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FRIDAY LOCAL NEWS INSIDE a n r l | r H t F r ■ College gets new programs. • Professors sees medecine in China. ■ Hebron to seek money for new van. What'S News ■ Coventry bus schedules announced. August 17, 1990 Local/Regional Section Deposed ruler Vbur Hometown Newspaper Voted 1990 New England Newspaper of the Year Newsstand Price: 35 Cents campaigns GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Retired Gen. Efrain Rios Montt, who took power after a 1982 military coup but was Family details ovcrtlirown a year later, has signed up as a presidential can didate in a November election. His action Thursday conflicts with Supreme Court and con Kuwait escape gressional rulings that he is in eligible to run because of the military coup. y By BRIAN M. TROTTA Middle East for a little more than a T Manchester Herald year, working for the Kuwaiti Mini- President asks suy of Agriculture. Jamal, who was bom in Libya and is a naturalized Far Jamal Al-Hcnaid and his wife for cooperation Lynne, their ninth wedding anniver citizen of the U.S., says he took the SANTO DOMINGO, sary will be one forever etched in job because no one in the U.S. was Dominican Republic (AP) — their minds. in need of someone with a Ph.D. in weed sciences. Setting out on his sixth term in It was at 2:45 p.m. on Tuesday office. President Joaquin Lynne and their four children; that Jamal, Lynne, their four Balagucr has asked Dominicans children, Lynne’s 13-ycar-old sister, Saleh, 8; Mabrookah, 7; Malik, 2-1/ \ to cooperate with an austerity Beth Kingsbury and their aunt, Jean 2; and Janan, 6 months; had left their home in Coventry April 26 to plan that touched off deadly Kingsbury, returned to the United protests this week. join Jamal. They were just getting States after dodging bullets and Balagucr, 83 and blind from racing across a scorching desert to settled into their new life. glaucoma, defended his austerity If' i escape from Iraqi forces that had in Beth Kingsbury, a 13-ycar-old plan during the ceremony vaded Kuwait and ransacked their Manchester resident, was in Kuwait Thursday. home. visiting her sister Lynne along with “I don’t really remember number her aunt, Jean Kingsbury. The two eight,” Lynne said of her wedding had arrived in Kuwait on July 19 Prison inmates ^ m anniversary. “But it was a wonderful and had planned to spend two weeks plead guilty way to celebrate [their ninth an with their family. But just a few O ^ HARTFORD (AP) — Three niversary] by being home.” days before they were scheduled to 2 CD Somers State Prison inmates She spoke during a press con leave, Saddam Hussein, ruler of Reginald Pinto/Manchester Herald have pleaded guilty to assaulting ference Thursday afternoon at a nearby Iraq, changed their travel guards in a melee last Decem home her family owns in Coventry. plans. H ber, accepting a pica bargain just S The Al-Hcnaids and other family O before a jury was lo be picked ^ members related their harrowing es The invasion for their trial. T rn cape to about 20 members of the Lynne Al-Henaid, holding About 5:30 a.m. on Thursday, John Anderson, 21, John Nar- media. her daughter Janan, Jamal ducci, 20, and Francis Anderson, Jamal said he had been in tlie Please see ESCAPE, page 6. Al-Henaid and Beth 24, pleaded guilty in Superior Court Thursday lo charges stem Kingsbury describe their ming from a Dec. 27 fight in the harrowing escape from sepegation unit that resulted in Kuwait yesterday as Malik U.S., Iraq troops injuries lo five guards. Al-Henaid (below) looks on One of diose guards, Percival Miller, who had been slashed in from his toy car tlic face by Anderson in the pour into Gulf December melee, was injured again Wednesday in another in cident involving an inmate, state By SIDNEY S. FEINGOLD The Uniled States and some Arab police sai'k The Associated Press countries have poured thousands of troops into Saudi Arabia since Iraq Police raid U.S. and Iraqi jets played cat and invaded oil-rich Kuwait Aug. 2 and mouse, Saddam Hussein stepped up massed forces near the Saudis’ nor drug house a war of words and President Bush thern border. CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (AP) expressed pessimism Iraqi forces U.S. Defense Department spokes — Police say they believe an al would pull out of Kuwait, while a man Pete Williams said Iraq has leged drug house they raided is miliuiry buildup and economic em pursued its anned forces buildup in connected lo the killing of a man Conn, dollars go toward bargo intensified in the Persian Gulf. Kuwait and its troops there now whose decomposed body was President Bush on Thursday or number about 160,000. The Iraqis found in a Lincoln sewer earlier dered U.S. naval commanders to use have ringed Kuwait City with an this month. “the minimum force necessary” to air-defense system, a U.S. official The tip that led lo the raid defense, not housing interdict shipments to and from Iraq. reported, speaking on condition of also helped police identify the That could include firing across the anonymity. man, who was shot, but police By MELISSA B. ROBINSON ing and communiiy groups, said in The campaign urged Congress to bow to halt a ship. The United States plans to send had not released the name be Herald Washington Bureau its report that tlic lack of affordable pass the comprehensive affordable But American efforts to squeeze 45,000 Marines to back soldiers, air cause relatives had not been housing in tlie United Slates is housing legislation it has worked on the Iraqi president wiili a trade em personnel and sailors already in notified. Deputy Police Chief WASHINGTON — About $71 of reaching crisis proportions. diis year. bargo could run into trouble. The place in the Persian Gulf and Saudi John Fram said today. the $3,600 paid by the average Con The campaign — though it did In response to questions about the United Nations chief said military desert. Pentagon sources said. necticut household in federal in not directly call for specific cuts in poor condition of many public hous enforcement of U.N. sanctions U.S. Air Force pilots in Saudi Amoco, Unocal come tax last year went to support defense spending cuts — largely ing projects in die nation, Barry against Iraq requires U.N. approval. Arabia said they engaged in “a little housing programs, according to a blamed die problem on the U.S. Zigas, a campaign co-chairman, ar Also Thursday, thousands of cat and mouse” with Iraqi lift price freeze new housing report released government pouring vast amounls of gued dial innovative provisions in foreigners fled Iraq. Iraqi authorities warplanes, which retreated after NEW YORK (AP) — Two oil Thursday. The report said the bulk money into tlic Pentagon over the the legislation, such as those to help in Kuwait ordered the 2,500 weapons rad;u locked onto them. companies that had frozen of the tax money — nearly $2,500 years, instead of into low-income low-income tenants buy their hous Americans to assemble at a hotel be One U.S. crew chief remarked, housing assistance programs. wholesale fuel prices as con pier household — went to support ing units, should create more suc cause of “unspecified threats,” but “They don’t want to play with us.” sumers cried foul over steep in the military and to make interest and The lack of low and moderate-in few complied, said a senior U.S. of cessful federally-assisted housing. Saddam wrote Bush an open letter creases at the pump lifted the debt payments. come housing was created by a ficial in Washington. The order drew The housing bills, which have moratorium, citing competitive Nationwide, $51 of tlic $2,723 “dccadc-long federal decision to ab passed both die House and Senate, international criticism. Please see GULF, page 5. pressure. paid by tlic average homeowner in dicate iUs federal role in housing and and are now awaiting final action by Spokesmen for the Amoco federal income lax went to housing instead put its money into a massive a conference committee diis fall, Corp. and Unocal Corp. declined programs. About $1,800 went to the arms build-up,” said Greg Specter, would for die first dmc in a decade lo say whether the onc-wcek miliutry, and to interest and debt director of die National Priorities expand the federal govcnimcnl’s price freezes caused losses. payments. Project, a non-profit research group role in providing housing. More gas won’t Amoco and Unocal said tlicy The Housing ‘90 Campaign, a based in Amherst, Mass., and one of would monitor prices daily and coalition of national and local hous the report’s chief writers. Plea.se see HOUSING, page 5. tliat increases were possible. decrease prices Experts search On-the-job homicide is and tlicir company not be iden By DIRK BEVERIDGE tor remains tified. The Associated Press BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) Although that comes close to — Vietnam has shown tlie 4 million btirrcls lost daily be NEW YORK — U.S. gasoline American military experts 70 leading killer of women cause of the intemaiional embargo prices will probably remain higher sets of remains of what the Viet of Iraq and Kuwait, tJic exua even if foreign producers make up namese believe could be missing By ROBERT BYRD “If a woman’s going to die from The killings peaked in tlie winter crude might not suit U.S.