"1 Town healtH clinics Bolton Insurance setbp USIA blacklist welcomed by elderly may violate antitrust law was destroyed ... page 3 ... page 5 ... page 4 Manchester, Conn. Cloudy tonight; Monday, Feb. 27, 1984 snow Tuesday Single copy: 254 — See page 2 iJIaurkat^r Unnlh Moslems take P&W plans 370 layoffs 2 U.S. positions; -iS i EAST HARTFORD - The Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Group said today it plans to lay off about 370 non-production employees on March 2. The employees, who work primarily in the war continues Manufacturing Division and group staff, will be notified of the layoffs today, the company said in a 7 By Hugh Pope had sent one of his envoys to north news release. United Press International Lebanon to meet opposition leaders In addition to the layoffs, the company said it will Suleiman Franjiah and Rashid recall about 200 production workers and transfer 150 BEIRUT, Lebanon — Soldiers loyal Karami. other employees to production jobs. Another 60 to Christian President Amin Gemayel In Paris, the 10 European Common employees, who otherwise would have been laid o ff,' clashed with Syrian-backed Moslem Market nations backed a French are expected to be placed in other Pratt & Whitney militiamen in Beirut and in the hilts proposal before the U.N. Security divisions, the company said. outside the capital today. At least 15 Council to send a U.N. peacekeeping The company said the adjustments in its work force people were injured by shellfire, police force to Beirut, conference officials "were required to meet current schedule said. said. requirements." The fighting came a day after U.S. The proposal was in line with an idea Company officials were not available to elaborate. Marine peace-keepers abandoned their presented by Israeli Prime Minister However, the company did say the shuffling of its bunkers - at the Beirut airport. The Yitzhak Shamir to the ministers in work force did not result from the recent decision by positions were immediately taken over Brussels a week ago. Shamir suggested the Air Force to award 75 percent of a lucrative jet by the Lebanese army's renegade 6th the U.N. force in southern Lebanon be engine contract to General Eelectric Co, Brigade — a mainly Moslem unit that moved to the Beirut area to establish a The contract was for the production of jet engines refused to fight three weeks ago for the buffer zone between rival Christian and for the F-15 and F-16 fighters, both of which are now U.S.-backed government against Mos­ Moslem militias, on condition they powered by the Pratt & Whitney F-lOO engine. lem rebels. accept a truce. The Air Force had experienced performance Moslem militiamen guarded the The U.N. force could play a similar problems with the F-lOO engine and was upset by entrance to the base where the Marines role between Syrian and-Israeli troops allegations that Pratt & Whitney had charged too were stationed for more than 17 in Lebanon, Shamir suggested. much for spare parts. months. The Americans were airlifted Today's fighting, while intermittent, The Air Force said the rival GE F-110 engine was to 6th Fleet ships off the coast of involved artillery, mortar and tank fire lower in overall costs and ensured more competition Lebanon. in the mountains and rocket grenades in the procurement of spare parts. Military sources said an American and heavy machine guns in downtown Pratt & Whitney President Arthur E. Wegner said priest and a French peace-keeping Beirut. that the effect of the loss of the contract on the soldier were killed in heavy shelling in In the city’s southern suburbs and company’s employment levels will not be known for the capital Sunday. mountains overlooking the capital, some time. "Our best assessment now, however, is that overall F In Washington, the Pentagon and the similar clashes continued through State Department said they were Sunday night and early today. employment levels in the Manufacturing Division will aware of reports of an American being Private radio stations in the Chris­ be largely unchanged through the rest of 1984," he killed but bad no further details. tian and Moslem halves of the city said. The radio of the Christian Phalangist today warned residents to "be careful The company said it is making an effort to find jobs militia said shrapnel from artillery and and take all the necessary tor those workers who will be laid off. Both salaried . mortar fire killed the Rev. James precautions." employees and hourly employees with three or more Michael Finnigan and wounded three Two shells crashed outside a rightist years of service will- receive severance pay Lebanese, There was no immediate Christian Phalangist party office in the Herald photo by Tarquinio determined by the length of their employment, the information available on Finnigan’s east Beirut neighborhood of .Furn el company said. E Charles Blanchard of Coventry examines a stone unearthed by hometown and order. Chebak, wounding two civilians. Today’s skirmishes coincided with Other shells in the same vicinity workers from the town when they came in to remove gravel. With newspaper reports of an imminent wounded another 13 civilians, and the help of the Coventry Conservation Commission, he hopes to breakthrough in Saudi Arabian-led ‘ 'several other people were wounded on stop quarrying on this land, “at least until a proper and correct Chernenko grabs peace efforts to end the fighting. the other (Moslem) side of the city survey can be made." The Beirut newspaper An Nahar said center front,” a police official said. Gemayel had “ finally taken a decisiolii The departure of the American military powers to abrogate” the May 17 troop withdra­ contingent in the multi-national force, wal agreement with Israel and that his which followed the evacuation of the B decision would be conveyed to Syria British and Italian contingents, left MOSCOW (UPI) — Konstantin Chernenko, who later today. only the French contingent in Beirut. Amateur archaeologist became Communist Party chief just two weeks ago, Government sources, while not com­ The French suffered their 87th casualty has been named commander-in-chief of the Soviet menting on the report, said Gemayel late Sunday. military in a consolidation of his power, a Western diplomat said today. battles with Coventry The appointment gives Chernenko two of the three top positions in the Soviet leadership opened up by the By Tracy L. Geoghegan the town may be forced to do more than death of Yuri Andropov, leaving just the largely West Hartford arsonist Herald Reporter just move its quarrying operations. ceremonial presidency vacant. Current plans call for the construc­ The Western diplomat said Marshal Nikolai COVENTRY — Six years ago, tion of a sewage treatment plant on the Ogarkov referred to Chernenko as chairman of the gets 5 years’ probation Charles Blanchard found an arro­ same parcel of land. So when the Defense Council at a reception to celebrate armed whead in his garden and his passion for Conservation Commission — avowed forces day last Thursday. archaeology was sparked. opponents of the sewer project — got The diplomat said he did not know how or when the HARTFORD (UPI) - Barry Dov for Schuss, described by supporters as He began poking around the fields wind of Blanchard’s finds, they were defense title was given to Chernenko, who was Schuss, the teenager charged with a “ deeply religious person” and "a and woods near his Main Street house, quick to rally behind his efforts. unamimously elected Communist Party general setting four fires last summer in West bright boy who is obviously now ill.” and unearthed axes, jewelery and "No treatment plant should go in secretary Feb. 13, four days after Yuri Andropov’s Hartford’s Jewish community, today Schuss read from a typewritten other tools he believes are the remains there at least until the dig is complete, ’ ’ death. was sentenced to five years probation statement, telling the court, "I want of a prehistoric society which could said Daniel Manley, chairman of the "It’s been kept a secret, but it seems that Ogarkov and ordered to undergo psychiatric you to know how sorry I am. Please date as far back as 2000 B.C. Conservation Commission. definitely wanted us to know that Chernenko was head treatment. allow me to stay under psychiatric The amateur archaeologist now finds of the defense council," the diplomat said. Superior Court Judge John Brennan treatment.” himself battling the Town of Coventry BLANCHARD, a professional musi- He said the position of commander in chief was spared the West Hartford youth a jail His father. Jack, told Brennan, "We in an effort to protect land he says is almost always held simultaneously by the president. term after listening to the pleas of still find it hard to believe what has especially rich with artifacts of archae- Andropov assumed the commander in chief mantle Schuss' family, supporters and his happened. Barry fell ill to a disease ^ Please turn to page 10 logical significance. by May of last year, six months after being named attorney, John F. Droney, for leniency. that August and he still is sick. secretary general. In June, he was named president, Schuss, a 17-year-old son in a family . "He’s only 17,” his father said. THE LAND, unfortunately for Blan­ consolidating the top three positions of Soviet of devout Orthodoz Jews, admitted "There’s still time to treat him. We all chard, is owned by the town, and is leadership. setting fires in August and September want to make sure Barry will never be 2 quarried for gravel periodically. "The Inside Today "How or when that (the presidency) will happen is at two West Hartford synagogues and a threat to society again.