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MHS renovation job Beer cans hot Den^s voting is Lawrence's job just for drinking anti! 8 p.m. page 3 . page 11 . page 10 Cloudy tonight: Manchester, Conn. cool Wednesday Tuesday, Sept. 7, 1982 — See page 2 Imlb Single copy 25<p' ■ Cheese Two more freed ■■ program in embassy siege in doubt In the first comprehensive Swiss By Scott Macleod police spokesman said there are 7 probably between three and five. statement, on the takeover, United Press International By Nancy Thompson Police said they have taken food Hubacher s^id at least two uniden­ Herald Reporter BERN, Switzerland — Polish dis-. into the building as well as medicine tified men took 12 hostages at the sidents armed with machine guns for one of thg hostages who has high Polish embassy’s chancellery in the Manchester's needy residents and dynamite today freed two more blood pressure. Kirchenfeld section of Bern. may not receive free government women but. still held at least nine A doctor who visited the hostages He said the Swiss government surplus cheese—although It is still other people in the Polish Embassy, overnight said they were in could not confirm the captors’ con­ availabla — because local officials threatening to blow it up unless' “satisfactory condition.” tention they held 50 pounds of say there is no way to distribute it. explosives, but earlier police said m artial law is, lifted in their The Poles, who seized the em­ Nancy Carr executive director of the dissidents were armed with at homeland. bassy Monday morning, said they the Manchester Area Conference of would blow up the building least two machine guns. Police marksmen surrounded the Churches, the agency officially Wednesday morning if Polish ■The residential area of the Swiss building and the Swiss government designated to give out the cheese, authorities do not lift martial law capital around the embassy was said fit had rece'ved permission said today she does not think there from Poland’s military regime to and release interned members of sealed off and patrolled by police the outlawed Solidarity union. wearing green fatigues and carrying are any plans to revive cheese dis­ storm the building because it tribution. refused to negotiate the demands of They also demanded the dis­ automatic weapons. the gunmen in the embassy. mantling of prison camps and an end Poland’s military rulers, vo.wing The only way cheese distribution A lustice Ministry spokesman to the repression of the Polish peo­ not to give in to the “extremists,” could go forward this fall is if said the Polish dissidents released ple. have given Swiss authorities the volunteers come forward to coor­ two women just before noon (6 a.m. “As far as we know now, the situa­ green light to storm the embassy. dinate the program, Mrs. Carr said. EDT) in the second day of the em­ tion inside and outside the building But early today police said they bassy occupation in the Swiss is quiet,” Swiss government were in continual telephone contact The cheese giveaway in the spring .•. capital. spokesman Ulrich Hubacher said at with the men in the embassy, was coordinated by volunteers from A pregnant woman was set free a news conference as the siege po.ssibly trying to talk them out. Community Baptist Church and late Monday and a Swiss Justice entered its second day. “Contact has been established and Center Congregational Church. Hubacher said Switzerland took it will certainly go on,” a police Ministry spokesman said today nine “The people who organized it have hostages remained inside the the embassy takeover “very spokesman said, raising hopes seriously,” but hoped to deal with negotiations could resolve the crisis not made any noises about building. The number of hostages is reorganizing it,” Mrs. Carr said, ad­ S one less than claimed by the the dissidents on a “human level.” peacefully. ding, “I don't know a single thing” Asked whether resolution of the A contingent of about a-dozen gunmen. about reviving the distribution hostage situation was a problem for police reinforcements, however, An official at the Spanish embassy program. said he saw the two middle aged the Swiss government or the Polish seemed to indicate the Swiss were women — one of whom he government, Hubacher said, “It’s a taking no chances. Coordinating the distribution recognized as a secretar3>—being decision up to the Swiss government Reached by phone Monday, the program was “an awful investment led to the door by an armed man and without any doubt. leader of the group — “Comman­ of time” for the volunteers, Mrs. then driven away in a waiting car. “Warsaw answered around 6 or 7 dant” Wysocki, said the embassy Carr said, because of. the vast Police said they could only be sure o’clock yesterday that Switzerland had been taken by “more than 10” E amounts of paperwork required in that there were two gunmen inside should do anything to make normal members of the Revolutionary addition to the distribution time. the building, though the men say diplomatic activity in their em­ Patriotic Army, a group of more MAN LOOKS OUT EMBASSY WINDOW they number “more than 10.” A bassy,” he said. than 3,000. Polish dissidents stormed building ' The program was discontinued in June because volunteers were not willing to put in the time over the . summer. In four monthly distribution Lebanese troops in Beirut suburbs sessions held from March through P .June. 10,230 pounds of cheese in 2,- 046 blocks were distributed. A total army arrived, at which point the By United Press International presidents and premiers met with The Fez meeting resumes an Arab against Syria for this act and if we of 1,963 households, representing 4,- militias yielded and .moved back Palestine * Liberation Organization League sumnqit session that con­ wanted to, we could carry out much 592 family members, received the Lebanese troops peacefully took chairman Yasser Arafat for eight into West Beirut. vened last November to discuss a wider and more sophisticated ac­ cheese. Fifty-six volunteers took control of a key southern Beirut sub­ hours Monday to discuss both^ the A second Lebanese army column Saudi Arabian peace plan that im­ tions,” Deputy Prime Minister part in the program. urb today, preventing a. clash PLO’s evacuation from Beirut and advanced to a university campus in plicitly recognized the state of David Levy told Israeli army radio. between the Lebanese leftist Reagan’s proposal, along with two the southern suburb of Hadath, a Israel but collapsed when the plan Defense Minister Ariel Sharon Mrs. Carr said the MACC staff militias who controlled the area and other Arab blueprints that also deal position that had been held by the was snubbed by hard-line Syria. demanded the safe return of the does not have the time to coordinate Israeli forces. with Palestinian self-determination Israelis. Both a Saudi Arabian plan and a soldiers in a letter passed on to the cheese distribution program. In Fez, Morocco, Arab leaders and the Israeli-occupi^ territories. ’There was no word on the fate of separate plan developed by Tunisia Damascus through U.S. envoy Free cheese is still available ' prepared for a second day of closed- In Khartoum, Sudan, hundreds of eight Israeli soldiers kidnapped near call for some form of a Palestiniai^ Morris Draper. It reportedly through the MACC emergency food door talks at their summit con­ chanting demonstrators burned an Syrian-held territory in central state on the West Bank. Israel, demanded “not one hair on the head pantry, but only to residents who are ference focusing on 'President American flag in front of the U.S. Lebanon Saturday, but a previously vehemently opposes any proposals of any Israeli captive” be harmed in in desperate need. Reagan’s new Mideast peace plan. Embassy to protest American sup­ unknown ^roup calling itself “the that it relinquish control over the captivity. “It.’s really too bad not to run it The 15 Arab kings, princes. Aug. 23 Organization” said it was territory. “We have given the Syrians a port of Israel. (the distribution program) because In London, Secretary of Defense responsible for the abduction. In another development, the stern warning.” Sharon said. “I a tremendous number of the elderly Caspar Weinberger said Reagan’s Israel MondaV wame<l Syria it PLO’s second-in-command Abu lyad hope the Syrians take all measures used it,” Mrs. Carr said. She noted peace plan has won “significant” would “retaliate” if any harm came slipped back Into Lebanon days after to protect their lives.” that the cheese is a good source of support in Israel despite the to the eight Israelis. he was evacuated from Beirut under The radio said Israeli troops in the protein, which is frequently lacking government’s initial flat rejection Despite Reagan’s call last-week the plan negotiated by U.S. envoy occupied West Bank Monday shot in the diets of poor residents. inside Today and expressed hope that Prime for a freeze on Jewish settlement of Philip Habib. dead a second Arab youth in four Minister Menachem Begin may ^ e occupied West Bank and Gaza “I have not come to say goodbye, days. It said the incident happened Hanna Marcus, director of the withdraw his objections. ^trip. Deputy Prime Minister but to repeat the fight continues in the village of Tulkarm during town Hun'.an Services Department, Advice ............ Weinberger said his Middle East Simcha Ehrlich claimed Israel’s against the Israelis.” Abu lyad said searches for a man who had fired a said cheese distribution is entirely Business.......... trip last week convinced him there “natural right” to settle these in an apparent attempt to assure the submachine gun at an Israeli com­ up to MACC, The Human Services Classified.......

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