The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from October 1990:
IS AN APOLOGY TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR? THAT'S A TOUGH QUESTION FOR SILBER, KIAM AND OTHERS
Oct 01, 1990; ... John Silber - emphatically -- did not.Neither -- for nine days -- did the Patriots.And neither did the Celtics' Brian Shaw, though he squalledsome about "fallibility" and "lessons" and how "the lesson Ilearned is that I'm 24 years old, and I don't know it all."As ...
2 US PILOTS DIE IN FIGHTER CRASH IN SAUDI ARABIA
Oct 01, 1990; ... DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia - Two US Air Force pilots were killedyesterday when their F-15 fighter crashed during an exercise, theUS military command said. They were the first Air Force personnel reported killed heresince the beginning of Operation Desert Shield nearly two monthsago ....
CAPITAL GAINS COMMON SENSE
Oct 01, 1990 ... In the struggle to reach compromise on a tax-and-budgetpackage that will meet the requirements of the Gramm-Rudman budgetreduction law, negotiators have apparently embraced a capital gainstreatment that makes good sense. Indexing the capital gains towinnow out the effects of ...
MASS. SUICIDE
Oct 01, 1990; ... You're angry, sure. But you're not dumb.Which is precisely why public sentiment has begun to swing,slowly but perceptibly, against Question 3 on the ballot.Were the election today, it would probably win. But themargin of public opinion by which the Citizens for Limited ...
CALLING TO TASK 900 NUMBERS
Oct 01, 1990 ... One of the fastest - rowing industries aimed at Americanconsumers' checkbooks is the 900-number telemarket, a service thathas considerable potential for fraud and other abuses without toughgovernmental regulation. The audio-text marketplace is expected topull in nearly $1 billion ...
A BEACON HILL REBUFF
Oct 01, 1990 ... Politics won. The children of Boston's public schools lost.That is the result of a decision made by some legislators on BeaconHill opposed to a binding referendum to change the structure of the13-member Boston School Committee.Their opposition virtually guarantees that the ...
FISCAL HEMORRHAGE
Oct 01, 1990 ... The $310 million additional spending cuts announced byGovernor Dukakis as a consequence of revenue reductions serve as awarning for what lies ahead if tax rates are rolled back inNovember's election. It is truly bizarre that some public figuresactually embrace with enthusiasm the ...
WHAT'S THE STORY WITH THIS TEAM?
Oct 01, 1990; ... This much I know: if you are in the business of sportsjournalism, Boston, Massachusetts, is the best place in the worldto work. The Lord provides. Every day I jump out of bed to see howthis Red Sox saga is going to play itself out. The emotional elevator yesterday carried Sox fans ...
YEARS AFTER THE PAIN AND HUMILIATION OF ABUSE FROM PEERS, THE SCARS REMAIN AS VICTIMS SAY . . . 'YOU DON'T FORGET IT'
Oct 01, 1990; ... Second in a three-part series about high school hazing His feeling was rage. Paul McGaffigan was a sophomore at MedfordHigh School, attending a preseason football camp when, according tohim, some of his teammates forced him to strip and compete in arace with a cracker tucked between ...
JETS RUN OVER THE PATRIOTS
Oct 01, 1990; ... FOXBOROUGH - As the New England Patriots were filing offthe field late yesterday a leather-lunged fan screamed in thedirection of waiting Boston Herald reporter Lisa Olson, "If youwant to go into the men's locker room, you get what you deserve."The Patriots had just lost to ...
JAYS GET BACK AT RED SOX
Oct 01, 1990; ... As you greet the morning, he is already out there, probablyputting his pants on both legs at a time. For nearly 10 years,Carlton Fisk has been making the Red Sox pay for an indignitysurpassed only by the sale of Babe Ruth. He is back in town withhis former team leading by a game with ...
FISK FACTOR GIVES A TWIST TO FINAL SERIES OF SEASON
Oct 01, 1990; ... The Chicago White Sox are coming to town for the FinalThree. You immediately think of Carlton Fisk.You can't help imagining what would be the most incredibletwist of all-time: Fisk, who has bashed and battered the Red Soxsince a contract snafu set him free from the team in ...
CLEMENS' SHOULDER OK AFTER SATURDAY STINT
Oct 01, 1990; ... After pitching six innings against the Blue Jays onSaturday, Roger Clemens said he had, "normal stiffness," in hisshoulder yesterday. Team physician Arthur Pappas said Clemens willbe able to start a playoff game Thursday in Toronto or Game 1 ofthe ALCS Saturday at Fenway ...
IT'S THE SAME TIRED TALE HARRIS CONTINUES TO COMPLAIN ABOUT DEAD ARM
Oct 01, 1990; ... Righthander Greg Harris continued to complain about a tired armafter he was raked for five hits and four earned runs in 1 2/3innings yesterday.Harris has now pitched 184 1/3 innings; his previous high was140 2/3 three years ago in Texas. He has stopped throwing betweenstarts and ...
JAYS NOT IN MOOD TO CELEBRATE DESPITE AVERTING A SWEEP THEY STILL FACE UPHILL BATTLE
Oct 01, 1990; ... Their bombardment of four Red Sox pitchers was complete anda sweep at Fenway Park was averted, but Blue Jays third basemanKelly Gruber and some of his teammates didn't feel like celebratingyesterday.Gruber is not running for office this fall in Massachusetts,but sounded ...
SINDEN PONDERS ROSTER SITUATION
Oct 01, 1990; ... Somewhere over Georgia, or perhaps Virginia, the questionbeing bandied about during the Bruins' flight home from Atlanta inthe wee hours yesterday morning had a European accent to it. Where, asked a few members of the club, was Greg Hawgood?Could he be coming back to the ...
HE GOT OUT JUST IN TIME STEINBERG MAKES HIS MOVES FOR JETS
Oct 01, 1990; ... FOXBOROUGH - Dick Steinberg looks like a man who bailed out ofthe savings and loan industry the day before Neil Bush arrived.Steinberg had been Patriots player personnel director untiljoining the Jets last December. He missed most of the three-ringatmosphere of the Phineas T. Kiam ...
WILSON, OFFENSE WERE OFFENSIVE
Oct 01, 1990; ... FOXBOROUGH - Several thousand fans inexplicably remainedfor the final quarter of the Patriots' 37-13 loss to the New YorkJets yesterday. One man, seated in the end zone seats, hoped topersuade former Patriots quarterback Tony Eason to autograph a 1985Super Bowl program.He ...
KIAM WORKED SCREEN PLAY
Oct 01, 1990; ... Patriots owner Victor Kiam came out smoking in self defenseon both network NFL pregame shows yesterday.He first appeared on "NFL Live" on NBC and promised "mammothchanges" in team management in the wake of the controversyinvolving Herald reporter Lisa Olson, who has alleged ...
NFL PUTS A STOP TO KIAM SUSPENSION OF SULLIVAN
Oct 01, 1990; ... FOXBOROUGH - The New England Patriots were nearly one sackdown before they began playing the New York Jets yesterday.In the wake of sexual harassment charges made by Boston Heraldreporter Lisa Olson against several New England players last weekand the three-ring circus that ...
EAGLES HAVE FUN WITH FIRST VICTORY
Oct 01, 1990; ... He was the last person to trot off the field at Navy-MarineCorps Memorial Stadium after Boston College's 28-17 victory overNavy Saturday.As his Eagles war-whooped their way into the locker room tocommence the postgame festivities for their first win of the 1990campaign, ...
DYE DOESN'T REGRET DECISION TO GO FOR TIE
Oct 01, 1990; ... AUBURN, Ala. - It was the best of ties. It was the worst ofties.If you were Auburn coach Pat Dye, you looked at Saturdaynight's 26-26 deadlock with Tennessee as almost a victory, acomeback of Herculean proportions.If you were Tennessee coach Johnny Majors, you ...
DAVID LYNCH KILLED 'TWIN PEAKS'
Oct 01, 1990; ... Now we know who killed Laura Palmer. It was Bob, the Manson-likelonghair who appeared in her mother's vision in the originalTV-movie.More to the point, we know who killed "Twin Peaks." It wasDavid Lynch.Diane -- yes, I know this is a tired, hackneyed, clicheddevice for ...
THE TROUBLE WITH KIDS
Oct 01, 1990; ... What's old isn't necessarily new again. The Kids On the Block, aMaryland-based group that teaches youngsters to accept people withdisabilities, is upset with the Fad Four -- The New Kids on theBlock. "People incorrectly link us to the rock group and areunderstandably confused, but this ...
CALL HIM THE HORATIO ALGER OF THE KITCHEN
Oct 01, 1990; ... One Monday afternoon a few months ago, the telephone rang atDavio's on Newbury Street. It was Paul Sonnabend, president ofSonesta Hotels. Davio's is one of his favorite restaurants, andowner Steve DiFillippo assumed he wanted a reservation."No," said Sonnabend. "I want to talk to ...
HARRY CREWS' CHARACTERS ON COLLISION COURSE IN 'BODY'
Oct 01, 1990; ... By Harry Crews Poseidon Press, 240 pages, $18.95 Harry Crews' characters are always on a collision course -- withothers, with themselves, with life. . . His previous novel, "TheKnockout Artist," involved a performance artist of sorts whose artwas knocking himself out with an ...
THE ART OF FIGHTING AIDS LIKE MAPPLETHORPE, HIS DOCTOR PUSHES THE BOUNDARIES
Oct 01, 1990; ... One weekend last year, Dr. Jerome Groopman took his two sonsalong on rounds at New England Deaconess Hospital. They stopped tocheck on Robert Mapplethorpe, the late photographer who washospitalized for AIDS-related complications. Now, the two boys hadjust visited their grandparents ...
SOVIET SALMON DEAL SMELLS FISHY BUT ISN'T
Oct 01, 1990; ... Several colleagues have pointed out a recent news story in hopesthat your obedient typist can shed some light on it. The story isabout fishing, a murky subject to begin with even in clear water,and I am the designated angling apologist.The news is that the Soviets are selling the ...
FOR RAY BARRETTO, NOTHING FANCY, JUST GOOD MUSIC
Oct 01, 1990; ... RAY BARRETTO and his Orchestra with Rudy Castillo and Primera Clase. At: the Jorge Hernandez Cultural Center at Villa Victoria, Saturday. For veteran stars in popular music, work often means: show up ontime, remind people of their youth and your past greatness and ...
WRITING THE STORIES OF THEIR LIVES
Oct 01, 1990; ... Draw a picture of the room in your house where you werehappiest as a child. Now talk about it with one other person out ofthe 15 or so who have come together for this workshop. Next, takesome childhood experience you think of as spiritual -- notnecessarily religious -- and write ...
A NEW JOB FOR CONDUCTOR CHARLES DUTOIT
Oct 01, 1990; ... Conductor Charles Dutoit has a new job -- music director of theOrchestre National de France. He will also continue hisassociation with the Orchestre symphonique de Montreal where he hasbeen music director for 13 seasons, bringing it into the forefrontof international orchestras, and ...
BOOK BROWSING
Oct 01, 1990 ... Customers explore the bargain stands outside the Brattle Bookshopon West Street, ...
DOWNTOWN HAS 1,400 NEW PARKING SPACES
Oct 01, 1990; ... Fourteen - undred more parking places downtown: In 1988,when work began on the underground garage at Post Office Square,that sort of news in Boston was as momentous as if someone had justdiscovered gold in the Public Garden."Parking spaces have become like Celtics tickets," ...
KAIFU'S VISIT IS SEEN ILL-FATED SEMINAR SPEAKERS SAY JAPAN MUST CHANGE ROLE
Oct 01, 1990; ... As MIT economists Lester Thurow and Rudiger Dornbusch seeit, the current visit to the United States by Japanese primeminister Toshiko Kaifu is destined to wind up as just anotherwasted effort without real progress in resolving American-Japanesedisputes."There's no prospect ...
RISING STARS IN BOSTON AD WARS
Oct 01, 1990; ... Edward E. Boches and Amy Watt are suddenly the hottestcreative team in Boston-area advertising.But are they the Heater and Easdon of the '90s? Bill Heaterand Don Easdon made their name on breakthrough, high-profile adsfor Wang, John Hancock and Nissan's Infiniti ...
CUSTODIAL SERVICE AVAILABLE FOR STOCKS AND BONDS
Oct 01, 1990; ... Q. I owned two different municipal bonds each valued at $15,000.I redeemed the coupons at my bank at six-month intervals until oneday I received notification from the bank that these bonds had beencalled approximately a year before. Now, the bank was deducting theamount of interest from my ...
SHOE ME, BABY
Oct 01, 1990; ... Down in the Southern District of New York there's a big lawsuitpitting an ousted consultant for Rockport shoes against Rockport,its current owner Reebok International, and Cone Communications, apublic relations firm that has done promotional work for thewalking shoe firm. Gary Yanker, an ...
HIGH-FLYING DRONE WILL STUDY OZONE HOLE BUILDERS SHIFT FROM HUMAN-POWERED FLIGHT TO FLIGHT WITHOUT HUMANS
Oct 01, 1990; ... ALEXANDRIA, VA. - In a cramped warehouse behind GenerousGeorge's Pizza Parlor, an odd airplane is taking shape at the handsof designers who hope to prove that small science can answer bigenvironmental questions in the huge domain of the Earth'sstratosphere.The airplane, called ...
A VACCINE THAT TOO FEW USE
Oct 01, 1990; ... You're 65 or older. Or you have a chronic medical condition, suchas heart disease, lung disease, diabetes, or HIV infection. Youprobably know that you need a yearly flu shot, and that the time toget one is coming.But have you considered also getting vaccinated againstpneumococcal ...
ONE GENE CAN SWITCH A CELL'S IDENTITY
Oct 01, 1990; ... The discovery of a "master gene" that can turn one type of humancell into another -- fat cells into muscle cells, for instance --is giving scientists important new clues into the mystery of how acomplex individual develops from a single fertilized egg.The finding has implications ...
HOW & WHY
Oct 01, 1990 ... If the vanilla bean and vanilla extract are naturally dark, whyare vanilla products, like ice cream, light-colored? G.M. Reading A. Vanilla is such a potent flavoring agent that very little isneeded to impart a vanilla taste to food, says Benjamin HenryKaestner, director of ...
MEDICAL ROUNDS
Oct 01, 1990 ... Send notices to: Medical Rounds, Health & Science, The Boston Globe, Box 2378, Boston, MA 02107-2378. Harvard Medical School has appointed Dr. Charles H. Hennekens,professor of medicine and preventive medicine, acting chairman ofthe Department of Preventive Medicine. ...
BLACK MEN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN ONE PROGRAM FOR YOUTHS
Oct 01, 1990; ... A Cambridge firefighter who teaches public safety, a Bank ofNew England executive who teaches math and a state-collegeofficial who teaches science are just a few of the blackprofessionals who volunteer their time at the Paul RobesonInstitute for Positive Self Development. ...
DISARRAY SPREADING IN SOVIET UNION
Oct 01, 1990; ... MOSCOW - While economic reform is deadlocked by conflictsbetween President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's advisers and hisgovernment, the disintegration of the Soviet Union economic andadministrative system appears to be picking up speed. After years of being told that everything in ...
MOSCOW SETS TIES WITH SEOUL, BOOSTS ISRAEL LINK
Oct 01, 1990; ... UNITED NATIONS - The Soviet Union announced yesterday thatit will establish diplomatic ties with South Korea and reestablishconsular relations with Israel, formally ending decades ofhostility toward both nations.The establishment of diplomatic ties between Moscow and ...
SERBIAN ACTIVISTS SEIZE WEAPONRY
Oct 01, 1990; ... BELGRADE - Militant Serbs seized weapons from a police stationin struggles over autonomy for the Serbian minority in the Croatianrepublic, according to authorities and news reports yesterday.Police sealed off the town hall in Dvor after about 1,000 Serbsseized arms and ammunition from the ...
INDIAN QUITS SEAT OVER CASTE PLAN
Oct 01, 1990; ... NEW DELHI - A founder of the governing party quit Parliamentyesterday to protest Prime Minister V. P. Singh's plan to reservenearly half of government jobs for low-caste Hindus. The plan hasignited weeks of riots in which at least 50 people have been killedin clashes with police. In ...
$500B TAX-AND-CUT PLAN ENDORSED BIPARTISAN DEFICIT PACT FACES FIGHT
Oct 01, 1990; ... WASHINGTON - President Bush and Democratic leaders joinedyesterday in support of the largest deficit-reduction deal inhistory, backing higher taxes on everything from beer to gasolineand endorsing massive cuts in Medicare and defense spending. But the five-year, $500 ...
SOME STILL THINK OF NORTH-SOUTH RAIL LINK
Oct 01, 1990; ... Just how fast can you travel from North Station to South Station?After rush hour and without luggage, a taxi ride takes eightminutes and $5 while a bicyclist can make the trip in 11 minutes.Subway riders, some using a combination of the Green, Orange andRed lines, can do it in 18 ...
YOUTH, 17, SHOT AND ARRESTED BY POLICE
Oct 01, 1990; ... A 17 - ear-old Mission Hill youth allegedly fired anassault weapon at a police officer before the officer shot him inthe shoulder at about midnight Saturday in the Mission Hill housingprojects.Alfredo Cameron, who lives on Horadan Way, was being heldyesterday at Area B ...
RADAR ASSISTANCE WAS LACKING AT NANTUCKET
Oct 01, 1990; ... The pilot and passenger killed in a plane crash Friday nightnear Nantucket Airport might have been saved had a sophisticatednew radar system -- just a few weeks away from completion --been inplace, aviators say."They could have given him what's called a low altitudealert," ...
TAX ROLLBACK DEBATERS PLAY HOT POTATO OVER A PLAN
Oct 01, 1990; ... The battle over the Citizens for Limited Taxation taxrollback petition took to the airwaves yesterday as a leadingsupporter and an opponent of the initiative clashed in twospirited television forums.The debates, between Barbara Anderson of CLT and James Braudeof the ...
ASK THE GLOBE / IN SEARCH OF . . .
Oct 01, 1990 ... Bob Moody, who served with the US Army Air Corps' 375thTroop Carrier Group in the South Pacific during World War II, wouldlike to hear from other former members of the group. The 375thplans to hold a reunion in Valley Forge, Pa., in the fall. Moody'saddress is 3 Eleanor Road, ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Oct 01, 1990 ... Q. The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles allows youto deduct $5 from the registration-plate renewal fee if the renewalis handled by mail. I forgot to deduct the $5 when I sent in mymoney. Can I get it back? B.B., IpswichA. Between 1,500 and 2,000 state residents ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Oct 01, 1990 ... Q. How many motor vehicles were registered in this countryin 1940 and how does the figure compare with today's total? J.D.,SalemA. The Statistical Abstract of the United States indicatesthat 140.7 million passenger cars, 42.8 million trucks and busesand 4.7 million ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Oct 01, 1990 ... Q. Is World War II spy William C. Colepaugh still in prison? A.H., SpringfieldA. A federal prison official said Colepaugh, who came ashoreat Frenchman Bay on the Maine coast from a German U-boat on thenight of Nov. 29, 1944, was paroled in May 1960. Colepaugh was tohave ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Oct 01, 1990 ... Q. When was Henry David Thoreau's "Walden" published? W.C.,ChelseaA. The Concord-born naturalist's collection of essaysreflecting his experiences during the two years he spent in acabin on the shores of Walden Pond, 1845-1847, was published in1854. Thoreau left Walden ...
BRUTALITY CLAIM GETS ATTENTION
Oct 01, 1990 ... Mayor Flynn's office and Boston police officials say thealleged beating of a Cape Cod woman by a Boston police officerSept. 22 will be promptly investigated.Jeneen Texeira of Harwich was accompanied by state Sen.William Owens (D-Boston) on Friday as she met Flynn at City ...
DOROTHY E. BUPP, 89 FORMER WATERTOWN RESIDENT
Oct 01, 1990 ... Dorothy E. (Campbell) Bupp, 89, a former resident ofWatertown, died Friday in the Greensboro Nursing Home inGreensboro, Vt., where she had been a patient since 1975.Born in East Barre, Vt., Mrs. Bupp graduated from the formerHardwick Academy in Hardwick, Vt., and later ...
CIVIL RIGHTS SUIT TARGETS BOSTON POLICE TACTICS
Oct 01, 1990; ... Arguments are set to begin today in a civil rights suitbrought by five minority youths who allege that Boston policeofficers stopped and searched them illegally last fall and winter.Each plaintiff was searched at least once, and all willattempt to prove that the searches ...
FEWER BLACK MEN ATTEND COLLEGE RECORD LOWS SET THIS YEAR
Oct 01, 1990; ... At first, it seemed like a good turnout: 70 students frompredominantly black urban schools in St. Louis had come to aninformation session sponsored by Harvard College. But David L. Evans, a senior admissions officer forHarvard, was dismayed as he surveyed the room: Of the ...
A WELD-SILBER TACTIC: DEFINE YOUR OPPONENT
Oct 01, 1990; ... On Sept. 18, before the outcome of the Democratic primarywas even known, Republican gubernatorial candidate William Weld wason television telling the voters what to think about his opponent."John Silber is not a fiscal conservative," Weld said onprimary night. "He wants to ...
EDWARD C. DONOHUE, 64 FORMER LYNN FIREFIGHTER
Oct 01, 1990 ... A funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. today in St. Mary'sChurch, Lynn, for Edward C. Donohue, a retired Lynn firefighter whodied Thursday at Union Hospital. He was 64.Mr. Donohue was a lifelong resident of Lynn.He was a firefighter there for 39 years, serving on ...
ANALYSTS PREDICTING NO QUICK FIX
Oct 01, 1990; ... WASHINGTON - The $500 billion deficit deal announcedyesterday will not reverse the nation's economic slide and couldwell nudge the country further toward recession in coming months,according to economists and analysts. In fact, buried deep in the deal is the darkest ...
'ANOTHER WORLD' RIGHT AT HOME
Oct 01, 1990; ... Laid up in the sick bed for several days, I had time to catch upon some of the soap operas I've never watched. Why do all thesecharacters have names like "Storm" and "Taylor" and "Ridge" and"Dawn" and "India" and "Bo" and "Kip" and "Grant?" Oh well, I guessit's impossible to have an affair ...