20 - MANCHKSTKR HERALD, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 1984 « Directors OK plans I Holiday party givers / Manchester hockey winter storm watch for engineering staff I have treats galore i aims at tournan^t set for Thursday ... page 3 I ... page 13 " . page 9 ... page 2 u.-wraw- » HanrhratrrV/iliano r*'hiai*rr» ^ MrralJi Manchester. Conn. — A City of Village Charm W ednesday, Dec. 5, 1984 — Single copy: 25C i* » .»eiS S lT » nir I miiinawiniiiiistio nw— ii i > n new fear ^ « Hijackers in India - release 24 United Press International KIJWAIT (UPI) - HiJackers The demand was made 29 hours who killed one passenger ■— said to BHOPAL. — from ^ after the hiJucking of the French be a U.S. diplomat — on a Kuwaiti made Airbus, which was flying fuiieralpyresshrouded Bhopal and V/ ■' ^ Jeiliner at the Tehran airport bodies heaped about the city posed # L ~f W P ’ ^ from Kuwait lo Fakistan with 155 released 24 of iheir liostages today passengers and II crew members. a threat of epidemic today as the fJ^ K lli*Jk and demanded provisions to take death toll from a poison gas leak olf for an unknown destination. "Flight facilities have been pas.sed 1,600 and some 50,000 ^ tv ^ The Araliic-.speaking air pirates demanded at a time when show is »people sought medical ’ r N al.so demanded freedom for a fulling heavily in Tehran and a Officials of Union Carbide said M V group of pri.soner.s in K uw aiti ja ils thick fog prevails over Mchrabud initial investigation showed ill exchange for the remaining Airport, " the lUNA dispatch said more than 25 methyl hostages and threatened tohlow up "Airport officials say that flight is ■.socyanate spewed into the a ir over \ ' ' "-t, the plwe, Iran's official Islamic po.ssible. It is .said that the plane central Indian city after \ 'V'd'll Hepubric News Agency said has enough fuel for departure." "runaway chemical '. »W The hiJackers, who let 46 women IRNA said the hiJackers were in caused pressure to storage 1 'A' and children leave Tuesday, re­ conlaet with the Kuwaiti charge tank and a safety valve to open leased a wounded pa.sscnger today d'affaires to Tehran. Kuzem al the pesticide plant. 'IHiL'v and later relea.sed 23 |x-ople, M aarefi. over- liringing the number of freed "The hiJackers, in their negotia­ whelmed a scrubber meant to 1 hostages lo 70. neutralize the gas,” Union Carbide tions, have identified the dead IHNA said the dead pas.senger ■spokesman V iJay Avasti said. passenger, which previously was was an American diplomat, but a said to be a British national, as an , The Union Carbide chief medical ‘ spokeswoman at the U.S. Stale » officer, Dr. L.D. UJya. said proper i American diplomat, " IHNA said D eparlm eni in Washington .said medical treatment could have j "T he hiJackers have reportedly the dead man’s identity could nol demanded the Kuwaiti diplomat lo saved many of the victims, but.the / he confirmed. sheer volume and extent of the gas . i y ^ immediately inform the Kuwaiti ".So la r II has nol been confirmed release had overwhelmed / I authorities of their demands, oth­ facilities. • w.-, whether his death oecured in a' erwise they would explode the clash or if the hiJackers have Search teams today looked for plane and carry out their threats," carried oul their threats and killed more bodies in mud huts in the l ’ IR N A said. him," IRNA said. dozen shanty towns surrounding I ■ V Threalening lo blow up the Kuwaiti government officials, Bhopal, and doctors said another plane, the hiJackers forced the who had no immediate comment pilot to land the airliner at 1.000 people who inhaled the deadly . ' y on the barter request, said the gas — most of them children — Tehran's Mehrabad Airixin. I i y. prisoners apparently are 21 people were in critical condition and in M 4 IR N A .said the inJured pas­ Jailed for their roles in December senger, xiescribed only as a man 1983 bombings againsl French and with a dark complexion, was taken The final death toll for M onday's | U.S. targets in Kuwait. gas leak at a Union Carbide f off the aircraft. pesticide plant will not be known *' ” for days. Official reports set the death toll , H e r.id photo by Pin,o Fire hurts man, - »!•.8"'" Utilities District officials and firehouse. District voters approved the Minister ArJOT Singh told a news Others count ballots Tuesday night at a -plans 94 to 41 with one abstentinn Thp re?orded‘"620 dLih^buTacknowf- disfrict^ should*°h ,, district will pay $85,000 for the land at E edged his figu'res were incomplete. oistrict Should buy land on Tolland 1083 Tolland Turnpike, which is next to damages factory Now, fomous Marilioro Red and Marlboro l ights Singh vowed the Union Carbide I urnpike for Construction of a second a town-owned fire station An employee of the Clark Paint plant in Bhopal is "never going to damage lo the factory, F'ine and Factory on Hartford Road was start functioning here - never % ■ #%.■.■ ■ ■ * ■■ Deputy Town Fire Chief William are also available in a convenient new 25^ pack. burned on his face and neck this Griffin said. morning when a lank of oil The number inJured by the gas- W O lG I ^ ||H O IM l3 d C lC C lll^ G C tO I^ S Smoke was pouring from the suddenly ignited in a "fireball," used in manufacturing a widely ~ 10 windows and the lank was still in company owner Harry Fine said. used pesticide — was estimated at flames when the fire department 50,000. In addition to the 1,000 ■ ■ .a I . ^ I a . * ■ ■ ■ Employee Ryzard Pus was. arrived on the scene, Griffin, who treated at Manchester Memorial C was' in charge at the scene, said on DUCKiand firehouse plans Hospital for burns and smoke firefighters extinguished the blaze inhalation, a hospital spokeswo­ in two or three minutes"! Health officials said today un- _ ' man said. Another emplo,vec, Ed buried bodies and thousands of “V *<ajhv Garmus next to each other would be a cosllv ih .t •> a- . , C a rro ll Jr., was al.so taken lo the Griffin said fire and smoke decaying carcasses of water buffa- Herald Reporter duplication of services. w'as\inntr.a^r.^''''^'‘’‘ hospital for smoke inhalation. Fine damage was minimal. Fine esti los, goats and other animals n •. , Although district residentsaiiih ■Tv,.-.ir....'i ^ a, v said. mated the value of the inventory littered the slum area around the .Residents of the Eighth Utilities orized the purchase of the land in slaliom .s t t^t.v'"'^ for (the town Fine said the fire began as Pas lost to water damage on the floor plant posed the threat of epidemics Distri^ct authorized the district September, the PZC's unfavorable dic.ri.i i iv was pouring soya alkyd, a paint where the fire started and the floor that could further inflate the death “f Directors Tuesday night report made a second meetinE for in,./her "" a ingredient, into an often .5no-gallon below could be as high as $.10,000 to \ toll. • to buy land on which to build a necc.ssarv. '>^‘^01.0 meiiing tor another one, saidoneWood- holding lank on the third floor of $50,000. the factory al about 7. 30 a.m. The At the hospital morgues, people overriding a report by .Joyner’ and others said ih.. 'iJi,.'/ Fine said it was the first lim e the tank burst into flames. stood in long, winding lines today .allornative to building a firehoise with oVfkt^Tl07rTnl/ open tank had been used to store Fine said he and the four, other waiting their turn to identify the C<mmission, — huving the district conii-ici u,iih«i .ail. ‘‘t Tolland Turn- the soya alkyd, which is usually dead that lay, in rows, on the The vote was 94 to 41, with one ,h,. ,,election in * ^ a di.strict resident, workers who were in the plant at stored in closed tanks. It was ground, covered with white sheets f*’^h;nf*on, in favor of purchasing Buckland - would be cosllv lo ■ill.iw* in the time grabbed fire extin­ intended lo be a temporary storage guishers and the overhead that left only the faces visible. o parcel at 1083 Tolland Turnpike ■ district taxpayers. |.i.,i ^"’^ f“ ^P®^*‘ fhatcommer- space for the substance, he said. sprinkler system went off. Tens of thousands of people were n A m em orandum distrib u te d should1v/ve~a'^«-,v'?n district "In rctro.spect, I guess it's a bad overcome by methyl isocyanate D‘s‘rict President Walter fl. Tuesday .said the district provides ' "We "iVe nm.J "’a "When that fire b a ll fla.shed, it idea," he said. set 'em off," Fine said of the gas that seeped from the Union ‘>’e more than 100 protection for 16.000 people for bv vour rales " Fine guessed the fire was caused Carbide plant early Monday, en- gathered at the district $.326,000 a year while the t,/wn l Iren^e ’ *’® . sprinklers The water they and the by static electricity in the tank. But veloping Bhopal and a 15-square- Street that the provides fire protection for 32 000 district's n?'.,.*! '’”^ h '^® fire department dumped on the Griffin said the fire marshal had mile area in a deadly cloud. had left the district no option people at a cost of oyer $3 m inora dt*nts had^ been’ /'^ district resi- blaze cau.sed the bulk of the not yet determined the cause.