Pictorial Highlights of Spanish Coup Attempt
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-T ‘--v 24 - THE HERALD. Tues., Feb. 24. 1981 Pictorial highlights of Spanish coup attempt East Catholic Taste, travel LTM presents Owner of cafe shades Indians the Caribbean ‘Three Angels^ charged again Page 7 fage 13 Page 16 Page 19 Serving The GreaterHerald Manchester Area For 100 Y§an Manchester, Conn. Wednesday, February 25, 1981 25 Cents 2 Food prices drop 5 Civil Guard Lt. Col. Antonio Tejero do iawmaking body as Its members voted for a Moiina stands on the podium in the Spanish ne\w Premier. (UPl photo) Inflation rate 9.1% Parliament after ieading a take-over of the WASraNGTON (UPl) - Inflation a 13.4 percent annual inflation rate in family's earnings have fallen 4 per counted for nearly all the overall im fell below double-digit rates in December. The last time inflation cent during the past 12 months. provement in January. January for the first time since last ran below two digits was last August, Such a family is no longer typical, Food and beverages together The Spanish Parliament which was taken Monday In apparent coup of the Spanish summer, helped by the first drop in when the rate was 9.6 percent. because more and more wives have registered a zero increase. Prices of grocery store food prices in nearly a However, even the reduced gone to work, but it is still used by fo ^ bought at grocery stores actual over by right wing police and civil guards government. (UPl photo) year, the Labor Department January rate made big inroads in the the department to measure changes ly fell 0.4 percent in January, the reported today. purchasing power of working in buying power. first monthly drop since a 0.5 percent The rise in the Consumer Price America. The consumer price index stood at decline in February 1980. Index for January was 0.7 percent. The Labor Department said the 260.5 in January, which means that Prices of meats, poultry, fish, eggs That works out to a 9.1 percent infla “real spendable earnings" — after goods costing $100 in 1967 now cost and fresh fruits and vegetables all tion rate on a compound annual basis taxes and inflation — of an urban, $260.50. To put it another way, one cpntributed to that decline. — the amount pricu would rise if the blue-collar family of four with a non 1967 dollar has shrunk in buying value Despite the apparent drop in the in monthly rate continued a full year. working wife and two children fell 0.1 to 38 cents. flation rate, Murray Weidenbaum, The January figure compares with percent in January. The same Slowing food and housing costs ac- chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, was not optimistic. "January’s moderate increase in the CPI, although welcome, provides Ten days of record high temperatures and heavy rains have Greek quake kills 12 little basis for optimism with regard turned many of Vermont’s ski areas Into mountains of mud, to the underlying rate of inflation,” ATHENS, Greece (UPl) — The of were injured. Vrahati, a town along the Corinth Weidenbaum said today. slush and ice as this skier at the Sugarbush ski area In l i ficial death toll rose today to 12 with With the exception of government Gulf coast, when an eight-story hotel "The slight decline in food prices Fayston, Vt., discovered. (UPl photo) scores injured in an eart^uake that offices, where many falM to appear crumbled. One person was missing was counterbalanced by a sharp rise collapsed four hotels in towns around for work, all offices, schools and and feared dead in the ruins. in energy," he said. “With January’s Athena and forced residrats of the banks in Athens were shut today. The In hlegara, 30 miles southwest of reading, 11.7 percent above a year F capital to stoq> outdoors or flee the only shops open were food stores. Athens; four people died and 10 were ago, we are still in a double-digit in Poor conditions ci^. ‘ Four hotels collapsed near Corinth. injured by falling masonry, flationary environment. The earthmiake, -wconded by the^ A railway bridge connecting Athens authorities said. In Halkls, one TIm cost of,tmujdog>lH>M Athsha Sei$|nological Institute at 6.6 with the region was closed ahd wonnan was killed, and in Vrahati, a cent, a slowill{ raSw iMian recent on the oMhcnded Richter scale, landslides forced detours on the woman was found dead under debris. monthSi as linrtgage rates rdsb depress skiers strutdc TSiesday night and was hi^way to the area. In Athens, a'woman died of a heart more slowly and house prices fell. followed by a series of strong Villages and small towns between attack in the middle of the street and Energy prices soared, rising a full STOWE, Vt. (UPl) - Rain afterriucks. Athens and the epicenter suffered another was killed when she jumped 3 percent over the month, with gas drummed down steadily as John Police reported 12 persons died more than the capital. One of the 12 from her second-floor window, police oline up 3.8 percent and household Himmelman of Halifax, Nova Scotia, E because of the earthquake and 55 people known dead was killed in said. fuels up 2.7 percent. headed out of the muddy parking lot But snow at Mount Mansfield, "Ski Capital of the East.” has come “ Fourteen hours of driving for Bv United Press International this!” he said, gesturing at the Skiers rejoiced today as much- patches of brown grass and slushy needed snow fell in northern New snow on the mountain. England where springlike con Gen. Jaime Mllans del ’’They told us two days ago they ditions over the past few weeks had Bosch, figurehead leader of had four feet of snow. We were cast a pall over the winter resorts. definitely misled — and we won’t be In southern New England, rain the extreme right wing of the back,” he said. Spanish military, vyas was expected to change to light Inside the base lodge, skier Karen snow flurries later in the day, but believed to be the master-' Knipfel of Toronto looked up from forecasters predicted there would mind of the coup attempt her paperback book and said, "I'd be little accumulation because of and tried to establish a like to pack it in right now and go warm ground conditions. military district near Valen home. 'This is so depressing.” “ The ground is so warn). I cia. (UPl photo) Her depression was shared wouldn’t look for it to stick,” said Tuesday by skiers and ski resort Harry Terban, a spokesman for the' owners around the Northeast, National Weather Service in A week of record temperatures in Boston. the 40 lo so degree range, accom The situation was different in panied by heavy rain, shut down 76 of parts of Vermont, New Hampshire the 90 ski areas in the six-state New and Maine where residents woke up England area. to find up to eight inches on the i Skiing at the remaining 14 resorts ground. Resigned prime minister Adolfo Suarez, left was limited to a few trails covered as civil guard insurrectionists manhandle spottily with machine-made snow, winter that drove skiers up the walls on stairs, comes to the aid of First Vice him after taking over parliament. (UPl which melts more slowly than and many operators to the verge of President Gen. Manuel Gutierrez Mellado photo) natural snow. bankruptcy. The early spring is particularly dis "We have to get some cold weather Tuesday's rain caused this flooding on Parker Bridge Road heartening because resorts were in the next three or four days, or pays no heed. (Herald photo by Cody) counting on a strong 1981 season to that's it for the year,” said Ralph In Andover. The road was officially closed but this driver make up for last year's snowless Deslauriers, owner of Vermont’s Bolton Valley Resort. 2 Spanish soldier patrols Carrera de San Geronimo near the He estimated the industry already entrance of the Spanish Parliament where armed civil has lost $3 million to the spring-like Town leaving Coventry temperatures. guards held 350 members of parliament hostage. (UPl To the south, some areas were photo) COVENTRY — Town Manager submit my resignation as town been working for the town for "a long for locating a replacement in close to giving up. Frank Connolly resigned Tuesday m an ag e r; I have receiv ed a time,” a time that may be above nor executive session, but said the coun "Hello, we are now closed and night at an emergency meeting of the favorable offer and I have accepted mal, “particularly for a small cil members have no one specific in waiting for a natural snowfall," said Town Council. the position of assistant town town.” mind. a telephone recording at the Blue The resignation, to take effect manager for the Town of Connolly’s letter adds that during Mrs. Koontz said that although she Hills ski area in Canton, Mass. 5 March 27, was delivered by Connolly Newington.’’ his eight and one half years in Coven was "kind of expecting” the move, "If we don’t see you until next to the council in an executive session Connolly expresses his gratitude to try, as part-time planner, planner she said the “reality of it” caused a year, have a wonderful summer,” it during which time he read a letter the council "for the confidence they and town manager, “I have seen feeling of surprise. said.