The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from March 1989:
ARREST NUMBERS MAY ADD UP TO TROUBLE
Mar 01, 1989; ... Since it was beefed up four years ago, the Boston PoliceDepartment's Drug Control Unit has been an administrator's dreambecause of its large number of arrests.But those numbers may become a nightmare for the department.A policy aimed at generating voluminous arrests ...
N.H. ACCEPTS COSTS FOR SICK BOY
Mar 01, 1989; ... CONCORD, N.H. - Faced with a growing public outcry, Gov.Judd Gregg yesterday announced the New Hampshire Medicaid programwill pay most of the cost for a 6-year-old Nashua boy's vitalbone-marrow transplant, reversing the state's earlier position.In an interpretation of state ...
INFORMANT IS NOT THE RIGHT ONE, DEFENSE IN OFFICER'S SLAYING SAYS
Mar 01, 1989; ... Lawyers for a man accused in the murder a year ago ofDetective Sherman Griffiths yesterday charged law enforcementofficials have produced the wrong informant, an allegation theprosecution denied.In another development, a judge took under advisement arequest by the defense ...
AT THE SUB-CABINET LEVEL, VACANCIES PRODUCE FRICTION
Mar 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - John G. Tower is not the only personnelproblem for President Bush. Five weeks into the new adminstration,most of the 450 key sub-Cabinet-level jobs on the Bush team remainunfilled. Although the switch from Ronald Reagan to George Bush wasconsidered a ...
SALVADOR'S ARMY TO CEASE FIRE UNTIL JUNE
Mar 01, 1989; ...in this report. MEXICO CITY - The Salvadoran army, in a surprising bid to seizethe initiative in a volatile peace process, announced yesterdaythat it would begin a unilateral cease-fire to last until PresidentJose Napoleon Duarte's term expires three months from today.A ...
SHANNON ETHICS BILL SEEKS CAP ON LEGISLATORS' INCOME
Mar 01, 1989; ... Saying that "public office should not be a path to privategain," Attorney General James M. Shannon yesterday filed a billlimiting outside income for legislators and other high-rankingstate officials to $40,000 a year.At least 30 legislators now earn outside incomes in excess ...
TOWER'S PROSPECTS GROWING BLEAKER
Mar 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - John G. Tower's prospects of being confirmed asdefense secretary darkened yesterday as some Republican supportappeared to crumble and several "swing" Democrats who had beenlobbied by President Bush announced their opposition.Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.), who had been ...
CORRECTION
Mar 01, 1989 ... Correction: Because of a typing error, a Page One story yesterdayabout a new student assignment plan in Boston dropped the word"not" from a sentence. It should have read, "Mayor ...
CORRECTION
Mar 01, 1989 ... Correction: Because of a reporting error, a statement thatspecial guests were traveling free aboard the MassaachusettsMaritime Academy's training ship was incorrectly attributed to RearAdm. Archie Swartzrauber in a Page One story Saturday. The storyalso ...
KOLLEK REELECTED IN JERUSALEM; COUNCIL IS SPLIT
Mar 01, 1989; ... JERUSALEM - Jerusalem's longtime mayor, Teddy Kollek, wasreelected to a sixth term in Israeli municipal elections yesterday,but his centrist One Jerusalem Party lost its majority on the CityCouncil. Nationwide, the right-wing Likud bloc made a strong showing,unseating ...
A NEW WAY TO PLAY BY THE NUMBERS
Mar 01, 1989; ... The MIT physicist has got a class of Brookline third graders bythe imagination and he won't let go.One by one the children tell the professor their birth dates.Almost instantly, he tells them on what day of the week they wereborn: Matt on Monday, Molly Saturday, Marisol ...
REAL-INCOME DECLINE IS REPORTED IN CHINA
Mar 01, 1989; ... BEIJING - More than one-third of China's city residents sawtheir real incomes decline in 1988, a year of impressive economicgrowth tempered by high inflation and supply shortages. The StateStatistics Bureau, in an annual report announced yesterday, saidper capita income ...
BORDER CLASH
Mar 01, 1989 ... South Korean dissidents are blocked by US soldiers yesterday asthey tried to reach the demilitarized Panmunjom border site, wherethey had planned to organize unsanctioned reunification talks withrepresentatives of communist North Korea. It was the first ...
4 CITIES' MAGNET SCHOOLS ARE SAID TO FAIL MINORITIES, HANDICAPPED
Mar 01, 1989; ... MINNEAPOLIS - Specialized high schools and new magnetprograms -- schools of choice -- in Boston and three other citiesare failing disadvantaged minorities, the handicapped and thenon-English speaking while favoring white and other middle-classstudents, a Chicago-based researcher has ...
TODAY'S SENATE: A CLUB NO LONGER, AS NOMINEE HAS LEARNED
Mar 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - John G. Tower's nomination to be secretary ofdefense is in peril in a Senate that is no longer a club and thathas not been one for some time.In fact, if the Senate were still a club, Tower would not bea member. In his 14 years as a senator from Texas, the son of ...
HUNT OF YELLOWSTONE'S BUFFALO: HARVEST OR SLAUGHTER?
Mar 01, 1989; ... GARDINER, Mont. - The 14-year-old squeezed the trigger, and thebuffalo tumbled into the snow. It tried to get up but could not.Blood spewed from its nostrils. During the next five minutes ittried no less than 40 times to stand up, thrashing its legs andwhiplashing its head. ...
UP-FRONT PARTNERSHIPS
Mar 01, 1989 ... The Massachusetts Legislature made a mistake when itapproved a law that prevents the public from learning themembership of limited partnerships. The law should be repealed oramended so that the names of investors in important projects are amatter of public record and open to public ...
DALEY WINS MAYORAL PRIMARY IN CHICAGO; GOP RESULTS UNCLEAR
Mar 01, 1989; ... CHICAGO - Richard M. Daley, the shy but determined son of apolitical legend, won the Democratic nomination last night formayor of Chicago.Daley's joy was tempered by the prospect that his longtimeenemy, Edward R. Vrdolyak, was on the verge of winning theRepublican nomination ...
CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND A RACE-TRACK BID
Mar 01, 1989; ... From the western suburbs to Revere to Great Barrington; from LasVegas to Beacon Hill to Florida, as Red Buttons the comedian usedto chant, "Strange things are happening."Today's story may not be of anything criminal or even illegal.It certainly is of things coincidental. Behind ...
PRICE-TAG COMPETITION
Mar 01, 1989 ... The trick, someone once noted, is to lose money on each salebut to make up for it on the volume. Life may not be quite likethat, but the saying does pretty well as a first approximation atsuccess in the field of selling. America is about to see theprinciple put to test by one of its ...
ROY ELDRIDGE
Mar 01, 1989 ... His diminutive stature and devotion to the music earned RoyEldridge the nickname "Little Jazz." Size and sobriquet were theonly small things about him. Eldridge, who died Sunday at 78, wasone of the giants. His only peers on the trumpet -- LouisArmstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis ...
PROGRESS IN THE PARKS
Mar 01, 1989 ... William Coughlin's tenure as Boston parks commissioner hasbrought the city's parks to a level of excellence not achieved indecades. Mayor Flynn should appoint a successor with the skillsneeded to continue this progress.Much of the credit for Coughlin's performance belongs to ...
COMMUNIST PARTY BLASTED IN OFFICIAL SOVIET MAGAZINE
Mar 01, 1989; ... MOSCOW - A prominent state-run magazine has published ascathing criticism of the Communist Party, accusing it of spreading"political lies" that have deceived the Soviet people forgenerations. The unprecedented attack in the latest edition of theliterary monthly Novy Mir ...
A CANDIDATE OF STUDENTS
Mar 01, 1989; ... WEYMOUTH - Timothy Berard thinks the school hamburgers tastelike "nails," his high school football field resembles a swamp andstandardized tests are "inconvenient."So the 17-year-old junior at Weymouth North High School isrunning for the School Committee. "I think they need a kid ...
TRAILBLAZER
Mar 01, 1989 ... Herb Jason makes his way through slush and ice to his lobsterboat in Cohasset Harbor. / ...
LOCALS SUPPORT MAN ACCUSED OF BOMB THREATS
Mar 01, 1989; ... LOWELL - In the sandwich shop where Robert Costello has amug of coffee every morning, the locals yesterday called thecharges that Costello made bomb threats to two airlines and theBoston Herald unbelievable.And they say he is being framed.Short-order cook Andrew ...
SANCTA MARIA HOSPITAL TO GET HELP FROM STATE
Mar 01, 1989; ... Under a plan adopted yesterday, fiscally ailing Sancta MariaHospital of Cambridge will be the first Massachusetts acute-carehospital to undergo conversion to other health care uses with thefinancial assistance of the state.The action was taken by the Acute Hospital ...
CITY'S LAWYER SAYS MINORITY PROGRAMS ARE VULNERABLE
Mar 01, 1989; ... Boston's top legal adviser said yesterday that the city'saffirmative action programs may not withstand a recent SupremeCourt decision unless documented evidence of past discriminationagainst minorities is produced.Corporation Counsel Joseph I. Mulligan, responding to a ...
RACIAL SPLIT SEEN HURTING SCHOOL SYSTEM
Mar 01, 1989; ... The Boston School Committee is dividing along racial lineson several major issues affecting the city's schools, a trend someobservers say may sabotage efforts to improve the system.The 9-4 vote on the student assignment plan Monday night, inwhich all four black members ...
REVENUE GAP REPORTED TO WIDEN IN FEB.
Mar 01, 1989; ... State revenues for the month of February are "downseriously" from projections, State House sources said lateyesterday.The February revenue figures, which will be released formallytoday, are at least $90 million lower than the amount projected byGov. Dukakis' five-member ...
QUESTIONS ON INFORMANT SURFACED EARLY IN PROBE
Mar 01, 1989; ... There was nothing unusual about Detective Carlos A. Lunaciting an informant as his confidential source in asking for asearch warrant in Dorchester District Court on Feb. 17 of lastyear. Drug investigators do it hundreds of times every year.This warrant, however, would come ...
STUDY SUGGESTS 5 STATE UNIVERSITIES BE UNITED UNDER UMASS UMBRELLA
Mar 01, 1989; ... In an effort to upgrade the University of Massachusetts to apar with Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, acommission appointed by UMass has recommended that the state's fivepublic universities be united as a single institution, governed byone board of trustees and ...
WHITE-MINORITY WAGE GAP IN CITY JOBS SEEN CLOSING
Mar 01, 1989; ... The Flynn administration has narrowed the salary gap betweenminority and white employees in low- and middle-paying jobs, butwhites still dominate the top levels of city government, ananalysis shows.City Councilor Charles C. Yancey (Dorchester), a critic ofFlynn's minority ...
BOSTON SCHOOLS THAT FALL UNDER NEW ZONING PLAN
Mar 01, 1989 ... The following is a listing of elementary and middle schoolsin each of the three zones to be established under a new studentassignment plan adopted by the School Committee:The elementary schools are: Channing, Chittick, Clap, Condon,Dever, District C Early Learning Center, ...
DECAPITATED MAN FOUND IN MALDEN
Mar 01, 1989 ... MALDEN - A 37-year-old Revere man's body was found wrappedin a blanket in his parked car in Malden yesterday. The body hadbeen decapitated and hogtied, according to a law enforcement source.Richard D. Odoardi's body was found in the back seat of hisFord Bronco parked on ...
IT'S NATIONAL NUTRITION MONTH -- DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR FATS ARE?
Mar 01, 1989; ... It's here! It's here! The healthy time of year!Yes, indeed. Today is the very first day of NationalNutrition Month.In honor of the occasion, the American Dietetic Associationand the National Center for Nutrition and Dietetics urges us totake a little "Fats of Life" quiz. ...
GEORGE THOMPSON BANKER, EX-LEGISLATOR; AT 71
Mar 01, 1989 ... George H. Thompson, president of the Weymouth Savings Bank,died of cancer yesterday in his home in Weymouth. He was 71.Mr. Thompson was elected to three terms in the MassachusettsHouse, in 1954, 1956 and 1958, and also served a number of terms onthe Weymouth School ...
KONRAD LORENZ, 85; NOBEL LAUREATE PIONEERED STUDY OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
Mar 01, 1989; ... VIENNA - Konrad Lorenz, the Austrian scientist who won aNobel Prize in 1973 for his pioneering studies of human and animalbehavior, died of kidney failure Monday in his home in Altenburg,30 miles northeast of Vienna. He was 85. Dr. Lorenz, Austria's most famous scientist, ...
GEORGE TORREY, 59 OWNED ARLINGTON HAIR SALON
Mar 01, 1989 ... George M. Torrey, a hair stylist and owner of the Designs byDorian salon in Arlington Heights for more than 25 years, died of aheart attack Monday in his home in Malden. He was 59.Mr. Torrey served as a lieutenant in the Army Medical Corpsduring the Korean War. He was ...
HELEN KETCHAM, 63 AUTHOR, ACTRESS, DIRECTOR
Mar 01, 1989 ... Helen (Schmid) Ketcham, an author and actor-director withthe Cohasset Dramatic Club for two decades, died of lymphomaSaturday in Brigham and Women's Hospital. She was 63.Mrs. Ketcham in 1981 published "Mistress of Wynds," a novelset in Victorian England, under the pen name ...
ANDREW SIKORA, 65 GLOBE PROOFREADER 27 YEARS
Mar 01, 1989 ... Andrew J. Sikora, a proofreader at the Globe from 1960 to1987, died of thyroid cancer Sunday in his home in Amherst, N.H.He was 65.Mr. Sikora had been editor and publisher of the PolishAmerican Magazine, a monthly he founded in 1980. For this, hereceived an award in ...
NIXON WILL ATTEND SEN. COTTON FUNERAL
Mar 01, 1989 ... CONCORD, N.H. - Former President Richard M. Nixon willattend tomorrow's funeral of an old Republican ally, former US Sen.Norris Cotton, in Lebanon, aides said yesterday.Mr. Cotton died of pneumonia Friday at the age of 88.The funeral will be at 11 a.m. in the First ...
CITY OPPOSES 15-CENT SUBWAY HIKE FLYNN AIDE URGES ZONED FARE SYSTEM BASED ON DISTANCE TRAVELED CITY COMES OUT AGAINST 75-CENT SUBWAY FARE
Mar 01, 1989; ... The Flynn administration yesterday declared itself opposedto the Masachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's proposed 15-centincrease in the price of a subway token and urged that a zoned faresystem be considered instead, along with other revenue sources.In a statement read ...
PROVINCETOWN SETS ITS SITES ON PATH TO HISTORIC STATUS
Mar 01, 1989; ... PROVINCETOWN - The Massachusetts Historical Commissionannounced yesterday that it has nominated most buildings in thisold Cape Cod fishing town for inclusion in the National Register ofHistoric Places. James Bradley, the commission's executive director, said at apublic ...
ASK THE GLOBE IN SEARCH OF . . .
Mar 01, 1989 ... Jane Cote of 29 Gilmour St., Ottawa, Ont., K2P 0N1, Canada,is writing a biography of Fanny and Anna Parnell, sisters of Irishnationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell, and is looking forletters, diaries, clippings, etc. relating to the Parnell sistersand to the Irish Ladies' Land ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Mar 01, 1989 ... Q. When food has been in the freezer for awhile, it picks upa distinctive taste and small. What causes that? -- M.W., MedfordA. While it is fairly common for foods stored in arefrigerator to pick up odors from nearby items, it is ratherunusual for that to happen in a ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Mar 01, 1989 ... Q. Where can I find a restaurant which serves Mongolianfirepot? -- J.K., BrocktonA. The Ghenghis Khan, 344 Walnut St., Newton, serves "firepot"-- in which a small cauldron of bubbling chicken broth is placed inthe center of the table. The knack of this dish is for each ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Mar 01, 1989 ... Q. What are the coordinates of the Hague Line, whichseparates US and Canadian fishing grounds in the Georges Bank area? -- A.C., Trevett, MaineA. According to information supplied by Bruce Nicholls, anattorney with the Boston law firm of Day, Berry & Howard, the linewas ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Mar 01, 1989 ... Q. If young dogs are puppies and young cats are kittens,what are young fish called? -- J.M., West RoxburyA. Generally speaking, a young fish is called a fry or afingerling. Fingerling is defined in Webster's New World Dictionaryas "a fish up to the end of its first year." ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Mar 01, 1989 ... Q. How come, if I buy one pastry at Au Bon Pain, I'm chargeda 5 percent sales tax, whereas if I buy a single pastry at asupermarket, there is no charge? -- K.B., CambridgeA. According to Betsy Houghteling, spokeswoman for theMassachusetts Department of Revenue, the state's ...
LEADING-CHILD ROLE
Mar 01, 1989 ... Patricia Muldoon of Hingham poses with her 9-month-old son,Brian, after he was named the winner of the Christ Child Contest atSt. Kevin's Rectory in Dorchester. Brian, who was one of 15finalists, was chosen by a committee of ...
MASS. SLIPS TO 4TH IN ENVIRONMENTAL RATING
Mar 01, 1989 ... Massachusetts has slipped from first in the nation to fourth in a50-state ranking on environmental issues released yesterday by theLeague of Women Voters. The league examined each state'sperformance in environmental areas including solid wastemanagement, drinking water and food safety, ...
BHA OFFICIAL IS UP FOR CALIFORNIA JOB
Mar 01, 1989 ... The deputy administrator of the Boston Housing Authority, DavidGilmore, is one of four finalists for the $90,000 job as executivedirector of the San Francisco Housing Authority, officials saidyesterday. The authority, which manages 7,000 housing units with22,000 tenants, expects to make a ...
PARENTS' DSS SUIT DISMISSED BY JUDGE
Mar 01, 1989 ... A federal judge has dismissed the bulk of a $2 million lawsuitfiled by a Jewish couple against the state Department of SocialServices, which had placed two of their children in afundamentalist Christian foster home in 1987. US District JudgeDavid J. Nelson, in an order handed down Feb. 15, ...
2 HOMELESS SHELTERS WILL REMAIN OPEN
Mar 01, 1989 ... State officials yesterday reaffirmed their commitment to keepingopen the doors at two homeless shelters that use space instate-owned armories, despite expected cutbacks in othernonmilitary uses of the two facilities. The armories in Cambridgeand Braintree, which both accept homeless people ...
NAKASONE CANCELS VISIT TODAY TO MIT
Mar 01, 1989 ... CAMBRIDGE - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone hascanceled his delivery of the annual Karl Taylor Compton lecturescheduled for 4 p.m. today at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology. According to Robert C. DiIorio, an MIT spokesman, theJapanese Consulate in Boston notified ...
2 OFFICIALS QUIT FALL RIVER FIRM WITH FISCAL WOES
Mar 01, 1989; ... Quaker Fabric Corp., the big Fall River manufacturer thatexpects to report a substantial loss for the fourth quarter,yesterday said two top executives resigned, effective immediately.President Phillip S. Sumpter "left to pursue other interests,"the company said, and Howard ...
FLACK FOR A DAY
Mar 01, 1989; ... I have always managed to keep my enthusiasm for the publicrelations profession under control. PR people, publicists -- ohheck, let's just call them flacks -- sometimes rub me the wrongway, and vice versa. But lately I had begun to worry that I neverreally gave the business a ...
$30B ACCOUNT TO STATE ST.
Mar 01, 1989 ... State Street Bank and Trust Co. will provide custody for $30billion in assets of the General Electric Investment Corp., thebank said. James J. Darr, a spokesman for State Street, declined todisclose what the new business is worth to the bank. State Street,with more than $625 billion in ...
FIRM FILES TO GO PUBLIC
Mar 01, 1989 ... FITCHBURG - ChemDesign Corp., a custom fine chemicalmanufacturer, filed a registration statement with the Securitiesand Exchange Commission to sell 2.75 million common shares in aninitial public offering. The offering includes 1.75 million ...
INVESTORS LOWER STAKE
Mar 01, 1989 ... WASHINGTON - Concord Partners, a New York-based partnership,said it lowered its stake in Data Translation Inc. of Marlborough,Mass., to 4.9 percent from 7.19 percent. In a Securities andExchange Commission filing, the partnership said it sold 69,497shares of Data Translation ...
TIMBERLAND CUTS ESTIMATE
Mar 01, 1989 ... HAMPTON, N.H. - Timberland Co. said it was "marginallyprofitable" in the fourth quarter and that results for the periodand full year will be "significantly lower" than previousestimates. The company said on Jan. 9 that fourth-quarter earningswould be equal to or slightly higher than the ...
MEETING FOR CONDO OWNERS
Mar 01, 1989 ... The New England Chapter of the Community Associations Institutewill conduct a leadershiip training program this weekend at theSheraton Tara in Newton for people in condominiums, cooperativesand homeowners associations. The program, which will begin at 8:30a.m. Saturday, will cover several ...
BOSTON PRICES UP 6.1%
Mar 01, 1989 ... Consumer prices in the Boston metropolitan area rose 6.1 percentin 1988 -- the largest jump in seven years -- federal laborofficials said. The increase was significantly higher than the 4.4percent inflation rate recorded in 1987 and the largest since the11.1 percent increase in 1981, said ...
BUYBACK PLAN CHALLENGED
Mar 01, 1989 ... WILMINGTON, Del. - Shamrock Holdings Inc. has asked a Delawarejudge to prevent Polaroid Corp.'s directors from exercising proxyrights on $300 million of preferred stock that Polaroid sold lastmonth to a friendly investment group. Shamrock's lawyers also askedVice Channcellor Carolyn Berger ...