U S WOKl I) FOCUS Jim Brady’s wife <( Cranston a^jiiits Filipino donation wants gun curbs ... page 4 ... page 13 irbffitrr Hrralb ) M;inch(!st(!r A City n( Vill,i(]i: Charr Thursday, March 20,1986 25 Cents Moffett gets White House ‘all or nothing’ 2 offer In town makes final By Alex GIrelll Associate Editor push for aid 0 Manchester's Democratic chairman, a supporter of Gov. Wiiliam O’Neiii, made a proposal Wednesday night to gubernatorial challenger Toby Moffett under By E. Michael Myers which either side would give up its town committee- United Press International endorsed delegates to the state convention if it forced a primary election. WASHINGTON - White House Moffett said he will wait until after April 4 to give wheeling and dealing has nar­ Democratic Town Chairman Theodore R. Cummings rowed today's vote on President an answer. By then, all Democratic town committees Reagan's $100 million aid package in the state will have selected their delegates to the to Nicaragua’s Contra rebels to convention at which the party will nominate its within five votes, either way. a candidate for governor. Democratic source said. Moffett, a former U.S. representative who unsuc­ After some last minute maneuv­ cessfully ran against Sen. Lowell Weicker in 1982, will ering by both sides, most Republi­ know his delegate strength by that time. He needs cans and Democrats agreed that more than 20 percent of the delegates to force a the vote for the aid may be too close primary for the nomination. to call in advance. Cummings made the proposal at a meeting of the “ It’s a matter of five votes,” said Democratic Town Committee at which Moffett sought a Democratic source, who said the support for his candidacy. White House is "offering the Moffett, who had just completed his speech when Republican congressmen a lot ... Cummings made the suggestion, said he would have like bridges, excluding them from to caucus with his Manchester supporters before recisions and deferrals.” giving an answer. Cummings adjourned the meeting The pre.cident spent the morning briefy so that Moffett could consult his backers. calling 20 House members the When Moffett returned to the meeting room, he said administration listed as still unde­ he would have to delay his respon.se. cided, White House spokesman THOMAS FOLEY A poll of committee members taken later in the Larry Speakes said. sees Reagan loss meeting resulted in a delegate distribution which ” He is calling on all members of gave Moffett supporters four delegates to the state Congress to set aside partisan convention and O'Neill supporters 19, almost politics, to support the commit­ votes. The speaker and the leader­ matching earlier predictions by both sides. ment to a democratic outcome in ship in the House have been asked 'H in d er the Cummings proposal, either side, if it Nicaragua,” Speakes said. that there will be an opportunity forced a primary election, would withdraw its Reagan offered Wednesday later on April 15 to consider delegates from the convention slate endorsed by the night to pursue a negotiated peace alternatives that might be put committee. Each candidate wou Id put up his own slate settlement with Nicaragua's San- forward; My guess is that the of 23 delegates and the winner's slate would be the one dinista government for 90 days proposal will go down to defeat sent to the convention by the town organization. today as. in my judgment, it A before supplying the Contra rebels The result would be that the candidate who forced a with offensive weapons. should.” primary would risk having no delegates, a "loser But, under the Reagan com­ On the "CBS Morning News" loses a ll" formula. A local primary is required if promise, the United States would program. Rep. Richard Cheney. either side files petitions containing the signatures of immediately ship the rebels $25 R-Wyo., chairman of the GOP 617 Manchester Democrats. million in "humanitarian” aid and Policy Committee, said, "It's too Cummings said he had asked Dorothy Brindamour, defensive weapons, including anti­ close to call" and Democratic a coordinator for the Moffett campaign in Manches­ aircraft missiles. Whip Thomas Foley of Washington ter. to'agree to the arrangement three weeks ago but "A fter all, we don't want (the said. “ It's close, but we'll win." had been unable to get an answer. Rep. Robert Michel. R-Ill., the R Contras) to be butchered during Moffett said the fairest thing the Democratic Town this 90-day period," said Rep. Rod House Republican leader, said on Committee could do would be to conduct a poll of all Chandler, R-Wash.. who helped NBC, “ I feel a lot better this registered Democrats in Manchester. Moffett suppor­ arrange the aid package deal with morning than I did yesterday. ... ters have claimed they have wide support among Herald photo by Bashaw the White House. It's a marginal issueout therebut I rank-and-file Democrats. In an effort to sway Democrats think we're right there." Cummings said today that if the suggestion, which May It never burst who favor some kind of aid for the Reagan's offer to delay most of came from the Democratic executive committee, is Contras, but who oppose Reagan's the Contra aid was contingent on not followed, there could be a primary with three Waddell School kindergartner Ryan Buzzell sends his soapy plan, the Democratic leadership the House and the Senate passing slates — a committee-endorsed slate, a Moffett slate creation skyward Wednesday during a learning session about promised they would have an the full $100 million package, and an O'Neill slate — all on the ballot. opportunity to vote on alternative which includes $70 million in State Central Committeeman John Sullivan, an bubbles put on by the Talcott Mountain Science Center and plans by April IS. weapons and $30 million in other O'Neill backer, has said he would favor a primary sponsored by the PTA Fine Arts Committee. Besides getting a Rep. Michael Barnes, D-Md.. a supplies over an 18-month period. because he wants all 23 town delegates in O'Neill’s chance to make their own bubbles, students saw a member of the House Foreign But the president reserved the column at the state convention July 18 and 19. demonstration and heard a talk about bubbles. Affairs Committee, said on the right to release all the funds before Moffett's supporters say he will get at least the 20 NBC “Today" program. "Our the 90-day period is up if he percent needed to pave the way for a statewide sense is on our side that this determines the Sandinistas fail to primary. (Related stories on page 3.) compromise will not swing enough negotiate in good faith. Student teachers see color disappear In the classroom By Susan Vaughn Program, or STEP, sponsored .by learning experience,” she said. "1 felt like I really belonged citing one lesson in which Christie Betty Lou Nordeen. choral Herald Reporter the Capitol Region Education In response to questions from there." she said, adding that the videotaped her students doing music teacher at Illing. where Council and Central Connecticut members of Manchester's Interra­ faculty at Illing was especially mock television commercials. Witherspoon taught, said Withers­ Black college students who have State University. They will return cial Council at a reception for the friendly and helpful. This year was the first time that poon “ was wonderful. The children been teaching at nearly all-white to college on Friday. ^udent teachers Wednesday night The students' supervising Marler participated in the STEP loved her." schools this semester said Wednes­ Jackie Christie, a student from at Community Baptist Church, teachers had high praise for their program. She acknowledged that The program is in its fourth year 2 day they felt no color barriers Norfolk State University who Christie said: “I see no color teaching abilities. the experience must be frightening and rotates among several schools between themselves and their taught business education at Man­ problems in Manchester High Christie was "just outstanding, for the student teachers, who are in the Capitol Region, according to students or other teachers. chester High School, said she had School.” innovative and exciting,” said confronting “ different people, fa­ Eddie Joyce; a professor of educa­ Eleven student teachers from some qualms when she realized Maria Witherspoon, a Hampton Cynthia Marler, a business educa­ ces, accents.” tion at Central who coordinated the predominantly black Virginia uni­ she had only two black students in University student who taught tion teacher at MHS who helped Angela Gray, another of the five project this year. versities have worked in schools in all ber classes. But she added. choral music at Illing Junior High supervise Christie’s work. student teachers who came to She said STE P was started by a Manchester and South Windsor for “ Once I was in the classroom, School, agreed.'She said it was “ I think she motivated some in Manchester, also taught in the minority teacher in Simsbury who the past eight weeks under the color disappeared. “ not a shock” to step into a our department to become a little M H S business education Student Teaching Employment "W e were both there having a predominantly white school. more creative.” Marler said. department. Please turn to page 8 TODAY'S HERALD Ousted Galvin vows Dodd nnikes It ofHdal Radon no problem Index to fight for her job EAST HADDAM (AP) — Democratic Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, declaring his “Job is not flnished,*' formally amoonced Us Radon is not expected to be a 24 pagos, 4 socllom serious problem in Manchester FARMINGTON (AP) - Former interim term, taking advantage of candidacy for re-election today at his honw in East Haddam.' AHwirA ia because the town does not havethe state's Chief Medical Examiner the fact that the 39-year-old “Consider the challenges and opportunities still abeado f us — 9 1.09 type of geological formations in RllAinfMA Catherine A.