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iianrlifstpr Irralft Saturday, June 3, 1989 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm Newsstand Price: 35 Cents STUDENTS STOP TROOPS Chinese soldiers forced to retreat By TerrII Jones The Associated Press . ~ thousands of troops marched toward Tiananmen Square today but fell back when confronted by throngs of people who implored the soldiers not to crush the student-led movement for democracy. An official report said three people were killed when struck by a police car in an accident Friday night. Students linked the deaths to their demon- sti^tions and called for a general strike in protest Troops moved against students whose defiance of martial law and occupation of Beijing’s vast square Chin'a^s rulers'^^ spurred a power struggle among 'The military advances began about midnight and ended in disarray. More than eight hours later soldiers still straggled away from thecity center to the outskirts, where about 200,000 soldiers were reportedly camped. Soldiers advanced down Changan Avenue, the capital s main road, but thousands of students and residents used trucks, buses and their bodies to stop them in front of the Beijing Hotel, several hundred yards east of the square. other troop convoys coming from other directions also were halted. The middle of the square remained calm, with the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony blaring over student loudspeakers. More than 2,000 people surrounded two unmarked buses, one carrying about 40 soldiers and the other supplies including automatic rifles, 1.2 miles west of Tiananmen. Some of the people broke into the supply vehicle and removed several automatic rifles, one equipped with a bayonet, and displayed the weapons on a table set up on top of the bus. A banner draped on the bus read, "These are the angels of peace sent by (Premier) Li Peng government to protect the people of the capital.” There was some pushing and shoving between the ^oops and students but the soldiers, mostly young men, did not appear to be armed. They wore khaki pants and white shirts and carried canteens <^*'^^red and jeered the ^ soldiers as they moved away from the square. Shouts of What do you think you’re doing?’’ and Are you of the people?" filled the balmy night. Patrick Flynn/Mtnehester Herald on the battlefield, not on Changan Avenue.” HEAT OF THE FIRE — Firefighters from the ^ apparently caused by lightning from a bicyclists headed square to protest an incident in which a Town of Manchester Fire Department powerful storm which caused street battle smoke and heat from a blaze in the police vehicle ran into a crowd. The bicyclists flooding and power outages. Story on attic of a two-family home at 162 and 164 S'lrp®^ ''’.‘If" ‘ ‘ hat advancing troops page 3. were seen on the other side of the square. Maple St. Friday afternoon. The fire was See CHINA, page 2 1 Anti-drug, Power-packed REGIONAL WEATHER thunderstorm Accu Weathef® forecast for Saturday crime bill 1 Daytime Cor>dittons aixl High Temperatures is debated throttles area Bv Maureen Leavitt Bv Judd Everhart Manchester Herald The Associated Press A powerful thunderstorm Friday flooded streets HARTFORD — The state Se and unleashed bolts-of lightning that ignited the nate moved Friday night toward attic of a Maple Street home and caused a loss ot passing a $55 million anti-drug power to 1.989 customers in Manchester and Bolton and crime bill that includes Hundreds of homes were still without power late boot-camp style prison programs Friday night. ^ for young offenders, money for A half-hour after the swiftly-moving storm, there AtanHc rehabilitation programs and for O cea n were no signs of the gushing water whrch swept beefed up law enforcement. garbage bags and branches down Spruce, Bj^^h f nd About half of the money needed Oak streets and brought traffic to a standstill as to fund the bill would come from a manhole covers popped up due to the pressure of the 01969 Aocw W»jlh»» *nc new 20-cents-a-gallon excise tax water flowing through the sewers. on soft drinks — about 2 cents a Lightning has been ruled as the cause of the attic can — and by having the state’s fire at a two-family home at 162 and IM M ^ le St., daily lottery games held on said Deputy Chief Peter E. Beckwith, of the Town of Weather Sundays for the first time. The Manchester Fire Department. rest would be borrowed through The fire, which was reported at 3; 34 p.m., caused the sale of bonds. extensive damage to the storage attic and was Manchester and vicinity: Today, sunny, high 80to Republicans complained that confined to that area. Beckwith 85 degrees. Wind west around 10 mph. Tonight, they had had little time to study firefighters received minor injuries fighting the clear, then increasing cloudiness after midnight. the bill and forced the Demo blaze. There was .very little water damage to the Low around 60 degrees. Sunday, mostly cloudy with cratic majority to endure more home, he said. a 50 percent chance of showers. Possibly a T h « A »90Clat*d Prws than 2'A hours of questions on the ■ The fire was under control - in 10 mh'Mtes. thunderstorm. High 75 to 80 degrees. early bill’s details. Coastal: Today, sunny, high around 80 degrees. TROOPS STOPPED — A Chinese Tiananmen Square in Beijing Sen. Kevin B. Sullivan, D-West Beckwith said, and tbe biggest obstacle was Wind west 10 to 15 mph. becoming southwest in the today. The troops were stopped. Hartford, co-chairman of the ventilating the area. soldier, center, is restrained 6y two Steven Slpos, 25. of 164 Maple St.. was sitting in the afternoon. Education Committee, called the citizens as troops tried to approach bill “ a declaration of war on living room watching television, when the lighting drugs and crime ... (and) also a - struck. He said he wasn’t aware the lightning hit his declaration of war on ignorance.” Air Quality knew it was close,” Sipos said. "It actually flew Sen. Frank D. Barrows, D- Pktrlck Flynn/M»nch««t»r Hefkio “I me out of the seat.” Sipos’ wife and ^year-old HARTFORD (AP) —"rii^tat^epartm en^ Hartford, said the boot camp concept, designed to scare first TOP SCHOLARS — Drew Pinto, left and Robert Norval, daughter were not home at the time of the fire. Environmental Protection said air quality was From page 1 Sipos said the only other person in the house was moderate to unhealthy Friday and was expected to time offenders into staying seniors at Bolton High School, have Sonya Zuromski. 21, of 162 Maple St. be good to moderate over the w e e k e n d . __________________ straight, would “ save lives, save valedictorian and salutatorian of the class of 1989. P'^to, young people ... (and help) Sipos alerted Zuromski of the fire, and they left About 300.000 people crowded into Tiananmen son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Pinto, of 23 School Road, will Government-run Beijing Radio reported today prevent them from becoming the home. Square on Friday evening when Ho Te-chien, a attend Yale University in the fall majoring in economics that three people were killed in the accident. The hardened criminals.” Youngsters delivering ■ newspapers during the singer from Taiwan who defected to China in 1983, Lottery official Beijing Daily newspaper said today that two Under the bill, the state Depart and political science. Norval, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter storm reported seeing blinding bolts of ''^htning and three others began a hunger strike atop the people were killed and two were seriously injured. ment of Correction would get $2 Norval. of 62 Spak Road, Stafford Springs, will attend strike the ground near 164 Maple Street and shortly martyrs’ monument in support of the students’ The newspaper said the police car was traveling million to start the program for Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the fall majoring in thereafter a neighbor spotted smoke coming from Connecticut daily Friday; 736. Play Four; 1075. 6-week-old campaign for democratic reforms. too fast on wet pavement but gave no other details. offenders aged 16 to 20. Correc the attic of the house. , * Connecticut Lotto Friday; 5, 21. 24, 28, 34, 38 About 1.000 helmeted soldiers jogged near aeronautical engineering. Witnesses said the accident occurred at about 11 tion Commissioner Larry R. “ It (the lightning).flashed right by myjeet • said Tiananmen Square on Friday in an effort to p.m. Friday. Meachum said earlier in the day Theresa. 11, of Manchester, who asked that her last intimidate students. that he had “ considerable reser name not be used. “ The flash was so bright I Index They were not the first deaths linked to the Premier Li Peng declared martial law on May 20 vations” about the idea because demonstrations. It was reported about two weeks to quell the burgeoning student-led protest move “ most of those programs have She was four houses away from the house that ago that a soldier was killed iu a traffic accident ment. but the declaration only triggered greater Pension ‘nightmare’ been abused. None of them have caught fire. involving troop m ovem ent- connected to the support for the students. 12-13 delivered on their promise.” Business — . 33-35 Opinion------------ In the days after martial law was declared, Stephen McDonough, 12, of 103 Downey Drive, ____32 protests. Another $500,000 would go to the Classified — . 35-42 People-------------- said he was at 201 Maple St. when he saw lightning . 14-15 The Beijing Independent Student Union, in an citizens surrounded military convoys on the state Department of Children and Comics ------ .