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The Bridgeport Telegram Fairfield County's Morning Nevvspaper VOL. LXXXV1, NO. 247 'uh. ff uujrj. Setend Cton pay at ftrldwfrt, Cmwi.

MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 17, 1977 26 Pages Weather Forecast RAIN THIS MORNING PARTLY SUNNY TUESDAY (Tides, data OH Page Tiro) Good Morning! BRIDGEPORT'S Office nf nevelnpfflent Administration expects to know soon about the availability at block grant funds for new programs Page 3. THREE DANDURY MEN ivere killed in a car accident in New York Page 3, LOS ANGELES DODGERS defeat New York. Yankees, 10-4. and force the sixth of the World Series to be played Tuesday evening in New York Page 8. NEW YORK GIANTS pull out a S0-J7 NFL victory over the San Francisco Wtis Page 8.

MIAMI DOLPHINS edge Jets, 21-17. while New England Patriots rally to defeat the San Diego Chargets, Page 9. A. Painful Vision TULSA, Okta. (AP) Mary Henderson heard a loud noise and felt her house shake, Tt wasn't a.

sonic boom an earthquake, It was drivErlcss car slamming Into the front porch br her house. Police said the driver of the car, Clarence Starr, 2t, told them he had fallen nut of his slaw-moving vehicle while making a rum onto his home street. Starr told police he sat in the middle the street and watched his car coast into the Hcnrfnrsm house. £tarrT who was not injured, was booked on a complaint of driving under the Influence. nf alcohol.

Strategic Weapons Talks MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Union said Sunday there has. been a "drawkig togethsr" of Russian and American positions in negotiations to -reach a new strategic arms limitation agreement. The Communist party newspaper Pravrla, in Its authoritative weekly review, praised' President Carter's speech to the United Nations General Assembly un Oct. 4, In which he said a new arms limitation agreement whs in sight Dockworkers Unloading NEW ORLEANS (AP) New Orleans dockworkers began unloading conventional cargo ships And grain barges fallow-ing order3 from the International Longshoremen's Assucialiun. Container ships were still being struck here, as they have been at all other East and Gulf coast parts since the.

1LA declared a limited strike, when the union's contract with shippers expired Oct.l. Liked Guns Too Much? BAYONKE, N.J, (AP) An tlKmployed longshoreman who Allegedly killed his Ihree children and critically wounded his wile, then called police lo the scene, enjoyed showing aft his gun collection, neighbors said Sunday. Police, said that when they arrived, they found suitcases anrt shopping hags filled with guns. Turin Businessman Kidnaped TURIN, Italy A 64-year-old Turin businessman was kidnaped while riding horseback along the outskirts of this northern Industrial city Sunday, police reported. A group calling Itself the Red Brigades, an ultra-leftist lerrorist group operating in Italy, claimed responsibility the abduction nr tiuglicrmo Liore, uur.fr of a chain of 'lllrtn supermarket.

Group Backs Canal Pact WASHINGTON CAP) Business and labor leaders, military officers and official! from past administrations have formed a blue-ribbon' commiltee. to promote ratification of the Panama Canal Ires-ly. Members of the headed by former New York Gov, Averill Harriman, one-time ambassador to Moscow who has served as a government envoy In many capacities, were scheduled to meet today with President Carter. Inside the Telegram Oassihed Advertising Comics 16 Crossword Puiile 14 Dear Abby Editorials 13 Fashions 14 Jacoby on Bridge 14 Lawrence E. Uaib, M.D 14 Obituaries 16 Polly's 14 Rettaurustt Sports 8-11 Theater News 7 Television 16 Radio 13 Women's News 15 PASSES President Carter heads lor his limousine as demonstrators hold uo a ban ner across the street protesting the neutron bomb Sunday.

Demonstrators interrupted services at the Pirst Baptist Church where Carter was worshiping. (AP) Board Defends Pupil Mix Plan By SANDRA S. SOPKO The Board of Education, as expected', has nut submitted a new desegregation Plan ta triS state education department and, because uf the lack of fiujde-lines, has not dealt with stale demands to eliminate racial Imbalance in 19 city schoolb. Bur details of the present desegregation plan, bilingual education programs, action proposals and special education services are included in a 14-page letter hand-delivered this weekend to state Education Commissioner Dr. Mark Shedd.

The letter is in response to une from Dr. Shertd, who flatly rejected Bridgeport's desegregation plan Inst mnnth. Dr. Shedd threntenctl to with hold stale funds frum the school system the local board failed to develop an acceptable alter native by today. But.

he later softened his threat, saying he would halt the funds only as a last resort. The board's leltcr includes a vast urray of charts and statistics nn projected pupil population and the jacisl and ethnic moke up of staff and students. The figures show that ihe "board expects a gradual decrease in schnnl population from the present WW youngsters tn about IB.DOD by 1B37. The letter, by Schools Stipt. Geraldine.

Johnson and school board resident Michael Hi-jriglia mnkoa no attempt lo deal with Dr. Shedd'n demand thnt rnclal isolation, particularly in 19 oi Ihe schools, he eliminated. Mr. BIsclgHa made a copy of the board's letter available to According to the letter, the local school board takes the position that "in the absence of state adopted guidelines by which to determine extreme ra- The state Educatinn Department, acting on. a fcdeial low prohibiting dlacriminalion in public school systems, recently drew up guideline-; firr cnmpliance.

But the proposals have yet to be adopted by the General Assembly. Ihe local school ooatd rilsu declined lo answer Dr. Shedd's request fur proposals nn dealing with quality education. The hnard, challenging (he wording of the request, said the question cannot be answered. "Because of the problenip of semantics emanating from toe phrase 'students who have traditionally been vicrims of ra cial or ethnic discrimination IJk Bridgeport Board nf Education cannot reply tn question number six," Ihf letter aald," Presumably board is un-clear about which racial and ethnic groups are referred to In Dr.

Shedd's letter and haw far "tradition" extends. TVhile no new plan was submitted, the school assured Dr. Shedd that It "Intends to adhere to the statutory commands" of state lows barring discrimination by "submitting annual racial raporti to the state Department uf Education and In meeting and responding to valid slatiilorily required mandates of the state Commissioner of Education The letter also offers details 'Proof Reported That a Cancer Can Defend Itself From Attack By ALTON F1J1KESLEE NEW YORK AP) Cancer Tesearchers say they have proof (hat cancers have a secret "sanctuary" allowing Ihenr 10 escape the human body's natural counterattacks. Because nf this, ihe body's Immune system cannot hit directly at the tumor, although it may be capable of attacking cells that have spread to other parts of the body from ihe original tumor, Learning what the tumor's escape mechanism Is and circumventing it might lead to better treatment of cancer, lays Dr. Edmund Klein of Roa- well Park Memorial institute Ruffalo, Klein Is reporting a team of scientists' research on the defense mechanism at a sessiun of the Pontifical Academy nf Sciences at Ihe Vatican on Monday.

tumor (experiments used in the research involved a' reaction known as' delayed hypersensitivity, which tells whether the body hats become alerted to "We have clcarcul proof ihat danger from some invader. defend Itself Cells or melanoma; an btlen- ogainst the specific immune de- deadly skin cancer, were intense mechanism of the body Jected with a virus, and a prep- which Is directed against the tumnr," he said. "We now know the major secret or how Ihe cancer lumor defends Itseif. The tumor has something, some kind nf defense mechanism. II we can aration was made of the cyto plasm, or Interior material, of the cells.

of this caused delayed hypersensitivity (Set CANCER fife I) of the bilingual called the Lau plan, listing steps taken to date to. determine the dominance af pupils and to services for them. ft also provides tables listing radal make-up of the professional and admfnJitratiye staffs in the -past -and In the present, school year. The tables indicate, a four per cent Increase, or 47 people. In rhlnority staffs since ihrr 1973-Tfl school year.

in the fetter indicate that special- education were relocated from racially idcntifiiirjle. schools to integrated schools. Tim board, which already had PUPIL MIXING Anti-Neutron Bomb Group Mars Carter Religious Services WASHINGTON- (AP) testers against '-the neutron bomb disrupted seryices. attended by President Car-. Jer.

were wres-. tied' down in the pews and thrown out of the church by ushers. Caller said later they Were "fine young people." "I agree with objective In eliminating nuclear, told report-era. "I think, they were mistaken in 1 trying to disrupt the church services, "But Secret. Servfce didn't feel I was in danger, and neither did Five of trie who interrupted services with a stafemont opposing deployment of the- neutron, bomb, were arrested and taken' to a police station, three or them in handcuffs, Police Donald t.

said the: were' -biing' booked for "disturbing a religious congregation-'' The neutron. bomb high-' radiation, low Irrtpact weapon, designed principally as 'a missile warhead, Because or the large amount, of radiation It emits, it is highly effective in killing human beings, its. rela-tivc small explosion leaves buildings Intact. Carter has sent Secretary Harold Brown Europe in an effort to convince North members lo. accept weapor) part-of their defern a arsenals against Invasion by.

the Soviet pact of cartem Eu-rbpe. most NATO reaction. Has been against the. weapon. Some critics call It Inhumane.

Oehers. iAy it would increase chances of a nuclear con-fmntalion. Carter aides have said ha will decide before the end of the year whether produce and deploy It. Carter, his Hosalynn, nine-year-ojd daughter Amy and a group of, frfeiids from Georgia, Including Mrs. Carter's former Bible teacher, entered the First BapUst Church, where the President and his family usually worship, at a.m.

The President and; his wife attended adult Bible class in the back balcony, then, took their usual "seats In the" sixth pew oh the right slde.of the'175-church, attended the Harry Truman, As Chat les T.rentham stepped1 IntO.tha pulpit to. begin his sermon, the first of the Tn stacks and a brown sweater, -stood up and began read the antl-homb statement. VSIsttrs and hrotheis." he said, address ypu lovingly Diil not mean what He said when he taught us to set by- the' four hijackers for re-lease or 11 Imprisoned In Weil German and two Palestinians Imprisoned in Turkey as well as $15 million ransom. West Germany look no aclion to meet the demands as the deadline passed, The Bonn government continued round-the-clock crisis sessions Into the night to decide what their najct step would be. South Yemen was the fifth stop for the hijacked plHne love nur enemies? And did He act live, what, said? love their enemiej.and still threaten them with nuclear dealh At that point, an usher grabbed the protester, put his harid over the.

man's mouth, pulled the demonstrator out of the -pew and. led him to (he door. a second protester, Elizabeth McAUsler. associated with Philip Bcrrigan at the Jonah' House, a anti-war community in Baltimore, stood In another -pew across the aisle and continued the reading. Another usher tried ta tike PROTEST Page Carter Urged to Unify Fight on Biased Hiring WASHINGTON Idem Carter, told by a federal-task Wat discrimination In hiring lv still "a pervasive phenomenon in American, lire." is beinjS purged to consnlidata enforcement all federal baria egainat such.

In agency. The taskTiorcei making its ie? pDtt ta Cigrter nrtparit tn send 'n 'civil1-, tights Ttorganliatlon plan to Congiesi. 1 alto aaM ttual empIoymWit prograins were "hampered by madetitiaie leadership il lha. lop, poor nlanogemeot some of Ihe iriijnr and: inedequete funding. "It shoujdi as'' no surprise, 'therefore, that dice crimlnatioii 'in 'eniployriient 'an the bniii such at natMial'orlglii, Bge and hahdJcip is still, 'ptr-vsHve phenomenon'.

In Ameri-ian the' oi Management 'end Budget: Employers now muit deal with .18 departmenle and agencies in meeting nearly 40 equal empluynient opportunity re-ciuirements presnrlhad by ejtecuiivc nrderi' nr regu-latlone, according lo a draft of the a copy of which was obtained by The -Associated 'Press. If Carter sdepts Ihe recopt-nienda'tlons, he will make a major' start 'In consolidating the policing uf hiring- dis-criminntlnn in the Equal Employment Opportunity t'ommts shj. for'twb years, Ihe Labor DeiHirtment wouW continue to 'an executive order that prnhihlts racial and religious discrimination In hiring, while would be responsible for age and sex discrimination. A' tentative timetable by Ihe- OMB.calll for Carter In submit the reorganisation plan tn Congress by (he end 'Of the inonlh. The plan (See HIRING BMS Paife t) Hostages Still Alive as Plane Travels On NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) A hijacked West German Jet with four terrorists and bl hostages aboard (orce-lnnded on a dirt strip Aden airport in South Yemen, refuelled Hnd returned to the air early Monday, the official Aden Radio announced, It was not knnwn whera the Lufthansa Boeing 737 was head-ed, according to Ihe broadcast monitored here.

Earlier reports from the Kuwait contrnl tnwer said the hijacked jet was headed, northeast. Heavy security measures were imposed at Ihe Kuwait airport after the control tower received information that ihe plane tna.v come to Kuwait. Several high-ranking Kuwaiti government officials rushed to the alrpnrt and ambitiancee and fire engines lined Ihe runway. The hijacked jet stopped at Aden airport after a deadline for death passed with the West German government refusing to meet the demands of the hijackers who had threatened to blow up ihe plane. There was no Independent confirmation from Aden airport on whether the hijacked plane had departed, Lufthansa officials in West Germany said they were awaiting confirmation that the plane had taken off.

There wos nn word nn the fate of West German Industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer, whose kidnapers had threatened to kill him unless the Bonn Kovernment met the hijackers' demands by the deadline. South Yemen's civil svlatlM agency said authorities unsuccessfully tried to prevent the Boeing T3T from landing in the capital or Aden after it was turned away by the Sultanate of Oman. "But despite our disapproval Hie plane force-landed on a dus. ty strip," a Sottlh Yemeni spukesman said. The government agreed to refuel ihe craft unly If the hijackers left "as soon as possible." The il passengers, Including on American woman with a heart condition and her S-yeer-old son, and five weary crewmen were reported safe following the shaky landing 6a the unpaved dirt strip.

The jet, dark except tor a faint Illumination In the cockpit where the Hijackers are said to be, parked about twu miles from Ihe main terminal. The Aden airport was closed until further ootlce. In'recent this Marxist country at the tip -of the Arabian peninsula has' granted refuge to hijackers and other terrorists. But officials hero' Insist the Lurthansa jet Will riot be allowed to stay. The Lufthansa jet had left Dubai airport In.

the United Arab Emirates 411 minutes be-fare the a.m. EDT deadline which was ordered to Rome, Nicosia, Bahrain and Dubai after the hijackers commandeered the Mnjurca-lo Frankfurt flight over France nn Thursday. A crowd uf 300 waited behind a sleel fence outside Ilia German Chancellery in Bonn urnile Chancellor Helmut Schmidt held marathon talks with his special team of crisis advisers. 9y mld-aftcrnonn, govern- (See HIJACKING Page MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR BING Londoinri nthcr outside Weitminater Cathedril Sunday for me morial 'service in honor ot entertainer BInjr Croiby. Croiby, 73, died Friday' after pitying jolf near Madrid.

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