W eekend: Singles Coventry: Planner insists he’s qualified / page 3 mingle at the Civic T Center / page 9 NFL: Little hope for quick settiement / page 23 aurlipstrr HrraiJi ManchRStRr - A City n! VillnijR Chdrm Friday,I iiw a j, Sept. 25, 1987IWOf 30 Cents S U.N. council Storyteller spins hunts way to modern-day tales B y IS E X1SIR: ‘ By Andrew J. Davis Clements is doing his best to try Herald Reporter to teach children such modern- end gulf war day morals. He said his stories jROPEI Children at Bowers Elemen­ are non-violent, non-sexist and tary School sat intently listening non-racist. UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The td a story about a blg-cjty ant. "These are children learning N»k 1 U.N. Security Council today dls- The children la u g h ^ and things." he said. Modem char­ ■ v .tl cusseg ways to end the Persian Gulf Related stories smiled as the storyteller acters, such as Rambo, don’t war, one day after the United States on page 7 weaved his carefully chosen teach children much about and the Soviet Union stressed the words, creating an image that P compassion, he said. importance of a common front in became a presence as the story He prefers to" tell his own stopping the conflict. grew longer. stories because stories of old Security Council President Obed 20 cease-fire resolution. But reports published today said “ Alfred the Ant" was the relate the values of the time Asamoah of Ghana summoned the big-city insect and Jehan Cle­ they were written. For exam­ IS council members for a noon the Reagan administration had backed off from its embargo ments was the storyteller. ple. in the fairy tale "Cinder­ consultation, and U.N. Secretary- Clements, 40, was at the ella.” women are portrayed In a •M4 General Javier Perez de Cuellar demand. On Thursday, Secretary of State school Thursday and will end his non-active, complacent role, he planned what he called a working two-day stay this afternoon. For said. luncheon today with the council's George P. Shultz and Soviet For­ eign Minster Eduard A. Shevard­ second-grade classes of Patri­ Clements said he wants child­ five permanent members — Bri­ cia M. Loftus and Susan Gessay, ren to use their imaginations. tain, China, France, the Soviet nadze stressed the importance of council unity on the issue. Neither Alfred the Ant was the highlight With radio, television and the Union and the United States. of their time with Clements. movies competing tor child­ The latter two are divided on how mentioned the embargo, which would require unanimous approval V As the story opens, Alfred Is ren’s attention, young people do to achieve a cease-fire. an ant who lives in Central Park not use their minds enough,, he Britain, angered by an Iranian by the five permanent council members. who finds himself inside a said. attack Monday on one of its Cracker Jack box thrown on the "Many things are visual to­ tankers, is the only permanent The Chicago Tribune and the .. ground by a visitor. I.ucklly, day," he said. "Kids don’t think. HO» member to Join the U.S. call for an Baltimore Sun today quoted uni­ Alfred and the box later are They don’t use their arms embargo against Iran, which dentified U.S. officials as saying thrown into the trash can by Imagination” has yet to accept the council’s July that, lacking a consensus, the United States temporarily with­ some sanitation workers. Alfred the Ant, though, is not drew its embargo demand. The moral of the story: keep the only story the Tarrytown, The Tribune said the unexpected the earth as clean as possible, N.Y., native knows. He had a U.S. shift was the result of hints Clements told the children, different story for each grade. Youth goes Tehran may be softening its condi­ Clements, who himself re­ It was clear he loves what he laytmajilmuin tions for halting the war — and sembles a storybook character does for a living. wsy tloliMs> on rampage, because of the apparent unwilling­ with his Santa Claus beard, said " I t ’s an art form," Clements Mra* Friday; ness of the Soviet Union and China his tales teach children said. “ It’s a kind of job I can do 2 to support the embargo at the “ modern-day" morals. all my life, (but) you have to moment. Htrald photo by Pinto “ Every day we’re dealing believe in what you’re doing.” kills family with more modern values,” he The children in the second- After meeting with Shevard­ said. “ We must concern our­ nadze for more than an hour, Shultz storyteller Jehan Clements visits Bowers Schooi grade classes also loved what selves ... with the environment. MARSHFIELD. Mo. (AP) - A said: “ We agreed on the impor­ Clements was doing. teen-age boy went on a rampage Thursday, enchanting students with his tale of Alfred the We must keep the earth in good “ It was good,” said student m « 2 7 9 tance of (cease-fire) Resolution 598 Ant. He concludes his two-day visit to the school this k9nlgtili,afidM this morning, fatally shooting his arid its full implementation ... and shape.” Jeremy Boyle. “ It made me feel BT ttwM 94-hour mother, three brothers and an aunt we both attach great importance to afternoon. And by telling his own stories. real happy." Fair before he was killed in a struggle our evident ability to work with with an uncle, authorities said. 5 unity on this very important NAS The boy’s father was missing and problem.’’ Count from *929 may have been shot, too, Webster County sheriff’s deputies said. A Shevardnardze told reporters the Plerct body was found about a mile from United States and the Soviet Union heart the shooting scene in rural southern have “ an agreement in principle Utility woes befall Vernon Street tion 1 * 2 9 9 and your Missouri, but was not immediately that we should work to preserve npokei m bonua axtraa. identified, authorities said. unity among the permanent Plei Investigators said the boy, des­ members of the Security Council.” Bv Bruce Matzkin phone Co. pole located between ject engineer who is supervising the water department, the homes were song cribed as age 14 or 15, apparently Kuwait said Thursday the Secur­ Herald Reporter Vernon Street and Knollwood Road project, said that the fallen pole is without water for only a short time. under got up early this morning and shot ity Council’s plan might be the last fell at 4:16 a.m. Wednesday, SNET's fault. He sa ljl^ e pole was DIMauro said that the main broke Thomi his mother and brothers. They said chance to end the 7-year-old war Wednesday’s fallen telephone causing 176 customers on Vernon, not planted deeply enough. when the tooth of an excavating Wedm he then drove about five miles to the between its neighbors. pole and broken water main and Knollwood, Lexington Drive and “ Officially, the contractor is shovel touched the side of the main. unit t( home of his aunt and uncle, where gas line are only the latest in the Scott Drive to lose power. Nor­ responsible for the project as a The main break created some mud. "History will hold us all accoun­ string of problems affecting the theast Utilities spokeswoman whole,” said DIMauro, “ But as for In which at least one car got stuck. his aunt was shot and killed before table, without mercy. If we fail to r b e tt avdr. the struggle between the boy and Vernon Street reconstruction pro­ Cheryl Duey said that 44 customers utility poles, the contractor has According to Vicki MIzIa of 430 ‘N i l ok you on exert the effort and pressure for its ject site. had power restored by 6:50 a.m., nothing to do with them. I don’t feel Vernon St.. Wednesday was not the his uncle. implementation," Sheik Sabah al- yontor toll The boy’s uncle was being treated Since the project to straighten and 41 more by 7:35 a.m. The the contractor Is responsible for the first time mud became a problem. NE I. Ahmed, Kuwait’s foreign minister, and widen hazardous parts of the remaining 89 homes went without utility company’s work. (8NET) “ They left a mess from last tline" at a Springfield hospital for stom­ told the General Assembly. 5NEYW0RLD ach wounds he suffered, deputies road began last summer, residents power until 5 p.m. has to back up their own work” Friday until Monday," said Mizla. “dim said. The United States has deployed a have been plagued by delays and Duey said that the pole fell Neither a spokesman for SNET “ The whole intersection of Vernon expir Sheriff Eugene Fraker said the large naval force in the Persian inconveniences. Detours, holes in because too much earth was nor Bristol Construction Co., the Street and Scott Road was a foot of Parai boy’s mother was found shot to Gulf to help protect 11 Kuwaiti the road, dust, and unsightly removed from around It. She also project contractor, could be mud.” Pai death by the milk barn at the family tankers from Iranian attack and construction materials in yards said that it is the responsibility of reached for comment this morning. According to DIMauro, Friday’s distri home near Elkland, about 25 miles keep shipping lanes open. On have angered residents. Wednes­ the contractor to support a pole Wednesday’s water main break, mud problem was caused by the Is see northeast of Springfield.