■ 't-' (•>>-,! MANCHESTER EJ.S./WORLD SPORTS Heritage lawsuit Hostage plea fails " ^ Mets’ Aguilera 4 called ‘asinine’ to sway Reagan now chipping in ... page 3 ... page 7 .. page 9 ManrhpstrrManchester — A City of Village Charm Hrral^ Monday, July 28, 1986 25 Cents ^ 26, 1986 Car bomb kills dozens in Xebanon By Rodelna Kenaan Civil Defense rescue teams, fire The Associated Press engines and ambulances crowded the scene of the blast. Christian BEIRUT, Lebanon — A car radio stations broadcast urgent bomb exploded in a densely appeals for blood donations. populated area of Christian east Police said the car, a Mercedes- Beirut during morning rush hour Benz parked near the movie today, killing at least 32 people, theater, was laden with an esti­ wounding 140 and trapping many mated 200 kilograms, or 440 others in blazing buildings, police pounds, of TNT. said. " I was ironing family clothes Firefighters scaled mobile when it happened,” Mrs. Ghattas ladders to the upper floors of seven said in a telephone interview. "I apartment houses that were set on felt as if my eardrums were split as fire by the blast, and rescued more window glass shards fell all around than 30 women and children. me.” Tenants shouted for help from Police said at least 32 people upper balconies and roofs. were killed and 140 wounded, the highest casualty toll in a car Rescuers hunted for at least bombing this year. A car bomb seven people feared buried in blast on Jan. 21 killed 30 people and debris toppled by the blast’s wounded 133. concussion. A total of 63 people were killed "My brothers, my two broth­ and 405 wounded in the previous ers! ’’ screamed Josiane Azar as five car bombings in east Beirut rescuers pulled two bodies out of this year, according to police the rubble of a clothing shop her reports. ley brothers owned. She then fainted. Christian spokesmen blamed the Many victims were charred past car bombings on Syria’s ' Harild photo by Pinto beyond recognition. secret service, saying the attacks "It was a mad scene,” Nawal were part of a campaigirto force' Richard Bozzuto, ^who captured the Republican Civic Center. Bozzuto will face Qerald Labriola and Julie Ghattas, an east Beirut resident, Maronite Catholic President Amin nomination.for governor at the state convention, stands Belaga in a September primary that will determine who is said of the bombing. "People Gemayel to step down. in a crowd of party members Saturday at the Hartford to face Democratic incumbent William O’Neill. screamed. ‘ Motorists raced away, Syria has rejected the charge. It honking their horns, and the wail of has been at odds with Gemayel ambulance sirens was deafening.” since January, when he scuttled a There was no immediate claim peace pact the Syrians mediated of responsibility for the car bomb­ among the principal militias war­ ing, the seventh and deadliest in ring in Lebanon’s 11-year-old civil All find victory in GOP result east Beirut this year. war, A huge black cloud of smoke Gemayel contended the pact, tiey hung over the area after the 8:28 which was signed Dec. 28 by Druse, Bv George Layng Unlike the convention, where tion. the main concern of the won only five deiegates to Belaga’s a.m. explosion, which gouged a Shiite Mosiem and Maronite mil­ Herald Reporter candidates were competing for the Labriola and Belaga camps was to 29 and Bozzulo’s 99. 6-foot-deep crater in Wadih Naim itia chieftains, made too many support of delegates largely se­ win the 219 votes, or 20 percent, Locally. Manchester gave her street near the Star cinema in Ein concessions to the Moslems to end HARTFORD — Manchester- lected by town committees, they needed to force a primary. Before three votes to Labriola’s four and Rummaneh’s Snoubra the Christians’ domination of area supporters of Republican will be vying for the support of all the vote Saturday, many observers Bozzuto’s nine. Bolton divided its rs. neighborhood. power. gubernatorial candidates Gerald registered party members in the were confident Labriola would three votes evenly among the Labriola and Julie Belga came Sept, 9 primary. Belaga and qualify, but Belaga’schances were candidates. Coventry gave two to away from this weekend’s state Labriola supporters contend that seen as less certain. Belaga and one to Bozzuto, while convention feeling victorious, even when the choice is left to rank-and- As the balloting began, however, Andover’s two delegates backed Some Soviet troops though their candidates were file Republicans, their candidates Labriola supporters were the ones Belaga. GOP State Central Com­ beaten by Richard Bozzuto in the will come out on top. who started getting nervous. As mitteeman Nathan Agostinelli. the race for the nomination. i "It was proven that Dick Bozzuto Bozzuto was well on his way former Manchester mayor, also " I ’m happy.” said state Sen. can’t win in primaries.)” Manches­ toward winning the 583 votes he was given a vote, which he cast for to leave Afghanistan Carl Zinsser, one of four Manches­ ter Labriola supporter Thomas would end up with, Belaga sur­ Labriola. ter delegates to vote for Labriola. Ferguson said in reference to prised most observers by taking Fergusoi^ admitted afterward Although Bozzuto outdistanced delegate primaries held this spring MOSCOW (AP) — Soviet leader Such a settlement, he repeated, the lead over the Naugatuck that he was "slightly” nervous both Labriola and Belaga by over that saw Bozzuto lose to both Mikhail S. Gorbachev today an­ must include a guarantee that the pediatrician. when his candidate fell behind. three hundred delegate votes, each Labriola and Belaga. "W e’re going nounced that six Soviet army Moslem rebels fighting in Afghan­ The first 133 votes were typical of Though Belaga. the deputy ma­ of his two opponents won enough to have a hell of a good time in regiments wiil be withdrawn from istan with U.S. and Pakistani the first five congressional dis­ jority leader in the House of support to run in a September September.” Afghanistan this year as a gesture backing will lay down their arms. tricts counted, with Bozzuto in the aimed at speeding up Afghan primary. Going into the two-day conven­ lead and Belaga second. Labriola Please turn to page 3 peace talks. " I f the intervention against Gorbachev said the six regi­ Afghanistan continues, the Soviet ments would return to their Union will stand up for its permanent bases in the Soviet neighbor,” Gorbachev warned, Union. He suggested that the according to a Tass transcript of Dish companies scrambie to survive troops would not be replaced, but his comments. did not say so specifically. In a speech to a meeting of party Bv Bill McCloskev On Jan. 1, there were 1.5 million John R. MacDougall of Ocala, communications planning consult­ “ By taking this step, the officials held during his visit to the The Associated Press "" dishes dotting the landscape, Fla,, who confessed to being the ing organization in New York. U-S.S.R. is striving to speed up Soviet Far East, Gorbachev said 625,000 of them sold in 1985 to video pirate (the so-called Captain After analyzing the figures, political settlement and give it the Kremlin planned to withdraw WASHINGTON - Rural resi­ people answering ads promising Midnight) who took Home Box Michael Tyler, president of CSP, another impetus,” he said in a from Afghanistan one armored dents too far from town to get a free movies and TV sports events. Office off the air one night in said he thinks the industry has 8peech televised from the Soviet regiment, two motorized rifle good television picture and subur­ The signal scrambling began protest, said, " I was watching the bottomed out. "A modest turna­ Pacific port of Vladivostok. regiments, and three anti-aircraft banites tired of waiting for cable earlier this year. Without a special great American dream slip from round appears to have begun,” he Gorbachev said a schedule for artillery regiments “ with their TV invested thousands of dollars in box in the satellite to decode the my grasp.” said, although he conceded the full Soviet withdrawal from Afgh­ organic equipment and backyard satellite antennas in the algoHthm — a series of zeros and In the first half of 1986, only picture won’t be clear until the anistan had been worked out with armaments.” first part of the decade. ones — the scrambled stations about 100,000 dishes were sold, n ( ^ a l Fall buying season. the Marxist government in Kabul, He said those units would "be But as 1986 began, cable stations were unwatchable. compared with 265,000 for the Dealers in rural areas are the but would not be put into effect returned to the areas of their found a way of scrambling their A lot of marginally financed dish same period a year earlier, ac­ first to be making a comeback. until a "political settlement” was permanent deployment in the signals, consumers panicked and dealers saw sales come to a virtual cording to a survey to be released reached. U.S.S.R.” the dish industry almost died. halt. this week by CSP International, a Please turn to page 8 i TODAY’S HERALD Chiid finder prayed for heip Selling the buses? By John Mitchell during a visit with their aunt, who Derewianka said he had parked Index Herald Reporter iives in Manchester. his car by a water tower at the dead The Andover Board of Education 16 pages, 2 sactlons The two had been missing for end of Tonica Springs Trail, after is calling upon the Board of Chance and the Lord came about 21 hours, eluding nearly 500 being unable to find the Kimberly Selectmen to decide the fate of the together to aid in the discovery of concerned officials and volunteers Street home of the children’s aunt, town’s school bus fleet, even A H u ira ^A two New Jersey children lost in the who combed the area in search Gloria Crimaudo.