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24 - MANCHESTER HERAI.D, Wodnesday, Sept. 26, 1984 Town inspector has tips on fixing up your home .. home improvement supplement inside Cloudy tonight; Manchester, Conn, rain Friday Thursday, Sept. 27, 1984 — see page 2 HanrliPHtpr Ipralb Single copy: 25C Blast rips Soviets take New York 2 corporation hard-line path TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (UPI) - Police and FBI agents gathered at daylight today to examine a Union Carbide facility damaged by a bomb, apparently set by anti-apartheid terrorists Wednesday in the second in U.N. talk such bombing in 24 hours. The explosion Wednesday night near a door to the 7 Union Carbide research facility in Westchester By Ivan Zverina with the Soviet Union on I he prohibit ion County spewed glass over tailored suburban lawns United Press International of nuclear weapons tests. less than 24 hours after the South African consulate in "Those and other similar actions are a Manhattan skyscraper was smashed by a bomb. UNITED NATIONS - Soviet For but a fewexam plesof U.S. policy whose There were no injuries in either bombing. eign Minister Andrei Gromyko today central objective is to try and .secure "The FBI, our department and the county bomb accused the Reagan administration of military superiority for the United squad are conducting a thorough examination of the wrecking existing Soviet-Ameriean States," Gromyko said. residue of the explosion and the scene,” said Mt. accords in a bid to achieve U.S. On the eve of the speech, the Soviet Pleasant Police Chief Paul Oliva. military superiority. news agency Tass foreshadowed Gro Union Carbide officials met at the home office in 1 "Statements are being made at the myko’s tone with a dispatch from New Danbury, Conn., to discuss the bombing. A highest official levels that the United York that aecti.sed the United States of spokesman for the $9 billion conglomerate said the States is within its right to deliver a using "rude force” to interfere with the firm was proud of its record in South Africa, where he first nuclear strike, that is to say to affairs of other nations. said the firm stood for equality and against apartheid. unleash a nuclear w ar," Gromyko said The report dashed hopes for a thaw in In telephone warnings before each blast, a group in a long-awaited speech to the 39th Soviet-U.S. relations and signaled little calling itself Guerrilla Resistance warned of the General Assembly. progress could be expected at a consulate bomb and a group calling itself United Speaking three days after Reagan meeting Friday Ix-twcen Gromyko and Freedom F ^ n t claimed it had planted the Union made overtures to the Kremlin from Reagan at the Whit«j House. Carbide device. the same rostrum, the veteran Soviet Reagan, in his U.N. addre.ss Monday, Both groups spoke out against South African official said "our former allies in the had called for a constructive dialogue apartheid and U.S. imperialism. fight against fascism did not have the with the Soviets, and U.S. officials heart to vote” for a Soviet-sponsored described Wednesday’s meeting be Now, fomous Marlboro Red But Westchester County Deputy Police Commis sioner Thomas Sweeney said it was premature to say U.N. resolution for the prohibition and tween Gromyko and Secretary of State the blasts were linked. use of nuclear weapons. George Shultzh as "a good .start” and Marlboro Lights Earlier Wednesday the FBI, commenting on the In what appeared to be a reference to But the Tass report on the meeting South African consulate explosion before the bomb the Reagan speech, Gromyko said the said Shultz "set forth known American are also available m was detonated at Union Carbide, said the two United States was trying elevate a positions which do not attest to any organizations — as well as two other terrorists groups policy of "peace through .strength" to positive changes in the U.S. a|>proach S — may be the same one. Officials said the groups have •the "level of statesmanship." to international affairs” a convenient new 251s pack. been responsible for at least 13 other bombings in the "A ll we hear is that strength, "The aspiration of the United States New York area and Washington. strength and above all strength is the to interfere in the affairs of other No one has been killed or injured in any of the 13 guarantee of international peace,” he countries, to impose by rude force its explosions. said. “ In other words — weapons, orders on the peoples disorganizes The bomb placed near a door at the Union Carbide weapons and still more weapons,” international relations, leads to dan computer and research center exploded at 9:26 p.m. Since the major step forward of the gerous aggravation of the existing, and EDT, shattering scores of windows and throwing Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. emergence of new, seats of tension in shards of glass 100 feet from the building. Gromyko said, the Soviet Union had the world," Tass said. E Bob Dwyer, the director of administration for Union tried but been unable to reduce or limit Carbide in Westchester County, estimated the blast nuclear arms. "The American leadership is making caused $200,000 in damage to the four-story building 20 "The tug-of-war between the groups a gross mistake, Andrei Gromyko miles north of New York City. that determine U.S. foreign policy has stressed, in believing that a line of this "W e evacuated eight maintenance men after we got been won by the militaristically kind will benefit the United States in the warning,” Dwyer said. minded," he said. any way. The Soviet Union will "They attempt to devalue the exist resolutely oppose this line — it will not UPI photo ing Soviet-Ameriean accords by wreck allow that the existing balance of force Workmen place storm shutters on the windows of the City Corp ing what has been achieved earlier be disrupted." P Jaycees take over Bank building in Miami as residents prepared for tropical storm through long and painstaking work on Shultz briefed Reagan by telephone Isidore. The storm stalled in the central Bahamas, but then grew both sides.” on the talks with Gromyko. U S. He said the United States and Britain to 50 MPH winds and moved toward the Florida shore. officials said Shultz planned to be in the Soap Box Derby had refused to resume trilateral talks assembly when Gromyko speaks. By Sarah E. Hall Residents stay calm Herald Reporter In hopes of reviving the town Soap Box Derby’s popularity, the Manchester Jaycees voted W ^nesday to take over the project from the Isidore moving firefighters’ union. " I ’m hoping it’s going to come back better than ever," said Robert Barker, the firefighter who served as derby director for six of the eight years to Florida shore the union sponsored the race. " I t ’s new blood, so to speak,” hesaid. "You run Bv Jane Taylor a program for eight years and it gets stale.” But United Press International on the roads. It was like your usual Barker said there was some disappointment Florida thunderstorm.” about the union decision to drop the project late BOCA RATON, Fla. — Tropical The season’s ninth tropical storm last year. storm Isidore, "big, broad and was over the coast at latitude 26.3 This year, fewer contestants entered than in sloppy," churned ashore today with north, longitude 79.9 west, or about 15 any year since the union began sponsoring it in winds up to 50 mph, torrential rain and miles northeast of Fort Lauderdale. 1977. But Barker said he was confident the three-foot tides, but residents found it “ Isidore is moving on a west Jaycees will make the project a success. just another thunderstorm. northwest to northwest course at 10 Traditionally, the derby is a family event with Forecasters warned the worst of the mph and is expected to continue this children aged 9 through 15 driving the small, storm was still to reach land at motion today,” the hurricane center f ( specially nriodified cars. midmorning, but said it was still "no said. “ It’s a good project for the kids,” Tom Rhody, cause for alarm.” Residents and "A portion of the eye is overthe coast the Jaycee who proposed the takeover, said this businesses made only minimal right now, but you’ve got to remember preparations. that that eye is big, broad and sloppy, ” 2 morning. “ This is the kind of thing we nfited People have forgotten about us." Forecaster Bob Case of the National Case said. "It has a diameter of 30 or 40 Barker — who is also the regional director of Hurricane Center in Miami said the miles.” the New England Soap Box Derby Association — center of the storm began moving Gales extended 100 miles from the said he plans to “ stick around to give the Jaycees ashore between Boca Raton and center of the minimal storm, which the little extra love and guidance they need to get Boynton Beach, north of Fort Lauder lashed the Bahamas with gales and the program off the ground." dale, at 8:45 a.m. EDT. flooding rains Wednesday. But he said firefighters still don’t know what to The greatest concern was voiced by Neil Frank, director of the hurricane do with a "wheel bank,” a trailer used to ' agriculture officials, who feared the center, said Isidore was a minimal storm’s winds and rain might spread a storm that posed no great threat in its 7 transport soap box equipment, and other assets they accumulated during the eight years they ran highly contagious canker disease plag present state.

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