The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from March 1991:
State college flight continues; head of UMass due to leave
Mar 01, 1991; ... University of Massachusetts president Joseph D. Duffey will benamed this afternoon as the president of American University inWashington, sources said. Duffey's departure from UMass would be the latest evidence of a"brain drain" in the state's public higher education system -- ...
McGovern says Legislature faces crucial decisions
Mar 01, 1991; ... Senate Ways and Means chairwoman Patricia McGovern yesterday saidthe decisions the Legislature will have to make regarding next year'sstate budget will be "where the rubber hits the proverbial road,"echoing comments earlier this week by her House counterpart that therecent debate over ...
O'Neal: set to hit the charts
Mar 01, 1991; ... ALEXANDER O'NEAL All True Man Tabu/Epic CD and cassette Alexander O'Neal -- with his slick, menacing good looks andlyrical growl -- is one of soul music's most underrated singers,until now. He recalls the heyday of the R & B crooner, with ...
US agency says it will not accept key aspect of artery-tunnel plan
Mar 01, 1991; ... Federal highway officials yesterday agreed to start their finalenvironmental review of the Central Artery-Third Harbor Tunnelproject, but said they will disassociate themselves from legallybinding agreements forcing the project to pay for billions of dollarsin public-transit and parkland ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Mar 01, 1991 ...Q. How many countries deployed military forces to the PersianGulf region for the war against Iraq? J.S., BostonA. Perhaps it's due to diverse counting systems, but there seems tobe no clear-cut answer to your question. One source we checkedindicated 33 nations had contributed military ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Mar 01, 1991 ...Q. What ever became of Lawrence Welk's "Champagne Lady," AliceLon? H.M., TauntonA. Lon died in a Texas hospital in 1981 after suffering for manyyears from scleroderma -- a thickening and hardening of the skin.Born Alice Wyche in Monroe, Texas, she began singing on local radioat age ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Mar 01, 1991 ...Q. What is urea? E.O., ChathamA. Urea (also called carbamide) is an organic compound used infertilizer and animal feeds and to make other chemical compounds. Itoccurs as white crystals or powder and has a faint odor. Theplastics industry uses urea to manufacture resins. It also is ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Mar 01, 1991 ...Q. Can you explain the meaning of the term `R-value'? E.D.,WabanA. Lee Edes, executive director of the Insulation ContractorsAssociation of America in Rockville, Md., tells us the R in R-valuestands for resistance and that R-value is the thermal ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Mar 01, 1991 ...Q. Where in Maine is Lobster Lake? C.Y., BoltonA. The irregularly shaped body of water is in west central Maine,just east ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Mar 01, 1991 ...Q. How can I subscribe to the British magazine Nature? L.H.,NantucketA. The weekly's masthead suggests you send your subscription fee($135 ...
`Road to Nirvana' -- savagely good satire
Mar 01, 1991; ... Arthur Kopit's Hollywood satire, "Road to Nirvana," a nasty pieceof good writing, appears in the March issue of American Theater.Kopit's savagely sparkling play was commissioned in 1989 by theActors Theater for the Humana Festival of New Plays, held each springin Louisville. It was then ...
Blustery bearer of blues
Mar 01, 1991; ... LaVern Baker isn't playing the "star" today, thank you. She'sdoing her laundry and -- between cycles -- cuddling her crazed cat, aslinky long-haired gray with snowy paws. "This cat curses me out when I come home late," she says. "Hethinks he owns me. You should see him, wide awake ...
DIPLOMACY Baker trip to give signs of US goals
Mar 01, 1991; ... WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d's high-profilevisit to the Middle East next week will mark the administration'sfirst attempt to translate its battlefield pounding of Iraq intodiplomatic clout in the region. Baker wants to use greatly enhanced US prestige to ...
Boston Ballet's `Treasure' of stars
Mar 01, 1991; ... TREASURES OF LES BALLETS RUSSES Performed by Boston Ballet last night at the Wang Center, where the program continues, with changing casts, through March 10 The very words "Ballets Russes" conjure up the glamour andexoticism of the Russian dancers who ...
Poll shows approval of Weld, budget cuts
Mar 01, 1991; ... Massachusetts citizens solidly back Gov. Weld and say they arewilling to support drastic measures to balance the state's budget,but they disagree over just what those measures should be, accordingto a new public opinion poll. The survey of 400 state residents was conducted Feb ....
Mom's left out
Mar 01, 1991 ... Dear Beth: I'm 14 years old and having a lot of boy problems. My mother hastwo jobs and isn't home very much. When I'm upset she is neveraround so I talk to my father. She thinks I'm shutting her out andfreaks out.WONDERING WHAT TO DO You may have to make an appointment with ...
Feehan wins in overtime
Mar 01, 1991; ... It was quite a night in Division 2 South. Of the six first-roundgames held in Eastern Mass. last night, four went into overtime,including one that lasted two extra periods. The most dramatic was visiting Bishop Feehan's 74-72 decision overSeekonk. Tim Perdue converted an offensive ...
Ford plans $3b in cutbacks, layoffs
Mar 01, 1991 ...FORD MOTOR CO., suffering from a depressed world market and hugelosses, yesterday announced a $3 billion cost-cutting program thatwill include voluntary retirements and layoffs in its white-collarwork force. Ford said the cuts were designed to respond to current businessconditions ...
Raytheon's Phillips steps down
Mar 01, 1991 ...RAYTHEON CO.'S chairman and chief executive, Thomas L. Phillips,retired today as scheduled and was succeeded by Dennis J. Picard.Phillips, 66, an engineer who came up through the ranks of theLexington-based company's missile systems division, oversaw thecompany's ...
EUA unit files for bankruptcy
Mar 01, 1991 ...EUA POWER CORP. filed for bankruptcy protection, saying it couldnot pay the interest on $280 million in junk bonds that were used tobuy a 12.1 percent share in the Seabrook, N.H., nuclear power plant.EUA Power is a subsidiary of Eastern Utilities Associates of Bostonand serves 300,000 ...
Mass. bars penny stock broker
Mar 01, 1991 ...STUART-JAMES CO., once one of the largest brokers of so-calledpenny stocks, has been barred from the brokerage business inMassachusetts for at least three years. A final order issued bySecretary of State Michael J. Connolly's Division of Securities,following a settlement of charges ...
Tax break sought for investors
Mar 01, 1991 ...REP. EDWARD MARKEY (D-Mass.) introduced a bill that would givetax breaks to investors who provide capital directly to smallhigh-technology businesses. Markey's bill is similar to onesponsored by Sen. John Kerry in the Senate last month. Markey'sbill, the Venture Capital Incentive Act of ...
Consumer spending drops
Mar 01, 1991 ...Consumer spending, which slipped severely in the final quarter of1990, dropped 0.6 percent in January, the government said."Consumers are in a lot of trouble," Bruce Steinberg, an economistwith Merrill Lynch Capital Markets in New York, said of the sectorproviding ...
Etc.: Old Stone sells Wash. unit
Mar 01, 1991 ...OLD STONE CORP. said it completed the sale of its Walla Walla,Wash., mortgage servicing operation of Old Stone Mortgage Corp. toMeridian Mortgage Corp. of Wayne, Pa. Terms were not released. OldStone Corp., based in Providence, said the sale does not involve itsresidential mortgage ...
Today . . .
Mar 01, 1991 ...Commerce Department releases Leading Indicators for January.December indicators rose 0.1 percent, but already-issued componentsof the index lead analysts to believe it will fall 0.5 percent.Construction spending for January is expected to have fallen 0.8percent, ...
Beers and Markwart come back
Mar 01, 1991; ... The Bruins called up a pair of reinforcements from Maineyesterday, defenseman Bob Beers and left winger Nevin Markwart, andthey were in the lineup at the Garden last night in the 5-0 victoryover the Islanders. Markwart made his presence felt again and again. "Nevin wasNevin," ...
Transportation plan lauded, lamented
Mar 01, 1991; ... State and local officials and union and business leaders yesterdaypraised a proposed $2 billion transportation bond issue as a salvefor the region's economic ills, while others maintained that Gov.Weld's proposal skimps on mass transit and would decimate plans tomake the MBTA accessible ...
New Mexico village cast by cool eye, elegant words
Mar 01, 1991; ... RIVER OF TRAPS: A Village Life By William deBuys and Alex Harris Photographs by Alex Harris Illustrated, University of New Mexico Press, 238 pages, $19.95. In the early 1970s, propelled by the oxymoronic but trulyimpelling ennui ...
10 arrested in gaming sweep Bets allegedly helped pay for other crime ventures
Mar 01, 1991; ... State authorities yesterday arrested 10 persons in connection witha scheme in which about $1 million a week in illegal gamblingproceeds from locations throughout New England was allegedly used tohelp finance organized crime ventures in the region. The arrests may shut down one of ...
Bozzotto seen as Weld choice for MBTA board
Mar 01, 1991 ... Gov. Weld is planning to name Boston labor leader Domenic N.Bozzotto and four other people as $7,500-a-year directors of theMassachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, according to anadministration source. Bozzotto, head of Hotel and Restaurant Workers union Local 23, wasone of ...
Son of Marlon Brando gets 10 years for manslaughter
Mar 01, 1991; ...SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Christian Brando was sentenced yesterdayto 10 years in prison for voluntary manslaughter in the shootingdeath of his half-sister's Tahitian lover. "It's a tragic situation for both families, for ChristianBrando," Superior Court Judge Robert W. Thomas said ...
The blues bubble from Brown's soul
Mar 01, 1991; ... RUTH BROWN At: The Regattabar, Charles Hotel, through Sunday Declaring that she is "63 and still battin' a hundred," bawdysinger Ruth Brown hit a nerve during her opening night at Regattabar.Her rollicking repertoire was pure magic, charming and enchanting arapt and ...
Bruins back in gear Hodge hat trick helps Boston dump Islanders
Mar 01, 1991; ... It may well be those were the real Bruins we saw last night.Well, maybe not in the first period and maybe not until after theyscored the first goal. But after that, these were the Bruins who hadsoared into first place before they played in . . . well, forgetthose two games at the end of ...
WHITE HOUSE Victory bolsters Bush's hand in Mideast issues
Mar 01, 1991; ... WASHINGTON -- Although President Bush tried to restrain elation atthe White House yesterday, the allies' smashing victory over Iraqimmediately boosts his prestige as a leader with Congress, the publicand among foreign leaders.Not since World War II has an American president ...
BU cruises past Merrimack, into Hockey East semis
Mar 01, 1991; ... There was a return to normalcy last night as the Hockey Eastquarterfinals entered Day 2 of the latest experiment in scheduling.But the reverberations of Day 1 were still in the air followingNortheastern's stunning upset of Boston College, opening the door foranother surprise or two on ...
Five days of classic Cage
Mar 01, 1991; ...Stephen Drury first learned about John Cage when he was a juniorin high school. Drury's piano teacher had a habit of running late,so she would leave books lying around for her students to lookthrough while they were waiting for a lesson, and one of those bookswas a survey of ...
FIND ART
Mar 01, 1991 ...Nancy Higgins of Quincy, while hunting for her nephew's workyesterday, takes in some of the other winners in the ...
Comedy, tension skillfully mixed in `Ay Carmela!'
Mar 01, 1991; ... AY, CARMELA! Directed by: Carlos Saura Screenplay by: Rafael Azcona, based on Jose Sanchis Sinisterra's play Starring: Carmen Maura, Andres Pajares, Gabino Diego, Maurizio di Razza, Miguel A. Rellan, Edward Zentara Playing at: ...
Saudis say up to 100,000 Iraqis fell
Mar 01, 1991; ... WASHINGTON -- Saudi officials said yesterday that Iraqicasualties in the Persian Gulf war could total between 85,000 and100,000 wounded and dead, a figure that several independent analystssaid was feasible but that American officials declined to discuss.The Saudi Embassy based ...
Celtics focus on Robinson
Mar 01, 1991; ... BROOKLINE -- Mr. Robinson is coming to their neighborhood tonightand the Celtics are well aware of what Western Conference All-Starcenter David Robinson means to the San Antonio Spurs. "He's always going to score his points," said Celtics swingmanKevin Gamble after yesterday's ...
Design Center opens doors to visitors
Mar 01, 1991 ... The Boston Design Center will open its doors to the publictomorrow, during its annual open house. Access to the design centeris generally limited to design professionals and their clients, andthis event will give visitors a chance to see what goes on inside thewallpaper, fabric, ...
British band fails to follow up
Mar 01, 1991; ... CHARLATANS UK At: The Paradise with the Cavedogs, Tuesday night Hot and trendy British bands often cross the Atlantic in waves,and today's neo/retro pyschedelic bands -- not to be confused withthe early-'80s wave of the similar, but more embittered -- are uponus. Most, ...
Another coup for Carey
Mar 01, 1991; ... I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. On the singles chart, Mariah Carey leaves Whitney Houston in herdust ("Someday," by the way, is Carey's third consecutive No. 1 charttopper), while the pesky and persistent Timmy T squeezes in at No. 2.His "One More Try," which is ...
Alexander, Wiggett share opera honors
Mar 01, 1991; ... Soprano Diane Alexander and baritone Joseph Wiggett shared firstprize in last week's New England finals of the Metropolitan Opera'sannual auditions. Wiggett comes from Littleton, N.H.; Alexander fromProvidence (she was the excellent Anne Trulove in the OperaLaboratory Theater's recent ...
Brown to view Clemens tapes
Mar 01, 1991; ... WINTER HAVEN, Fla. -- American League president Bobby Brownyesterday extended the deadline for filing evidence on Roger Clemens'suspension appeal to view two videotapes that the Players Associationsays give conclusive evidence in the pitcher's favor. Brown is scheduled to view the ...
CONGRESS Legislators don't rue votes against force
Mar 01, 1991; ...WASHINGTON -- The war was short and President Bush delivered astunning military victory for the United States, but several membersof Congress who opposed immediately using force said they do notregret their votes. "I don't think that because we can decimate another country ...
Public higher ed: an academic orphan
Mar 01, 1991; ... Public college and university administrators, students and facultyare appealing to whoever will listen, but hardly anyone off campusseems to care that public higher education in Massachusetts -- cutback sharply in recent years -- is on the verge of being slasheddramatically by Gov ....
Victory may spur optimism But caution still seems to rule most consumers
Mar 01, 1991; ... Melvin Love isn't planning a spending spree to celebrate the war'send. "I'm going to hold onto whatever money I have until things getbetter," Love, 42, a laid-off construction supervisor from Brockton,said yesterday. And he is not alone. When US soldiers return home, ...
Conte decides against running
Mar 01, 1991; ... Corinne Conte, the widow of Republican US Rep. Silvio O. Conte ofPittsfield, announced yesterday that she will not run for his seatin this spring's special election, setting off what is likely to be a61-day political free-for-all in the 1st Congressional District. "Because of my ...
CORRECTION
Mar 01, 1991 ...CORRECTION: Because of a reporting error, a story on random drugtesting for MBTA workers in yesterday's Globe misreported the totalnumber of T workers. There are about 7,000 employees. Because ...
CORRECTION
Mar 01, 1991 ...CORRECTION: Because of an editing error, the wrong cause of deathwas given in a story in Wednesday's Globe about the ...
Flynn seeks lending records of Bank of New England bidders
Mar 01, 1991; ... Mayor Flynn, attempting to have a voice in deciding who will ownthe failed Bank of New England, is seeking community lending recordsof the seven banks that are potential bidders. In letters to federal regulators and community lending advocates,Flynn is asking for Community ...
Flynn due to askfor school funds
Mar 01, 1991 ... The Flynn administration expects to request a $4 millionsupplemental budget appropriation from the City Council in the nextfew days to eliminate the Boston public school system's currentbudget deficit. Robert Ciolek, the acting director ofadministrative ...
NFL pay-per-view plan sets off storm signals But major question is whether it will pay its own way
Mar 01, 1991; ...The freshest buzz phrase in TV sports is "pay per view," and itseems destined to be around a while, requiring a few trees to bewasted for newsprint on the subject. So I will try to be brief. A scheme for the NFL's introduction of PPV tumbled out ofcommissioner Paul Tagliabue's ...
Maxwell seen as News' last possible buyer
Mar 01, 1991; ... NEW YORK -- The last possible buyer for the Daily News isLondon-based publisher Robert Maxwell, now that the News has droppedtalks with publisher and developer Mortimer Zuckerman, according toTheodore W. Kheel, an adviser to Daily News unions. Kheel said that Lazard Freres & Co., ...
His success story awaits first chapter
Mar 01, 1991; ... WINTER HAVEN, Fla. -- Mo Vaughn dresses in the back room with thecoaches and non-roster ballplayers. He dresses in the stall next tocoach Al Bumbry, the 1973 American League Rookie of the Year. "I crept up on 'em," Bumbry recalls. "I didn't have no buildup." "I guess I won't be ...
Nancy Day gives voice to survival
Mar 01, 1991; ... Nancy Day takes a single, very deep breath. Her voice, which hadbeen almost too perky and upbeat, lowers an octave as she begins toanswer the question, "What happened?" "What happened to me is not as important as what I do now," shesays. "It's important that I survived, and that I ...
John J. Donahue, 75 Was district fire chief
Mar 01, 1991 ... John J. Donahue, a district chief of the Boston Fire Departmentfor 15 years until his retirement in 1974, died Wednesday at his homein South Dennis. He was 75 and a former resident of Brighton. Mr. Donahue joined the department in 1941 and was assigned toLadder 10 in Jamaica Plain ....
In the end, a trip true to Morrison
Mar 01, 1991; ... THE DOORS Directed by: Oliver Stone Screenplay by: Stone and J. Randal Johnson Starring: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Kevin Dillon, Frank Whalley, Michael Madsen, Billy Idol, Kathleen Quinlan Playing at: Cinema 57 and ...
Nanette Dreshfield, 84 Helped war refugees find homes
Mar 01, 1991 ... Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. today in Temple Israel,Boston, for Nanette (Rosenberg) Dreshfield, who helped Jewishrefugees settle in Massachusetts after World War II. Mrs. Dreshfield died Monday in a nursing home in Duluth, Minn.She was 84 and a former resident of ...
Finally, fame for the Black Eagles
Mar 01, 1991; ...WASHINGTON -- For the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II, combat wasa route up and out of the snare of segregation, and dying was therisk they ran to prove that black pilots could excel as well as anywhite man.The success of today's black soldiers, who make up adisproportionate ...
Beacon Hill's fiscal fandango . . .
Mar 01, 1991 ...Up to this point, the effort on Beacon Hill to solve what allagree is yet another state fiscal crisis has been a sorry affair.Neither the Weld administration nor the House has covered itself withglory. The governor, piqued at the House action on his legislation to cutthe ...
Harvard's Ciavaglia in front at center ECAC scoring champion sets pace for Crimson
Mar 01, 1991; ... Harvard center Peter Ciavaglia, who won the Ivy League scoringtitle with 58 points, is part of the Crimson's all-senior DynamiteLine, which has been hot lately. It hopes to continue that pacetonight against RPI in the opener of the two-game ECAC quarterfinals,which will be followed by a ...
. . . and the SJC's pay-deferral fumble
Mar 01, 1991 ... The Supreme Judicial Court is missing an opportunity to show thatit is ready to assume leadership of the judicial system. It ought toparticipate in a pay-deferral plan as a gesture of sacrifice duringthe fiscal crisis. A union representing 2,700 court workers has agreed to accept ...
Victory in the gulf
Mar 01, 1991 ... The policies of President Bush that brought victory in the gulfwar were an extraordinary success in their own terms -- political,military and strategic. The world is a safer place now that SaddamHussein's tinsel star has crumbled. The courage of hundreds ofthousands of young Americans ...