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\ FRIDAY LOCAL NEWS INSIDE ■ Day care responsibility debated. ■ Chamber names Murdock president. Support ■ Ed board passes $ 10.5m budget. our ■ Compromises evident at meeting. troops! Local/Regional Section, Page 7. WhaVs \bur Hometown Newspaper Manchester's Award-Winning Newspaper Newsstand: 35^ — Home: 30^ News March 1,1991 A Report: Saddam Cease-fire holds; allies wary seeks asylum PARIS (AP) — Ir^ i Presi dent Saddam Hussein is seeking By MARTIN MARRIS hoisted the flag outside the U.S. several minor exchanges of Are H. Norman Schwarzkopf. he said. asylum in another country, The Associated Press Embassy as Ambassador Edward overnight initiated by Iraqi units “We are going to get back our But the Iraqis made their own probably in Algeria, the Rench Gnehm arrived to take up his post. presumed not to have learned of the POWs and we’re going to do it demands. “All foreign forces must newspaper Le Monde reported DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia — When former Ambassador truce. fast,” President B u ^ declared on leave our country immediately and today, Isolated clashes and the sounds of Nathaniel Howel left in December, Talks on a permanent cease-fire, Thursday. Forty-five Americans are stop all provocations,” Foreign Min Algeria is seeking assurances Iraqi weaponry being demolished he brought the flag to Washington the return of prisoners of war and missing, and at least eight are ister Tariq Aziz told the Iraqi News from the anti-Iraq coalition that were all that marred the Persian Gulf with him. “He said at the time he other issues were set for Saturday, believ^ to be Iraqi prisoners. Agency, according to Baghdad Saddam will not be subject to peace today, as allied soldiers kept a left, ‘We’re coming back,’” Gnehm according to a senior British govern Defense Secreta^ Dick Cheney radio. any war crimes tribunals, Le watchful eye on their vanquished said. “We are back and I bring his ment wurce. The source said the said today the Iraqis must cooperate. He said U.S. forces were acting in Monde said> without giving any foes. U.S. officials warned Iraq flag back." me^Kl^ would be held at an uniden- “We have the ability to resume hos a maruier contrary to the cease-fire, sources for its report faced renewed fighting if it did not On the battle front, allied military tif!^ military installation in Iraq, tilities at a moment’s notice ... the and he com plaint about continued The report in the major ‘ free allied prisoners. officials today reported a few and the allied contingent will be led lights are out in Baghdad, they’ll French daily could not be in dependently confirmed. In Kuwait, American soldiers cease-fire violations, including by the American commander, Gen. stay out until we get satisfaction.” Please see GULF, page 6. Private schools Index of Leading fight Weiejier’s Indicators o n budget cuts DO r- > m By SCOTT B. BREDE unfair” to deny state funding to Manchester Herald those children who choose to attend z! ^ private schools, and labelled the O CD MANCHESTER — Warning that proposal discriminatory. z -< -7. s. « - ■ ■ tuition may rise as a result, a Many smaller private schools ft FMAMJ JAtONOi Manchester parochial school official may have to close if they are forced tam VI Thursday criticized a proposal that to provide busing and health-care m I Jan . *90 0 9 0 *90 JM l W 0 m would halt state funds used to services to their students, Siegmund h 45.41 1139.711139.1 i provide uansportation and health said, adding that nearly 15 percent care services for private school of children in the state attend private 1 children. schools. “It seems the tax break in educa These closures would overburden Indicators down R O o tion is coming on the backs of public schools because the former WASHINGTON (AP) — The o ^ private school students,” said Peg private school students would have government’s chief economic 2 (D Siegmund, principal of East no other place to turn, she said. forecasting gauge fell 0.4 per m CO Catholic High School, of Gov. East Catholic officials “would A SOLDIER’S GRIEF — Al Kozakiewicz, 23, of Buffalo, NrY., left, weeps after being given cent in January, its sixth straight P O Lowell P. Weicker Jr.’s proposal to certainly have to look into raising the dogtags of a fellow tank crewman, bodybag at right, who died Wednesday in the battie of drop and the longest string of declines since 1984, the govern slice the state budget in the coming tuitions” if the school is forced to the Euphrates Vailey. At right is wounded comrade Michaei Santarakis, 21, of Queens, N.Y. year. cover its own transportation and ment said today. S I The proposed cut would eliminate nursing costs, Siegmund said. The members of the 24th Mechanized infantry Division were in a tank that was hit by a mortar The drop in the Commerce state reimbursements to public Although she would not comment of undetermined origin. Department’s Index of Leading g M Economic Indicators followed a school districts that provide in a possible rise in tuition. Sister 33 > uansportation, health and welfare Louise Kelly, principal of St. James revised 0.1 percent decrease in services to private schools. It would School, said the state fimding cuts December — even worse than also discard a state law mandating would definitely hurt parochial the barely perceptible 0.1 per that public schools provide these school children in town. Grand List increases cent gain first reported last services to their private counter St. James is one of Manchester’s month. The department at parts. three Catholic primary schools, tributed the revision to a shorter If adopted by the General As which, together, educate 712 average workweek than initially sembly, the proposal would have “a children between kindergarten and because of revaluation thought. tremendous impact” on the five eighth-grade. Sister Kelly said. private schools in Manchester, Seig- Under the Manchester Board of By BRIAN M. TROTTA from the 1989 total of $901,644,999. Most of the nearly News purchase mund said. Education’s recommended 1991-92 Manchester Herald $14 billion increase is due to the revaluation of real es in the air “It’s unfair to single out Catholic school spending plan, $317,015 has tate performed last year, said Town Assessor Michael school students,” she said, noting been budgeted to handle private B e k ^ . NEW YORK (AP) — British MANCHESTER — The value of the town’s Grand media mogul Robert Maxwell that a majority of private schools in school busing costs. List in 1990 increased by more than 2.6 times the 1989 The revaluation brought the assessed value of land in Connecticut arc parochial. The school district would be town up to 70 percent of it’s current market value. took a major step toward buying total due to revaluation, but real growth was limited to the strike-bound Daily News, Weicker has said that public reimbursed more than 40 percent — Under ^ e old assessments, which were made in 1977, about 2.25 percent according to figures released securing management permis schools must take precedence over roughly $ 105,000 — by the state the Thursday. land was being taxed at only 25 percent of it’s current private institutions when it comes to following year should Wcickcr’s market value. sion to begin negotiations with The 1989 Grand List had increased 6 percent over the its nine imions, a labor leader state funding. Grand y st for the previous year. said. But, Siegmund said it is “totally Please see SCHOOLS, page 6. The total Grand List for 1990 is $2,376,114405 up Please see LIST, page 6. The announcement Thursday night by George McDonald, head of the unions’ umlaella group, came some two hours ^ Troops to get after the collapse of negotiations between management and the striking unions. heroes^ welcome New leader BEUING (AP) — Budrag- By SCOTT B. BREDE plans for Manchester residents sta chagyn Dashyondon was elect^ 1 M ^chester Herald tioned in the Persian Gulf area. Mongolia’s new communist and The Associated Press T he executive board of leader today, just a year after his Manchester’s American Legion will predecessor took office during a MANCHESTER — Connecticut also meet next week to come up wave of pro-democracy reform. plans to welcome its soldiers home with ideas of greeting soldiers on The recurring ^adership from the Persian Gulf with patriotic their return, said legion commander changes reflect the ccunmunist celebrations, home cooking and Harold Pohl. party’s uncertainty in Mon open arms. Veterans groups and But, Deputy Mayor Ronald Osclla golia’s new liuliiparty political families vowed the homecoming said the celebration plans should be system. will be a far cry from the chilly put off until the war with Iraq is reception Vietnam veterans feel they definitely over. got. “Until, we see [the end of hos 9 “These people are going to be tilities] it is premature to think of Inside Today,.. welcomed home with open arms. any celebrations at home," Osella This is not going to be a Vietnam- said, adding that the war won’t be type thing,” said Dominic Romano, completely over until gunfire has 20 pages, 4 sections state adjutant of the Connecticut stopped, prisoners of war are returned and Saddam Hussein has Veterans of Foreign Wars. Attar Uw Vtar Spaotal Raport__ Around Manchester celebration signed a peace treaty. Al Homa_________________ activities are starting to get under Although celebrations to greet Businoas _______________ RIek Santoa/llanehMtor Herald way as the town gears up for its sol returning soldier are necessary, Classified_______________ 14- ADMINISTERING AID — A Manchester firefighter aids Chris Worthington, who was struck by diers’ return.

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