Ti »fc ; «itjW-4‘*‘ I V i.t. »- ^ . p » '►*,v» »*•*•■ U.S./WORLD SPORTS Bolton boys call Prisoners freed East Hartford I Lisa Raczka coacH In Philippines humbles Indians magazine Inalde ... page 7 ... page 11 ilaurlirBtrr ) Umlh Manchester - A City ol Village Charm 25 Cents Saturday, Mar. 1,1986 Olof Palme shot to death in Stockholm STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UPI) - Finance Minister Kjell-Olof Prime Minister Olof Palme was Feldt confirmed just after 12:30 assassinated Friday night on a a.m. (6:30 p.m. EST) that the Stockholm street by at least two prime minister had been shot and shots at close range minutes after was dead. He and his wife had he left a movie theater with his walked only a few blocks from the wife. movie theater when he was killed. Police questioned a taxi driver "It is an almost unbelievable and two girls who saw the'' shock. It is a thing one cannot 59-year-old leader slain. Authori­ believe could happen in Sweden,” ties said they were searching for said lilf Adelsohn, leader of the one gunman — aged 35 to 40 with opposition Conservative Party. “It dark hair and a long dark coat — is a tragedy not only for Olof and possibly a second suspect, also Palme's family but for the demo­ in his. 40s. cratic ideal all Swedes support. Some 30 police patrol cars and “Sweden will never be the buses massed in central Stockholm same.” he said. minutes after the assassination. Police set up checkpoints at city exits, stopping cars to look for suspects. The news agency TT said Palme leaves was shot about 15 minutes after he and his wife Lisbeth left a movie theater showing a Swedish film tax hike titled "The Brothers Mozart.” ; At about 11:30 p.m., the couple Hanid photo by Baahiw stepped from narrow Tunnelgaten in question street onto the Sveavagen, one of Stockholm’s major avenues, when Holy work Palme was shot at least twice, once By George Layng in the chest and once in the Herald Reporter Lou Welch of the D. G. Peterson Co. of Manchester dips being repainted and the floors refinished. The project, abdomen from just a few yards his brush into a paint bucket as he sits atop scaffolding in which began Feb. 10, should be finished by Palm away, police said. The lower-than-expected in­ Sunday, March 22, according to Pastor Newell H. Curtis Police said the chest wound crease in Manchester’s 1985 Grand the Center Congregational Church sanctuary. The killed Palme. Mrs. Palme suffered List may mean a tax increase sanctuary and other parts of the 82-year-old church are Jr. More pictures on page 4. a slight back injury, police said. slightly greater than the 5-mill The taxi driver, Anders Dels- hike Town Manager Robert Weiss born, 27. reported the shooting to predicted would be needed to fund the taxi agency's central the budget requests of various switchboard. town departments, Manchester 'One Manchester’ may rise again “I heard him shout, ‘Somebody Budget Officer Robert Huestis ^aid . r has been shot! Immediately call Friday. ambulance and police! switch­ However, the final town budget board operator Ann Louise Pauls- and the tax rate needed to finance Cummings cites rumblings, but former members baik son said. “I then asked if I it are still uncertain, and officials understood him correctly. Anders said the Grand List totals are close replied, ‘I'm sure he is. He's lying to what had been expected. By John F. Kirch consolidation, has not yet been consolidation. But none had heard should be one.” But he added: ”1 down and he's not moving any Huestis said that Weiss antici­ and George Loyng reorganized. But Cummings said anything about reorganizaing the* don't think I could be an active more.’” pated a 4 percent increase in the he had heard from some Manches­ group. member. I could lend my name to Police, alerted by Paulsson, total amount of taxable property in A citizens' committee that ter residents interested in re­ Alfred Campbell, the chairman it.” found Palme's body in a puddle of town. However, Grand List figures pushed for consolidation of the forming it. of the origanal 24-member com­ Attorney Paul Marte, another blood on a snow-covered sidewalk. released Friday by Town Assessor town add the Eighth Utilities "They're just waiting to be mittee, could not be reached for former member, said: “I haven’t As was customary in Sweden, J. Richard Vincent show only a 3.8 District in the late 1970s may te asked,” Cummings said. But Cum­ comment. But Campbell’s wife been asked. 1 would have to Palme had no bodyguard. percent rise. reactivated, Manchester’s Demo­ mings stopped short of saying that said Friday that he was not consider (getting involved) after Palme and his wife were taken to Huestis explained that the 3.8 cratic town chairman said Friday. the Committee For One Manches­ interested in getting involved in that happens.” nearby Sabatsberg Hospital, percent increase means one tax Democratic Town Chairman ter would renew its efforts. And local politics. “I'm still- in favor of one where the prime minister died, the mill is worth $697,500. He said Theodore R. Cummings, an out­ former members of the group who “I very much favor consolida­ Manchester,” said former com­ agency said. The time of death was Town Manager Robert Weiss had spoken advocate of consolidation, were reached Friday night ex­ tion,” said former committee mittee member Edward P. Colt- not immediately available. anticipated one mill being worth told the Herald that the "Commit­ pressed little interest in parUcipat- member Dr. Charles Jacobson Jr. man. whose wife, former town Vice Premier Ingear Carlsfon $700,000 when he predicted a 5-mill tee for One Manchester,” which ing in a renewed effort. “I feel as strongly as ever that the took over as acting prime minister. tax increase for the 1986-87 fiscal was formed in 1970 to push for Some said they still favored Eighth District and the town Please turn to page 3 The nation plunged into mourning, year., which begins July 1. with Swedish radio suspending The lower Grand List figure regular programming to play means taxes will have tube raised somber classical music. more than the 5 mills if the town is Eastern reaches accord with workers Authorities cordoned off the going to fund the$50,978,769 budget intersection where Palme was proposal based on the requests of A union leader said the agree­ Eastern's lender banks had man and Texas Air Chairman killed in a business district deve- department heads. However, MIAMI (UPI) — Eastern Air­ Huestis said the increase in the lines reached tentative agreement ment — worked out in an all-night threatened to throw the company Frank Lorenzo said Tuesday con­ l o |^ in the 1960s. Dozens of people session with a federal mediator — into technical default on its $2.5 cessions from the- machinists are gathered behind the cordons, look­ figure will not be great. Friday on a new cost-cutting “It won’t make a one mill contract with its flight attendants, included 20 percent paycuts but billion debt if it failed to cut its imperative. ing at the puddle of blood only a compared favorably to industry labor costs by today. Neither side would discuss de­ couple yards away. difference, but a fraction of a narrowly averting a strike and "This is outrageous,!-' said one mill," he said. clearing the way for the company standards. Although Eastern's pilots, flight tails of the Transport Workers In addition to forestalling a Union contract, but. taken with the bystander. Jan Arvidsson, The budget proposal and the tax to press its machinists union for attendants and non-union em­ A British government spokes­ rate based on it might be reduced paycuts. strike by the carrier's 6,200 flight ployees have now agreed to 20 impending Texas Air takeover, attendants set for a minute after major savings in a new contract man in London said his nation was when Weiss makes a formal percent paycuts, the dirline’s request to the Board of Directors. "Everything's back to normal, midnight Saturday, Elastem said 12,500 member machinists union with the Air Line Pilots Associa­ “ appalled and shocked” by the including tne nerve ends of 40,000 the cost cuts would allow the tion and salary cuts imposed on assassination. In Japan, Prime Traditionally, the amounts re­ has taken no paycuts this year and Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone des­ quested by the various depart- Elastem employees,” said Jerry company to recall more than a has a contract good until 1987. management and non-union Cosley, a spokesman for the thousand other flight attendants workers, it was expected to win cribed Palme as a “great force for embattled airline. laid off Feb. 4. Eastern Chairman Frank Bor­ Eastern some breathing room. peace and disarmament." Pleaae turn to page 3 TODAY’S HERALD Drug assistance plan moving forward HARTFORD (UPI) — State committee postponed on regula­ recommended a flat $6 charge to March 11; Hamden.March 12; O’NbIII hits charges Index Department of Aging officials said tions needed to get the program people who participate in the Brookfleld. March 13 and Norwich, Friday they plan to moving ahead going. program. March 14. Gov. William A. O’Neill on 20 pogoa, 2 —cMoiio with a program to help 95.000- The Legislature's Regulations Gunther, who is co-chairman of The program, to be known as Friday dismissed allegations he eligible elderly residents help pay Review Committee«met Wednes­ the Legislature's Public Health Connecticut Pharmaceutical As­ used taxpayers’ money for his for prescription drugs.