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' ■■ Sunny today Saturday, April 28, 1984 and Sunday Single copy: 25C: — See page 2 Mrralb 19-27 Henry Street, Manchester Independence Villafse 1 bedroom townhouses GAO decides split contract •T: 'I M OK on engines V Sunny Brooke Village Bv Joseph AAianowanv simple statement Friday, noting. 226-240 New State Road 1 and 2 bedroom Ranch-type units United Press International "with this report in hand, we must look to the future rather than WASHINGTON - The Air Force worry the past to death." acted "properly and reasonably" The GAO noted that because the in splitting a major jet fighter future contracts have not yet been engine contract between the Gen- awarded, the report omitted con- eral Electric Co. and the Pratt & siderable data on the engines still Whitney Group, the General Ac- considered ’sensitive. ” counting Office said Friday. Pratt & Whitney s original F-lOO Over the next decade the con- engine became operational in 1974 tract could be worth more than $15 and has always powered the F-15 billion. and F-16. However, prompted by The GAO said by splitting the performance concerns and spare 12 contract, the Air Force will in- Parts availability questions, the u itially pay more than if all engines Air Force began looking for 10 were purchased from one com- alternatives, pany. Nonetheless, it said "the What resulted was a competition benefits gained from continuing between a General Elcctic engine competition, protecting against which is a derivative of the engine Homestead Park I Ula^e Lovely Recreation Area work disruptions, and expanding used on the B-1 bomber, and a new the mobilization base were worth version of Pratt & Whitney's F-lOO Congress and Homestead St. 1 and 2 bedroom townhouses Irving St. view atl^omestead Park Village H the added costs." engine. It noted the two manufacturers' "Extensive Air Force analyses proposals "were fairly evenly indicate that the alternative figh- matched" if either was to receive ler engine competition was a the entire contract. major success," the report said. "Under the split award arrange- "The Air Force estimates that the -1 * ment. General Electric's costs competition could save up to $3 Herald photo by Tarquinio were lower,” the study said. “ We billion over a 20-year period as concluded that the Air Force acted compared with continued procure- propcrly and reasonably in mak- ment of the existing F-lOO engine.” Daylight-saving time on the way ing this award. ” “ According to Air Force offi- Before the new arrangement, eials, both new engines promise to - ’li: Watching the hours run out till daylight-saving time is she’s pondering have to be synchronized, but they’ll ai$o Pratt & Whitney, a division of be more capable, durable and Constance E. Murphy, who has promptness on her mind have to be pushed ahead one hour at 2 a.m. on Sunday. If Connecticut’s United Technologies supportable than the current en- Corp., had a monopoly on manu- gine,” the report said, as a medical business administration student at today’s balmy weather is here to stay, that’ll mean one factoring engines for the F-15 and Manchester Community College. Not only will the clocks more waking hour of sunshine until October. F-16 fighter aircraft. However, on Feb. 3. the Air •••••••••••••••••••••• Building U.S.-ChIna friendship Force announced it was splitting 106-122 New State Rocid 1 and 2 bedroom townhouses the award for the 160 engines to be ^ I l l S I Q O ' I O Q 8 y Pine Ridge Village purchased in fiscal 1985. with , (the former Darna Farm) General Electric receiving 75 20 ooees, 2 sections, percent and Pratt & Whitney the * odverfisino supplements remainder. Reagan stresses common interests The Air Force left open the (Business............ ...........................20 question of how it would award the churches 4 .4 ’ ' ^ ^ . 4 4 4.4 4 14 Bv Norman D. Sandler relations between Washington and challenges that remain, however, "Standing together, we can more than 1,800 other engines it ClossKled....................................18-19 United Press International Peking and, in a further goodwill will take both patience and mutual expand trade and commercial ties plans to buy in 1986 and beyond. Comics............................................ 9 gesture, annouced Hu and Chinese understanding." that increase the quality of life in The GAO report was requested Entertainment...................................7-8 PEKING — President Reagan President Li Xiannian had ac­ both countries," he said. "Stand­ by Sen. Lowell Weieker, R-Conn., I called for "patience and mutual cepted invitations to visit the Even as Reagan was calling for ing together, we can further peace who represents a state where Pratt peooletoik . 4 4 4 4 4 4 4! 4 4! 4 4 '2 understanding" Friday in his United States. trust and understanding. Chinese and security." & Whitney has a major plant. Sports.............................. is-i? efforts to build U.S.-China friend­ The climax of the official portion television was airing a censored Weieker, second ranking Repub- Television...................................... 7-9 During a state banquet in the ship and got a foreign policy of Reagan’s visit, the first by a U.S. version of his speech earlier in the lican on the Senate Appropriations Weather............................................2 huge Great Hall of the People, lecture from his Chinese hosts. president in nine years, was to day, in which he sang the tribute of defense subcommittee, issued a •••••••••••••••••••••• where guests dined on a 12-course During a round of meetings said come Saturday with a meeting liberty and free enterprise and meal and drank toasts of 140-proof by one senior official to have been with Deng Xiaoping, Mao Tse- blasted Soviet aggression in Asia mao-tai liquor, Reagan praised the of “ extraordinary" value, Reagan tung’s reform-minded successor. and Afghanistan. economic modernizaton under was lectured by the Chinese on Afterward, Reagan turns tourist U.S. officials theorized the dele­ way in China and contrasted "this Embassy siege trade relations, his Central Amer­ with a pilgrimage to the famous tions. which caught the White peaceful and productive course" ica policy, the Middle East and Great Wall and a visit Sunday to House by surprise, indicated the with the policies of its one-time the Teresa Apartments Taiwan. Xi’an, the cradle of Chinese 25 Congress Street Chinese are sensitive to sugges­ ally, the ^ viet Union. corner of Congress and Irving 1 Main St. 1 and 2 bedroom ranch-type units . The blunt exchanges, described civilization. tions their economic reforms are ends peacefully as “ frank” in diplomatic parlance, During his long day of talks, moving them toward capitalism "Today, the world is threatened 1st building In Manchester’s Redevelopment Project i^1 came during four hours of talks Reagan hammered away at the and are reluctant to jeopardize a by a major power that is focusing I bedroom ranch-type units with Premier Zhao Ziyang and parallel interests of the United its resources and energies not on LONDON (UPI) — About 30 Fletcher, 25, was cremated potential thaw in relations with Libyans peacefully left their Lon- Friday after a funeral service at fc*> ■ ^ General Secretary Hu Wyaobang States and China and hinted that Moscow. economic progress, but instead on and a lavish state banquet for more many sore points in their relations military power," Reagap said. don embassy and took off for home Salisbury Cathedral, 84 miles west than 500 guests. can heal with time. In his overture to Peking, "The shift in military might of the Friday, formally ending a 10-day London. But Reagan, apparently unfazed “ The commitment to stand as Reagan said the bilateral coopera­ last decade has made trust and police siege of the Libyan ””Peo- Libyans evacuated their ,1 V / by the criticism, hailed “ the friends has been made. The tion of the last 12 years "already frendship between us ever more pie’s Bureau," as British diplo- em bapy a day after a plane load of changing nature" of once-frozen promise is solid,” he said. "The have been boon to our people." vital." mats evacuated their mission in Libyan diplomats,-wives and IliF i Tripoli. dependents arrived in Tripoli to an The crisis that started with a welcome. Some of the burst of gunfire from inside the P3ss®"8ers claimed they were Red ink remains gushing Libyan mission ended calmly b®''3Med by police when they left when the Libyans, clean-shaven . and wearing business suits, strode , ^"’ bassy who single file out of the elegant ‘acked diplomatic immunity were i ’Sr:' over U.S. trade iedgers townhouse and entered waiting against a wall and searched as police vehicles walked out of the j building. Electronic devices WASHINGTON (UPI) - The merchandise The government says each $1 billion in n s“-®alled scanned their bodies. trade deficit set a third straight monthly sales lost to foreigners deprives the nation of O"® wit"®** *aid he saw police Scotland Yard spokesman Tim ,i,em a cood eoinc-over ” Raymond Village - Section II record in March — $10.26 billion in the red — about 25,000 jobs. as Americans took advantage of the But the competition from low-priced a loMi scanners to see if they - this morning a total of 30 men, all ^ „re earrvine euns Raymond Village Section I 1 bedroom trl-level deluxe townhouse units 570-572 Hilliard St.