The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from April 1989:
700 FRIENDS FETE COMPOSER T.J. ANDERSON
Apr 01, 1989; ...VIDEMUS -- In a tribute to composer T.J. Anderson in Sanders Theater last night. CAMBRIDGE - About 700 of T.J. Anderson's closest friends showedup in Sanders Theater for Videmus new music ensemble's specialcelebration of his 60th birthday last night. Anderson is one ...
DNC CHAIRMAN EXPECTED TO PICK STRATEGIST PAUL TULLY FOR PARTY POST
Apr 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - Ronald H. Brown, chairman of the DemocraticNational Committee, will soon appoint his top deputies, and amongthem is expected to be veteran campaign strategist Paul Tully,party sources said yesterday. Brown, according to sources, wants to improve ...
STAGE PRESENCE
Apr 01, 1989 ... Australian mega-movie-star Mel Gibson strikes a waiting pose ashe rehearses for his debut tonight as host of the ...
EQUIPMENT STRANDED IN N.H.
Apr 01, 1989 ... Five construction vehicles are stranded on a manmade island inthe Merrimack River in Manchester, N.H., yesterday and are expectedto be overtaken by the rising water. The vehicles -- two excavatorcranes and a bulldozer owned by Catamount Construction Co. ofTewksbury, Mass., and two large ...
BUS DRIVER HOSPITALIZED
Apr 01, 1989 ... Firefighters work to free John F. Ryan, 52, of Hyde Park, a busdriver who apparently lost control of the vehicle and slammed intoa utility pole on Freeport Street in Dorchester yesterday. Ryan waspinned in the wreckage ...
EIFFEL CENTENNIAL
Apr 01, 1989 ... Actors dressed in period costumes prepare to climb the stairwayof the Eiffel Tower yesterday as part of an observance of theParisian landmark's centennial. Thirty huffing and puffingperformers followed in the footsteps of Alexandre ...
POSTWAR EXCHANGE IN NAMIBIA
Apr 01, 1989 ... Johannes Papenfeys, a South African army private who was capturedlast year, walks across the Angolan border into Ruacana, Namibia,yesterday as he is exchanged for 13 Angolan soldiers and threeCubans. They were among the last prisoners of war held during theconflict in Angola that ...
SENATOR TAKES NEWS QUIETLY
Apr 01, 1989; ... Senate President William M. Bulger, who has faced awithering barrage of negative publicity over the 75 State Streetcase during the past few months, acted as if nothing had happenedyesterday after the US attorney said no criminal charges werewarranted.Bulger held no news ...
OPTIMISM GROWS OVER FUSION REPORTS
Apr 01, 1989; ... Skepticism gave way to guarded optimism yesterday as detailsof a potentially revolutionary energy source, announced in Utahlast week, began to circulate among scientists.As advance copies of a paper describing the work began toreach key laboratories, teams of scientists ...
BODY OF 8TH WOMAN IS FOUND
Apr 01, 1989; ... WESTPORT - The eighth victim of a possible serial killerwas found along Route 88 yesterday, and Bristol County DistrictAttorney Ronald Pina said he may have a witness who could leadofficials to a suspect.Dr. William Zane, the Bristol County medical examiner, saidthe ...
TRADE DEFICIT TIED TO COST OF HEALTH CARE CHRYSLER SAYS EXPENSES WEAKEN US COMPETITIVENESS
Apr 01, 1989; ... HANOVER, N.H. - American health spending is becoming such adrag on the nation's ability to compete in international marketsthat a restructuring of the way medical bills are paid is needed, atop Chrysler Corp. official declared at a series of seminars hereyesterday and ...
PROSECUTOR BLASTS STATE'S STATUTES ON CORRUPTION
Apr 01, 1989; ... Interim US Attorney Jeremiah T. O'Sullivan, ending a 21-yearcareer as a state and federal prosecutor, yesterday sharplycriticized Massachusetts' anticorruption laws, contending the statestatutes are "cumbersome" and an impediment to prosecutingpolitical-corruption cases....
JUDGE RULES REAGAN NEED NOT TESTIFY
Apr 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - Judge Gerhard Gesell yesterday refused toorder former President Reagan to testify at the trial of OliverNorth, saying that North's lawyer, Brendan Sullivan, "whollyfailed" to show that Reagan's testimony is "essential to assure thedefendant a fair trial."The ...
US CLEARS BULGER, FINNERTY IN PROBE OF 75 STATE ST. CASE O'SULLIVAN: A CLEAR CALL ON THE EVIDENCE
Apr 01, 1989; ...the preparation of this story. Interim US Attorney Jeremiah T. O'Sullivan said yesterday thereis "not sufficient evidence" to seek an extortion or tax-lawindictment against Senate President William M. Bulger or Thomas E.Finnerty in the 75 State Street development case....
TRUMP SIGNS NEW DEAL TO BUY SHUTTLE
Apr 01, 1989; ... New York developer Donald Trump signed agreements yesterdayto buy Eastern Airlines' shuttle for $365 million, reclaiming adeal that appeared dead only a week ago and giving him thestrike-torn airline's most sought- after operation.Trump, in an interview with the Globe, ...
WOMEN'S GROUP RAPS GLOBE'S ABORTION SURVEY
Apr 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - The Massachusetts chapter of the NationalOrganization for Women criticized The Boston Globe yesterday for apoll it conducted on abortion this week."NOW believes the Globe misrepresented its own data and publicopinion," said Jennifer Jackman, president of ...
CORRECTION
Apr 01, 1989 ... Correction: Because of a reporting error, certain results of aBoston Globe/ WBZ-TV poll on abortion were mischaracterized in aPage One story yesterday. A clear majority of Americans would banmost abortions performed, but under several circumstances cited,the margin of opposition is not ...
US WILL SEEK MUBARAK'S AID WHITE HOUSE REPORTEDLY TO URGE EGYPT TO SWAY PLO ON VOTE PLAN
Apr 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - The Bush administration will urge PresidentHosni Mubarak of Egypt to try to persuade the Palestine LiberationOrganization to accept Israeli-backed elections in the West Bankand Gaza Strip, sources said yesterday.Egyptian officials said that approach would be ...
CORRECTION
Apr 01, 1989 ... Correction: Because of a reporting error, yesterday's story onthis year's Pulitzer Prizes incorrectly stated that neitherco-winner in the history category was a finalist for the prize.Both Taylor Branch's ...
CORRECTION
Apr 01, 1989 ... Correction: Because of a reporting error, a Page One article gavethe wrong dates for a vacation taken by Boston ...
US FREES $5 MILLION FOR NEEDY AIDS PATIENTS
Apr 01, 1989; ... Federal health officials yesterday announced that the Bushadministration has released $5 million to a national subsidyprogram that helps low-income people who have AIDS pay fortreatment.The money is being distributed to treatment programs in fivestates whose funds have ...
QUAKE IN ARMENIA DESTROYS STRUCTURES
Apr 01, 1989; ... MOSCOW - An earthquake killed livestock and destroyed buildingsdamaged by the tremor that devastated Armenia in December, Tassreported yesterday. The quake occurred Thursday night near Spitak,a town leveled by the Dec. 7 disaster, ...
TURKEY'S PREMIER RESHUFFLES CABINET
Apr 01, 1989; ... ISTANBUL - Prime Minister Turgut Ozal reorganized his Cabinetyesterday, dismissing his brother and cousin in apparent responseto charges of nepotism that may have helped defeat his party inmunicipal elections Sunday. He dismissed 10 other members of the22-member Cabinet and took control ...
DR. LEO HAND, 85 RETIRED CHIEF OF ANESTHESIOLOGY
Apr 01, 1989 ... Dr. Leo Vincent Hand of Westwood, chief of anesthesiology atNew England Deaconess Hospital from 1952 until his retirement in1975, died of cardiac arrest Wednesday in Norwood Hospital. He was85.Dr. Hand joined the Deaconess staff in 1936, the year he alsobecame affiliated ...
WESTON BUDDINGTON UROLOGIST TAUGHT AT TUFTS; 86
Apr 01, 1989 ... Dr. Weston T. Buddington of Middletown, R.I., a urologistwho taught at Tufts Medical School from 1939 to 1963, died of astroke Monday in Newport (R.I.) Hospital. He was 86.Dr. Buddington had been on the surgical staff at New EnglandDeaconess Hospital, a visiting surgeon in ...
PETER SEFERIAN, 55 CAMBRIDGE CLASSIC-CAR RESTORER
Apr 01, 1989 ... A funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. Monday in St.Joseph's Church in Needham for Peter Seferian, the owner ofSeferian Escadrille Inc. of Cambridge and a restorer of classicautomobiles such as Rolls-Royces, Bugattis, Dusenbergs and earlyFerraris.Mr. Seferian died of a ...
WILBERT GILMAN, 86 RETIRED DESIGN ENGINEER
Apr 01, 1989 ... Wilbert M. Gilman of Wellesley Hills, a design engineer whoworked with a number of Massachusetts firms, died Thursday in theNewton and Wellesley Nursing Home. He was 86.Born in Springfield, Vt., he earned a master's degree inelectrical engineering at MIT in 1925 and worked ...
WARREN H. LINDBERG RETIRED BROCKTON LAWYER; 80
Apr 01, 1989 ... Warren H. Lindberg of South Dennis, a lawyer in Brockton for50 years and chairman of the Brockton Public Library for 18 years,died of a heart attack Thursday in Cape Cod Hospital. He was 80.Mr. Lindberg, a former resident of Brockton, opened hispractice in 1937 and retired ...
MARIE E. SMITH, 83 TAUGHT IN WINTHROP, IPSWICH
Apr 01, 1989 ... A funeral Mass was said yesterday in St. Pius X Church inSouth Yarmouth for Marie E. (McCann) Smith of Yarmouthport, ateacher from 1938 to 1968 in the Winthrop and Ipswich schoolsystems.Mrs. Smith died Monday in Cape Cod Hospital. She was 83.A native of Boston and ...
CHINESE WARSHIP SETS SAIL FOR US PORT
Apr 01, 1989; ... BEIJING - A Chinese warship will make its first call at anAmerican port in April, the US Embassy announced yesterday. TheZheng He, a training ship of the People's Liberation Army, set sailfor Pearl Harbor yesterday from Qingdao in Shandong province andwill arrive in Hawaii on April ...
EX-OFFICER PLEADS GUILTY IN DRUG TRIAL
Apr 01, 1989; ... A former Lawrence police officer yesterday changed his pleato guilty on two drug charges after a day of testimony in his andhis former partner's corruption trial.The former officer, Daniel N. Fillipon, pleaded guilty to twocounts of conspiring to aid the distribution of ...
CO-WORKER TESTIFIES OF THREAT BY GILCHRIST
Apr 01, 1989; ... The day before he shot his boss to death, Lonnie L.Gilchrist Jr. made a veiled threat against him in a conversationwith a fellow Merrill Lynch broker, according to testimonyyesterday in Suffolk Superior Court.John Maragos, testifying on the second day of testimony ...
'MAYBE SHE SHOULD HAVE MADE THE SERPENT LOOK A LITTLE SILLIER' SOME RECOIL AT SEA SNAKE ENTANGLING GLOUCESTER'S TRADEMARK
Apr 01, 1989; ... GLOUCESTER - At the Oldtimers bar on Rogers Street, fishingboat captains sat out the bad weather one recent day, sipping beerand talking about young Molly Tibbetts' drawing, "The Man and TheSea Serpent."The sketch has caused somewhat of a flap in this historicfishing city ...
THE KINDEST CUTS OF ALL
Apr 01, 1989; ... One can learn a lot about a school committee, particularlyBoston's 13-member body, by how it cuts its own budget to meet themayor's proposal.Supt. Laval Wilson and some committee members already aretalking about cutting teachers and classroom programs to slice $15million from ...
FOUR AREA SHELTERS TO SHUT DOWN BY MAY 6
Apr 01, 1989; ... Despite a continued demand for shelter with the arrival ofspring, four Boston-area winter shelters that have provided nightlymeals, showers and beds since November to as many as 460 homelesspeople will close within the next two months.The 200-bed shelter on Commonwealth ...
WITH TREPIDATION, CANADIANS FACE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF FREE TRADE
Apr 01, 1989; ... TORONTO - During last fall's bitter battle over free tradewith the United States, some opponents argued that the end oftariffs would destroy the health insurance, welfare andmarket-board mechanisms that regulate and moderate life in Canada.Those fears have mostly been ...
2 EUROPEANS SHARE TEMPLETON PRIZE
Apr 01, 1989; ... This year's Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion has beenawarded jointly to Lord George MacLeod of Fuinary, founder of themonastic Iona Community in Scotland, and Carl Friedrich vonWeizsaecker, a West German scholar who has explored therelationships between physics, cosmology and ...
STATE AGENCY STUDYING TENANT RATE HIKES HOUSING PANEL TO REVIEW INCREASES AMONG MODERATE-INCOME RENTERS IN ITS DEVELOPMENTS
Apr 01, 1989; ... The Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency is looking into howmany of the 13,000 moderate-income tenants in its developments arepaying more than 40 percent of their income in rent, amid reportsthat a growing number of families are being impoverished by renthikes.The area's ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Apr 01, 1989 ... Q. How can I join MENSA, the organization for intellectuallygifted people? -- P.B., SomervilleA. An American MENSA spokeswoman says people who haveestablished, by a score on a standard intelligence test, that theirintelligence is higher than that of 98 percent of the ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Apr 01, 1989 ... Q. Why is the weight of gold and silver given in troyweight? What is its origin? -- T.R., BostonA. Troy weight originated in the French city of Troyes, thewealthy capital of the province of Champagne. The medieval fairs ofTroyes were so ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Apr 01, 1989 ... Q. Whatever happened to Marjorie Lord, who starred for somany years as Danny Thomas' wife on the television show, "Make Roomfor Daddy"? -- P.A., ArlingtonA. Type-casting did Marjorie Lord in, and after the showclosed in 1964, except for brief revivals including "Make Room ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Apr 01, 1989 ... Q. What is the difference between horseshoes and quoits? --E.B., West RoxburyA. The games are similar, but the implements and measurementsspell the differences. In horseshoes, or to be precise, horseshoepitching, U-shaped horseshoes are tossed at metal stakes placed 40feet ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Apr 01, 1989 ... Q. What percentage of traffic lights in Massachusetts allowa right turn on a red light? -- P.N., WatertownA. Louis Gilmartin, manager of traffic operations for thestate Department of Public Works, estimates that right turns areallowed on about 65 percent of traffic lights in ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Apr 01, 1989 ... Q. My Volvo was towed March 3 from in front of my apartmenthouse on Commonwealth Avenue by the city Department ofTransportation and was destroyed -- crushed -- even though therewas a plate on the car. The department's tow order was issuedsimply because another resident of the same ...
SOUTH BOSTON MAN RESCUED FROM N.Y. RIVER
Apr 01, 1989 ... A South Boston man is recuperating at a New York hospitalafter being rescued from the East River in New York City yesterdaymorning, when he lost his balance and fell in.James Connor, who turned 49 yesterday, was listed in guardedbut stable condition at Bellevue Hospital ....
THREE FOR THE ROAD THE HARBOR ROUTE TO LOGAN
Apr 01, 1989 ... John Vitagliano, the East Boston community activist who isnow a member of the Massachusetts Port Authority's board ofdirectors, has a good idea about getting people to Logan Airport bywater during the Central Artery/third harbor tunnel construction.The idea has a half-hitch ...
CUBA'S 'NEW THINKING' ANXIETIES
Apr 01, 1989 ... Mikhail Gorbachev's visit to Havana has made Fidel Castroand his companeros anxious about their Soviet subsidies. They havebeen telling friends that the "new thinking" in Gorbachev's foreignpolicy looks like a betrayal of "proletarian internationalism."The Bush ...
STAYING ON GUARD IN THE WAR ON DRUGS
Apr 01, 1989; ... Lest-we-forget vigilance:As drug wars escalate in the cities, some leaders talk ofbringing in the National Guard. It's tempting, a good Americanresponse -- when there's trouble, pour in lots of troops.But do we really want hundreds of well-armed young men, mostof them ...
SNYDER'S FOCUS IS SHARP
Apr 01, 1989; ... SEATTLE - He came to his hometown gym at Mercer Island HighThursday and caused quite a stir. Onlookers were abuzz when QuinSnyder showed up with his college buddies from Duke. "It was like the second coming of the Lord," quipped AlaaAbdelnaby, referring to Duke's ...
FINAL FOUR COACHES A DIVERSE GROUP
Apr 01, 1989; ... SEATTLE - All the histrionics on the sidelines -- P.J.'spacing and barking, Mike and Lou's hand signals and Steve'scheerleading -- probably won't affect the outcome of the Final Fourgames, but they are a big part of the show.Coaching is terribly overrated, says Seton Hall's ...
WGBH FUND DRIVE NETS $1.1 MILLION
Apr 01, 1989; ... WGBH's March fund-raising drive netted Channel 2 $1.14 million inpledges, according to figures released by the station this week.The total, generated by 18,000 incoming pledge calls, representsapproximately a 3 percent increase over last year's pledge figure.Proving the power of ...
THOSE SPECIAL TOUCHES SPIFF UP BOSTON'S TOWERS
Apr 01, 1989; ... When the sun came out last Tuesday and the temperaturessoared, a visit to Rowes Wharf showed how Boston's recentdevelopment boom has created not only a new skyline, but a newpublic realm.The hint of spring was savored by residents who spent anaverage of $765,000 for a ...
NEW YORK FINISHES AUTO SHOW SEASON
Apr 01, 1989; ... The auto show season is over - New York finally got around to itfollowing even behind Consumer Reports' annual car issue, the Aprilissue of the magazine that hits the stands in March.It is anticlimactic, to say the least, to be introducing the1989 models as new in April, a scant ...
FLORIDA EXHIBIT
Apr 01, 1989 ... United Show Management will bring its Florida Real EstateShowcase back to the Bayside Exposition Center in Dorchester forthree days beginning April 14. The showcase has been visitingBoston each fall for several years. Last year a spring exhibit wasadded.More than 200 residential ...
STATE POLICE SAY CODEX WORKER TRIED TO SELL SECRETS
Apr 01, 1989; ... Using a sting operation, state police yesterday arrested anemployee of Codex Corp., a local high-technology firm, and chargedhim with larceny of trade secrets. James Strahle, 23, a co-op student at Codex from NortheasternUniversity, offered to sell confidential marketing ...
FRESHENING UP
Apr 01, 1989 ... George Kalil gives the Freedom Trail a new coat of red paint, thefirst real sign, he says, of spring. He is ...
AQUARIUM'S MOVE HITS A SNAG
Apr 01, 1989; ... Plans to move the New England Aquarium to new quarters inthe Charlestown Navy Yard could be held up by a federal regulationthat says the city first must pay the federal government fairmarket value for the land.But officials of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, theagency ...
MGH SEEKS MORE SPACE IN NAVY YARD
Apr 01, 1989; ... Elsewhere in the Charlestown Navy Yard, MassachusettsGeneral Hospital is negotiating to increase its research space inthe yard by more than half, in Boston's largest commercial lease inmore than a year.While no deal has been signed, real estate sources say a solidagreement ...
FIRST SERVICE SHUT; WORCESTER BANK TAKES OVER OPERATION
Apr 01, 1989; ... State and federal banking regulators yesterday closed theinsolvent First Service Bank for Savings of Leominster, marking thethird failure of a Massachusetts savings bank in two years.The bank was closed by the state banking commissioner, and theFederal Deposit Insurance Corp. was ...
EX-DEAN WITTER BROKER CHARGED WITH THEFT
Apr 01, 1989; ... DEDHAM - A former account executive for the Braintreebranch of Dean Witter Reynolds has been charged with stealing$54,000 from the company, reportedly to pay gambling debts. Daniel G. Maloney, 32, of Boston, was charged Wednesday withlarceny by a Norfolk County grand ...
BOB VILA GETS THE GATE
Apr 01, 1989; ... Bob Vila, the host of "This Old House" and a fixture on thepopular WGBH-produced PBS series for 20 years, has been shown thedoor.WGBH announced Thursday that it will not renew Vila'scontract and will begin an immediate search for a replacement host. The ...
PRUNE LADY UNVEILED
Apr 01, 1989; ... Carolyn LeMenager of Winchester writes: "Recalling your campaignof several years ago to solve the mystery of Rula Lenska, I waswondering if you would care to tackle the problem of who is thepretty woman d'un certain age who is pushing Sunsweet Pitted Pruneson television. She speaks lovingly ...
A BARRELFUL OF BAD APPLES
Apr 01, 1989; ... Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports, has finallycome up with an answer about apples and Alar that parents have beencrazy to know for a month.This winter, CU bought apples and apple juice in New Yorkstores that claimed to sell Alar-free apples and apple products.Most ...
WRESTLING'S LATEST ODDITY: AN ODDSMAKER 'NICK THE GREEK' BETS FANS WANT AN ORACLE
Apr 01, 1989; ... The videotape is rolling now and Nick Tsiotos is really intohis act, eyes wide, words running out of his mouth like a river."OOOOPA wrestling fans! This is Nick the Greek, teacher andmaster predicter, the man with the line, the man who's going tomake the Wrestling Federation ...
'ROSENKAVALIER' DUE DESPITE OCB WOES
Apr 01, 1989; ... Despite the current crisis in the administration andfinances of the Opera Company of Boston, its artistic activitiescontinue. An OCB spokesperson confirmed yesterday that most of thecast for "Der Rosenkavalier" is in town rehearsing on the set withconductor William Fred ...