20—MANCHESTER HERALD. Monday. Feb. 25. 1991 TUESDAY In Brief . .. Gooden opens the door to the Mets Hartford five tops Maine By BEN WALKER The Associated Press LOCAL NEWS INSIDE WEST HARTFORD (AP) — Ron Moye scored 24 points and Hartford hit eight straight free throws in the Orel Hershiser pitched without pain and Jim Palmer last 1:28 to seal a 73-68 victory over Maine in the Noth pitched with a blister. Dwight Gooden, meanwhile, ■ MHS plan under attack. Atlantic Conference. changed his pitch. Hartford (10-15 overall, 4-5 NAC) scored * e game s Elsewhere at spring training Sunday, Vince Coleman first seven points and never trailed in Saturday s game. was an early arrival for the New York Mets and he ■ Axe to hit Coventry budget. The Hawks held the Black Bears (11-15, 6-3) without predicted an easy shift to center field. The Boston Red Support a field goal for the first 6:44 and led 34-23 at the half. Sox, though, are still wailing for $11.8 million free agent ■ McCavanagh will visit White House. our Moye was 4 of 6 from 3-point range and the Hawks Danny Darwin to show up. shot .535 percent from the floor, their second best mark By today, every team will have started camp. The San troops! for the season. Vin Baker had 16 points and Larry Grif­ Diego Padres were the last to open, this morning in ■ Tax board member resigns. fiths, playing in a school-record 112th game, scored 14 Yuma, Ariz. points, 13 in the second half. Hershiser continued his careful comeback from shoulder surgery by throwing batting practice for the Los ^« *''**' w. -V:A Local/Regional Section, Page 7. Owens repeat player of week Angeles Dodgers in Vero Beach, Ha. Hershiser, who PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Syracuse forward Billy missed nearly all of last season, threw an assortment of What's Owens won Big ^ s t player of the week honors for the fastballs and changeups. second straight week after strong scoring and rebounding "It felt really good,” Hershiser said. “I threw the ball Manchester’s Award-Winning Newspaper in victories against Pittsburgh and Florida State and a properly. I didn’t have any pain or stiffness. I thought my News loss to St. John’s. mechanics were good. I threw a lot of strikes.” The 6-foot-9 junior scored 33 points, snared a career- Hershiser is hoping to be ready by opening day, al­ Feb. 26,1991 high 16 rebounds and made eight assists in a victory over though most everyone else in Dodgertown thinks that is a Pittsburgh, becoming the second Syracuse player ever to bit optimistic. Still, many like what they see so far. top 1,7(X) career points and 800 rebounds. “Orel had a lot of pop on the ball today,” catcher Mike State income Boston College forward Billy Curley won rookie of Scioscia said. “I was very impressed with the way he tax opposed the week honors, despite a pair of Eagle losses. He had threw the ball. He’s looking like the Orel of old.” Saddam promises pullout 19 points and four rebounds in a loss to Providence and A few miles south in Port St. Lucie, Gooden showed a HARTFORD (AP) — Almost 13 points and five rebounds in a loss to Villanova. new side. He said he had reconsidered his self-imposed 70 percent of state residents U.S. wins Senior Chrysler Cup contract deadline and would ask his agent to continue don’t want to pay the persoiud contract talks with the Mets. income tax that Gov. Lowell P. SARASOTA, Ea. (AP) — Led by Charles Goody’s Gooden, seeking a deal to match the four-year, $21.4 Weicker Jr. included in his course record 63, the United States won five of eight million contract Roger Clemens got from Boston, w ant^ Bush skeptical; war to continue 1991-92 proposed budget, ac­ matches Sunday to beat the International team for the it done by last Friday. When he didn’t get it, Gooden said _ _ Tha Atsoclatad Pr«M cording to a new poll released fourth consecutive year in the Senior Tour’s Chrysler today. there would be no more negotiations this year and that he RECOGNIZE HIM? — Dave Righetti, who used to wear the pinstripes of the New York Cup. would file for free agency at the end of the season. Of the 611 people surveyed Goody’s round bettered Harold Henning’s by six Yankees, gets in a iittle pepper at the San Franciso Giants’ training camp in Scottsdale, Ariz., By JOHN KING welcome of honking horns and waving flags. resolutions on Kuwait, had expressed no could suffer if unless “a great sense of respon­ by the Quinnipiac College Prill­ “I did a lot of thinking after Friday,” Gooden said. “1 sibility” guided U.S. efforts to end the war. strokes. really wasn’t comfortable the way things sat. When I The Associated Press But the U.S. military said while many Iraqis remorse, and had accepted no responsibility for ing Institute, 69.8 percent said on Sunday. “the awful consequences” of his nation’s ag­ Even as Saddam spoke, allied troops in the The United States, which had a five-point lead after came to the ballpark Saturday, everyone was around my were fleeing, others were still there and offer­ they disagreed with the proposed DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia — Saddam Hus­ ing “stiff resistance,” and tanks battled for the gression. third day of a huge ground offensive were the first two rounds, won 58'/2-4H/2. Two other U.S. locker, wanting to talk and rehash the contract. I didn’t The change was made because of a small blister on been given the OK to miss Reds’ practices while his club personal income tax of 6 per­ sein, his armies reeling from a monumental al­ city’s airport. “Saddam is not interested in peace, but only surging north into Iraq. wins were also lopsided: Hill beat Bruce Devlin 67-72 want to have to go through that anymore. Palmer’s right thumb. By repositioning the ball, he was is in tournament play. cent. lied air and land assault, said today he had ‘Today we will complete the withdrawal of to regroup and fight another day,” he said. U.S. military officials in the Saudi capital, But, if an income tax was im­ and Lee Trevino beat Roberto DeVicenzo 68-77. The “I read some of the papers and it didn’t seem like me. I able to avoid the blister and continue throwing. Rob Dibble, who shared the MVP with Myers in the begun withdrawing his forces from Kuwait. our forces, God willing,” Saddam told his He called on all Iraqi soldiers to lay down Riyadh, said Iraqi forces in Kuwait were simp­ posed, 54 percent of those polled other U.S. points came from George Archer, who edged decided to take the pressure off and do away with the “I can’t sustain an injury and make this ballclub so I NL playoffs, retiuned to the Reds’ camp in Plant City, But President Bush accused Saddam of “trying war-wrecked nation in an address on Baghdad their arms, and said they would not be fired ly fleeing under fire. said they wanted a gradual^ tax Bruce Crampton 70-72. deadline.” would go home in a hurry,” Palmer said. “But I’m not Ha., one day after he was sent home for treatment of an to claim victory in the midst of a rout,” and radio. He said the emirate he annexed in upon if they did. “There are signs of Iraqi retreat as a result of rate based on personal income, talking about a blister.” upper respiratory problem. Dibble said his absence had Sheehan cops Hawaiian Open Gooden said he advised his agent, Jim Neader, that he pledged the war would not stop. August was no longer part of Iraq. The British War Cabinet agreed with Bush’s pressure from coalition attacks,” said a senior while 30 percent preferred a The Red Sox haven’t yet been able to talk to Darwin at nothing to do with his contract dispute. could continue talks with the Mets during the season. The Kuwaiti Information Ministry claimed But Bush, reading a statement in the White assessment. But the Soviets urged an im­ military official, speaking on condition of uniform rate of 6 percent. HONOLULU (AP) — Patty Sheehan shot a roller­ their camp in Winter Haven, Ha. The National League “I wouldn’t miss because of that,” he said. “At least, Palmer continued his workouts with the Baltimore Kuwait City was free, and CBS-TV reported House Rose Garden, said Saddam’s statement mediate cease-fire. President Mikhail S. Gor­ coaster 2-undcr-par 70 to win the Hawaiian Ladies Open ERA champion was given permission to miss Saturday’s not yet.” Orioles in Sarasota, Fla., and felt some improvement that allied troops had entered the capit^ to a was “an outrage” — he had not agreed to U3I. bachev suggested that superpower relations Please see GULF, page 6. Helicopter crash Saturday. despite a blister. He threw the ball harder than he had workout b ^ u s e of a commitment made before he Sheehan, who won her 26th LPGA event, finished at Saturday, partly because he is working his arm into better signed with Boston, but was also absent Sunday, In other activity: kills 5 Americans 9-under in the 54-hole tournament, three strokes better z shape and partly because of a change in the way he is “Darwin said he’d be here today, so we’ll see what — Coleman, who played left field with St.