_84 — MANCHESTER HERALD. Tuesday. Feb 14. 1989 Moscow trip shatters misconceptions of Manchester teens y- Bv Andrew Yurkovskv Some found the landscape and the people back in the United States on Sunday. first they came off very cold.” Manchester Herald uninviting, but others, like Eric Neff, 18, of During their four days in Moscow, they visited Jill Hunt of Tolland, an 18-year-old East ".V- ■ Catholic senior, said, “ I think they’re really .y; Vernon, were favorably impressed. “I wouldn’t Red Square, the Armory Museum in the Kremlin, MOSCOW — A group of high school students mind living here if it wasn’t for the food.” the East and saw a ballet in the Palace of Congresses. They nice.” She said she had expected agents of the KGB. ■*4^' /i'si from Manchester visited here for four days this Catholic High School senior said. also made a day trip to Zagorsk, a religious center -rtfc the Soviet secret police, to be everywhere week and had some of their preconceptions about The 22-person group included four students north of Moscow. The students saw how good-humored the Soviet the Soviet Union turned inside-out. from Manchester High School, eight students Several students in the group said they found people can be when they met two Soviet army .They learned that the Soviet people aren’t cold, from East Catholic High School, two teachers and the people in Moscow to be very friendly. soldiers waiting in line to visit Lenin’s tomb on that the secret police don’t lurk around every eight others interested in the Soviet Union. They “ I think they’re a lot like (people in the) United corner, and that Soviet army soldiers wear socks arrived in Moscow Saturday and were to leave States.” said Bill Kennard of 47 Princeton St., a See MOSCOW, page 10 just like everybody else. today for three days in Leningrad. They are due 17-year-old Manchester High School senior. “ At %: ■; ,6 H A 0 V ilatuhpHtpr Irra lb m BRAND Wednesday, Feb. 15, 1989 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm NEW 1989 H O N D _ "File CivicDX4-Door Sedan ‘Rain Man‘ Suit spells 4 TO CHOOSE FROM...IN STOCK ONLY. tops Oscar SALES TAX AND REGISTRATION EXTRA. nominations uncertainty LV; B EVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — "Rain Man,” a road movie featuring a scheming car salesman learning to love his autistic brother, topped nominations for the 61st Academy Awards today downtown with eight nods, including best picture. The movie also received nominations for Dustin ■-■ i ’ project, but he was not surprised '•.t j - ■ .-v . ' , . : Hoffman as best actor and best director for Barry By Nancy Concelman Manchester Herald by the decision. Levinson. “ I ’m through being surprised,” Earning seven nominations each were “ Danger­ he said. ous Liaisons,” a drama hinging on the bed-hopping The future of the $15 million Q .7,‘. • Main Street reconstruction pro­ James Rice, deputy commis­ seductions of the wealthy in pre-revolutionary sioner of the DO’T’s bureau of France, and “ Mississippi Burning,” the controver­ ject was up in the air today after highways, said today work will sial depiction of the F B I’s investigation of the opponents voted Tuesday to file a continue on the $15 million project slaying of three civil rights workers in 1964. lawsuit to block the plans. while the suit is pending. The t '.A t '' Both were nominated for best picture, as were Dr. Robert H. Fish, a Main reconstruction, proposed more “ The Accidental Tourist,” an adaptation of Anne Street dentist and president of the than 20 years ago, is scheduled to Tyler’s acclaimed novel tracing the emotional Heritage Group, which runs the begin in spring 1990. journeys of a travel writer, and “ Working Girl,” a Heritage Place condominium on LXI 4 DOOR Beck said he hopes to have a 1988 ACCORD Cinderella tale of a secretary who battles her way Main Street, said nine association a u t o m a t ic members and Main Street mer­ court hearing by the end of the Automatic, Demonstrator up the corporate ladder. summer on his request to block 1988 CRX Actress Sigourney Weaver claimed a rare Oscar chant George Marlow attended a automatic the project. Rice said that if an 1988 ACCORD UQ Brand New double nomination, for best actress for “ Gorillas In meeting Tuesday to decide Fully Equipped List *17.451 injunction were granted, the DOT The Mist: The Adventure of Dian Fossey” and best whether to fight the project. Brand New 4 Door would appeal. supporting actress for “ Working Girl.” Manchester attorney Bruce S. List *11.523 Rice is among several town and Joining Weaver in the best actress competition Beck, who represents the associa­ List M 6,774 AP photo state officials who have said a were Glenn Close for “ Dangerous Liaisons,” Jodie tion. said today he’ll probably significant delay in the recon­ Foster for “ The Accused.“ Meryl Streep for “ A Cry name the town and the state LEADS NOMINEES — Dustin Hoffman portrays an autistic savant struction or change of plans could In The Dark,” and. in her first Oscar nomination, Department of Transportation as in “Rain Man," the acclaimed film which leads in nominations for jeopardize state and federal Melanie Griffith for “ Working Girl.” defendants in a lawsuit. Beck said the 61st Academy Awards. Hoffman was nominated today for best he hopes to file the suit within the funding and kill the project. 8995 actor as “Rain Man" tallied eight nominations. next couple of weeks, probably in Mayor Peter P. DiRosa Jr. has See OSCARS, page 10 1989 Prelude SI 5 Speed 6 in stock...... *15,995 federal court. said the town would probably 1989 Accorid LXi 4 Dr. Auto. 11 in Opponents claim that a neces­ have to pay back federal and «8995 1989 Accord LX 4 Dr. Auto. 6 in stock *1 3 ,9 9 5 sary study was never done on the state funds expended for the 1988 CRX 5 speed 4 in stock................... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------stock *15,995 - — M environmental impact of an ac­ project if it dies. ^8995 cess road to be built during the DiRosa was on vacation this reconstruction. week and could not be reached for “ Most of the people had told me comment. they wanted to file the suit. There Opponents want the town to really wasn’t a question,” Fish abandon or change plans for the YOUR said today. “ I ’m kind of sorry access road, which would run ---- ------ ----' I” v/rM lO I YOUR that it had to come to this.” along the north-south leg of YOUR $cqQ R CHOICE Town Manager Robert B. Weiss Purnell Place. The road is meant YOUR lO Q CIS CHOICE said today he didn’t know what CHOICE #1593 1985 Honda Prelude effect the suit would have on the See DOWNTOWN, page 10 #1758 1986 Dodge Colt #1673 1983 Toyota Celica GT #1828 1973 VW Super Beetle #1802 1987 Dodge Shadow #1767 1984 Audi 5000 #1834 1984 Pontiac Sunbirtd Wag. #1831 1986 Plymouth Reliant Wag. #1789 1985 Honda Accord 4 Dr. Coventry planners #1833 1987 Honda Civic HB-Red reject moratorium YOUR CHOICE *3995 Bv Jacqueline Bennett issue Tuesday at Capt. Nathan YOUR Manchester Herald H-'i.le School. #1788 1982 Honda Civic HB YOUR • 4 ? ■ CHOICE *9995 Judy LeDoyt. of Main Street, ■ '■ iV '•% ^ #1849 1983 Honda Civic 4 Dr. ■vy COVENTRY - The Planning had led the drive for a building CHOICE and Zoning Commission rejected moratorium. She said at the #1731 1987 Honda Prelude a request for a building morato­ hearing that she called for the AP photo #1570 1985 Dodge Lancer #1722 1987 Honda Accord HB-LXl rium Tuesday after about 100 moratorium because she be­ YOUR #1810 1986 Honda Civic 4 Dr. NAMED TWICE — Sigour­ residents debated the issue. lieved haphazard growth was #1782 1985 Chevy S-10 Blazer 4x4 AP photo ney Weaver has been nomi­ The moratorium would have reaching a crisis point, and the „CHOICE „ „ 4995 #1835 1984 Honda Accord 4 Dr. meant a halt to construction of PZC was overburdened by #1820 1986 Honda Prelude seven nominations today in the race for nated twice for Oscars, in #1793 1982 Honda Accord 4 Dr. SEVEN NOMINATIONS — Gene Hack- condominiums, apartment com­ applications. #1840 1986 Olds Cierra 4 Dr. man, left, and Willem Dafoe appear in the Academy Awards, to be presented “Gorillas in the Mist” and plexes, subdivisions and com­ " I do not oppose growth,’’ #1812 1987 Chevrolet Specturm “Mississippi Burning,” which earned March 29. “Working Girl." mercial development, and any LeDoyt said, “ But I am adamant #1846 1985 Pontiac 6000 LE changes in the zoning it be done in a planned and #1832 1988 Hyundai Excel regulations. orderly fashion.’ ’ #1841 1984 Honda Civic 4 Dr. ----------- ----- Jonathan Kreisberg. chairman The point of the moratorium, To All Buyers of New or Designated Used Cars... of the PZC, said today commis­ she said, would be to give the PZC and the town’s director of plan­ g r a n d PRIZE: TRIP FOR 2 TO ^'A \ o u r Choloel *60 Dining Certificate to the H ^ o n e Don’t chop up North case, says Judge sion members did not feel a moratorium was needed. ning and development. Diane AMERICAN AIRLINES...HOTEL or a Sanyo Telephone Answenng System.. “ The feeling of the commission Blackman, time to start updating essential to his defense. was that it wasn’t necessary. We the town Master Plan of Develop­ 1 WASHINGTON (AP) - The lawyers say will show a Reagan The alleged “ quid pro quo" accomodations c o u r t e s y TRAVEL R A M A - ______________ _ judge in the Oliver North case administration coverup of secret added a detail to the scenario Four of the 12 criminal charges were well on our way to doing the ment.