anrl|p0tpr Supnmg Hrralb S^WNCHESTER, CONN., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1974 - VOL, XCIV, No. 23 Manchester^A City of Village Charm SIXTEEN PAGES — TWO MINI PRICE I FIFTEEN CENTS Five Bomb Blasts Rock Midtown Manhattan NEW YORK (UPI) - Five bombs, ap- imperialist banks. Free all Puerto Rican The group demanded the release from followed at 3:10 am. in a car near Chase I^ A parently set by Puerto Rican nationalists political prisoners.” U.S prisons of Oscar Collazo, Lolita Manhattan Plaza shattering windows in the protesting the “murderous policies of the In a statement left for the newsman in a Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Andres Chemical, Chase Manhattan and Marine Yankee government,” exploded minutes telephone booth on Broadway, the group Figueroa Cordero, and Irving Flores. Midland banks. A car was demolished and apart in Manhattan today, shattering win- said, in part: In a nationalist uprising Oct. 30,1950 in several others were damaged. Windows dows of banks and large corporations. ‘"These actions have been taken in Puerto Rico, 27 persons were killed and 51 broke in nearby buildings, up to the eighth The Armed Forces of Piierto Rican memory of the Oct. 30, 1950 actions in wounded. floot in one buiiding. National Liberation, who claimed credit Puerto Rico against Yankee colonial Two days later, Collazo and another A third blast went off at 3:20 a.m., out- for the blasts, demanded the release of doiriinatipn. man tried to shoot their way into Blair side the Banco de Ponce; and a fourth at five Puerto Ricans, including Oscar “These bombings are also to accentuate House next door to the White House where 3:30 a.m on posh Park Avenue at the Union Collazo, convicted of an assassination the seriousness of our demands to release then President Truman was living while Carbide Building. At 3:35 a.m. a fifth attempt on President Truman in 1950. five Puerto Rican political prisoners, the the White House was under renovation. bomb exploded, also on Park Avenue, near D No Injuries Reported longest held political prisoners in this A White House guard was killed and two the Lever Brothers Building. No injuries were reported. Most of the hemisphere and the immediate and uncon- other persons were injured. Collazo’s “They are not piaying,” one officer said damage consisted of broken windows, ditional independence of Puerto Rico. companion also was kill^. of the terrorist group. except in a midtown blast where the explo- “These corporations are responsible for Collazo was sentenced to die on Aug. 1, Passersby standing outside the Exxon sion ripped a steel door from its hinges. the robbery and exploitation of the Third 1952 but his sentence was commuted to life Building began running when they heard “It sounded like the world was coming World” and for the “murderous policies of in prison. the blasts. to an end,” said Connon Washington, who the Yankee government in Puerto Rico Other Blasts Follow One youth shouted, “the revolution has works near the site of one of the and Latin America.” After the initial explosion, blasts started,” as he ran from the area. explosions. At 3:40 a.m., a man cailed the Associated Press offices in Rockefeller The Secret of Sound Sleep Center and said “listen carefully.” A woman took the phone and — in a thick If you want a sound night’s sleep to standard time until Feb. 23, 1975. Spanish accent — said she was a member U.S.-Soviet Summit of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion tonight and not be haunted by any The switch marks an end to the Nacional Puerto Ricana (the Armed nagging doubts about the return to energy crisis-spawned year-around forces of Puerto Rican National Libera- standard time; set your clocks back daylight saving time experiment in- tion) and “we have just bombed Yankee one hour before retiring. At 2 a.m. stituted last winter. (Herald photd- Slated for Next Month Sunday, most of the nation will return composite by Dunn) MOSCOW (UPI) - President Ford and U.S. officials said Kissinger planned to “imperative...all the more so because it is NEWS Communist party General Secretary meet later in the day with Brezhnev for becoming apparent that ‘quiet’ diplomacy Leonid Brezhnev will hold a summit their fifth session since Kissinger arrived practiced from time to time by CAPSULES meeting in the Soviet Pacific coast port of Wednesday night. Thus far the two have Washington is not conducive to the solu- Controversial Bomber Vladivostok next month, a Soviet spent more than 12 hours in Kremlin con- tion of the cardinal problems of a spokesman said today. versations. settlement.” Prosecution Promised The decision was made during the The officials said Communist leaders 10-Year Pact Sought To Be Unveiled Today current four-day visit of Secretary of State are giving detailed consideration to At the Moscow summit meeting in July WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Ford Henry Kissinger to Moscow. It will be the proposals Kissinger submitted for arms between Brezhnev and former President was said to have informed black civil first Ford-Brezhnev meeting since Ford control. Richard M. Nixon, the United States and rights leaders that persons who unlawfully took office Aug. 9. Suggestions Offered the Soviet Union agreed to replace the PALMDALE, Calif. (UPI) - Climaxing to do —strategic nuclear forces will never resist school integration will be The spokesman, Leonid Zamyatin, U.S. officials said Kissinger had offered current interim agreement on strategic 12 years of design and debate, the have to be employed ... rather than being prosecuted. He met Friday with eight qivii director general of the Tass news agency, suggestions to the general secretary of the arms with a more comprehensive 10-year prototype of the B1 bomber, the most useless, paradoxically, they are most rights spokesmen for 70 minutes in a ses- made the disclosure to newsmen following Communist party for scoring a pact. expensive weapons system in history, rolls useful to the extent they remain un- sion which was described as a “frank give a lunch Kissinger gave for Soviet Foreign breakthrough in the arms control talks The interim agreement, which expires out the hangar door today to face flight utilized,” he said. and take.” Minister Andrei Gromyko. that resumed in Geneva Sept. 18. in 1977, put no controls on U.S. or Soviet tests to see if it works and controversy If it passes flight tests and wins govern- The meeting will be Nov. 23 and 24. Kissinger and Brezhnev met for a total strategic bomber forces, the deployment over whether it is needed. ment approval, the B1 would become the Missile Test Successful The official announcement of the sum- of five hours on the weapons issue Friday of multiple warheads on single missiles, Defense Secretary James R. manned bomber of the 1980s, replacing the WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Pentagon mit meeting was made by the White House in morning and night sessions at the and the technological improvement of ob- Schlesinger planned to be on hand to de- aging workhorse B52s, and the newer, announced Friday that a Mlnuteman 1 and the Soviet news agency Tass at 6 p.m. Kremlin. sbiete long-range missiles. fend the plane against critics who main- problem-plagued FBlll. missile was successfully fired Thursday (11 a.m. EDT). “They gave detailed consideration to The secretary of state has been tain that putting the bomber into produc- Costs Balloon after being dropped from an airpiane — matters related to possible further explaining to Brezhnev what one senior tion would cost billions of dollars for a Bargaining Tough In the past four years, the projected cost the first time this feat has been ac- measures on the further limitation of U.S. officiai descrived as fairly concrete weapon that may already be obsolete. Kissinger said earlier today the of the bomber has ballooned 60 per cent, complished. The Minuteman type normal- strategic arms,” a joint conimunique ideas for general principles to guide the Schlesinger’s prepared remarks for the bargaining with Brezhnev has been tough now reaching $76 million per plane, with ly has been launched from an underground said. arms talks in Geneva. rollout ceremony argued that a weapon but he was optimistic on the progress of its opponents predicting that inflation will silo. Authorities say the development may “The parties considered the exchange of U.S. officials said Kissinger did not such as the B1 has served its purpose best nuclear arms limitation talks. drive the cost to $100 million each by the impede efforts to control the arms race. views which have taken place useful and necessarily expect Brezhnev to approve if it is never used in war. • In remarks to newsmen before a time they reach active service. luncheon' he hosted for Soviet Foreign discussion of these matters will be con- all the American proposals. They said he Deterrent Concept Two antiwar groups, the American Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, Kissinger tinued.” was hopeful a compromise couid be sealed “If deterrence works—as we count on it Friends Service Committee and the said he remained optimistic that an ac- Soviet Stand Tough at a summit meeting between Brezhnev Clergy and Laity Concerned, planned Program Termed Failure cord could be worked out to guide the Diplomatic sources said the wording of and President Ford in November. protests today, including a “counter news PITTSBURGH (UPI) - President I. W. strategic arms talks. the statement might indicate that the conference.” Abel of the United Steelworkers of He said he did not expect final agree- Soviets had taken a tough stand toward Japan^s Tanaka The B1 is scheduled to make its first America (USW) said Friday President ment on guidelines for the talks during his Kissinger’s proposals.