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Weather Forecast HAZY, HOT AND HUMID Temp. Range: -Fahrenheit 70-95 Celsius 22-33 Complete Weather, Tides On Page 2 maw. Start Every Day Right Final Edition ESTABLISHED 1764, VOL. HARTFORD, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1978-60 PAGES. 15c pa COPY Wt8dYY 90c Blistering Air Lingers, Extending Pollution Alert 2 Bitter Battles Dominate As Democrats Convene the service Friday was 94 degrees, seven short of the record 101 degrees, recorded last July 21, and the temperature-humidity index, a measuring system for discomfort caused by heat and humidity, ran to a high of 83.

Anything over 79 is supposed to make almost everyone uncomfortable, officials said. Pollution monitors in all four counties where the alert is in effect recorded very unhealthful pollution levels, state officials said. Persons with heart or respiratory disorders were advised to avoid exertion or prolonged driving. Weathermen said a few scattered showers are possible in the next few days. The hot, humid weather may break Monday, they said.

By COLIN McENROE A mass of hot, hazy air, laced with Kllutants, lingered over Connecticut iday, and weather officials could firomise no respite from the heat for ab east the next two days. State Department of -Environmental Protection officials extended an air-pollution alert, issued earlier for Fairfield, Middlesex and New Haven counties, to Hartford County. A large, high-pressure system, called a Bermuda high, sitting over the Atlantic Ocean with its center near Bermuda, is bringing hot, tropical air up to the Northeast, said National Weather Service officials. The high temperature recorded by Vs. vf Begin Showing Instability, Opposition Leaders Charge 1 Convention Contenders Thomas Grasso looks straight ahead Friday night as convention session.

To Killian's left in the convention's he provides the buffer zone between his wife, Gov. Grasso, front row is his wife, Evelyn (Courant Photo by Michael and Lt. Gov. Robert K. Killian, contenders for the Demo- McAndrews).

cratic gubernatorial nomination, during the opening state Convention Lacks Bailey Touch house and ruins it, you cannot be fair with him because he is a good friend." Begin, 64, suffered a severe heart attack shortly after his Likud bloc won a surprise election victory in May 1977 that ended 29 years of Labor Party rule in Israel. He also suffers from mild diabetes. The charges leveled at the Labor Party session forced Begin's physician, Dr. Basil Lewis, to issue a denial saying the prime minister was not under heavy medicinal treatment and was in better health than he has been for 18 months. "He practically receives no medication, aside from headache pills, and therefore there should not be any talk of his being under the influence of drugs which influence his abilities or his mood," Lewis said.

"It is a pity that there are those who slander Begin now in matters concerning his health because it is really not true." meet any Arab leader in the future. "You're not going to Sadat, not to Hussein, not to Morocco and not to Shmoro-co," Begin reportedly said. Former Labor Finance Minister Yehoshua Rabinow-itz said, "Begin's behavior in the Knesset was the behavior of an abnormal person. I have known Begin for many years and what happened to him in the Knesset that night arouses fear." Discussed Outburst Labor leaders later met privately to discuss the prime minister's outburst and "expressed doubt about Begin's ability to perform his duties and to carry out responsibility and there even were those who attributed to him abnormal behavior because of the medicines he takes." "It's a pity what's happening to him," former Prime Minister Golda Meir was quoted by Labor Party sources as saying at the meeting. "But Begin's illness cannot put off criticism of him," Mrs.

Meir said. "When a friend breaks into your state convention opened Friday night, Bailey was missed, too. Normally, he would be wandering in the wings of the Bushnell stage, talking to party leaders, asking political reporters what they knew and quietly issuing invitations to dissidents to visit with him in his top-floor Hilton suite in the small hours of Saturday. "We'll work it out," he would say. By dawn on Saturday, most of his problems at the convention would have been worked out.

He would grab a couple of hours sleep, shave and pass the word at 7 or 8 a.m. Saturday that all was well. Hospital Weighs Own Health Plan By JACK AIM AN The only thing certain at a leaderless and contentious Democratic state convention Friday night was that Gov. Grasso would be endorsed today for a second four-year term. Bitter battles were being fought over: Whether Lt.

Gov. Robert K. Killian of Hartford would get the 20 percent delegate vote he needs to challenge Mrs. Grasso to a Sept. 12 statewide primary, which would be the first in party history.

Whether Democratic State Chairman William A. O'Neill of East Hampton could be stopped in his drive for the lieutenant governor nomination. At times, the battle for lieutenant governor in the Hartford Hilton corridors and hotel rooms, where most delegates were staying, overshadowed the gubernatorial primary fight, which was down to one vote here and another there. If Kisses Were Planks Prompt Battles Unity Besought Question of Primary See Page 10 The convention, left rudderless without the behind-the-scenes guiding hand of the late Democratic State Chairman John M. Bailey, opened Friday night with a keynote speech by U.S.

Sen. Abraham Ribicoff. The battles over lieuten- ant governor and a statewide gubernatorial primary, both still unsettled late Friday night, brought all top statewide and regional party leaders into contention. The fighting continued early today. Today's endorsement session of the convention starts at 10 a.m.

at the Bushnell Memorial. The two battles so dominated the convention Friday that another fight, over the secretary of the state nomination, was put on the shelf by many leaders to await the results of the major fights. O'Neill, the state chairman, held the lead for the lieutenant-governor endorsement, claiming he was close to a first ballot victory. The fighting was so intense that it was reported O'Neill lead-See Battles, Page 4 Economy Spurts to $2 Trillion WASHINGTON (AP) The nation's economy grew by the largest amount in more than two years during the spring quarter as it reached the $2 trillion mark, but inflation climbed to an annual rate of 10 percent, the government said Friday. Although it was the first time in history that the economy reached $2 trillion, government officials said the 7.4 percent growth rate in the second quarter was less than expected.

Two trillion is 2,000 billion. Because of this, said Secretary of Commerce Juanita M. Kreps, the Carter administration may be unable to achieve its goal of 4.1 percent overall economic growth for 1978. She said the target now "looks too optimistic." The Commerce Department said inflation during the second quarter was at an annual rate of 10.1 percent, the worst in more than three years since the nation recorded a 10.7 percent rate in the first quarter of 1975. Today's Chyckle You can get rich if you can come up with something that's low-priced, har it-forming and House Bill Helps Elderly Renters It isn't the same, this Democratic convention.

Somebody is missing. The bald head, spectacles sitting on his forehead, the cigar, frequently unlit, a finger poking into a delegate's chest, an arm thrown around someone's shoulder, a claque following him everywhere, messengers to carry orders, to find out what the gossip is. What's missing is the late Democratic State Chairman John Moran Bailey of Hartford, who bossed every Democratic state nominating convention from the time he took state power in 1946, until he died in April 1975. Bailey's son, attorney John Michael Bailey toured the Hilton lobby for an hour or so Friday afternoon, shaking hands and greeting delegates much as the elder Bailey used to. Not many knew the younger Bailey.

Bailey's daughter, Barbara B. Ken-nelly, is a candidate for secretary of the state. Bailey was around at every state convention from the mid-1980s on, doing the bidding then of the late top Hartford Democratic leader, Thomas J. Spellacy, his political mentor. A crowd would gather around Bailey every time he strolled through the Hartford Hilton lobby during a convention period, taking the pulse.

Friday, the old pros admitted they missed the leader, as they called him. At the Bushnell, where the Lufkin Appointed Dan W. Lufkin, prominent in Wall Street business and Connecticut political circles, has been named to a new office of the chief executive at Columbia Pictures Industries Inc. See Page 27. TEL AVIV, Israel (UPI) The opposition Labor Party said Friday Prime Minister Menachem Begin's behavior was "abnormal" and questioned his mental stability and ability to govern.

Begin supporters denounced the latest Labor attack and the prime minister's personal physician said Begin's health "is the best it's been for the last year and a half." The latest dispute surrounding Begin was triggered by his angry outburst in Parliament against Labor leaders' contacts with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and his vow that he would ban opposition politicians from talking to Arab leaders. Forbade Meeting Specifically, Begin forbade Labor leader Shimon Peres the man who would succeed Begin as prime minister should Labor return to power from meeting Jordan's King Hussein. Begin reportedly told a groups of Labor leaders in parliament they would not Woman, 21, Accused in Death Plot By THOMAS D.WILLIAMS A young Bristol woman, accused of participating in a plot to kill a prosecution witness in the killing of a Plain-ville policeman, was ordered held on a $100,000 bond Friday, in a Hartford Superior Court hearing. Debra Mitchell, 21, of 288 Pine St. was charged with conspiring with Gerard "Gary" Castonguay, 33, one of the two defendants in the slaying.

Castonguay was behind bars when the alleged plot was hatched in April and May. After communicating with Castoijguav, Miss Mitchell is accused of hiring an uniden-' tified man to kill the unnamed witness. But, the alleged deal was thwarted because the would-be assassin reported it to police. Miss Mitchell was arrested about 5:50 p.m. Thursday in Bristol.

The would-be killer was arrested in connection with the plot, and then released on bond. Authorities would not say whether Castonguay has been charged with the plot. Castongtrcfy is in state custody at a correctional facility, but his exact location has not been disclosed. Friday, Judge Jaul J. Driscoll rejected a defense request to cut Miss Mitchell's $100,000 hond in half so her family could raise the funds to free her.

She is being held at the state's prison for women in Niantic. Castpnguay and his nephew, Rocco Testa, 20, of 206 South Bristol, were arrested last Dec. 1 and See Woman, Page 4 What If Coming On Sundfrj? 8eePage8 By DAVID H. RHINELANDER Hartford Hospital and its 450 physicians are considering the creation of a new health insurance plan for their patients that would be competitive with Blue Cross-Blue Shield. The "individual practice association" under, review allows the patients to continue to see their regular doctors in their offices and at the hospital.

But its financial structure would be similar to that of the health maintenance organization, which provides a broad range of services for a set monthly fee. The new plan is intended to save patients money because both doctors and hospital have a financial incentive to avoid unnecessary treatments or stays. The American Health Management and Consulting Corp. of Strafford, is in the midst of a $40,000, four- Inside the power and authority that Bailey had. Further, O'Neill is a candidate for lieutenant governor, making it much harder for him to bring contending forces together.

The old pros were shaking their heads sadly Friday night. "'Bailey would never have allowed these fights to go this far," one said. "He would have settled them months ago." The only big fights during Bailey's party leadership were in 1958, when a U.S. Senate nomination battle was fought among the late Sen. Thomas J.

Dodd, former See Democrats, Page 10 Bolivian Chief Yields to Junta LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) President Hugo Banzer resigned Friday night and air force Gen. JuanPereda Asbun took power three hours later after mounting a rebellion that threatened Bolivia with civil war. Banzer, an army general who came to power in a bloody coup seven years ago, turned the government over to a three-man junta, composed -of the senior commanders of the three branches of the armed forces. The junta was in symbolic charge of the country while Pereda flew to this mountain capital from Santa Cruz, seat of the revolt, 620 miles south of La Paz. The rightist air force general arrived at the presidential palace dressed in civilian clothes and surrounded by hundreds of soldiers.

Many in the crowd at the See Banzer, Page 4 i-v-v (UPI) KRISTINA K. BERSTER 1 s. But not this time. The battles for governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of the state, and possibly others, are on, and they are tough. Nobody has the authority that Bailey had to bring contending forces together.

Bailey's last big one was in 1974, when he brought Ella T. Grasso and Robert K. Killian together in a peace pact. Once Bailey died, the peace treaty fell apart and Lt. Gov.

Killian and Gov. Grasso are in a pitched battle. Bailey's successor as state chairman, Rep. William A. O'Neill of East Hampton, doesn't have anywhere near proposal, Rep.

John J. Duncan, said it is unfair to give the elderly poor more money to meet inflation and then take it away by charging higher rents. Rep. Thomas L. Ashley, D-Ohio, chairman of a House Banking subcommittee, tried unsuccessfully to defeat the amendment.

Ashley said higher rents are in themselves an element in the rising cost of living which the increased Social Security benefits were designed to offset. Another provision, approved just before the House voted 270-26 to approve the housing bill, would require the Federal Housing Administration and the Veterans Administration to use the same forms in approving federally backed mortgage loans. who may or may not have been Miss Berster," the spokesman said. A spokesman said the FBI had established liaison with Canadian authorities in connection with the search. "They know we're looking for them," he said.

German justice authorities suspected two of the three wanted persons were Dr. Wolfgang Huber, a founder of the Socialist Patients' Collective, and Axel Achterrath. Both face various charges in Germany connected with suspected terrorist activities. SeeU.S.,Page4 month feasibility study to see if this system, known as an IPA-HMO, would succeed here. Growing Competition Hospital officials initiated the study in the face of growing competition among the region's hospitals and doctors.

Under the Hartford Hospital proposal, all, its doctors would be eligible to join the association. Patients, including persons covered by Medicare and Medicaid, would, continue to see their regular "primary care" doctor associated with the hospital, whether internist, pediatrician, obstetrician or family physician. If specialized care were needed, patients would be referred to surgeons, radiologists and other experts in the association. Part of the monthly health insurance payment would be "banked" in a hospital fund, See Hospital, Page 4 Story Page Later Years 29 Legals 37 Lifestyle 12-14 Newington 19,20 Obituaries 8 Religion 15 Saturday's Child 60 Sketches 29 Social Security 28 Sports 31-36 Sydney Omarr 29 television 36 Towns 19-22 West Hartford 19,22 WASHINGTON (AP) The House Friday approved a $29.3 billion federal housing program that would prevent elderly residents of public housing projects from Being forced to pay higher rents because they receive Social Security cost-of-living increases. A similar four-year extension of operations under the Department of Housing and Urban Development was approved in the Senate Thursday.

Before completing work on the bill, the House voted, 256-38, to prohibit Social Security increases occurring after May 1978 from being considered as income when rents are considered in federally financed public housing projects. Rents in such projects are based on income. The chief sponsor of the The FBI believes two of her three companions a man and a woman later re-entered the United States, a source close to the investigation said. FBI Director William Webster said late Friday agents discovered a woman entered the United States at Los Angeles last December using the name "Shahrzad Nobari" which appeared on the passport Miss Berster was carrying when arrested. An FBI spokesman said the agency was not sure whether the traveler was Miss Berster.

"The passport is the same, but it was used by someone U.S. Seeks German Terrorists Travelers to hold off on rate hike request. Page 2. Connecticut News Briefs. Page 22.

Mormons are streetboarding in city. Page 15. U.S. News Roundup. Page 5.

Foreign News Roundup. Page 3. Postal pact may hold line on stamp rates. Page 7. WASHINGTON (UPI) U.S.

and Canadian authorities Friday sought three suspected members of a West German terrorist organization who are believed to have crossed the border between the two countries with legitimate passports. The three are wanted for questioning, by federal authorities after a fourth person, West German fugitive Kristina Katherina Berster, 27, was arrested by U.S. border guards near Alburg, Vt. last Sunday carrying a false Iranian passport. She had attempted to slip past the border post but was spotted and arrested.

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