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V FRIDAY LOCAL NEWS INSIDE ■ Charter revision meeting set. ■ Chaiienger says debate avoided. W hat'S ■ Changes on horizon for schools. N ew s ■ Chamber supports renovations. Nov. 2,1990 Local/Regional Section, Page 7. Property owners oppose additions Preliminary tabulation of a Voted 1990 New Engiand Newspaper of the Year I, V^ur HometownHt Newspaper Newsstand Price: 35 Cents poll being taken of members of the Manchester Property Owners Association indicates 83 percent of the 50 people who have responded so far oppose a bond V T” issue of $11.1 million for an ad­ Recession said dition to town hall, and 86 per­ cent oppose bonding $3.9 mil­ lion for an addition to Manchester High School. to be imminent Betty Sadloski, president of the MPOA, announced the results this morning. By JOHN D. McCLAIN struction industries continued to She said responses are still The Associated Press slump. The index of leading in­ being received. dicators lags a month behind the un­ She said she has not yet tabu­ WASHINGTON — The govern­ employment report. lated the responses to four other ment’s chief economic forecasting Although last month’s civilian questions asked in the mailed gauge dropped 0.8 percent in Sep­ jobless rate was unchanged from survey, but she said it appears BY HIS FRIENDS YOU MAY KNOW HIM tember, the government said today, September’s 5.7 percent, the Labor that an even higher percentage \ for its second straight monthly drop. Department said the nation’s job of respondents feel that town ^pr The September drop followed a market continued to show weakness employees should be required to 1.2 percent plunge in August, the and widespread job losses. bear a portion of their health steepest since a 1.4 percent fall a There has not been a recession care costs. month after the October 1987 stock since World War n without the market crash. The index was un­ index of leading indicators turning Gulf at a glance changed in July. down for at least three consecutive months. However, the index was (AP) — Here, at a glance, are Three consecutive declines in the the latest developments in the Commerce Department’s Index of negative for six months in 1984 and for five months in 1987-88 and, both Persian Gulf crisis: Leading Economic Indicators are ■ Pour more Americans in o times, the economy escaped a reces­ J3 r* viewed as a fmrly reliable — al­ Iraq will likely be freed this though not infallible — sign that a sion. weekend, diplomats said today. s Many economists who believe the > m recession is imminent. Baghdad reacted angrily to U.S. nation’s economy is in a recession In another report, the government and British efforts to discourage are now debating how long it will said the unemployment rate held at hostage relatives from traveling O CD 5.7 percent in October even though to Iraq for the holidays. z ^ the nation’s manufacturing and con­ Please see ECONOMY, page 6. President Bush, meanwhile, denounced Saddam Hussein’s H H cltums that the hostages are m I well-treated. o m Pick-up stymied Bush suggested Thursday that 5 "0 in some fonns of brutality, the Iraqi president had surpassed even Hitler — raising some r ~ ^ Reginald Pinto/Manchester Herald by pesky leaves eyebrows by comparing Saddam FOR A GOOD CAUSE — Students at the Bowers School strain to unload a wagon-load of to the man who ordered the ex­ C>§ CD^ donated food for the needy at the Concordia Lutheran Church, Manchester. Josh Kane, 11, is termination of millions of Friends since youth, Raymond "Sonny" Damato and James ^IcCavanagh. m CD pictured on top of the truck. The others, picture clockwise from the front, are Barrett Quaglia, remained on the trees. O’Coimor people in World War U. By BRIAN M. TROTTA ■ Kuwait’s exiled crown CD 5 11, Aaron Jones, 10, Christine Farrell, 11, and Megan Gustafson, 11. Manchester Herald said he hopes that recent pleasant weather is an indication that it won’t prince and prime minister said economic sanctions had failed, MANCHESTER — When Lee snow early this year. Rain and snow make leaves too and efforts to find an Arab solu­ s I O’Cotmor looks out the window in heavy for the town’s collectors, tion to the gulf crisis are “a g » his office, all he sees is green. And waste of time” as long as Sad­ that’s making him see red. forcing workers to use payloaders 33 > Residents, water-skiers and dump trucks. That slows the dam won’t listen. As Highway and Sanitation Ad­ work because the loaders aren’t as The Kuwaiti News Agency, ministrator, O’Connor is responsible which is operating in exile, car­ for the armual curbside leaf collec­ efficient or neat as the leaf collec­ tors, the administrator said. ried a statement by Sheik Saad tion, which has been hampered this al-Abdullah al-Sabah reiterating clash over slalom course year because leaves apparently have On the other hand, a lack of Kuwaiti calls for a military as­ refused to fall. leaves does have a bright side, tal Protection officials held the hear­ sault to drive the Iraqis out of By JACQUELINE BENNETT and promote safe skiing. “I’m frustrated,” O’Connor said. O’Connor said. Because the work In addition, the town Conserva­ ing jointly with the Town Council load has been light, crews have been the conquered emirate. Manchester Herald “We’ve had three or four good frosts ■ Today marked the begin­ tion Commission submitted a letter after the state received numerous and still the leaves aren’t falling.” able to go to routes on which they opposing the course for environ­ complaints about the course from weren’t supposed to for another ning of the fourth month of the COVENTRY — An emotional Frost usually precedes the falling of Persian Gulf crisis, which started group of about 50 people Thursday mental reasons, such as disturbing residents. leaves. week or two. With luck, O’Connor After the hearing, DEP Major when Iraq invaded Kuwait on night argued over a water-ski slalom wildlife and churning up weeds. O’Connor said the situation this said he hopes to be able to go Randolf Dill said, “I was impressed Aug. 2. course at Coventry Lake during a The 800-feet course, made by a year is the opposite of what oc­ through the entire town twice. with the club’s attitude and position The dearth of fallen foliage has Saddam refused to let foreig­ public hearing at Coventry High local water-ski club, was granted curred last year. Then, highway on the course.” He said the slalom also delayed a contractor that the ners leave both nations when the School. trial approval by the Town Council workers started their leaf collections J seems to give “skiers an outlet for town hired to help collect the leaves. United Nations retaliated by im­ Sides were drawn between resi­ last summer, pending a subsequent a week later than normal and were energy,” adding he would like to see The company was scheduled to posing a trade embargo on Iraq dents, who say the slalom course is hampered by a six-inch snowfall on review. Town Council member Har­ a compromise between residents begin work on Monday, but O’Con- and the United States began a hazard and a nuisance, and water vey Barrette is a member of that Thanksgiving. sending more than 200,000 skiers who say the course provides club. This year, the crews began their troops to the region. an opportunity to practice their sport State Department of Environmen­ Please see SLALOM, page 6. work as usual, but the leaves have Please see LEAVES, page 6. The commander of the U.S. / forces said American troops y could destroy Iraq but that such X action might not be “in the inter­ OK anticipated est of the long-term balance of power” in the region. ■ In an interview published Z 1 today in The New York Times, James McCavanagh and Congresswoman Barbara Kennelly. James McCavanagh and U.S. Senator Chris Dodd. for MHS addition Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf State Representative James R. McCavanagh said war could erupt any time YOUR MAN FOR THE but he doesn’t expect it to. has made staunch friends with many of the By SCOTT BREDE Manchester High School. “President Bush has stated best Manchester and State people. To have Manchester Herald The referendum, which will be again and again, our argument is 12th GENERAL question No. 3 on 1\iesday’s elec­ good friends, you must be a good friend, not with the Iraqi people, and MANCHESTER — The passage tion ballot, not only calls for the ad­ that [military action] would loyal and true. James McCavanagh has won dition to the high school, but a ASSEMBLY DISTRICT of the referendum to expand cause thousands and thousands reshuffling of the school system that if' 1 and deserved the support of his friends and Manchester High School should be of iimocent casualties,” he was would push up sixth-graders into the of the voters of the 12th Assembly District PULL LEVER 4A in the bag as long as the word gets quoted as saying. junior high schools and ninth- / out that it is more than a construc­ ■ The London-based Kurdis­ through four elections and four terms of graders into the high school. The tion project, said the co-chairs of the tan Democratic Party, an Iraqi two junior high schools would then service. VOTE DEMOCRATIC committee promoting the addition opposition group, said thousands switch to a middle school format Paid for by the Committee to Re-elect James R.

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