression said. "They say it’s beautiful. I Naples. that was "conceived and planned don’t know, f know people who "There haven’t been any Inci­ in advance.” He added that he have been there three times and I dents or things with the 6th Fleet would be willing to withdraw haven’t been there once.” ships. They’re continuing to oper­ Soviet combat ships from the "What happens if I win?” asked ate in the same area of Sidra,” he Mediterranean if the United States Jenny Gravlejs of Manchester, said. would do the same, and offered to who bought a ticket at Memorial The Pentagon had said the begin negotiations on such a Comer Store this morning. “ I ’ll current naval maneuvers would withdrawal. retire.” occur between last Saturday and "ril pay my house off,” Man­ • The U.S. ambassador to the April 1. United Nations, branding Libya’s chester resident Esther Schuetz Word of the impending depar­ firing of missiles at the U.S, ships said. .pv.,;„HS«wp5q!iU'b» Tuefcw ture came as Libya vowed to "unprovoked and unjustified,” The thought of winning was on I ' f ” • ' retaliate with terrorism for the called on the world body to the mind of everyone buying a $1 destruction wrought by the U.S. condemn Libya. Ambassador Ver­ ticket this week. State lottery warships. non Walters urged the Security officials said sales were put at $10 It also followed a day on which ,;Tlwaftamoonaun;8h}n«l1flfafit?if<|ay . i , and, f lowara jam be planted by Council to reaffirm the freedom of million this morning. Last week, the Penta'gon reported that U.S. navigation and to condemn nations the state sold 7.2 million tickets. 4 <j#r WotW ^ r r II Riranniat l»lantafli..,Ttw Korean planes and ships operated without that violate that right with force. "This is the best week we’ve ever ^"Muhro, Parit .a« [anti^made In Vermont, will be challenge inside the disputed gulf. Libya’s threats of terrorism, had,” Brown said. r workar . Rafidy. Brdvnif ;lri Iti alfvenc^ of a May 25^ The American forces remained on "This is crazy,” said Edna which the State Department said Sprague, the manager at Aruthur , ahrubatom*k8way-terfKdNNl^Si(^f what amounted to a war-time were being taken seriously, were Drag Store. "This is insane I have it4iaonirttanl tp ba ericiab this aprlng.'X'' Pk' alert, officials said, primed for carried on the nation’s official to put extra people on to handle the i<Y A aldawaik win ba (aonttliucted naxt action against an enemy that radio. State Department spokes­ didn’t appear. lottery. People are buying 10,20 or month to |»nneqt the; two man Charles Redman called the SO tickets at a time. It’s great for “ We have demonstrated that we situation “ potentially dangerous" have the right to operate in and said Americans abroad were ITER! Please turn to page 8 international waters.” Pentagon being advised to be careful. Failure of compromise leads to Senate showdown on aid Combined Wire Services The vote in the Republican- called the incursion “ serious.” But Washington of creating "an artifi­ of the reported Nicaraguan raid as an attempt at reconciliation. controlled Senate was the first on a government spokesman Lisandro cial conflict” and called for a near Las Trojes, about 80 miles (Story on page 4.) The Senate today rejected a number of amendments expected Quezada said it "is not in any way a peace-keeping task force to moni­ east of Tegucigalpa in El Paraiso In the Senate earlier today, both blanket ban on aid for the contra to be offered to the proposal, which large-scale invasion." tor the border. province. The site differed from sides said they were still trying to rebels fighting Nicaragua’s leftist was the final major item on the ’The army statement did not The two captured Nicaraguan previous Honduran and U.S. re­ work out a bipartisan compromise government. chamber’s agenda before its specify where the reported incur­ soldiers presented by Honduran ports putting the incursion at least that would give Reagan a strong The Senate voted down. 74-24, a Easter recess. sion occurred but said the location officials at a news conference another 30 miles to the east in vote of approval for his package. proposal by Sen. Edward M. The vote came as U.S. Army indicated the goal of the Nicara­ identified themselves as Mario Olancho province. Although attempts to work out a Kennedy, D-Mass., that would officials confirmed that Nicara­ guan operation was "to prevent the Salomon Hernandez Mayorga and In New Orleans, Reagan said the compromise broke down Wednes­ have forbidden U.S. assistance and guan troops had crossed into infiltration of subversive groups” Carlos Alberto Sandino Ocon of the Nicaraguan incursion into neigh­ day, “ the lines of communication thus would have effectively Honduras and displayed two Nica­ — U.S.-backed contra rebels fight­ Nicaraguan army’s Fralcisco Es­ boring Honduras was "a slap in the are still open and we are trying to scuttled President Reagan’s pro­ raguan soldiers they said were ing to overthrow Nicaragua’s trada Armored Battalion. face” to House members who work something out,” Senate Mi­ posed package of $100 million in aid cpptured in Honduran territory. leftist government. U.S. Embassy spokesman Mi­ voted down his aid plan last week nority Leader Robert Byrd, D- to the rebels. An army statement Wednesday Nicaragua, meanwhile, accused chael O’Brien placed the location in hopes the action would be taken W.Va., told reporters today. TODAY’S HERALD Australian explosion V«t quMtions law Index triggers severai blasts A Manchester war veteran has 24 poflM, 4 MClIons MELBOURNE. Australia (UFI) complex, a police spokeswoman set in motion a challenge to a state r# , I law titot requires disabled vete­ — A car bomb exploded in front of said. rans to disclose their incomes Arluira 17police headquarters today, trig­ The explosions hit at 1 p.m. and annually in order to get the Riininao: 91gering a series of blasts that continued for IS minutes, injuring maximum local property tax ex­ P.laanifiari 99-94shattered hundreds of windows, 21 people and rocking buildings for emption.