The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from December 1990:
CORRECTION
Dec 01, 1990 ... CORRECTION: An incorrect telephone number was given in lastSaturday's column for information about three-day meditationretreats to be given this month and next by Rev. Denys Rackley, ...
OPENING EYES TO AIDS IT ISN'T GREAT TV, BUT IT CAN BE USEFUL
Dec 01, 1990; ... Television's contribution to World AIDS Day is a bit maudlin, abit slow, a bit disjointed -- but useful.The three shows airing tonight -- a sitcom, a documentary anda collection of music videos -- never quite amount to greattelevision. But they do help dispel some basic ...
THE DRIVING TEST TO COME
Dec 01, 1990 ... The swift change in weather - with a record temperature of 74degrees on Wednesday followed only 36 hours later by a dusting ofsnow in the suburbs -- is a vivid reminder to drivers that nothingshould be taken for granted about road conditions. From now on,anything can happen. If Murphy's ...
BUSH'S BARGAINING CHIP
Dec 01, 1990 ... Late in the high-stakes poker game he has been playingagainst Saddam Hussein, President Bush has finally turned up hishole card: direct negotiations.Perhaps necessarily, Bush had to disguise the significance ofwhat he was doing. Bellicose rhetoric prefaced his offer to ...
UP MEXICO WAY
Dec 01, 1990 ... President Bush and his Mexican counterpart, Carlos Salinasde Gortari, set the table for much closer economic ties betweentheir two countries when they met for two days of talks this week.It remains for Congress to take the next step by authorizingplenary talks that might lead to a ...
REVOLTIN' DEVELOPMENTS
Dec 01, 1990; ... I vowed months ago not to write again about the Boston schoolbureaucracy, because after watching it for a quarter of a century,I wanted to self-medicate against deep depression. But the latestrevelations cannot pass without comment.Understand that there is a 29-member search ...
AIDS BROADENS GRIP ON A CHANGED WORLD
Dec 01, 1990; ... Today on World AIDS Day, 1990, the nations of the worldpause to reflect on a global pandemic caused by a virus no one hadheard of a decade ago.Around the globe, an estimated 8 million to 10 million peopleare infected with the AIDS virus. Contrary to the popular view inthe ...
BUSH OFFERS DIRECT TALKS WITH IRAQ RECASTING DEBATE AT HOME THROUGH DIPLOMACY IN GULF
Dec 01, 1990; ... WASHINGTON - With his offer yesterday to send Secretary of StateJames A. Baker 3d to Baghdad, President Bush defused growing fearsthat he has embarked on a path to war and recaptured control overthe political agenda after a week of Senate hearings in which hishandling of the Persian Gulf ...
BUSH OFFERS DIRECT TALKS WITH IRAQ INVITES AZIZ TO WASHINGTON; BAKER WOULD GO TO BAGHDAD
Dec 01, 1990; ... WASHINGTON - President Bush offered yesterday to hold directtalks with Iraq in an effort to resolve the Persian Gulf crisispeacefully, but warned that if war broke out the United Stateswould score a quick and decisive victory. In a nationally televised announcement, Bush said he ...
MARKET UP, OIL DOWN AFTER ADDRESS
Dec 01, 1990; ... Oil prices plunged and the stock market soared yesterday afterPresident Bush said he was pushing for a diplomatic solution to thePersian Gulf crisis.In a morning speech, Bush said he planned to send Secretary ofState James Baker to Baghdad for talks with Iraqi President ...
CITY'S 136 HOMICIDES SET GRIM RECORD
Dec 01, 1990; ... A new standard for brutality was set for Boston yesterday whentwo men died from gunshot wounds, breaking the city's 17-year-oldrecord for homicides. The city's homicide total for 1990 stood at 136 last night,eclipsing the 135 homicides recorded in 1973. Police believe thefinal toll ...
PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS NOT FINDING N.H. PRIMARY
Dec 01, 1990; ... CONCORD, N.H. - Not one Democratic aspirant for the OvalOffice has dropped by this year to as much as say hello to NedHelms, chairman of the state Democratic Party.The same goes for Thomas Rath, an influential member of NewHampshire's GOP whose office is a mandatory early ...
SUPERINTENDENT SEARCH IS BACK TO SQUARE ONE COMMITTEE VOTES TO RESTART PROCESS
Dec 01, 1990; ... The committee overseeing the search for Boston's nextsuperintendent of schools voted 22 to 1 last night to restart thesearch as a result of controversy that has erupted since fivesemifinalists for the position were named 10 days ago.More than six months after the campaign to ...
DUKAKIS SIGNS TAX DELAY, PUTS ONUS ON WELD
Dec 01, 1990; ... Saying the "burden now is squarely on Bill Weld" to resolve thestate's fiscal problems, Gov. Dukakis yesterday signed into law abill that delays until March the collection of a controversialsales tax on some professional, business and recreational servicesthat would otherwise have gone into ...
OVERTURE TO IRAQ GETS HIGH PRAISE FROM LEGISLATORS
Dec 01, 1990; ... WASHINGTON - Congressional leaders, after a two-hour White Housemeeting, yesterday enthusiastically praised President Bush'sdecision to open talks with Iraq, and Bush and leading Democratssaid they had no plans to call a special session of Congress on thePersian Gulf crisis. ...
BUSH SAYS GULF CHOICES HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT ONES
Dec 01, 1990; ... WASHINGTON - President Bush became emotional near the end of hispress conference yesterday as he sought to describe his feelingsabout having to commit to war with Iraq knowing it would result inthe deaths of numerous American servicemen. Bush's eyes glistened as he told of ...
OTHERS MAY FOLLOW TRUNDY DESPITE US OPPOSITION, SOME PLAN TRIPS TO IRAQ
Dec 01, 1990; ... In the wake of this week's United Nations vote authorizing theuse of force in the Persian Gulf, growing numbers of Americans withfamily members held hostage in Iraq are considering trips toBaghdad to negotiate for their release.Over the last 48 hours, the offices of the ...
BUSH'S MOVE GIVES IRAQ A DIPLOMATIC WAY OUT
Dec 01, 1990; ... WASHINGTON - If President Saddam Hussein is searching for adiplomatic cover for withdrawing his troops from Kuwait,yesterday's dramatic offer by President Bush to talk directly withIraq may have handed him the opportunity, diplomats and analystssaid.But administration officials ...
CRISIS AT A GLANCE YESTERDAY
Dec 01, 1990 ... President Bush offered to hold direct talks with Iraq in aneffort to resolve the Persian Gulf crisis peacefully, but warnedthat if war broke out the United States would score a quick anddecisive victory.Congressional leaders praised Bush's decision to seekdiplomatic talks with ...
ILL. HIGH COURT VOIDS PART OF CHICAGO'S SCHOOL REFORM LAW
Dec 01, 1990; ... CHICAGO - The state Supreme Court yesterday declaredunconstitutional a part of a state law that made sweeping reformsin Chicago's public schools. Supporters of the law said the Legislature could correct theproblem. The court ruled that the process for electing the ...
STAR OF THE DAY
Dec 01, 1990 ... Barbara Bush crowns the 65-foot National Christmas Tree -- a liveblue spruce -- during a ceremony yesterday on the Ellipse inWashington ....
REGULATOR CRITICIZES GIFTS TO CRANSTON
Dec 01, 1990; ... WASHINGTON - A former chief thrift regulator has told theSenate Ethics Committee he would have been "very disturbed" if hehad known Sen. Alan Cranston received contributions from Charles H.Keating Jr. at about the same times that the California senatorinquired about an investigation ...
DRUG-SNIFFING DOG DIES IN FLA. TRAFFIC
Dec 01, 1990; ... ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - Canine Major, a Florida HighwayPatrol German shepherd who sniffed out $100,000 worth of drugsduring his career, was killed when he was struck by a car onInterstate 95. "It's certainly a sad day for us. Naturally, we feel like welost a trooper," said ...
JOBLESS AS CHRISTMAS DRAWS NEAR, WOMAN CAN'T BUY GIFTS FOR CHILDREN
Dec 01, 1990; ... Layoffs have hurt many families this year, and the closer it getsto Christmas the more some parents long for the jobs they once hadand the happy Christmas mornings they could plan for their children.Gone are the Christmas shopping trips, the fun of compilinglists of toys that the ...
MAYOR WILL LIGHT THE LIGHTS, GREET THE SEASON TOMORROW
Dec 01, 1990; ... Mayor Flynn will switch on more than 100,000 lights strungaround Boston Common tomorrow, officially launching the city'sholiday season. Beginning at 3 p.m., the 42d annual Christmas tree-lightingfestivities will feature local musical groups, including theBoston ...
SOFT ROCKS
Dec 01, 1990 ... Seals bask on a seaweed-covered outcropping yesterday in Manomet./ GLOBE ...
CHURCHES MUST REASSERT ROLE
Dec 01, 1990; ... With Boston breaking its own murder record, there is a chillingfeeling -- which has nothing to do with oncoming winter -- that thecity's killings are going to get a lot worse.Nobody, it appears, has the answer to stop this senselessmurder, mostly among our inner-city youth. Not ...
MBTA PANEL REJECTS FARE HIKE AUTHORITY'S BUDGET CUT BY $12.4 MILLION
Dec 01, 1990; ... A fiscal watchdog group that oversees the Massachusetts BayTransportation Authority yesterday rejected a recommendation thatthe MBTA increase subway and bus fares 20 percent. At the same timethe group trimmed $12.4 million from the MBTA's next annual budget.The action by the ...
SUPERVISOR IN ABUSE CASE ALSO SAID TO BE SCHOOL NURSE
Dec 01, 1990; ... A male nursing supervisor who was fired last month fromMetropolitan State Hospital for allegedly sexually abusing twofemale psychiatric patients has also been working as a school nursein the Boston public schools, the Globe has learned.Thomas Dunlap, a former nursing ...
DELAY SOUGHT ON PLATE REGULATIONS
Dec 01, 1990; ... Without debate or a roll-call vote, lawmakers have sentGov. Dukakis a bill delaying for a year new regulations fordealer, repair and other special registration plates that aredesigned to crack down on abuses by scofflaws who evade millionsof dollars in taxes.The ...
CHIEF JUSTICE STARTED, THEN HELPED STOP, COURT CHANGES
Dec 01, 1990; ... Two months after he began the process of reorganizing thecourts, the state's chief justice this week helped bring it to ahalt by telling lawmakers in a letter that he had reservationsabout the bill pushed by Gov. Dukakis.The last-minute letter from Paul J. Liacos, chief ...
A HAND EXTENDED OVER OLD BATTLE LINES
Dec 01, 1990; ... WALTHAM - No sooner had Nguyen Ngoc Hung emptied the clipof his AK-47 at the American Huey helicopter in Quang Tri Provincethan he began thinking: "This is ridiculous. I have just attacked alow-flying, heavily armed American gunship with my rifle; now it'sturning around and firing ...
AGREEMENT REACHED ON PLAN TO TELEVISE STATE SENATE PROCEEDINGS
Dec 01, 1990; ... After years of technical difficulties, television is aboutto come to the Massachusetts State Senate.Senate President William Bulger announced yesterday that theSenate and the Massachusetts Corporation for EducationalTelecommunications have agreed in principle on a plan to ...
UPROOTED ON THE CAPE
Dec 01, 1990 ... The skeleton of a tree's root system, showing where solid landonce existed, illustrates the erosion of Chatham's shoreline sincean ...
UNITARIANS TO SELL TOBACCO HOLDINGS
Dec 01, 1990; ... The board of trustees of the Unitarian Universalist Association,based in Boston, has decided to divest itself of stocks and bondsof companies engaged in the manufacture and distribution of tobaccoproducts.To benefit the Action for Boston Community Development fuelaid program, the ...
SURVEY: ABORTION PENALTY TOO HARSH
Dec 01, 1990; ... WASHINGTON - A survey by Catholics for a Free Choice has foundthat 71 percent of Catholics believe a doctor who performs anabortion should not be excommunicated; 73 percent opposeexcommunication of legislators who support abortion ...
BISHOP OPPOSES US INTERVENTION
Dec 01, 1990; ... PROVIDENCE - The Episcopal Church's presiding bishop used therecent 200th anniversary of the Rhode Island Episcopal Church as aforum to warn against US intervention in the Middle East. BishopEdmond L. Browning told 4,500 people at the Nov. 18 service thatAmericans should not think that ...
RECORD HIGH TIDES FOR WORLD'S SEACOASTS EXPECTED MONDAY
Dec 01, 1990; ... This Monday, Bostonians, and the rest of the world'sseacoast residents, will experience the high tides of a lifetime --but don't get too excited.They'll exceed the runner-up by only about an inch.The uncommonly high tides, which except for those caused bystorms ...
PETER ADAMIAN, 90 OPERATED AUTO DEALERSHIPS
Dec 01, 1990 ... Peter Adamian, founder of the former Somerville Buickdealership, died in his sleep Thursday in a nursing home inDeerfield Beach, Fla., where he lived. He was 90 and maintainedanother home in Belmont.Born in Kharpet, Armenia, Mr. Adamian came to the UnitedStates when he ...
EDMUND GAMBLE, 84 TAUGHT AT MIT FOR 36 YEARS
Dec 01, 1990 ... Edmund Lee Gamble, professor emeritus of chemistry at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology, died of cancer Wednesday atCape Cod Hospital, Hyannis. He was 84 and lived in Marstons Mills.Mr. Gamble retired in 1970 after 36 years on the MIT faculty.He lived in Newton ...
JAMES NAGLE, 87 WORKED ON RAILROADS FOR 50 YEARS
Dec 01, 1990 ... James Nagle, whose career with the New Haven and the Boston& Maine railroads spanned half a century, died Wednesday at hishome in West Roxbury. He was 87.Mr. Nagle retired in 1968 after nine years as regional salesmanager of the B & M. He began in 1918 with the ...
DR. SANFORD REDER, 52 DIRECTED DRUG TREATMENT PROGRAM
Dec 01, 1990 ... Dr. Sanford Reder, medical director of the Harvard StreetNeighborhood Health Center in Dorchester in the 1970s and of theDrug Problem Resource Center in Cambridge in the early 1980s, diedThursday in the SIGNA Medical Center in Los Angeles ofcomplications from AIDS. He was 52 and a ...
WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT, 83 HELPED BUILD ATOMIC BOMB FUSE
Dec 01, 1990 ... William F. Lightfoot, program manager of the Raytheon Co.team that built the fuse for the atomic bomb during World War II,died of a heart attack Wednesday in his home in Bradford, Vt. Hewas 83.A native of Kansas City, Kan., who dropped out of high schoolto enter the ...
INDIAN COURT LETS WIFE BEAT HUSBAND
Dec 01, 1990; ... BORSAD, India - A local court permitted a woman to publiclybeat her husband before it granted him a divorce, United News ofIndia reported yesterday. The beating occurred Oct. 7 but went unreported until asocial organization, apparently outraged by the incident,complained ...
MOB KILLS FOUR HELD IN ECUADOR PRISON
Dec 01, 1990; ... QUITO, Ecuador - A mob stormed a jail and burned to death aman and his three sons who had been arrested on charges of killinga shopkeeper, police said yesterday. About 1,500 people surrounded the jail in La Mana, a village71 miles southeast of Quito, forcing the guards to ...
UPCOMING NAACP ELECTION CHALLENGED PAST LOCAL PRESIDENT MAKES CHARGES
Dec 01, 1990; ... Jack E. Robinson, a past president of the Boston branch of the NAACP, said yesterday that he wants to compete for thepresidency again on Dec. 20. But, he charged, the incumbent won'tlet him."He only accepted people on his team," said Robinson, who waselected president in ...
ASK THE GLOBE / CORRECTION
Dec 01, 1990 ... CORRECTION: Several of our readers justifiably caught us with ourarithmetical resources somewhat below par in last Saturday'sedition of Ask the Globe. The item noted that the Australian dollarwas "pegged at about 76 US cents," but then ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1990 ... Q. What is Hobson's Choice? H.H., Boston A. The term means no choice at all and takes its name from a mannamed either Thomas or Tobias Hobson, an innkeeper in 18th centuryCambridge, England. Hobson, it seems, kept a stable of some 40horses for hire. To protect his best ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1990 ... Q. Was his role as boxer Rocky Graziano in the movie"Somebody Up There Likes Me" Paul Newman's first screen appearance? D.F., Fields Corner A. In The Film Encyclopedia, Ephraim Katz states Newman's firstmovie role ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1990 ... Q. Why do the Boy Scouts use the motto, "Be Prepared"? H.R., Boston A. In addition to being inspirational, the first letters of themotto's words are the first letters of the hyphenated name of thefounder of the Boy Scout movement, Lord Robert Baden-Powell, aBritish army ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1990 ... Q. When and what was Woodstock? R.M., BostonA. An estimated 400,000 people attended the mammoth rockfestival held outdoors (despite abundant rainfall) on a 600-acredairy farm in Bethel, N.Y., from Aug. 15-17, 1969, in a haze ofmusic, drugs and antiwar sentiments that ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1990 ... Q. What has happened to the Boston School Volunteers? Iwould like to donate some of my time in one of the city's publicschools. K.M., BostonA. Boston School Volunteers is now part of Boston Partners inEducation -- an umbrella group that includes both individuals ...
CLAPPROOD DAMPENS SPECULATION ON EARLY CHALLENGE
Dec 01, 1990; ... Marjorie Clapprood, the unsuccessful Democratic candidatefor lieutenant governor, has moved to cool speculation that shewill challenge Rep. Joseph Early (D-Mass.) in 1992."The only decision I've made is not to make any decisionsuntil the new year," she said earlier this ...
R.I. WOMAN'S BODY FOUND IN ATTLEBORO
Dec 01, 1990; ... The body of a 26-year-old Rhode Island woman, who had beenmissing for more than a month, was found Thursday along Interstate295 in Attleboro, State Police said yesterday.Debra L. Bean of Pawtucket was found by two Department ofPublic Works employees about 60 feet from the ...
CITING 'FALSE' TESTIMONY, JUDGE DISMISSES CHARGES
Dec 01, 1990; ... A Superior Court judge Thursday dismissed two-year-oldkidnapping and assault charges against an Attleboro man because apolice detective gave "false and deceptive" testimony to a BristolCounty grand jury.On May 12, 1988, Melissa Haselton told Attleboro police that aman had ...
S. BOSTON FIRE DRIVES 6 FAMILIES FROM HOUSE
Dec 01, 1990; ... A three-alarm fire in South Boston drove six families intothe street last night shortly after 6 p.m. A fire official said thefire was suspicious in origin. Two firefighters collapsed whilebattling the blaze and were taken to Boston City Hospital.A Fire Department spokesman ...
BULGARIA ELECTION TO BE HELD IN MAY
Dec 01, 1990; ... SOFIA, Bulgaria - Elections will be held in six months toreplace Parliament, which has been dominated by former PremierAndrei Lukanov's unpopular governing Socialist Party, according tonews reports yesterday. The trade union newspaper Trud ...
BRITAIN'S QUEEN SWEARS IN MAJOR
Dec 01, 1990; ... LONDON - Prime Minister John Major was sworn into officeyesterday by Queen Elizabeth II at a Privy Council meeting atBuckingham Palace. During the ceremony, which has taken place sincethe Middle Ages, Major and the five new members of his Cabinetkissed her hand and were made ...
ISRAEL CANCELS SUBMARINE PLANS
Dec 01, 1990; ... JERUSALEM - Defense Minister Moshe Arens canceled yesterday theconstruction of two submarines on order at a German shipyard,saying Israel does not have the money to pay for ...
EARLY TALKS SEEN ON NUCLEAR ARMS
Dec 01, 1990; ... VIENNA - The chief Soviet negotiator at talks on reducingconventional arms in Europe said yesterday he believes newnegotiations to reduce tactical nuclear weapons on the continentcan start within two months. The comments of Oleg Grinevsky toreporters were believed to be the first time an ...
CHAD REBEL FORCES SEIZE MAJOR TOWN
Dec 01, 1990; ... PARIS - Rebel forces trying to topple the Chad governmentcaptured the country's largest eastern town, bypassing Frenchtroops based there and moving in without a fight, the FrenchForeign Ministry said yesterday. The taking of Abeche, 500 milesfrom the ...
UMASS-AMHERST PLANS FURLOUGHS
Dec 01, 1990 ... In an effort to cope with budget cutbacks, officials at theUniversity of Massachusetts at Amherst notified three unions thatworkers may be furloughed Dec. 26-28. Karin Sherbin, director ofthe university's news office, said contractual obligations calledfor the unions to be notified 15 ...
N.H. MAN CHARGED IN DRIVING DEATH
Dec 01, 1990; ... NORTH ANDOVER - A Salem, N.H., man was charged with motorvehicle homicide while driving drunk in connection with the deathof a Georgetown man. Robert J. Gillis, 27, was arraigned inLawrence District Court yesterday in connection with an accidentThursday afternoon that claimed the life of ...
GAG ORDER LIFTED IN SUIT OVER RAPE
Dec 01, 1990 ... A state Appeals Court judge yesterday lifted a gag order imposedon the lawyer representing a woman who is suing a private Harvardclub where she says she was raped two years ago. Judge Raya S.Dreben ruled that lawyers for the Pi Eta Speakers Associates failedto show why the order was ...
FIVE ARE INDICTED IN CHECK SCHEME
Dec 01, 1990 ... A federal grand jury yesterday indicted five Roxbury residents,charging they defrauded area banks of $194,400. Indicted wereStephen D. Wright, 37; Estelle Wright, 38; Kathryn L. Young, 28,Jerial Richardson, 46; and Roger J. Hinds, 41. According to ...