One-man performance a lesson in alcoholism By Maureen Leavitt ing to keep his precarious world Manchester Herald together because of his alcoholic father, captivated the majority of COVENTRY — Scrapper’s life the students during the hour-long was a struggle all because his dad performance. A loved the bottle. The program was sponsored by About 130 students at Coventry the Coventry Youth Services and High School saw Scrapper’s story unfold before them Tuesday the Coventry Council for the Prevention of Student Drug and during a performance called Alcohol Abuse. It was funded by a "Hard Knocks.” In the program, A actor Jackson Gillman of Maine grant from the state Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission. carried on a conversation with the imaginary Scrapper and After the presentation, stu­ Scrapper’s father, Frank. dents had the chance to be frank Gillman portrayed both roles in and discuss their views about a one-man performance that was alcohol abuse along with a panel Patrick Flynn/Manchaater Herald designed to teach students about of three students and four the disease of alcoholism. members of the faculty. GASPING FOR AIR — Actor Jackson Gillman, of sophomore students at Coventry High School Gillman’s compelling por­ Maine, looks as if he’s starved for air as he performs a Tuesday. Gillman also performed a more serious skit trayal of young Scrapper, fight­ See ALCOHOL, page 12 comical skit about drug abuse for freshman and about a family struggling with an alcoholic father. Y manrhpBlpr IrralJi Wednesday, May 10, 1989 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm Newsstand Price: 35 Cents Directors OK Troop use lease concept, question terms in Panama By Nancy Concelman Manchester Herald Members of the Board of Directors approved Tuesday the concept of a two-year extension of the is doubtfui lease with the Manchester Country Club for the town-owned golf course land. By Rita Beamish But directors questioned some of the conditions Richard Lugar, R-Ind., a senior The Associated Press the club requested. member of the Senate Foreign The board asked Town Attorney John W. Cooney Relations Committee, said on and Town Manager Robert B. Weiss to discuss the Washington - President NBC-TV’s "Today” show this wording of the lease extension with representatives Bush is calling on democratic morning. , “The opposition in of the Manchester Country Clubbefore anything is allies to rally against Panama’s Panama is counseling calm, and signed. Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, they’re in the best position to Club representatives have also approved the but U.S. officials are playing know." concept of the two-year extension at a rent of $75,000 down talk of an American mil­ Bush would not say what per year. The club’s existing 25-year lease expires in itary response to what they call a actions he was considering in the 1991. fraudulent election in the Central wake of what he called a American nation. Some golfers have said the town should abandon fraudulent election that nonethe­ the short-term lease and negotiate a long-term In considering the scope of less was won by anti-Noriega lease. But negotiators for the town. Republican measures, officials ranging from forces. director Geoffrey Naab and Democratic (iirectors Panama's opposition candidate, “The Panamanian people have Guillermo Endara, to Peru’s spoken, and I call on General Kenneth N. Tedford and James F. Fogarty, have said they’ll wait for the results of a study on the President Alan Garcia and Noriega to respect the voice of the former President Carter cauti­ people, and I call on all foreign feasibility of adding 18 holes to the course for a total of 36 before negotiating a long-term lease. oned against U.S. troop leaders to urge General Noriega involvement. to honor the clear results of the Club and town negotiators are now studying possible layouts for additional holes. Bush and his advisers kept election," the president told Resident Wallace J. Irish, a member of a group of alive the prospect of military reporters. intervention Tuesday by saying Bush was briefed Tuesday by golfers called Friends of Golf, said today the group all options were being consi­ two election observer groups is pleased that the town administration is moving forward with plans for the new course and is dered. Administration officials including one headed by Carter, '-.Aai said privately, however, that just back from Central America including country club representatives in the such a unilateral step was after monitoring Sunday’s review of those plans. Irish has said FOG members would rather see a unlikely. elections. "I don’t think it’s necessary to long-term lease than a two-year extension. "I don’t think Friends of Golf are going to be take action immediately,” Sen. See PANAMA, page 12 totally happy until a long-term relationship between Manchester Country Club and the town administra­ tion is signed, sealed and delivered.” Irish said. Baker is ‘pleased’ Several directors said Tuesday they did not fully understand the implications of two of the three conditions the club has insisted putting in the lease extension. with start of talks Under one condition, if the town decides to add 18 holes to the existing 18-hole course, it would be required to negotiate with the club on a long-term By Barry Schweld their aid to the Sandinistas in lease allowing the club to operate 18 of the holes as a The Associated Press Nicaragua, which amounted to semi-private club. $500 million last year. The Soviets Cooney said Tuesday the definition of semi­ MOSCOW — U.S. Secretary of also raised Afghanistan, a topic private is not clear. State James A. Baker III held his Baker had no intention of bring­ But Naab said the Town Charter allows the town first round of talks today with ing up because the Kremlin is to lease the land as long it is available for public use. demanding the United States halt Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Under the current lease, the public may u.se the A. Shevardnadze and they jointly its military aid to Afghan rebels. course upon payment of greens fees. pledged to produce "good re­ In both countries, Marxist Fogarty and Democrat Barbara B. Weinberg sults” for superpower relations. governments have Soviet sup­ questioned the wording of the third condition, which The two-hour, 45-minute ses­ port, while the United States is sion at a Foreign Ministry man­ backing the insurgents — with says the club may increase dues or greens fees as needed during the extension to cover increased rent. sion established goals and ground weapons through Pakistan for the rules for four working groups that Mujahadeen and with non-lethal Cooney said the current lease requires the opened discussions on arms con­ aid to the Contras in Nicaragua. 1 directors’ approval, but Weinberg and Fogarty said According to Gerasimov, trol, human rights, regional prob­ it sounds as if the club wants to bypass that approval lems and direct U.S.-Soviet Baker and Shevardnadze also process. relations. discussed U.S. Defense Secretary Naab suggested that the board wait to approve the "We are very pleased with the final lease until a proposed lawsuit against the town Patrick Flynn/Manchaatar Herald way things started,” Baker said. See TALKS, page 12 is filed and the town determines its potential effect DOUBLE IMAGE — Clara Knox of Storrs studies for finals Tuesday at Gennady I. Gerasimov, a For­ on the lease. Manchester Community College's Lowe Program Center. A mirror eign Ministry spokesman, said Baker and Shevardnadze, at the See GOLF, page 12 image of Knox is cast in the window behind her. request of the American side, TODAY concentrated on regional con­ flicts, including the Middle East. Index Central America and 24 pages, 2 sections House debates stronger death penalty Afghanistan. "Dealing with regional prob­ B u sin e ss_____17 N atlon/W orld_7-9 By Peter Vlles abused as a child. Several lawmakers who spoke lems will enable us to get the last Classified _ 22-24 Obituaries______ 2 Roll call, page 12 The Associated Press The law that the House will in favor of rejecting the commit­ of the Cold War behind us and C o m ic s ______20 O p in io n ___ 10-11 debate would allow juries to tee report — and debating the move into a new stage of our F o cu s_________IS P e o p le ________ 18 relationship,” Gerasimov said. F oo d_________ 19 S cie n ce ___22 HARTFORD — The House of penalty. The bill now goes to the weigh mitigating factors against death penalty — said it was He said the subject of short- Local/State Sports ____13-16 Representatives has cleared the legislative commissioner’s office aggravating factors. Under the important for the issue to be way for what promises to be a for a final review, and probably proposed law, the jury might find, discussed. range missiles in Europe did not _________ 2-6, 12 T e le vislo n ____ 21 lengthy and emotional debate on will be back on the House agenda for example, that although the come up. L o tte ry _________ 2 W eather________ 2 whether Connecticut’s death pe­ within two weeks. defendant was abused as a child, “I want to say that I oppose the The two sides found common death penalty, but I think the nalty should be made easier to Under the state’s current law, he committed the crime in an ground on Central America, issue should be heard on this impose.