The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from July 1989:
BUSH VOWS TO PROMOTE CHANGE IN S. AFRICA
Jul 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday he wanted to bethe catalyst for movement to end South Africa's racial system ofapartheid, but he did not commit himself to new economic sanctionsagainst the nation, antiapartheid leaders said after a meeting atthe White House.The ...
A CAMBRIDGE COMPROMISE
Jul 01, 1989 ... After years of studies, public meetings, engineering andenvironmental reviews, threats of lawsuits, expressions of civicand community pride, bickering over bus routes and commercialdevelopment, fervent debate and naked emotionalism, a reasonablecompromise has been placed on the table for ...
BACK TO THE FUTURE IN BUDAPEST
Jul 01, 1989 ... When President Bush arrives in Hungary this month, he willencounter a phenomenon that right-wing ideologues have calledimpossible. Bush will meet Communist Party leaders who have alreadyguided their nation through the first stages of a transition from aone-party communist system into ...
MEASURING METCO
Jul 01, 1989 ... In a city that is grossly segregated both racially andeconomically, it is little wonder that some are saying that theacademic achievements of Metco students fall short of theperformance of their white suburban classmates.Metco students function in dual worlds. They attend ...
TWINKIES AND ROACHES
Jul 01, 1989; ... When social workers got into the Mission Hill project apartment,they found Twinkies and cans of soda all over the place. Androaches. Roaches all over the apartment and even in therefrigerator. The 10-year-old boy, the oldest of the kids, hadfallen asleep with a piece of Twinkie in his ...
DUKAKIS' CONSUMER CHIEF LEAVING FOR JOB WITH UTILITY
Jul 01, 1989; ... Gov. Dukakis is losing a longtime aide, as Secretary ofConsumer Affairs Paula Gold prepares to leave her job at the end ofthis month to become a vice president for a major New Englandutility.According to sources, Gold's decision to take the post withthe New England ...
BLUE CROSS SEEKS 29% MEDEX HIKE
Jul 01, 1989; ... Blue Cross-Blue Shield yesterday asked for a 29 percent ratehike for Medex, a health insurance supplement to Medicare purchasedby nearly 300,000 senior citizens across the state. Depending on the particular Medex coverage they buy, the ratehike, if approved, would cost ...
DO BENEFITS BALANCE PLAN FOR MIDTOWN? NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS SAY YES
Jul 01, 1989; ... If form still followed function in architecture, the newtowers slated for Boston's midtown would look like giant faucets.As they've been described this week, these new buildings willunleash a stream of benefits: not just tax revenue and constructionjobs, but five theaters, ...
TIGHT-KNIT JAPANESE BUSINESS ROCKED BY 'PICKENS SHOCK'
Jul 01, 1989; ... TOKYO - Salarymen, hide your corporate shares: Mister T.Boone Pickens Jr. is in town hankering for a showdown with JapanInc.Pickens has already lassoed a 20.2 percent share in the KoitoManufacturing Co. That makes the 61-year-old Texas oilman -- who isbest known as a ...
WANG SEES 'SUBSTANTIAL' LOSS AHEAD
Jul 01, 1989; ... Wang Laboratories Inc. yesterday warned investors andstockholders that it expects to post a "substantial loss" for thequarter and year and is negotiating with its bankers to replaceexisting credit lines.The double-barreled announcement highlights the extent of theLowell ...
TIME SHAREHOLDERS VENT FRUSTRATION AT MEETING
Jul 01, 1989; ... NEW YORK - Time Inc.'s senior management admitted yesterdaythat had shareholders been able to vote on the company's proposed$14 billion merger with Warner Communications, the outcome of thevote would have been too close to call.Time's admission reflects the extent of the ...
IF ANYONE DOUBTS IT, AUCTION PROVES CAPE COD BOOM IS OVER
Jul 01, 1989; ... HYANNIS - In the bustling mid-1980s, when developerscouldn't build enough to satisfy the clamor of buyers on Cape Cod,Douglas Lebel and Jeffrey Sollows were building 85 to 100 housesand condominiums a year. Last year, that tally was cut in half --but inventory still went begging for ...
LOW-INCOME FAMILIES WILL BENEFIT FROM MODULAR METHODS PRE-BUILT HOUSES HELP PLUG AFFORDABLE GAP
Jul 01, 1989; ... HYANNIS - Steven Winter, a New York building consultant,was about halfway through his presentation on factory-built housingduring a Cape Cod affordable housing conference when he came to thesubject of modular construction."The development and widespread use of modular ...
BRICKS AT THEIR BEST
Jul 01, 1989 ... Sasaki Associates Inc. of Watertown was among nine architecturalfirms honored in the Brick in Architecture Program sponsored by theBrick Institute of America. Sasaski Associates was honored for itsdesign of Edith Stein Hall, a classroom facility at Holy ...
RALLY EXTENDED
Jul 01, 1989 ... An increase in nonresidential building in May extended April'srally of construction contracting into a second month, the F.W.Dodge Group of McGraw-Hill Information Services Co. reports.May contracts for newly started construction were ...
COSTLY REQUESTS
Jul 01, 1989 ... Real Estate development is being made even more difficult duringthese troubled times by requests for greater concessions bycommunity groups and local governments, according to a survey of USreal estate editors.In a survey of the National Association of Editors, about 85percent ...
FOUND WANTING
Jul 01, 1989; ... A few of America's Most Unwanted:Flora "Floor It" Rebbish: Unwanted for making right turns onred lights without stopping first, or even slowing down. Poses asnonviolent. Usually drives a small foreign-made car with bumperstickers reading "Arms Are for Hugging" and "I Brake for ...
WATER LOGJAM BRACE YOURSELF FOR BOATING ON THE FOURTH
Jul 01, 1989; ... This year, instead of fighting the July Fourth boat trafficin Boston Harbor, sleep through it. That's right -- spend the nightin the harbor. That's the advice of harbor officials to the thousands ofpleasure boaters who are expected to view the traditional EsplanadePops ...
THE SOUND OF JULIE: ALIVE AND TOURING
Jul 01, 1989; ... Her home life is quite mad, she says - what with five kids,two of whom are permanently ensconced in her Los Angeles home, dogsand cats, a husband with a new idea at each day's dawn and theresident ghost of one Inspector Clouseau.Not far removed from the madcap existence of ...
ROCKPORT LODGE WILL OPEN AGAIN
Jul 01, 1989; ... The 83-year-old Rockport Lodge, a vacation home for workingwomen, will re-open this weekend for the summer in a settlementapproved yesterday by the Suffolk County Probate Court. Seventrustees have resigned.The lodge has been the subject of an emotion-charged legalbattle ...
WITH THIS TAPE I THEE WED
Jul 01, 1989; ... Wait a minute.The last time I tuned into videotaped weddings, they wereabout as slick as Cleveland. The producer was somebody's UncleCharlie who clunked around getting jumpy, out-of-focus shots offeet.Today they look like Steven Spielberg productions ....
BOSTONIANS REVIEW 'DO THE RIGHT THING'
Jul 01, 1989; ... A black Village Voice reviewer labeled the film"afro-fascist" and "racist." A white critic said he was so moved bythe film he left the theater in tears. A Time magazine reviewercalled the movie "false and pernicious." Other reviewers havecalled the movie "brilliant," ...
THE WHO: FOOLING US AGAIN
Jul 01, 1989; ... NEW YORK - I've often found it at least something of a guiltypleasure to enjoy a veteran band cranking out its early hits inconcert -- be it the Rolling Stones doing "Satisfaction," the Kinksdoing "You Really Got Me" or the Who doing "Can't Explain." Thesewere all tough, cool, mid-'60s ...
WEDDING SHOTGUN
Jul 01, 1989; ... Shoot! Don Johnson is denying accusations that someone in thewedding party when he married Melanie Griffith Monday opened firewith a shotgun on a helicopter carrying a tabloid reporter andphotographer. "The thought that any member of Don's party wouldattempt to bring down a chopper over the ...
PAY-CABLE CONCERT AIRS JULY 4
Jul 01, 1989; ... This is fast becoming a summer of pay-per-view cableconcerts -- and another is on the way for the Fourth of July. "ThisCountry's Rockin' " is a 10-hour concert featuring 22 country, rockand R&B acts, taped at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Mich., on May 6. Similar to the recent ...
FOUR NEW THEATERS IN TWO YEARS PREDICTED FOR MIDTOWN DISTRICT
Jul 01, 1989; ... The first four new theaters in the Midtown Cultural Districtshould be built and open to Boston's nonprofit arts groups withintwo years, according to city arts commissioner Bruce Rossley.The theaters, and air rights necessary to construct a fifth,are being financed by two ...
STATE PUTS 1990 DEFICIT AT $491M; VETOES EYED
Jul 01, 1989; ... The Dukakis administration said yesterday the budget gap forfiscal 1990 has suddenly jumped to $491 million and indicated thegovernor would probably deal with at least part of the gap by usinghis power to freeze spending.Aides to the governor said no decisions have been ...
AWAITING RESCUE IN ATLANTA
Jul 01, 1989 ... Workers hang through a broken window during a fire in a 10-storyAtlanta office building yesterday. At least four persons werekilled and dozens were injured, including a woman who jumped from asixth-story window. Witnesses said the fire was preceded by ...
STATE: PILGRIM'S COST MAY BE EXTRA $2.5B
Jul 01, 1989; ... Massachusetts energy officials yesterday charged that BostonEdison Co. could have saved ratepayers up to $2.5 billion byswitching to alternative fuels rather than repairing andrestarting the Pilgrim nuclear plant.Because of that decision, Edison should be denied its bid ...
N.H. JURORS ACQUIT MAN OF ARSON WAVE
Jul 01, 1989; ... A Coos County, N.H., jury yesterday found former volunteerfirefighter Lance Lalumiere innocent of charges that he set astring of arson fires that terrorized the town of Jefferson lastyear. Lalumiere, a 23-year-old dishwasher, confessed last fall tosetting 16 of the 26 ...
ACTIVISTS RAP BUSH REFUSAL TO REDRESS RIGHTS RULINGS
Jul 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday assured civil rightsleaders he supports their goals, but they later criticized hisrefusal to back legislation that would offset recent Supreme Courtdecisions limiting the legal tools available to minorities andwomen to fight ...
NRC HAD DOUBTS ON SEABROOK
Jul 01, 1989; ... Even before last week's flawed shutdown at the Seabrooknuclear plant, a senior Nuclear Regulatory Commission official wasbothered by a "possible declining trend in facility performance,"according to NRC documents released yesterday by a Massachusettscongressman.Other ...
CLUTCHING A DREAM, STUDENT FLEES FROM BEIJING TO NEWTON
Jul 01, 1989; ... NEWTON - The first student leader from the Chinesedemocracy movement to surface in the United States denounced the"self-crowned emperors" of the Beijing government yesterday andpredicted the push toward democracy in China would continue.Shen Tong, a 20-year-old Peking ...
HUD ACCUSED OF IGNORING AUDITS
Jul 01, 1989; ...preparation of this report. WASHINGTON - Reagan administration housing officials ignoredyears of warnings from internal auditors and left an insuranceprogram susceptible to so much fraud and waste that it could costtaxpayers more than $671 million, Congress was told ...
CHINESE DOTE ON 'LITTLE EMPERORS'
Jul 01, 1989; ... GUANGZHOU, China - Wei-Wei Zheng had a happy NationalChildren's Day last month.On the June 1 national holiday for children in China, Wei-Weireceived a cake, candy and some of his favorite drinks. His parentsgave him a box of US-made Transformers, toys that cost $30. His ...
IS MASS MURDER SUSPECT D.B. COOPER?
Jul 01, 1989; ... For 17 years in boozy Northwest barrooms, the ballad asked:"D.B. Cooper, where did you go? D.B. Cooper where are you now?"Today, far-fetched as it sounds, there may be an answer.Investigators want to know if Cooper -- the pseudonym of ahijacker who on Thanksgiving Eve 1971 ...
CORRECTION
Jul 01, 1989 ... CORRECTION: Because of incorrect information supplied to theGlobe, Calendar published the wrong time for today's concert ...
JUDGE DENIES NORTH MOTION FOR MISTRIAL
Jul 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - US District Judge Gerhard Gesell yesterdayrejected a last-try mistrial motion by the lawyers of former WhiteHouse aide Oliver North, clearing the way for North to be sentencedby Gesell on Wednesday.North was convicted in May of three felony counts related ...
US DISCUSSING ELECTIONS WITH AIDE TO ARAFAT
Jul 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - Palestine Liberation Organization officialsare discussing with the Bush administration conditions under whichthey could accept an Israeli proposal for elections in the occupiedterritories, Arab and American sources said yesterday. The US-PLO talks in Tunis, ...
BUSH PUSHES AMENDMENT TO OUTLAW FLAG DESECRATION
Jul 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - With the Iwo Jima Memorial as a backdrop,President Bush yesterday launched a nationwide drive to amend theConstitution to prevent the desecration of the US flag.With many servicemen in the flag-waving audience, thepresident said an amendment was needed because ...
SOVIET SUB FLAGGED
Jul 01, 1989 ... A flag bearing the symbol for radioactivity is fixed on a Sovietnuclear-powered submarine in the Baltic Sea Thursday after it wasplanted there by an activist with the environmental ...
MARCOS 'A LITTLE BETTER'
Jul 01, 1989 ... Imelda Marcos steps from a van as she prepares to visit herhusband, Ferdinand, yesterday morning in a Honolulu hospital. Theformer president of the Philippines showed signs of progressagainst a widespread infection one day after doctors removed ...
ARRESTS IN SOUTH KOREA
Jul 01, 1989 ... Police round up a group of students who were demonstrating atHanyang University in Seoul yesterday. About 1,000 protesters werearrested and at least 80 people were injured, authorities said ....
CASTRO OUSTS GENERAL LINKED TO DRUG TRADE
Jul 01, 1989; ... MEXICO CITY - President Fidel Castro ordered Maj. Gen.Arnaldo Ochoa dishonorably discharged from the Cuban armed forcesyesterday after a military court ordered the officer tried on drugtrafficking and other charges. Cuba's news agency, Prensa Latina, monitored in the ...
PRIEST SENT TO JAIL FOR UKRAINE LITURGY
Jul 01, 1989; ... A Ukrainian Catholic priest has been sentenced to 15 daysimprisonment by Soviet authorities for celebrating a public liturgyattended by 100,000 people, according to the Ukrainian CatholicChurch Press Bureau in Rome. The June 18 liturgy in Ivano-Frankovskwas part of a worldwide day of prayer ...
MORMONS DEDICATE $1M SHRINE IN ILL.
Jul 01, 1989; ... Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints thisweek dedicated a $1 million shrine in the old jail in Carthage,Ill., where a mob 145 years ago killed Mormon church founder JosephSmith and his brother, Hyrum.Church president Ezra Taft ...
REFORM RABBIS PRESS ISRAEL TO NEGOTIATE
Jul 01, 1989; ... After much debate, the Central Conference of American Rabbispassed a carefully worded resolution this week calling on Israel tonegotiate "with the freely chosen representatives of thePalestinian people" and condemning violence in Israel "fromwhatever quarter."Some at the meeting ...
GIVE UP NO TERRITORY, ORTHODOX RABBI SAYS
Jul 01, 1989; ... A noted Talmudic scholar has warned his Orthodox colleagues notto associate with Conservative and Reform rabbis who are pressuringIsrael to make territorial concessions.Addressing the 53d annual convention of the Rabbinical Councilof America in Spring Glen, N.Y., Rabbi Aaron ...
ANGLICAN SYNOD HITS SURROGATE BIRTHS
Jul 01, 1989; ... Surrogate motherhood is a "dehumanizing practice" that reduceshuman life to a commodity, the General Synod of the Anglican Churchof Canada said last week. The synod voted to ask that provincialand federal governments make surrogate motherhood illegal orimpossible.A study ...
CHURCH SESSION VOTES TO OPEN DOOR TO GAYS
Jul 01, 1989; ... Delegates at the Unitarian Universalist assembly voted lastweekend at their annual meeting in New Haven to promote "welcomingcongregations" where lesbian, gay and bisexual persons may feel athome. Delegates also voted to strengthen the 180,000-memberdenomination's program to place more ...
COURT RULES PILGRIM WAS PROPERLY MANAGED
Jul 01, 1989; ... In a victory for the Pilgrim nuclear plant, a federalappeals court has ruled that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission andBoston Edison Co. followed proper procedure when they reopened theplant last year.In its 22-page decision, the 1st Circuit Court of Appealsruled that ...
INNOCENT OF MURDER
Jul 01, 1989 ... Diana Goodykoontz receives a hug from paralegal Sharon Hodnetteyesterday after a judge in Pensacola, Fla., ruled the young womanwas innocent of murdering her ...
MAIL STALL
Jul 01, 1989 ... John Geddings of Sumter, S.C., said he stopped doing businesswith the US Postal Service five years ago when it raised the priceof stamps to 22 cents, and he's not about to start mailing ...
PRELUDE TO TALKS
Jul 01, 1989 ... Leo Cronan joins fellow union employees of Amtrak in setting upinformational picket lines outside South Station last night as partof a campaign to publicize contract demands as ...
DORCHESTER JOB FAIR DRAWS A CROWD 300 TEEN-AGERS MEET PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYERS AT CHEZ VOUS
Jul 01, 1989; ... An overflow crowd filled the Chez Vous rollerskating rink inDorchester yesterday for a job fair that attracted more than twodozen corporate recruiters seeking workers for a wide range of jobs.It was the second year for the event that organizers hope willbecome an annual ...
STATE CAP ON T FUNDING MAY FORCE SERVICE CUTS
Jul 01, 1989; ... A legislative move to cap state spending on MassachusettsBay Transportation Authority deficits could force the T to consider$56 million in service cuts by the end of the year, the head of theMBTA Advisory Board said yesterday. The possibility of schedule reductions or other ...
POLICE UNIONS TALK OF MERGER
Jul 01, 1989; ... After an informal breakfast meeting with Metropolitan Policeunion leaders, an official of the MBTA's police union said the twounions will not oppose a merger of the two police forces.The union officials met Thursday morning at the Parker Houseto discuss the possibility of ...
COMPUTER AS PALETTE ART GETS HELP FROM ELECTRONICS
Jul 01, 1989; ... On the museum walls, the artists' works are a melange ofmodern images, the kind you expect at Newbury Street and Manhattangalleries.But these framed pictures are not lithographs of New Englandseascapes or canvases with thick clumps of paint.The only hints of their ...
CRANE REPAYS CAMPAIGN FOR CAR
Jul 01, 1989; ... State Treasurer Robert Q. Crane paid $3,757 to his politicalcommittee yesterday as reimbursement for his family's personal useof a campaign car over the last 2 1/2 years.The Boston Globe reported on Tuesday that Crane's wife, Mary,had been using the car to commute to work ....
ROBIN HOOD REVISITED
Jul 01, 1989; ... The US Department of Housing and Urban Development apparently didnot become as powerless under the Reagan administration aspreviously thought.Reagan basically had taken the teeth out of HUD's regulationsand had all but kept his vow to get the agency out of the housingbusiness ....
NEW CHIEF JUSTICE: RIGHTS A KEY PRIORITY IN HIS COURT
Jul 01, 1989; ... Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Paul J. Liacos, in hisfirst interview since being sworn in, said yesterday he believesthe state's highest court will continue to expand individualprotections under the state constitution as the US Supreme Courtturns increasingly ...
SENATOR SAYS OVERRIDE OF MWRA VETO IS POSSIBLE
Jul 01, 1989; ... Supporters of a bill to force the Massachusetts WaterResources Authority to locate its headquarters in Quincy saidyesterday that they are one vote away in the Senate from overridingan expected gubernatorial veto.With the bill now on the governor's desk, Sen. Paul ...
R.I. BAY AVOIDED DIRE OIL DAMAGE
Jul 01, 1989; ... NARRAGANSETT, R.I. - Though a number of coves and beacheswere hard hit by last week's oil spill and may take months torecover, test results released yesterday confirm that NarragansettBay as a whole managed to escape with remarkably little seriousdamage. Scientists and ...
TRAIN STRIKES, KILLS MAN IN WALTHAM
Jul 01, 1989 ... A Fitchburg-to-Boston commuter train struck and killed amiddle-age man in Waltham yesterday. Police said the engineer sawa man sitting on the tracks near Linden Street about 2:30 p.m. andsounded the train whistle to warn him. The engineer applied thebreaks but could not stop in time, ...
A PRISONER'S REFUSAL TO HAVE SURGERY TO COST STATE AT LEAST $3,000
Jul 01, 1989; ... A Middlesex County Jail prisoner who refused to submit tosurgery to remove a paper clip he had inserted into his penisbrought his case all the way to the Supreme Judicial Court, aprocess that will cost taxpayers several thousands of dollars.Kerry A. Perkins, 22, of ...