The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from August 1989:
CURFEW IN SRI LANKA
Aug 01, 1989 ... Police in Colombo, Sri Lanka, force pedestrians onto busesyesterday shortly before a nationwide curfew. The curfew, begunover the weekend, was reinstated last ...
WHAT WENT WRONG AT WANG?
Aug 01, 1989; ...story. They had it all.In the heyday of Wang Laboratories -- and oh, how recent thatstill seems -- the lords of Lowell had a deep, rich share of thebooming office-automation market, a sterling reputation as animble, innovative firm, an unblemished record of zooming ...
SHARING HOME CHORES
Aug 01, 1989; ... During the early 1970s, a radical notion arose that husbandsshould share the work at home. This idea, which set menhyperventilating all over America, was followed by the plague oflists. "Up against the refrigerator door! Mister." Monday,Wednesday, Friday, he would cook. Tuesday, ...
KABUL ROCKETS ARE SAID TO KILL 21; 59 REPORTED DEAD IN REBEL CLASHES
Aug 01, 1989; ... KABUL, Afghanistan - A barrage of rockets hit a hospital, acrowded bus stop and an auto repair shop yesterday in the capital,killing 21 persons and injuring at least 22, the government andhospital sources said.In Islamabad, Pakistan, a guerrilla radio official saidone ...
HARVARD SUES SWEDISH FIRM OVER PATENTS
Aug 01, 1989; ... For the first time in the decade since it started patentingits scientists' work, Harvard University yesterday filed a lawsuitcharging a Swedish company and its American subsidiaries withviolating the school's exclusive claim to a biomedical discovery.In a suit filed in US ...
GILLETTE LOSES SHAVING GEL CASE
Aug 01, 1989; ... Edge shaving gel has finally gotten the edge over Gillette,at least in court.Yesterday the Gillette Co. was found guilty of infringing thepatent on foamy gel shaving creams owned by S.C. Johnson & Son Inc.of Racine, Wis.The legal battle started back in September ...
TALKING IN LIVING COLOR
Aug 01, 1989 ... Phoning home may be a more moving, colorful experience in thefuture. Existing video phone systems transmit only still, black andwhite images, but this Panasonic system under development transmitsmoving ...
CAR INSURANCE: FREE MARKET?
Aug 01, 1989; ... The Massachusetts auto insurance system is bracing itself foranother major crisis this fall as it careens head-on towardconfrontation among regulators, insurance companies and consumergroups who want to reform the much-criticized system once and forall.Although last year's auto ...
SNATCHED CAR IS A REAL STEAL
Aug 01, 1989; ... The Department of Revenue, which snatched a 1989 Mercedes Benz560 SEL from the driveway of a Mercedes executive on July 6,auctioned the car off for $50,000 yesterday. The car, with just6,000 miles on the odometer and worth $74,000 new, is part of thetug-of-war between the state and ...
ALONG ROUTE 128, HIGH TECH HITS LOWS
Aug 01, 1989; ... On Route 128, bad news is becoming as routine as trafficjams. Wang Laboratories Inc.'s announcement of a huge lossyesterday was unusual only in its severity. In the last week threeof the state's four largest computer companies reported losses forthe most recent quarter ....
TIMILTY AND RYAN AT ODDS WITH BANK OVER CONDOS
Aug 01, 1989; ... Joe Timilty and John Ryan aren't people you'd expect to seechased by a bank because of a $6 million loan.Timilty ran for mayor of Boston twice in the 1970s and servedin the state Senate until 1984. Ryan is a long-time member ofBoston's most powerful business cadre -- the ...
LEGAL
Aug 01, 1989 ... Jo Ann Shotwell, partner, Gadsby & Hannah, Boston; David G.Stern, Anita W. Robboy, Casner, Edwards & Roseman, Boston; WilliamA. Kuncik, partner, Peabody & Brown, Boston.Andrew Menard and David Hendren, ...
INSURANCE
Aug 01, 1989 ... Vincent B. Scuoteguazza, senior account engineer, ArkwrightMutual Insurance Co., Waltham; Emile E. Riendeau, assistant vicepresident, John Hancock Property & Insurance Cos., Boston; John F.O'Brien, president, ...
SERVICES
Aug 01, 1989 ... Joseph H. Bernstein, chief operating officer and general manager,Zecco Inc., Northborough; Ron Contois, president, Gary Janko,treasurer, Douglas Hyland, sales manager, Kathleen Kelley,marketing manager, Atlantic Associates, Plymouth.Clare A. Schoenfeld, manager of computer ...
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Aug 01, 1989 ... John Sakowicz, executive director, AIDS Project, Worcester; JamesO. Menzoian, professor of surgery, Boston University School ofMedicine, Boston.Susan Temme, assistant director of nursing for maternal andchild health, Jeannea Paine, nurse manager, operating room andpost-anesthesia ...
INDUSTRY
Aug 01, 1989 ... Stephen E. Tufts, sales manager, GTE's US lighting division,Danvers; L. Arnold Goralnick, president, Geo. E. Keith ...
FINANCE
Aug 01, 1989 ... Drew J. Pfirrman, vice president and associate counsel, FleetNational Bank, Providence; Barry H. Whittaker, president and chiefexecutive officer, Holbrook Bank; Janice Forster, vice president,human resources, Boston Federal Savings Bank, Burlington; RickHandrich, regional manager, Keystone ...
HIGH TECHNOLOGY
Aug 01, 1989 ... William D. Reed, chief financial officer and vice president,Computer Corporation of America, Cambridge; Ajoy K. Roy,industrial magnetic resonance scientist, Auburn International Inc.,Danvers; Joseph D. Alviani, senior adviser to the board of theMassachusetts Biotechnology Council, ...
PETER CRAINE NAMED EXECUTIVE VP, SALES, AT ALLOY COMPUTER PRODUCTS
Aug 01, 1989 ... Alloy Computer Products Inc., the Marlborough manufacturer ofmultiuser computer systems and hardware, has placed Peter W. Craineat the head of its sales and marketing effort.Craine, a former senior vice president at Novell Inc., joinsRichard Meise, recently appointed president and ...
SCHOOL-OPENING PORTENTS
Aug 01, 1989 ... There has been no long hot summer yet -- crimewise orweatherwise. But it has been an uncertain season for Boston parentsand students. Lost applications and a misplaced computer tape,poorly staffed parent-information centers, and school closings andrelocations have left many parents ...
RECYCLING FRUSTRATIONS
Aug 01, 1989 ... As Connecticut residents gear up for statewide householdrecycling -- scheduled to start just 16 months from now --Massachusetts environmental officials are still hoping money can befound to build an initial regional recycling facility.Although a number of Massachusetts ...
THE NEXT AUDIO WAVE
Aug 01, 1989 ... An agreement that will encourage digital tape recorders tobe sold in the US is a tribute to the patience and inventiveness offoreign electronics companies. Their persistence will providegreater choice for consumers of audio products while safeguardingthe rights of musicians and ...
THE FAST-TRAIN LANE
Aug 01, 1989 ... Three articles in the July 31 issue of Newsweek cover agreat, gnawing everyday issue of the 20th century: transportation.The cover story deals with California, divided between "Americandream" -- represented by palm trees and green waves -- or "Americannightmare" -- the modern ...
A BLURRED GUBERNATORIAL PICTURE FOR THE GOP
Aug 01, 1989; ... Without Andrew Card, the Republican Party in Massachusetts losesits best chance for a consensus candidate for governor.That doesn't mean that Card would necessarily have won thejob, or even the nomination. Another Republican may catch fire andturn out to be a candidate who will ...
BIRD TAKES THE COURT IN ROOKIE SCRIMMAGES
Aug 01, 1989; ... WALTHAM - It started out as a simple shootaround, a coupleof minutes of rhythm and motion, aiming and firing. Larry Bird,fractured transverse process and all, was feeling OK, and he wantedto nail some 15-footers.Having done that, the heart of the Celtics franchise ...
RAGING RELIEVER TAKES IT OUT ON OPPONENTS
Aug 01, 1989; ... The bullpen gate swung open, and through a downpour of boos,pigeon-toed Bob Stanley trotted toward the infield where Joe Morganwaited. When Stanley got to the mound, both men actedprofessionally. They didn't give each other noogies. There was nohatred evident; no fool on the hill....
A NIGHT OF STEAM HEAT AT FENWAY STANLEY, SOX RIP ORIOLES, 9-6
Aug 01, 1989; ... The Red Sox moved within three games of first place lastnight with a 9-6 victory over the first-place Orioles that featuredthe stunning return from exile of righthander Bob Stanley.The Sox hit six doubles in the game. The Orioles committedfour errors and gave up four ...
RED SOX COOK WITH STEAM HEAT STANLEY BURNS BALTIMORE, 9-6
Aug 01, 1989; ... As July gives way to August, the Red Sox are three games out offirst place, and their season is beginning to turn on the mostunlikely of circumstances. More than anything, the Sox are goodtheater these days, an ongoing epic that includes conflict andturmoil, man vs. himself.This ...
GREENWELL GOES ON 15-DAY DISABLED LIST
Aug 01, 1989; ... Mike Greenwell came limping into the Red Sox clubhouse around 6p.m. yesterday, his left leg wrapped in a contraption that lookedlike a cross between a ski boot and a NASA spacesuit.As for his playing prospects in the next couple of weeks,Greenwell may be closer to a skiing trip or ...
CLEANUP DUTY FOR HEEP HE ASSUMES GREENWELL'S PLACE IN FIELD, BATTING ORDER
Aug 01, 1989; ... The clock beneath the Diamondvision scoreboard in centerfield struck 7:32 and, with that, the Red Sox cleanup hittertrotted out to left field, just like always. This time, however, Boston's left fielder and cleanup manwasn't wearing No. 39. He wore 29. He was Daniel ...
ORIOLES PAY FOR SLOPPY PLAY
Aug 01, 1989; ... In their last three games, the Orioles had not committed oneerror. Not only that, Baltimore owned the best team fieldingpercentage (.986) in the majors.But in last night's 9-6 loss to the Red Sox, an affair marredby four Baltimore errors, the Orioles made up for those ...
PATRIOTS REACHING OUT JACKSON SENT TO HOUSTON TO KEEP HOLDOUT DYKES APPRISED
Aug 01, 1989; ... SMITHFIELD, R.I. - If Hart Lee Dykes won't come to thePatriots, the Patriots are willing to come to Hart Lee Dykes.Coach Raymond Berry sent receivers coach Harold Jackson toHouston over the weekend to give Dykes a refresher course on theNew England offensive ...
STEPHENS HURTS HIP AND THIGH IN DRILL
Aug 01, 1989; ... SMITHFIELD, R.I. - It didn't have the impact of Larry Bird'sfall. But the Patriots held their breath yesterday when runningback John Stephens crashed into free agent linebacker TerranceCooks during yesterday's afternoon drills and suffered a rightthigh contusion and a right hip flexor ...
BREAKING UP HARD TO DO RIVERA, REED PROVING TO BE A GOOD MATCH
Aug 01, 1989; ... If Joe Morgan had it his way, or if things were perfect forthe Red Sox (please, no laughing), he wouldn't have these kinds ofimpending decisions.Marty Barrett is coming back. Any day now. And all of asudden, the Jody Reed-Luis Rivera keystone combination doesn'texactly ...
BOYD READY TO WARM UP
Aug 01, 1989; ... Red Sox general manager Lou Gorman said last night that OilCan Boyd, sidelined most of this season with a recurring blood clotin his right shoulder, will be back throwing today at Fenway Park.Boyd's appearance won't be a start against Baltimore, butGorman hopes it will be a ...
BIDING TIME ON SOX VOICE
Aug 01, 1989; ... Audition tapes and cover letters are flowing into WRKO because ofthe possibility that the new Red Sox flagship station will changeannouncers next year."It's too early to decide. We have a little bit of lead timeand we have other priorities right now," says WRKO acting ...
DANILIVIC IMPRESSES BRASS HE GIVES NOTICE FOR FUTURE LOOK
Aug 01, 1989; ... WALTHAM - Because he is 18 years old, and mingling among folkssuch as Reggie Lewis and Joe Kleine, No. 61 in the Celtics rookiecamp has gone virtually unnoticed by the people who pack themselvesinto the Brandeis University gymnasium.But be advised the Celtics brass is watching ...
SUIT FILED OVER SOVIET TOUR
Aug 01, 1989 ... A proposed November US tour of the Soviet men's basketballteam -- which would feature games against top teams from the BigEast and Atlantic Coast conferences -- has sparked a federallawsuit filed by a Boston promoter against the Amateur BasketballAssociation of the United States of ...
KING GLORIOUS AIMS FOR EASY GOER IN TRAVERS
Aug 01, 1989; ... King Glorious, a rocket from California, finally establishedhimself as a legitimate 3-year-old contender on the East Coast witha victory in the $500,000 Haskell Invitational Handicap at MonmouthPark Saturday.With Sunday Silence having suffered a startling defeat in theSwaps ...
METS GET VIOLA FOR FIVE PLAYERS
Aug 01, 1989; ... NEW YORK - Frank Viola was traded last night by theMinnesota Twins to the New York Mets, who hope they got the acethat can pull them back into a pennant race that is slipping away.The Twins received pitchers Rick Aguilera and David West andthree players to be named later ....
LEONARD OPTS FOR MIRAGE
Aug 01, 1989; ... The lure of entertainment history pushed Ray Leonard overthe line and into the waiting hands of Las Vegas casino owner SteveWynn yesterday.Leonard ended speculation over the site of his fight withRoberto Duran when he accepted an offer to open Wynn's Mirage HotelDec. 7 ...
BROTHERS ZERO IN ON GOLF TITLES
Aug 01, 1989; ... ANDOVER - They share the same house, look alike andprobably argue as brothers normally do. And if everything goes asplanned, Mike and Marc Spencer of Haverhill will win the MGA StateJunior Championship for their respective divisions.As the tournament switches to match play ...
KIRBY FIRES A 65 TO LEAD RI OPEN
Aug 01, 1989; ... SEEKONK - Eddie Kirby's roller-coaster ride over the golfcourses of the Northeast hit the latest of several peaks yesterdaywhen he joined the rest of the invaders from his home state andcrossed the line to play in the opening round of the 58th RhodeIsland Open at Ledgemont CC in ...
CHANG DOES THE JOB HE GETS PAST SAMPRAS, 6-4, 6-4, IN VOLVO OPENER
Aug 01, 1989; ... STRATTON MOUNTAIN, Vt. - What pressure? says Michael Chang,the youngest men's winner of a Grand Slam event in history and theworld's seventh-ranked player.The champion of this year's French Open, playing in his firsttournament since losing in the fourth round at Wimbledon, ...
COACH WAS RIGHT: LOOK YOUR BEST, PLAY YOUR BEST
Aug 01, 1989; ... Do clothes matter when you are closing a sale, selling a stock,representing your client in court? When the business deal is a bigone, do you reach for the special "power" clothes in your closet,or will any old thing do? Many Boston men and women say they indeed have ...
LEADING THE BATTLE FOR ABUSED WOMEN
Aug 01, 1989; ... Joan Stiles last week led 150 women to the State House towarn that cutting funds for battered women's shelters is a matterof life and death.Stiles, 36, is a quiet woman not given to histrionics. She hadnever before led a demonstration, had microphones thrust in herface, ...
STONES TICKET SALES BREAK RECORD
Aug 01, 1989; ... Yesterday at 4:41 p.m. the Rolling Stones broke a record:The group sold out an unprecedented three shows in one day atSullivan Stadium in Foxborough this fall, beating the Who'stwo-shows-in-a-day mark. Sullivan Stadium was the first location onthe tour to sell out all its shows in ...
WHERE LAUGHTER AND ANXIETY MEET
Aug 01, 1989; ... DAMON WAYANS -- At the Paradise Theater, Saturday night,second set. It's not difficult to spot comedian Damon Wayans' main source:Richard Pryor. There are similar portrayals of ineffectual whitepeople; there are similar takes on gritty street life; there ...
FROM TOPLESS MODEL TO TOP POP SINGER
Aug 01, 1989; ... HYANNIS - "I'm not really bothered about being taken seriously,because at the moment I don't want to be serious," says pop singerand former model Samantha Fox, backstage after a concert at theCape Cod Melody Tent Sunday."Every time I'm interviewed by women, you always get, ...
THE NUTTY PHILOSOPHER-COMIC
Aug 01, 1989; ... We don't find that many occasions to keep you up to date on DeanMartin's old sidekick. But in a press conference in Barcelona,Spain, on Sunday, Jerry Lewis showed once again why his brand ofhumor has led the French to celebrate him as the most profoundfunny man of them all. Lewis was ...
ENDING FIGHTS WITH DAD
Aug 01, 1989 ... Dear Beth:My father and I get in big arguments every couple of months.One of us will say something wrong, and then it starts. He alwaysrearranges what I say and makes me out to be the bad one. What canI do to get him to see things from my level? -- Help With Anger...
THOREAU'S MYSTERIOUS 'SISTER'
Aug 01, 1989; ... Everybody knows that Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreauhad a falling out of sorts. What had been a legendary literaryfriendship cooled sometime during the late 1840s, and becameinstead a classic study in gentle intergenerational antagonism --of special relevance to America during ...
REPORTED KILLED
Aug 01, 1989 ... Picture from videotape (left) is said to show US Marine Lt. Col.William R. Higgins ...
THREATENED
Aug 01, 1989 ... US hostage Joseph James Cicippio (below) could face executiontoday. ...
ONCE-SHABBY FRANKLIN PARK REFURBISHED TO A TEE GOLF COURSE REOPENS TODAY
Aug 01, 1989; ... Celebrity golfers will play today on the trimmed grass ofthe Franklin Park Golf Course, where abandoned cars and dead dogsonce lay, marking the official opening of the renovated 18-holecourse as well as the renaissance of a park once considered theplaying field of thieves....
FOOTBRIDGE DAMAGED
Aug 01, 1989 ... Metropolitan District Commission inspectors check the damage tothe Monsignor Finn Footbridge over Storrow Drive when it was struckby a tractor trailer at about 9:05 yesterday morning ....
CHANGES IN PROPOSITION 2 1/2 ARE SEEN AS UNLIKELY
Aug 01, 1989; ... While Gov. Dukakis is reportedly committed to establishing abusiness-led task force on local-government financing that has a"completely open agenda," observers say the task force's review ofcity and town revenue is unlikely to result in changes inProposition 2 1/2 given the current ...
GOP-LED GROUP TO SEEK 2-TERM LIMIT ON STATE OFFICES
Aug 01, 1989; ...prepare this article A Republican-led group plans to seek a state constitutionalamendment that would limit the governor, all constitutionalofficers, the House speaker and Senate president to two consecutiveterms in office.Contending that entrenched Democratic ...
SALEM TENANTS DISRUPT BUILDINGS AUCTION PREVENTS SOME SALES
Aug 01, 1989; ... SALEM - More than 200 apartment tenants who fear rentincreases disrupted a foreclosure auction of eight propertiesyesterday by clapping, jeering and chanting "no more slumlords" asan auctioneer tried to take bids.The tenants, joined by homeless people and ...
FREE WHEELIN'
Aug 01, 1989 ... Scott Anglin does a flip off a boat ramp at the Landing in SouthBoston into Pleasure ...
INTERIOR MINISTER JAILED
Aug 01, 1989 ... Interior minister Jose Abrantes Fernandez (left), shown withCuban President Fidel Castro, has been jailed for corruption, alongwith four other persons, the Cuban news agency Prensa ...
MINI ATTRACTION
Aug 01, 1989 ... The yacht Monkey Business, which reportedly sails into FalmouthHarbor once a summer, has become a tourist attraction. Part of theyacht's history involves Gary Hart, whose 1988 presidential ...
MINISTER NOMINATED FOR PREMIER IN POLAND
Aug 01, 1989; ... WARSAW - Poland's Communist Party yesterday named Gen.Czeslaw Kiszczak, the Cabinet minister who negotiated Solidarity'slegalization, as its candidate to lead the next government as primeminister. Shoppers braced for soaring food costs scheduled to begintoday under a plan ...
ANGRY PRESIDENT WEIGHS ALTERNATIVES
Aug 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - President Bush cut short a cross-country tripyesterday to return to the White House and deal with the largestforeign policy crisis of his administration, the reported executionof Marine Lt. Col. William R. Higgins in Lebanon. After two hoursof meetings last night with ...
CALIFORNIA FIRE
Aug 01, 1989 ... A firefighter puts out flames during mop-up operations inAuberry, Calif., yesterday in a fire that burned seven homes andforced the evacuation of 2,500 people. A 1,000-acre ...