The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from June 1989:
ASK THE GLOBE
Jun 01, 1989 ... Q. What ever happened to Leah Horchler, the 3-year-oldArizona girl who was on Medicaid and who supposedly was in dangerof dying last year because her single mother could not pay for aliver transplant? -- E.W., HinghamA. According to Leah's physician, Dr. Lawrence Koep, and ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jun 01, 1989 ... Q. Will my favorite western-swing band, Asleep at the Wheel,be appearing in New England this year? -- R.F., WestwoodA. A spokesman tells us the band is scheduled to perform atthe Flynn Theater in Burlington, Vt., July 7; at the Maine Centerfor the Arts in Orono on Aug. 19, ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jun 01, 1989 ... Q. I have been told that the Massachusetts Lottery must beplayed in that state. Can I as an out-of-state resident play thegame? -- J.B., Lewiston, MaineA. Anyone (anyone age 18 or over, that is) from anywhere canplay the various games conducted by the Massachusetts ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jun 01, 1989 ... Q. Can you give me the name of the US Navy ship on which myhusband served in World War II? I know only that its hull numberwas AS-22. -- E.L., LexingtonA. Robert Cressman of the US Naval Historical Center inWashington says AS-22 was the submarine tender USS Euryale. He ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jun 01, 1989 ... Q. I believe my great-grandfather worked for the Bostonsalvage company that raised the submarine S-4 from ProvincetownHarbor in March 1928. Where can I learn more about that incident?-- S.E., SalemA. Try to get a copy of Mary Heaton Vorse's "Time and theTown," published in ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jun 01, 1989 ... Q. Does the expression "like the dickens" have anything todo with the English novelist? -- S.G., BostonA. There is no connection between Charles Dickens and theexpression you cite, states Robert Hendrickson in ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jun 01, 1989 ... Q. What was the name of Noah's wife? - R.W., IpswichA. Although there are several references to "his wife" in thebiblical account of Noah and the flood, she remains unnamed. Nor isthere any mention of the woman's name in such reference books asthe Pocket ...
CHINESE AUTHORITIES RELEASE 3 ACTIVISTS AFTER QUESTIONING
Jun 01, 1989; ... BEIJING - Three labor activists arrested Tuesday werereleased yesterday after being questioned about their connectionwith China's student-led human rights movement.The government gave no explanation for their release, norwould it comment on the fate of 11 other nonstudent ...
GUN SALES IN CALIFORNIA BOOM ON EVE OF NEW LAW
Jun 01, 1989; ... SAN FRANCISCO - Sales of semiautomatic weapons boomed inCalifornia as the June 1 deadline for the state's mandatory permitapplication drew near, and gun dealers said the meaner-looking thegun the better the sales. Buyers of the weapons includedcollectors, investors and others who hoped to ...
D.C. ABANDONS PLANS FOR TEEN-AGE CURFEW
Jun 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - The District of Columbia has abandoned plans toimpose a curfew on teen-agers as part of an effort to reduceillegal narcotics sales and drug-related violence in the nation'scapital, city officials said yesterday. Last week, US DistrictCourt Judge Charles R. Richey struck down ...
NEW YORK POST NAMES COLUMNIST AS EDITOR
Jun 01, 1989; ... NEW YORK - Jerry Nachman, a columnist for the New York Post, wasappointed yesterday as the newspaper's editor. He succeeds JaneAmsterdam, who was dismissed on Tuesday by the tabloid's owner andpublisher, Peter Kalikow ....
TESTAMENT TO CHANGED LANGUAGE THE LATEST REVISED STANDARD VERSION OF THE BIBLE TRIES TO AVOID SEXISM AND THE VERNACULAR
Jun 01, 1989; ... "I will accept no bull from your house," runs Psalm 50 inthe mostwidely used English translation of the Bible. In the vernacular, that can mean something different from whattranslators meant to say in Psalm 50: "I will not accept a bullfrom your house." So, in the New Revised ...
POLITICIAN'S EMOTIONAL PLEA AMID SHIFTING ETHICAL SANDS
Jun 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - The spirited defense that House Speaker Jim Wrightoffered yesterday to the charges against him may have won someconverts to his cause. But his departing wish to his colleaguesthat they put a quick end to the "mindless cannibalism" in theHouse is likely to go ...
STUDY SHOWS AIDS VIRUS MAY GO LONG UNDETECTED
Jun 01, 1989; ... In a new study that some scientists say contains the mostdisturbing AIDS news in a long time, a team of researchers fromCalifornia has documented that nearly one-quarter of a group of 133high-risk gay men harbored the AIDS virus silently in their systemsfor as long as three years, ...
BUSH'S CALL: RAZE BERLIN WALL
Jun 01, 1989; ... LONDON - President Bush issued a call in West Germanyyesterday for an end to a divided Europe and destruction of theBerlin Wall. Later, he left for Britain and the final stop on hisone-week NATO trip.Bush chose the city of Mainz, near a large US Air Force base,to issue ...
CLOUD OVER DEMOCRATS HAS SILVER LINING FOR MASS. DELEGATION
Jun 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - In the wake of the resignations of House SpeakerJim Wright and the Democratic whip, Tony Coelho, Massachusetts maytake steps toward restoring the clout lost with the recentretirements of Reps. Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. and Edward Boland. None of the state's congressmen ...
STATE OF SIEGE
Jun 01, 1989 ... Residents of San Miguel, Argentina, stand behind barricadeserected to hinder looters. Local government officials reported anincrease in the number of people who have armed themselves toprotect shops and homes. Twelve persons have been killed sinceSunday in civil disturbances sparked by an ...
GUN SALES IN CALIFORNIA BOOM ON EVE OF NEW LAW
Jun 01, 1989; ... SAN FRANCISCO - Sales of semiautomatic weapons boomed inCalifornia as the June 1 deadline for the state's mandatory permitapplication drew near, and gun dealers said the meaner-looking thegun the better the sales. Buyers of the weapons includedcollectors, investors and others who hoped to ...
MEDICAL DEBRIS FOUND ALONG VINEYARD BEACH
Jun 01, 1989; ... GAY HEAD - Workers cleaning an oil spill along a pristine10-mile stretch of beach on Martha's Vineyard yesterday also turnedup three needles and syringes and two vials, both of whichcontained a white powder.Those wastes, along with a syringe picked up on a nearby ...
CORRECTION
Jun 01, 1989 ... Correction: Because of a reporting error, a story in the Metro/Region section on May 26 incorrectly characterized a remark bydefense attorney Anthony M. Cardinale. Cardinale was responding toa question about what message a proposed merger of the New EnglandStrike Force into the US ...
GARRITY APPROVES HUB SCHOOL PLAN
Jun 01, 1989; ... Declaring a new level of confidence in the Boston SchoolCommittee, US District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity yesterdaydenied a motion by attorneys from black and Hispanic parents toblock a new student assignment plan from starting this fall.In a ruling from the bench, ...
MASS. REFORM BILLS FALTER
Jun 01, 1989; ... While Washington boils over with reports of scandal, themomentum to tighten up ethical standards on Beacon Hill that beganthis winter in the wake of the 75 State Street controversy hasevaporated.Two major proposals for reform -- Gov. Dukakis' legislation totoughen the ...
DRIVEN TO EXTREMES
Jun 01, 1989; ... A few days ago, William Bennett, the big drug czar in Washington,told a bunch of high school kids they should become snitches.Bennett said it would be a true badge of honor if teen-agersstopped picking their pimples and started blowing their whistles onany friends who use or sell ...
MEDICAID PAYMENT PROPOSAL CRITICIZED
Jun 01, 1989; ... State officials hurled accusations at each other yesterdayas concerns mounted over whether Massachusetts can afford to adopta Senate proposal to float $667 million in bonds to pay off thestate's old Medicaid debts.The Senate Ways and Means Committee has proposed paying ...
COYLE SEEN LIKELY TO STAY IN BOSTON
Jun 01, 1989; ... Boston Redevelopment Authority director Stephen Coyle metyesterday with Mayor Flynn's most trusted aide and indicated he isleaning toward staying in Boston, sources said yesterday. But Coylestopped short of saying he will definitely turn down a lucrativejob offer in St. Louis, these ...
DA BOOSTS HIS INCOME OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES PAY OFF FOR FLANAGAN
Jun 01, 1989; ... Suffolk County District Attorney Newman A. Flanagan lastyear supplemented his $72,500 a year salary with up to $21,621 infees and travel expenses, most paid by the Knights of Columbus andthe National Association of Government Employees.It was the third year in a row that ...
FLAWLESS CREDENTIALS ONLY ONE SIDE OF RADCLIFFE'S NEW LEADER
Jun 01, 1989; ... CAMBRIDGE - Linda S. Wilson, who was elected yesterday asRadcliffe College's seventh president, could be considered anunusual hybrid for a Radcliffe leader.On the one hand, there is her formal academic side, and hercredentials are impeccable and impressive -- the essence ...
'SUPERMAX' PRISON PLAN GENERATES CONTROVERSY
Jun 01, 1989; ... Sometime during the next year or so a new structure islikely to be constructed on a flat stretch of land in Walpole, andit is called a "supermax."A supermax is a maximum-security unit to hold the state's mostdifficult inmates. In this high-tech world of ...
STATE TO OFFER CENTRAL LIST OF AIDS DRUG TRIALS
Jun 01, 1989; ... In a move designed to help make AIDS patients aware ofpotential treatments in Massachusetts, state health officialsyesterday announced a directory to inform patients and theirdoctors about ongoing experimental AIDS drug trials."This is an exciting day for people with AIDS, ...
CONSULTANT TO TESTIFY AGAINST JUDICIAL PICK
Jun 01, 1989; ... Political consultant Barry Kaplovitz, who often tweaks thestate's liberal establishment by backing such liberal nemeses asformer Gov. Edward King and the antitax movement, is headed for theGovernor's Council to challenge one of Gov. Dukakis' judicialnominees.Kaplovitz has put the ...
ANDERSON'S MESSAGE NOT HER MEDIUM
Jun 01, 1989; ... Tax-cut tigress Barbara Anderson is not afraid to roar when itcomes to criticizing the Dukakis administration's managementskills, but she is hardly a hands-on manager herself at Citizensfor Limited Taxation.In a recent interview, she admitted she did not know herorganization's ...
STAY TUNED: DOOLEY EXTENDS IRELAND TRIP
Jun 01, 1989; ... Here is the latest chapter in City Hall's hottest soap opera.When last we heard of Raymond Dooley, top aide to Mayor Flynn,he was due back last Thursday from his second vacation to Irelandin less than a month. Well, he's still there and not scheduled toreturn until this weekend at ...
BANKERS MAY NOT BE SORRY IF COYLE LEAVES
Jun 01, 1989; ... While many in the development community are hoping BostonRedevelopment Authority director Stephen Coyle turns down the jobbeing offered him by St. Louis Mayor Vincent C. Schoemehl Jr., thesame cannot be said of some local bankers.Their feeling is that Coyle's departure may pull ...
NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERS SPEAK OUT AGAINST FLYNN CONTEND RESIDENTIAL AREAS ARE POWERLESS AGAINST ENCROACHMENT BY COLLEGES, HOSPITAL
Jun 01, 1989; ... Leaders from five neighborhood groups yesterday blastedMayor Flynn -- the self-styled "neighborhood mayor" who was electedon a platform to give communities greater control over development-- for giving them what one called "the illusion of authoritywithout any real ...
CAMBRIDGE MAN DIES AFTER CAR CRASHES INTO RIVER
Jun 01, 1989; ... A Cambridge man died and a woman was in critical condition lastnight after their car veered off Memorial Drive in Cambridge, brokethrough a four-foot iron railing and sank in the Charles Riverabout 30 feet from shore.Omar Awquatty, 18, of 65 Howard St. died at 9:16 p.m, ...
REPUTED GANG LEADER SENTENCED TO 3 MONTHS ROXBURY MAN GUILTY IN CAR THEFT ATTEMPT
Jun 01, 1989; ... The reputed leader of the Humboldts, one of the city's majorstreet gangs, was sentenced to serve three months in the DeerIsland House of Correction yesterday after being found guilty ofattempted larceny of a motor vehicle and possession of burglarioustools.Mervin Reese, 19, of ...
2 MEN SENTENCED IN SERIES OF HOLDUPS
Jun 01, 1989; ... CAMBRIDGE - A Billerica man who last year got out of prisonafter serving time for his part in 47 burglaries in towns west ofBoston was given a 24-to-30-year sentence yesterday for 18 crimescommitted within months of his release.Donald Ladow, 24, pleaded guilty in Middlesex ...
HOUSE APPROVES BU TAKEOVER OF CHELSEA SCHOOLS HOME-RULE PETITION NOW BEFORE SENATE, MAY BE AMENDED WHEN DEBATE RESUMES MONDAY
Jun 01, 1989; ... The Massachusetts House yesterday passed and sent to theSenate Chelsea's home-rule petition to allow Boston University tomanage the city's troubled schools for the next 10 years. TheSenate tabled the bill until Monday. House passage of the controversial bill came on a voice ...
BANK SHOWCASES OPPORTUNITIES FOR INVESTORS IN ROXBURY
Jun 01, 1989; ... The Boston Bank of Commerce is hosting a series of seminarsand housing expositions in Roxbury this week to showcase investmentopportunities for developers who otherwise might not visit theneighborhood."It is really quite an ingenious approach for reminding usthat there's a ...
CRANE, 5 LEGISLATORS TOPS IN '88 INCOME
Jun 01, 1989; ... Five lawyer-legislators and one of the state's six constitutionalofficers earned more than $100,000 in outside income last year,according to filings with the State Ethics Commission.The forms indicate a total of 82 lawmakers earned some amountof outside income last year, with 19 ...
ARMORED TRUCK ROBBED, GUARD SHOT IN FITCHBURG
Jun 01, 1989; ... FITCHBURG - An armored-truck guard was shot outside theShawmut-Worcester County Bank yesterday during an "intricatelyplanned robbery" in which four masked men escaped with $880,000,police said. James R. Stewart, 32, of Lunenburg, a guard withMassachusetts Transport Inc., ...
2 CITY HOSPITALS TARGETED FOR MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS RENOVATION, CREATION OF HOUSING ARE GOALS
Jun 01, 1989; ... The Flynn administration is soliciting consultant proposalsfor a sweeping master plan to consolidate and upgrade agingfacilities and create new housing and park facilities at Mattapanand Long Island hospitals.The goal is to make the hospitals, long a drain on ...
SUSPENSION FOR BELIEF
Jun 01, 1989 ... Rebecca Pierce of Dorchester hangs in a rock-climbing harness inthe atrium of the State Transportation Building yesterday afternoonduring a protest of US aid to El Salvador. The 45-year-old Pierce,a member of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of ElSalvador, dropped leaflets before ...
LAWSUIT AGAINST 11 BOSTON POLICE OFFICERS HEADS TO TRIAL MATTAPAN VICTIM'S MOTHER CHARGES HE WAS UNARMED AND FLEEING WHEN FATALLY SHOT
Jun 01, 1989; ... A suit seeking $37 million in damages from Boston policeofficers allegedly involved in the fatal shooting and beating ofEligha J. Pate six years ago is tentatively scheduled to go totrial Monday in Suffolk Superior Court.The suit charges 11 Boston police officers with ...
STATE-RENOVATED PROJECTS HIRE PRIVATE GUARDS TO FIGHT CRIME
Jun 01, 1989; ... A group of private security guards trained at the BostonPolice Academy, licensed to carry guns and given authority to makearrests, will take over security at two Dorchester public housingcomplexes now being renovated by the state.Officials say police, developers, tenants and ...
BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE SELECTS 1ST WOMAN HEAD
Jun 01, 1989; ... Adrian Tinsley will become Bridgewater State College's firstwoman president when she takes office July 1, a school spokesmansaid yesterday.Tinsley, 51, is now executive vice president and provost ofGlassboro State College in Glassboro, N.J.Tinsley was a 1958 honors ...
FEAR STRIKES OUTSIDE
Jun 01, 1989 ... Startled children are comforted by Chelsea emergency personnelafter a car ran off the curb on Shawmut Avenue and hit a courtyardfence near where the youngsters were playing at about 3:30 p.m.yesterday. A girl was transported to ...
DEVILS GET CUNNIFF BOWNESS MAY BE IN LINE FOR MAINE JOB
Jun 01, 1989; ... John Cunniff has joined the New Jersey Devils as anassistant coach and now the Bruins' focus becomes: who will takeover their farm team, the Maine Mariners of the American HockeyLeague?Maybe Rick Bowness.Bowness, who played seven seasons in the NHL, was an ...
BEST FACE FORWARD
Jun 01, 1989; ... Victor Kiam is still waiting for the rub.Will it go against the grain enough to make him bristle?Or will it be another sweet, clean stroke of success?"I really don't know how this is going to turn out," saysKiam, preparing for the real second half of his business, ...
AGE-OLD PROBLEM BECOMES WORSE
Jun 01, 1989; ... I am 45 years old. I am older than anyone playing major leaguebaseball for a living. I was not this old until four days ago.This is not a pleasant development."Hey, give Tommy John a job," I mumble, wishing I had the homephones of the general managers of baseball. "There are ...
CERONE LIFTS SOX IN 10TH
Jun 01, 1989; ... After a one-hour rain delay, the Red Sox and OaklandAthletics embarked on the wildest game played at Fenway Park thisseason, a 4-3 Sox victory that ended with Rick Cerone's pinch-hitsingle off Curt Young in the 10th inning.Jody Reed's throwing error with two out in the ninth ...
PISTONS CLAMP DOWN, 94-85
Jun 01, 1989; ... AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - They still haven't played to theirpotential, and there were stretches when Detroit looked downrightlost out there. But there is one constant -- defense -- and thatfamiliar weapon gave them a 94-85 victory over the Chicago Bullslast night.The win gave ...
SOLUTION IN WORKS FOR PARK
Jun 01, 1989; ... A step was taken yesterday morning to settle the disputeover the use of Franklin Park by high school and collegecross-country runners.Bill Flynn, who runs the Franklin Park course, and Chris Lane,Boston Tech headmaster and longtime state track committee member,met at the ...
SCHOOL GOLF: MITCHELL TOPS QUALIFIERS
Jun 01, 1989; ... Longmeadow's Jeff Mitchell shot a career-best 1-under-par 71yesterday to lead the Western Mass. State qualifying round atHampden CC.A sophomore, Mitchell was 2-under 34 on the front nine, butgot into trouble on the back when he ...
A BIG JUMP FOR SOVIETS
Jun 01, 1989; ... WORCESTER - Andrus Nagel looked toward the Centrum ceiling,then to the floor. Just to make certain that Bryan Pollard had notused a hidden springboard when he slam-dunked the ball last night."We try to coach them," said Riho Soonik, an assistant coachfor Tallinn Kalev, the ...
BOGGS STRUGGLES WITH SLUMP WITHOUT GURU
Jun 01, 1989; ... Sometime early yesterday, the Red Sox rebuilt the woodenrack that hangs inside the runway leading to the home dugout atFenway Park. A metal folding chair stood nearby, its seat twistedgrotesquely after Wade Boggs bashed it in with his bat Tuesdaynight.Boggs appeared to be ...
BLUE JAYS STICK WITH GASTON
Jun 01, 1989; ... TORONTO - Cito Gaston, given only a 100-1 chance of beingconsidered for manager of the Toronto Blue Jays when he replacedJimy Williams on an interim basis, got the job anyway yesterday.Gaston, the fourth black manager in major league history, tookover when Williams was ...
REED'S AT HOME AT TOP OF ORDER
Jun 01, 1989; ... Take one shortstop who doesn't like waiting two or threeinnings for his first at-bat and insert him where he's always beencomfortable.Then watch him take off.That's been the story for Jody Reed, who has hit .462 (18 for39) in nine games as the Red Sox leadoff man, ...
QUINTANA IS READY IF RICE IS NOT
Jun 01, 1989; ... Red Sox manager Joe Morgan said yesterday the team will call upoutfielder/ first baseman Carlos Quintana if Jim Rice's elbowinjury forces the designated hitter to the disabled list.Rice will be examined today to determine the seriousness ofthe injury, which has been described as ...
CERONE COMES IN FROM THE COLD
Jun 01, 1989; ... At 12:33 a.m., seven hours after he took his last cuts in battingpractice, Red Sox catcher Rick Cerone had to shake off therustiness of the cool, damp night and take his cuts in a tiebaseball game.This was a night at Fenway that had enough twists and turns tomake a board game out ...
CERONE LIFTS SOX IN 10TH
Jun 01, 1989; ... The Red Sox saved Jody Reed from his own particular hell lastnight, turned Lee Smith from loser to victor and, from the way theywere talking afterward, may have saved themselves in the process ofbeating the Oakland Athletics, 4-3, in 10 innings.After a one-hour rain delay, the two ...
A GOLDEN AGE
Jun 01, 1989 ... The Gold Show, a precious metals investment exposition, winds uptoday at the Marriott Copley Place hotel in Copley Square. Amongthe coins on display are Australian koala platinum (left) and goldcoins (right), a Canadian ...
GE TO LAY OFF 700 AT PLANT IN PITTSFIELD
Jun 01, 1989; ... General Electric Co. yesterday said it would phase out theproduction of an unprofitable product line at its Pittsfieldmanufacturing plant, eliminating 700 jobs over two years.The giant Stamford, Conn.-based consumer and defenseelectronics company said it will relocate its ...
DUNKIN' DONUTS RAIDER INCREASES STAKE TO 12%
Jun 01, 1989; ... Toronto-based Unicorp Canada Corp., scoffing at the "whitesquire" enlisted by Dunkin' Donuts, yesterday increased its stakein the Randolph-based chain to 12 percent -- nearly twice itsoriginal position.Kingsbridge Capital Corp., the Unicorp investment unit thathas been ...
MOST ANALYSTS MISSED 1989'S STOCK SURGE
Jun 01, 1989; ... We believe that short-term forecasts of stock and bond prices areuseless. They tell you nothing about the future.'-- Warren Buffett, as quoted in 1980annual report, BerkshireHathway. NEW YORK -- Amen. Steven Einhorn, Goldman Sachs market strategist, couldn'tfeel ...