Baldrige’s death l^ves Reagan without key player In trade talks... page 5 HJanrbrstrr Hrralb ) Manchesler A Cily nl l/illatjf; Charm Monday, July 27,1987 30 Cents U.S. to accept arms deal Officials reject Soviet demand to destroy German rockets WASHINGTON (AP) - The that the Pershing 1-A missiles be warheads deployed in Soviet Asian “ Obviously we’re pleased about United States was poised today to destroyed as part of a treaty with territory and targeted on China, it,” he said. accept the latest arms control offer the United States. The issue re­ Japan and South Korea. by Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorba­ mains the principal obstacle to an In exchange, Gorbachev asked But Soviet officials, after the chev but to reject Moscow's de­ agreement. the United States to give up its Gorbachev interview was pub­ mand for the destruction of Ameri­ The missiles, which have a range demand to store 100 warheads in lished in Indonesia, revived their can missile warheads in West of 465 miles, are in West German Alaska. demand for the destruction of U.S. Germany. hands, but the United States Pershing 1-A warheads as part of "That’s definitely out,” said a controls the warheads. Chief U.S. negotiator Max M. any superpower treaty covering Kampelman said Thursday in an U.S. official here as American Gorbachev did not mention the medium-range missiles. Interview that was acceptable since negotiators in Geneva prepared to Pershing l-As in an interview This put pressure on the United formally accept Gorbachev’s prop­ published last Wednesday in In­ all medium-range missiles on both sides would be destroyed. States and West Germany to give osal to eliminate all U.S. and Soviet donesia that otherwise raised hopes in. But the U.S. official, who medium-range missiles in Europe for an early accord. Kampelman said Gorbachev’s demanded anonymity, said Ameri­ and Asia. His main concession was to agree offer "eliminates a number of can negotiators were prepared to The Soviets insisted last April to eliminate all medium-range problems” in the way of a treaty. reject the demand again. Dog saves couple’s lives by alerting them to fire By Bruce Matzkin where the bedroom is. Herald Reporter If not for the dog. the Cornells might not have woken up in time, said Cornell. You can have Lassie, but an elderly “ My wife wouldn’t have been able to get Manchester couple will take their dog. out of the bedroom, because it would have Happy, anytime. been blocked by the fire,” Cornell said. “ If it weren’t for him. neither one of us Capt. Jack Hughes of the Town of would be alive.” said Raymond Cornell, 75, Manchester Fire Department said the call of 156 Branford St. from the Cornells came in at 4:10 a.m. A fire broke out in the kitchen of the Sunday. Firefighters arrived two minutes Cornells’ home early Sunday morning. later to find the six-room Cape filled with Cornell and his wife, Lucille, 74, were sound smoke. The fire had spread to the front hall asleep as smoke filled their house and the fire by then, said Hughes. crept toward the front hall. A t about 4 a.m.. Three engines, one ladder, 13 firefighters Happy jumped on the bed where Mrs. Cornell and eight volunteer firefighters were dis­ was sleeping, and tugged her sleeve until she patched to the scene. Hughes said that when woke up. Groggy from sleep, Mrs. Cornell they arrived, there was heavy smoke noticed light flickering, and she walked to the showing on the first and second floors. kitchen to find that a fire had spread from the Firefighters put out the blaze and remained refrigerator to the light on the center of the at the scene for two hours, he said. ceiling. Hughes said the fire started in the 2 “ Raymond! Raymond! The house is on refrigerator, most likely in the motor area. fire.” Mrs. Cornell yelled to her husband, He said it was probably caused by a power who was sleeping on a sofa in the living room surge from a bolt of lightning. The fire H sftid ptioto by Tuckar because he needed to be near the air heavily damaged the kitchen and front hall conditioner. area. Hughes said. Cornell woke up to find the room full of Cornell said he got Happy from the dog Tree down smoke. He ran down to the basement to turn pound after he saw the dog’s picture in the off the electricity to the house, and then fled Manchester Herald 3>A years ago. Cornell 7 This large tree in a yard at 86-88 Florence St. is one of the to the street, where his wife and Happy were said that since then, there has been frequent already safe. casualties of Saturday's lightning storm. Katy McFar­ trouble with complaints about his barking. In Cornell said that he and his wife had fact, just this morning, Richard Rand, the land, the house's owner, points out the damage. The smelled smoke at about midnight, but they dog warden, received a call about a dog on Harald photo by Tuokar storm kept the fire departments in town busy as lightning looked and couldn’t find anything wrong. Branford street barking, probably the Th^y went back to steep, and were not Cornells’ dog. struck in scattered spots. In some cases causing power RAYMOND CORNELL AND HAPPY failures. Story on page 3. disturbed by the heavy smoke that was Cornell said Happy, a mut, is kept indoors beginning to fill the downstairs of the house. so that he won’t bother the neighbors. dog alerted owners to fire Crews scoop up plates and bottles from Titanic wreck site PARIS (A P) — A French mini- Research and Exploitation of the "To bring'up those things from a has broken into several parts. which is littered with silver trays by a member of the mini-sub crew. submarine and robot scouring the Sea. It contained no other descrip­ mass sea grave just to make a few “ I absolutely deplore it. It’s and wine bottles. The Nautile will not explore the ocean floor around the Titanic tion of the objects. thousand pounds (doiiars) shows a nauseating,” she said, adding the 14 inside of the wreck, because it scooped up plates and bottles, the A second, attempt to recover dreadful insensitivity and greed,” The submarine is equipped with relatives of Titanic survivors she would be too dangerous, according first objeths ever recovered from Titanic artifacts was scheduled for said Miss Hart, 82, who was put in a two arms capable of picking up knows feel the same way. to expedition officials. the sunken luxury liner, re­ today, weather permitting, llie lifeboat before the liner went down. The Titanic, advertised as unsin- objects smaller than teacups and searchers said today. saivage operation began Saturday “ The grave should be left alone.” kable, struck an iceberg on its larger than safes. Sunday’s haul from the 2>A-mile More than 2,200 people were and is to take about a month. Miss Hart, interviewed from her maiden voyage from Southampton, The 176-pound robot, attached to dive included a total of 15 plates and aboard the Titanic, including some Titanic survivor Eva Hart, whose home just outside London in Chad- England, to New York and sank the submarine by a 26-foot umbili­ of the richest and most noted of the bottles used by the 1,513 passengers father was among the dead pas­ well Heath, Essex, said she would April 15, 1912. cal cord, has lights and three day .A fortune in jewels and other who died when the liner sank 75 sengers, criticized the French feel differently if the Titanic could The Nautile submarine, aided by cameras encased in titanium-and- valuables were rumored to have years ago, according to a statement salavagers as “ fortune hunters, be salvaged in one piece and a robot named Robin, searched in a steel cases for shooting inside the been contained in a strongbox from the French Institute for vultures, pirates.” displayed in a museum, but the ship 2‘A-mile area around the wreck, Titanic. Another camera is carried aboard the ship. Soviets Spending rises faster execute than personai income Fedorenko WASHINGTON (AP) - Ameri­ fell at an annual rate of 82.9 billion, cans’ personal incomes rose 0.4 the second monthly decrease, while percent in June while consumer purchases of services were rising at MOSCOW (AP) — Fedor Fedo­ spending shot up an even higher 0.7 an annual rate of 813.6 billion, renko, the first Nazi war criminal percent, the largest spending gain compared with an increase of 88.9 extradited to the Soviet Union by since April, the government said billion last year. the United States, has been exe­ today. cuted, the official news agency The Commerce Department said Wages and salaries, the key Tass announced today. that the spending Increase followed component in the income category, Fedorenko, 80, was found guilty a 0.1 percent decline May and a 0.8 rose at an annual rate of 88billion in in June of treason, voluntarily percent rise in April. June, down from an 811.1 billion joining the Nazi side in World War The income advance followed May advance. Part of the slowdown II, and participating in the mass idenUcal 0.5 percent increases in came from a drop in the rate of murder of foreign citizens. both April and May. increase at manufacturing plants, “ The death sentence passed in Data for the previous months was where payrolls were up 8500 million June 1986 by the Crimean Regional revised to reflect the annual following a much stronger 82.4 Court on the Nazi war criminal, recalculation the Commerce De­ billion May advance.