The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from March 1987:
THINGS HEATING UP FOR WINTER GAMES
Mar 01, 1987; ... CALGARY, Alberta - This has been the winter that wasn't inthe shadow of the Canadian Rockies. Brown hills, temperatures above40 every day for three months, and no snow worth mentioning sinceNovember.Meteorological oddities have happened here before, and mayhappen again ...
SISTER PARES DRAWING BIG BROTHER'S ATTENTION
Mar 01, 1987; ... MILWAUKEE - The new women's basketball coach at Marquette had a108-39 record at Canisius, but life was never like this. The mediahas discovered Sister Maria Pares, the only nun coaching a Division1 school. Sister Pares has been featured in the New York Times, USAToday and Sports ...
ST. CLOUD TOOK A BEATING
Mar 01, 1987; ... Unlike the last time, no brawls erupted when hockey teamsfrom St. Cloud State and Wisconsin-River Falls tangled. But St.Cloud coach Herb Brooks says his team still got a licking.The teams had engaged in a wild pregame brawl Feb. 11,resulting in the ejection of 10 players, ...
HARVARD STUNNED SAUNDERS' OVERTIME GOAL BOOSTS ST. LAWRENCE, 4-3
Mar 01, 1987; ... St. Lawrence pulled off a major upset last night at BrightCenter, shocking Harvard, 4-3, in overtime.The Crimson had gone undefeated in their last 29 home games(28-0-1) and ironically, their last loss came against St. Lawrence,4-3, March 1, 1985.Dave Saunders scored the ...
NU GETS THE DECISION HUSKIES' 84-77 VICTORY OVER BU IS MARRED BY BRAWL
Mar 01, 1987; ... What happens when the two biggest and baddest kids on the blocksquare off?The result usually resembles yesterday's Northeastern-BostonUniversity basketball game, which was marred by a bench-clearingbrawl in the second half, involving players and both head coaches.NU's ...
UCONN, REFRESHED BY GEORGE, TOPS SETON HALL
Mar 01, 1987; ... HARTFORD - Connecticut's most difficult regular seasonsince joining the Big East is over, and its future is bright.Freshman guard Tate George scored a season-high 21 points asthe last-place Huskies broke a six-game losing streak with a 56-54victory over Seton Hall in the ...
SEIKALY, SYRACUSE TOO MUCH FOR BC
Mar 01, 1987; ... SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Syracuse had trouble stopping Dana Barros, butBoston College had more difficulty trying to combat the nation's11th-ranked team.The inevitable result was a blowout, although it was late indeveloping. The Orangemen routed the Eagles, 87-63, before 31,110last ...
ST. JOHN'S SHATTERS PITT'S TITLE HOPES
Mar 01, 1987; ... NEW YORK - St. John's 76-74 victory over No. 9 Pittsburgh lastnight deprived the Panthers of the Big East regular-season titleand the top seed in next week's tournament, but it also was justwhat the Redmen needed. The Pitt loss, combined with victories yesterday byGeorgetown and ...
HEARN IS MORE SUPER THAN MOST
Mar 01, 1987; ... Don Hearn's roots have been entrenched in the soil of easternMassachusetts ever since he first caddied for his father at WoburnCC at the age of 9. "I was hooked," says Hearn. "I played my firstround three days later." The seed was planted.The subsequent education in the caddie ...
METHUEN SHRINKS EVERETT
Mar 01, 1987; ... Methuen, the defending girls' Division 1 state champion, crossedits first tournament hurdle as it defeated Everett, 61-29,yesterday in the North quarterfinals.Methuen's Twin Towers, Julie Ciarcia and Darlene Orlando, andtheir teammates overwhelmed their opponents in the second ...
BOSTON T RIDER TAKES DRIVER'S SEAT IN MIAMI
Mar 01, 1987; ... The streets of Miami couldn't hold a pothole to those of Boston,says Keith Rinzler, a 20-year-old Boston University graduatestudent who will help drive one of the 15 Camel GT Light cars intoday's fifth annual Grand Prix of Miami."I would say that the mean streets of Miami are a lot ...
BLACK HEAD COACHSHOULDN'T BE FORCED
Mar 01, 1987; ... The time is not ripe, and not right. The push is on in somecorners of pro football and among the public for a black head coachin the National Football League, but many in the league feel itwould be a big mistake to force the issue at this time."If this thing is done politically, it ...
ROSTER VIRTUALLY WAS FROZEN WILL LACK OF WINTER MOVES LEAVE SOX OUT IN THE COLD THIS SUMMER?
Mar 01, 1987; ... The Red Sox finally have their full squad together, and the questbegins to see if the 1987 Sox can do what the '86 Blue Jays, '85Tigers, '84 Orioles, '83 Brewers and '82 Yankees failed to do --repeat as American League East champions.Those who failed to repeat cited injuries, ...
OLIVER NORTH -- CHAMPION HE USED AN AGGRESSIVE STYLE TO WIN THE BRIGADE TITLE AT ANNAPOLIS IN 1968
Mar 01, 1987; ... Boxing is a required freshman and sophomore course at the USNaval Academy because it teaches midshipmen what it is to be in afight, and gives them a better self-image.Those truisms are accepted today, as they were in 1968, whenan aggressive southpaw welterweight named Oliver L ....
MACLEOD IS FAR FROM THROUGH
Mar 01, 1987; ... Do not feel too sorry for the fired John MacLeod.The man coached the Phoenix Suns for more than 13 years and1,203 games. Only one individual in the 41-year history of thistreacherous profession has spent more consecutive years coaching inthe same locale, and that man's name was ...
HOYAS DUNK FRIARS GEORGETOWN GAINS TOP SEED, 90-79
Mar 01, 1987; ... LANDOVER, Md. - A win was imperative yesterday afternoon.So what did you expect? As advertised, as always, No. 8 Georgetownknocked off No. 20 Providence, 90-79, keeping its hopes alive forrights to the No. 1 seed in the Big East tournament. And then Pittsburgh did its part ...
EDITION 16 FOR EVANS AT 35, HE FEELS A LOT WISER
Mar 01, 1987; ... WINTER HAVEN, Fla. - When it's his time to retire, DwightEvans says he will know it, but now's not the time.Boston's right fielder is starting his 16th season in a RedSox uniform, and he hopes to have a few more.That is why he was shocked one day this winter when a ...
CHESTER CHURCHILL HEADED LUMBER FIRM; AT 66
Mar 01, 1987 ... Chester L. Churchill Jr., 66, of Duxbury, president ofChurchill Lumber Co., died Friday in his home after a long illness.Mr. Churchill was born in Newton. He graduated from Noble &Greenough School in Dedham in 1940 and was a member of the HarvardCollege class of 1944. ...
CATHERINE HUNTINGTON MEMORIAL SERVICE THURSDAY
Mar 01, 1987 ... A memorial funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday,March 5, in St. John the Evangelist Church, Boston, for CatharineHuntington, a well-known theatrical producer, actress and theaterpatron for many years.Miss Huntington, 100, died Friday in Sherrill House, ...
42 DIE AS TRUCK, BUS COLLIDE IN ECUADOR
Mar 01, 1987; ... QUITO, Ecuador - A truck crashed into a passenger bus yesterdayand then careened into five cars, killing 42 persons and injuring24, according to Ecuadorean authorities. Officials said theaccident occurred on the Pan- American Highway about 12 miles southof the capital ...
REP. GEPHARDT BEGINS BUILDING PROCESS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
Mar 01, 1987; ... DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. - Rep. Richard Gephardt rode a vintage1956 Studebaker "President" over the frost-buckled roads of theNorth Country this weekend as part of a journey he hopes will leadto the White House.It was an apt metaphor for a classy candidate, whoseorganization ...
ALL THE LAUGHS UNFIT TO PRINT JESTING JABS TRADED IN ANNUAL R.I. BASH
Mar 01, 1987; ... All the movers and shakers in Rhode Island were there Fridaynight.A US senator and lieutenant governor, mayors of big cities andtiny towns, bank presidents, car dealers, jewelry moguls and morelawyers than you could count. A total of 1,432 people.All packed into the garish ...
VOTERS IN QUEST OF A QUORUM CAPE GROUP BRACES FOR TOWN MEETINGS
Mar 01, 1987; ... HYANNIS - Annual town meeting season is just around the corner,and in some Cape Cod towns, like Mashpee and Truro, getting aquorum can be like a bad day fishing: You know the fish are outthere, but hooking 'em is another matter.It's happened in Chatham, too, and Robert L. Edwards ...
FIRE DESTROYS BUILDING AT SMUGGLER'S NOTCH SKI RESORT
Mar 01, 1987 ... JEFFERSONVILLE, Vt. - An early morning fire yesterdaydestroyed the administration building of the Smuggler's Notch skiresort. However, resort officials said the effect on weekend skiingwould be small.No injuries were reported in the fire that started about 3a.m. on the ...
JOB FAIR OFFERS NEW START TO 'PRECISION VALLEY' OUTCASTS
Mar 01, 1987; ... WINDSOR, Vt. - Outside the Goodyear plant that will closeits doors here on May 1 stands a small, light-gray sign paintedwith blue letters. The sign reads: "Goodyear and Windsor, Vt. 50years together. 1936-1986." Given the impending separation of the corporation and ...
TREE TALK IS THERAPY
Mar 01, 1987; ... I see logging trucks most anywhere in New England, even inBoston, those loaded up with white pine and heading north to amill. Massachusetts has lot of woods, and we get used to seeingtrees beyond counting. In Ireland though, the trees are few. TheEnglish cut them all down, a fellow in ...
N.H. SEEKING TO HELP THOSE LEFT BEHIND BY THE STATE'S RAPIDLY GROWING ECONOMY
Mar 01, 1987; ... MANCHESTER, N.H. - Mayor Robert Shaw says he's not asentimental man, but he wept at a requiem for a stranger.A destitute woman named Ruth Angell was killed by ahit-and-run driver in a parking lot here last fall. She was 65, amental health patient. Her death haunts ...
BUSINESSES WELCOME CANDIDATES, WATCH BOTTOM LINE
Mar 01, 1987; ... CONCORD, N.H. - Since presidential campaigns areessentially multimillion dollar corporations that spring upovernight and disappear just as quickly, retailers in New Hampshirehave adopted an egalitarian attitude toward the fast-movingtargets: Everyone is treated with ...
JOHN CAMPBELL, 90; HELPED DEVELOP THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM IN N.E.
Mar 01, 1987 ... John Ray Campbell Jr. of Wellesley Hills, who wasinstrumental in developing the Social Security system in NewEngland and later became its regional assistant commissioner, diedFriday in Glover Memorial Hospital, Needham. He was 90.Mr. Campbell was appointed by President ...
REGINALD SMITHWICK, 87; SURGEON AND BU MEDICAL SCHOOL CHAIRMAN
Mar 01, 1987 ... Dr. Reginald H. Smithwick, a pioneer in treatment ofhypertension and other diseases while teaching at Boston UniversitySchool of Medicine, died Friday in his Florida home after a longillness. He was 87.Dr. Smithwick developed treatments for both essential andmalignant ...
JAMES ROBB, AT AGE 88; ARCHITECT AND FORMER MARSHAL AT HARVARD
Mar 01, 1987; ... James Hampden Robb, a retired Boston architect who made hishome in recent years at the Somerset Club on Beacon Hill, diedFriday in his home after a long illness. He was 88.Mr. Robb, who previously lived in Beverly for a number ofyears, was the architect for many homes in the ...
NEGLECTED MASTERPIECE IS FOUND IN BASEMENT
Mar 01, 1987 ... SPRINGFIELD - When a 90-year-old patron of the arts offeredthe Springfield Museum of Fine Arts director a painting that hadbeen stored in her basement since the 1950s, he had no idea he wasabout to receive a long- lost masterpiece worth at least $500,000."She pointed into a ...
HIGH SCHOOL ACTORS HONE THEIR SKILLS FOR 56TH DRAMA FESTIVAL
Mar 01, 1987 ... The Massachusetts High School Drama Festival opens its 56thyear of student theater Saturday at 10 high schools throughout thestate. The festival is sponsored by The Boston Globe, theMassachusetts High School Drama Guild and the MassachusettsSecondary School Administrators ...
HARRINGTON REPORTED IN LINE TO BECOME A FEDERAL JUDGE
Mar 01, 1987; ... Former US Attorney Edward F. Harrington has been selected bythe Justice Department to fill a vacant federal judgeship inBoston, according to department sources.Harrington's name was forwarded to the White House, thesources said. If nominated by President Reagan and confirmed ...
FEBRUARY WAS DRY, SUNNY AND COLD
Mar 01, 1987 ... February in Greater Boston brought record sunshine, nearrecord dryness and temperatures a bit on the cold side, accordingto climatologist Robert Lautzenheiser. The temperature hereaveraged 29.1, 1.6 degrees below normal, but .2 degrees milder thanlast year.The highest ...
FRIENDS SET UP FUNERAL FUND FOR EX-SAILOR
Mar 01, 1987; ... The waterfront family that knew and cared for RichardHalverson is planning a fitting funeral for him if relatives cannotbe found. Christine Perkins of Quincy, a secretary at the East PortShipyard in East Boston, said that Boston tugboat and fishing boatcrews, lobstermen ...
KENNEDY GIVES STUDENT TUTORING PLAN A BOOST
Mar 01, 1987; ... One man's dream to raise $25 million for a national studenttutoring program got a big push last week from Sen. Edward M.Kennedy, who introduced the plan and its architect to area collegeand university officials at a Boston luncheon.Kennedy encouraged local colleges and ...
CITY COUNCIL STAFFING PLANS ARE CRITICIZED
Mar 01, 1987; ... The head of the Boston Municipal Research Bureau says theCity Council is "going in the wrong direction" if it doesn't beginto strengthen and professionalize its central staff.An internal draft document written by City Council PresidentBruce C. Bolling (Roxbury), outlining a ...
1,200 STUDENTS, CARDINAL LAW ATTEND CATHOLIC YOUTH SESSION
Mar 01, 1987; ... NEWTON - About 1,200 high school students attendedworkshops, prayer services and lectures at the second annualCatholic Youth Convention at Boston College yesterday, while morethan 100 youths representing many of the parishes in the Bostonarchdiocese took part in a question and ...
TRAFFIC DELAYS SEEN IN BRIDGE WORK
Mar 01, 1987; ... A $36 million project to redeck and overhaul the bridge thatcarries Interstate 195 into Fall River is scheduled to get underway the end of this month, promising to rid the bridge of severechuckholes but cause bad traffic jams this summer for CapeCod-bound drivers.Starting ...
WASTE FIRM AT ISSUE IN BRAINTREE VOTE
Mar 01, 1987; ... Along with electing new selectmen and school committeemembers tomorrow, Braintree voters face a ballot choice that someobservers say is tantamount to a referendum on the future of NewEngland's largest hazardous-waste treatment plant.The contest is for one of two seats on the ...
LAWYERS URGED TO SEEK TREATMENT FOR CLIENTS
Mar 01, 1987; ... Gov. Dukakis has endorsed the recommendations of a specialMassachusetts Bar Association report detailing ways in whichattorneys can identify and assist clients with problems of alcoholand drug abuse.The report encourages lawyers to learn to identify alcohol-and drug- ...
300 AREA LEADERS SET PRIVATE FORUM ON BOSTON'S FUTURE
Mar 01, 1987; ... Cardinal Bernard F. Law will be host for a private meetingof Greater Boston leaders tomorrow to discuss setting an agenda forthe metropolitan area.Five hundred leaders in business, labor, religion, education,government and voluntary agencies were invited to the meeting ...
POLICE PROBE DEATH OF LAWRENCE WOMAN
Mar 01, 1987 ... ANDOVER - The death of a Lawrence woman whose body wasfound here Friday, about two miles from her home, was beinginvestigated yesterday by police.The body of Beverly J. Angelone, 42, of Mt. Vernon Street, wasdiscovered by residents of Hawthorne Circle, said Lt ....
SOME NEWTON STRIKERS BACK ON JOB MAYOR: 'INTIMIDATION' MAY BE KEEPING SOME WORKERS FROM RETURNING
Mar 01, 1987; ... While some Newton municipal workers returned to workyesterday following a judge's court order, Mayor Theodore D. Mannexpressed fear that the city would not be fully staffed over theweekend, and that some workers were not returning due to"intimidation." Judge Andrew Gill ...
AT TUFTS, PERSPECTIVES DIFFER ON ANTIRACISM DEMONSTRATIONS
Mar 01, 1987; ... MEDFORD - When students at Tufts University reflect on therecent demonstrations on campus, some talk about an impressive showof unity against racism."A lot of consciousness has been raised," said Nan Glickman, asenior and member of the Tufts Political Action Coalition, ...
SCHOOL OFFICIAL SAYS VICTIM THREATENED STABBING SUSPECT
Mar 01, 1987; ... A 16 - ear-old Jamaica Plain High School student whoallegedly stabbed another student to death Friday afternoon inself-defense had apparently been threatened by the victim forstealing a Walkman radio from a girlfriend, a school official saidyesterday.Killed in the Friday ...
HANSON MAN ASSISTS IN DRAMATIC SEA RESCUE
Mar 01, 1987; ... As waves the height of a three - tory house slammed intohis rolling submarine, a Navy chief from Hanson said last night, heand his mates managed to save one of 19 Filipino sailors who hadabandoned their sinking freighter far out in the North Atlantic.Chief Paul Conway, 30, ...
GAY PARENTS DETERMINED TO COMBAT STEREOTYPES, MASS. FOSTER CARE POLICY
Mar 01, 1987; ... Naomi Astyk has lived in Beverly for three years withouttelling any of her children's teachers, or the parents of herchildren's friends, that she is gay."I was afraid my kids would be ostracized," she said.In the long run, that isn't the way she wants to live ....
AUTHORITIES LINK KILLINGS TO RIVAL JAMAICAN GANGS
Mar 01, 1987; ... Three weeks ago, about 50 people were dancing and listening toreggae music at a Cambridge nightclub when bursts of automaticgunfire sent them scattering.One man fell dead, another wounded. Shortly after theshooting, police went to the home of the wounded man in Dorchester.Outside ...
COMPUTERS HELP BOSTON AGENCIES DELIVER BETTER, QUICKER SERVICES
Mar 01, 1987; ... While Mayor Flynn is known for his hands-on style ofgoverning, his administration has stepped up utilization of themost modern of tools -- computers -- to deliver city services. The Flynn administration is using computers to deploy policeofficers, alert firefighters to ...
POLICE CAUTION ON USE OF BREAKDOWN LANES
Mar 01, 1987; ... They thought they'd be safe in the breakdown lane. That'swhy Debra Hussian's friend pulled the car over when a tire wentflat on Interstate 290, the Hudson woman recalls. "We were very careful, as cautious as we could be," she saidof that night last July in Marlborough. "We ...
POLICE SEIZE $1.5 MILLION WORTH OF COCAINE IN 5 RAIDS
Mar 01, 1987 ... About two dozen state, local and Metropolitan policeofficers raided five locations in Norfolk and Suffolk countiesyesterday and reported they seized cocaine valued at some $1.5million.The officers raided a home on Michael Road in Randolph, aninsurance office in Norwood and ...
VIEWS DIFFER ON EFFECT OF BAKER LEAVING RACE
Mar 01, 1987; ... It did not take long for conventional wisdom to form aboutthe appointment of Howard H. Baker Jr. as chief of PresidentReagan's staff and the accompanying demise of Baker's never-bornpresidential campaign.The beneficiary by acclamation: fellow conservative andcurrent Senate ...
CAPITOL HILL PANELS PRIMED FOR IRAN-CONTRA PROBE
Mar 01, 1987; ... WASHINGTON - The congressional inquiries into the Iran-contraaffair, fueled by new information from the Tower Commission, areshifting into high gear.After months of wading through secondary materials and waitingfor security clearances so that key staff members could read ...
EXCERPTS FROM THE TOWER COMMISSION'S REPORT
Mar 01, 1987 ... Following are brief excerpts from the 230-page appendix of theTower Commission's report on US arms sales to Iran, presented toPresident Reagan on Thursday. The appendix consists of testimony,letters, memorandums, charts and other material that thethree-person commission used to draw its ...
DOCUMENT RAISES SPECTER OF NORTH-RUN AFRICAN PROGRAM
Mar 01, 1987; ... WASHINGTON - A one-word reference in a document reprinted in theTower Commission report raises the possibility that Lt. Col.Oliver L. North ran an African program in addition to his reportedIran-contra dealings.The document details how money was collected in Switzerlandand ...
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
Mar 01, 1987; ... WASHINGTON - The Tower report, hefty and revealing though it is,still leaves open some crucial questions about the Iran-contra armsaffair. Among them:The report concludes that Iran paid $19.7 million more thanwhat the arms it purchased were actually worth. Some of thissurplus ...
SOVIET HOSTAGE POLICY STIRS US INTEREST
Mar 01, 1987; ... LONDON - On Sept. 30, 1985, four Soviet diplomats were seizedwhile driving to work at the Soviet Embassy in West Beirut. One ofthem, a consular officer named Arkady Katkov, died of bullet woundssustained while resisting the kidnappers, sources say. His body wasdumped in an alley two days ...
MUSKIE SAYS REAGAN MUST ADDRESS REPORT
Mar 01, 1987; ... WASHINGTON - President Reagan no longer can rely on hisreputation as the Great Communicator to pull his administration outof the political quagmire created by the Iran-contra affair,according to former senator Edmund S. Muskie."One of his problems," Muskie said, "is that people ...
MAJOR FINDINGS OF TOWER REPORT
Mar 01, 1987; ... The major development in the Iran - ontra affair last week wasThursday's release of the 282-page report by the Tower Commission.Some of the major findings in that report are:Management of the White House: Although its chairman called itan "aberration" of the way the White House ...
N.J. COMPANY SAYS NEW DRUG MAY BE APPROVED THIS FALL
Mar 01, 1987; ... The drug that scientists say could revolutionize thetreatment of river blindness could be approved for human use thisfall, according to Merck and Co., the New Jersey-based company thatmanufactures it.The parasite that causes river blindness, or onchocerciasis,has invaded ...
FBI REPORTEDLY IGNORED TIP ON 3 MURDERS IN EL SALVADOR
Mar 01, 1987; ... The Boston Phoenix reported yesterday that the FBI neverfollowed up on a report from one of its informants that aSalvadoran government official confessed his involvement in themurder of two Americans and a Salvadoran in 1981.According to an article by E. Bruce Berman Jr., ...
MEN'S RIGHTS ADVOCATE FIGHTS FORCES OF FEMINISM
Mar 01, 1987; ... NEW YORK - The way attorney Sidney Siller sees it, he couldreplace the dog as man's best friend.Siller is an unabashed crusader for men's rights, the guru ofa movement he organized to get rid of the "gender gap" and torestore pride to the American male.The National ...
SIMON BOWS OUT, BACKS BUMPERS FOR PRESIDENT
Mar 01, 1987; ... It was not a development of cosmic proportions last week whenDemocratic Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois announced that he would notbe a candidate for president. After all, it was not very well knownthat the widely respected liberal was even thinking about it.What was interesting was ...