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Different Whalers come back and down Toronto/13 face drui ilattrliPBlpr Hrralb Monday, Feb. 12,1990 iHaurliratrr HrralJi Whalers beaten Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm Newsstand Price: 35 Cents by Vancouver Difficult road lies ahead for de Klerk and Mandela By David Crary their own political freedom was a past 10 days have taken both his way with concessions of its own. “intensify the struggle on all fronts.” The Associated Press big step closer. supporters and opponents by The president’s brother, liberal He declared himself a “loyal and page 47 Many whites were far less happy. News Analysis surprise. When the cautious, low- political analyst Willem de Klerk, disciplined member” of the ANC JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Liberal leaders lauded de Klerk for key politician took office in August, has met several times with ANC and said nothing to substantiate SPORTS leaders and predicted in a recent ar­ South African press speculation that (AP) — Black hopes. White fears. boldness but businessmen and few South Africans would have These arc the crucial factors that homeowners worried about a pos­ whites, they will have to do it by predicted he would transform the ticle that the movement would make he might be at odds with some Nelson Mandela and President F.W. sible upsurge of violence; police force. We won’t accept it passively.” political landscape by lifting a 30- compromises. These might include hard-line members of his move­ de Klerk must address as they set struck back hard at rowdy black De Klerk, raised in a prominent ycar ban on the ANC, suspending official renunciation of violence and ment’s exiled leadership. out on a precarious path in the direc­ revelers, and right-wing politicans Afrikaner family that believed executions, freeing prominent modifeations of the ANC’s socialist The speech was not likely to reas­ tion of democracy and reconcilia­ accu.sed the president of surrender. whites were destined to rule, is not prisoners, telling militant exiles they economic policy, hc.said. sure uneasy whites but was almost tion. “It’s complete capitulation,” said yet on the brink of capitulation. His can come back home. But Mandela, in his first speech certain to be well-received in the MHS girls whip Whippets For South African blacks, Man­ Koos van dcr Merwe, spokesman proposals for power-sharing be­ These moves have won an un­ since his 1964 treason trial, told a townships, particularly among dela’s release Sunday was cause for for the pro-apartheid Conservative tween blacks and whiles stop well usual degree of international good­ huge crowd in Cape Town on Sun­ young militants — hardened by unprecedented jubilation. Hundreds Party, when he learned Mandela short of the one-person, one-vole will for South Africa, but de Klerk’s day that the time for compromise years of street battles with police — By Jim Tierney of thousands danced for joy in the would go free. “When the time system demanded by Mandela and standing among his own white con­ had not arrived. He reaffirmed his who might have been wondering il Manchester Herald streets of their cities and townships, comes, and they want to enforce the African National Congress. stituents may depend on whether die support for the ANC’s guerrilla convinced at least momentarily that black communist government on the But the president’s moves in the ANC is willing to meet him part campaign and urged his followers to Please see MANDELA, page 12 uic fins! score from Friday night’s CCC East Division girls’ basketball clash bciWCCr. unbeaten Manchester High and Windham does not accurately reflect the g ^ C itself. O’Neill projections Manchester, ranked fifth in the state poll, seized con­ trol of a very tight affair midway through the third School needs quarter and let its superior defense do the rest. Final score: Manchester 51, Windham 25. for budget hinge on Manchester remains perfect with a 10-0 league mark and 15-0 overall. Windham falls to 6-4 in the CCC East and 9-7 overall. The Indians will travel to South Windsor may require High on Tuesday for a 7:30 p.m. contest. consumer spending Manchester struggled to a 39-36 win at Windham on Jan. 9. By Peter Viles have dropped five times. The ad­ What the result does reflect is Manchester’s overbear­ The Associated Press ministration now predicts that sales ing team confidence, even in the face of adversity in the tax collections will actually fall by tax increase form of poor first-half shooting (5-for-20) and sloppy HARTFORD —- The O’Neill ad­ 1.3 percent in the fiscal year that play (12 turnovers.) ministration enters a new decade ends June 30. By Nancy Foley finance committee, said. “Our girls were really up for it,” Manchester coach Joe For the governor’s 1990-91 Manchester Herald Sheridan said he had expected a DePasqua said. “The first time we played them we really facing a new problem — slumping sales tax receipts and a stagnant budget, the Office of Policy and significant cut from the state. didn’t play them well. We knew we were a better team regional economy — but the ad- Management is predicting that con­ Two school board members and “1 didn’t think there was any way than how we played down there. We play excellent mini.stration i‘. confidently predict­ sumer spending, having hit bottom, the superintendent of schools say the for the governor to balance his defense.” ing that Connecticut consumers will immediately turn around and town will have to raise the tax rate if budget without passing it on to the The latter point taken was an understatement, to say have been saving their money and grow by 5 percent in the next fiscal the school budget is to be adequate­ towns,” he said. the least, as the Indians limited the Whippets to four are about to start spending. year after adjustments for changes in ly funded. Ultimately, it will be up to the points in the fourth quarter while netting 20 themselves. Becau.se sales tax collections arc the law. “',Vc’re just going to have to in­ people of the town whether they are Manchester held Windham’s leading scorer, junior Kath­ the state’s main source of revenue, With each percentage point of crease taxes,” Francis Maffe Jr., the willing to accept higher taxes in leen Shippee (19.6 per game), to eight points — all came the assumption of a rebound plays a sales tax collections worth about Democratic co-chairman of the order to fund the schools, Sheridan in the second half. significant role in the administra­ $25 million, the O’Neill administra­ Board of Education’s finance com­ said. The North End fire station is The Whippets shot an atrocious 19 percent (lO-for-54) tion’s attempts to balance Gov. Wil­ tion is counting on a rebound worth mittee, said. an example of how the public can from the floor while juniors Shelly Dieterle and Jen Brin­ liam A. O’Neill’s propo.scd $7.24 about $125 million. His comments came after town get what it wants by speaking out, disi led Manchester with 12 points apiece. Senior Trish billion budget. “1 have never seen a slump like officials said the Education Cost he said. O’Connell added 11. O’Connell and Dieterle had nine And because the governor’s han­ this,” said Ed Baida, a budget Sharing Grant in Gov. William A. Republican town directors rebounds each. dling of the budget is seen as a analyst for OPM. “Especially when O’Neill’s proposed budget would reversed their earlier opposition and Windham coach Mike Shea was shocked with the out­ measure of his leadership and effec­ we have full employment and leave the town about $1.6 million voted in favor of the firehouse after come. tiveness in an election year, the in­ growth in personal income. You less than expected for town schools. a large turnout at a meeting. “This has got to be the worst defeat I think we’ve had exact science of predicting con­ have to consider it to be an anoma­ Republican town directors had Sheridan and Maffe said that ever,” Shea said. “Margin of score, 25 points for the sumer behavior becomes even more ly ” promised during their successful news of the state budget would not game...I think it was the worst offensive game we’ve important. “There is pent-up consumer campaign to win a majority that they change the amount of the cut in the ever experienced. 1 know it is. It’s very embarrassing. I To complicate matters, O’Neill demand in the economy, wailing to would not raise the lax rate. superintendent’s budget that they feel embarrassed. 1 hope the players feel embarrassed.” has never had to deal with a slump be satisfied,” said Anthony Milano, Tlic grant estimate in the gover­ will recommend to the Board of The first half was a combination of poor shooting and in consumer spending. In his first 90 the secretary of OPM and O’Neill’s nor’s budget is $11,810,579, rather Education on Thesday night. The turnovers. The game was tied 7-all after one quarter and months in office, monthly sales tax top financial advisor. “The con­ than the $13,413,000 the town proposed budget is $45.6 million, an the Indians held a 16-12 halftime edge on the strength of collections grew every month com­ sumer is, at some point, going to would have received under the for­ 11 percent increase over last year’s nine Dieterle points.

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