Haig Begins New Peace Drive
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V*.-. • t;iA v .rw ..s v .''v ;.T , Local baseball Faulty scaffold blamed Private Property Week: teams triumph for collapse of bridge a special supplement ... page 17 ... page 4 ... inside today Manchester, Conn. Fair tonight; Friday^ April 16, 1982 warm Saturday Single copy 25q; — See page 2 IpralJi Haig begins new peace drive Britain Infant prepares for war starves ^4- By United Press International The British Cabinet was put on war footing today to deal with the to death Falklands crisis and Secretary of State Alexander Haig began a new peace drive in an unscheduled meeting with Argentine President BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (U P I)- A Leopoldo Galtieri. starving, week-old Down’s Syn The move came after Argentine drome baby, denied food on his ' 4 ,’ warships put to sea Thursday in a parents’ orders, died bouts before possible challenge to the British lawyers were to ask a Supreme blockade of the Falkland Islands, Court justice for an emergency seized by Argentina April 2. order that might have kept him ■m The British naval task force was alive. due to arrive at Ascension Island in The infant died at 10:03 p.m. EST mid-Atlantic about now but the Thursday, a spokesman for Defense Ministry declined to com Bloomington Hospital said. ment on the fleet’s precise location. Court-appointed lawyers for the “It is clear tonight that the task baby had planned to appear before m will not be easy,” Haig said when he Supreme Court Justice John Paul arrived Thursday in Buenos Aires Stevens today to ask for an for another round of his peace- emergency order directing the shuttle. “The stakes are so high that hospital to try to save the baby’s they demand the ultimate effort of Ufe. all participants in these dis The Indiana Supreme Court had cussions.” refused Wednesday, on a 31 vote, to Haig had a-surprise meeting today with Galtieri, who earlier rejected a overturn lower court rulings ft''. backing the parent^’ right to U.S. proposal for a joint U.S.- withhold treatment. British-Argentine committee to rule The baby’s death sparked protests the disputed 200-island archipelago from those who felt life-savtag steps until a permanent' solution is should have been taken. reached. “I think it’s an unmitigated' President Reagan’s envoy later tragedy,” said Dr. J.C. Wlllke, met with an Argentine government president of the National Right to team headed by Foreign Minister Life Committee. Nicanor Costa Mendez, who earlier The child was unable to eat nor said Haig was bringing “something mally because his esophagus was Herald photos by Tarqulnlo new.” not connected to his stomach, but In London, government officials Monroe County Prosecutor Barry The pause that refreshes said Prime Minister Margaret Brown, one of the child’s court- Thatcher ordered her key ministers appointed attorneys, said it would — including Foreign Secretary Mary Rodgers, left, of South Windsor, a second-semester stu- sunshine. Marla Ronalter, a Francis Pym and Defense Secretary have been a simple procedure to dent at Manchester Community College, enjoys a brief respite the grass more comfortable on a beautiful spring day. connect the two. John Nott, to remain in the capital “The chances of the child’s sur from the classroom and takes advantage of a bench and the this weekend. vival were very high within the first Government ministries were 24 hours after the child’s birth,” he ordered to keep key officials per said. Faucher doing well manently in touch. Officials said the “From what I gather, the baby orders amounted to war footing. had a 75 percent or better chance to The last time such emergency survive and have a normal existence measures were taken was during the if that surgery had been done. It’s 1973 Middle East war when the happening frighteningly often in Soviet Union threatened to in He can't wait to come home tervene and then President Richard hospitals around the country,” Willke said. Nixon ordered U.S. forces on a Hundreds of residents called worldwide alert. months; but, he adds, it’s just as The Defense Ministry said today Right to Life offices in Bloomington By Lisa Zowada Human Relations Commission and founder of the Manchester Citizens well. that two Royal Air Force and Indianapolis to express outrage Herald Reporter at the decision to let the baby die. for Social Responsibility, was “I don’t even want to remember,” technicians who remained in the “We have just been flooded with Robert Faucher, the prominent seriously injured when the Toyota he said. “I’ve got enough to think islands aifter the Argentine invasion calls from people who are angry Manchester resident seriously in Cellca he was drlvlhg was struck by about right now.” have returned to Britain and that this could happen,” said Mary a Lincoln Continental as Faucher One of the thoughts preoccupying provided valuable information. jured in a two<ar accident Jan. 20, him is when he’ll be able to resume Pat Marstall, president of Indiana is out of the hospital, doing well, and was turning into the Cumberland They were said to have photographs Farms store on East Center Street. all his normal activities. He is proving the Argentines have been Right to Life. is “anxious” to get back home. general manager for Nationwide On the parents orders doctors Faucher, 31, has been staying with ' Faucher suffered multiple trauma unable to extend the runaway at and chest injuries and was eventual Moving Co. in Bloomfield. Port Stanley as they had claimed. refrained from feeding the baby his mother in Rocky Hill since he Faucher said his doctors have either intravenously or by mouth. was discharged from Hartford ly transferred to Hartford Hospital Mrs. Thatcher, after cancelling Hospital authorities did not from Manchester Memorial. refused to commit themselves to a plans to go to her official country Hospjtal last Saturday. He returns date. But Faucher said he’s looking release the names of the parents or The driver of the other car, residence because of the Falklands to the hospital once a week for at the beginning of June. the ^hiiH and said late ’Thursday “no rehabilitation therapy. Thomas M. Sheridan, 38, of Bolton, crisis, decided to spend the weekend further information will be released suffered a mouth laceration in the “I’ll‘be back in time to make a there after all, a spokesman for her “Being out is a lot better than stink over the condominiums near at this time.” being in the hospital,” Faucher said accident. office said today. Numerous couples had offered to Cheney Mills,” he said, laughing. But the spokesmah said Mrs. this morning. “At least I can start to Right now, though, Faucher is ' adopt the infant after word of think about an end to all this. I’m FAUCHER SAID he has no ROBERT FAUCHER memory of the accident that sent Wednesday’s Indiana Supreme anxious to return to Manchester.” . before the accident Please turn to page 10 Court ruling, upholding the judg Faucher, the co-chairman of the him to the hospital for almost three Please turn to page 10 ment of two Monroe County judges and a child protection committee, became public. “This is direct killing. Since when do we allow people to be killed just Downtown church because they are handicapped?” Willke said. tells firms to move Inside today Commercial tenants of the former Wichman. State Theater Building, now owned Attorney Vincent Diana said today 24 pages in 2 sections the firm is in the process of buying Plus tabloid supplement by th e Full Gospel Interdenominational Church, have another Main Street building and Advice ..........................................^ been notified that they must even will move its offices into it. tually move out because the church Diana has represented the pastor Classified................................ needs the space to accommodate its^ of the church, the Rev. Philip P. Comics . ; . ............................ -J® growing neiads. Saunders, in legal matters. Entertainment ...................... Ground floor commercial tenants Saunders could not be reached Lottery................................... of the building at Main and Bissell today for comment on the church’s Obituaries ................... ........ streets are the Comer Soda Shop, move to take over more of the space Opinion................... ® Bray’s Jewelers, the Head Chop, in the building it owns,.The process Peopletalk........ .......... " " { 7 a Herald photo by Tarqulnlo , and Su-Deb Coin Go. " has been ongoing,. Ibowever. As ^ r t s .............................. • • The only commercial tenant on spaces were vacated, the congrega- ’Television ......... .........../ ............ THE FORMER STATE THEATER the second floor is the law office of Weather . — ............. •* .. the church needs all of the space Garrity, Walsh, Diana and Please turn to page 10 MANCHESTER HERALD. Fri., April 16, 1982 - .'1 2 — MANCHESTER HERALD, Fri., April 16, 1982 r-Education notebook- news Briefing Congress gets The kidsV favorite? Dried whole prunes Mailer says term Fair. ‘kiling sentence’ special deduction L O W ftT total of 3,099 meals were purchased. 'The students All students in grades kindergarten through two By Nancy Thompson i they ate the food, whether they liked it and whether were invited to participate in the program. WASHINGTON (UPI) - Members of it was familiar to them. sampled the speclel foods on 1,909 of those meals. NEW YORK (UPI) - Author Norman Herald Reporter Of those, studenU said 910 times that they liked the Students in those grades had to have their parents Congress filed their income tax returns “’The disturbing statistic found in the results is read aloud to them for 10 minutes four times a week Mailer, who was so impressed with Jack Which food do you like best: dried whole prunes, the number of children who said they had never food sampled and said 948 times that they would be Henry Abbott's writing he helped him before midnight last night but, unlike for a four-week period.