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4 Wf Gang is workin' on the railroad In VERMONT, Page 1B Philadelphia hands Giants a 24-13 loss In SPORTS, Page 5B The garter belt snaps into style In LIVING, Page 5A 7 urun JmhUJi-i- Student protest Czech TUESDAY October 11, 1988 Volume 162, No. 284 35 cents, two news sections Top of the news Dodgers win 7-4 eadeirs 'V SI -If I ROB SWANSON, Free Press resign The Associated Press PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia Lubomir Strougal, who was considered an economic reformer and had been the nation's premier for more than 18 years, resigned Monday and gave up his seat on the 12-member Communist Party Politburo. Peter Colotka, premier of Slovakia, also quit his job and membership on the party's ruling body. Communist Party chief Milos Jakes announced the resigna-. tions at a plenary session of the party Central Committee, the official news agency CTK reported.

The shake-up in Czechoslovakia follows similar government reorganizations in the Soviet Union, Hungary and Poland, as well as unrest in Yugoslavia. The names of Strougal, Colotka and Foreign Minister Bohuslav Chnoupek came up in a corruption scandal last year. Stanisdlav Babinsky, who ran a catering and supply operation in rural Slovakia, was sentenced to 14 'A years in prison after a three-month trial that ended June 30, 1987. Nine other defendants also were sent to prison for "stealing Socialist ownership on a large scale for several years and committing other criminal acts." Babinsky named Strougal and Colotka during the trial, but it was not clear what favors they were supposed to have received. Chnoupek was said to have been given furniture, which he later paid for.

When he took over as party chief from Gustav Husak in December last year, Jakes said the fight against corruption would be among his priorities. Rumors of leadership changes have circulated for months. Jakes and other officials have indicated younger people would be promoted to senior positions. Strougal, 63, said earlier this year that he wanted to step down. DEMANDING STUDENTS: A Goddard College student who gave his name as Zenzile, left, shouts slogans as Todd Fradlcin prepares to read a statement to the media while leaning from a second-floor window in the Goddard College administration offices Monday.

The pair are part of a group of students occupying administration offices until a list of their concerns and demands are addressed. Activists close Goddard Students make demands of college, Washington Zenzile added, speaking from behind a second-floor doorway blocked with chairs and bedsprings. "I will not leave." Jack Lindquist, president of the 50-year-old private school, said the administration would study the demands and was willing to meet with the students to discuss the issues. The activists took over the offices Sunday evening after meeting with other students to discuss their grievances. The list of demands included fuli disclosure of the school's financial records, recruitment of minority, lesbian and gay faculty and students, a ban on police on campus, and full support for the Peace Studies Program and Third World Studies.

Turn to STUDENTS, back page By Susan Allen Free Press Staff Writer PLAINFIELD Goddard College shut down Monday after a group of activist students barricaded themselves in the administration offices and issued a list of 26 demands. "We feel the time has come to take serious and definitive action to arrest apathy at our school, to arrest mediocrity, to address why our school has become dysfunctional," said a fifth-year student from South Africa who gave his name as "Zenzile." "We have to take a collective stand as a block of people who have occupied this building and shut this system down," The power of Pyramid Enemies often have change of heart The Associated Press OUT OF THE PARK: Los Angeles Dodger Kirk Gibson hits his three-run homer Monday during the fifth inning of the National League Championship Series. Los Angeles leads the series 3-2. Tonight's game begins at 8:22 p.m. Security lapses cited at weapons laboratories The Associated Press WASHINGTON Intelligence agents from Soviet bloc and other countries have been allowed to pay lengthy visits to Energy Department nuclear weapons laboratories without adequate security review, congressional sources said Monday.

A report by the General Accounting Office, to be released today at a hearing of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, "details some very lax procedures with regard to visits by foreign nationals at our weapons facilities," said one source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "In some other cases, the GAO has determined that some of these individuals from certain nations have been found to have been affiliated with foreign intelligence services," the source said. A second congressional source confirmed the report. Maine man prepares to collect Megabucks The Associated Press BREWER, Maine While many Mainers enjoyed a day off from work because of Columbus Day, it was just another day at the office Monday for a Dedham man identified as the winner of the latest Tri-State Megabucks jackpot, valued at $3.3 million. Tom Martin, 48, said he planned to travel to Augusta today to present his ticket and claim the first of 20 annual payments of $165,000, minus withheld income taxes.

Martin, who usually buys five to seven Megabucks tickets per week but purchased nine for Saturday night's drawing, won on an "easy pick" ticket in which the six-number combination is chosen by the Megabucks computer, said Cathy Latham, spokeswoman for the Maine State Lottery. The winning numbers were: 6-7-10-29-31-32. Numbers NATIONAL LEAGUE PLAYOFFS Los Angeles 7 New York 4 NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Philadelphia 24 N.Y. Giants 13 In SPORTS, 5B VERMONT LOTTERY: The numbers 171 and 7135 were drawn Monday. DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE: gained 8.71 points and closed at 2,158.96.

slick consultant-orchestrated campaign more akin to a U.S. Senate race than a town council contest. Pyramid's steamroller tactics left a bad taste in Buchholz's mouth. But she has trouble finding fault with the Pough-keepsie Galleria mall, which opened in the summer of 1987 with approval from Pyramid's hand-picked town administra- By Hilary Waldman Gannett News Service POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. Supervisor Anna Buchholz had to fight for her political life in 1985, when Pyramid Cos.

the shopping mall moguls bankrolled a slate of candidates who wanted a new shopping center in town. Although Democrat Buchholz survived EDITOR'S NOTE: Pyramid Cos. is, with Maple Tree Place, making its second attempt in 10 years to build a large mall in Williston. This is the last of a three-part series that provides a look inside the Syracuse, N.Y., mall developer's operations. the blitz, three Pyramid-backed Republicans were swept in with the help of $775,000 worth of polls, radio ads and a tion.

"It's very popular with the community," Buchholz acknowledged. "It's a beautiful place with beautiful stores." Since the Syracuse, N.Y.-based Pyramid Cos. entered the regional shopping center market in the mid-1970s, it has stirred community turmoil the way a bulldozer churns up soil. Turn to PYRAMID, back page President vows reform in Algeria City welcomes mayor's group from Yaroslavl II In MONEY, 14A Weather By Michael Goldsmith The Associated Press ALGIERS, Algeria Soldiers with machine guns fired on protesters Monday, killing at least 25 people and wounding dozens, witnesses said. President Chadli Bendjedid promised reforms to end the bloody weeklong revolt.

Bendjedid, in a nationwide address Monday night, hinted he would not run for re-election at the end of the year. But he defended his declared state of emergency and said he would "not allow the country to fall into anarchy." Reliable reports from police, doctors and other sources say up to 300 people have been killed in the riots that began last week, the worst in this North African nation since its independence from France in 1962. "There were bodies laying on all sides," one witness said. "The soldiers were piling them into trucks, one body on top of another." The witness and others who saw the shooting reported several dozen people wounded, with some of the seriously injured taken away by ambulances. Army helicopters armed with missiles made repeated passes over Bab-el-Oucd at low altitude, apparently trying to frighten the protesters.

A marcher reported seeing the body of a teen-ager wrapped in a sheet and taken away by friends. Others spoke of at least. 25 and perhaps 30 dead. By Enrique Corredera Free Press Staff Writer Burlington officials and businessmen Monday greeted with open arms a three-member delegation from Yaroslavl, an ancient city in the Soviet Union. Yaroslavl Mayor Alexander Ryabkov, a'ong with Yuri Novi-kov, director of Yaroslavl's medical college, and Sergi Verkho-vets, director of a machine factory, arrived at Burlington International Airport early Monday morning.

They will be in the area until Sunday. The trip was arranged as part of Mayor Bernard Sanders' effort to set up a sister-city relationship with the Soviet community. Burlington and Yaroslavl officials are scheduled to sign an agreement Friday. Sanders and several city officials visited Yaroslavl on a trip to the Soviet Union in June, in the midst of the superpower summit. The city sits on the Volga River about 150 miles northeast of Moscow.

It has a population of about 640,000 people. The trio of Soviets paid for their airfare from the Soviet Union to New York City. Their weekend stay in New York and their airfare to Burlington was paid with city funds out of the mayor's discreLonary fund and in Burlington the Radisson Hotel is providing them with rooms. The Soviet delegation Monday was taken to City Hall for an official welcoming reception with city department heads and other officials, and later toured several stores on the Church Street Marketplace. Ryabkov, in a brief speech at City Hall, said a better relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union is what made their trip possible.

"Frankly speaking, three years ago we didn't dream that we would come here to the United States of America," Ryabkov said through interpreter Alexander Rozman, a Burlington resi- Turn to YAROSLAVL, back page Cloudy with showers likely, changing to flurries by late afternoon. Morning temperatures near 50 will be falling into the 40s during the afternoon. Tonight, a 50 sercent chance of light snow, breezy, ow 30 to 35. Regional forecast, 18A nside 1 I -2A JOB Nation ossified- 16A 9A Opinion. mics "jssword 12B Sports 5B itfhs 2B TV listings 8A JVM WIISON, Free Press WELCOME, MAYOR: Burlington Mayor Bernard Sanders, left, Yaroslavl Mayor Alexander Ryabkov and Burlington Alderman Terry Bouricius, PC-Ward 2, tour the Church Street Marketplace Monday after the arrival of a three-man Soviet delegation.

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