Welcome wishes #• Hijack ^rlmey money woes ^ Daube, Inaugurated at MCC, Six die after Arabs hduelng project /5 f promises hew commitment /3 seize Israeli bus /7 • 1 ' Uiattrhpalpr Irralh Monday, March 7, 1988 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm 30 Cents Many businesses miss hazardous chemical deadline By Nancy Concelman Amendments and Reauthoriza­ emergency planning. commissions. businesses, members of the com­ T h e penalty for non- Manchester Herald tion Act of 1986 (SARA), busi­ The state and towns are re­ The committee must come up mittee, were required to report to compliance with the law is a fine nesses are required to report the quired to create emergency plan­ with an emergency response plan the state in May 1987. of up to $45,000 per day of Many Manchester businesses use of certain types of chemicals ning committees. Manchester’s for the town to deal with emer­ The names of those businesses non-compliance, said Andy Espo­ may have missed a March 1 used at their sites to the local, Local Emergency Planning Com­ gency chemical spills or releases were not immediately available. sito. plant engineer at Rogers deadline for reporting hazardous state and federal governments. mittee, created in August 1987, is by next October, said Fred Weil of But Weil said other businesses Corp. of Manchester and chair­ chemicals to the town and state In addition to the so-called headed by Health Director Ro­ the town Health Department. may not yet be aware of sections man of the Local Emergency under a federal law that may be “ community-right-to-know” re­ nald Kraatz. The committee is Weil, a member of the commit­ .311 and 312 of SARA Response Committee’s informa­ too new for industry to know porting requirements. Title III of comprised of town staff, tee, said the six local businesses “ This is all very very new.” tion handling subcommitee. But about, a representative from the SARA also establishes require­ members of business and indus­ that handle extremely hazardous Weil said. "A lot of the smaller Esposito agreed that busines.ses town Health Department said. ments for federal, state and local try, police and fire officials and chemicals have been “ very coop­ companies in town really haven’t page 46 Under Title III of the Superfund governments and industry for members of other agencies and erative” in reporting them. These gotten information on that yet.” Please turn to page 10 I»WII Choppers I 111 ;i; in ill iii 'i ilillitlitfi? milt. :ii .'ll ill ill ill .1 ,1! .11 ill ill ill -I tiilinH.,.. ;i!.li .It .liiiLi ill .11 ,!i.n ;ii,i ir.,1... lilt. dodge fire liii::; ...;ii. il!i.,..,ili.„.l rnev .iu:.i: ,1111 .1 .! ill il ' Herald ;i..ii.iia... ill .11 ill I ...... mi.nmll,;lillt 4.. .1.),! LL — Foul shooting .... !...! ..!|ll illil.Ji ill il, ii.l: .iMii iiij! from Iran > be the difference in f ■' M-**,. ' ill IIII ,11,11 r Oak Conference '■ •' II .1 ‘It .1 By Richard Pyle hip gam e Friday tll.l, ■Hill, f •'■•I'.l .11; The Associated Press tnwell High School, .I'.l. ind High Highlanders I I I V, ■ ‘Il II.! '■ ii.iiin:! MANAMA, Bahrain — U.S. Navy helicopters ine of their 11 free III dodged heavy machine-gun fire in the Persian Gulf e fourth quarter and liMl and Iran today claimed responsibility for the attack a nine-point halftime •i«l.. |l 4# which came after the heiicopters ignored a warning dge Coventry High, to stay clear of an "Iranian zone.” B COC boys’ basket- "Ml|i tS-'l The account carried by Tehran’s official Islamic Portland, 20-2, was Republic News Agency evidently referred to the fi the charity stripe i t H ’Mil Incident Saturday night reported earlier by U.S. ! while Coventry was • I 'i". II! 1 officials. m They said American helicopters took "evasive ots. 15-7, earned a action" when fired on from an oil platform and ye in the Class S state several small boats in the central gulf about which gets under midnight Saturday. eek. They will meet r^i Meanwhile, U.S. officials said there was no ay-Griswold winner AP photo* connection between the helicopter incident and the a site and time to be movement of six U.S. warships up the gulf today. RUMBLE AND CRUMBLE — Implosion detonations emit puffs way for a new office and retail complex. At right, the crumbled The ships’ appearance off Dubai triggered ed by as many as 11 of smoke, left, and the rubble starts to fall as the 16-story structure falls and settles as a dust cloud billows. The buildings speculation that the United States was planning to ) in the second half. Travelers Building is brought down Sunday in Boston to make at right were preserved for use in the new complex. retaliate for the shooting Saturday. Portland’s Shawn All six, including a missile cruiser, three missile red eight of his 16 frigates, a combat stores shipand a chartered Navy i fourth quarter and tanker, were part of "routine movement, not rs had nine markers connected with any other recent events in the gulf,” ission to catapult the said Lt. Col. John Head, a spokesman for the U.S. past the Patriots. Little glamor, glitz for phone volunteers Central Command. ' 1 four Highlanders in Saturday’s helicopter incident occurred as the res with 17 points aircraft were scouting ahead of the missile frigate Turner and John Bv Andrew J. Davis accepted big corporate checks, sometimes Simpson, returning up the gulf aftera convoy escort ed 12 and 11 points, Manchester Herald totalling hundreds of thousands of dollars, mission. the phone calls did not come in a flurry in A U.S. statement said the helicopters took evasive ing by Coventry (11- HEBRON — At first, it was a letdown Hebron. action and did not return fire when the Iranians shot ! second half contrib- since the glamour and glitz of Hollywood Maybe it was the weather, since it was at them. )wnfall. could only be seen on the television screen bright and sunny out for most of the day. It did not say what kind of helicopters were B by down by 10 and because the phones were silent. Maybe it was because people were involved or how many there were. Nor did the 1 never gave up,” At the Hemlocks Outdoor Education watching sports on television, or maybe it statement mention any warning by th9 Iranians ich Gene Reilly said, Center Sunday, there were no singing acts, was because the economy is not as great as before they started shooting. tiling. They (Coven- no corporate sponsors dishing out big the federal government makes it out to be. The platform was not identifii^byifame orexact rmidable foe. It was checks and no television cameras. There The telephone lines were quiet. location, although the statemennsaid It was not the :he COC title had an was only a handful of volunteers, including During my three hours there. I only took Rostam platform. Rostam wasSihelled by U.S. 5h.” myself, taking donations for the 17th eight pledges totaling $225 over the phone. destroyers last October in a retaliatohy raid after an Ing, 18-14, after one annual national Easter Seal Society While volunteer Lori Harris was able to Iranian Silkworm missile hit a U.S. fla^^d Kuwaiti gentry extended its telethon. accumulate about a dozen pledges totaling tanker, the Sea Isle City, anchored off Kawalt. 4 at halftime — a Nationally this year, the telethon raised around $300, Kelly Denowh. the third The Iranian account said: "Two U.S. helicopters !h should have been about $35.2 million, compared with the volunteer during my shift, only took a few attempting to approach an Iranian zone in the Patriots committed $33.2 million raised last year. calls. Persian Gulf early Sunday were forced to flee by the :rs during the second In Connecticut, about $7.54,000 was So, instead of spending hours on the anti-aircraft fire of naval forces of the Islamic lissed the front end of raised, compared with the $609,856 raised phone faking call after call as expected, Republic of Iran.” " [ opportunities. last year, said June Dalton-Morris. vice my time was spent watching Boone on the It added: "The navy anti-aircraft (unit) detected [nade a few of those president of development for the Hartford big screen. When the phone did ring, the the two helicopters on its radar and warned them to pe would have been Easter Seals rehabilitation center. For the three of us raced to the phone because we stay out of the Iranian zone. However, the Iranian \ points (at half),” Hartford region this year; ,,$271,820 was wanted to be able to report the highest navy fired warning shots after the U.S. helicopters Coach Ron Rad­ raised, compared to the $l9C96fe raised last total. violated the Iranian zone.” ii. "That (foul shoot- year. But while the phone calls were few and Shortly after midnight Friday, U.S. officials said hing we just don’t do. Pat Boone and Mary Frann led the far between and because there was none of the missile frigate John A. Moore fired at what were (at .half) that two national telethon from Hollywood, and the television glamour in Hebron, the believed to be Iranian speedboats seen on the radar 8 not make a basket- WTNH’s Geoff Fox and Diane Smith afternoon was still worthwhile. / screen before they disappeared. [f we had made our co-hosted the Connecticut portion of the 1 did not see the stars as entertainment Also Sunday, thousands of Iranians marched through central Tehran to the Soviet Embassy, ! would have won the telecast from New Haven.