U.S./WORLD SPORTS Goetz grateful Pats not content Just to show up ordeal is over ... page 7 ... page 13 ifflanrbrBtFr) Manchester — A City of Village Charm Mrralb Friday, Jan. 17, 1986 25 Cents Plans Shuttle crew arouse gets another Bth’s ire By Alex Girelli Herald Reporter day in space Charter changes under consider­ ation by Manchester’s Democratic comes just as it comes around the Bv William Harwood majority that would either force United Press International sun and goes outward. consolidation of the Eighth Utili­ “We hope to catch it as close to ties District and the town or give CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - that time as possible.” he said. the town a bigger share of tax Shuttle Columbia’s luckless crew, “But we’ll get good scientific data revenues from growth within the setting yet anther record of frus­ even if we have to go a few days district were met with disappoint­ tration, was ordered to stay aloft beyond March 6” ment and a sharp attack from one more day today when bad The down-to-the-wire decision to district leaders today. weather blocked a second Florida pass up today’s landing opportun­ “We have been trying for for a landing try, threatening to delay ity came just 18 minutes before year and half to cool it, not to throw the ship’s next flight. commander Robert “Hoot” Gib­ son and co-pilot Charles Bolden any barbs and to cooperate with NASA mission managers de­ the town,” District President cided to go for broke with a third were to have fired Columbia’s big braking rockets to begin the Walter Joyner said. ”I hope this is landing attempt Saturday in Flor­ not an indication of what coopera­ ida to avoid wrecking the ship’s hourlong descent to Florida. The other crewmen are Steven tion means.” schedule for takeoff March 6 on a Director Director Thomas Land­ showcase voyage to study Halley’s Hawley. George Nelson, RCA engineer Robert Cenker and ers was more blunt, aiming his comet that must take off near its criticism at Democratic Town planned launch date. Franklin Chang-Diaz, the first Hispanic-American astronaut. Chairman Theodore Cummings, The weather forecast for Colum­ who previously launched an unsuc­ bia’s planned 7:31 a.m. EST It was the first time in 24 flights a cessful effort to bring about shuttle stayed in orbit two days UPI photo landing Saturday called for more consolidation. marginal conditions, promising past the planned landing date because of bad weather. The crew “Mr. Cummings is like the another cliffhanger for Columbia plague — he will come back every Still chasing the dream and its seven-member crew, in­ also set a record for six official seven or 10 years,” Landers said. cluding Rep. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., blastoff delays before finally tak­ The previous move to consoli­ whose istrict includes the Kennedy ing off Sunday. date the town and district, which President Reagan meets with Coretta King to "never, never abandon the Space Center. NASA considered diverting the ofterates its own volunteer fire Scott King, widow of slain civil rights dream" of a colorblind America. The late If the third try is not successful, jinxed ship to Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., but gambled on department and provides sewer activist Martin Luther King, Jr., at the activist's birthday is yet to be a truly the ship will be diverted to service for most of northern Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.. improving Florida weather, even Manchester, ended in 1978 with a White House Thursday. Reagan told national holiday. Story on page 5. though forecasters held out little Saturday. Because of the time lost Supreme Court decision blocking ferrying Columbia back to the hope for a favorable change. “The KSC weather forecast the move. cape, a California landing would The district and town have long represent a six-day delay getting tomorrow is marginal and manag­ been at odds, particularly over the ers recognize that conditions as the ship ready for its next flight. issue of fire protection in the State’s aversion to nukes But NASA made it clear Colum­ forecast could result in another rapidly-growing Buckland area in waveoff from KSC and the subse­ bia will fly in March, even if it is a the northwest part of town. The few days late getting off. quent decision to make an Ed­ Supreme Court decision gave the wards landing” said a NASA “We are determined to have that district’s volunteer fire depart­ March mission,” NASA acting statement. ment the right to fight fires in draws wrath of N.Y. rep administrator William Graham Buckland. The court also decided said on NBC’s “Today” show. that the Town Charter governed Bv John Shanahan the Tappan Zee Bridge and on to “The best view of Halley’s comet the way consolidation should be United Press International Idaho Falls, Idaho. brought about rather than a Nuke waste proposals City Council President Andrew special legislative act. NEW YORK - Rep. Mario Stein said an accident in the city, In the midst of the court battle, get instant rebuttal Biaggi is calling Connecticut “ar­ “could cause over $4 billion in the town built a firehouse in rogant" for refusing to allow — See page 16 damages and require the forced Buckland which it can now use only nuclear waste from Long Island to evacuation of more than a million To our in Vietnam on a limited basis. go through that state fordisposal in people.” Cummings and most of the six Idaho, forcing it to go instead Schienberg said it would be HANOI. Vietnam (AP) — A U.S. Democrats on the nine-member through New York City. preferable to send the waste via senator leading a congressional town Board of Directors declined readers Shipping the waste through Mario Cuomo has been trying to ferry from Orient Point on the delegation that arrived in Hanoi Thursday and today to comment today told a Vietnamese Foreign Connecticut is “the safer and arrange a meeting with Connect!-^ North Fork of Long Island to New A major press problem on the consolidation move. cut officials to discuss a route London, Conn., then along routes Ministry official that the possibil­ But Director Stephen T. Cas- preferred route,” the Bronx Demo­ which has forced the Manches crat said Thursday. through their state, but has met 1-395 and 1-84 to the Newburgh- ity Americans still live somewhere sano, who will seek the Democratic ter Herald to print out of town in Indochina haunts the United He made the remarks at a City resistance. Beacon Bridge across the Hudson caused lengthy delays in deliv nomination to run for the state “The State of Connecticut has River. States. Senate in the Fourth Senatorial Hall news conference at which ery of Thursday’s edition opponents of shipments through arrogantly refused to sit down,” “They have beltways in Connec­ Sen. Frank Murkowski, chair­ District this fall, said he would Newspapers did not arrive in man of the Senate Veterans Affairs the city said they were filing the congre.ssman said. ticut.” Biaggi explained. “They go Manchester until nearly 6p.m. favor any change that gives the papers with the U.S. Department Nuclear waste from the Brook- on the outside of the cities,” Committee, told Nguyen Can, people who live within the district Repairs had not been made deputy head of North American of Transportation to remove Con­ haven National Laboratory on thereby reducing the danger to as of this morning and today’s the right to petition out of it. necticut’s “roadblocks.” eastern Long Island now is shipped people in case of a mishap. Affairs with the Vietnamese For­ “That’s got to be part of any newspaper was again printed eign Ministry, that the fate of 2,441 Mark Schienberg. executive di­ along the Long Island Expressway He said Connecticut already has elsewhere. change.” he said. rector of Citizens Against Nuclear to the Clearview Expressway in some nuclear waste shipped along Americans still missing in action Cassano said he has been con­ Until the problem is re­ “is a very grave issue and Trucking said Connecticut was Queens, over the Throgs Neck its beltways. paired, later-than-usual deliv­ vinced for years that the town has “simply stonewalling” on efforts Bridge to the Bronx, up the New “Not to assume this part of it is continues to be of great concern in been subsidizing the district ery is possible in some the United States” to change the route. England Thruway to the Cross- very parochial to say the least,” locations. operation. Biaggi said New York Gov. Westchester Expressway and over the congressman said. The remark, at a brief reception James F. Fogarty, the only other The press problem, which prior to scheduled afternoon talks Democratic director who would involves an electrical motor with Deputy Foreign Affairs Min­ failure, is expected to be comment, said: “I’m always for ister Hoang Bich Son, set the tone one town of Manchester.” resolved by Monday. for the delegation’s primary mis­ Fogarty, a retired town firefight­ Out-of-town printing has re­ sion to Indochina. Four other Lawsuit vs. town to charge quired significant adjust­ er. said the results of a November lawmakers and their aides are referendum on whether the town ments in the way the news­ accompanying Murkowski, an should retain its firehouse in paper is produced. Until press Alaska Republican. repairs are complete, the Buckland could indicate that Man­ Since the Vietnam War ended in chester residents are ready for cops harassed UAW leader Herald will be limited to 20 1975, there have been 806 reported consolidation.