The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from March 1990:
LAWYER, LOAN OFFICER CHARGED IN BRIBE PLOT INDICTMENT CITES PAYMENTS FOR LOANS
Mar 01, 1990; ... A Medford attorney and a vice president of the RocklandFederal Credit Union were arrested by FBI agents yesterday oncharges of conspiracy and bank bribery.Joseph S. Provanzano of Lynnfield and Cletus P. Thomas ofMarshfield were arrested early yesterday after the unsealing of ...
17-DAY TIRE FIRE PUT OUT IN ONTARIO
Mar 01, 1990; ... HAGERSVILLE, Ontario - Firefighters finally extinguished a blazeat a dump yesterday where 14 million old tires had burned for 17days, forcing hundreds of residents to flee from the smoky fumes,the fire chief announced. "It's out, man, it's history," said BuckSlote, chief of the volunteer ...
HAITIAN COALITION TO SHUN ELECTION
Mar 01, 1990; ... PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A major political coalition saidyesterday it will boycott elections under military ruler Lt. Gen.Prosper Avril and joined most other parties in demanding that Avrilresign. In ...
GANDHI'S PARTY SUFFERS LOSSES
Mar 01, 1990; ... NEW DELHI - The Congress Party of former Prime Minister RajivGandhi suffered heavy losses in elections for eight statelegislatures, according to early returns yesterday. Initial resultsfrom Tuesday's voting, which also was marked by violence ...
IN HISTORY PLAY, THE LESSON IS UNITY CIVIL RIGHTS DRAMA, JOINTLY PRODUCED, NURTURES BOND BETWEEN SCHOOLS
Mar 01, 1990; ... Dara Bourne walked in the shoes of Rosa Parks, and thatmeant the lively 12-year-old had to adopt the weary trudge of aseamstress 30 years her senior.With a shopping bag in one hand, Bourne boarded a make-believebus onstage at the Timilty Middle School in Roxbury to ...
MOLLIE WENTON, 103 RETIRED REGISTERED NURSE
Mar 01, 1990 ... Mollie Wenton, a registered nurse at the New England BaptistHospital from 1943 until her retirement in 1959, died yesterday atFaulkner Hospital. She was 103 and had lived in the Sophia SnowHouse, Roslindale, since 1969.She came to Boston as a young girl from her native ...
WELD-CELLUCCI FINANCES MAY BE QUESTIONED
Mar 01, 1990; ... Campaign finance officials are expected soon to release astatement that may raise questions about the financial arrangementbetween Republican gubernatorial candidate William Weld and stateSen. Paul Cellucci, a candidate for lieutenant governor and hisinformal running mate....
DIVERSITY DRIVES LATINO SERIES
Mar 01, 1990; ... Walk through the South End, Mission Hill or Jamaica Plain inBoston or some neighborhoods in Lowell or Worcester or Lawrence,and you'll hear Spanish spoken with a dozen different accents.Some are voices of immigrants. Some are voices of Americans,born and raised here, ...
HIGH-YIELDING TREASURY SECURITIES A GOOD WAY TO DECREASE STATE TAX BITE
Mar 01, 1990; ... I am a 70-year-old widow living on a sufficient annuity. My otherassets include a substantial sum in US Treasury bills and notes,with three-quarters of the rest in bank CDs and money marketaccounts, and the remainder split between a mutual fund IRA andtax-exempt funds. Some Treasuries and ...
VERMONT REVISED ECONOMIC FORECAST PREDICTS LOSS OF 8,500 JOBS
Mar 01, 1990; ... MONTPELIER - Vermont will lose 8,500 jobs between last year andnext, according to the state's newest economic outlook. Three months ago, the Kunin administration was projecting aslight growth in total employment in Vermont between fiscal 1989and fiscal 1991. The newest forecast, ...
CHANGES FOR 'RTG'
Mar 01, 1990; ... Channel 7's "Ready to Go" does not plan on going out quietly. Themorning kid's show, which has been on Monday through Fridaymornings for the past year, will air its last show in the currentformat tomorrow. It will be cut back to air only on Saturdaymornings starting in late March. ...
CAPITOL HILL'S QUIET SHUFFLE
Mar 01, 1990; ... WASHINGTON - Every speech here begins with a tribute to thecourage and vision of the people on four continents leaping towarddemocracy.But the flattery has not grown to the point of imitation. Whenit comes to America's problems, America's leaders are barelyshuffling....
3 DEFENDANTS TESTIFY IN RAPE TRIAL
Mar 01, 1990; ... DEDHAM - Three of four Millis men on trial in NorfolkSuperior Court for allegedly raping a brain-damaged woman testifiedyesterday that she initiated sex while the film "Dirty Dancing" wasplaying on the videotape machine.The alleged victim danced "kind of sexually, moving ...
2 JAMAICANS HELD AFTER ALLEGED HIGHWAY ASSAULT ON TROOPER
Mar 01, 1990; ... STOUGHTON - Two Jamaican men arrested on cocainetrafficking charges are being held on $150,000 surety each afterallegedly assaulting a state trooper Tuesday night and threateninghim with a knife. Philip Richard, 23, of Brockton, and Norman Washington Lewis,23, of ...
JAPANESE FIRM WILL BUILD MBTA COMMUTER CARS
Mar 01, 1990; ... Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. of Japan has agreed toassemble 75 double-decker commuter rail cars at a former GeneralElectric plastics plant in Pittsfield starting this fall for theMassachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.Between 60 and 70 assembly workers will put the ...
STEPHEN COYLE'S INTELLIGENT STATE OF THE CITY
Mar 01, 1990; ... There were no television cameras at the cocktail reception nearTrack 1 at South Station the other night when Stephen Coyleaccepted an award from the Boston Society of Architects, and that'stoo bad, because the vision of Boston he outlined gives hope tothose of us, black and white, who have ...
JOHN TEELE, 53 RADAR SCIENTIST AT DEFENSE AGENCY
Mar 01, 1990 ... John H. Teele, a specialist in radar systems with theDefense Intelligence Agency, died of a stroke Monday in Washington.He was 53 and lived in Hyattsville, Md.Mr. Teele, a former resident of Chelmsford, worked at MIT'sLincoln Laboratory in Bedford on Pentagon projects for ...
BANKRUPTCY AND A CAPITAL LOSS DEVELOPER'S MISFORTUNE CREATES A SPECIAL DEDUCTION FOR WOULD-BE HOMEOWNERS
Mar 01, 1990 ...Michael Tulman, managing partner of Tulman Lowenstein & Co. in Boston, answers readers' tax questions. Send your tax question to Boston Globe Tax Time, Business Section, Boston Globe, Boston, Mass. 02107. There will be no personal ...
GRAND STREET'S LITERARY LIGHT BEN SONNENBERG CREATED A JOURNAL TO PLEASE HIMSELF, BUT WOUND UP PLEASING OTHERS
Mar 01, 1990; ... NEW YORK - The sun-drenched living room of this ramblingUpper West Side apartment is the kind of place you could easilylose a few hours in: lolling in an overstuffed armchair amid theplants and photographs, perusing the fine old editions of Balzacand Flaubert. This is where Ben ...
SHANNON: 'I SMOKED MARIJUANA'
Mar 01, 1990; ... Attorney General James Shannon, who recently called forcriminal penalities against casual drug users, acknowledgedyesterday that he smoked marijuana when he was a college student inthe early 1970s, but said he has not used the drug since.Shannon's admission was coupled with ...
RICHARD SCOPA, 54 POPULAR TEACHER AT MILTON HIGH
Mar 01, 1990 ... Richard Scopa, an English teacher at Milton High School whospecialized in remedial reading, died of a heart attack Monday inhis Somerville home. He was 54.The student government at Milton High voted Mr. Scopa theoutstanding teacher of 1988-89. It was not unusual for ...
DELAY OF SEABROOK VOTE TODAY IS SOUGHT
Mar 01, 1990; ... Four members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation lateyesterday asked the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to delay itsvote on licensing the Seabrook nuclear plant because the NRC's owninspector general says standards for emergency planning should bemade clearer....
LYNNFIELD ROUTS BRIGHTON
Mar 01, 1990; ... In the end, it was Lynnfield's depth that made thedifference.After battling to a scoreless first-period tie withundermanned Brighton (10 players), Lynnfield got four goals in eachof the next two periods to skate away with an 8-0 first-round winin the Division 3 tournament ...
'DON'T WORRY ABOUT REAL ESTATE' OR HOW TO WEATHER THE DOWNTURN
Mar 01, 1990; ... Boston real estate developer Rosalind Gorin was in a playfulmood.She glanced around the crowded meeting room, then askedeveryone in attendance who had been in the real estate business formore than 10 years to raise their hands.About one-third of the audience did ...
RED SOX CANCEL 10 EXHIBITIONS
Mar 01, 1990; ... WINTER HAVEN, Fla. - The Red Sox will play no exhibitiongames until at least March 11 and likely beyond that as a result ofthe major league baseball owners' lockout of players. The Red Sox announced yesterday that their first 10exhibition games -- starting with the ...
RESIDENCY ISSUE RISES IN GOP RACE
Mar 01, 1990; ... US Senate hopeful James Rappaport, who has repeatedlypresented himself as a lifelong resident of Massachusetts, signedlegal statements as late as March 1989 declaring that his residencewas in Hawaii.Rappaport, a Republican, also signed a Hawaiian voterregistration ...
ORTEGA FARES POORLY IN POLL OF US VOTERS
Mar 01, 1990; ... WASHINGTON - A majority of American voters and the peopleof Nicaragua apparently shared a common negative view ofNicaragua's president, Daniel Ortega, judging from Sunday'selections and the most recent Boston Globe-WBZ-TV poll.Nicaraguans voted Ortega out of office in a ...
QUAKE SHAKES SOUTHERN CALIF.
Mar 01, 1990; ... UPLAND, Calif. - A strong earthquake rocked a 200-mileswath of Southern California yesterday, triggering rock slidesonto highways, breaking windows, toppling books from shelves andcausing minor structural damage. There were no immediate reports of serious injuries from ...
HOTEL RESTAURANT OFFERS FINE DINING IN WALTHAM
Mar 01, 1990; ...PORTS* * * Boston Vista Waltham, Exit 27A, Route 128, Waltham. Telephone 290-5600 PRICES: MODERATE TO EXPENSIVE. Soups and appetizers, $3.75-$9.25. Entrees, $15.95-$28.50. Desserts, $4.50. Luncheon entrees, ...
FOR 2D YEAR, STUDENTS SEEKING AID FROM US MUST SIGN ANTIDRUG PLEDGE
Mar 01, 1990; ... As students across the nation choose a college this springand figure out how they are going to pay the bills, an unusualdocument will be among their financial-aid papers: a pledge theymust sign promising not to use or sell drugs.As a result of the Drugfree Workplace Act of ...
SAUNDERS ISN'T INTERESTED
Mar 01, 1990; ... FOXBOROUGH - New Patriots head coach Rod Rust received his firstrejection yesterday as he tried to find an offensive coordinator.Kansas City Chiefs receivers coach Al Saunders declined an offer todiscuss the position."We asked permission to talk to Al Saunders," said ...
CUSTOMIZED PRODUCTION OF TAPES IS UPBEAT NOTE FOR MUSIC INDUSTRY
Mar 01, 1990; ... It looks like a fashionable ice cream chest, one that mightblend in nicely with the decor at any number of local bistros. Andone teen-ager pushing eagerly on its buttons at Tower Records onNewbury Street was heard saying, "It's totally cool."But this postmodern monster is ...
MONNAIE TO OPEN PILLOW SEASON
Mar 01, 1990; ... The Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in the Berkshires hasannounced its 58th season, which opens with June 26-30 performancesby the Monnaie Dance Group/ Mark Morris, in the Pillow's historicTed Shawn Theater. The rest of the season is: Johann Renvall andStars of American Ballet, July ...
THOMAS J. PILESKI, 72 RETIRED INSURANCE ADJUSTER
Mar 01, 1990 ... Thomas J. Pileski of Brockton, an adjuster forProvidence-Washington Insurance Co. of Providence for 23 years,died of leukemia yesterday in University Hospitalin Boston. He was72.Mr. Pileski, who retired in 1982, was born in East Weymouthand graduated from Brockton High ...
COURT UPHOLDS PENNSYLVANIA'S DEATH-PENALTY LAW
Mar 01, 1990; ... WASHINGTON - State laws that require the death penalty ifcertain conditions are met do not violate the constitutional banagainst mandatory death sentences for particular crimes, theSupreme Court ruled yesterday.In a 5-4 decision written by Chief Justice William ...
TEST-TUBE PROGRESS ON THE COMMON COLD
Mar 01, 1990; ... Here's a promising research development on the common coldfront, but don't put away the box of tissues yet:Researchers have created a substance that appears to blockcertain cold virusesfrom nasal cells. It works in the test tube,at least.The study by scientists at ...
PAUL OPANASETS, 36 WAS COMPUTER ANALYST AT UMASS
Mar 01, 1990 ... A funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. tomorrow in St.Margaret's Church, Dorchester, for Paul G. Opanasets, a computeranalyst at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.Mr. Opanasets was found dead Friday in Conway, N.H., 18 daysafter he left a rented ski lodge a ...
A FACT-FILLED THRILLER
Mar 01, 1990; ... "Israel and South Africa are in nuclear bed together," begins acharacter in Bill Beecher's ostensibly fictional new thriller,"Mayday Man."But is it just fiction?"South Africa mines the uranium and reprocesses it at afacility near Pretoria into high-grade U-238," continues ...
NORTHROP EMPLOYEES CLEARED
Mar 01, 1990; ... Northrop Corp. pleaded guilty Tuesday to 34 counts of makingfalse statements to the government in a data-falsification case,and agreed to pay $17 million in fines. So why is the chiefexecutive of one of the company's big Massachusetts divisions happy?"It's been a tough 11 ...
NECCO PLACE'S MYRIAD CHARMS
Mar 01, 1990; ...(A PUBLISHED CORRECTION HAS BEEN ADDED TO THIS STORY.) The Channel has miraculously strengthened its bookings since arecent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. The same is true for itssister club, Necco Place, which is now among the best small roomsin town, though many folks still ...
ATTENDING A CLINIC ON HOW TO KILL TIME
Mar 01, 1990; ... WINTER HAVEN, Fla. - The Gedman Clinic is well into its secondweek. Each day a few locked-out players gather at Winter HavenHigh School at 10:30 a.m. Some days Oil Can brings the baseballs.Today it's Geddy's turn. "I'm bringing some pearls," Rich Gedman promised ...
CHAMORRO, SANDINISTAS URGE CONTRAS TO DISARM
Mar 01, 1990; ... MANAGUA, Nicaragua - The Sandinista government declared aunilateral cease-fire yesterday with contra rebels and was joinedby President-elect Violeta Chamorro in calling on the contras tolay down their weapons and disband."The causes that orginated the war have disappeared, ...
CELTICS ROLL PAST MAVERICKS BIRD, MICHAEL SMITH LEAD BOSTON'S HOMECOMING PARADE
Mar 01, 1990; ... It was a split decision on the Smiths, but a TKO for theCeltics last night as they treated their home crowd to a 111-98 winover the Dallas Mavericks after a three-week absence from theGarden. Both Michael Smith and Charles Smith made headlines in theprevious two victories ...
OPEN MEETING SET ON AIR PROJECTS
Mar 01, 1990 ... Both the public and industry will have an opportunity today todiscuss projects that will test cleaner and more efficientcoal-burning technologies. The open meeting, part of a $5 billionfederal project to encourage ...
ANDERSON FACES FINES FOR SIGNS
Mar 01, 1990 ... District School Committee member Gerald Anderson (Dorchester)yesterday failed to appear in court to answer charges he hasrepeatedly violated city codes by posting campaign signs on cityproperty. He now faces more than $1,000 in fines. The director ofthe city's code-enforcement police, ...
STUART CASE TAPES SOUGHT
Mar 01, 1990 ... Lawyers for WBZ-TV (Ch. 4) argued in court yesterday for therelease of tape-recorded police statements by three witnesses whoimplicated William Bennett in the killing of Carol Stuart and herbaby. In arguing against release of the statements, Suffolkprosecutors suggested that a grand jury ...
MASS. PIKE TOLLS TO GO UP TODAY
Mar 01, 1990 ... Tolls on the Massachusetts Turnpike go up this morning by aslittle as five cents (Exit 16, West Newton, 25 cents) to $1.20 formotorists from Boston to West Stockbridge ($5.10). Boston areatravelers who use the Massachusetts Turnpike Extension will pay 50cents where they once paid 40 cents ...
OFFICER REQUIRED TO TESTIFY AT TRIAL
Mar 01, 1990 ... A judge ruled yesterday that a second Boston police officer whohas been indicted on perjury charges in the Detective Sherman C.Griffiths murder case must testify at the murder trial next monthin Greenfield. Suffolk Superior Court Judge John J. Irwin Jr.concluded that Sgt. Hugo Amate had ...
UCONN FALLS TO HOYAS HUSKIES DROP INTO THREE-WAY TIE FOR BIG EAST LEAD
Mar 01, 1990; ... LANDOVER, Md. - The whole thing's a mess now, thanks toGeorgetown. Connecticut could have simplified matters for itselfand the rest of the league by beating the Hoyas and gaining aninside track to the coveted No. 1 seed for next week's Big Easttournament in Madison Square ...
PANEL ISSUES PLEA ON INFANT MORTALITY
Mar 01, 1990; ... Infant mortality rates in the United States could rise evenhigher and the gap between black and white infant deaths could groweven wider if AIDS, substance abuse, poverty and unequal access toprenatal care are not addressed, a national commission concludedyesterday.The ...
RUST ADDS NELSON TO STAFF
Mar 01, 1990; ... FOXBOROUGH - When Rod Rust was running the Patriots'defense during his first stint in New England, he describedlinebacker Steve Nelson as another coach on the field.What Rust, as the defensive coordinator, diagrammed on theblackboard, Nelson executed on the field....
HOLYOKE'S MAYOR EYES STATE SENATE
Mar 01, 1990 ... HOLYOKE - Two-term Mayor Martin Dunn, who last month decidedagainst running for Hampden district attorney, announced yesterdayhe will seek the state Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen.John Burke (D-Holyoke). Dunn, 33, said he is running for the FirstHampden and Hampshire District ...
SMOKE INHALATION KILLED N.H. MAN
Mar 01, 1990; ... NOTTINGHAM, N.H. - The state medical examiner said smokeinhalation killed at least one of the three family members who diedin a fire that apparently ignited when gasoline used to start awood-burning stove exploded. Dr. Roger Fossum said smoke inhalationwas the cause of death for Bruce ...
MASS. SKIER KILLED DURING LESSON
Mar 01, 1990; ... SHERBURNE, Vt. - A Massachusetts man killed at the Killingtonski area last week was taking a skiing lesson when he hit a tree,police and ski officials have acknowledged. The new informationcontradicts reports issued by authorities immediately after theFeb. 22 death of James Kenway, 34, of ...
ALASKA VOLCANO SPEWS MORE ASH
Mar 01, 1990; ... ANCHORAGE - Redoubt Volcano resumed its sporadic emissionsyesterday, erupting twice within an hour, dropping ash on ...
WITNESS CITES VALDEZ CREW SIZE
Mar 01, 1990; ... ANCHORAGE - The Exxon Valdez had an exceptionally small crew onthe voyage which ended in disaster, a possible cause of stress ...
COVENANT HOUSE CHIEF NOT CHARGED
Mar 01, 1990; ... NEW YORK - A prosecutor said yesterday he found insufficientevidence of financial misconduct to charge the Rev. Bruce Ritter,founder of the nation's largest network of shelters for ...
POINDEXTER WANTS REAGAN DIARIES
Mar 01, 1990; ... WASHINGTON - Former President Reagan's diaries accuratelydocument important events in the Iran-Contra affair, events thatReagan now says ...
BARGE SPILLS OIL OFF N.J.
Mar 01, 1990; ... ABOUT 27,000 GALLONS of heavy No. 6 industrial oil spewed intothe Kill Van Kull waterway yesterday from a 295-foot long bargebeing loaded at an Exxon Corp. terminal. The Kill ...
DELAND BLAMES MASS. ON HARBOR
Mar 01, 1990; ... WASHINGTON - President Bush's top environmental adviser, MichaelDeland, blamed Massachusetts yesterday for ...
DRUG ENFORCER TO JOIN YANKEES
Mar 01, 1990; ... WASHINGTON - The head of the Drug Enforcement Administrationwill resign next month to become an executive with the New YorkYankees, the DEA said yesterday. John C. Lawn, the ...
NAMES & FACES WHAT'S UP AT ART
Mar 01, 1990; ... The American Repertory Theater has announced its springschedule, which will include new plays by two American contemporaryplaywrights. "Road to Nirvana," by Arthur Kopit, which is describedas a funny fable of two luckless producers searching for the GoldenCalf, will play from March ...
DANIEL W. MOYNIHAN, 70 WAS RETIRED BOSTON FIREFIGHTER
Mar 01, 1990 ... Daniel W. Moynihan of Malden, a retired Boston firefighter,died Monday at New England Memorial Hospital in Stoughton. He was70.Mr. Moyhihan in 1947 joined the Fire Department's RescueCompany 3, in Bowdoin Square downtown. He retired in 1984 from thesame company, now Rescue ...
GROUP'S VOTE BACKS POLICE FRISK POLICY
Mar 01, 1990; ... Residents of Dorchester's Pope's Hill section are sosupportive of the Boston Police Department's war on crime that theyhave made buttons that exclaim in big blue letters, "Frisk Me."The buttons, which also say "Help us save our kids,"accompanied a motion passed last night by ...
CHAMORRO WIN STINGS FOREIGN VOLUNTEERS
Mar 01, 1990; ... MANAGUA, Nicaragua - They had come to this small republicfrom around the world to provide succor to a revolution thatpromised democracy and better living conditions in a country thathas known only political repression and dire poverty for much ofits history.Known here as ...