The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from February 1989:
FIGHTING THE WAR
Feb 01, 1989; ... Lucky Peter Fontanez. He's a big guy, so he gets to use thesledgehammer and smash down the door.This night, the door is not cooperating because somebody hasnailed a two-by-four across it on the inside.Now, an average resident, no matter how afraid of crime, isgenerally not ...
TEXAN'S STAKE IN HOUGHTON DISCLOSED
Feb 01, 1989; ... Houghton Mifflin Co. rocketed on the New York Stock Exchangeyesterday on news that secretive Texas billionaire Robert M. Bassowns a 5.6 percent stake in the Boston publisher.In a move speculators believe may ignite a takeover fight forAmerica's last major independent ...
ASK THE GLOBE / THE ADDRESS BOOK
Feb 01, 1989 ... For M.H., Amherst, N. H. - The Rockport Co., 72 Howe St.,Marlborough, MA 01752For E.P., Newburyport -- Gloria Steinem, c/o Ms. magazine, 119West 40th St., New York, NY 10018For D.W., Hanover -- Arts & Entertainment Network, 555 FifthAve., New York, NY ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Feb 01, 1989 ... Q. Who was GI Jill, who made radio broadcasts in the SouthPacific during World War II, and where is she now? -- P.T., WalthamA. None of our sources mentions a specific GI Jill. The termapparently was a generic name applied to women in the army -- muchthe same as GI Joe was applied ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Feb 01, 1989 ... Q. How much are union carpenters in the Boston area paid perhour? -- S.P., BillericaA. A pay raise goes into effect today for members of four areaunits of the carpenters' union -- Boston Locals 33 and 67,Cambridge Local 40 and Medford Local 218. They will get ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Feb 01, 1989 ... Q. When are Cape Cod scallops "in season?" -- G.C., StonehamA. According to the Massachusetts Division of MarineFisheries, the scallop season is open from October through March.No Cape scallops may be taken between April 1 and Oct. 1. RichardBurke, owner of Burke's Seafood ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Feb 01, 1989 ... Q. How did hamburgers get that name? - N.O., BostonA. The practice of grinding meat probably began with thetribesmen from the steppes of Soviet Asia who shredded the toughcattle flesh to make it more palatable and digestible. The Tatarsintroduced the practice to Europe and, ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Feb 01, 1989 ... Q. I have heard that, to have the names of ancestorsinscribed on a memorial at the Statue of Liberty, one must act bythe end of February. How do I do it? -- J.C., BurlingtonA. Good news! The deadline has been extended beyond Feb. 28."In fact," says Peg Zitko, "we're going to ...
NAMES AND FACES
Feb 01, 1989 ... Derided in the press as a royal slacker, Britain's Duchess ofYork appears to be making amends with a duty visit to an art ...
NAMES AND FACES
Feb 01, 1989 ... Attorneys for Jimmy Swaggart, right, have denied thetelevangelist had an affair with Catherine Mary Kampen, left, asshe says ...
7 ARE SELECTED AS POSSIBLE JURORS FOR NORTH'S TRIAL
Feb 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - The judge in the Oliver L. North trialyesterday found seven prospective jurors, more than had beenexpected on the trial's first day, who had heard none of North'stestimony during the congressional Iran-contra hearings and whosaid they know nothing about the crimes of ...
KENNEDY PASSES UP AN UNLIKELY BUSH OFFER
Feb 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has extended itsbipartisan outreach efforts to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who recentlyreceived a letter inquiring about his interest in a job.Noting that his computerized White House personnel record wasready to be sent to the Bush ...
8-DAY VISIT BEGINS
Feb 01, 1989 ... Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita (center) deplanes at KennedyInternational Airport in New York last evening as he begins aneight-day visit to the United States. The Japanese leader will meettoday with United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez ...
US PUPILS FARE POORLY IN MATH, SCIENCE TESTS
Feb 01, 1989; ... Students from the United States and Ontario scored thelowest in a survey of math and science performance in sixindustrialized nations, according to results of testing releasedyesterday. The low scores in the first international testing of13-year-olds raises questions about ...
DRUG-RESISTANT VIRUS HAS AIDS IMPLICATIONS
Feb 01, 1989; ... The emergence of herpes viruses resistant to the few drugsavailable to treat them is an ominous and discouraging developmentfor people with AIDS and the 1.5 million Americans who are expectedto develop the disease.Drug-resistant strains of herpes simplex virus ...
WRIGHT: TAX ON RICH MAY BE NEEDED
Feb 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - House Speaker Jim Wright said yesterday thatit might be necessary to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americansbecause of the Bush administration's proposed bailout of thesavings and loan industry and its proposals for new programs andtax cuts.Wright said the ...
SHEVARDNADZE GOES TO BEIJING TODAY
Feb 01, 1989; ... BEIJING - The Soviet foreign minister, Eduard A. Shevardnadze,is scheduled to arrive here today to put the final touches onpreparations for the first Sino-Soviet summit since the twocommunist powers split into a bitter rivalry 30 years ago.Shevardnadze's visit follows a year of rapid ...
111 WERE MURDERED IN MONTH, USSR SAYS
Feb 01, 1989; ... MOSCOW - The Soviet government said yesterday that 111 murderswere committed in the country in January, including one policeofficer who was killed in the line of duty. Militia Col. YuriArshenevsky, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, was quoted byTass as saying that previously ...
LAWMAKERS SUPPORT MEDICARE FUNDING
Feb 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - More than 160 senators and representatives puttheir names on a proposed resolution yesterday seeking a one-yearmoratorium on cuts in Medicare payments to hospitals. Reductions inMedicare payments to health care institutions will accelerate thegrowing rate of hospital closures, ...
GUIDELINES OFFERED FOR DENTAL X-RAYS
Feb 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - A Food and Drug Administration panel said yesterdaythat children with healthy teeth may need dental X-rays no morethan once every year or two, and adults with healthy teeth and gumsonce every two or three years. The panel's guidelines, ...
ASYLUM-SEEKERS FACE RESTRICTIONS IN TEXAS
Feb 01, 1989; ... BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A federal judge said yesterday he probablywill allow the Immigration and Naturalization Service to return toa policy of restricting political asylum applicants to southernTexas pending reviews. US District Judge Filemon Vela extendeduntil Feb. 20 an order blocking the ...
SLOW GROWTH SEEN IN US POPULATION
Feb 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - Population will grow very slowly for the next 50years in the United States, and then will start to decline,according to a compilation of Census Bureau estimates releasedyesterday. The prime reason, they said, will be a decline inbirths as the postwar baby boom generation ...
TRIPS, HONORARIA TO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS UNDER FIRE
Feb 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - Members of Congress saw a lot of America in1987 -- at the expense of corporations and special interest groups. For instance, Rep. Edward J. Markey of Malden took 13trips, including four to California, four to Florida and one toArizona. This was his share of ...
QUAYLE GETS A FIRST TEST AS LATIN TRIP STARTS TODAY
Feb 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - Vice President Dan Quayle mounts the worldstage for the first time today as President Bush's emissary on afact-finding mission to elicit the views of Latin American leadersabout the US role in the region.A senior administration official said yesterday that ...
TRAFFIC CONTROLS INSTALLED AT JFK
Feb 01, 1989; ... NEW YORK - John F. Kennedy International Airport has become thefirst airport in the country to install traffic lights on itsrunways and taxiways to reduce chances of a ground collision.Officials said yesterday that the experimental system is workingwell. The red ...
MEESE SIGNS CONTRACT TO WRITE MEMOIRS
Feb 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - Former Attorney General Edwin Meese has signed acontract with Henry Holt and Co. to write the memoirs of his yearswith Ronald Reagan, the publishing company announced yesterday.The amount ...
CONSUMERISTS BACK BEEF HORMONE BAN
Feb 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - Consumer groups are supporting a European ban ofhormone-treated beef from the United States and say consumers herealso should demand the right to buy meat certified aschemical-free. The Consumer Federation of America and otherconsumer advocates are ...
WHALING PROTEST
Feb 01, 1989 ... Greenpeace member Ken Ballard holds his position in an inflatabledinghy as part of a protest against the hunting of Minke whales bya Japanese ship in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica. A Greenpeaceship and ...
GORILLA TACTIC
Feb 01, 1989 ... An oversize ape hangs over a building in Tokyo as part of theowner's effort to attract shoppers on the street. About 45 feet ...
AIDS ACTIVISTS HALT TRAFFIC
Feb 01, 1989 ... A Highway Patrol officer removes one of about 80 demonstratorswho shut down the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco at the heightof rush hour yesterday morning as they demanded faster governmentaction in stopping the ...
N.H. PLANT CLOSING TO COST 140 JOBS
Feb 01, 1989; ... NASHUA - The Nashua plant of Unified Data Products Corp. plansto close its doors Friday, leaving about 140 employees out of work,company spokesman Bruce Meberg said. The closure is part of thecompany's plan to reorganize its debt under Chapter 11 of thefederal bankruptcy code. The firm ...
GUARD TAKES A SHIFT AT R.I. HOSPITAL
Feb 01, 1989; ...Other photo, Page 1 CRANSTON, R.I. - Sixty men and women of the Rhode IslandNational Guard were called in yesterday to help maintain servicesat the state-operated General Hospital during a job action bylicensed practical nurses and attendants.The guardsmen were kept ...
FOR LAWYER, FRIENDSHIP WITH BULGER WAS THE KEY
Feb 01, 1989; ... It was early in 1984. A new administration was settling into CityHall, cementing a momentous transition in Boston's politicalhistory.At precisely the same time, Thomas E. Finnerty, a formerprosecutor and longtime criminal defense lawyer, was working on acareer transition of his ...
FINNERTY DIDN'T REPORT PROJECT SHARE IN DIVORCE
Feb 01, 1989; ... The former wife of Thomas E. Finnerty, the Boston lawyer whosays he held an interest in the 75 State Street project, saidyesterday she is upset that he did not list that interest among hisassets during divorce proceedings four years ago.However, Barbara Finnerty indicated that she ...
DRIVER SHOT, KILLED AFTER POLICE CHASE OF STOLEN BUS
Feb 01, 1989; ... An unidentified man was fatally shot last night after allegedlystealing a Greyhound bus and taking police on a wild chase throughthe city. Before the chase ended in Jamaica Plain, he had hit morethan a dozen private cars, destroyed four police cruisers andknocked down mailboxes and street ...
BROTHER SET FIRE TO HOME, POLICE SAY
Feb 01, 1989; ... WEYMOUTH - A Quincy man was in critical condition lastnight after he allegedly broke into his brother's seven-roomVictorian house, doused it with gasoline and set it ablaze, policesaid.Francis J. Borden, 37, set himself on fire around noonyesterday while trying to burn ...
STATE GETS TOUGH ON STANDISH FOREST LEASING
Feb 01, 1989; ... The state's top environmental official said yesterday heintends to boost from $240 to more than $2,500 the fee for leasinghouse lots in Myles Standish State Forest in Plymouth, and mayeliminate the unusual program entirely."The bargain days are over. We are not in the ...
HUB FINDING GUNS, GANGS A LETHAL MIX
Feb 01, 1989; ... preparation of this report. Joseph Singleton's life has changed in recent weeks. No longerdoes the 18-year-old hang out on Humboldt Avenue near theintersection of Homestead Street in Roxbury.Standing near the spot where four people were shot Mondaynight -- three ...
BCH REBUILDING PLAN GOES TO CITY COUNCIL
Feb 01, 1989; ... Nearly 3 1/2 years after Mayor Flynn announced his intentionto rebuild Boston City Hospital, the plan for a $170 millioninpatient facility is now headed to the City Council for approval.The council today will take up Mayor Flynn's request for loanauthorization to build the ...
HIGH LIGHT OF HIS DAY
Feb 01, 1989 ... Benny Haddigan replaces a burned-out bulb in a street lamp onBremen Avenue in East ...
TOWN, HISTORY HEM IN COUPLE
Feb 01, 1989; ... NATICK - Jerry and Susan Maus had no idea what they were gettinginto when they bought the 120-year-old home in the John EliotHistorical District three years ago.But they soon found out. They couldn't change a bush on theproperty without permission from the Natick Historical ...
MAINE WATER POLLUTION TRIGGERS SUIT GROUP BLAMES SEWAGE PLANT FOR HIGH BACTERIA LEVELS IN CASCO BAY
Feb 01, 1989; ... Acting on its report last fall that Maine's Casco Bay isamong the worst in the country for a variety of pollutants, theConservation Law Foundation yesterday served formal notice to thePortland Water District that it will be suing for violations of thefederal Clean Water Act. ...
MORE MOVES ON MOVING ABOUT IN BOSTON IMPACT REPORT SOUGHT ON MBTA FARE HIKE PLAN
Feb 01, 1989; ... A private environmental group and the Flynn administrationhave separately urged that a proposed 15-cent increase in subwayfares be postponed until an environmental impact report determineswhether the higher cost will drive riders away -- perhaps to theircars -- and whether other ...
MORE MOVES ON MOVING ABOUT IN BOSTON TAXI OWNERS FIRE AT BID TO ADD MORE MEDALLIONS
Feb 01, 1989; ... The city government and taxi owners presented conflictingarguments yesterday at a state Department of Public Utilitieshearing to determine whether that agency is legally entitled toraise the number of taxis permitted to operate in Boston.A lawyer for the city, which is ...
SCHOOL PANEL ORDERS ONE PUPIL PLAN COMMITTEE ASKS WILSON, CONSULTANTS FOR ASSIGNMENT COMPROMISE
Feb 01, 1989; ... Hoping to keep up momentum for student assignment reform,the Boston School Committee last night ordered Superintendent LavalS. Wilson to work with two city consultants on a new compromiseplan.The School Committee is now facing two conflicting versions ofproposed changes -- ...
REVERE TEST SCANDAL SUSPECT ADMITS ROLE
Feb 01, 1989 ... A former Boston municipal court officer pleaded guilty in USDistrict Court yesterday to conspiring to distribute illegaladvance copies of a civil service promotional exam. Stephen P.Camerano, 42, of Milton pleaded guilty to an indictment charginghim with conspiring to commit mail fraud in ...
600 RALLY TO BACK DUKAKIS' BUDGET
Feb 01, 1989 ... A noontime rally yesterday at the State House to show support forGov. Dukakis' revenue package and to fight cuts in services drewabout 600 people. The so-called Fair Tax Lobby Day was organized bythe Tax Equity Alliance ...
NORTH END SCHOOL IS DAMAGED BY FIRE
Feb 01, 1989 ... A fire in a third-floor classroom of a North End elementaryschool forced the evacuation of 210 students and staff yesterdaymorning, but fire officials said no one was injured. The blaze,which apparently started in a coat closet of the Eliot ElementarySchool at 16 Charter St., was confined ...
POLICE BREAK UP ALLEGED SALES SCAM
Feb 01, 1989 ... State Police last night broke up an alleged profit-making schemebelieved to be operating from a house in Fairhaven for the last twoweeks, said a spokesman for Bristol County District Attorney RonaldPina. Under the alleged scheme, customers moved individual"pyramids" up a larger pyramid by ...
WOMAN, 59, FOUND SLAIN IN MAINE
Feb 01, 1989; ... EAST WINTHROP, Maine - A 59-year-old woman was found slain inthe bedroom of her mobile home yesterday, hours after policereceived an emergency 911 telephone call from the residence,homicide investigators said. The victim was identified as CharlotteEdith Thompson, who had been living with ...
FRAMINGHAM MAN DIES IN I-495 CRASH
Feb 01, 1989 ... BOXBOROUGH - State Police are investigating an accident Mondayafternoon on Interstate 495 in Boxborough that killed Gerald C.McDonald, 31, of Phelps Road, Framingham. Cpl. Joseph Howley, StatePolice spokesman, said the accident occurred in the northbound laneabout 5:20 p.m. Troopers found ...
AS INTERIM US ATTORNEY, O'SULLIVAN VOWS TO RETURN INTEGRITY TO OFFICE
Feb 01, 1989; ... Pledging to restore credibility to the embattled USattorney's office, federal prosecutor Jeremiah T. O'Sullivan wassworn in yesterday as interim US attorney by a federal judge in USDistrict Court.In a courtroom filled with assistant US attorneys, federalofficials and ...
STATE PHASES IN RULES ON LEAD PAINT
Feb 01, 1989; ... Although Massachusetts has not yet enacted regulations onmeasuring the amount of lead in the air and dust after lead painthas been removed from a dwelling, the state late last year passedregulations governing the deleading process.The regulations, filed and overseen by the ...
DEFENDANTS PLEAD INNOCENT TO ALLEGED CAR-TOWING SCAM
Feb 01, 1989; ... Eighteen men, including six current and former policeofficers, pleaded innocent in Suffolk Superior Court yesterday to atotal of more than 1,500 charges stemming from an alleged towingscam that bilked car owners out of thousands of dollars.Clerk-magistrate Gary Wilson ...
EX-MALDEN OFFICER, SON CHARGED WITH FRAUD
Feb 01, 1989 ... CAMBRIDGE - A former Malden police sergeant and his sonwere indicted yesterday, accused of defrauding an insurance companyof $8,035 in what Middlesex District Attorney Scott Harshbargercalled "a classic example of the type of automobile fraud that is .. .driving up consumer ...
ALLEGATIONS OF THREATS SURROUND MASS. PAROLEE DUKAKIS ROLE IN RELEASE REPORTED, DISPUTED
Feb 01, 1989; ... Harvey Alter, who was paroled from prison in Massachusettsin the mid-1970s reportedly with the help of top state officials,is the target of an FBI probe in New York City for threateninginmates at a halfway house he runs.The Federal Bureau of Prisons yesterday withdrew 100 ...
MITCHELL'S LAWYER RAPS DUKAKIS ANGRY ATTORNEY CALLS GOVERNOR'S COMMENTS ON JUDGE PREJUDICIAL
Feb 01, 1989; ... Gov. Dukakis' comments about the drunken driving case of JudgeJoseph S. Mitchell Jr. provoked an angry reaction yesterday fromone of Mitchell's lawyers, who said the remarks so prejudiced thecase the charges should be dismissed."The governor is an attorney. He should know better ...
STUDY FINDS '87 A PROUD YEAR FOR HUB IN PUBLIC HOUSING
Feb 01, 1989; ... Boston is producing subsidized housing at a rate nearly fivetimes greater than cities of roughly equal population andgeographical size, according to a study by the Boston PublicFacilities Department.The comparison with Atlanta, Minneapolis, Baltimore, SanFrancisco and ...
FLYNN URGES A CONFERENCE ON HOMELESS
Feb 01, 1989; ... Mayor Flynn, in a letter dated Monday, called for PresidentBush to convene a White House conference on the homeless, saying itwould "help illuminate the thousand points of light to which youhave often referred."Flynn's letter states that the idea received the support ofthe ...
TEACHER IS ACCUSED OF BEATING STUDENTS
Feb 01, 1989 ... EASTHAMPTON - A middle school teacher has pleaded notguilty to eight counts of assault and battery with a dangerousweapon after allegations he beat special needs students with aweightlifter's belt, a plastic tube and a small wooden oar,officials said yesterday.James J ....
EXPRESSWAY CRASH
Feb 01, 1989 ... A truck and car involved in a four-vehicle, chain-reaction crashon the Southeast Expressway block a northbound lane at 7 lastevening near the Massachusetts Avenue exit ....
BOGGS GIVES HIS SIDE
Feb 01, 1989; ... Embattled Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs denied yesterdaythat he made racial comments about Jim Rice, claimed three-fourthsof Margo Adams' allegations about him are lies and said he set up acompromising picture of Bob Stanley as a practical joke and not toblackmail ...
ATHLETES DUE FOR THESE DON'TS
Feb 01, 1989; ... ADVICE TO THE ATHLETE - Don't drink, kid. You want to see yourname on a police blotter? Don't drink a drop. You want to be BruceKimball, responsible for tragedy, sent to the slammer just theother day for 17 years? You want to be Bob Probert, suspended, astar who somehow can't even be ...
YALE STUNS HARVARD, 3-1 TOP-RANKED CRIMSON UPSET
Feb 01, 1989; ... NEW HAVEN - Mike O'Neill was the solitary sentinel at theedge of the Yale bench two years ago, a sophomore goaltender whocould only bide his time and imagine playing in games like this."I was part of the team," he said last night. "I remember whata feeling that was ....
A DIFFERENT GAME IN CBA IT'S A LEAGUE OF SEPARATE WAYS
Feb 01, 1989; ... ALBANY, N.Y. - The Pensacola Tornados visit the AlbanyPatroons for a two-game weekend series, and it's an interestingcoaching matchup. One minds; the other doesn't.OK, check that. One minds to a point; the other really, reallydoesn't.George Karl shares the same ...