Your neighbors’ views: Chris Corneau’s pals Legion squads Are the bridge safe? '«Li are pulling for him wind up even ... page 3 page 11 ... page 15 Mixture of clouds Manchester, Conn. and sunshine today Saturday, July 2, 1983 — See page 2 r Brralb Single copy: 25<t Court divided on bias! By Elizabeth Olson United Press International Bv Hugh Pope WASHINGTON - People using United Press International a key federal civil rights law to stop racial discrimination by cities BAR ELIAS, LeBanon — Rival or agencies that get federal money Palestinian guerrillas held their need only prove they were victims fire Friday despite the apparent of bias, not that it was intentional, failure of Arab mediation to end a the Supreme Court ruled Friday. conflict that has smashed Yasser The seriously divided court, Arafat’s control of the Palestine ruling in a bias suit involving the Liberation Organization. New York City police force, said In Jerusalem, Middle East en­ proving a disputed practice had a voy Philip HaBiB met for an hour discriminatory effect is enough to with Prime Minister Mcnachem persuade a Judge to order the Begin amid reports that Israel has practice stopped and even to strip turned down an American prop­ such groups of federal support. osal that it leave LeBanon before However if a victim wants such Syrian and PLO forces. money benefits as back pay, he • ' 4 There was no official Israeli then must prove there was inten­ comment on the reported U.S. tional discrimination motivating 0 proposal for a phased unilateral the disputed practice. It is much withdrawal from LeBanon But harder legally to prove intentional Israel radio quoted one ' Israeli discrimination than to show a official as describing it as a "total practice hurt minority groups non-starter.” more than others. The radio reported that the Splitting at least five ways, th^ Israeli military command has majority upheld a federal appeals three alternative plans to redeploy court ruling denying back pay and . - and entrench the nation's forces in 'j • irTSffaiM-ig other benefits to Hispanic and ;W . r - ■■ secure areas of LeBanon. It said black policemen who sued the city the Begin Cabinet may debate the after they were laid off in 197S. Herald photo by Torquinlo redeployment on Sunday. The court's conclusions were so Pays no heed "The plans indicated readiness fragmented that Justice Lewis on Israel’s part for a^ong slay in Powell, who agreed with, the the area of redeplo^ent,” the outcome, noted, "Our opinions A barn cat rests and ignores the unthreatening but Peracchlo's Farm on Route 44 in Coventry. radio said. LeBanon orooses the relatively gigantic cyws eating hay behind it on the today will further confuse rather move because it could result in a than guide." partitioning of the country Be­ The nine justices actually voted tween Syrian and Israeli forces, 5-4, but split into a series of shifting Algerian and Saudi Arabian alliances that produced sharply envoys left Damascus Friday conflicting results. O’Neill inspect bridge work without meeting Syrian President The ruling is not likely to be the Hafez Assad, who expelled Arafat final word on the controversy from Syria last week after the surrounding Title VI of the 1964 /' Beleaguered guerrilla chief Civil Rights Act, which bans racial GREENWICK^ (UPI) - Gov. roadway with access By ramps, around the turnpike, which is found By state police divers and charged that Damascus was aid­ bias in any program receiving William O'Neill inspected work should Be in place within two Interstate 95, one of the nation's whirh may Be to blame for the ing the PLO rebels. federal funds. Friday on a temporary replace­ weeks. busiest roadways. collapse. The 7-inch diameter pins Diplomatic sources said the Seven justices, including three ment for a 100-foot section of the Inspectors, meantime, were col­ The estimated 90,000 vehicles are inserted in opposite ends of AraB mediators had hoped to dissenters, appeared to feel viola­ Connecticut Turnpikd bridge over lecting debris and fragments in a that use the highway daily were 4-foot hangers holding beams arrange a mini-summit under tions of Title VI require minorities the Mianus River that collapsed Darien warehouse to rebuild the diverted to U.S. 1 or elsewhere. together at four points in the their auspices between Arafat and Tuesday, killing three people. collapsed bridge section, seeking Motorists were allowed toll-free expansion Bridge. prove discriminatory purpose. But Assad in the Saudi resort town of the court endorsed regulations on The final panels of a 190-foot, to find out what made it fall 70-feet passage on the MERRITT Park­ State transportation inspectors Tail early next week. the books .that make it easier for two-lane section arrived Friday into the river. way until the temporary bridge discovered loose joints under re­ The PLO Executive Committee, minorities to win suits based on from Acrow Corp. of Carlstadt, O'Neill also met with highway opens. maining sections of the Mianus ending a two-day meeting in Tunis, discriminatory effect. N.J. The steel plate and girder and traffic officials about rerout­ Metallurgical tests were Being overpass after the collapse and dispatched a mediation team to span, to extend 10-feet above the ing July 4 holiday weekend traffic hurriedly began an inspection of Justice Byron White, who wrote conducted on three of four pins- Damascus to negotiate an end to the majority opinion, said a federal about 68 other bridges in the state. the 7-week dispute that erupted New York stopped using the pin'v. appeals court in Manhattan "erred into two more days of Bitter in requiring proof of discrimina­ and hanger designed 15 years ago ^lighting this week. and has reinforced at least four tory intent." Man Charged In assault, robbery /* The battles, ended By a cease­ that did use it, said John K. fire Thursday was still holding into But unless such "discriminatory animus is proved," individuals Mladinov, executive deputy com­ Friday, left rebels in control of One of three men accused of night in lieu of a 52,500 cash Bond. with a razor and partially re­ missioner of transporation. suing may only get "non­ tying, stripping, whipping, sexu­ According to the warrant affi­ most PLO positions in Lebanon's compensatory relief" — no back moved, the affidavit said. When “Our bridge engineers found eastern Bekaa Valley and planning ally assaulting and roBbing a davit's account of the incident she again refused to reveal the that the pin and hanger design was pay nor retroactive seniority — for 20-year old woman of unemploy­ based on the victim's complaint, location of the money, beer was a push north against Arafat unintentional violations of Title VI, ■fracture critical’," Mladinov said. loyalists in the port city of Tripoli. ment money was arrested Friday she entered her apartment on Main poured over her head, the affidavit Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn., he held. night on three felony counts and a Street at about 8; 45 p.m. and found said. Arafat, who presided over the The "mandate of Title VI is very misdemeanor charge, police said also inspecting assembly of the* Tunis meeting boycotted By PLO four men and one woman inside. She was then sexually assaulted, replacement section, said Inter­ simple, stop the discrimination, Friday. They started talking about her an act that involved the use of a dissidents, was not a memBer of get the money; continue the state 95 is a state, not federal road, the conciliation group. Edward R. Steele, 21, of 15M having money because she had stick, and he was also whip^d but he will try to persuade U.S. discrimination, do not get the Forest St., was charged By Man­ received an unemployment check, across her back five times with a "We want as lillle Bloodshed as money," White said. Transportation Secretary Eliza­ possible." said a PLO reBel chester police Friday night on a and when she refused to tell them rawhide strip, the affidavit said. beth Dole to help pay to fix it. In other actions Friday, the warrant with first-degree sexual where the money^as, one of the manning a lank in the Bekaa town After the assault and Beating, ‘Tve got my fingers crossed and of Bar Elias, explaining the revolt court: assault, second-degree roBBery, men grabbed her By her neck and according to the documents, she "• Vindicated Wall Street analyst we're working on it, but 1 don't was "not against Arafat ■ But first-degree unlawful restraint, all pushed her onto the floor, the told her assailants where to find want to do anything that gives any Raymond Dirks, who uncovered felony charges, and third-degree affidavit said. the money. against his policies, " which the one of the biggest business frauds false hopes," he said. rebels charge are loo soft toward assault,.a Class A misdemeanor. A second man then dragged her They collected $108, and untied Killed- in the accident were in history, ruling 6-3 he did not Police said they expect two more across the floor to a couch and told Israel. her to minutes later. Harold W. Bracy Jr., 45, of Slidell, deserve to be punished for tipping arrests connected with the June IS a third man to get a cord and tie her It was unclear from the affidavit His unit was one of few visiBle stockholders about the 1973 Equity La., and Luis Zappata, 31, and guerrilla forces in the area that incident. hands. whether the other two persons left Reginald K.