The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from February 1990:
RED LORRY, YELLOW LORRY BLOW BEGGARS BANQUET/RCA
Feb 01, 1990; ... For years, Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry was tagged as the poor man'sJoy Division, a major pain in the neck to the Lorries especiallyconsidering JD's abrupt exit and the Lorries continuing existence.But the yoke remained. For good reason. The snarling, swirling,despairing doom 'n' gloom ocean ...
WELD AD IS HIT BY DUKAKIS ADMINISTRATION
Feb 01, 1990; ... The Dukakis administration says that a new radio ad byRepublican gubernatorial candidate William Weld is misleading, butWeld's campaign stood by the figures.In the ad, entitled "Death Budget," Weld derides Gov.Dukakis' contention that people will die if the state spends ...
'A NEW WORLD OF CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES'
Feb 01, 1990; ... WASHINGTON - Following are excerpts from President Bush's Stateof the Union address Wednesday night: Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, members of the United StatesCongress: I return as a former President of the Senate, and formermember of this great House. Now, as President, it is my ...
THE HAZARDOUS WASTE PROCESS
Feb 01, 1990 ... Massachusetts is the fourth largest generator of hazardouswaste in the United States and has the worst toxic balance-of-trade(ratio of waste shipped out for treatment in other states).While the state has some small on-site treatment facilities(mainly for medical wastes), ...
FREE THROW FOR AN UNDERDOG
Feb 01, 1990 ... Paul McCarthy, a cable television consultant from Lynnfield,announced his candidacy for statewide office yesterday, saying,"The next secretary of state can play an instrumental role inrestoring a pro-business climate."This is ordinarily minor political news, but the ...
AUDACIOUS BALTIC PEACEMAKERS
Feb 01, 1990 ... With their attempt to mediate the conflict between Armeniaand Azerbaijan, the popular fronts of Latvia, Lithuania and Estoniahave fashioned a dramatic illustration of their devotion topeaceful methods. At the same time, the Baltic independencemovements are acting as though the ...
ENCOURAGING SIGNS IN ULSTER
Feb 01, 1990 ... A thaw seems to be taking place in the icy relations betweenpolitical and religious factions in Northern Ireland. Lest thefragile improvement be dealt a setback, any easing of thelong-standing and bitter tension is spoken of guardedly.Nonetheless, the prospect of more ...
A DAZZLING PITCH FOR A COSTLY BUDGET FRAUD
Feb 01, 1990; ... Watch my hands closely, boys and girls, because in Uncle Sam'sfederal budget shell game, you only see it once a year.Start with an easy one. That $25 whatzzit our president wantsto hang on your boat is not a tax; it's, well, it's just for adecal. Just keep telling yourself, "Read ...
A SILBER THREAT TO SILBER
Feb 01, 1990; ... John Silber accuses his rival candidates of speaking "plastic."But Silber has been speaking plastique -- his rhetoricexplodes in his face.The two-week-old politician wears his powder burns withbravado, however, and has clearly survived to campaign another day.A ...
THE OLD NEIGHBOR
Feb 01, 1990; ... SOUTH WEYMOUTH - After all the years of rumors and false alarms,orders have come down from Washington to close the Naval AirStation. As a neighbor for the past 20 years, I will miss the base. There is the sight of a Skyhawk fighter coming in just overthe trees that I will miss, as ...
BUSH PROPOSES DEEPER TROOP CUTS STATE OF UNION TALK A REFLECTION OF THE PUBLIC MOOD
Feb 01, 1990; ... WASHINGTON - President Bush demonstrated in his State of theUnion address last night that he is a president for his times, amirror of the American public that elected him and approves of himso heartily. Like them, Bush came across as alarmed by America'sslippage in a fiercely competitive ...
BANK OF N.E. OUSTS 4 MORE EXECUTIVES BOSTON CHAIRMAN IS ASKED TO DEPART
Feb 01, 1990; ... The housecleaning in the executive suites at the troubledBank of New England Corp. continued yesterday as four topexecutives were shown the door.The bank said the chairman of its Boston bank, Richard D.Driscoll, who has spent 33 years with the corporation, resigned atthe ...
BELLOTTI, FLYNN OUTDISTANCE MURPHY IN PRIMARY POLL
Feb 01, 1990; ... Burdened by a reputation as a liberal Dukakis administrationinsider, Lt. Gov. Evelyn Murphy is running far behind formerAttorney General Francis X. Bellotti in the Democraticgubernatorial race, while most voters see "some merit" in JohnSilber's controversial comments about immigrants on ...
IN SOUTH AFRICA, FUTURE IS AT STAKE
Feb 01, 1990; ... JOHANNESBURG - The lions are at the gate for South AfricanPresident F. W. de Klerk. In less than 24 hours, the world willknow how he handled them.The president is to address Parliament tomorrow in Cape Town,in a speech that will be the most important of his ...
WILSON EYES CUTS IN STAFF, PROGRAMS
Feb 01, 1990; ... Boston School Superintendent Laval S. Wilson releasedbudget-cutting proposals yesterday that would eliminate dropoutprevention programs and pre-kindergarten, lay off hundreds ofteachers and halve the school police force and school sportsprograms.Wilson's report to the ...
STUART REPORTEDLY BOUGHT $100,000 POLICY ON HIS WIFE
Feb 01, 1990; ... Charles Stuart obtained a $100,000 life insurance policy on hiswife through American Express in the weeks before he apparentlykilled her and shot himself, sources close to the case confirmedyesterday.The existence of the American Express policy, first reportedby WBZ-TV (Ch. 4) ...
RESEARCHERS LINK ENZYME TO BREAST CANCER RELAPSE RATE
Feb 01, 1990; ... An enzyme shows promise in distinguishing which breastcancer patients might have a recurrence of the disease, adevelopment that could improve treatment if the promise holds up, anew study indicates.The report in today's New England Journal of Medicine saysresearchers found ...
EX-GOVERNOR COMMITS SUICIDE
Feb 01, 1990 ... Paramedics carry Ricardo Bordallo, 62, to an ambulance yesterdayafter the former governor of Guam shot himself in the head in thecapital of Agana yesterday, ...
CORRECTION
Feb 01, 1990 ... CORRECTION: Because of a reporting error, the head of the Sovietconsular mission to Israel was incorrectly identified in ...
ANOTHER TEMPEST IN A COFFEE CUP?
Feb 01, 1990; ... Is yet another caffeine controversy brewing?At least one study of 104 women reported that those who drankmore than a cup of coffee a day had 50 percent lower conceptionrates than those who had less caffeine.Not to worry, if a study of 2,817 fertile women in the ...
NEW CHEMICALS SHOW PROMISE AGAINST HIV
Feb 01, 1990; ... At least in the test tube, a new class of chemicals appears to bemore effective against HIV-1, the main virus that causes AIDS, andthousands of times less toxic to cells than AZT, the only drugfederally approved to fight the virus.A study in today's issue of the British journal ...
HYPERTENSION DRUG COULD PROTECT HIPS
Feb 01, 1990; ... Two major problems facing the elderly - high blood pressure andhip fracture -- may be addressed by the use of a single kind ofmedicine, the common hypertension drugs known as thiazide diuretics.In today's New England Journal of Medicine, a study of ...
SCREENING COULD BRING CYSTIC FIBROSIS TO HEEL
Feb 01, 1990; ... The recent discovery of the cystic fibrosis gene has createdvisions of a brave new world, one where medicine could possiblyprevent or even treat this disease that fills lungs with a thickmucus until patients succumb to fatal infections.In today's New England Journal of Medicine, ...
35 REPORTED DEAD IN BEIRUT ATTACK
Feb 01, 1990; ... BEIRUT - Gen. Michel Aoun's soldiers attacked the LebaneseForces militia yesterday to try to gain full control of theChristian zone. Police reported scores of casualties, and a nursedescribed a morgue "packed" with bodies. Police said at least 35persons were killed and 85 wounded in ...
NAMIBIA BECOMES NATION MARCH 21
Feb 01, 1990; ... WINDHOEK, Namibia - The Constituent Assembly voted unanimouslyyesterday to set March 21 as independence day, when 75 years ofSouth African rule will end for Africa's last colony. Leaders ofthe South-West Africa People's Organization, ...
PRISON CHIEF QUITS IN CHILE
Feb 01, 1990; ... SANTIAGO, Chile - The chief of the nation's prisons quityesterday after the ecape of 49 leftist guerrillas who spent a yearsecretly tunneling their way to freedom. Six were captured shortlyafter they fled Tuesday, but police continued to search for the 43others, who ...
SENATE PANEL STALLS NOMINATION OF ASSISTANT ENERGY SECRETARY
Feb 01, 1990; ... WASHINGTON - The Senate Armed Services Committee yesterdayindefinitely stalled Victor Stello Jr.'s nomination to beassistant secretary of energy after learning that Stello is beinginvestigated by the inspector general of the Nuclear RegulatoryCommission. In a joint ...
STUART FUND AT $104,000
Feb 01, 1990; ... Members of Carol DiMaiti Stuart's family said yesterday thatcontributions to the foundation they established last week in hermemory had reached $104,000 by last night."We are touched by the outpouring of warmth and generosityfrom the many good people throughout New England ...
DEMOCRATS PRAISE CALL FOR TROOP CUTS, ASSAIL BUDGET
Feb 01, 1990; ... WASHINGTON - Democratic leaders last night praised PresidentBush's surprise call for more troop reductions, saying itreinforced their primary complaint about Bush's budget: thatPentagon spending should be substantially reduced instead ofincreased, as Bush proposed earlier this ...
COUPLE STAY A STEP AHEAD OF POLICE IN 5 STATES
Feb 01, 1990; ... Ellen Marks and Edward Aranjo sat calmly in a car outsidePioppi's Liquors in Plymouth Tuesday, apparently oblivious topolice hot on their trail for allegedly pulling off a string of 33armed robberies in five states since December.Marks, 50, and Aranjo, 46, seemed to be more ...
A SORRY STATE OF BAD ATTITUDE
Feb 01, 1990; ... People hate government for a lot of reasons. One reason, ofcourse, is money. The average taxpayer feels squeezed and knowsfrom common sense and minimal powers of observation that thegovernor, a total dweeb, spent a ton of public cash between 1984and 1988 trying to pass himself off as a ...
DORCHESTER MAN BADLY BEATEN WITH ROCKS
Feb 01, 1990; ... A Dorchester man was in critical condition last night after beingsavagely beaten with rocks and robbed while making his way homefrom a neighborhood grocery.George Georgeff, about 40, of Juliette Street, was attacked atthe edge of Ronan Park near Fields Corner. He was being treated ...
STATE PLANS TO MAKE EARLY TESTING FOR HIV A POLICY PRIORITY
Feb 01, 1990; ... To take advantage of medical advances prolonging the livesof AIDS patients, the state Department of Public Health plans tourge physicians and health providers to determine which patientsmay be at risk for the HIV virus, which can cause AIDS, andencourage them to be tested....
KING MAKES IT IN FLORIDA
Feb 01, 1990; ... Former Gov. Edward J. King, who made "Make it inMassachusetts" his slogan and who as recently as last October wascontemplating running for governor again, has changed his legalresidence from Massachusetts to Florida. Jim Kerasiotes, a former King administration official ...
SUBPOENA HOAX TURNS COURTHOUSE INTO MADHOUSE
Feb 01, 1990; ... It's amazing what can be done with a copying machine thesedays.You can copy works of art. You can copy dollar bills ascounterfeit. And as some befuddled Boston residents discoveredyesterday, you can even copy a subpoena.An unknown prankster apparently delivered ...
WALKING THE DOG
Feb 01, 1990 ... A boy and his dog walk by the imposing ramparts of Castle Islandin South Boston, ...
DUKAKIS NAILS BUSH FOR POLITICKING ON HARBOR THEN IGNORING IT
Feb 01, 1990; ... Gov. Dukakis yesterday blasted President Bush for failing tobudget money for the Boston Harbor cleanup after scoring majorpolitical points on the dirty harbor during the 1988 presidentialcampaign.Campaign attacks against the governor for delaying thecleanup were a ...
FIGHTING WORDS FROM KERRY
Feb 01, 1990; ... A new brochure for US Sen. John Kerry gives a hint at the themesthe senator will use in his reelection bid. "On the fighting edge,"says large black letters on a plain white cover. Open the 12-pagebooklet, and there is a full-size picture of Kerry gesturing asthough making a point at a ...
HE'S BORN TO RUN -- CRISIS OR NOT
Feb 01, 1990; ... Even though the budget crisis is far from being resolved, HouseSpeaker George Keverian is pushing ahead with his campaign fortreasurer and plans to announce his candidacy within the nextthree weeks.Keverian postponed his original announcement, scheduled forNov. 25, because of ...
A FAMILY FUSS ABOUT FINANCES
Feb 01, 1990; ... Sen. David Locke (R-Sherborn), a sharp critic of how the state'sDemocrats have managed the state's money, is taking some heathimself these days for his handling of funds of a family trust.Several beneficiaries of the so-called Lee Family Trust tookLocke to court this week, charging ...
BEATING UP ON BEANTOWN
Feb 01, 1990; ... Of all the bad press heaped on Boston as a result of the CarolStuart murder case, perhaps none tops a story in a recent editionof The Nation penned by Andrew Kopkind, who once worked for thenow-defunct Cambridge Real Paper.In this exceptionally vitriolic treatise on the Stuart ...
A STRAIGHT SHOT WITH ONE BULLET
Feb 01, 1990; ... In his book "Straight Shooting," Boston University presidentSilber wanders off-campus and into the realm of geopoliticalbig-think. In a chapter titled the "Illusion of Peace," Silberrails against the INF treaty and warns that glasnost andperestroika may be little more than a modern-day ...
WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND
Feb 01, 1990; ... When democratic gubernatorial candidate John Silber came underfire for his remarks about welfare and immigrants last week, hispress secretary, Michal Regunberg, found herself in a painfullyironic situation.Until a few weeks ago, Regunberg had been the spokeswoman forthe state ...
LYNNFIELD BUSINESSMAN DECLARES GOP BID FOR SECRETARY OF STATE
Feb 01, 1990; ... Defying party leaders who want to run a former Celticplayer for secretary of state, Paul McCarthy, a Lynnfieldbusinessman, yesterday formally launched his bid for the Republicannomination for the job and vowed to drive Democratic incumbentMichael Connolly "crazy."At a ...
2-YEAR-OLD CRITICAL AFTER HEART ATTACK
Feb 01, 1990; ... A 2-year-old Mission Hill girl who officials say suffered aheart attack Tuesday, possibly after being abused, remained incritical condition last night at Children's Hospital.Yasinia (Dacey) Rivera, who was in her Lawn Street home withone of her sisters and her mother's ...
WORKERS FEAR BUDGET CUTBACKS WILL HURT PRENATAL, INFANT CARE
Feb 01, 1990; ... For those on the front lines battling the rise in infantmortality in Massachusetts, the latest round of budget cuts means adaily struggle not to lose ground and not to lose hope.They fear that the already wide gap between the death rates ofblack and white babies will grow ...
SIERRA CLUB THREATENS SUIT OVER NEW ARTERY AIR QUALITY
Feb 01, 1990; ... The New England chapter of the Sierra Club yesterday said itwill go to court to stop the proposed $4.4 billion CentralArtery-third harbor tunnel project unless the state launches an airquality review of the vehicle emissions discharged from sevenventilation buildings....
BCH CLINIC OPENS FOR CHILDREN WITH VIRUS
Feb 01, 1990; ... In the corner is a rocking horse. Across the bright room,blocks are stacked on a shelf with other toys. Watercolorpaintings hang on the walls.It looks like any other day-care center.But on the fifth floor of Boston City Hospital's DowlingBuilding, the children are ...
BOSTON OFFICER IS ORDERED REINSTATED
Feb 01, 1990; ... The state Civil Service Commission yesterday reversed theBoston Police Department's 1989 firing of Officer Deborah Gibson,and ordered her reinstated to active duty without loss of pay.Gibson had been fired for allegedly using excessive force insubduing a prisoner who had ...
THOMAS QUINLAN, 72 WAS GOVERNMENT MORTAGE OFFICIAL
Feb 01, 1990 ... Thomas J. Quinlan, a Navy veteran and former mortgageofficial for the Veterans Administration, died Tuesday at St.John's Hospital in Lowell. He was 72.A lifelong resident of Lowell, Mr. Quinlan was aboard one ofthe few ships that was not destroyed during the attack on ...
KATHERINE T. BENNETT MANAGED HICKS' OFFICE
Feb 01, 1990 ... Katherine T. (McSweeney) Bennett, manager of Louise DayHicks' Boston office during Mrs. Hicks' term in Congress in1971-72, died of a heart attack Sunday at her home in DorchesterLower Mills. She was 53.Mrs. Bennett, a bridesmaid at Mrs. Hicks' wedding and avolunteer ...
PETER R. BLUM, 36 VICE PRESIDENT OF BOX COMPANY
Feb 01, 1990 ... Services will be held at noon today in the StanetskyMemorial Chapels in Brookline for Peter R. Blum of Sherborn, vicepresident and sales manager for the Sterling Corrugated Box Co. ofReadville.Mr. Blum died Tuesday in an automobile accident in Taunton. Hewas 36.A ...
WILLIAM MCGONAGLE, 77 RETIRED STATE STREET BANK OFFICER
Feb 01, 1990 ... William Francis McGonagle, a retired assistant vicepresident of the State Street Bank & Trust Co., died of bladdercancer Tuesday at his home in Hollis, Maine. He was 77.Mr. McGonagle, a resident of Lexington for 28 years, retiredin 1975 after 30 years with the bank and ...
JOHN MEE, 80 RETIRED BOSTON POLICE SERGEANT
Feb 01, 1990 ... John Mee of Brighton, a retired sergeant in the BostonPolice Department, died yesterday at St. Elizabeth's Hospital ofcomplications from a fall. He was 80.Mr. Mee joined the Boston force in 1946, served in theCharlestown, Hyde Park and Brighton stations and was promoted ...
RUSSELL WILLIAMSON SURGEON WHO RAN MAINE HOSPITAL
Feb 01, 1990 ... Dr. Russell G. Williamson, a surgeon who practiced in BlueHill, Maine, from 1957 to 1980, died Friday in Good SamaritanHospital, West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 64 and lived in North PalmBeach and in Blue Hill.Dr. Williamson was administrator of the 25-bed Blue HillMemorial ...
J. MARTIN WOODALL, 90 RETIRED HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRIST
Feb 01, 1990 ... Dr. J. Martin Woodall, a psychiatrist who was medicaldirector of Adams Nervine Hospital in Boston from 1935 until 1966,died Jan. 17 at his home in Jamaica Plain. He was 90.The hospital, built in 1877 in Jamaica Plain for treatment ofemotional disorders, became part of ...
13 BOSTON BANKS PLEDGE $237M TO REINVESTMENT
Feb 01, 1990; ... Thirteen Boston banks pledged more than $237 million inspecific commitments yesterday toward a reinvestment plan for thecity's minority neighborhoods and low-to-moderate income homebuyers.The pledges included $31 million to a pool for below-marketmortgages, with Bank of ...
BOSTON PANEL'S POLICY JEOPARDIZES FUNDS, HUD OFFICIAL SAYS
Feb 01, 1990; ... The Boston Fair Housing Commission is jeopardizing more than$335,000 in federal funding by not accepting new complaints onhousing discrimination, an official with the US Department ofHousing and Urban Develpment said yesterday.The commission's policy to turn away most ...
DUKAKIS OFFERS HELP TO CHINESE STUDENTS
Feb 01, 1990; ... Gov. Dukakis yesterday offered support to Chinese studentswho are worried about their status in the United States. Thestudents were active in China's failed democracy movement last yearand are studying at local colleges.The US Senate this week failed to override a ...
VILNA SHUL LOSES ITS LANDMARK STATUS
Feb 01, 1990; ... The Vilna Shul lost its landmark status yesterday becauseCity Councilor Brian McLaughlin (Brighton), who would have cast thekey vote, was delayed in New Hampshire by car trouble."I think I flooded it when I put it in reverse," saidMcLaughlin, after returning to City Hall ...
CONVICT WANTS HIS GUILTY PLEA WITHDRAWN, CHARGES THROWN OUT IN BOSTON ARSON CASE
Feb 01, 1990; ... A former Boston Housing Authority police sergeant testifiedyesterday that he pleaded guilty to 22 arson indictments in statecourt six years ago without knowing that immunized statements heprovided to federal investigators allegedly were used to obtain theindictments.Gregg ...
MAN FOUND FATALLY SHOT ON DORCHESTER STREET PLYMOUTH RESIDENT WAS SLUMPED IN VAN
Feb 01, 1990; ... Richard A. Cloustring had purchased the steaks he wanted fordinner and planned a night out with his wife when he left a Saugusrestaurant around 7 p.m. Tuesday for his home in Plymouth.He never made it.The body of the 30-year-old father of three was found slumpedin ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Feb 01, 1990 ... Q. Shouldn't 'Go Slow" road signs read "Go Slowly"? A.R., BostonA. Theodore M. Bernstein, in his "Miss Thistlebottom'sHobgoblins" (Simon and Schuster, New York 1971), a guide to some ofthe rules of English usage, says, "It is true that '-ly' is used tomake adverbs out ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Feb 01, 1990 ... Q. Where can I get replacement tiles for my Scrabble game?B.C., BostonA. A spokeswoman for Milton Bradley Co., which now makes thepopular word game, says the company has replacement tiles for someversions of the game. Scrabble has been through a number ofcorporate hands ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Feb 01, 1990 ... Q. Can you tell me when and under what circumstances authorJames Kirkwood died? L.G., BrocktonA. According to the Associated Press, Kirkwood, a successfulnovelist, actor and playwright, and co-author of the book for therecord-breaking Broadway musical, "A Chorus Line," ...