Blue tales Ducky Future shock Cop’s 26 years Everything just fine Closings, staff cuts on beat recalled/3 as Sox splash to win/9 ahead for Ames/4 AA manrhpHtpr Mpralb Tuesday, May 1, 1990 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm Newsstand Price; 35 Cents Y Reed celebrates end of his captivity with a beer and a steak napped Sept. 9, 1986, was held with other hostages WIESBADEN, West Germany (AP) — A pale but weather at nearby Rhein-Main Air Base from Syria played a role. on a U.S. Air Force C-141 transport plane. The white-bearded former captive was driven to but he would not elaborate. energetic Frank Reed, the second American hostage In Washington, President Bush thanked Syria and freed in nine days, checked into a U.S. military He stepped off the plane looking sprightly and the Syrian capital of Damascus, where he described a waving the “V” for victory sign but looked tired after “lonely and boring” ordeal in which he was ucated Iran for their help. hospital today and celebrated the end of his captivity He encouraged them to help free the six with a beer and a large steak. arriving by helicopter at the hospital for the medical reasonably well but kept ignorant of his fate. tests and debriefing that have become a rite for freed “V/c’d know nothing,” Reed told a crowded news Americans among 16 Westerners still believed held Doctors said the 57-year-old educator, who said he in Lebanon by pro-Iranian Shiite Moslem fundamen­ was kept blindfolded for much of his 3*/2-ycar ordeal, hostages. conference in Damascus. “We had no radio. We had talists, saying that only then can those countries ex­ was “weak and tired” but otherwise feeling well and Reed was released Monday night into Syrian hands no news. We had no Time, no Newsweek to go by. In pect normalized relations with Washington. was reunited with his wife and 9-ycar-old son. in West Beirut, just as Robert Polhill was last week. fact, there were times when I did not even know what There was no doubt that Iran, which backs the Shiite month it was.” Reed blew kisses, waved and kissed his hand and Please see HOSTAGE, page 8 touched the ground after arriving in brilliant, sunny Moslem fundamentalist hostage-takers, had again The remarks implied that Reed, who was kid­ Special focus program draws ~n S I” all over town — m O o all the schools, not just to some,” By Nancy Foley said Terry A. Bogli, a member of the ^ CD Manchester Herald Board of Education as well as its H - < special focus committee. m The proposed special focus However, the program’s future is program at Nathan Hale School is uncertain as Republican town direc­ o 5 drawing students from all over tors work toward a decision on the town, according to figures released $46.3 million education budget by by school officials. Wednesday night. The program was “It Just shows that the program is on the school superintendent’s list of 0r * DD2 of interest to the general public, to recommended cuts if the directors > O O significantly reduce the education budget. O TODAY Of 99 applications to the sptccial — m focus p)TOgram, the highest number, 21, came from Washington School CO Index students, followed by Martin and 16 pagas, 2 sactions Robertson, both with 17 applica­ o O tions. Eleven applications came m z Classified 15-16 from both Highland FVk and Wad­ o > Comics 13 dell School, ten from Keeney Suect > 1“ Focus 12 School, and seven from Vcrplanck. DD CO Local/Stata 3-4 The lowest number of applica­ Lottorv 2 tions came from Buckley, three, and Nalion/Wbrid 5, 7, 14 3 3 > Obituaries 2 Bowers, two. The program has also > “ * into/The Manctiesior Herald Ooinion 6 received five or six applications T 3 Sports 9 11 from pjarents of pre-schoolers whose SHEAR DELIGHT — Martins Ozolins, 94, of 132 Lenox residence, where he lives with his sister. Televisisn 13 Plea.se see MAGNET, page 8 Street prunes rose bushes Monday in the yard of his Tinkertoy unlocks scope problem O’Neill signs abortion bill GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, Md. (AP) — involved quite inuicatc geometry," he said. “A number By Judd Everhart O’Neill, a Democrat not seeking pregnancy, when the fetus is capable The Hubble Space Telescope, all $1.5 billion of iu is of us realized we could benefit ^eatly from a model. of living outside the womb, only The Associated Press re-election this year, signed the back in working order today because a NASA engineer Someone suggested that even a Tinkertoy model could measure Monday with no signing when the life or health of the mother u-sed a Tinkertoy, a lamp cord, masking tape and glue to be useful.” HARTFORD — Gov. William A. ceremony. He said it “strikes a is in danger. help solve a major problem. He drove to a toy store Sunday afternoon and bought balance between a person’s right to “It rccogni/.cs a right to choice by two boxes of the construction toy. He got the other items O’Neill, a Roman Catholic who per­ The telescope’s No. 2 high-gain anwnna, wedged in privacy and state interests.” women. The law also recognizes the one position since last Friday, was free and sending data in a drug store and put the model together in 15 minutes sonally opposes abortions, put his feelings aside and signed into law a The new law, effective Oct. 1, state has an interest in fetus viability through relay satellites. with another engineer, John Decker. repeals the state’s unenforced and properly recognizes that minors The National Aeronautics and Space Adminisuation The telescope has two dish-shaped high-gain an ennas bill affirming a woman’s right to abortion even if the U.S. Supreme criminal anti-abortion suitutes, re­ should be counseled before making expected calibration and other normal start-up work to that are designed to uansmit science data to two orbiting quires girls under 16 to gel counsel­ the very difficult decision to abort a begin by tonight and to receive its first pictures from the relay satellites at speeds equivalent to sending the con­ Court overturns the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision making abortion ing before getting an abortion and pregnancy,” O'Neill said in a state­ telescope by next weekend. tents of a 30-voIume encyclopedia in 42 minutes. encourages them to tell their ment released after die signing. The No. 2 antenna jammed on Friday when engineers legal. “The moral of the story is that there is no solution parents. The bill liad cleared the state tJiat’s too humble,” said David Skillman, who built a were turning it left and right. Sensing something wrong The action makes Connecticut the first stale to guarantee the right to In a variation on Rw vs. Wade, model of the jammed antenna. the new law allows abtirtions late in Plea.se .see ABOR ITON, page 8 “We were faced with a problem on the telescope that Plea.se see HUBBLE, page 8 choose abortion. HATS 1 19 years ago, man began collection Stetson gold miner’s hat, .Amish By Dianna M. Talbot After that, he bought his first set tuts, a Mexican sombrero, safari Manchester Herald of golf clubs, used, for a total of $7. Because he was balding. hats, a }xdice hat, a small crown and a hat with a battery-o[vrated Manchester resident Joseph Grenier needed to wear a hat on ckvk on the front. Hie 43-year Grenier didn’t intend to start a the golf course, so he began valuable hat collection when he buying one from each course he Manchester residetu keeps all the hats hung and covered with plastic played his first serious game of played. m his garage along with other golf in 1971 at the East Hartford Nineteen years and many golf Golf Course. games later, the Deepwood Drive memorabilia. 'ITtc fomier I’raii & Whitney 9 Doctors had told him that his resident is very much alive and heart was bad: he probably liad still golfing, mainly at the machinist credits the exercise from about a year or so to live. Manchester Country Club about golfing with lengilieiiing his life. Dctcmiincd to make the most of three mornings a week. He has survived iluee heart attacks his remaining lime, the thcn-50- And the hats in his collection in the past 20 years. year-old decided to take up golf, a number about 200 and are worth But old age and oilier health game he lutd played once before, about $1,000. problems are exacting their loll, niiuiy years earlier in India as a "Eighty jtercent of them have the 69-year-old retiree s.iid. “You corporal in the Air Force. never been worn,” Grenier said. have to slow down sometime." “I said. ’I’m not going to stay He plans to give the collection to His legs began weakening about home and wait for this,’ ” Grenier his grandchildren unless someone three years ago. so Grenier now Judy HanlinorThe Manchester Herald recalled. makes him a fair offer. rides m a carl instead of walking 9 During his second game of golf, Besides golf luits, Grenier has when he plays golf Hiabeies also HATS OFF — Joseph Grenier of 79 Deepwood Drive shows off his 190-plus hat collec­ “I must have got bit. I got the acquired several interesting pieces tion in his garage.