20—M ANfUIiSniR HliRALI), Wednesday, ()ct. 4, 1989 Housing Mending Repeal Plan will benefit Coventry’s Jack Ayer House votes to end seniors, young people/3 is coming back strong/11 catastrophic insurance/5 MANOtSTERHONCA iianrhfatpr Ipralft Thursday, Oct. 5,1989 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm Newsstand Price: 35 Cents Evangelist Jim Bakker Dalai Lama convicted REFRESHMENTS CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — TV evangelist Jim Bakker was con­ wins Nobel victed today of fleecing his fol­ lowers of $3.7 million. SERVED The federal jury deliberated a day and a half before convicting him on all 24 counts of fraud and con­ spiracy for overselling time shares, for peace or “p ^ e rsh ip s,” at his minisu-y’s resort hotels to loyal followers of his i PTL ministry. OSLO, Norway (AP) — The movement that was violently sup­ Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual and pressed in Beijing in June 3-4. The 49-year-old preacher could political leader of Tibet, won the receive up to 120 years in prison and The Chinese Embassy in Oslo 1989 Nobel Peace Prize today for denounced the Nobel committee $5 million in fines at sentencing. his non-violent struggle to free his Prosecutors said Bakker diverted decision as interfering in China’s in­ Himalayan nation from Chinese ternal affairs and called the Dalai the money to live in high style, rule. buying Rolls-Royces, homes, Lama a political figure intent on The Norwegian Nobel Committee “splitting the fatherland.” THURSDAY, diamonds, an air-conditioned praised the Dalai Lama’s message of Embassy official Wang Guisheng doghouse and furnishings ranging universal reverence and respect for was quoted by the national NTB from gold-plated swan bathroom all living things. China condemned news agency as saying, “This has fixtures to motorized bedroom the selection. hurt the Chinese people’s feelings,” OCTOBER 5TH : drapes. Though he preached peace, his and he reiterated the claim that Tibet Bakker showed little emotion as followers repeatedly joined bloody was always an integral part of the verdict was read, nor did his clashes with Chinese authorities in China. Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, in the last ■■■ h wife, Tammy. She was not charged Tibet was independent from 1911 in the case. two years. until the new Communist authorities As they awaited the verdict in the The chairman of the Norweigan in China regained control in 1950. 5PM TO 9PM Nobel Committee, Egil Aarvik, said courtroom this morning, several The Dalai Lama, bom Tenzin Bakker supporters held Bibles the selection of the Buddhist monk Gyalso in 1935, had been nominated opened to Psalm 17, which reads: could also be seen as a signal of en­ for the coveted Nobel Peace Prize couragement for the pro-democracy “Thou hast nied me, and shalt find for at least the last three years, NTB nothing.” i.,ovc..icnt in China itself, which reported. Patrick Flynn/Manchosler Herald }' was crushed in June. Prosecutors contend Bakker DOING THEIR BEST — Andrew and Roberta Weigert, pictured in their home on ' t “It’s certainly long overdue for raised $158 million by selling “The committee wouldn’t have someone who has genuinely worked South Main Street, are coping with the effects of lupus, which Roberta has suffered anything against them interpreting it YOU ARE CORDIALLY “lifetime partnerships” at his for peace, not only for the Tibetan like that,” Aarvik said after reading Heritage USA retreat near Fort Mill, from since 1976. pieople, but he has sU'ived to gain a f' the citation to reporters. S.C., but used the money for genuine peace for the entire world,” “If I was a Chinese student, I projects other than the lodging he said Tinley Nyandak, a spokesman would be fully in support of the INVITED TO SEE THE promised. Partners typically paid for the office of the exiled Tibetan Immune disease saps energy I decision,” he said, referring to the $1,000 for the promise of three students who led the pro-democracy nights’ lodging annually at the Please see NOBEL, page 10 theme park. Bakker resigned from ALL NEW 1990 the ministry in 1987 in a sex and but not spirit of local woman I Please see BAKKER, page 10 Rebels rebuffed U.S. By Rick Santos To ease some of her pain, Weigert takes a drug Manchester Herald called prednisone, a steroid that suppresses inflam­ ACCORD PLUS THE mation of the disease. on Noriega: Cheney • m Firehouse For 13 years she has suffered from a disease that Long-term, high doses of the steroid deplete the attacks the immune system and splotches the skin, blood supply to areas of the body, causing tissues and but Roberta Weigert is undaunted. bones to deteriorate. In Weigert’s case, she had to WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense controversy “The ideal thing is to get back on my feet and get have one of her hips replaced with an artificial one, Secretary Dick Cheney said today See related story, page 7 EXCITING COMPLETE that rebels refused in a “face-to-face back to work,” said Weigert, 41, of 441 S. Main St. and she plans to have surgery for her other hip. contact” with a U.S. military officer She and more than a half million other Americans, The drug also is responsible for many of her to turn over ftinama’s leader, Gen. heating up mostly women of child-bearing age, are afflicted neurological problems, including insomnia, and engraved invitation to a coup. They with a non-curable disease called lupus. On Oct. 15, depression, she said. Manuel Antonio Noriega, during just lacked boldness.” Tbeday’s failed coup. LINE OF 1990 a walk-a-thon will be held starting at the West Because of its side-effects, her doctors are Uying But Cheney, a former House By Alex Girelli Defending the Bush administfa- Hartford Town Hall to help raise money to cure the to wean her off it and start treating her with a new rnember, brushed aside congres­ Manchester Herald tion against charges that it acted disease. drug that does not have harmful side-effects. But she sional criticism as “Monday morn­ timidly in not coming to the aid of ing advice.” The controversy over whether the Lupus weakens its patients by attacking their im­ can not do that yet because her body needs the mune systems. If it’s not treated, it can kill. strength of the steroid. the rebels, Cheney said in an inter­ “JJie same people who’d be town should build a fire station at view with CBS that the coup leaders “Whether I could die from lupus or complications “I’m now at a very low dose. Hopefully I can get criticizing us if we had intervened Tolland Turnpike and Doming Sneet had no intention of forcing Noriega H O N D and the effect of the decision on the from lupus, I don’t know,” Weigert says. off it,” she says, adding she does not want to worry are now criticizing us for not inter­ from the country. “This was not a The disease is sometimes visible by the red about things she cannot control. vening,” he said. relationship between the town and situation where we had a pro­ blotches on its victims’ skin. But for people like Cheney said that at one point the Eighth Utilities District is heat­ Right now though, she has to stick with the drug. democracy movement trying to top­ ing up. Weigert, with the serious form of the disease, skin Another thing which keeps her going is a West during the uprising “shortly before problems are minor compared to other complications. ple a dictator and restore democracy the coup collapsed, contact between Democratic Town Director Hartford lupus support group to which she belongs. to Panama,” he said. She has had operations to remove her spleen and one of our military officers and two Stephen T. Cassano said this morn­ The group is organized by the Connecticut Chapter President Bush has come under AUTOMOBILES replace her hip. She has had a hysterectomy. She suf­ of the Lupus Foundation of America Inc. The founda­ junior officers that were involved in ing he will propose that a meeting fers from insomnia, fatigue, memory loss, mouth sharp criticism from some the coup” wcurred at Fbrt Clayton, be held at which the proposal would tion with Costello Indusbies Inc. is co-sponsoring the Republicans as well as Democrats in sores, joint pain, and irregular heart beats, just to a U.S. facility in ftoama. be explained to property owners in second annual “Loop West Hartford for Lupus” Congress for not intervening on the THURSDAY NIGHT IS... the Bryan Farm area and the Talcot- name a few. walk-a-thon. Asked about the meeting, Cheney Weigert said she has been told by doctors that her side of the coup leaders. The critics said, “It was a face-to-face contact. tville Flats, the area that would be The walk-a-thon, which begins at 1 p.m. (registra­ claim he missed a precious oppor­ served by the station. spleen operation, hysterectomy, and heart problem tion at noon), is a major fund-raiser for the Lupus ... And that was where they made it SHOW & TELL NIGHT may not be related to lupus. tunity to oust Noriega, who faces clear to us that they would not turn And attorney Kevin O’Brien, who Foundation, said Laura Verbarg, chairwoman of the drug charges in this country. “I think it was all part of the disease, but I can’t be Noriega over to us.” He d:d not represented the town in negotiations “They wanted certainty,” Rep.