30 Cents MPOA plans J suit to block A town-mall deal I Bv John F. Kirch the financial agreement between Herald Reporter the town and Homart, one of the largest mall developers in the N A local property owners’ associa­ United States. tion is threatening legal action to However, town officials have said 54 block part of the town of Manches­ that the agreement is an important ter’s tax increment finance agree­ part of the mail project. Wittout it, ment with the developers of the they contend, the mail’s develop­ proposed Mall at Buckland Hills — ment in Manchester would be a move that could jeopardize the impossible because the site is entire project. extremely expensive to develop. Betty Sadloski, president of the Under the agreement, the town Manchester Property Owners As­ would issue up to $13 million in tax sociation, said this morning that the increment bonds to pay for public action could include seeking an improvements in northern injunction against the 785,000- Manchester. square-foot shopping center, which The town would then use the is being proposed in northern increase in real estate taxes from Manchester by the Homart Devel­ the mall property to pay off the opment Corp. of Chicago. Interest on the bonds ovbr a 19-year 55 Manchester attorney Bruce period. ’The eventual cost of the Beck, who represents the associa­ bonds has been placed at about $21 tion, said he couldn’t give details. million, but town officials have said He did say, though, that the Manchester could receive $29 mil­ injunction could be sought within lion to more than $50 million in real the next few days. estate taxes from the mall site. He said the association was not Sadloski doesn’t buy that argu­ trying to block the mall itself, only ment. The taxes would go into a special fund to pay off the bonds, Herald photo by Tuefcer she said, and not into the General Fund, where it wouid benefit the Iran nears town. Two residents make their way across a snow-covered National Weather Service said another storm is expected “ The bottom line is, the town will downtown Main Street on Sunday after a 'Storm left to leave between 6 and 8 Inches of snow tonight. not get the tax dollars,” she said. several inches of snow and slush in the area. The “ ’They will go to pay off the bonds." Iraqi city Sadloski said the bonding plan should go before town voters in a NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Iran referendum like other bond issues. She said it is unfair to subsidize the Storm leaves mess, but few problems said its forces today smashed through enemy defenses to push giant Homart company, when smalier local businesses have oper­ toward Iraq’s No. 2 city of Basra By The Manchester Herald Police and fire departmentsailmen in tary outages, which didn’t cause through tonight. 9 ated independently for years. and were poised to take four more and The Associated Press Manchester and area towns re­ any problems. “ If they had a series Throughout Connecticut, roads “ No one is giving money to islands in the Shatt-al-Arab water­ ported no accidents as a result of of them, they tend to get annoyed,” were slippery and driving condi­ downtown to help them." Sadloski way on the southern front. Manchester residents appear to Sunday’s storm. she said. tions were dangerous Sunday. said. Iraq reported its warplanes today have become used to the winter Manchester Memorial Hospital “ Last night was mostly sand­ Police reported many minor, Sadloski’s comments echoed the attacked four Iranian cities, includ- weather, as evidenced by a lack of spokesman Andrew Beck said no ing,” said Keith Chapman, Man­ weather-related traffic accidents. concerns of local businessmen, who .'ing the holy city of Qom, and a problems or injuries reported after injuries were reported and the chester highway superintendent. criticized the bonding plan during a ’The state Department of ’Trans­ missile battery in “ destructive a Sunday morning snowstorm hospital functioned as usual. Town crews went out at 11:30 a.m. public hearing Nov. 6. However, in portation had all its forces out, raids.” quickly turned to rain and left town Officials at Northeast Utilities Sunday and stayed out until 11 p.m. December the Manchester Board of plowing, salting and sanding the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein streets a swamp of muck and brown called the storm minor. “ In the Six snow trucks were out all night, Directors approved the financial roads, a department spokesman called a meeting in which political slush. central region, we had no signifi­ coming in at4a.m.. Chapman said. agreement with Homart. At the said. leaders praised their army for Officials were bracing for a cant outages,” said Jose Chavez, Workers spent this morning time of the vote, the directors said “ foiling the enemy’s evil intentions storm expected this afternoon that contimunity relations manager for trying to clear the slush off the Bradley Airport closed around townspeople misunderstood the ■ against great Basra,” Iraq’s offi­ forecasters say could leave as the region that includes Manches­ streets before this afternoon’s 4:30 p.m. Sunday due to a slick agreement. cial Baghdad radio reported. much as 6 to 8 inches of snow. A ter and Bolton. expected storm hits. “ It’s not a lot runway, but re-opened two hours Assistant Town Manager Steven Western correspondents who vi­ National Weather Service spokes­ Marilyn Brossmer, community of snow but it’s still difficult,” later after airport crews plowed ice R. Werbner said today that the sited Basra last week said Iranian man said a storm moving north out relations manager for the utility’s Chapman said. “ It’s a lot of work.” from runways and spread de-ldng bonds would only pay for public shells were landing at a rate of one of the Mississippi Valley was northern region, which includes The 19 members of Chapman’s agents on the surfaces. But freezing improvements on public land and per minute and many people were expected to bring heavy Andover and Coventry, said some crew and six or seven contracted rain caused the airport to close not for improvements on private leaving the southern port city, precipitation. residents reported a few momen­ trucks were prepared to work again at 8 p.m. for another hour. which has a population of 1 million. property. ; The fall of Basra would be a The improvements would extend major blow to Hussein’s govern- beyond the mall project, Werhner .. ment. Iran has claimed steady said, and would help open up the ’ progress toward the city since it entire North End for the rapid Racial incidents stir memories of King launched a major attack across the economic expansion anticipated. southern border Jan. 9. “ We have an opportunity now to By Pete Brown unveiled outside. In Birmingham, accept for her. Iran’s official Islamic Republic develop that area In a comprehen­ The Associated Press Ala., about 250 people Sunday night Two of King’s lieutenants, the News Agency, monitored in Nico­ sive fashion that we have some Town program took part in a candlelight march. Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, sia, said Iranian forces overnight control over,” he said. “ We have Federal and many state workers slated tonight Memories of King were stirred former head of the Southern - crossed the Jasim River 6 mUes the opportunity to phase in develop­ got the day off today as Americans Saturday when a group of civil Christian Leadership Conference, : east of Basra. ment to bring in tax dollars now. observed Martin Luther King Day, — story on page 3 rights marchers on a “ brotherhood and the Rev. Hosea Williams, an “ Moslem combatants of Iran The return on the town’s Invest­ their memories of the slain civil anti-intimidation” walk through an Atlanta councilman, were to lead smashed through the Iraqi defense ment is tremendous.” rights leader stirred by recent all-white Georgia county were an afternoon parade followed by a Wernber also rejected the re­ line east of Basra in heavy outbreaks of racial violence in the that have a public holiday for King. pelted with rocks and bottles. Eight march led by the King family. quest for a referendum. Because fighting,’’ killing or wounding 2,000 North and South. Some states honor King on his people were arrested and several Iraqis since late Sunday, the the town’s full faith and credit is not In Selma, Ala., a parade retrac­ “ We cannot just remember the birthday, Jan. IS. marchers were injured. ing part of a bloody 1985 civil rights agency reported. behind the bonds, no vote is dream and the dreamer, we must Events scheduled for the day Civil rights leaders vowed Sun­ march was planned along with a ’The report said Iranian troops in required, he said. Officiais have implement the dream,” the Rev. included the ringing of bells in state day to march again some day prayer and candlelight vigil at a “ lightning attack” surround^ an said that the developer would he Jesse L. Jackson said Sunday in Capitol buildings, churches and through the county, where blacks Edmund Pettus Bridge, site of a 9 Iraqi mechanized division in the required to reimburse the town if New York, urging listeners to schools across the nation, a cerem­ were terrorized and driven out in violent clash between marchers area, inflicting heavy losses and the mall project fails after the march to protest an attack by a ony at the Liberty Bell in Philadel­ 1912. and law enforcement offlcrs. bonds are issued. white mob Dec.