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C6 THE HARTFORD COURANT: Saturday, November 2, 1991 5 New Britain constable involved in bar incident Lawmaker charged with theft, forgery 1-7 Li "They do that normally, anyway," Walsh said. "I did what everyone does I put a dollar down." Although the police reports say Walsh asked a dancer to have a drink with him, he said he could not recall whether he had done that. The one person Walsh said he remembers showing his badge to was a black customer he suspected of being a drug dealer. Walsh said he saw the patron pull out a $100 bill. "The one black man I wanted to intimidate, I did," Walsh said.

"He left very quickly." Walsh has been a city constable since 1987. He previously served as a constable for 22 years in Colchester. An unemployed construction superintendent, Walsh is one of four Republicans running for the office of constable. He said the incident would not prevent him from returning to office. "I'm automatically elected," he said.

There are eight seats open and eight candidates. Constables earn money based on the amount of tax liens or summonses they serve. Walsh said he usually earns between $600 and $700 a year. Constables are not police officers and only have powers to arrest if they are serving a summons and someone becomes unruly, said Democratic Register of Voters Edward Karwoski. Continued from Connecticut Page was out of his jurisdiction," Mattig said.

Then, she said, he told her, "If you're smart, you'd give me a beer, or else I'll be back to have you shut down." Shortly after 6:30 p.m., when the night dancers started, Mattig said, she watched Walsh go back to the stage. "I saw him take out the badge," Mattig said. "He was making lewd remarks and disgusting remarks to one of the dancers, telling her to take her bottoms off. They're not allowed to take their bottoms off. They have to have a G-string on." The club workers said Walsh had been in the club before claiming to be a police officer.

"He was really out of line," Mattig said. "Even if he was the police, nobody needs to be harassed." Turi said Walsh called a dancer over to him and told her to sit down and pay some attention to him because he was a police officer and would cause her trouble if she did not. She refused and left the stage to ask Turi to do something, workers said. Walsh said he did not bother the dancers or ask them to take off their clothes. "That would definitely be a misrepresentation to say I said that," he said.

i j. A. WM A ----x, A body that this is a strike two situation," Allen said Friday evening. "All it means is that I can't get AR accelerated rehabilitation again." A Democrat, Allen was elected to the state Senate in February, after serving as a New Haven city alderman for more than 10 years. He was elected in a special election to fill a vacancy left when former New Haven Sen.

Bruce Morris was appointed state Commissioner of Public Works. Although a member of the House of Representatives was jailed for civil contempt in 1985, Capitol observers could not recall any recent case in which a sitting state lawmaker has been arrested on felony charges. In the earlier case, U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays, R-4th Dist.

then a state representative was jailed for contempt during a disciplinary hearing against a lawyer whose conduct Shays had criticized. Allen, who may continue to serve in the Senate while his case is pending, said he intends to be an active participant in an upcoming special session to consider repeal of tne state income tax. Allen voted in favor of the tax in August. But he said he was uncertain about how the charges would affect his political future. "I'm going to enter into the session with strong opinions," Allen said.

"But to the extent I feel I can no longer be effective because of lack of public confidence or lack of time, I would certainly not want to be an obstacle." Senate Majority Leader Cornelius P. O'Leary, D-Windsor Locks, said he was saddened by Allen's arrest. "I hope he's innocent and he can prove it," O'Leary said. "It's always unfortunate whenever an arrest has to occur, both for the individual and for the institution." Continued from Connecticut Page and 10 years old. But, he said, his sister never had any intention of marrying Allston.

Allen said he shared a home on Shelton Avenue with his sister and her children. Allston lived at the home "on and off," over the past 13 or 14 years, Allen said. Allston has an unlisted telephone number and could not be reached for comment Friday. Allen said he was fulfilling one of his sister's deathbed wishes when he deposited the insurance check into his bank account. Before she died, Dawn called the family together and told them of her wishes for distributing several life insurance policies, Allen recalled.

Allston was to use the largest policy worth about $60,000 to care for the couple's children, Allen said. Two other policies including the $30,000 policy in dispute were to be controlled by Allen and his mother to cover other family responsibilities, Allen said. Allen said Allston already has received his $60,000 payment. Although Allen would not say who the disputed $30,000 check was made out to, he said Allston was not the primary beneficiary for any of the policies. "The charges made against me are false," Allen said.

Allen, who also faced forgery charges in 1977, said the past case should have no bearing on the pending allegations. In the first case, he was granted accelerated rehabilitation after being charged with forging checks while he was director of the United Newhallville Organisation. Allen left the neighborhood service agency after he was suspended. When a person charged with a crime successfully completes accelerated rehabilitation, the record of the charge is wiped off the books. "I'm not going to concede to some- Church leaders condemn violence related to tax Continued from Connecticut Page Hayes is chairman of the conference's board of directors.

The board voted earlier this month to host a meeting of Hartford area religious leaders to consider the violence, but the statement issued Friday had not Iteen reviewed or endorsed by the conference. The Rev. Earl Imswiler, chairman of a conservative group called Concerned Ministers of Connecticut, who was with Scott, said, "Some lergymen have, for their own politi-tal purpose, tried to implicate the laadership of the anti-tax movement Weicker tours sites listed for nuclear-waste dump Isabel Pacheco, seated, and Ines Soto, both 17 and seniors at Hartford Public High School, took a course to prepare for the Scholastic Aptitude Test, which will be given nationwide today. More minority students are taking the test than in the past. More minority students among those taking SAT Amtrak returns to town 36 years later Continued from Connecticut Page I "It's almost like having an inter-liational airport in your back yard," i aid Chris Thorkelson, the alliance's other founder.

At 11:10 p.m. the crowd was fooled into thinking the train had arrived arly when a freight pulled in. Onlookers quickly pulled the celebra-lory banner down so that the freight would not break through it. While the town has a year to de- ide, based on ridership, whether it wants to build a station and make Willimantic a permanent stop, Raw-son said the demographics should make it feasible. "We certainly think the potential is there," she said, noting the presence of two nearby colleges: Eastern Connecticut State University, a few blocks from the depot, and the University of Connecticut in Storrs, less than 10 miles away.

In July 1989, Amtrak resumed its in alleged incidents of harassment." The leadership, however, has been very responsible, he said. Imswiler called for repeal of the income tax, saying it "is clearly anti-family." He urged tax opponents to express their views in a letter to legislators or in a "firm but polite phone call at an appropriate hour." The General Assembly is expected to convene a special session Nov. 18 and begin debate on repeal of the income tax. However, a vote on repeal or amendment of the income tax is not expected until several veeks after that. 721-mile trek between Washington and Montreal on tracks through eastern Connecticut.

Two years earlier, it had suspended the service because of dilapidated track conditions between Springfield and Vermont. Thus, Willimantic got its first taste of the Montrealer: the train whooshed through town, without stopping, twice a day in the middle of the night. Earlier this year, Amtrak said it would permanently drop the Hartford-Springfield route and beginning stopping in Willimantic. The train due to arrive in Willimantic started its journey Friday in Washington at 4:10 p.m. and is scheduled to arrive in Montreal today at 10:45 a.m.

The cheapest round-trip fares for local riders include a $68 fare between Willimantic and Montreal, $89 between Willimantic and Washington and $44 between Willimantic and New York City. and other people who endorse tougher laws for drunken-driving offenses. Thomas H. Engelke died in August 1984 when Rocchetti's car collided with Engelke's after crossing the center line. Under existing law, Rocchetti's record only contains one drunken-driving conviction from the 1989 incident, even though he had been sentenced in 1985 for second-degree manslaughter with a motor vehicle while intoxicated.

typist By TOM PULEO Courant Staff Writer Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. Friday made his first visit to the three sites being considered for a low-level nuclear-waste dump encouraging dump opponents who hope to enlist his support. Avice Meehan, a spokeswoman for Weicker, would not say how the governor reacted to the morning trip, which was unannounced so that he could tour the area unhindered by cameras, reporters and any hoopla.

Rep. Joseph D. Courtney, D-Vernon, who accompanied Weicker, said, "He was kind of stunned to see all this population activity that close to a site. "I commented that being there is the most powerful argument you can make against it. He agreed," Courtney said.

Courtney said opponents need Weicker's help to get the state's con-' gressional delegation to work to change a federal law that forces states to dispose of their own nuclear waste. "It is a federal law that has created this Frankenstein," Courtney said. Connecticut Hazardous Waste Management Service announced in June that it had narrowed to three its primary choices for a dump site. Two sites are in Ellington and one Continued from Connecticut Page course. Similarly, a Saturday morning program at Weaver High School in Hartford enrolled a record number, drawing about 70 students a week for the eight-week course.

"We've really seen a change," said Barbara M. Alleyne of the Hartford alumni chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, which has run the program at Weaver for the past 10 years. "They are seeing the importance of education. It's economic. It affects what you can expect in a lifetime, job-wise." Miguel Colan, 16, a senior at Bulkeley High School in Hartford, hopes to score well enough today to qualify to attend Trinity College in Hartford or Wesleyan University in Middletown, his top choices.

But Colan, who learned to speak English after moving to the United States from Peru four years ago, worries that the test, which is administered in English, will be difficult. He juggled hours in an after-school job in order to attend the San Juan Tutorial Program. Colan hopes it will help, but said, "you really can't study for the SAT in a month. You have to study all your life." 8x8 WHITE CERAMIC FLOOR TILE EACH $1.59 SO. FT.

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Trinity College still requires applicants to take the SAT or the comparable American College Testing exam, "but we don't take it as the absolute," said David M. Borus, dean of admissions. Such tests, he said, are "much less important than what high school courses students have had and their performance in those courses." 6x9 DECORATIVE CERAMIC WALL TILE (3(0) COLORS FT. BORDERS INSERTS AVAILABLE WALL TILE EACH 99 SQ. FT.

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Meehan said Weicker has been in-' tending for some time to visit the sites. He drove the tracts early Friday with Courtney; Rep. Edward Graziani, D-Ellington; and members of his staff. "I'm not characterizing what his reaction was one way or another," Meehan said. "He wanted to go see the sites firsthand, and he did.

He is someone who very much likes to see things for himself." Weicker did not publish the visit in his daily schedule, Meehan said, because cameras, reporters and activists would have "defeated the whole purpose of the exercise." Sharon Schall, chairwoman of Citizens Opposed to a Radioactive Environment, said she was not aware of the visit, but was encouraged by it. "Maybe he will now have a sense of what this is all about," she said. Bonnie Tessman, a spokeswoman for Connecticut Opposed to Waste, agreed. "Hopefully, this will bring his attention to just how populated it is," she said. Graziani said the tour took about 90 minutes.

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