The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from January 1988:
MARGHERITA OLIVA WAS REGISTERED NURSE; AT 79
Jan 01, 1988 ... Margherita Estelle (Nardi) Oliva,79, a retired registerednurse, died Tuesday at her home in Plymouth.Born in Worcester, she had lived in Plymouth for the past 17years. Before that she had lived in Brighton.Mrs. Oliva was a graduate of Classical High School ...
'DRY' PARTIES: NO BAR TO FUN
Jan 01, 1988; ... As many revelers traveled a well-lubricated road tosenselessness last night, scores throughout Boston took aless-traveled path, making their way into the new year fueled bylittle more than a jigger of tonic or a shot of coffee.In living rooms, meeting halls and a handful of ...
600,000 GREET '88 IN FIRST NIGHT REVEL
Jan 01, 1988; ...and Sally Jacobs contributed to this story. With organizers promising the celebration would be bigger andbetter than ever, an estimated 600,000 revelers jammed Boston'schilly, rainswept streets yesterday to bid farewell to 1987 andusher in 1988 at the city's 12th annual First ...
DUKAKIS-BACKER FLYNN PRAISES JACKSON
Jan 01, 1988; ... Mayor Flynn yesterday embraced Rev. Jesse Jackson'spresidential campaign by praising his passion for the homeless andpoverty-stricken - a move that has raised questions about themayor's stated support for Gov. Dukakis' bid for the Democraticnomination.Because of the ...
N.Y. STOCK EXCHANGE CHIEF SAYS MARKET STILL IMPERILED
Jan 01, 1988; ... NEW YORK - New York Stock Exchange Chairman John J. PhelanJr. thinks a market "meltdown" worse than the one Oct. 19 couldoccur if "nothing is done to improve the disequilibrium in thestock market system and the excesses in stock prices come back." The former Big Board ...
2 DIE, 3 HURT IN VERMONT PLANE CRASH
Jan 01, 1988; ... SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. - A small plane crashed and explodedshort of a runway at Burlington International Airport here shortlybefore 6 p.m. yesterday, killing two persons and criticallyinjuring three young boys, authorities said.All five passengers were believed to be ...
CORRECTION
Jan 01, 1988 ... Because of a reporting error, a Page 1 story yesterdayincorrectly stated the Pilgrim nuclear plant's schedule for seekingpermission to reopen. Pilgrim officials say they expect to have ...
CORRECTION
Jan 01, 1988 ... Because of an editing error, an article in the National/Foreignsection yesterday incorrectly located the ...
CORRECTION
Jan 01, 1988 ... Because of a reporting error, the sponsor of a New Year's Eveharbor cruise was listed incorrectly in ...
WAR NURSE LOOKS TO STATUE AS HEALER
Jan 01, 1988; ... MINNEAPOLIS - Only recently has Mary Beth Crowley been able tocry about the things she saw as an Army nurse in the Vietnam War:the Vietnamese girl with her stomach split open, the 19-year-oldAmerican soldier who died before making it home, the rampantdisease, the bombings and red ...
JETLINER SMOKING BAN RESULTS IN AIRBORNE FRACAS
Jan 01, 1988; ... A shoving and shouting match erupted on a packed, overnightTWA flight from Boston to Los Angeles on which smoking had beenbanned when a number of angered smokers lit cigarettes toward theend of the six-hour flight.The smokers pushed and shouted at flight attendants who ...
ISRAEL IN UPROAR OVER HUMMUS RESTAURANT EXPOSE
Jan 01, 1988; ... JERUSALEM - A television report on the sanitation standardsof some of Israel's best-loved hummus restaurants has sparked morefurious public debate here than weeks of riots in the West Bank andin Gaza.Hummus is an Arab food, a grayish-looking dish made of groundchickpeas, ...
GORBACHEV PLEDGES PROGRESS AND HARD WORK IN NEW YEAR
Jan 01, 1988; ... MOSCOW - Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev told the nationyesterday that he is certain 1988 will bring more progress in armscontrol and that "immense and hard work" lies ahead as his drivefor economic change ...
5 DIE AS OPPONENTS OF APARTHEID CLASH
Jan 01, 1988; ... PRETORIA - Rival antiapartheid groups clashed Wednesday in blacktownships of Natal province, killing five persons, police reportedyesterday. Most of the fighting has been between Inkatha, a ...
S. YEMEN EXECUTES 5 FORMER OFFICIALS
Jan 01, 1988; ... ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Five high-ranking officials inthe toppled government of President Ali Nasser Mohammed of SouthYemen have been executed for treason, the state-run newspaperAl-Ittihad reported ...
US IS SAID TO ACCEPT LOSS OF SPAIN PLANES
Jan 01, 1988; ... NEWSPAPER EL PAIS REPORTED YESTERDAY. IT QUOTED SEVERALUNIDENTIFIED US OFFICIALS AS SAYING RESOLUTION OF TALKS TO REDUCETHE US MILITARY PRESENCE ...
JACKSON CALLS FOR A RADICAL CHANGE IN US FOREIGN POLICY
Jan 01, 1988; ... Rev. Jesse Jackson said yesterday that the United Statesmust radically revamp its policies and attitudes toward SouthAfrica, Central America and the Middle East and must stop pursuing"a foreign policy that has left us more isolated" in the world."If we look at Southern ...
ATKINS PLANS 2-WEEK SOUTHEAST ASIA TRIP
Jan 01, 1988; ... WASHINGTON - Rep. Chester Atkins (D-Mass.) plans to go toSoutheast Asia in the first two weeks of January to investigate avariety of issues, including international drug trafficking and thepossibility that prisoners of war are still being held in theregion.Atkins will ...
2 QUESTIONS UNCOVER ALCOHOLISM, RESEARCHERS SAY
Jan 01, 1988; ... Good morning, drinkers, and Happy New Year.But as you reach for the aspirin and the coffee, a team ofBrown University doctors whose research appears in today'sissue ofthe Journal of the American Medical Association would like to askjust two questions.Have you ever ...
REFLECTIONS ON DEATH OF 'ONE OF US'
Jan 01, 1988; ... In the early morning of Dec. 26, 1985, James (Jimmy theBroom) Woods burned to death when the oily newspapers he hadwrapped himself in caught fire. He died in the Bedford StreetGarage in downtown Boston, where he earned his nickname from thebroom he carried to sweep out the ...
MBTA'S RESOLUTION: BIG RELIEF IN '88
Jan 01, 1988; ... Nineteen eighty-eight will bring big relief fromovercrowding for Greater Boston's 600,000 daily mass transitriders, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officials say.Six-car trains are to begin operating on the Red Line duringrush hours in the spring, one-third more ...
STATE DENIES 7 PERMITS TO OHIO NURSING HOME OUTFIT
Jan 01, 1988; ... An Ohio-based nursing home chain has been denied licenses tooperate seven facilities it owns in Massachusetts after stateworkers found patients were receiving poor care or being neglected.Yesterday, the 90-bed Anlaw Nursing Home in Lawrence, one ofthe facilities owned by ...
WOMAN FILES $2M CIVIL RIGHTS SUIT STEMMING FROM LOGAN STRIP SEARCH
Jan 01, 1988; ... A former Boston nurse who was forced to undergo a stripsearch, an X-ray and a vaginal and rectal examination by US Customsagents at Logan Airport who suspected she was smuggling drugs,filed a $2 million civil rights suit yesterday in US District Court.Bosede Adedeji, 45, was ...
EDISON MAY REVIVE WEYMOUTH UNIT NEW OR REBUILT PLANT COULD BOOST UTILITY'S POWER SUPPLY BY 20 PERCENT
Jan 01, 1988; ... Boston Edison, criticized for its failure to plan andfacing increasing energy demands, moved yesterday to quiet itspast critics and answer future needs by announcing plans toconsider reactivating a dilapidated energy plant in Weymouth.The plan to rehabilitate the ...
KATTAR ENTERS GUILTY PLEA ON CHARGES
Jan 01, 1988; ... CONCORD, N.H. - George Kattar, sentenced to prison earlierthis year on federal extortion charges and allegedly connected toorganized crime, pleaded guilty yesterday to federal weaponscharges, US Attorney Richard Wiebusch said. Kattar, 68, of Meredith, N.H., and Methuen, ...
ORDER KEEPS CLUB IN ROXBURY OPEN
Jan 01, 1988; ... A temporary restraining order issued in Suffolk SuperiorCourt has allowed a Roxbury club, The Highland Tap, to sidestep alicense revocation issued on Dec. 28 by the Mayor's Office ofConsumer Affairs and Licensing.Licensing Commissioner Diane J. Modica said the revocation ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jan 01, 1988 ... Q. Whatever happened to the passenger carrier called TotalAir? - F.S., Quincy.A. Total Air, which operated flights between ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jan 01, 1988 ... Q. I have a set of four Norman Rockwell "Four Freedoms"posters, each measuring 39 1/2 by 56 inches. They are in excellentcondition and were issued during World War II. Can you find outwhat they are worth today? - E.L., HullA. The actual retail value depends on many factors, ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jan 01, 1988 ... Q. Paul Newman makes money from his two food companies,Newman's Own (which makes popcorn, spaghetti sauce and lemonade)and Salad King (which makes salad dressing). What does he do withthe profits? - S.S., BostonA. Over the past four years Newman has donated the $15 ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jan 01, 1988 ... Q. What is the address of the United States District Courtin Boston. - J.M., PlymouthA. The federal courthouse is in the John McCormack ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jan 01, 1988 ... Q. Who coined the antidrug phrase, "Just Say No"? - A.R.,NeedhamA. The phrase was coined in 1983 by the Advertising Council(public service ads) for campaigns initiated by the NationalInstitute of Drug Abuse of the US Department of Health and HumanServices. The phrase has ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jan 01, 1988 ... Q. What were some of the important happenings on Jan. 1,1900 - the date of my birth? - M.M., ScituateA. The Boston Globe (then selling for two cents a copy)reported that Thomas N. Hart was sworn in that day as mayor ofBoston. Hart, who previously had served as mayor in 1889 ...
CITY, UTILITY SETTLE 6-YEAR TAX CASE; BOSTON GAS TO RECEIVE $13 MILLION
Jan 01, 1988; ... After six years of litigation, Boston officials have reachedan out-of-court settlement with Boston Gas Co. that calls for thecity to pay the firm $13 million in cash over a five-year periodfor overassessing the utility's gas tanks, pipelines and theproperty under them.As ...
JUDGE'S EARLY DEPARTURES LEAD TO LOSS OF VACATION TIME
Jan 01, 1988; ... Charlestown District Court Judge Mary M. Brennan will have10 days of accrued and unused vacation time deducted from herregular vacation time as the result of an order by the state'sdistrict court chief justice, who saw no reason why Brennan wasregularly leaving the courthouse before ...
DWYER TO DIRECT DESEGREGATION OF S. BOSTON HOUSING PROJECTS
Jan 01, 1988; ... Mayor Flynn has transferred one of his key aides to theBoston Housing Authority to direct its effort to desegregate thecity's public housing projects.Flynn has assigned Larry Dwyer, considered one of his mosttrusted advisers, to work directly with BHA administrator ...
HAROLD DURKIN, 43 STONE & WEBSTER ENGINEER
Jan 01, 1988 ... A funeral Mass will be said in St. Michael's Church inBedford at 9 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 2., for Harold W. Durkin Sr., 43,a mechanical engineer from Bedford.Mr. Durkin died Wednesday at the University of TennesseeHospital following an accident.Mr. Durkin was born in ...
CLERK-MAGISTRATE RULES EVIDENCE LACKING TO CHARGE 2 METRO OFFICERS IN MAN'S DEATH
Jan 01, 1988; ... A clerk-magistrate yesterday ruled there was not enoughevidence to lodge criminal complaints against two MetropolitanPolice officers who allegedly lied about circumstances surroundingthe death of a Brockton man who ran from their cruiser and jumpedfrom the Tobin Bridge.S ....
QUESTIONS REMAIN AS T PROBES TRAIN CRASH
Jan 01, 1988; ... Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officialsyesterday continued their investigation into Wednesday's Blue Linetrain crash that injured 16 persons, but had no immediateexplanation of the cause.Among questions the investigators are asking, according toMBTA spokesman ...
PASSAGE OF $3B TRANSPORTATION BILL HELD UP OVER TURNPIKE SQUABBLE
Jan 01, 1988; ... A House-Senate dispute over using Massachusetts TurnpikeAuthority revenues for nonturnpike projects is threatening to delaypassage of a $3 billion transportation spending package,legislative leaders said yesterday."There's clearly a substantial disagreement on this ...
MEMOS SPUR QUESTIONS ON INCINERATOR REVERSAL
Jan 01, 1988; ... Two internal memos suggest that the Dukakis administrationwithdrew its support for construction of a Boston incinerator weeksbefore the governor and his aides announced their decision. The memos, released by Frank T. Keefe, Dukakis' secretary foradministration and finance, ...
THE VICTIMS IN GAZA
Jan 01, 1988; ... The iron fist has descended on the West Bank and Gaza. The barbedwire has been strung, the detention camps are full and the militarycourts, from which there is no appeal, have begun their work.Deportations, which most nations regard as a violation of theGeneva Convention, have been ...
FRANKIE BARNES, 10 FOURTH-GRADER WAS FOUND SLAIN
Jan 01, 1988 ... A funeral service will be held in the Bright Funeral Home inProvidence at 1 p.m. Monday, Jan. 4, for Frankie Barnes, the10-year-old Providence boy whose body was found Saturday. Frankie was in the fourth grade at the Asa Messer ElementarySchool in Providence. He was one of two ...
KATHERINE SULLIVAN, 99 ACTIVE IN SOMERVILLE CHURCH
Jan 01, 1988 ... A funeral Mass will be said on Saturday, Jan. 2, at 10 a.m.in St. Joseph's Church in Somerville for Katherine E. Sullivan, 99.Miss Sullivan, of Somerville, died on Tuesday at Mount AuburnHospital in Cambridge after a short illness.Miss Sullivan was born in County ...
WHALE, DEAD FOR ONE WEEK, WASHES UP ON CAPE SHORE
Jan 01, 1988; ... Another dead humpback whale washed up late Wednesday alongthe Cape Cod shore near the Dennis-Brewster line, apparentlyanother victim of the red tide toxin carried by mackerel. Since the rash of deaths began in late November, 13 of thisendangered species have been found dead ...
A 'STAR WARS' SWERVE
Jan 01, 1988 ... It looks as if the Reagan administration was trying to fakea nonexistent negotiating success when it asserted, at the close ofthe Washington summit, that Soviet leader Gorbachev had relaxed hisadamant opposition to the testing and development of "star wars"space weaponry....
A TENSE TREND
Jan 01, 1988; ... What, you ask, will 1988 bring?Tension, that's what.We have been keeping an eye on California, where trends begin,and California is a-twitter with tension. This is amazing, becauseCalifornia used to be so laid back it was on its elbows. No mas,as 35 percent of the ...
AIDS MOBILIZATION
Jan 01, 1988 ... The AIDS epidemic moves into a new dimension in 1988. Byyear's end the number of acute cases since the epidemic began inmid-1981 will climb toward 100,000. The toll of American dead willbe more than 50,000.The number of new AIDS cases in 1988 will rival the 57,000polio ...
THREE STORES TO OPEN DESPITE FIGHT BY UNION
Jan 01, 1988; ... Despite a last-minute attempt by a union to stop them,Filene's, Filene's Basement and Jordan Marsh Co. will open today indowntown Boston, the first time ever on New Year's Day.The stores will be open from noon until 6 p.m. Jordan Marshstores in Framingham and Hanover will ...
KING FAHD'S FRIGHT
Jan 01, 1988 ... The kings and sheikhs who rule the Arab countries around thePersian Gulf are scared silly by Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution.Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, meeting with heads of state from the sixnations that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council, expressed thesenotes of fright and ...
COMPANY ACQUIRES PURCHASING DIVISION
Jan 01, 1988 ... ORLANDO - A new company headed by a Harcourt Brace JovanovichInc. executive said it completed its $334 million purchase of thepublishing house's business publications unit. In a deal announcedin November, Edgell Communications Inc., bought 110 titles of HBJPublications, the company's trade ...
COMPANY TO DEVELOP ARTIFICIAL HEART
Jan 01, 1988 ... DANVERS - ABIOMED Inc. announced it has been awarded a $5.6million contract from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Instituteto develop a permanent, implantable total artificial heart. Thebattery powered artificial heart will be ...
HIGH VOLTAGE PLANS TO APPEAL DECISION
Jan 01, 1988 ... BURLINGTON - High Voltage Engineering Corp. said it plans toappeal a federal court's preliminary injunction that cleared theway for a New York firm to make a hostile takeover bid for HighVoltage. As previously reported, the US District Court in Bostonissued the injunction Wednesday against ...
MONEY SUPPLY RISES $1.2 BILLION
Jan 01, 1988 ... NEW YORK - The narrow definition of the nation's basic moneysupply known as M1, which is cash, checking accounts and NOWaccounts, increased $1.2 billion in the week ended Dec. 21, theFederal Reserve Board said. M1, money that is available forimmediate spending, rose to ...
TEXACO TO BORROW $3.4 BILLION
Jan 01, 1988 ... NEW YORK - Texaco Inc. said it will borrow $3.4 billion and use$2.2 billion of cash reserves to pay its obligations, includingsettlement of its lawsuit with Pennzoil Co., and eventually emergefrom bankruptcy. Texaco's plans, which include a ...
FACTORY ORDERS NUDGE UPWARDS
Jan 01, 1988 ... WASHINGTON - Orders to US factories edged up 0.1 percent inNovember, the weakest showing in three months, the government saidyesterday in a report that prompted some concern about a possibleslowdown in manufacturing following the October stock marketcollapse. The Commerce Department said ...
MOVE SQUEEZING MURDOCH HIT IN CONGRESS
Jan 01, 1988; ...Globe staff writer Michael Kranish also contributed to this report. Sen. Alfonse M. D'Amato (R-N.Y.) called yesterday for acongressional investigation into how a little-noticed provision gotinserted into a federal spending bill that could force RupertMurdoch to sell ...
WORKERS' COMPENSATION RAISED 19.9%
Jan 01, 1988 ... The state Insurance Division yesterday approved a 19.9percent increase in workers' compensation payments by businesses,effective immediately. It was the first increase in five years.Insurers last February had requested a 31.5 percent increase,which the insurance division ...
HOTLINE ON HOUSING AID PLANNED BY R.I. OFFICIALS
Jan 01, 1988 ... Two Rhode Island officials have proposed establishing a statewidehousing hotline that would help people find affordable housing. Lt.Gov. Richard A. Licht and General Treasurer Roger N. Begin saidthe hotline would cost the state $25,000, plus matching funds to beraised by local governments ...
R.I. LAWMAKERS FACE DEBATE ON SNOB ZONING
Jan 01, 1988 ... When the Rhode Island General Assembly convenes this year,lawmakers face an affordable-housing measure that was tagged "snobzoning" during an abortive debate last year. The bill surfaced latein last year's session as an attempt to tie some forms of state aidto a community's willingness ...
REPORT CITES SHORTAGE OF BOSTON RETAIL SPACE
Jan 01, 1988 ... Copley Place notwithstanding, Boston may have a shortage ofretail space. That, anyway, is the view of last month's CommercialReal Estate Report, which ranked Boston as the most underbuiltmetropolitan area for new store space this decade.Using a standard of 135 square feet of retail ...
MEDISPEAK AND OTHER DOCTORLY HUMOR
Jan 01, 1988; ... In the world of medicine, patients do not breathe but have a"respiratory status." They are not clothed in skin but an"integumentary apparatus." They do not eat but "aliment." Nor dothey walk; they "ambulate."That, according to Anthony E. Young and Nicholas L. Tilney ...
GAMBLING'S GREAT GAMBOL A FOCUS ON SMALL DRAMA
Jan 01, 1988; ... SALEM, N.H. - Photographer Henry Horenstein's eyes searchedthe list of entries on the program at Rockingham Park on a recentSaturday. Since there was a favorite being overbet in the thirdrace, he was looking for a horse whose odds did not reflect hischances for victory. He was, like ...
FATAL REACTION TO COKE, SADLY, NOT THAT RARE
Jan 01, 1988 ... Dear Beth: I'm a paramedic and pre-Med at Harvard. I've been working inemergency rooms, and I can't begin to tell you all the disastersI've seen that were the results of overdoses of drugs, especiallycocaine. Last year I saw three kids under 21 die who were firsttime coke users ....
SIRK'S FILMS: MORE THAN '50S KITSCH
Jan 01, 1988; ... In their time - the 1950s - the films of Douglas Sirk weredismissed as billowing kitsch. But now they're prized asretro-demento '50s artifacts, opening the door to an ongoingre-evaluation of that period. No longer is that postwar decade seenas the golden age of a muscle-flexing, prosperous ...
DORIS LESSING PONDERS MOB PSYCHOLOGY
Jan 01, 1988; ...PRISONS WE CHOOSE TO LIVE INSIDE, by Doris Lessing. Harper & Row. 82 pp. $6.95 (paperback). "Recently," Doris Lessing writes in "The Wind Blows Away OurWords," her book about the Afghan war that I reviewed three weeksago, "Paul Ehrlich one of the nuclear winter warners ...