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Er Begins Talks with Syrians PAGE THIRTY-SIX - MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD. Manchester. Conn., Thurs., May 2. 1974 o MANCHESTER, CONN., FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1974- VOL. XCIH, No. 182 Manchester^A City of Village Charm Therels womens denim clog TWENTY-FOUR PAGES N Wedge heel, rope wrap, and a fringed aT agim and frayed crossover strap that just won't unravel. er Begins R I) 6 J R 7 * 1 CAB shoe tor R' A S H s T f V e s A M 0 C 0 7 /0 « a )« 5r everything Talks With Syrians DAMASCUS (UPI) - conversation in Tel Aviv with Israel has said there must be police .patrolled Damascus for Secretary of State Henry A. Prime Miinister Golda Meir a cease-fire on the Golan the Kissinger visit. you 00. Kissinger brought his shuttle before flying here for his talks Heights before there can be diplomacy to Damascus today with President Hafez Assad. “meaningful negotiations” on a On Wednesday sections of the Blue denim. It’s everybody’s to seek an end to the Israeli- “We seek security and pehce troop disengagement program. crowd in a 200,000-strong May Syrian fighting on the Golan and not the imposition of views Syria, backed by Soviet arms Day pprade of rifle-carrying fun-time favorite. And Tag way has Heights but ran into a Syrian the “blues” In sneakers, of any party on any other par­ and money, has rejected dis­ students shouted slogans hostile your choice pledge to continue the battle un­ ty,” Kissinger said after the engagement until Israel gives to Kissinger and his mission, Roger Landon, a handicapped person, demonstrates his ability to operate his own business sandals and sllp-ohs for til every inch of Syrian meeting with Mrs. Meir. back at least some of the Golan calling him a “Jewish traitor.” everyone In the family. territory is rid of “the Zionist Maj. Rifaat Assad, brother of Heights captured in th 1967 washing and waxing cars in an area beside the Amoco Service Station at 770 Main St. He evil.’,’ carries a display sign advertising his business on the back of his large tricycle. (Herald We’ve even got the Syrian president and com­ War. Kissinger arrived in photo by Dunn) denim handbags! Kissinger was the target of an mander of the special troops Israeli Foreign Minister Damascus at 2:10 p.m. (7:10 women’s 5 to 10 assassination plot on his last battling Israelis on Mt. Hermon Abba Eban cautioned after the a.m. EDT) after a one-hour visit to Damascus in January, for the 53rd consecutive day, talks with Kissinger, “We do flight from Israel. He was m et. sandal and security today was un­ told the Beirut newspaper A1 not have an agreement in our by Syrian Foreign Minister Handicapped^ He Runs Car Wash Blue denim sling-strap with floral design; precedented. He also was Yom today the fighting would pocket at all. On the othir hand Abdel Halim Khaddam and fashionable rope-covered platform. traveling about the city in a se­ continue until the Golan we have by no means reached a members of the American cond bullet proof Cadillac flown Heights are liberated complete- stage of despair. We are going diplomatic mission headed by Warehouse Damaged by Fire in from the United States. A i y .\ on with the talks uncon­ Thomas Scotes, who has been in A member of the Eighth District Fire Department checks "Where there’s a will, there’s Landon, who lives at 146 He hopes to set an example bullet proof car also was flown ditionally.” the Syrian capital since the building’s sprinkler system. Cause of the fire is under “The fighting will not be a way.” Center St., began a “hand car­ for other handicapped persons. to Israel. There were no soldiers or un­ January. lines at a fire yesterday afternoon at a warehouse on investigation. (Herald photo by Dunn) abandoned until Arab land is rid This is Roger Landon’s wash” business on Good Friday He said he would be glad to talk iformed policemen in sight but Hilliard St. The fire was controlled quickly by firemen and of the Zionist evil,” he said. philosophy. in the parking lot behind Steve’s to anyone with a handicap and Kissinger had a last minute hundreds of armed plainclothes. Landon, a physically han­ Amoco Service Station at 770 would encourage them to try to dicapped person, believes if a Main St. He ch^irges $2.50 per overlook their handicap and . person really wants to find car and cleans it inside and out. “do something.” 7 Fire at Warehouse work and earn money, he can do He will also do a wax and Inside it. He says a person’s handicap polishing job if requested. should not stand in his way. Landon says he operated a He is on duty daily from 9 n Watergate Today's "Anyone can find something similar car-wash in a.m. to 4 p.m. except rainy days Bpralb Being Investigated to do if he really wants to,” he Wethersfield for the han­ and Sundays. Mahoney, Agoatlnelli, bicentennial leaders, Page says. dicapped. By MAL BARLOW The fire was limited to the 11 " sent three detectives to the Strategy Hardens Four Manchester police first floor about 20 feet from the scene. A fourth detective came Bolton honor roll. Page 7 detectives were among the first rear wall of the long building down after the shift in details at WASHINGTON (UPI) questions by the Senate clippings to back his argument Old Codger’s Codgitations, Page 8 people on the scene yesterday and about 10 feet from the west 4 p.m. ^ President Nixon appeared Watergate committee. It was that pretrial publicity would ' Gardening with Frank Atwood, Page 8 afternoon after fire broke out wall. Fire Chief Granville The detectives were in and Mystic Aquarium Plans today to have made a strategic the first time Nixon had cited deny him a fair trial in the on the first floor of a three- Lingard of the Eighth District out of the burning building even decision to stand on the release the doctrine of executive Watergate cover-up case. He East beate Aquinas, Page 13 story warehouse on Hilliard St. said this morning that the fire before it was fully under con­ ‘Whale of a Time’ Show of the more than 1,200 pages of privilege to bar one of his aides said even the CIA “planted” Chenjsy Tech loses. Page 13 They suspcted arson. is still under investigation. trol taking pictures and edited transcripts and resist from testifying before this com­ derogatory stories about him. Big Inning beats MCC, Page 8 The fire was quickly put un­ Electrical wiring appeared speaking to people who worked demands for more material. mittee. ■ —The court-appointed panel der^ control by both a func­ loose and defective all over the in the area. tioning sprinkler system and In three instances Thursday The Judiciary Committee that has been studying an 18%- first floor, according to the In other action Thursday the quick reaporiSl of the / A statewide effort by en­ As part of the effort to be obtained from thi Humane his aides took positions against will begin next Wednesday or minute g^p on one of President In Saturday's Herald police report. It was hanging afternoon by the Eighth Society of the United States, Eighth District Fire Depart­ vironmental groups to draw promote public understanding furnishing requested infor­ Thursday its hearings on possi­ Nixon’s tapes will make a loose from the ceiling near the District Fire Department, a P.O. Box 98, East Haddam, Conclave promotes Portuguese culture ment shortly after hearing an attention to the danger of of whales, the program will mation: ble impeachment of the Presi­ report to Judge Sirica Satur­ origin of the fire, the report leaf fire was doused at the rear whales becoming extinct will also highlight a demonstration 06423, or at the aquarium the If dent. ’The first several days of day, it was announced. audible fire alarm at the said. of the district sewage treat­ climax with a “Whale of a of behavior by the aquarium’s evening of the performance. —Deputy White House Press hearings will be closed to the warehouse at 3:09 p.m. The ground floor of the brick ment plant on Fleming Rd Time” benefit program by the dolphins, which, with the Secretary Gerald L. Warren public, but later sessions are and -cement warehouse is before 3 p.m. ’The trucks and Humane Society of the United whales, belong to the ofder of denim for girls and misses said the House impeachment expected to be open to live leased from the SHVC Corp. firemen were returning to the States Friday at 7 p.m. at the mammals called “cetaceans.” committee now has “the full television coverage. owned by Stuart H. V. Carson of firehouse on Main St. when they Mystic Marinelife Aquarium. RUMMAGE SALE story of W aterg^" and there Presidential counselor Dean Main Street Reacquisition 637 S. Main St. by Lydall-Foulds heard the audible alarm at the “Flukes,” the dolphin Rope-covered platform, are m plans to furnish tape Burch said Nixon would not Division of Colonial Fibre Co. Hilliard St. Warehouse about The benefit at the aquarium demonstration, and a perfor­ adjustable sling strap. recolni^s it has subpoenal. object to the hearings bring on Parker St., according to a 200 yards from the firehouse. will feature a performance of mance of the new “Blue Whale Sponsored by Great with shorts or jeans.
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