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Concord New Hampshire 178th Yea No 7 a- US USSR Agree On Arms Talks vs 4 i mi ik Tuui 1 -v '1 Mi Rf xrm i Channel 21 Drops Its Show Staff Writer A month has since Charnel a rd wu sold to a one of the richest men Goncord was sold to a company owned by one of the richest men in in Massachusetts The station is still in what fUMCNA yyffrc7'l im i urn -CO T-iO Presidential Press Conference President news conference is scheduled to be broadeest live tonight by ABC CBS NBC and the Cable News Network The conference begins at 8 Some Public Broadcasting Service stations plan to air the session live or later tonight on tape The news conference is expected to last 30 minutes and the president is expected to discuss the just-concluded meetings between Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Secretary of State George Shultz concerning arms negotiations one executive described as state of but some changes are already evident The most obvious is that Channel 21 no longer broadcasts local news Just thought it was not too said Lawrence Sal ten senior vice Sof the TJ Flatley Go of Mass thought we need-review our The Flatley Go is owned by Thomas Flatley an Irish immigrant who made his fortune in real estate In 197 his worth was estimated to be between ISO million and $75 million Channel 21 Concord's only commercial station is his first venture in the communications industry Flatley bought Channel 21 in early December from the publishers of New Hampshire Profiles In announcing the sale a spokesman declared that the company's mission would be to (See CHANNEL Page IS) A'-- President Reagan holds press conferences much less often than dU Jimmy Carter Story pages Shultz makes a statement on his meetings with Andrei Grnmykn Text pegeS Los Anodes Tbneo-Washlngton Post News Service GENEVA Switzerland The United States and the Soviet Union agreed yesterday to open a new series of arms control talks to limit both the proposed apace weapons program and offensive nuclear missiles and bombers US Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko said in a Joint statement that the objective of the talks was to reach agreements aimed at preventing an arms race in space and terminating it on Three parallel sets of talks will be set up to discuss strategic nuclear weapons intermediate-range missiles located in Europe and space arms they said Gromyko and Shultz agreed to set within a month the date and time for the ations agreement reopens a dialogue that was suspended 13 months ago after the Soviets walked out foom arms negotiations in Geneva The Soviets asserted that the United States had ruined the atmosphere for talks on intermediate missiles by installing Pershing 2 and cruise missiles in Western Europe beginning last year They said there was no point in discussing strategic arms reductions either and walked out of those talks as well Essentially the deal struck here was for the Soviets to return to the intermediate missiles and strategic arms reductions talks In exchange for an American agreement to set up a third forum covering and anti-satellite weapons The toughest issue in the talks American delegation members said was President initiative to build a defensive shield against Soviet nuclear missiles Robert McFar-lane national security adviser said he was unsure about the outcome until very dose to the end of the 15 hours of talks to one hour before -the end it wu going the other way "he said Kenneth Addman director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agen- said the Soviets said fidally known as the Strategic Defense Initiative was fundamental for the Soviets at the talks was dear They wanted us to renounce Shultz argued that the defensive cSE-j to US nuclear blackmail Despite the difficulties in resolving the issues Gromyko was never belligerent although he often was sarcastic American officials said said he understood ex- least six expla- Stations Find It Tough Competing With BostonJVews 1 fl i By RIO libariter RICHARD MERTZNS Maff Writer Channel so hopes that Laverne and Shfrhy can do what the daily events of New Hampshire could not attract an Reporters who went to the US mission to the United Nations here to await the final Joint appearance of the two ministers observed at about members of the delegation typing a draft of the one-jMge statement mat was later issued At about 7:50 pm delegation members brought the draft back full of red and black underlines cross-outs and circles and prepared what proved to be the final (baft The meetings ended shortly before pm and three hours later Shultz appeared -before reporters to announce the result Shultz said he had conferred with anrui th Reagan earlier in the afternoon about the fikely result and said the president ability of each side to deter a nuclear had received the news satisfac- strike from the other Adelman said wins more viewers than the homegrown variety offered by local stations viewers want to see all Uiom tenor special effects and live reports and they want to see a level of reporting that costs millions of dollars I think this makes it said Arthur Singer who runs Channel 11 in Durham the state's public television station he added no substitute for our own coverage of New Hampshire This is the hope of people who are nurturing the state's small but growing commercial television industry They believe that even if Boston can make bigger and better television New Hampshire stations can survive and even thrive by offering local news and other local programs need Is Lannin said most of the stations recognize the (See TELEVISION Page IS) Last year the station which is based in Derry began broadcasting a half-hour local news show at I pm This put It in direct competition with the local news on the big network stations in Boston It wu a bold effort and it failed A week ago Channel SO replaced the news with situation comedy certainly is a market for mote said James Lannin not at 0 The experience confirmed a harsh fact of life for the New Hampshire television industry Boston news with its helicopters expensive studios and armies of newsgatherers consistently But as Shultz noted drily at a news conference late Tuesday have much luck persuading them to our point of Gromyko's principal objection was that the US system was supposed to be defensive but in Soviet eyes it concealed an offensive intention said one member of the US delegation who asked not to be named He said the Soviets believed would effectively disarm the Soviet arsenal of land-based nuclear missiles and render Moscow vulnerable Reagan said in an interview with The Dallas Morning News yesterday that the Geneva agreement very good: This is all this meeting was supposed to do which was to establish procedures for Before the sessions flinch a little when I would see the references particularly on the air that this was supposed to be the arms negotiations No this was to set up the Reagan (aid in the interview injdinl ij'C4 ensKinmilmsasesinimK ummarie County Jail Escapee Captured In New York Up Front BILL SANDERSON Staff Writer Architect To Examine Window At Jail SHARON VO AS Staff Writer First Night Second Look i Levesque one of two men who es-n the Merrimack Gounty Jail last esday by pushing out their ceU window ecapturea at Grand fork last night as he Jonathan from Wednesdaybyi recaptured at Grand Central Station hi York last night he his wife and their caped wu New two children were boarding a train for California Levesque 25 wu to be arraigned today to US District Court in Manhattan on a charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution He is expected to waive extradition to New Hampshire and he could be back in the state to Guards are delaying some of their more routine duties such laundry to check the ceU windows every hour the area that the two men escaped from according to William Potter the jail administrator The men who escaped John Levesque and Warner Strasburger were being held In a section of the Jail that is reserved for inmates who have not yet been tried Potter said guards are checking the windows (Sea Page 18) Richard Gerry and Jerry Graffam a US Drug Enforcement Administration agent based in Concord the time of the arrest Jonathan and his common law wife Jane Connor and their two children were already seated in their berth on the Brown said had train tickets for Sacramento Calif Several days ago he said a state trooper and a DEA agent watched someone purchase the train tickets for family at South Station in Boston That is how the police knew Levesque would be in Grand Central Station last night Brown would not say who bought the ticket Yesterday Brown said Levesque and his family flew from Boston to LaGuardia Airport in New York Then they headed for Grand Central station When the family arrived at the train station Brown said the police were waiting An architect wu expected to go to the Merrimack County Jail today to examine the construction of a window that two men pushed out and escaped through last week While the search for how the men escaped continues the Jail Is taking extra security precautions and county officiate are searching for ways to make the windows moresecure night Lrvesmie's Warner Stra i's Green Street Conn far we have been getting nothing but said Kathy Bartlett who directed ject know we got away with a marvelous show on ihSoidlS000pple bought special S3 buttons that gave them unlimited access to performances by New Hampshire natives Thousands more showed up for a parade and midnight fireworks display CALENDAR 36 MERRIMACK -36 CLASSIFIED 31 NEWS OF RECORD 4 COMICS 29 OPINION a 4 SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT 9 SPOTLIGHT 19 GOREN BRIDGE JO LOCALSTATE 2 WORLDNATION 6 cellmate at the county jail rasburger wu still at large this morning Levesque wu being held for trial on drug charges from Massachusetts and New Hamp- shire When he wu arrested in Hermiker by state troopers and federal agents Dec 20 the police found he wu carrying 90000 douges of LSD 939000 in cash and an Uzi subma chine gun Lt Warren Brown commander of the state police special investigation unit said today that Levesque wu arrested by state trooper Requiem For A Kitten z4 iMti Weather Koko a 12-year-old gorilla with a sign-language vocabulary of more than 500 words is learning to deal with death She is featured in National Geographic this month along with her pet kitten which her keepers gave her because she asked for one Koko named the cat and liked to dress it in handkerchiefs But a few days after Christmas the cat was found dead apparently run over by a car Koko has been crying over the kitten her keeper said She will get a new one when All Ball's mother has a new litter Clear and cold tonight with lows around -5 Mostly sunny and cold to morrow with slowly dk minishing winds the highs In the tower 20s Mary Taylor a student at Walker School draws a cold sunny day More Weatber Page IS i.