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Braves Clinch NL West PageA9 Volume 42: Number 105 The Newspaper Ot The Upper Valley Monday Oct 4 1993 50c Protesters Break Russian Siege Thousands Overwhelm Police Force By SONNI EFRON Las Aageles Time MOSCOW Boris Yeltsin's presidency trembled yesterday as thousands of pro-parliament demonstrators backed by paramilitary units rampaged through downtown Moscow am smashed through poBce barricades around the besieged Russian parliament building By early today there wen signs that forces loyal to Yeltsin were reasserting control Hundred of troops including paratroopers were securing strategic prints in downtown Moscow Tanks armored personnel car-anmr roll- riers and trucks were 5 One loser in recent events in Russia is the rule trail dty 016 of law Page A8 a Yeltsin spokesman said commanders of A militiaman Is chased by a mob of pro-Communist protesters who forced their way through barricades near the parliament yesterday Reportedly 24 people were kilted In fighting Russia's military pledged loyalty to toe But the Interfax news sources close to president" said Yeltsin would agree to simultaneous elections for and parliament a that Yeltsin ruled out as late The report could not be Immediately Moscow exploded in violence yesterday after enraged demonstrators formed makeshift but well-armed paramilitary units and frontal assault on the police barricades around the parliament building Riot police said they could not stop the crowd short of shooting than and thousands of jubilant protesters surged in to end the 13-day siege On orders from rebel Vice President Alexander RutskoL right-wing forces then seized the Moscow office dragging the deputy mayor and other officials out at gunpoint and stormed the main television tower knocking out the two channels that reach moat of Russia At least eight people were reported killed ana 100 injured in street brawls and firelights between riot police and demonstrators But the toll was expected to rise sharply as riot police inside the Ostankino television building used machine guns and grenade launchers late yesterday to light off attackers For much of the day opponents appeared to be gaining the upper hand "The Yeltsin regime has finally fallen" proclaimed Communist leader Viktor I Anpilov the organizer of the mass demonstrations Saturday and yesterday But by evening pro-Yeltsin demonstrators manned barricades on Red Square and on downtown Tver- skaya Boulevard and about 5000 'sntial supporters rallied in of tin statue of Prince Yuri (Continued on page A16) -RUSSIA cm From left a bloodied protester sits on a wall in Moscow center the crowd hits a solder with a shield right armored personnel carriers arrive last nJght to try to restore order Yeltsin And Supporters Were Woefully Unprepared For Assault bv anti-Yeltsin leu launchers and News Analysis By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG Lea Aagdes Times MOSCOW On a lovely Indian aummer Sunday President Boris Yeltsin lost control of the streets of his capital and it seemed for a time of the capacity to rule Russia The downturn in fortunes was breath takingly swift IBs position improved markedly with the arrival or paratroopers and armor in the city's heart early this morning But yesterday's dramatic violent events on Moscow thoroughfares were a terrible Mow to last night many of those officers had taken flight and Russia's 52-year-old leader wee hunkered down inside the Kremlin protected by its thick brick walls and by the army detachments that came to his aid fate of Russia the fate of our children is being decided today" Yeltsin said in a statement civil war will not succeed if we stand in their His office had announced a televised address to the nation but as a symptom of his ebbing fortunes the broadcast center in north- era Moscow was attacked forces equipped with grenade submachine guns and the president could not go on the air Anatoly A Sobchak mayor of St Petersburg said Russia had arrived at the same momentous juncture as in 1917 when the battleship Aurora fired a shot that unleashed the Bolshevik attack on the ill-fated Provisional Government and spawned the creation (Continued on pige A1S) ANAL1 his contested presidency' due in part to miscalculations and overconfidence by the president and Ms advisers On Saturday morning Yeltsin clambered out of his Zil limousine to survey the Russian parliament building the besieged riverside headquarters of his adversaries and rive a By pep talk to the police officers ringing Lebanon Braces For Reappraisals By CHAMBERS BOYD Valley News Staff Writer LEBANON Sane commercial property owners could be in for unpleasant news when they open their mail over the next several days At the time lots of apartment building Owners receive some welcome news dty tax assessor David Johnson has just finished reassessing commercial properties along Routes 12A and 120 and numerous local apartment buildings Overall property values on 12A increased by approximately $4-3 million and the value of commercial land at the Centerra business park off Route 120 increased by about $1 million limert buMng values dtywide dropped by New values wow arrived at in with the state Department of Revenue (ration All reassessments are still Hie Centerra business nark 'la Dartmouth College Dartmouth Real ifotatf recta Paul Olsen said understand how they got there but not happy with having to pay an Olsen said the figure assumes that all lots at the business peril have immediate liquidation values it will take 10 years to sell all the he said The new estimate is not unreasonable I assuming that all other properties are (Continued on page A5) -ASSESS Mid-Vermont Christian School Meets Success Rapid Growth Is Seen As School Satisfies Unmet Need For A Bible-Based Education 5 Americans Killed In Somali Attack By TOM KENWORTHY and JOHN LANCASTER The Washington Post Five American troops were Miiad in Somalia yesterday and two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down during an operation try UN peacekeeping forces that Pentagon officials said resulted in the capture of a top lieutenant of warlord Mo-hamed Farr ah Aidid Pentagon spokesmen said they had only sketchy details of the circumstances of the downing of the two helicopters carrying elite U3 Army Ranger units but said number of U3 were also wounded in the operation which was continuing last right in Mogadishu The helicop- ten were downed shortly before 4 pm Somalia time In a separate incident three Marines were wounded one seriously when a remote-controlled mine exploded under their vehicle in Mogadishu killing a Somali Yesterday's deaths brought to 15 the number of Americans killed in combat in Somalia since the United States intervened there in December to halt famine and anarchy There have been four non-combat US deaths The United Nations took ova command of the multinational military mention in May The helicopters were involved in what was described as an (Continued on page A16) UZH Monday Grafton Death Was Suicide GRAFTON New Hampshire State Police last night had not released the identity of a juvenile who was found shot Saturday night on a remote road in Grafton They did however say that the head wound that claimed the youth's life appeared to be self-inflicted The man was found lying on Wild Meadow Road about 6:50 Kin front of a car that had riddled with bullets He was taken to Dartmouth-Hitch- cock Medical Center where he was pronounced dead shortly after 8 pm Inside Six Vermont lawmakers trawled to Quebec recently for an all-expense-paid tour of Hydro-Quebec's controversial 'power projects Page A3 Calendar 38 Classified B3 Comics 37 Entertainment 32 LocalRegion '32 Obituaries A4 Opinion A14 Science 31 Spots 39 Television 36 Weather Warming up Page A4 ByEDBALLAM News Staff Writer From its hmhUi beginnings with five students in a rented grange hall to 111 students in of the Mid-Vermont has been explosive story building in 1991 for $500000 and spent an additional $200000 converting the forma restaurant and bar into a school Just this summer the school completed construction on i $450000 hired a worid-renowned school headmaster and is headlong Into Mans to a brand new high school facility on the 95-acre parcel The sucessee of the Mid-Vermont Christian School have been short of says Peter Brogri one of the origini families and forma school treasurer Even the school's new headmaster Dr Art Nazigian says he is amined at the progress the school (Continued on page AS) SCHOOL yean ago four families shared the belief mat their children needed an education inspired by spirituality They banded together to form the nee-denominational Christian school The group rented i grange hall from the Woodstock Baptist Fellowship hind a teacher and gave its students a Bible-based education Today the kindergerten-throngh-nintb-grade school is located in a forma bar and restaurant on Route 4 School backers bought the three- vMif rmqhI mowi Teacher Cynthia Malar helps David Capie with Ms work I.