Seven years later, Pilot becomes Democraf joke: ^ j no hope for Hoff a a psychologist Iwho looks silly? ....page 10 ...page 11 ....page 4 Partly sunny, Manchester, Conn. warm and humid Saturday, July 31,-1982 — See page 2 Ifralb Single copy 25c Bryan petitions ask to join 8th District By Nancy Thompson between town and district officials, the district department is staffed by Herald Reporter with town officials claiming their volunteers while the town uses district counterparts were behind professional firefighters. ■ i More than 20 percent of the the drive in an attempt to increase In addition, Staye cited concern necessary signatures have been district tax revenues. that the first response to an alarm in collected on petitions to bring the Staye said Friday that the petition the Bryan Farms area comes from Bryan Farms area into the Eighth drive began after the political battle the town's Buckland fire station, Utilities District fire protection ser­ of words in March. making the maximum possible vice, an organizer of the petition “Shortly after the politicians got response four firefighters and two drive said Friday. finished battling it out, a few people fire trucks. Any additional aid has to Peter Staye, of 139 Bryan Drive, in the neiqhborhood got hold of me come from the center of town, said organizers began “hitting the and said they were interested,” lengthening response time, Staye streets and knocking on doors” with Staye said.. "We decided passing a said. petitions about 10 days ago. He es­ petition is a good thing to do" Staye also noted that the 911 timated they have between 20 and 25 Staye said the desire of emergency number does not serve percent of the approximately 110 neighborhood residents to switch the Bryan Farms area. siqnatures of neighborhood from town to district fire protection Staye referred to a letter dis­ homeowners needed to bring the is fueled both by monetary concerns tributed last week in the matter before the Eighth Utilities and by a perception that the neighborhood by town firefiqhters, Vif District's residents and Board of neighborhood is “abused” by the describing the town fire depart­ Directors. town and isolated from services ment, its standard procedures and Staye said nine people are in­ provided by the town fire depart­ the services offered. The letter was volved in the petition drive — none ment. an attempt to counteract the peti­ tion drive, Staye said. 'V of them officials of the Eighth Taxes would be lower in the Utilities District. He declined to Eighth Utilities District than in the The letter implies that paramedic reveal their names. The organizers town, Staye said. In March, town of­ service, which is scheduled to begin in 1983 under a program ad­ sr-’j' i/f / are all residents of the Bryan Farms ficials said fire taxes are about m m neighborhood, he said, calling the seven mills in areas covered by the ministered through the town tire Herald photo by Pinto petition drive a “grassroots” effort. town fire department and about two department, will not be available If Earlier this year, Staye’s dis­ mills in the areas covered by the the neighborhood joins the Eighth Corn on the job cussions with Bryan Farms’ Eighth District. District, Staye said. residents about a possible petition District officials have said the tax IMea..e turn to page 10 Jack Yanner and Stacey Spears sort corn at Botticello Farms on Hlllstown Road. drive prompted bitter exchanges differential is due to the fact that PLO pullout slated; Israel bombs; new truce set Before the cease-fire, rightwing by planes for the first time earlier in observe ‘a unilateral cease-fire.” bassador Habib to submit solid Thursday. By Vincent J. Schodolski The new fighting immediately proposals very soon, " he said, ad­ Salam released further details, United Press International Phalange radio said five Israeli the week in raids that killed 120 peo­ but a number of key points remained shells hit the already badly ple. Israeli artillery also joined in. threw into doubt what appeared to ding that “time is not uniimited. be a painstakingly negotiated agree­ But Prime Minister Menachem in dispute. Israel, for instance, so A Lebanese negotiator announced damaged Soviet embassy in west The darkened city echoed with the far has refused to end the siege of an agreement “in principle” Friday Beirut, while Palestinian shells sound of incoming and outgoing ment for the evacuation of 6,000 Begin abruptly postponed a scheduled visit to Zaire in what Beirut until the Palestinians leave. for Palestinian guerrillas to leave crashed into a television station in rounds as Palestinian gunners raced PLO guerrilias from Beirut. However, the agreement was con­ the Christian eastern sector. through the streets with their truck- Former Lebanese Prime Minister observers saw as a reaction to the Beirut within three weeks, but hours reported agreement even though sidered significant because it was later Israeli planes and gunboats The radio said Israeii bombers hit mounted anti-aircraft and recoiless Saeb Salam, the chief go-between for U.S. envoy Philip Habib and Arafat, Begin's spokesman insisted it was the PLO's first public, written bombarded the city before yet a unit of the Palestine Liberation artillery guns. pledge to leave Beirut. another cease-fire took effect. Army near the “green line” dividing “These barbaric and savage raids announced the agreement shortly not. before the raids and said he thought The six-point accord called for a But Arafat, en route to a meeting Just Vh hours after the Israeli the city, killing 18 fighters. against the women and children — it with Salam, was bitter about the planes, gunhoats and artillery began Beirut radio said the bombers also is the American gift to Beirut,” details could be worked out in time phased PLO withdrawal from for a PLO withdrawal within three Beirut through Syrian lines in the state of the negotiations and past hammering the besieged and struck an ammunition dump in PLO chairman 'Yasser Arafat said. week of Israeli air raids that oc­ blockaded capital, a new truce— the Bourj Barajneh refugee camp, There were no immediate casual­ weeks. eastern Bekaa Valley in returned “An agreement in principle is for an Israeli pullback from Beirut curred while Habib was touring the eighth of the 55-day-old war in while gunners hit the Bab Edris ty reports from the raids, which Middle East in search of countries Lebanon — took effect and the guns area where Palestinians have foilowed an Israeli warning that the already there and now it remains to and the establishment of a multi- latest two-day-old truce was on the work out the detail,” Salam said. nationai peacekeeping force. After to take in the Palestinians. fell silent. i statoned Grad rockets. Asked if Habib, who returned The fighting, which coincided with Earlier, Lebanese officials said verge of collapse because of Palesti­ In Israel, Foreign Minister that, the PLO guerrillas would be Yitzhak Shamir said before leaving dispersed to Syria, Jordan, Iraq and from Israel Wednesday, had brought reports of a possible breakthrough Israeli jetfighters pounded the nian violations. now proposals, Arafat said: “No, in negotiations to end the war, con­ Sabra refugee camp and Palestine The military command in Tel for the United States that Israel Egypt. would have to receive word of the The pact was worked out at an for me, no. tinued after dark. The night sky Liberation Organization offices in Aviv said PLO gunners had shelled “What he has brought is hell in the glowed bright orange with Israeli west Beirut. Israeli troops near Beirut Airport plan from Habib, not Lebanese Arab League meeting in Jeddah, Saudia Arabaa, and first word of the 10 days of his absence to the civilian flares and exploding shells and Gunboats shelled the uptown for the second straight day and negotiators. population of Lebanon, " he said. rockets. Rouche residential district, bombed warned ‘that Israel would not “The government expects am­ agreement was announced there on Sarah says CIA refutes charges Economic indicators stall; of Salvador meddling' leak is lie new houses cost $8.8,100 WASHINGTON (UPI) - WASHINGTON (UPI) — CIA resigned from the Foreign Service Maverick reporter Sarah McClen­ Director William Casey said Friday in 1981 after the Reagan adminlstra- don, who drew both fury and support the agency supplied invisible ink to tion recalled him from El Salvador, WASHINGTON (UPI) — The government’s leading economic indicators Friday showed a zero rate of LEADING (or publicly scolding President mark the wrists of voters in El Casey said White “placed a false change in June, and Commerce Secretary Malcolm Reagan, Friday called “a damned Salvador, but did not “meddle” in interpretation on a piece in The Wall Baldrige said that means initial economic recovery ECONOMIC lie " a story leaked later by the the March 28 elections. Street Journal of July 16 which White House on a report about sex In a letter to The New York reported me as saying, ‘For in- “is likely to be moderate,” INDICATORS The Commerce Department said its composite discrimination. Times, Casey refuted a charge by stance, we helped in the El Salvador Mrs. McClendon, a feisty veteran measurement of economic indicators was stationary ‘ I Robert White, former U.S. am- election. In Honduras, we put people M- willing to publicly chastise a presi­ bassador to El Salvador, that the through school and gave them in- in June after increases of 1.4 percent for April and 0.9 1351—r 127.9 percent for May that followed an 11-month string of dent if she thinks he , is not CIA "bragged that the Central struments that can detect how much UNCHANGED answering her question, also said Intelligence Agency has meddled in metal a truck is carrying.