MANCHESTER CONNECTICUT SPORTS MCC gears up Murray Gold gets Carter kills Sox; for another year 25-year sentence lead is cut to ZV2 |MIQ0 3 ... page 11 anrhratrrManchester — A City ol Village Charm linnlh ^ ^ 25 Cents A Claims Morocco quits get tough Libya treaty U scrutiny over criticism Insurance crisis R ABAT, Morocco (AP) — King endangers town Hassan’s meeting July 22-23 in Hassan II said in a letter released Ifrane with Israeli Prime Minister G Friday that he was abrogating a Shimon Peres. By George Loyng 1984 treaty of union with Libya ■'The terms of the Syrian-Libyan Herald Reporter ■ because of Col. Moammar Gadha- communique, published ... at the fi’s criticism of a meeting last end of the visit of (Syrian) When a Glastonbury couple month between Hassan and Israeli President Hafez el-Assad to Libya, notified the town of Manchester Prime Minister Shimon Peres. do not allow our country to earlier this month that they Hassan said in the letter written continue on the path of the union of intended to sue over injuries their Thursday to Gadhafi that the states instituted with your coun­ teenage son suffered while using a criticism contained in a joint try,” Hassan said in the letter. rope swing at the Buckingham Libyan-Syrian statement issued Hassan became the only Arab Reservoir, it made some officials the day before had reached "the head of state outside Egypt to meet angry. threshold of the intolerable." publicly with the head of the The boy, Matthew Lawrence, He said it was not possible to Jewish nation. Libya and other was trespassing when the incident express the bitterness that he or hardline Arab states that oppose occurred in July, the officials said. the Moroccan people felt about Israel have sharply criticized the Signs were posted saying that abrogating the treaty. Ifrane meeting. swimming is not allow^, yet the The Libyan-Syrian statement The Moroccan-Libyan treaty youth apparently ignored the published Wednesday in Tripoli. was signed Aug. 13, 1984 in Oujda, warnings and injured himself Libyan capital, denounced the She Morocco, and was described at the while trying to swing over the " ‘treason of Ifrane,” a reference to time as a move toward the water on a rope. eventual union of the two North A number of town officials were African states. surprised that the boy's parents The treaty subsequently was planned to bring suit and have ratified by referendums in both vowed to fight any claim. The Test set countries and took effect the threat in this instance comes on the following Sept. 1, the 15th anniver­ heels of other cases in which sary of the coup that brought thousands of dollars in municipal Gadhafi to power. funds have been paid out for 3 for SDI It was Gtadhafi’s seventh at­ damage claims. tempt to merge with another Arab Since the issue of the suit arose, or African nation. The late Egyp­ attention has been focused on how tian President Gamal Abdel claims against the town are satellites Nasser first proposed a "Pan Arab handled, and whether the town has Union." and in 1958. Egypt and aggressively challenged claims it Syria joined to form the United considers to be unjustified. In CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Interviews with the Manchester Arab Republic. The union col­ — Two “Star Wars” satellites that lapsed three years later, but Herald, town officials said the will perform an orbital ballet will Gadhafi continued to push the idea municipality has taken to investi­ 0 be launched here next week aboard after he came to power in 1969. gating claims against it with a Delta rocket, sources reported Since then. Gadhafi has an­ special diligence. Friday. nounced mergers with Egypt. If the town pays a large damage The launch, expected next Algeria. Sudan. Syria, Chad and award, residents’ taxes could Thursday or Friday, will mark the conceivably increase. In Manches­ Tunisia, but none materialized. first flight of a Delta since it was His offer to unite with Malta also ter, claims settlements below $500,000 come directly out of grounded after a failure in May. It was rebuffed. also will be the first major space municipal coffers because of the “ Without taking into account the mission for the Strategic Defense inconvenience — real or suggested town’s self-insurance program. Initiative Organization, which — that our union of states was While the town currently has a manages President Reagan’s mis­ likely to generate, we attached $1.1 million fund to pay claims, sile defense program, popularly importance mainly ... to its posi­ taxpayers will be called on to Herald photo by Pinto known as Star Wars. tive and constructive aspect in the replenish it if it Is depleted. So far, The agency had hoped to keep way it could notably serve as an Manchester has saved "tens of the launch secret until a few hours example ... to the whole of our Showing their colors thousands of dollars” in premiums before liftoff, but word leaked through the self-insurance pro­ Arab-African community, which Ralph and Adrienne Johnson stand in Friday. needs so much to combine its the House" pages of today's issue of gram, according to Finance Direc­ The sources, who spoke on forces to face the multiple chal­ the garden of their Brookfield Street Weekend Plus magazine. tor Boyce Spinelli. condition they not be identified, lenges met internally and exter­ home. The pair are featured in the "On But the financial liability for said that after the three-stage nally.” Hassan wrote Gadhpfi. municipalities is greater today as Delta places the two satellites in a "It unfortunately happens that a result of the "insurance crisis,’’ low orbit they will separate and fly in this field, as well as in others, the officials have warned. Whether an intricate set of maneuvers as threshold of the intolerable is towns are more likely to lose in ^ they circle each other, using small attained.” the monarch said. Crackdown nets irate trucker court is a question still being thrusters to maneuver. "And it is. alas, what we are debated, but the perception that The objectives, they said, are to compelled to notein this moment." It’s easier to win has sparked more obtain data and to test guidance he wrote. “ Your declarations By Judd Everhart O’Neill said Friday during a state we have been running in the past.” claims. That, in turn, has led to and navigation systems. made it, unfortunately, The Associated Press Capitol news conference. Apparently, though, the frustra­ more out-of-court settlements. One element of the Star Wars ineluctable." "People who sit on juries have a The goveriipr announced the tion of driving through Connecticut defense system envisions scores of In a nationwide radio and traffic effort Aug. 22, one day after tendency to look at poor people who HARTFORD — A trucker who was too much for James D. space-based satellites equipped television address explaining his apparently was fed up with Con­ five tractor-trailer accidents killed have injuries ... and feel, ‘Oh, give Simeoni, 39, a tractor-trailer with lasers and other anti-missile action. Hassan said Morocco had necticut’s crackdown on unsafe one driver and injured five others. driver from Salem, N.H. them a million or two,'" said devices. Presumably the satellites been “loyal to the spirit of the Manchester Mayor Barbara B. truckers and speeders abandoned Since June 3, seven people have After being pursued by a state will track each other. Treaty of Union” He criticized the his rig in the express lane of an been killed in tractor-trailer acci­ trooper on Interstate 91 in North Weinberg. "Is that a gamble you A Delta lost first-stage thrust 71 countries that accused Morocco of interstate highway Friday, while dents in Connecticut. Haven for following a car too want to take?” seconds after liftoff here on May 3 treason for meeting with Peres. Gov. William O’Neill proclaimed “ I think it has been effective," closely, Simeoni parked his truck Often, the town will not take the and was blown up by the range The king said Gadhafi bad twice the week-old effort a success. O’Neill said of the crackdown. "All in the southbound, express <ane at 9 gamble and will settle out of court, 9 safety officer when it went out of refused to see Moroccan emissar­ “ We don’t intend to harass of the people in the state know a.m. during rush hour, lo^xed the said Town Attorney John W. control. Destroyed with the rocket ies. adding: " I don't wish any anybody, but we do intend to make something's taking place out brakes, left the vehicle and refused Cooney, who officially assumed was a $57.5 million weather harm to the Libyan people. I sure that people obey the law. We there. This is nothing new, this is a satellite. respect its aspirations." intend to continue to crack down,” more intensified campaign than Please turn to page 10 Please turn to page I Public Opinion Highlights CAMBRIDGE REPORTS U.S. Navy wants TODAY’S HERALD Service Quality cargo to Jump ship Delayed start Criterlum is Monday Labor Day weekend is the The New England Coors Light By Bob McHugh tion and an industry-wide reces­ traditional start of the fall political Exposition Wheelmen Criterium The Associated Press sion. say their demise would be campaign, but it will be another takes place on Monday, beginning hurried by losing what they claim week or so before townspeople at 9 a.m. at the Manchester WASHINGTON - The Navy, is the largest single source of cargo sparring over removal of the Industrial Park.