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4A thm BuringKM IVt.l from Pre. Monday, March 4, 1985 French Famine Relief Team Abducted World known, he added. French sources in Addis Ababa said the plane was carrying 8.5 tons of food to Wollo province and was surrounded by armed rebels when it -landed. Shortly after that, a West German transport plane flew over the airstrip at Lalibela and saw the plane on the ground, but no sign of the crew, the sources said. Roundup Doctors Without Borders, were also seized.

France's ambassador, Jose Paoli, told Western reporters in Addis Ababa that the French nationals were seized at gunpoint after their plane landed at the Lalibela airport in Wollo province, a region that is a stronghold of secessionist rebels. He said he did not know if they were taken captive at the airfield or along the winding mountain road to Lalibela town. The whereabouts of the hostages were un ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) Armed rebels abducted two French doctors, two nurses and the five-man crew of a French air force transport plane delivering food to famine victims in northern Ethiopia Sunday, French officials reported. The French Defense Ministry in Paris had reported only that the five crew members of the twin-engine Transall had been taken captive, but the French Embassy in Addis Ababa later said that four members of a French volunteer group, West German Official Visits Moscow 1 I Gunman Kills Irish Police Officer ELECT PAUL LAFAYETTE Nil ning for a short working visit and gave no details. Hours before, Politburo member Vladimir V.

Shcherbitsky, who meets President Reagan and Secretary of State George P. Shultz in Washington Thursday, left for the United States. Genscher's visit -was announced Sunday morning in Bonn, the West German capital. MOSCOW (AP) The West German foreign minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, arrived in Moscow Sunday for! a surprise meeting with Andrei A. Gromyko.

The visit was one more in a flurry of East-West exchanges preceding the U.S.-Soviet arms beginning in Geneva on March 12. official news agency Tass said Genscher arrived Sunday eve murder, which occurred in his diocese. "The circumstances of this latest crime are especially brutal and add a dimension of desecration to the current campaign of murder," Duffy said. The killing occurred as mourners buried three Royal Ulster Constabulary officers who perished in an IRA mortar attack Thursday on a border police base at Newry. Nine officers were killed in the attack.

Sunday's slaying heightened fears in Northern Ireland that Protestant extremists opposed to the overwhelmingly Catholic IRA will launch revenge attacks. bleeding on the ground beside his screaming family. The gunman fled in a car driven by another man, the police spokeswoman said. Police sources said they believed the gunmen drove across the border into the Irish Republic. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but police blamed terrorists of the outlawed Irish Republican Army.

McCormac, a training officer at the Royal Ulster Constabulary's academy in Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, was locking the door of his car as he was shot, witnesses said. The bishop of Clogher, the Rev. Dr. Joseph Duffy, denounced the BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) A gunman shot a Roman Catholic police sergeant to death as he went to Mass Sunday at Enniskillen near border with the Irish Republic, officials reported. He was the 10th police officer killed by guerrillas in four days.

A police spokeswoman said Sgt. Hugh McCormac, 40, was shot as he entered a monastery called St. Gabriel's Retreat with his wife and their 16-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son. Witnesses said the killer opened fire with a pistol at point-blank range, then fired several more bullets into the sergeant as he lay British Miners Call Off 357-Day Strike DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE ALDERMAN WARD 5 VOTE MARCH 5 ST. ANTHONY'S HALL FOR A RIDE TO THE POLLS CALL 863-5397 DD.

FOR BY COMM. TO ELECT PAUL LAFAYETTE, TREAS. W. LONEY labor unions. "This is -a victory for common sense, and for those who stayed at work," Mrs.

Thatcher said, expressing "overwhelming relief" that the strike was over. LONDON (AP) Faced with collapse of its 357-day-old strike, the coal miners' union called off the longest and most violent walkout in British history Sunday. It ordered miners to return to work Tuesday without an agreement or a promise that fired workers would be rehired. The announcement was a victory for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who came to power in 1979 intent on curbing the country's powerful WARD 1 WARD 2 "We had-to stand out against intimidation. We could never give in to blackmail or give in to a strike which makes impossible demands," she said.

For ALDERMAN Two-YearTerm (Vote for Not More Than ONE) For ALDERMAN Two-Year Term (Vote tor Not More Than ONE) Democratic Independent CD JOHN H. BARTLETT, JR. 54 Intervale Avenue KEITH PILLSBURY 25 University Terrace Democratic CD TERRY BOURICIUS 62 School Street Progressive Coalition JAMES D. ROWELL 110 North Prospect Street OFFICIAL I1MFS: (Write-in) (Write-in) 'S I For SCHOOL COMMISSIONER Two-YeirTerm (Vote for Not More Than ONE) For SCHOOL COMMISSIONER Two-Year Term (Vote tor Not More Than ONE) Democratic Democratic CD BARBARA HOCKERT 92 Grant Street JOHN M. BARROWS 32 Nash Place (Write-in) Independent CD ADELE DIENNO 28 Germain Street (Write-in) CD For WARD CLERK One-Year Term (Vote.for Not More Than ONE) MONICA MICKIE LACROIX, 71 Hungerford Terrace Democratic For WARD CLERK One-Year Term (Vote for Not More Than ONE) Independent Democratic CD PETER MACAUSLAND 10 Charles Street JANET K.

STACKPOLE 68 Case Parkway ZENITH 12" Diagonal Black White TV BT121W (Write-in) (Write-in) ZENITH 13" Diagonal CustomSeries Color TV A1310W $25995 $8450 For INSPECTORS OF ELECTION Om-Ytar Term (Vote for Not More Than THREE) For INSPECTORS OF ELECTION One-Year Term (Vote for Not More Than'THREE) Democratic Democratic CD- GEORGE C. BOUCHER 90 Loomi's Street THOMAS BASSETT 1 1 Bilodeau Parkway Democratic Democratic r. MARY GUYETJE 42 Walnut Street ANN M. CURRAN 478 North Street CITY OF BURLINGTON These sample ballots are provided for your convenience. Please consider your choices ahead of time, mark this paper, and take it with you into the voting booth on election day.

Doing this should save you time and help to avoid waiting lines on election day. ALL WARDS Liberty Union FRANCES KEMP 165-R Intervale Avenue MARTHA L. GILE 1 1 Brookes Avenue Independent (Ante-mi WILLIAM MCALLISTER 26 South Union Street ZENITH 19" Diagonal CustomSeries Color TV S1906C ZENITH 19" Diagonal SYSTEM 3 A1920W (Write-in) (Write-in) (Write-trr) "CD $35995 (Write-in) $39995 (Write-in) WARD 4 WARD 5 For ALDERMAN Two-Year Term (Vote for Not More Than ONE) Republican ALLEN F. GEAR 76 Crescent Beach Drive For ALDERMAN Two-Year Term (Vote for Not More Than ONE) CD Democratic PAUL LAFAYETTE: 46 Catherine Street For SCHOOL COMMISSIONER Two-Year Term (Vote for Not More Than ONE) Independent'' ZENITH ZENITH ELLIE.BLAIS 325 Northgate Apartments 25" Diagonal CustomSeries Color TV 25" Diagonal CustomSeries Remote Control Color TV i Independent: BOB CROSBY 5 Marshall Drive AZ50BP SA2511PN $62995 $73995 Democratic ANH "PHI" DOANE 7 Beachcrest Drive OFFICIAL ANNUAL CITY MEETING BALLOT BURLINGTON, VERMONT MARCH 5, 1985 INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTER TO VOTE FOR a candidate on the ballot, fill in the box to the right of that candidate's name and party designation. TO VOTE FOR a person whose name is not printed on the ballot, write in that person's name in the space provided AND fill in the box to the right of the name you have written in.

TO VOTE, FILL.IN BOX LIKE THIS If you tear, deface or wrongly mark this ballot, return it and get another. ZENITH 45" Diag. PROJECTION TV Space Screen 45 with Remote Control Model PV4539G (Wnte-m) $2495 For WARD CLERK One-Year Term (Vote for Not More Than ONE) Democratic THOMAS L. FLEURY 164 Saratoga Avenue JIM SCHUMACHER CD. 117 Howard Street Progressive Coalition 5 (Write-i) CD int Iff VX For SCHOOL COMMISSIONER 'Two-Year Term (Vote for Not More Than ONE) LINDA C.

ARONS0N Democratic CD- 9 Marian Street 1 1 i (Write-irt) CD For WARD CLERK One-Year Term (Vote for Not More Than ONE) MARGARET P. POIRIER Democratic CD 14 Alder Lane (Write-in) For INSPECTORS OF ELECTION ji One-Year Term (Vote for Not More Than THREE) ROBERT E. BR0CHU Democratic CfT 368 Flynn Avenue JOYCE P. MERRILL Democratic CD 79 South Crest Drive BENNETTS. TRUMAN Democratic 263 St.

Paul Street i (Write-in) (Write-in) CD (Write-in) CDv ZENITH VR2000 Programmable Video Cassette Recorder (Write-in) For INSPECTORS OF ELECTION One-Year Term (Vote for Not More Than THREE) $49995 Republican JOAN M. BEHNKE 125 Dale Road CD Democratic LORETTA BEYNNON 30 Pleasant Avenue cd ONLY AT COMPANION'S TV: 3-DAY FREE HOME TRIAL 30-DAY MQjNEY BACK GUARANTEE MOST BRANDS OF VCR'S AND TELEVISIONS SERVICED BY OUR AWARD WINNING SERVICE PEPARTMENT ifr Republican ANDREW BOSTOCK 40 Fern Street CANDIDATES PARTY DESIGNATIONS For MAYOR Two-Ynr Tirai (Vote (or Not More Than ONE) BRIAN BURNS Democratic 576 South Willard Street DIANE GALLAGHER Independent 273 South Prospect Street MICHAEL E. HACKETT Neutral 141 Manhattan Drive WILLIAM J. MURRAY Libertarian 231 South Prospect Street BERNARD SANDERS Independent 47 Catherine Street RICHARD SARTELLE Independent 165-A North Street JOHN F. TATRO Independent 108 Randy Lane (Write-in) Democratic CD DIANE L.

REMILLARD 985 North Avenue CD Democratic LILLIAN SCHIFILLITI 104 Gosse Court ITS a WM CD flSBBxfiffififii MARGARET "MARY" STROUSE 155 Killarney Drive Republican These sample ballots: are provided by the' Bank of Vermont, the Burlington City Clerk and the Free Press. CD CD CD CD CD Write-H) SALES SERVICE RENTALS TRADE-INS ACCEPTED FINANCING AVAILABLE Upper Main Street, Winooski 655-2375 OUR 14th YEAR IN BUSINESS (Wnle-in) Write-in).

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