The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from September 1989:
GLOBE HANDYMAN ON CALL
Sep 01, 1989; ... Q. When I painted a room I thought I did everything right. Istripped the paper, washed off all the old glue and shards ofpaper, then painted the walls with latex wall paint. But now thepaint is cracking -- alligatoring, actually, showing up as littlespider webs of cracks. What did I do ...
THE COLOR GREEN
Sep 01, 1989; ... Film director Steven Spielberg doesn't hide the checkbook when itcomes to special effects, and he's apparently not too shabby in histreatment of actors either. A few weeks ago, he thought he'dwrapped up "Always," his remake of 1943's "A Guy Named Joe" (aclunker despite a cast that included ...
MOHAWK GROWS
Sep 01, 1989; ... The Mohawk Guild, a nascent nonprofit organization out in NorthAdams, hopes to transform the city's Mohawk Theater into acommunity-based performance center, and they've enlisted OlympiaDukakis to help. The actress, who won an Oscar for her role in themovie "Moonstruck," toured the theater ...
ALEC BALDWIN POISED FOR STARDOM
Sep 01, 1989; ... LOS ANGELES - As Alec Baldwin explains it, his has been a"blink-and-you've-missed-him" movie career. Take, for example, his small but juicy role last year asMichelle Pfeiffer's husband, Frankie "The Cucumber" DeMarco, inJonathen Demme's "Married to the Mob." The critics ...
TROOPER FACES RAPE, ASSAULT CHARGES
Sep 01, 1989 ... CAMBRIDGE - A State Police trooper was indicted yesterday oncharges of raping one motorist he had stopped on the MassachusettsTurnpike and trying to get sexual favors from a second. RobertMonteiro, 25, of Wilmington, who joined the State Police in June1987, is charged with raping and ...
TEHRAN'S UNCHANGING TERMS
Sep 01, 1989 ... The Bush administration has displayed a keen desire not torepeat the blunder made by the Reagan administration when it triedto trade favors to Tehran in exchange for American hostages held inLebanon. Yet the arrest of an Iranian opposition figure at LosAngeles International Airport ...
RENDEZVOUS WITH HORROR
Sep 01, 1989 ... Wars are all alike in beginning complacently. The reason ispsychological and compensatory: no one wants to foresee orcontemplate the horror, the inevitable ruin of civilized usages,which war will entail. -- Paul Fussell, WartimeThe war launched 50 years ago today by Adolf ...
CARING AT CITY HALL
Sep 01, 1989 ... When Mayor Flynn approved creating a child-care center onthe premises at Boston City Hall -- the first to be so sited in thenation -- there was no need to conduct a survey to see if cityemployees really needed it. In all of downtown Boston, there arefewer than 90 other slots for ...
PROSECUTION RULED OUT IN CADET DEATH
Sep 01, 1989; ... Attorney General James M. Shannon yesterday blamed "stategovernment at its worst" for killing a Pittsfield police recruitlast year, but concluded that state law does not allow him to seekcriminal punishment of individual state officials.In deciding not to seek indictments ...
A MERCILESS FINAL VERDICT ON THE STREETS
Sep 01, 1989; ... Jimmy Carle laughed at adversity. He was bad. He was down.He was an O.G., an "original gangster," with the notorious CorbetStreet Crew in Mattapan.When they hooked Jimmy on a murder rap a few years ago, helaughed. "Ain't got no case, man," Jimmy said. He was right....
STUDY FINDS RACIAL PATTERN IN LENDING INEQUITIES CITED FOR CITY'S BLACKS
Sep 01, 1989; ... Boston's black neighborhoods are suffering from a raciallyskewed pattern of lending by banks, thrifts and mortgage companies,and as a result are not getting a fair share of home mortgages,according to a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston study releasedyesterday.Lenders are ...
STATE ISSUES NEW RULES ON INSURERS' AIDS TESTS
Sep 01, 1989; ... State officials yesterday announced new regulations thatgovern AIDS testing by insurance companies, including arequirement that the companies get written permission beforetesting can be done for any kind of insurance -- health, life ordisability.The regulations, issued by ...
POLES RECOUNT THE TERROR 50 YEARS AGO TODAY, WWII BEGAN
Sep 01, 1989; ... WARSAW - Like thousands of other Poles in uniform 50 yearsago this morning, Roman Grzybowski was posted along the Germanborder, and he was afraid."On the first of September, we were awakened by planes andshots," recalled Grzybowski, now 75, who was a second lieutenant ...
CORRECTION
Sep 01, 1989 ... CORRECTION: Because of a reporting error, yesterday's Calendarpublished the wrong date for a reading by author Tracy Kidder atthe Boston ...
NO RISE IN CANCER SEEN IN DEPRESSED PEOPLE
Sep 01, 1989; ... Being depressed does not appear to increase your chances ofgetting cancer, according to a 10-year study of more than 6,000 menand women that contradicts some earlier findings that depressedpeople are at higher risk.For years, anecdotal reports and smaller, less ...
BRIDGE FALLS; 14 HURT
Sep 01, 1989 ... The wreckage of a partially constructed bridge lies on theBaltimore-Washington Parkway in Laurel, Md., yesterday after itcollapsed during the morning rush hour, trapping motorists beneathdebris. Fourteen persons, including nine construction workers, wereinjured. Investigators were ...
US LAUNCHES PROBE INTO MISSING TRITIUM
Sep 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - The Energy Department and the NuclearRegulatory Commission are investigating at least four reports ofmissing tritium, the hydrogen gas crucial to making a hydrogen bomb.For years, the Oak Ridge Laboratory in Tennessee, the onlyplant in the country that packages ...
SCIENTISTS PRODUCE MICE CAPABLE OF CREATING HUMAN HEMOGLOBIN
Sep 01, 1989; ... In a development that opens new avenues for research onsickle cell anemia and other blood diseases, scientists havecreated laboratory mice whose blood cells make human hemoglobin,the protein that carries oxygen throughout the body.Accomplishing a feat that had eluded ...
BUSH, MULRONEY SAY THEY BACK COLOMBIA
Sep 01, 1989; ... KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine - President Bush and Prime MinisterBrian Mulroney of Canada, at a joint news conference yesterday,both expressed support for Colombia's effort to crack down on itsviolent drug cartels.Bush also said he would embrace international efforts to ...
US ACCUSES NORIEGA OF POCKETING $300M
Sep 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - Assistant Secretary of State LawrenceEagleburger, responding to a challenge by Panama to prove that Gen.Manuel Antonio Noriega is volved in drug trafficking, yesterdayaccused the military leader of pocketing up to $300 million forprotecting Colombian drug lords and ...
MAN HELD IN 1977 HAVERHILL KILLING
Sep 01, 1989; ...preparation of this story. HAVERHILL - When Gary Lee Colby last saw Haverhill it was 1977and the city was reeling from the Easter Saturday bludgeoningmurder of Beverly Autiello, a 30-year-old widow.Yesterday Colby returned in handcuffs, accompanied by twoinvestigators ...
DUKAKIS LOOKS FOR NEW SAVINGS REVENUES SAID TO LAG; PLAN WOULD TAP $120M
Sep 01, 1989; ... With last month's tax revenues reportedly coming in about$30 million below expectations, the Dukakis administration ispreparing a revenue and savings package that relies heavily onfees, unclaimed bottle and can deposits and higher contributions bygovernment employees for their ...
CARDINAL LAW ASKS NUNS AT AUSCHWITZ TO RELOCATE
Sep 01, 1989; ... In a letter that some American Jewish leaders say couldbreak a bitter deadlock in Catholic-Jewish relations, CardinalBernard F. Law yesterday appealed to Polish nuns to move theirconvent from the edge of the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz."Old fears and bitter memories ...
DEFLATING THE POSITIVE
Sep 01, 1989; ... Todd Maxwell and Tshombe Core spend much of their free timepleading with teen-agers to halt their self-destruction. They arerappers in a Dorchester quintet called Young Nation. In one rap,Young Nation says: "Too many people in this world today try to establishthemselves in a ...
JAPANESE LEADER'S PLIMOTH VISIT SENDS PILGRIM VILLAGE INTO A TIZZY
Sep 01, 1989; ... PLYMOUTH - The Secret Service agent was less than pleasedwhen he learned there were no telephones in the PlimothPlantation's 17th-century village. And by the way, he was told, theroads are barely passable, and there is no electricity, either. As one federal agent laments, ...
BUS UNION: TOUGH FROM ITS BIRTH
Sep 01, 1989; ... It is a union that was born out of controversy, and 11 yearslater its reputation for stridency and even militancy has notchanged.If anything, the image of the union that represents Boston'snearly 800 school bus drivers has gotten worse over the yearsfollowing a string of ...
CAMBRIDGE BLAZE
Sep 01, 1989 ... A firefighter battles flames at the roof of a two-story brickbuilding on Green Street in Cambridge at about 3:30 ...
PILGRIM PLANT FORCED TO SHUT FOR 11TH TIME SINCE RESTART
Sep 01, 1989; ... The Pilgrim nuclear plant was forced to shut Wednesdaynight because of troubles with electrical equipment, the 11th timethe plant has closed since it began a gradual restart in December.The failure of an electrical transformer apparently causedproblems with a voltage ...
RULING ON CLUBS EASED BY ABCC
Sep 01, 1989; ... The state's Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission hasgranted a reprieve to the Combat Zone's last two striptease bars,overturning the Boston Licensing Board's revocation of their liquorlicenses and recommending suspensions instead.The commission, in decisions dated Tuesday ...
METERS ON TAXIS IN BOSTON TO TICK A LITTLE QUICKER
Sep 01, 1989; ... Taxi fares in Boston go up today for the first time in fiveyears.The cost of a two-mile trip will rise from $3.50 to $4.30. Thesix-mile trip that cost $9.10 yesterday will cost $10.70 today.The increase averages 19 percent, higher for the short tripsthat typify ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Sep 01, 1989 ... Q. I've just returned from a rafting trip in the west andwould like to arrange a similar excursion for the wives, ex-wivesor widows of Vietnam-era veterans. I've been told that I would haveto gather such a group myself, but I don't know where to turn. Canyou help me? -- D.R., ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Sep 01, 1989 ... Q. Is the word dilemma sometimes spelled dilemna, with an n?I remember spelling it that way in grammar school, but a schoolteacher friend says "no way, never." Who is right? -- R.B., EastFalmouthA. As far as we can tell, your ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Sep 01, 1989 ... Q. Where did the phrase "monkey on my back" come from? --H.S., LynnfieldA. The origin of the expression is uncertain, but Barron'sDictionary of American Idioms -- which states it means an unsolvedor nagging problem -- compares it to such earlier and time-wornphrases as "an ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Sep 01, 1989 ... Q. What is the origin of the name Kennebunk? -- V.B.,Hampton, N. H.A. A librarian at the Kennebunkport Public Library saysKennebunk is a native American word which meant "long sandbar" tothe Abenaki Indians, "long cut banks" to the Micmacs, and "stonywater place" or "long ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Sep 01, 1989 ... Q. My family and I emigrated from Ireland to New York in1959 on the SS America. What can you tell me about that ship? --V.H., BrooklineA. According to Eugene W. Smith's Passenger Ships of theWorld, the 33,532-ton, 660-foot-long liner was built in NewportNews, Va., in 1940 ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Sep 01, 1989 ... Q. There are two airports in Chicago -- O'Hare and Midway.Which is older? -- R.G., CentervilleA. Midway, 9 miles southwest of Chicago's Loop, is 28 yearsolder than O'Hare, the jet-age upstart that stripped Midway of itstitle as the world's busiest airport. Midway opened in ...
JAMES A. CRETECOS, AT 70; HEADED STATE POLICE ACADEMY SEVEN YEARS
Sep 01, 1989 ... BEDFORD - James A. Cretecos, a former commandant of theMassachusetts State Police Academy, died Wednesday at Leonard MorseHospital in Natick after a brief illness. He was 70.He was a resident of Bedford for the past 25 years.After graduating from Lynn English High ...
BRYAN SMITH; 93; WAS PRESIDENT OF LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE
Sep 01, 1989 ... Bryan E. Smith, a former president and chairman of the boardof Liberty Mutual Insurance Companies, died Wednesday at theFairport Baptist Home in Fairport, N.Y. He was 93.The former Boston businessman, who lived in Weston until fouryears ago, served on the board of governors ...
59 ANTIABORTION PROTESTERS ARRESTED ON CAPE
Sep 01, 1989; ... BARNSTABLE - Fifty-nine Operation Rescue antiabortionprotesters yesterday were arraigned in District Court here andcharged with trespassing and violation of civil rights.All entered pleas of not guilty and Judge Richard P. Kelleherreleased each on personal ...
GRAND JURY INDICTS NINE REPUTED GANG MEMBERS
Sep 01, 1989; ... A Suffolk County grand jury yesterday indicted nine reputedmembers of Boston street gangs on 16 charges ranging from attemptedmurder to theft.Among those indicted are Mervin Reese, 19, reputed leader ofthe Humboldt gang in Roxbury, and Steven Howard, 17, a reputedmember of ...
MURPHY, BELLOTTI BACK ABORTION LANGUAGE
Sep 01, 1989; ... A coalition of abortion rights activists yesterday honed inon specific language for an amendment to the state constitutionthat would ensure a woman's right to abortion in the first 24 weeksof her pregnancy.The proposed amendment occupies a political middle groundbetween a ...
BILL WOULD FOREVER BAN WELFARE TO ILLEGAL ALIENS
Sep 01, 1989; ... Senate Republican leader David H. Locke yesterday filedlegislation that would make permanent a new Dukakis administrationpolicy prohibiting illegal aliens from receiving state welfarebenefits."Common sense dictates that state benefits, paid for by statetaxpayers, should be ...
O'REILLY SAYS SCHOOLS SHOULD EXPECT A STRIKE
Sep 01, 1989; ... Despite a move by public school bus drivers to delay astrike vote for 11 days, Boston School Committee President ThomasO'Reilly said yesterday the school system should operate on theassumption that the drivers will eventually vote to walk out."They've used this tactic before ...
BUILDING, TOURISM ARE DOWN IN VT.
Sep 01, 1989; ... MONTPELIER, Vt. - Construction, real estate sales andtourism are down, further indications of a softening Vermonteconomy and the need for cuts in state spending, Gov. MadeleineKunin said yesterday. The governor said economic indicators providenew evidence of the need ...
BOSTON BANKERS SAY STUDY WILL SPUR REFORMS IN LENDING
Sep 01, 1989; ... Top Boston bank executives said yesterday that the FederalReserve Bank of Boston study will serve as a catalyst for a seriesof reforms that will increase access to credit and mortgage loansin the city's predominantly black neighborhoods.The 36-page report said there was a 24 ...
LEADERS IN MINORITY COMMUNITY SAY STUDY VALIDATES SUSPICIONS
Sep 01, 1989; ... Local minority-community leaders yesterday hailed theFederal Reserve Bank of Boston study showing racial disparities inlending for home mortgages, saying it provided solid proof of whatthey had known for years.While few political leaders interviewed said they weresurprised ...
MBTA TO HOLD HEARINGS ON PLAN TO CUT BUS ROUTES
Sep 01, 1989; ... The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority yesterdaytook the first formal step toward eliminating 10 low-ridership busroutes and consolidating 14 others to save up to $1.5 million ayear in operating costs.The authority also said it was canceling subsidies for ...
CHINA OFFICIALS WARN OF FUTURE AUSTERITY
Sep 01, 1989; ... BEIJING - Vice Prime Minister Yao Yilin said yesterday thegovernment will take even tougher measures in the next three yearsto reduce inflation and restore market order. Finance Minister WangBingqian, meanwhile, predicted that China's money shortage willgrow more acute next year when more ...
DIPLOMATS GATHER FOR KHADAFY PARTY
Sep 01, 1989; ... TRIPOLI, Libya - Foreign dignitaries streamed into a freshlyrepainted Tripoli yesterday for celebrations of the 20thanniversary of the revolution led by Col. Moammar Khadafy. Today'smultimillion-dollar bash, featuring a military parade and air show,was expected to attract top officials ...
PARAGUAY SUSPENDS FOREIGN ADOPTIONS
Sep 01, 1989; ... ASUNCION, Paraguay - The Supreme Court yesterday suspended theadoptions of babies by foreigners, including a Massachusettscouple, after President Andres Rodriguez complained that the systemis run more like a business than a social service. Court PresidentJose Alberto Correa said adoptions ...
KIDNAP THE POPE, LEBANON SHEIK SAYS
Sep 01, 1989; ... BEIRUT - A pro-Iranian leader of fundamentalist Sunni Moslemswas quoted yesterday as saying Pope John Paul II should bekidnapped if he visits Lebanon's besieged Christians. Sheik SaidShaaban also recommended that President Bush and President FrancoisMitterrand of France be abducted to help ...
JOBS FOR REFUGEES
Sep 01, 1989; ...STORY IN CAPTION A board displays help-wanted ads from West German companies atthe entrance to a refugee camp for East Germans in Giessen, WestGermany. Meanwhile, Hungarian and West German officials ...
PIERCE KEEPS SIGHTS ON GOVERNOR'S JOB
Sep 01, 1989 ... After a day of being wooed by national Republican Partyleaders to take on the Bay State's junior Democratic senator nextyear, House minority leader Steven Pierce (R-Westfield) saidyesterday he is still leaning toward a run for governor.Pierce, a vocal critic of Gov. Dukakis ...
TULLY APPEARS BEFORE GRAND JURY
Sep 01, 1989 ... Convicted Lowell politician B. Joseph Tully yesterday appearedbefore a federal grand jury that is continuing to probe allegationsof corruption in that city, sources said. Prosecutors for theBoston US attorneys' office are investigating allegations thatpolice officers in Lowell could be ...
MAN HELD IN '77 DEATH OF HAVERHILL WOMAN
Sep 01, 1989; ... A Virginia man was arrested Wednesday for the 1977 murder ofa 30-year-old Haverhill woman, a spokesman for the Essex districtattorney's office said yesterday. Gary Lee Colby, 42, of Roanoke, was arrested by VirginiaState Police and charged with being a fugitive from ...
BANK, STATE DISCUSS TAX DEAL
Sep 01, 1989; ... The state Revenue Department and the Bank of Boston, whichhave been tangling over as much as $120 million in back taxes, haveentered negotiations aimed at reaching a settlement.Both sides were tight-lipped yesterday about what kind ofsettlement might emerge from the ...
9 MASS. HOSPITALS AGREE TO CUT RATES
Sep 01, 1989; ... Nine Massachusetts hospitals have agreed to cut their rates,a state agency said yesterday, just a short time after healthinsurers complained about widespread hospital overcharging. The institutions, all community hospitals, rolled back theirprices after the state's Rate ...
TURBAN RENEWAL UNRAVELS?
Sep 01, 1989; ... Pritham Singh, the once-obscure president and sole stockholder ofBoston's Great Bay Real Estate Co., was always considered aland-and-building tycoon unlike any other. The 37- year-oldhippie-turned-Sikh was one of the chief catalysts of the waterfrontredevelopment in Portland, Maine, where ...
WOMEN ACTIVISTS SAY NYNEX PLAN IS DISCRIMINATORY
Sep 01, 1989; ... Women's rights activists gathered downtown yesterday tocharge that Nynex Corp.'s contract proposal would widen the pay gapbetween men and women. And they repeated their call for arearesidents to withhold payment on their telephone bills until thestrike ends."We want to ...
NYNEX TALKS CONTINUE TODAY
Sep 01, 1989; ... Striking telephone workers emerged from a second day oftalks yesterday, disappointed at the lack of progress innegotiations to settle the nearly month-long labor dispute.At issue is who pays for medical benifits. Telephone workerswant to continue Nynex Corp.'s 20-year policy ...
UNION TO SUPPORT OFFER BY RAYTHEON
Sep 01, 1989; ... Leaders of the union representing nearly 11,000 employees ofLexington-based Raytheon Co. will recommend that they accept alast-minute contract offer from the company, averting a strike thatcould have left the state's second-largest employer withoutone-third of its local work ...
THE STONES ROCK WITH AUTHORITY
Sep 01, 1989; ...THE ROLLING STONES -- In concert with Living Colour at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia last night. PHILADELPHIA - You watch the new Rolling Stones show like a kidin a toy shop. The stage is a mind-blasting sight -- 300 feet wide,130 feet tall and 90 feet deep, an ...
SUMMER'S GRAND FINALE
Sep 01, 1989; ... Cher, Bill Cosby and Ray Charles - a triple crown of Vegasstars -- will be shooting across the local countryside this LaborDay Weekend. Even if you don't have tickets, they might be hard tomiss.Cher, whose legendary disdain for publicity and self-promotionraises questions ...
SIGNS OF NOTE IN BUSH COUNTRY DESPITE PRESIDENTIAL SPOTLIGHT, KENNEBUNKPORT IS NO HOT PROPERTY
Sep 01, 1989; ... KENNEBUNKPORT - On George Bush's exclusive ocean-frontstreet, "For Sale" signs are sprouting like ungainly weeds, but theman-made foliage is a product of economic and human forces thathave little to do with the president's presence on Ocean Avenue.In fact, some residents ...
TRANSMITTING WALDEN'S SPIRIT
Sep 01, 1989; ... WEST CONCORD - Idealism and profit making rarely arehandmaidens in our society, and in the world of commercial radio,the two impulses are assumed to be contradictory.But here on the bank of the Assabet River, a unique commercialradio station was born this week, which by its ...