Riot-Garbed Boston Police Clash with Demonstrators
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-I \ The weather , showers this afternoon, , , h gh in 70s, iow tonight in 50s. Tuesday, fair, high in mid 70s. t w e n t y -f o u r p a g e s — t w o s e c t io n s p r i c e : f if t e e n c e n t s MANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, SEPTEM BER 8, 1 9 7 5 - VOL. XCIV, No. 288 Manchester—A City of Village Charm Riot-garbed Boston police ^ 1 clash with demonstrators BOSTON (UPI) — Riot-garbed poiice The arrest total for the morning reached They were joined by a squad of U.S. hundred National Guardsmen remained in clashed with hundreds of rock and bottle at least 67, according to an unofficial marshals who shed their neckties, donned reserve at a building near South Boston throwing demonstrators near Charlestown count. black gloves and riot helmets and armed High. Police showed up in strength despite High School today and 62 persons were Teams from a task force of 300 police themselves with clubs. Police mounted on a contract dispute and officials said the ;;^r arrested near South Boston High as the guarding Charlestown High broke up the horseback were called into the historic guardsmen wouid “not be used at this city began its second year of court- demonstration under the personal direc area. time.” ordered classroom desegregation. tion of Police Commissioner Robert J. A police cruiser near Charlestown High Attendance at South Boston, Hyde Park , An estimated 400 antibusing diGrazia. Police in formation swept along School was hit by a single .22 caliber bullet and Charleston high schools was believed demonstrators gathered in front of a neighborhood sidewalks to keep crowds in the left door, but there were no injuries. far below their projected enrollments. housing project a block downhill from from forming. There were no immediate Police rolled back their original an A spokesman said about 300 students — Charlestown High School, hurling rocks reports of injuries, but at least one person nouncement of two mass arrests totaling 200 white and 100 black — showed up at and bottles, shouting epithets and was arrested. more than 100 persons in the tense South Charlestown, out of a possible 900. This throwing the burning effigy of a black man When the Charlestown crowd refused to Boston area. A spokesman said there was compared with 655 whites, two blacks and from the top of a building. Charlestown disperse, 40 members of the tough Tac confusion in the reporting process and a 19 other minorities on the first day of High was not involved in the opening phase tical Police Force, 40 metropolitan police total 62 members of the Committee school last year when Charlestown was of desegregation last fall. and 30 officers on motorcycles moved in. Against Racism and the Progressive not part of the busing plan. Labor Party had been charged. There were no incidents at Charlestown Three persons were arrested for dis High, adjacent to the obelisk com orderly conduct at a Roxbury playground memorating the Revolutionary War battle before school began. A 19-year-old youth of Bunker Hill. A police sharpshooter with Predicts Senate will back at Hyde Park High School was arrested a rifle and scope was stationed atop the I with a 14-inch tape-wrapped bamboo stick gray granite building built in 1848. Two V ti in his pocket. motorcycle-escorted buses containing ap ' i t oil price control veto The arrested demonstrators chanted proximately 60 black students and a half- “Power to the Working Class” as they dozen whites and orientals arrived m M igsi were being booked. between iines of helmeted Metropolitan Senate have scheduled a session WASHINGTON (UPI) - House Speaker ’The overali opening of classes was quiet District Police. About 300 reporters and Wednesday to vote on the anticipated Carl Albert today predicted the Senate and there were no incidents in the “safety photographers representing news media . override. If the Senate does vote to would uphold President Ford’s veto of a zones” established around schools by from around the world recorded their override, the House will also vote on the six-month extension of domestic oil price some 1,650 police and U.S. marshals. Six arrival. controls.. issue, either Wednesday or ’Thursday. Albert briefed reporters following Albert agreed with two Republican Ford’s White House meeting with senators who earlier said the Senate would uphold the veto. But he said if the Senate ^ ^ ^ Lined up for searches Democratic and Republican congressional Charter Oak parking lot leaders in the Cabinet Room to discuss does override, the House probably would too. Armed police line up against a wall some of the pro-busing demonstrators energy policy. Ford met earlier with a group of nine Senate Republicans on the According to Albert, House leaders have who were arrested this morning in South Boston. They were arrested a fqw proposal seems doomed same subject. the votes to override but the Senate blocks away from the high school when they refused to leave. (UPI photo) leaders have not made' similar claims, “I Ford is expected to veto the six-month By SOL R. COHEN sideration to the commission’s assume the Senate leaders don’t have the extension by midnight Tuesday. The Herald Reporter recommendation, which will be presented votes to override.” From all indications, it appears safe to j Albert said he expected some kind of formally at Tuesday night’s meeting. predict Manchester’s Board of Directors compromise, between Congress and the Tuesday night will reject a state offer to In addition to recommending rejection White House would be worked out on a establish a commuter parking lot at of the proposed parking lot at Charter House Republicans phase-out of controls. Oak, the report will stress the need and “The use of the meeting (with the Presi Charter Oak Park. None of the town officials contacted desirability of commuter projects. It will I News I dent) was ... to see if we could work out a today thought the proposal has a chance recommend to the state Department of compromise,” Albert said. “All we could propose own goals and all said the state would do well to seek Transportation that it continue its search do was talk about a compromise.” an alternate site. for an acceptable site in the south end of I summary | Sens. Lowell P. Weicker of Connecticut an undetermined length of time but con The Advisory Park and Rec Commission Manchester. WASHINGTON (UPI) - House and William V. Roth of Delaware ditioned on a person’s willingness to learn was asked by the directors for its Compiled from Republicans today attacked the predicted the President’s veto would be a new trade if his old profession has recommendation. Its unanimous position Weiss, too, said the DOT “very definite United Press International “miserable record” of Democrats in run upheld. The controls expired Aug. 31. Ford become obsolete. is that parks and parking don’t mix and ly should explore alternate sites,” in the ning Con^^ess and proposed their own has until midnight Tuesday to veto a six- "Jax incentives are now provided to per that the state’s proposal to spend up to event the directors reject the Charter Oak legislaHve goals they said would prevail if mopth extension. sons who do not qualify for Social Security $300,000 for ipiprovements to Charter Oak Park site. voters made the GOP the m ajority party. ■' “In my judgment, we will be able to sus benefits or cannot enroll in group pension Park and to provide 267 parking stalls Weiss noted, “There’s been lots of senti State “ We’ve been doing something wrong,” tain the six months vetb,” Roth said. He plans and who earmark some of their ear there isn’t worth the potential hazards the ment against the proposal and very little House GOP leader John Rhodes told a said his personal tabulation came to HARTFORD —Talks were ten nings as a retirement fund. The GOP plan might create. for it.” He said the board should take into news conference after noting Democrats around 34 votes to sustain — the exact tatively planned today amid threats program would extend those incentives to Town Manager Robert Weiss said today consideration also when voting Tuesday have controlled both Houses of Congress amount needed to uphold the veto if all of disciplinary action and counter everyone who wanted to bolster Social the directors should give careful con night. for 38 of the past 42 years. | senators vote. action as a result of a weekend sick Security or group pension benefits with an “There is no legislative identity of “I think real progress is being made on out by union policemen. 'The action individual retirement income. Republicans in the public’s mind arid we extending controls for 45 days,” Roth said. was in protest of prolonged contract Additionally, the Republicans calied for believe the miserable record of this “I ’m optimistic we’ll get it through. By talks. revison of Social Security relation s that Congress should be brought to the atten getting a 45-day extension. We’ll be able to would allow for unlimited earnings STRATFORD —Dancers Valery tion of the people,” he said. get an energy program.” Without a cutback in benefits as now and Galina Panov, persecuted by “That’s why we have drafted this policy “I would expect a veto will be sustained Russian authorities until they were program to show the public what required. and after that Congress is going to have to ’They cited the current budget deficit of given permission to emigrate to Repulicans stand for rather than what we talk turkey,” Weicker added.