Stolberg predicts tax bill Rassett and Mahaffey A ir fares will get by the Senate leading U.S. Open field slashed again ... page 4 ... page 15 ... page 10 Humid today, Manchester, Conn. cloudy Sunday Saturday June 18, 1983 — See page 2 iJlanrfeHtrr Mrralb Single copy: 25<P \ Shuttle: All systems go By Donald C. Brown Jr. Ms. Ride. 32, was being tight- United Press International lipped about her flight but her presence added excitement to the CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - $250 million flight, the most NASA officials Friday cleared the ambitious mission yet for the Challenger and its eager astro­ revolutionary space freighter. nauts for the most ambitious Local radio stations were play­ shuttle mission yet and were ing a rock song that began "Ride, optimistic weather would permit Sally, ride on your rocket ship" Saturday's launch of the first Abrahamson said the launch American woman in space. with Ms. Ride aboard will be a Workers ran through the final milestone but there is a second ground checklist and were even milestone yet to be reached. ahead of schedule on some of the “That’s not quite so dramatic items in their bid to help astrophys­ and it's going to be a lot harder to icist Sally Ride make U.S. space tell, but it’s even more important history. than tomorrow’s. And that’s the Space officials said there was a milestone that says when we have chance of a brief shower at the ladies going into space and doing Florida launch site but they were other things and nobody notices. more concerned about cloud cover “We can’t afford to waste the at the emergency landing strip at talent and capability of half the Dakar, Senegal on the west Afri­ people in our society.” can coast. The strip at Dakar Hundreds of thousands of people would be used if the astronauts had were expected to watch the launch, to abort the shuttle flight shortly among them feminist leader Glo­ after launch. ria Steinem and actress Jane NASA officials said they were Fonda who will be in a special VIP optimistic the weather at Dakar viewing section. would permit the blastoff as Crippen and Hauck had to cancel scheduled at 7:33 a.m. EDT. their last landing practice because The six-day mission is scheduled of a computer problem on the jet to end with an unprecedented rigged to simulate a shuttle Kennedy Space Center landing touchdown. June 24 and the White House They are scheduled to glide announced Friday that President Challenger back to Earth on 3-mile Reagan will be at the Cape to long 100-yard wide runway at the Herald photo by Tarquinio welcome the astronauts home Cape. from space. 4,000 pounds of sophistication Ms. Ride and the other astro­ nauts — mission commander Ro­ bert Crippen, co-pilot Frederick Inside Today \ Movers Steve Simmons (right) and Dave English strain to a CT-scan, into Manchester Memorial Hospital Friday. Hauck, and mission specialists get a 4,(X)0-pound General Electric “Computer Tomo­ The $936,000 device can provide cross-section X-rays of John Fabian and Norman Thagard 20 pages, 2 sections graphy Whole Body Scanner," more familiarly known as the entire body. Story and more pictures on page 3. — were briefed by launch official Advice .......................... .....................12 Robert Sieck. He said the astro­ Business........................ .....................20 nauts were eager to get into space. Ciossified........................ ................10-19 “They are up and ready to go,” Comics...................................................9 he said. Entertainment...................................7.0 Lottery............................ ...................... 2 Lt. Gen. James Abrahamson. Obituaries............................................10 associate NASA administrator in Opinion............................ ...................... 6 Pope allowed to meet Walesa charge of the shuttle program, Sports.............................. ..............15-17 called the astronauts '‘a very Television....................... .............. 7,0,9 relaxed crew. They’re in really Weother.......................... .....................2 WARSAW, Poland (UPI) - Many in the crowd carried mob gathered outside the stadium marched across the bridge. Many good shape.” Pope John Paul II asked Poland’s banners hailing the outlawed Solid­ afterward chanting Solidarity others apparently crossed the He said the Challenger was communist leaders Friday to end arity union, including one pro­ slogans. bridge on their way home from the “turned around” from its maiden martial law and restore the claiming, "You Are the Real Police formed a barricade mass. There were no immediate flight in April in record time — 63 F o r th e Record Solidarity trade union, then per­ Father of Solidarity.” But when across the Poniatowski Bridge, reports of arrests or violence. work days — and would be readied suaded them to let him meet with the pope mounted the platform in leading from the stadium to the John Paul met with Jaruzelski, in an even shorter time to fly again labor hero Lech Walesa. his gold vestments the banners heart of downtown Warsaw, to premier and ieader of Poland's in mid-August. After a meeting with Polish disappeared. divert the crowd. Thousands of Communist Party, for 2'/i hours. An article in the Thursday Abrahamson, who once was an Manchester Herald stated incor­ leader Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, Mindful of a surging anti- union supporters refused to move He asked Jaruzelski and his Air Force astronaut, said the the pope prayed with more than 1 government demonstration that and stood calling to the police, regime to “spare the sufferings” rectly that registration tor swim­ countdown leading up to final ming classes will be conducted million of his countrymen — broke out Thursday in the streets "Join us.” caused by martial law, condemn­ fueling operations early Saturday urging them to strive for a "moral of Warsaw, the pontiff asked the Police helicopters whirred over­ ing the “severe rigors” it imposed, Monday at the town Recreation had been very smooth. Department office on Garden victory” over the difficulties fac­ mammoth crowd to remain calm head in the gathering evening and demanded the restoration of “We're all very, very pleased ing the nation — at a mass at the gathering before a 60-foot gloom as the authorities tried to Solidarity, banned last December. Grove Drive, In fact, registration with that,” he said. "The only will take place at each of the town’s celebrated in an outdoor soccer cross erected for the appearance. gauge the crowd’s intent and size. really serious issue or question stadium. The mass stayed peaceful, but a About 2.000 chanting peopie Please turn to page lo five pools, beginning at 9 a.m, mark at this time is the weather.” Monday. Judge says students seeking college aid Man’s body found in Bolton Lake By Raymond T. DeMeo don’t have to register Herald Reporter Dr. Robert Breer of Bolton ST. PAUL. Minn. (UPI) — A In Washington, Selective Service and his wife, Jan, were sailing federal judge Friday struck down spokeswoman Joan Lamb said the their catamaran on a placid a law passed by Congress last year government intends to appeal the Bolton Lake Friday when they saw a human head jutting from requiring students to state they decision to the Supreme Court. She * have registered for the draft said the government also would the water about 50 yards out before they can receive federal seek an injunction to keep Alsop’s from the public beach. student aid. decision from taking effect pend­ “I thought it might have been U.S. District Judge Donald Alsop ing a higher court decision. a swimmer, holding his nose to ruled the law unconstitutional, Amy Silberberg of the Minnesota see how long he could stay saying it violates the Fifth Amend­ Civil Liberties Union praised the under. Then I grabbed his hair. ment against self-incrimination ruling as a "significant victory for He was obviously dead,” said and Article I of the Constitution constitutional rights. Breer. prohibiting a bill of attainder; any "Students were being punished State police late Friday said law that automaticaiiy makes for alleged criminal activities and that they had not confirmed the certain people guilty of a crime. denied financial aid without be­ identity of the apparent drown­ He ordered the Department of nefit of a trial or any other due ing victim whom the Breer's Education to send out a memoran­ process guarantees under the U. S. found floating in Bolton Lake dum to all schools by June 30 Constitution," she said. about 4 p.m. Friday. saying students do not have to sign "This decision guarantees that The victim, believed to be in any form concerning their Selec­ the federal government will have his early 30’s, was clad only in tive Service status before picking to charge, try and convict people of blue jeans, according to Bolton up student loan checks or taking crimes before they can be resident trooper Robert Peter­ f^eraliy sponsored student jobs. punished.” son. His body was transported Alsop denied motions by the Richard Roe, John Doe and Paul to the office of the Chief State federal government to limit his Poe, pseudonyms for three Univer­ Medical Examiner in Farming- ruling to the district of Minnesota. sity of Minnesota students who ton. where an autopsy will be "The legisiation is national in said they had not registered for the performed this morning. character and effect,” said Alsop, draft, brought the suit against the Peterson said the body had a Republican. “It seems to this government. probably been in the lake for court that the public interest lies in In his ruling, Alsop noted that several days, based on its favor of resolving promptiy the Selective Service ruies require a bloated condition. It may have issues raised by these cases.” maie to register within 30 days of sunk to the bottom of the^lake Herald photo by DeMeo Alsop’s permanent injunction his 18th birthday.