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vfr A II till' Start Every Day Right Final Edition Weather Forecast MOSTLY SUNNY, WARM Temp. Range: Fahrenheit 38 to 68 Celsias3to20 Complete Weather, Tides JJ ESTABLISHED 1764, VOL. bmh CXLN0.69 HARTFORD, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1977- Washington Biildiigs Seize Shoot ostees I teeatea Jto cores Carter Terms I i. Chile Apology Inappropriate Reporter Slain; Demands Given WASHINGTON (UPI) Black gunmen on a revenge rampage forced their way into three, crowded buildings Wednesday, killed one persorf, put scores of hostages under death threat and threw parts of central Washington into a state of siege. Police by mid-eve- v'' ning said the estimated otherStorips six to eight Hanafi Mus- inner atones lim raiders had killed a Most stringent security black radio reporter measures clamped on Wash-' ni nru.niyui tin- iiiston since dflvs of flnti- -l-f I I 1 "it 'Mb mm mm 4- Hostages Leave Police escort hostages, one of them wounded, from the B'nai B'rith headquarters in Washington Wednesday after gunmen took over the buildins(UPl).

unragez 15c cm wnavnr 90c 9 Vietnam uemonsirauons. District Building, capl- mu a uou, a sue oi most violent of Muslim attacks. Page 49 Mnaiimi mands that those responsible for deaths of seven of his followers in 1973 be taken to B'nai B'rith building. Page 3. Woman shouts "Man with a gun," to alert workers in District Building.

Page 21. Five children, two adults of the Hanafi sect slain in their homes by Black Mus Urns in 1973. page 21. height of the Vietnam war protests. Major thoroughfares were sealed off, throw-' ing rush hour traffic into chaos.

Police in flak jackets were out in force near the occur, pied buildings. Searchlight trucks and ambulances stood by. Police snipers could be seen silhouetted on nearby roofs. The eunman who identi fied himself as the leader of the raid set forth his de mands for the safetv of the hnetaooc in a cartas nf an mm in a VI WJUJi rambline telenhone inter views with reporters. They were: The bringing to him of Ali whom he referred to as "Cassius Clay" and Wallace Muhammad, spiritual leader of the mainstream Black Muslims, for their so-called confessions.

Delivery to his group inside the B'nai B'rith headquarters of the six rival Muslims sentenced to 140 years imprisonment each for the 1973 murders of five Hanafi Muslim children and two Hanafi women in a Washington house owned by basketball star Kareem. See Muslim, Page 6 in back; taxes for its studio at 555 Asylum said Deputy Corporation Counsel Richard Cosgrove. Scott refused to talk to re- Sorters, but during his roadcast claimed Faith Center is a church and thus exempt from taxes. Late Wednesday, Cos-grove met with Atty. Thomas Russell of Wethersfield, who represents Faith Center, to discuss the television station posting a bond to guarantee the taxes while Faith Center challenges the collection effort in court, Cosgrove said.

If the company establishes the bond, Cosgrove said, Channel 18 will be on the air today. Wednesday marked the second time in eight days that Channel 18 was taken off the air because of the tax dispute, which has been unsettled for at least 18 months. March 1, the Avon tax col-See Station Page 92 PAGES wmsM "We were attending the hearing, just sitting there when we heard a crash," said Miss Josem. a "It didn't sound like a shot" "But then we saw Councilman Marion Barry stagger in holding his chest and saying, "I've been shot. I've been shot." Miss Josem said that she, Yahner and a few other per sons in the council chamber then fled to a small office nearby.

As they left the chamber, she said, they saw the body of a man in the hallway. She said she didn't rec- See McKinney, Page 6 2 State Plants Closed Down By Monsanto ByJANTARR Monsanto Commercial Products Co. officials Wednesday closed down indefinitely their plastic bottle making and research operations in South Windsor and Bloomfield. Officials from the company's St Louis headquarters will meet today with the 226 remaining employes to inform them of assistance and benefits the company will provide, Monsanto spokesman Dan Bishop said. The company declined to give any more detail about the fate of the employes.

The fate of the plant itself still is not known, he said. The plan now is to keep a "minimal force" of salaried employes at the plant to do research and development work, he said. Monsanto in February laid off about 600 employes at its plastic-bottle manufacturing plants in South Windsor, Maryland and Illinois after the federal Food and Drug Ad-See 2, Page 6 i i-jf V'-- -i half a dozen in lightning one-two-three, attacks on the B'nai B'rith headquarters, the national Islamic Center and City nan, iwo DiocKS irom the White House. Headquarters for the raid seemed to be the B'nai B'rith building on Massachusetts Avenue, where the gunmen's leader said his Hanafi Muslims wanted revenge for the 1973 murder of seven Hanafi women and children including four of his own children by rival Muslims. His demands included delivery to him of all those convicted of the murder, cessation of the commercial showing of a movie they feel blasphemes Allah and delivery to him of heavyweight "champion Muhammad' Ali for a forced confession of how his mainstream Black Muslims allegedly have distorted the word of Islam.

As night descended, police settled into a tense stalemate situation with the heavily armed breakaway Muslim sectarians. They bargained with them bv telenhone at the B'nai B'rith and Moslem Mosque WIIW UliU AUVailil locales alone: Embassy Row where gunmen threatened to "throw heads out" if police fired at them and hollering futilely through bullhorns at the City HalL As the standoff went on, President Carter ordered the FBI to start investigating how a handful of gunmen managed to strike terror in the very heart of the nation's capital. Atty. Gen. Griffin Bell and FBI Director Clarence Kel-ley spent an hour at police headquarters but refused to say what role they were Much of central Washing ton fell under a siegelike atmosphere not seen since the WASHINGTON (AP) -President Carter said Wednesday that a newly recruited American diplomat's apology for past U.S.

action in Chile was inappropriate" and the State Department promptly announced that the envoy was being called in for "consultations7 Brady Tyson, deputy leader of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Human Rights Commission meeting in Geneva, expressed regrets in a speech Tuesday "for the role some government officials, agencies and private groups played in the subversion of the previous, democratically elected Chilean Carter told a nationally broadcast news conference that he did not have advance notice of Tyson's remarks, which he characterized as "a personal expression of opinion by that delegate." Carter also spelled out some of his thoughts on a possible Middle East settlement, announcing he soon would begin exploring his ideas with Arab leaders. And he announced he was lifting restrictions on Americans traveling to Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea and Cambodia effective March 18. Saying that Tyson's views did not reflect the U.S.

government's, Carter said Senate investigators found no evidence that the United States was involved in the 1973 overthrow of the Chilean government of Salvador Allende. Shortly after Carter's meeting with reporters, a State Department spokesman said Tyson was being called into the department for a review of his speech. The State Department also said "the procedures to be followed in making U.S. policy" will be reviewed in the consultations with Tyson. The State Department said the action does not represent a recall of Tyson from Geneva because Tyson was planning to return to the Warnke Wins The Senate has confirmed Paul C.

Warnke as chief U.S. disarmament negotiator with the Russians. Story on Page 7. Inside 2 McKinney Staffers Flee Assault Scene Highlights CIA employes told that all activities must be legal and proper. President won't interfere in Concorde landing issue.

Mrs. Carter to keep fighting for Equal Rights Amendment despite criticism. See Page 17 United States on Wednesday anyway. Carter's apparent candor on the supercharged Middle East issue was reminiscent of his freewheeling disclosure at his first news conference Feb. 8 of proposals for conducting arms-related negotiations with the Soviet Union an action that sur- Erised many conventional diplomats.

At the broadcast news conference, Carter said he could foresee a Middle East settlement in which Israeli forces might be permitted to go beyond that country's established boundaries to provide protection against any sudden Arab assaults. He also talked about the possible use of international forces to police a demilitarized zone around Israel that might extend for 20 kilometers or more. Having met here this week with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Carter said, "I will be discussing this matter with the representatives of the Arab countries when they come." Carter 1lans to confer with the eaders of all Arab nations most directly involved by mid-April. The President acknowledged that the search for a Middle East settlement "is going to be a long, tedious process." But he pledged "to mount a major effort in our own government" to bring the parties to a Geneva conference in the last half of the year. Carter also: Said the U.S.

is concerned about human rights under the present Chilean regime. Carter said regarding this "very sensitive issue" that his administration has "tried" to be broad-based in our expression of concern," suggesting that initially his penchant for speaking out on See Diplomat's, Page 6 Story Page Later Years 91 Legals 16,20,42,43,53,61 Legislative News 18,19 Lifestyle 29-36 Newington 48 Obituaries 10 Sketches 91 Sports 75-84 Sydney Omarr 91 Television 39 Thursday's Child 4 Towns 47,50,52,53 West Hartford 50 Station Is Silenced Despite Protests Saccharin Banned By fda WASHINGTON (AP) -The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday it is banning saccharin, the only artificial sweetener approved for use in the United States, because it causes cancer in laboratory animi-als. Acting FDA Commissioner Sherwin Gardner said it will take at least until July to complete the administrative requirements before the ban goes into effect But he called on manufacturers "to discontinue use of saccharin as soon as possible, even while we are drafting the documents needed to accomplish this action." The FDA said it was not ordering a recall of the many soft drinks and foods containing the sugar substitute, saying tests 7'do not indicate an immediate hazard to public health." A similar ban was an-' nounced simultaneously by the Canadian government whose scientific studies were the basis for the U.S. action. Under the FDA's order, it will take 30 days for the agency to draft the ban.

The FDA hen will allow 60 days for comments from interested parties. Then, the agency will take another 30 days to make the rule final, making July the earliest month when the ban could take effect American consumers eat or drink more than five million pounds of saccharin a year, about three-quarters of it in diet soft drinks and the rest in coffee, tea and dietetic foods, such as canned fruits, gelatin deserts, jams, ice creams and puddings. It also has been used in some mouthwashes, cosmet- Today's Chuckle A smart aleck is a fellow who thinks he knows as much as you do. and the mayor's offices are located. They are: Marianne Josem, 26, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Ernest Josem of Patrick Lane, Norwalk, and John Yahiier, also 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Yahner of Pequot Road, Fairfield. Both were attending a city council meeting and fled to safety in the mayor's suite as the gunmen took hostages and holed up down the hall from the mayor's offices.

Miss Josem said she never saw the gunmen but did see two of the shooting victims. "A I .1 i w' 'It 1. 4 I By ROBERT WATERS Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON Two Connecticut residents were among about 20 persons who escaped unharmed Wednesday night after being barricaded in the mayor's offices as two gunmen terrorized the city government building killing at least one person. The two state residents, both members of the staff of Rep. Stewart B.

McKinney, R-4th Dist, left the building about four hours after the gunmen invaded the fifth floor where the city council 1 I iSJfc GOP sees Ford as a man still with a future. Page 8. Connecticut News Briefs. Page 14. Girls smoking to show they're liberated.

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Page 55. Uniroyal in Naugatuck may lay off 1,400. Page 25. ByBUJLGRAVA WHCT-TV, Channel 18, went off the air at 4:40 p.m. Wednesday after the president of the California corporation that owns the station delivered a three-hour harangue against "police-state tactics trying to silence my voice." While Faith Center President Gene Scott was urging watchers to call everyone from President Carter to the Hartford tax collector, Avon police escorted employes out of the building housing the religious television station's transmitter on Deercliff Road in that town.

Avon police responded to a complaint that Sheriff Gerard T. Beaudoin was threatened while serving a tax warrant and taking possession of the property for the City of Hartford. Avon police would give no details Wednesday. Faith Center lie, a California nonstock corporation which owns Channel 18, owes Hartford about $77,000 Page Almanac Amusements Ann Landers Bridge Business City News Classified Comics Crossword East Hartford Editorials Family's Money Farm News Feminine Topics 90 88,89 90 91 84-87 47,48 61-73 90 52 26 90 28 60 Enjoying Weather Cycle Mike Napolitano of 32 Newbury St, Hartford, took his 4-year-old ringtail monkey, Brian, for a bicycle ride in Goodwin Park under Wednesday's sunny skies. Story on Page 22 (Courant Photo by Annan G.

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