. ..* . The Weather Partiy cloudy, ooolor tontgliL lEum tttg ll^ ra U i Low aiiioiit 40. Tom om w most­ ly cloudy, brooiy, cool. U g h in tlM low DOS. Manch«$ter— A City of VUiage Charm MANCHESTER, OONN^ MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1988 (OImmUM AdvertUluy «■ >t) PRICE TEN CENTS South Viet State Poll Says LBJ Joins HHH Nixon and Ribicoff Troops Hit HARTFORD, Conn. (AP)— Czech Students March A poll conducted for the Hartford Times showed to­ In Blasting Nixon day Connecticut voters favor­ Veteran Unit ing Republican presidential By THE ASSORTED PBE88 ourlty gap asid ohaigea about candidate Richard M. Nixon 8AIGK>N (A P ) — South V iet- President Johnson has ac­ our attempts to win peace in the over Democrat Hubert H. iwnMM Intuitrymon •maahed cused Richard M. Nixon of mak­ w o rid ." Humphrey, but Democratic Into troops from a veteran ing "ugly and urdalr ohaiges" Humphrey issued a statement Incumbent Abraham Ribicoff North Vletnameae regiment that on security and peace efforts On Presidential Castle after Nixon’s television appear­ over OOP candidate Edwin spearheaded two offensives on and Hubert II. Humphrey ance, charging him with “using H. May in the U.S. Senate PRAGUE (AP) — Thousands Saigon this year, government charges Nixon with spreading a tactic wMch he has used In so ra ce. m dK ary h eadquarters an* an imfounded rumor that the many campaigns.’ ' The copyrighted poll said of CaechosiovakB marched tai nounoed today. Democrats are playing politics Nixon was favored by 44 per Prague today ta patriotic dem- "The tactic; spread an un­ A government spokesman with peace. cent of those polled, Hum­ onstratiana -with antltSovlet ov­ founded rumor. Then say you said S3 soldiers from North Viet­ Humphrey accused his Repub- phrey by 81 per cent, and ertones as the notion celebrated don’t believe It,’’ Hiamphi^ nam’s Dong Nal Regiment were Uoan presidential opponent Sun­ third natty candidate Oeorge Its 80th anniversary os a republ­ continued. “ It Mr. Nixon has ev­ killed and 18 others captured in ' day night "of simply using the Wallace by 12 per cent Thir­ ic . idence that the Prealdent or any heavy fighting Sunday 24 miles old Nixon tactic of unsubstan­ teen per cent were undecid­ flevwal hundred atudesfis member of this government Is north of Saigon. The prisoners tiated Insinuation" by suggest­ ed. marched to the gatee of playing poUtios with the peace Included a battahon deputy ing 'White House "Insiders" are Ribicoff, the poll said, was Prague’s prestdenttel castle negotiations, I call on him to commander and a company trytag to bitag off a Vietnam favored by M per cent of chanting "Better dead than spell It out now—openly.” commander, the spokesman peace devetopiment to boost those polled, and May by 80 ahasne" asid tater atxiuUhg out said. Humphrey’s eleotion chances Humphrey also Joined John­ per cent as of Oct. 21. Hie "Russtans go liome" as leaders The South Vietnamese troops next w eek. son Sunday and again today In survey shows RlWooff lead­ tnslde preMded over an onntver- also seised Zl weapons in the But Nixon—expanding Sunday dlsputl^ Nixon’s statem ent ing M ay b y about 280,000 sary ceremony. battle and turned up two muni­ on his Friday statement that he Desnooratlc ddmlnlstra- votes in the state, based on Then about 8,000 pemMOs— tions stockpiles in the surround­ did not believe speculation that tions had created a security gap a 90 per cent voter turnout. young people in the main— ing area that included 400 mor­ Johnson woiSd make "a cynicait and that America must main­ S'rten per cent were unde­ mardied b^iind leaden car­ tar aheHs, basooka-type rockets last-minute attempt" to salvage tain arms superiority over the cided. rying the Csecboelovak flag and grenades. Humphrey’s candidacy—said he Soviet 'thiton.. from WencesiaB Square In ihe "He (Nixon) Is risking miscal­ Six South Vietnamese were was tryl^ to squelch the re­ heart of the capital toward the culation by our enemies,” Hum­ reported UHed and 20 wounded. ports. city’s hftitoric "OM ’Town" phrey said in remarks prepared square. It was the first time a siaable "It seemed to me that I was for an Akron, Ohio ,rally. "He is Group Burns tt -wsui the first time since the force (rf the Dong Nal Regiment being quite reeponslble in nail­ urging a mad escalation of the Soviet-led military Invasion tai had been in action since last ing that," Nixon eaid. "... I nudear arms race. And he is August that Csechoalovaka had May Q, when the regiment was would think the President would advocating an Increasing mili­ Draft Cards staged a pubBc demonstratlan badly mauled in an attack on be thanklqg me rather then at­ tarization of American Ufa and hi Prague. The march took Saigon. Its reappearanoe indi­ tacking m e." Aonerioan foreign policy.’’ plaoe despite wainlnga the na- cated it may be back to full Nixon <made the comment on During Mass Nixon, meanwhile, accused thm’a leaders that smti-Sovlat rtrength now and orders for a a special CBS "Face the Na­ outbursts couM bring a return Humphrey of loose talk on Viet- MILWAUKEE, Wls. (AP) — third offensive against Saigon. tion’’ program. of Russian taidw and troopa to The Dong Nal Regiment also Johnson, making a political nam and said: "Whea negotia- j-roup of young men attending tlans nj« in progrees, an undis- ■ the city. was in heavy fighting in Saigon appearance In New York ,had Mass at a North Side rtamch clplin ed tongiie can ibe the w orst The youthful demonstraten Airing the Tet offensive last Fe- accused Nixon of making "ugly Sunday stepped to the altar and tt»t marrtied on the presiden­ burary. and unfair charges about our ee- burned vdwt they said were (See Page Twelve) tial oaatle puriied on the looked South Vietnamese headquar­ draft cards. Iron gates several times tat an ters said the Dong Nal Regi- TTiere were on -estilnaled six attempt to break ki. meat may have been preparing young men involved In the dem- to attack the key district town onstratiem. The Sovtet ambasaador, -who of Ben Cat, and the government In ISew York School Strike Four members of the "Mil­ iiad attended the oermonles, left operation was launched "in or- w aukee 14,” a grou p o f 14 m en b;^ a b ock d oor. O tr to dertroy the enemy in the arrested last month after 9elec- There were minor scuffles as area southeast of Ben C at” avB Service records wore the demonstrators crasiied R was one of three actions re­ Teacher Union Head iximed during an antiwar dem­ sgataiat police lines at the oaatle ported around Saigon. UJ3. and onstration, were present but did overibricing Prague and against South Vletnameae forces killed .ot participate. Ihe tall Iron gates but no inju­ another M enemy s<4dlers and Propi The 80-calted draft card burn­ ries -were reported. seised 27 weapons in two clash­ OSes Peace Plan ing took place at St. Boniface M ore than 100 ixA lce rein- es 10 and 13 miles south of the Roman CiaihoUc Church, which foarcemente outside the gides NEW YORK (AP) — Teach­ pension of the district’s eight confroUed the denronsttaton capital. Two Americans were served until recently as head­ ers’ union president Albert principals. while a aquad of bluecapped par wounded, and no South Viet­ quarters for a series of civil Before striking for the third laoe guards taudde the namese losses were reported. Shanker bos proposed a {dan rights marchen led by the Rev. tim e O ct. 14, Shanker and the gates from bursting open. ' The U.S. Command an­ which he says could end the James Oroppl, a member of die union’s executive board rejected pastoral team at 8t. Uonlface. At the oaatla arid later at nounced that American infan- teachers strike and get i.l mil­ proposals by the board and 'Aie Rev. Dismas Becker, a Wencealaa Squaire, . demonstra­ trynoen sweeping in the demili­ Lindsay which contained all lion pupils back into puUic celebrant of the Mass, said die tors ritanbed atatues and ptant- tarised Booe captured more than schools this week. points except (fismlssal of the demonstration at the alter ap­ ed Chechoalovak flags atop 200 North Vletnameae weapons Meanwhile, the city's labor principals. This is how Soviet Ooamoiiaut Geor^’ Beregovoy looked to Russian television parently had not been re­ them . in one of the largest batUefleld picture brightened as firemen iKianker disclosed hlq plan on h earsed. vnewers today as he made notes in his log while orbiting the earth in his Soyuz PoUfie and palace guards hauls of the war. announced they were foUosvlng a special WNBO-TV ’We didn’t know before hand managed to k ^ thb gatsa The troops of the Sth Mecha- poUcemen in ending their work appearing with Board of Educa­ 3 spacecraft. (AP Photofflax via cable from Moscow) closed againat asveml attengits nlsed Dhrlsion found 242 rifles slowdow na. that there was going to be a tion President John Doar. burning," he sakL "R really by the demonatraton to break and 17 larger weapons on the Shanker’s conditions Sunday Shanker said he would get the was qtate surprising.’’ tav The crowd then settled down battleground hi the southern night for ending the walkout by and began Joking and laugbing. schools open "by going bock to Paitlcipents In reading of half of the DMZ where Ameri the SB,000-memher United Fed­ The roaring laughter could be the position—turning back the Btatemente during the Miase, he can infantrymen, tanks, artil­ eration of Teachers coincided clock to the situation that exist­ Soviet Soyuz 2 Lands; heard insjde the oaatle.