The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from February 1991:
Substance in human cells is found to suppress the spread of AIDS
Feb 01, 1991; ...WASHINGTON -- Glutathione, a natural molecule that is vital tocells in the body, has been found in test tube experiments topowerfully suppress the spread of the AIDS virus, a researcherreported yesterday. Dr. Alton Meister, co-author of a study to be published Sundayinthe ...
1,000 Albanians demonstrate Protesters demand the resignation of foreign minister
Feb 01, 1991; ...TIRANA, Albania -- More than 1,000 demonstrators demandedyesterday the resignation of Foreign Minister Reis Malile in a rarepublic protest in Communist Albania. Students and workers joined pensioners and housewives on agrassybank opposite Tirana's Foreign Ministry, chanting ...
For Iraq, a victory in defeat
Feb 01, 1991; ... DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia -- Forty-two smoldering Iraqi tanks and atleast 160 Iraqi prisoners notwithstanding, the two-day battle forcontrol of the Saudi coastal resort town of Khafji appears to haveleft the victors embarrassed and the vanquished ecstatic. War's consequences are ...
Globe appoints five to editorial posts
Feb 01, 1991 ... Five new editorial appointments at The Boston Globe wereannouncedyesterday by Editor John S. Driscoll. Mary Jane Wilkinson, who was Living editor, has been named Artseditor. She will oversee all arts coverage for the Globe, includingthe Sunday Arts Etc. section. Nick King, ...
Abraham to play Lear at ART
Feb 01, 1991; ...F. Murray Abraham, who won an Oscar for his performance as thescheming Salieri in "Amadeus," will climb a metaphorical mountainthis May when he takes on the title role in the American RepertoryTheater's production of Shakespeare's "King Lear." "Boy oh boy, am Idelighted," Abraham said ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Feb 01, 1991 ... Q. How can I donate blood for US forces in the Middle East?D.N.,BrooklineA. Elizabeth Hall, spokesman for the American Red Cross, says theRedCross has made no special appeal at this time for blood donationsbecause there is no ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Feb 01, 1991 ... Q. I am looking for an address to which I can mail a card orletter to a serviceman or woman serving in the Persian Gulf. J.P.,MarshfieldA. You can send a card or letter to "Any ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Feb 01, 1991 ... Q. The words to "Hail To the Chief," which is played to announcethe arrival of the president of the United States, were taken fromSir Walter Scott's poem, "The Lady of the Lake." Who wrote the musicand when was the song adopted for use by US presidents? R.W.,CentervilleA. The Great ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Feb 01, 1991 ... Q. Do penguins have feathers? L.P., WeymouthA. The World Book Encyclopedia indicates that all penguins haveshort, thick feathers on their stocky bodies. The feathers are whiteon the belly and black or bluish-black on the back. Some penguinshave crests of long ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Feb 01, 1991 ... Q. Why were parking meters installed in the Charlestown NavyYard?C.G., RandolphA. Paul Barrett, associate director of the Boston RedevelopmentAuthority, says installation of parking meters was a joint decisionmade in 1990 by the BRA, the Charlestown Neighborhood Council ...
ASK THE GLOBE / THE ADDRESS BOOK:
Feb 01, 1991 ... For S.N., Boston -- Frank Sinatra, Sinatra Enterprises, 1041NorthFormosa Ave., Hollywood, CA 90046For D.S., Hyde Park -- "The Cosby Show," NBC-TV, 30 RockefellerPlaza, New York, NY 10020For E.S., Marblehead -- MTV, 1775 Broadway, New York, NY 10019For N.G., Boston -- Heather ...
BAGHDAD Life in the capital is calm by day, war-weary by night, refugees say
Feb 01, 1991; ... RUWEISHED, Jordan -- Daytime life seems almost normal inbomb-battered Baghdad, said refugees who entered Jordan yesterday.But at night, air raid sirens wail and people retreat to shelters. Many refugees said they had seen civilians hurt by allied bombs, and nearly all reported ...
Howard Baker, 90 Was entomologist for USDA
Feb 01, 1991 ... Howard Baker, a retired entomologist with the US Department ofAgriculture who raised and sold fruit at his farm in Marshfield,diedyesterday at his home in the town. He was 90. Born in Marshfield, he was a graduate of MassachusettsAgricultureCollege, now the University of ...
`From Royals': playful, pretty and poignant
Feb 01, 1991; ... BOSTON BALLET In "From the Royals," at the Wang Center for the Performing Arts last night. Program repeats, with cast changes, through Feb. 10 Boston Ballet's current program, "From the Royals," pays homageto pure classicism, unaffected by the ...
Banking changes: They're coming but a long way off
Feb 01, 1991; ... Don't hold your breath. The banking crisis is here in a big way, but big changes in thebanking system are a long way off. As consumers, bankers and lawmakers await next week's unveilingofthe Bush administration's banking reform proposal, a sense ofurgencygrows. But as ...
Coughlin is in overdrive as he hits the road for BC
Feb 01, 1991; ... Not all the Giants, it seems, got to enjoy a day at Disney Worldafter winning the Super Bowl. While game MVP Ottis Anderson yukked it up with Goofy and Mickeyat the Magic Kingdom the day after New York's 20-19 victory over the Buffalo Bills, Boston College head coach Tom Coughlin, ...
Father, brother sent to the gulf
Feb 01, 1991 ... Dear Beth: My dad is in the reserves, and he's just been told he's going toSaudi Arabia! My brother is stationed in Germany, and I miss him,butI never worried about him. Now he may be going to the Middle EastandI'm afraid even my boyfriend is too!! I can't stand this. It has ...
Weld fund-raiser opens consulting firm
Feb 01, 1991; ...Peter Berlandi, chief money man for Francis X. Bellotti and mostrecently for Gov. Weld, has started his own business consultingventure, Custom House Street Associates. Berlandi's partners include attorneys David I. Finnegan andRichard J. Underwood. Their firm, Finnegan Underwood ...
Strike looms at USX Corp.
Feb 01, 1991 ...A possible strike by thousands of workers at the nation'sbiggeststeelmaker moved a step closer after the union said it is still farfrom clinching a new labor contract with USX Corp. The two sidescontinued to try to thrash out a deal but the United Steelworkers ofAmerica union was ...
New home sales at 8-year low
Feb 01, 1991 ...Sales of new homes in the United States fell 17.5 percent lastyear to the lowest level since 1982, the government reported. Salesfor the year totaled 463,000, according to a joint report by the USdepartments of Commerce and Housing and Urban Development, comparedwith 650,000 in 1989 ....
Mips to unveil new computer
Feb 01, 1991; ...MIPS COMPUTER SYSTEMS Inc., which is struggling at the hands ofarchrival Sun Microsystems Inc., plans to unveil today a superfastmicroprocessor that industry analysts say should establish Mips as along-term player in the computer workstation market. Mips generatesmost of its sales by ...
Union boss won't contest report
Feb 01, 1991; ...Top aides to Teamster president William J. McCarthy said theunion leader will not contest a federal report demanding the giantunion terminate a multimillion-dollar printing contract McCarthyshifted to a firm run by his son-in-law in 1989. The report,preparedby Frederick Lacey, the ...
Etc.: Wearguard buys Wright
Feb 01, 1991 ...WEARGUARD CORP. of Norwell, a work clothing manufacturer andretailer, said it has bought the assets of E. T. Wright & Co., aRockland-based shoe manufacturer founded in 1876. A price was notdisclosed . . . The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine,saidit is eliminating more than ...
Today . . .
Feb 01, 1991 ...For analysts who saw the Index of Leading Indicators edge aheadas a sign that the recession will be short, the predictedunemployment rate for January will also be encouraging. The nationalrate is expected to have inched ...
Deadline will be set next week on BNE bids
Feb 01, 1991; ... Federal bank regulators are expected next week to set a deadlinefor bids to buy the failed Bank of New England, officials saidyesterday. Officials from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which tookover the bank on Jan. 6, said bid packages to prospective buyersshould also be ...
Moog OK, will start tomorrow
Feb 01, 1991; ... Matt DelGuidice made it to the big time last night, carriedthere on Reggie Lemelin's back. Well, not exactly, but bad backspasms for Lemelin meant a good break for DelGuidice, and the23-year-old netminder was on the Boston bench -- backing up AndyMoog-- when the Bruins started off to ...
A murder in 19th-century Vermont -- or was it really murder?
Feb 01, 1991; ... THE `COUNTERFEIT' MAN The True Story of the Boorn-Colvin Murder Case By Gerald McFarland Pantheon, 242 pages, $24.95, illustrated On May 10, 1812, Stephen and Jesse Boorn were working on theirfather's Manchester, Vt., farm. Also with them were ...
Release of Iran-contra book OK'd
Feb 01, 1991; ...NEW YORK -- A federal judge cleared the way yesterday forpublication of an insider's book about the Iran-contra probe,dismissing special prosecutor Lawrence E. Walsh's contention thatthebook could jeopardize his investigation. The book, "Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer's ...
Glen Brickman, 36 Film maker from Brookline
Feb 01, 1991 ... Glen Brickman of Brookline, a film maker and cofounder of VopanMarketing Research of Boston, died Wednesday in a skiing accidentnear Grenoble, France. He was 36. A native of New York and a 1976 graduate of Brown University, Mr. Brickman helped open the research firm in ...
Poulin no idle threat
Feb 01, 1991; ... The Bruins threw Dave Poulin into the fire last night -- and hesaid, "I'm staying this time." Three times this season he has comeback, first from a groin injury that cost him 17 games, then a boutwith flu that cost him two more, and finally a freak accident, abroken jaw that kept him ...
A high 5 as Bruins rip Montreal
Feb 01, 1991; ... Stop the season, the Bruins say, they want to get off. It'sFebruary? Then warp speed ahead, Scotty, or whoever up there is incharge of the calendar, and carry them on winged skates to April.All of a sudden, it's beginning to look like a playoff team.Paced by five goal ...
Weld airs broad $2.6b saving plan Education, local aid, human services hit
Feb 01, 1991; ... Jane Poss and Diane Lewis of the Globe Staff contributed to this report. Four weeks after taking the reins of a fiscally tottering stategovernment, Gov. Weld yesterday unveiled a $2.6 billion savingspackage that would create the most sweeping reorganization ...
Proposal to sell state property for $560 million met with doubt
Feb 01, 1991; ...Puzzlement and skepticism greeted Gov. Weld's assertionyesterdaythat the state can reap $560 million from the sale of property intheregion's dismal real estate market. Weld provided few details of his proposal, part of a larger,$2.6-billion, two-year budget cutting plan. He ...
ROXBURY RESCUE
Feb 01, 1991 ...Boston firefighter Joe Adduci administers oxygen to a mansuffering from smoke inhalation after a ...
SCHOOL GOODBYE
Feb 01, 1991 ... The last residents of the Laconia State School in New Hampshireleave the 88-year-old institution, which closed ...
Pasquale Carisella, 68 Military historian and author
Feb 01, 1991 ... A funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. today in St. Joseph'sChurch, Wakefield, for Pasquale J. Carisella, a military historianand author of "Who Killed the Red Baron -- The Final Answer" andother books. Mr. Carisella died of a heart attack Monday in his winter homeinFort ...
Celtics hoping to expand streak against newcomers
Feb 01, 1991; ... BROOKLINE -- They're 10-0 against Charlotte since the Hornetsjoined the NBA and 26-1 against the four newest expansion teams inthe league. But any speculation about an easy 27th tonight in Charlotte wasquashed by Celtics coach Chris Ford yesterday after practice atHellenic ...
Mariah Carey gets respect
Feb 01, 1991 ... Mariah Carey continues to get dismissed as a Whitney Houstonsoundalike and a woman whose songs no one remembers. But Carey ishaving the last laugh, for her self-titled "Mariah Carey" album shotup to No. 1 in Boston this week. It's a remarkable showing given the album has already ...
Police seek 3 men for murders of 5 in Chinatown club
Feb 01, 1991; ... Boston police have secured arrest warrants for three Vietnamesegang members they allege murdered five Asian men inside a Chinatownsocial club last month. Detective Lt. Edward J. McNelley, chief of the homicide squad,yesterday issued photographs and brief biographies of the ...
New fronts in Boston's `opera wars'
Feb 01, 1991; ...Last week Boston's "opera wars" took a couple of new turns. Onewas the predictable triumph of the Boston Opera Theater's PeterSellars-Craig Smith production of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro."Last Sunday more than 500 people lined up for the 161 rush seatsthatwere available for ...
Derek Smith on mend
Feb 01, 1991; ... BROOKLINE -- Derek Smith, who is rehabilitating his left knee inhopes of making it into the Celtics' lineup this season, was in anupbeat mood yesterday. "I think I'm a week or two away from scrimmaging," said theveteran swingman signed as a free agent in December. Smith, ...
9 men arraigned on cocaine charges
Feb 01, 1991 ... Nine men accused of participating in a cocaine distribution ringin the Haverhill area were charged yesterday with drug conspiracyanddrug possession charges by US Drug Enforcement Administrationagents. The nine defendants allegedly dealt in quantities of cocaine uptoabout two ...
Velvet-voiced Freddy Cole Nat's younger brother has his own smooth style
Feb 01, 1991; ...During a recent appearance by jazz pianist George Shearing atRegattabar, the audience had the distinct pleasure of observinganother wonderful performer -- Freddy Cole. In town for a stint atScullers, Nat Cole's younger brother was seated in the rear of theroom, looking suspiciously ...
Horan shoots for title
Feb 01, 1991; ... Suffolk senior Brian Horan from Somerville is on the verge ofwinning the ECAC North Division 3 scoring title for the thirdstraight year. The senior has 28 goals and 32 assists for 60 points this season(tops in the East in all divisions) and holds all of Suffolk'sseasonand ...
CORRECTION
Feb 01, 1991 ...CORRECTION: Because of a reporting error, a story in yesterday'sBusiness section incorrectly ...
CORRECTION
Feb 01, 1991 ...CORRECTION: Because of a reporting error, yesterday's Calendarpublished the wrong telephone number for "The Indian Wants theBronx"and "Zoo Story," two one-act ...
Weld's budget calls for 71% cut in cultural funds
Feb 01, 1991; ... The Massachusetts Cultural Council's fiscal 1992 budget has beenslashed from its current $12.6 million to $3.6 million in Gov.Weld'sproposed budget-balancing plan announced yesterday. Several unanswered questions that lingered late Wednesday werecleared up yesterday. For one, the ...
Low-key approach earns high rating
Feb 01, 1991; ...Who is Dick Lutsk, anyway? He is host of "SportsCall" on WRKO, Boston's most popularnightlysports radio show, whose preeminence began last June, the monthLutsktook over. That success prompted WRKO last month to promote him frompart-time to a full-time personality. Yet ...
John S. DeVries, 76 Founded two firms in Wakefield
Feb 01, 1991 ... John S. DeVries of Winchester, retired founder of DeVriesPlumbingand Heating and of DeVries Construction, both based in Wakefield,died Tuesday in Massachusetts General Hospital. He was 76. Mr. DeVries opened his plumbing business in 1947 and hisconstruction firm in ...
Two culinary magnets in emerging neighborhoods
Feb 01, 1991; ...A weekly pair of updated capsule reviews to remind readers ofarea restaurants that have made the most favorable impression on theBoston Globe restaurant critic. BUONICONTI'S * * *143 First St., CambridgeTelephone 491-3663The opening of Buoniconti's on First Street last ...
Bush urges 11% hike for drug war
Feb 01, 1991; ... WASHINGTON -- Armed with figures showing national drug use downmarkedly over the past 18 months, President Bush proposed yesterdayan increase in federal spending on the drug war by another 11percent, saying his commitment to the issue was unswerving.Bush's national drug ...
An unloved stamp
Feb 01, 1991 ...Here's a stamp that will be used by almost everyone who has afew25-cent stamps stashed away. It could have been a greatadvertisementfor the Postal Service; instead, it is probably the ugliest stampissued in the US this century. Spokesmen for the Postal Service sayit had to convey a ...
Dr. Samuel Epstein, 88 Was neurologist, psychiatrist
Feb 01, 1991 ... Dr. Samuel H. Epstein, a neurologist and psychiatrist for morethan half a century, died yesterday of heart failure at his home inBoston's Back Bay. He was 88. A graduate of Amherst College in 1923 and Harvard Medical Schoolin 1927, he conducted research in neurosyphillis there and ...
Weld's first painful budget
Feb 01, 1991 ... Poor people will read Gov. Weld's proposed state budget with fullrecognition that, despite his hope that it would not be balanced ontheir backs, they are going to have less rather than more help.Although the governor has tried to spare the "most needy," he cannot cut back on Medicaid, ...
FBI interviewing Arab-Americans, Iraqi nationals
Feb 01, 1991; ... Since the Persian Gulf war began, FBI agents in Boston have ledaneffort by law enforcement agencies to establish contacts withArab-American community leaders for purposes of gatheringintelligence about possible terrorist attacks in New England. The FBI also has begun interviewing ...
Some underpinnings could prove shaky
Feb 01, 1991; ... While much of the state's political establishment is hoping thatGov. Weld's mammoth plan to end deficit spending is solid, there areearly signs that some of the underpinnings of hiserase-a-deficit-quick scheme are on shaky ground. Within hours of Weld's press conference yesterday ...
John N. Fisher, 65 Was banker, sheep breeder
Feb 01, 1991 ... Services will be held today at 2 p.m. in the North PomfretCongregational Church in Vermont for John Noble Fisher, a sheepbreeder, storekeeper and former bank executive who died Monday ofstomach cancer in Dartmouth-Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital inHanover, N.H. He was 65 and lived in ...
Elizabeth Flather, 87 Noted for service to community
Feb 01, 1991 ... A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in ChristChurch United of Lowell for Elizabeth (Newell) Flather of Bedford, aformer trustee of the Florence Crittenton League of America and theCrittenton Hastings House of Brighton, agencies serving unmarriedpregnant ...
Flowers that fool the eye, if not the nose
Feb 01, 1991; ... Whether or not Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow tomorrow,groundhog time is the six weeks between the last of the windowsillgardener's flowering bulbs and the first spring flowers in thegarden. But suppose you can't wait for real daffodils and crocuses.Suppose you long for the peonies of ...
The right call needed now Clemens vs. Cooney is the litmus test
Feb 01, 1991; ...The final burden of proof is in the CBS film library. If asecondary camera that was running throughout the fourth game of theAmerican League Championship Series turns up something that the gametapes did not, then fine, Terry Cooney told the truth. But if itdoesn't -- and CBS people ...
Black scholar says yes to Harvard
Feb 01, 1991; ... Henry Louis Gates Jr., one of the country's preeminent blackscholars, accepted Harvard University's offer yesterday to becomechairman of its African-American Studies department. Gates, an English literature professor at Duke University inDurham, N.C., will also be jointly appointed ...
Press vs. military: It's time to strike a balance
Feb 01, 1991; ... As in every war since war correspondents came into being, thebattle between the press corp and the military over access toinformation has been joined. It is in the nature of things that thepress, and that includes radio and television, wants everythingmade available and at once. It ...
Saudi town is retaken in fierce fight Iraq reported to mass force near border
Feb 01, 1991; ... Globe staff writer Walter V. Robinson in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, contributed to this report, which was compiled by Pamela Constable in Washington. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi troops backed by US Marines andaircraft yesterday repelled the first sustained Iraqi ...
Saudi town is retaken in fierce fight Allies said to bomb new Iraqi column
Feb 01, 1991; ... Walter V. Robinson, in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, contributed to this report, which was compiled by Pamela Constable in Washington. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi troops backed by US Marines andaircraft yesterday repelled the first sustained Iraqi ground strikeof ...
Harvard Medical facing US probe for fund abuses
Feb 01, 1991; ... Harvard Medical School will be investigated by federalauthoritiesfor possible abuses of federal research grants, a burgeoning scandalthat recently prompted embarrassing revelations at StanfordUniversity. The General Accounting Office is scheduled to begin the inquiryMarch 1, ...