The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from December 1988:
A QUICK BITE FOR THE HUNGRY SHOPPER
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METROPOLITAN OPERA GIORDANO: 'ANDREA CHENIER' MET (CD)
Dec 01, 1988; ... This year's release in the Metropolitan Opera's fund-raisingHistoric Broadcast series reproduces the Dec. 4, 1954 performanceon of Giordano's "Andrea Chenier." The recording preserves thefamous Met partnership of Mario del Monaco and Zinka Milanov. DelMonaco always said that he enjoyed ...
EX-MODEL CHARGED WITH RUNNING SEX RING
Dec 01, 1988; ... RANDOLPH - A 49-year-old former West German model has beenarrested on charges that she ran a $100,000-a-year prostitutionring catering to wealthy businessmen from Boston, New Hampshire andRhode Island, police said. Elisabeth A. Lampe of Brockton, a motherof three, was charged with ...
2 WOMEN INMATES ESCAPE FROM PRISON
Dec 01, 1988 ... FRAMINGHAM - State and local police were searching last nightfor two women inmates who escaped earlier in the evening from thestate prison in Framingham. Lisa Ann Dagracia, 20, and Paula Shay,19, climbed over the razor wire on top of a chain link fence at7:20 p.m ....
WEATHER HELPS CLEAR THE AIR OVER DENVER
Dec 01, 1988; ... DENVER - For the first time in at least 13 years, Denvermet federal clean-air standards for the entire month of November,but officials say it was the weather and not motorists' drivinghabits that made the difference. ...
ADA OLSON, 98 RETIRED TEACHER AND PRINCIPAL
Dec 01, 1988 ... Services will be held at 11 a.m. today in the First ParishChurch of Manchester for Ada (Green) Olson, a teacher in theelementary schools of Hudson, Hampden, Beverly and Gloucester forfour decades until her retirement in 1956.Mrs. Olson died Monday at the Pilgrim ...
WALLY BERGER, SET ROOKIE HR MARK THAT STOOD FOR 57 YEARS; AT AGE 83
Dec 01, 1988; ... Walter Anton (Wally) Berger, an outfielder for the BostonBraves during the 1930s and holder of the rookie home run recordfor more than half a century, died of a stroke yesterday at AMISouth Bay Hospital in Redondo Beach, Calif. He was 83. Mr. Berger's record of 38 homers ...
RICHARD FORBES, 72 ENGINEER, EXECUTIVE, WAR HERO
Dec 01, 1988 ... Richard R. Forbes, an engineer and former president of aWest Newton air conditioning-heating-refrigeration firm, diedMonday at his home in East Sandwich. He was 72.Mr. Forbes retired in 1985 after 30 years with the company,R.T. Forbes Co. of West Newton. The firm was ...
HERVE BOULE, 83 FOUNDED INSURANCE AGENCY
Dec 01, 1988 ... A funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. today in St. Mary'sChurch in Marlborough for Herve J. Boule, who founded an insuranceagency in Marlborough in 1943 and managed it until his retirementin 1970.Mr. Boule died Monday at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester.He was 83 and ...
MARTHA G. DEVANEY RETIRED ACCOUNTANT
Dec 01, 1988 ... A funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. tomorrow in St. Ann'sChurch, Marshfield, for Martha G. (Freed) Devaney, a member of theDemocratic town committee when she lived in Marshfield and anaccountant for Cumberland Farms in Canton during the 1960s.Mrs. Devaney died of colon ...
EDGAR BRENC, 73 WAS LAWYER IN BOSTON 36 YEARS
Dec 01, 1988 ... A funeral service will be held tomorrow at 11 a.m. in theLatvian Lutheran Church in Brookline for Edgar Brenc, a lawyer whopracticed in Jamaica Plain for 36 years and on Cape Cod since 1980.Mr. Brenc died Tuesday at Beth Israel Hospital. He was 73 andlived in ...
WALTER A. ZELL, 64 CIVIL ENGINEERING CONSULTANT
Dec 01, 1988 ... Walter Andrew Zell, a self-employed civil engineeringconsultant, died Tuesday at his home in Wakefield. He was 64.Born in Boston, Mr. Zell was an Army radio operator in theSouth Pacific during World War II and graduated from NortheasternUniversity in 1951. He earned a ...
CLINTON MAN DIES IN APARTMENT FIRE
Dec 01, 1988; ... CLINTON - A 26-year-old man was killed early yesterdaymorning as a general-alarm fire swept a two-story apartmentbuilding at 537 High St.Anthony Brown was pronounced dead at the scene, according toClinton Fire Chief Thomas Moore. Brown had lived in one of thesecond-story ...
WARY DEMOCRATS AWAIT BUSH MOVE ON DEFICIT
Dec 01, 1988; ... WASHINGTON - Democratic leaders appear convinced that newrevenues will be needed to address the nation's economic problemsbut are showing a strong resolve to make President-elect GeorgeBush take the initiative rather than risk political damage bymoving quickly and doing it ...
KENNEDY SCHOOL WITHDREW INVITATION TO JACKSON AIDE
Dec 01, 1988; ... Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Governmenthas withdrawn an invitation to Gerald Austin, Rev. Jesse Jackson'scampaign manager, to attend a "debriefing" for campaign managers onthe 1988 election.The private, three-day conference, to be held this weekend,will ...
VOTE RUNNING 3-1 TO CONSECRATE WOMAN BISHOP FOR MASS.
Dec 01, 1988; ... Despite well-publicized efforts by opponents of the firstwoman bishop in the Anglican communion, about two-thirds of the 60approvals needed from standing committees across the country arealready in hand and voting is now running 3-to-1 in her favor.Word had been leaked ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1988 ... Q. I have some Civil War letters dated from 1862 to 1864.Where can I get them appraised? -- T.C., LowellA. Massachusetts military archivist James Fahey says he willbe happy to appraise the letters for you in his ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1988 ... Q. What is the worth of a 1912 nickel? -- M.P., MaynardA. If there is no mint mark, your nickel is worth about 50cents, according to a spokesman for Colony Coin Co. of Newton. Ifthere is a mint mark (it would appear near the word ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1988 ... Q. I was given a copper coin the size of a penny. It saysUnited States Mint on one side and has a "D" on the reverse, but nomonetary value. What is it? -- D.H., BridgewaterA. Since 1984 the US Mint has been including one "fillercoin," ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1988 ... Q. I was born in either 1898 or 1899. My mother told me Iwas born on Nov. 25 and that it was Thanksgiving Day, but I don'tremember which year. Can you tell me on which day Thanksgiving fellin those years? -- M.Q., Billerica...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1988 ... Q. My son was born on Jan. 20, 1974, in California. How canhe find out what was going on in California and in the world onthat day? -- S.Y., ChelmsfordA. Your son might peruse the microfilm copies of the LosAngeles Times and Los Angeles Free Press on ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1988 ... Q. Is there a Naylor Museum of Photography in Boston? It wasmentioned in the credits for a recent television special, but Ihave been unable to locate it. -- S.R., CantonA. Jack Naylor, who maintains the Naylor Museum of Photographyin the basement of his ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1988 ... Q. How much US air passenger and cargo transport isattributed to chartered flights? -- J.D., BostonA. The latest available figures from the Air TransportAssociation of America show an annual total of ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1988 ... Q. What state is Eugene McCarthy from? -- R.W., CambridgeA. Eugene Joseph McCarthy is a born-and-bred Minnesotan. Hewas born March 29, 1916, in Watkins, a small town about 60 milesnorthwest of Minneapolis, and was educated at St. John's Universityin Collegeville (AB, 1935) ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1988 ... Q. What province is Toronto in? - M.S., LynnA. Toronto, capital of the province of Ontario, is Canada'ssecond largest city with (according to 1986 census figures) morethan 612,000 residents. Although Montreal's population is slightlymore than a million, Toronto is part of ...
CHALLENGE FOR DUKAKIS -- 1
Dec 01, 1988 ... The party's over.It ended when the polls closed across the nation four Tuesdaysago. For Michael Dukakis, Democratic candidate for president of theUnited States, it was a great party while it lasted -- all themonths of crisscrossing the country, basking in the cheers ...
2 WOMEN FROM MASS. SLAIN IN CARIBBEAN
Dec 01, 1988; ... A teen-age islander was questioned yesterday as a suspect inthe murders of two vacationing Watertown women stabbed to deathMonday while sunbathing on an isolated corner of the tiny Caribbeanisland of Anguilla.Several sources in Anguilla said yesterday that authoritieswere ...
DEATHS OF 4 WOMEN CALLED SERIAL KILLINGS LATEST BODY FOUND IN DARTMOUTH
Dec 01, 1988; ... NEW BEDFORD - A serial killer, or killers, has killed atleast four young women and left their bodies along highways in theNew Bedford area, authorities said yesterday.The fourth body was found Tuesday in Dartmouth by policesearching an area off Interstate 195 with the aid ...
THREE FIRED IN PROBE OF CADET TRAINING
Dec 01, 1988; ... NEEDHAM - The panel overseeing the state's troubledpolice-training program voted yesterday to fire three staffmembers, accept the resignation of a fourth and adopt sweepingchanges in training procedures as part of a 120-day pilot program.The actions by the Criminal Justice ...
US HALTS 2 SCIENTISTS' FUNDING
Dec 01, 1988; ... Federal officials yesterday cut off hundreds of thousands ofdollars worth of grants to two scientists involved in controversialresearch at Harvard University-affiliated Massachusetts Eye and EarInfirmary.Officials with the National Institutes of Health, which paysfor most ...
JUST CHECKING IN
Dec 01, 1988 ... During an appearance to light a Christmas tree at Toronto's MetroZoo yesterday, Santa Claus keeps his camel in tow while he ...
WALESA DEBATES UNION LEADER
Dec 01, 1988 ... A family in Warsaw watches Solidarity leader Lech Walesa during a40-minute debate on state-run television yesterday with AlfredMiodowicz, the head of Poland's official union. Walesa demandedrestoration of his outlawed union ...
A LEGISLATOR TO THE END
Dec 01, 1988; ...Robert L. Turner is a Globe columnist. When the Legislature prorogued last week, it cut off a part ofits history.Sen. John Francis Parker of Taunton is retiring.Parker is the only incumbent Republican to have served ineither branch of the Legislature when his ...
CLARIFICATION
Dec 01, 1988 ... Clarification: A story in the Metro/Region section in someeditions yesterday about a call for an increase in fares on theMassachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's mass transit systemshould have given greater emphasis to the conditional nature of thereport prepared by a subcommittee of ...
HOTELS, UNION AGREE ON NEW PACT
Dec 01, 1988; ... An agreement was reached early today between Boston hotelowners and the union representing more than 3,000 workers on a newthree-year contract, averting a threatened city-wide hotel strike."I feel great. It's a great win," said Domenic Bozzotto,president of Local 26 of the ...
NITZE, AT HARVARD, SAYS ICBMS VULNERABLE
Dec 01, 1988; ... The Reagan administration's chief arms control negotiatoryesterday warned that US intercontinental ballistic missiles remainvulnerable to attack and urged that President-elect George Bush acton the problem early in his term.He also indicated that further arms control ...
US TO TRY NEW BEDFORD FISHERMAN FOR CANADIANS
Dec 01, 1988; ... A Gloucester-based federal fisheries lawyer said yesterdaythat he will recommend US prosecution on Canada's behalf of a NewBedford fishing captain accused of illegal scalloping on GeorgesBank.On Oct. 1, a Canadian patrol vessel fired at the scallop boat,the Donna Lynn, ...
US SAILOR IS KILLED AS JET GUN MISFIRES
Dec 01, 1988; ... MANAMA, Bahrain - A jet fighter's gun fired by mistakeyesterday, killing a sailor and setting six planes ablaze on theUSS Nimitz flight deck, but crews averted disaster by dousing theflames quickly, US ...
GENE MANIPULATION MAY HOLD CANCER KEY
Dec 01, 1988; ... A team of Harvard researchers, using its recently patented"Harvard mouse," has discovered a novel way to block thedevelopment of cancer by manipulating certain key genes, raisingthe possibility that drugs that mimic this genetic effect mightsomeday be used against human cancers, ...
IF THEY COULD TALK, THEY'D SAY 'MAMA'
Dec 01, 1988; ... NAIROBI, Kenya - Enos Okode couldn't get any closer to hisanimals if he grew tusks."We call them by their names, and we know them," he said ofthe rhinoceroses, elephants and elands at the animal orphanage nearNairobi National Park, where he works 24 hours a day."We are ...
'SECRET' SHUTTLE TRIP: NO SECRET TO SOVIETS
Dec 01, 1988; ... CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - One of the most detaileddescriptions of this week's launch of the space shuttle Atlantisand its Pentagon-supplied payload, which have been shrouded insecrecy, has come from an unusual source: the Soviet news agencyTass.Only the Pentagon and the ...
BUSH, JACKSON DECLARE PEACE AT A FENCE-MENDING LUNCHEON
Dec 01, 1988; ... WASHINGTON - President-elect George Bush and a politicalopposite, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, declared a political peace pacttogether yesterday, as Bush tried to lay to rest the bad feelingsof a campaign that some said included racial overtones inspired bythe Republicans.Bush, ...
KERRY LEAVES DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN POST
Dec 01, 1988; ... WASHINGTON - Sen. John Kerry yesterday ended his two-yeartenure as chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee,proclaiming that there had been a "Democratic mandate" in 1988.Flanked by four of the five new Democratic senators electedthis year, Kerry said he ...
ECOLOGISTS HOPEFUL AFTER MEETING BUSH
Dec 01, 1988; ... WASHINGTON - After a 45-minute breakfast meeting yesterdaywith President-elect George Bush, national environmental leadershailed what they called a coming era of access to and cooperationwith the White House. The six environmental leaders presented Bush, who ...
TIME FOR SERGEANTS
Dec 01, 1988 ... Thirty-two Boston Police officers were promoted to the rank ofsergeant yesterday at Faneuil Hall. The promotions increase thenumber of sergeants to 228 ...
POLICE STORY: JUST THE FACTS
Dec 01, 1988; ... A friend of mine who is a policeman reported the following story:The other night, he and his partner responded to a domesticdisturbance taking place in the second-floor apartment of athree-story building. When they got there, they were met by the woman who had madethe complaint ....
MASSPORT EVICTS MORE BOATMEN FROM ITS PIERS IN EAST BOSTON
Dec 01, 1988; ... For the second straight year, the Massachusetts PortAuthority has evicted several commercial watermen from the agency'sdilapidated East Boston piers.Facing ouster by dawn today were a tugboat, a small ferry andcrew-cargo vessel, and three other crew boats from berths on ...
FLYNN AGAIN TESTS POLITICAL CLIMATE
Dec 01, 1988; ... NEW BEDFORD - Mayor Flynn paid a visit here yesterday thatlooked and sounded like a gubernatorial campaign swing: He pressedthe flesh with fishermen on the waterfront, dropped by City Hall tochat with the mayor and served as keynote speaker at the localRotary Club ...
REVENUES OFF PACE LAST MONTH, KEEFE SAYS
Dec 01, 1988; ... Gov. Dukakis' top budget official, blaming a state fiscalsituation that he described as "bizarre" and "really strange,"warned yesterday that tax revenues in November will not meet theadministration's target.The news prompted the Senate's top budget official to call onthe ...
FATHER ACCUSED IN BABY GIRL'S DEATH DAVID AZAR, 34, GOURMET FOOD STORE OWNER, FREE UNDER BAIL
Dec 01, 1988; ... FRAMINGHAM - A Sudbury man arraigned yesterday in thebeating death of his 3 1/2-month-old daughter was freed on baillast night from Cambridge jail. David Azar, 34, is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday for atrial date on a charge of first-degree murder of the infant ...
ILLEGAL SLUDGE DUMPING ALLEGED ON NORTH SHORE EPA CITES 40 MILLION GALLONS OF SEWAGE DAILY
Dec 01, 1988; ... Five communities on the North Shore were charged yesterdaywith dumping sewage into Salem Harbor in violation of the federalClean Water Act.The complaint entered in US District Court in Boston by the USEnvironmental Protection Agency alleges that Beverly, ...
IN-FLIGHT MEAL
Dec 01, 1988 ... Pigeons flock to Jane Azari for a handout at Downtown Crossing inBoston. Azari, a legal secretary, says she regularly ...
REQUESTS FOR AID DUE TOMORROW
Dec 01, 1988 ... Tomorrow is the deadline for Globe Santa requests.Letters postmarked later than midnight tomorrow cannot behonored, as there would not be enough time ...
EX-POLICE CAPTAIN FOUND GUILTY OF EXTORTION
Dec 01, 1988; ... Delivering a swift and clear verdict, a federal grand juryyesterday found a former Boston police captain guilty of extortingthousands of dollars in bribes after five hours of deliberations. The jury convicted Frances E. Devin on one count ofracketeering and six counts of ...
DPU CALLS FOR BROADER POWERS PLAN WOULD GIVE MASS. MORE CONTROL OVER ENERGY CHOICES, SHARE IN RISKS
Dec 01, 1988; ... The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities yesterdayproposed a dramatically different approach to regulating electricutilities that is intended to reduce the cost of power and increasethe use of conservation, cogeneration and small power plants.It would strip utilities ...
CHELSEA BU PROPOSAL TO RUN CITY SCHOOLS BRINGS A MIX OF REACTIONS SOME HAIL UNUSUAL PLAN; OTHERS FEAR IT
Dec 01, 1988; ...Peter Howe of the Globe staff contributed to this report. CHELSEA - Adults in this blighted industrial city north ofBoston are doing more than their share of pre-Christmasanticipating these days -- wondering whether Boston University willbe a benevolent Santa Claus or a dreaded ...
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE RAPS USE OF CONSULTANTS PANEL SAYS SYSTEM INVITES ABUSE, COULD EASILY BE PHASED DOWN
Dec 01, 1988; ... Despite reforms implemented by the Dukakis administration, alegislative committee said yesterday the continued use ofconsultants perpetuates a system of elite employees, invites abuseand could be reduced by 75 percent without the government "missingone beat."Rep. Robert Cerasoli ...
CONNOLLY TO HIKE FEES $9M AND FREEZE PAY, JOBS
Dec 01, 1988; ... Secretary of State Michael Connolly joined thebudget-balancing effort yesterday on Beacon Hill by hiking fees anestimated $9 million, imposing a hiring and salary freeze andshutting down the state archives building on Saturdays."As the third-ranking state official, I am ...
DEPARTING HOYTE TOUTS CLEANUP ROLE MASS. ENVIRONMENTAL CHIEF SETS HARBOR CHALLENGE FOR SUCCESSORS
Dec 01, 1988; ... The cleanup of Boston Harbor was but one of many goals thatJames S. Hoyte set out for himself when he took office 5 1/2 yearsago as state environmental affairs secretary.Within months, though, it became a top priority that was toconsume a major portion of his subsequent ...
ENDURING DEATH AND FIRE, FAMILY ASKS FOR HELP
Dec 01, 1988; ... The children were still stunned by their father's death theprevious week when 7-year-old Stephanie awoke one morning inOctober and hollered from her second-floor bedroom, "Mom! There'ssmoke!"A father's death, all three children had told their mother,was one of the most dreadful ...
$117M REFUND BY EDISON SOUGHT SHANNON CITES PILGRIM SHUTDOWN; UTILITY DISPUTES HIS FIGURES
Dec 01, 1988; ... Attorney General James Shannon yesterday called for BostonEdison Co. to refund at least $117 million that its customers havespent on replacement power since the Pilgrim nuclear plant was shut31 months ago."The entire 2 1/2 years of this outage was caused by BostonEdison's ...
NEW INDICTMENT ISSUED IN MAFIA CASE
Dec 01, 1988 ... A federal grand jury yesterday returned a new indictmentagainst John Z. Naimovich, a suspended state trooper, and FrancisJ. McIntyre, Jr., an alleged bookie, charging them with operatingan illegal gambling business, bribery and providing confidentialinformation about federal ...
T PROBES MACHINERY AFTER FUSE PROBLEM
Dec 01, 1988; ... The MBTA is conducting an internal investigation intomechanical problems that occurred on a four-car Red Line train atDowntown Crossing early Tuesday.Several hundred commuters were evacuated and two persons weretreated for smoke inhalation after the incident, which started ...
PROPOSAL TO CONVERT THEATER TO CLUB OPPOSED RESIDENTS SAY THEY FEAR MORE NOISE, TRAFFIC
Dec 01, 1988; ... A proposal to convert a vacant movie theater into one of thelargest clubs in Boston drew strong opposition yesterday fromelected officials and the residents of a luxury apartment andcondominium building across the street."I think this concept is very ill-conceived," said ...
WILSON'S LONGTIME AIDE LEAVING JOB, WILL RETURN TO ROCHESTER, N.Y.
Dec 01, 1988; ... Boston School Superintendent Laval S. Wilson's most trustedand longtime aide, C. Michael Robinson, said yesterday he isaccepting a job as the school budget director in Rochester, N.Y.Upon hearing the news, some longtime school observers wonderedhow Robinson's resignation ...