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Region's Congressnpen That's Entertainment: Panel Will Seek $10,000 Montreal Overtakes Assured Oil Adequate A Broadway Revival To Restore Hockey Rink Pittsburgh in NL Race Page 2 Page 7 Page 1 0 Page 1 1 iiaitrhfBtfr Rain Tonight, Ending Saturday Dstalls on pags 2 ft m u g M r r a l b Map Options Vol. XCVIII, No. 2^9 — Manchester, Conn., Friday, September 21, 1979 WASfflNGTON (UPI) - Press 1 A Family NEWSpaper Since 1681» 20$ Single Copy • 15$ Home Delivered secretary Jody Powell who said I President Carter had directed U.S. strategists to map out op­ 3wer tions that can be taken should the our hom e Russians refuse to puli th w com bat forces out of Cuba, said MCC Asks Thursday, "We are now prepared to go shortiy to the Soviets with KOVERAU specific proposais invoiving the It WINDOWS I situation." n b ir m io n Carter ruied out miiitary ac­ tion, as one highly piaced White ^ ’ S C R E E N I House officiai who asked not to be No Delays >WS identified, put it, "Obviousiy no ihh tlMM tugged, fully mather. one is considering an attack on Wide eelecdoii of diet end Cuba.” Early Thursday, several 1 Stock size windows) key senators warned the SALT II Oy Saving Price pact had little chance of Senate ratification as long as the Soviet .50 $20.50* combat brigade of 2,000 to 3,000 In Funding troops remains on the island. •mUCTIOIMUTURAL IHT DiasCTSD B Y By CHARLIE .\1AYNARI) will force reduction in the size of the SION PLASTIC Herulil Rcporler building or increase the costs of the YUOHT DOUeU-DOME Guard Duty IUUTEDETC.SAVE20% MANCHESTER -O fficials present design. WASHINGTON (UPI) - Late from Manchester Community No. DL SSM Thursday afternoon four Secret In contrast, state higher education REa 219.00 Service agents entered Sen. College and at least three other officials have said there is intense SALE Edward M. Kennedy’s office by a community colleges will ask competition for the capital improve­ $17520 side door to begin round-the-clock the Board of Higher Education ment funds and that there isn't guard duty that will continue until enough to go around during the up­ IDL 3052 next week to rescind a decision coming legislative session. REQ. 288.00 he leaves the presidential race or to delay capital improvement SALE *230.40 wins it. The protection was funding for one year, an MCC Other affected institutions include ordered by President Carter Quinebaug Valley Community because of threats received by spokesman said Thursday. RMICULITE College in Danielson, Norwalk Com­ Kennedy since he began sounding Carroll Maddox, director of munity College and Housatonic Com­ like a presidential candidate. College Relations, said $11.5 million munity College in Bridgeport. The Kennedy said, “I accept Presi­ The Connecticut Lung Association wants to Meriden (left) and Donna Copobianco of East for the construction of college committee has recommended dent Carter’s generous offer of get rid of all toll booths because of “lethal” Hartford man booths on the Charter Oak relations, said $11.5 million for the projects totaling $25.5 million be Secret Service protection and I asbestos particles released from brake and Bridge. (UPI photo) construction of MCC's permanent reduced in scale or delayed until deeply appreciate his action in clutch linings. Here, Mary Ann Laraia of campus is included in that amount. fiscal 1981 or fiscal 1982. this matter.” Presidential press The board's finance and facilities secretary Jody Powell told committee recommended Sept. 12 to Maddox said the college is working Kennedy’s spokesman, Tom ask the General Assembly to release to have plans completed by late Southwick, "We’re glad to do it. the funds in fiscal 1982 rather than January or early February. Once the Tell him the most important thing fiscal 1981, which begins next July. working drawings have been ap­ about security is to say nothing Asbestos Said Lethal proved by the state, and assuming The full board must vote on the I about it.” CHUTE committee recommendation next the bond money is in place, Maddox Tuesday when it meets at 3 p.m. At said the college could conceivably go noN The Economy that time, Maddox said, an amend­ out to bid and have a contract signed SALE PRICE London: Gold soared to an all- At State Toll Booths ment is expected to be introduced by June. time high again ’Thursday, the which wpuld restore the appropria­ fiber. It smolders there and creates 03.59 10th time in the last 14 days, and By JACQUELINE HUARD The toll booth issue is one of tion to the fiscal 1981 budget. “If not, " he said, "we're looking at pathological changes. It’s a very money. The Connecticut Turnpike a 12 to 14 percent inflation rate in the the dollar dropped to its lowest HARTFORD (UPI) - Cars and lethal, insidious and horrible dis­ was built before the federal govern­ "This will be a concerted effort by construction industry. That-either mark this year on some European trucks puff out two tons of lethal ease,” he said. “Stopping and star­ ment began subsidizing highway con­ the community colleges to get this reduces the size of the building or in­ markets. asbestos fibers each year simply by ting is an excellent environment for struction. The state bonded the cost I appropriation) back into the up­ creases the cost of another one" Tokyo: The U.S. dollar con­ braking at Connecticut toll stations. the release of asbestos. We know it’s coming session, " said Maddox. tinued downward against the and doesn't plan to pay it off until And that’s not counting the. 10 tons there. Everyone waiting in the toll 1991. Maddox said the proposal has the Japanese yen today, closing the that escapes in manufacturing. MCC officials, who have waited lines is inhaling this.” The reason it's taking so long is support of key legislative leaders and week at 221.40 yen, down from The high asbestos levels at toll throughout most of the decade to The “insidious” nature of asbestos, that of the estimated $30 million the governor. Any delay, he said. 222.35 at Thursday’s finish. plazas are caused by erosion of brake start construction, have criticized 1.88 an umbrella word for fibrous silicate collected at Connecticut tolls, only a Could be “potentially damaging to I Trading was heavy. linings and clutch facings, which con­ the delay because they feel inflation us." Chicago: Citipg the “severe minerals, is that its effects take 20 to fraction is used to reduce the bond tain large amounts of the material 30 years to appear. I effects” harvesting farmers are debt. The rest is turned over to for strength and heat resistance. Leonard Bruckman of the Depart­ suffering because of a Rock general state revenues. Dr. Richard Imbruce, a pulmonary ment of Environmental Protection’s Imbruce wants it paid off more Island Line strike. President physiologist at Norwalk Hospital, has air compliance unit said the agency Carter has ordered workers on the quickly. One thing he'd like to see is a URBAN ELECTRIC BUS seen asbestos-related cancers in 1975-1976 tested two sites at the law requiring toll booth revenues, bankrupt railway back to work for ranging from lung can cer to Madison toll plaza, two places at except for what's needed to maintain I a 60-day, cooling-off period. mesothelioma, a rare form that Norwalk and one location at the the stations, used to reduce the debt. Detroit: Chrysler Corp. direc- affects the lung and stomach linings. Stratford station. To make up the revenue lost once I tors have given Lee A. lacocca * He’ll be leading the Connecticut full executive control of the cor­ Asbestos levels were high at all the toll booths are phased out, Im­ Lung Association’s 1980 battle to con­ five sites, especially at Stratford poration and his own team of bruce suggests tbe state add a vince the Legislature to shut down where the concentrations were com­ former Ford Motor Co. cohorts to nominal sum to license fees. the state’s toll booths and find pounded by asbestos fibers released I mastermind its resurgence. It would be a cut-rate price for another way to collect highway from an industrial source, he said. reducing the public's exposure to a Chicago: The First National revenue. “Even at Madison, which is in the carcinogenic, he said. I Bank of Chicago and the Harris The biggest problem, said Im­ w middle of nowhere, you had higher “The health problems are very •OUOfTATE Bank, have announced prime rate bruce, is at six toll stations on levels,” Bruckman said. MVKirrER/CONTWM. 9at)>birsill(i{EWioilthe increases of .25 percent to 13.25 serious,” he said. Besides the tsQors'U^ sflect to the Interstate 95— Greenwich, Norwalk, The federal Environmental Protec­ asbestos fibers, motorists waiting in percent, highest in the history of Stratford, West Haven, Branford and DC TKACTION MOTOR iqus design 'with Eide tion Agency has never set limits on line at toll booths are exposed to car­ I both banks. Madison. There are two other tolls on i 8 firebox top^thet or- safe asbestos levels. The state bon monoxide and carbon particles ber to retain vyarmth. A the Conriecticut Turnpike and four at proposed its own standard — 30,(KM from tires. various bridges. tregtetesforTingsrtip Energy Update fibers per cubic meter of air, or one But Imbruce said the Legislature It makes Imbruce nervous just to billionth of a gram — but the stan­ and public will need convincing.