The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from January 1992:
Disarming a fallen giant For Red Army now, enemy is confusion
Jan 01, 1992; ...MOSCOW -- Sunlight glints off the two neat rows of gold buttonson the colonel's gray overcoat, each button bearing the hammer andsickle of the former Soviet Union enclosed within a star. The insignia, which for generations has symbolized the muscle ofthe former Soviet army, also ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jan 01, 1992 ... Q. Who was Horst Wessel? S.R., PeabodyA. According to William Shirer in his history, "The Rise and Fall ofthe Third Reich," Wessel was a Brown Shirt (Nazi Party storm trooper)in Berlin in 1930 who was gunned down by a Communist in a fight overa prostitute. The killing would have been ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jan 01, 1992 ... Q. I would like to give some financial help to the homeless in thiscity more than just at Christmas. Where can I send money? D.C.,BostonA. The Boston Emergency Shelter Commission at City Hall lists 11family shelters and nine shelters for single adults. Familyshelters are: Boston ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jan 01, 1992 ... Q. Has the young English actor Christian Bale appeared anywherebesides the 1988 movie Empire of the Sun? R.W., FalmouthA. Yes. The young man from ...
ASK THE GLOBE THE ADDRESS BOOK
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Taking time to toast 1991 additions to rollcall of the Great Beyond
Jan 01, 1992; ... At this time of year Robert Burns recommended a toast to those ofauld acquaintance who have joined the great majority. At New Year's,custom and sentiment suggest a salute to those who died and who willne'er be forgot, for auld lang syne. The archangel Gabriel got some help in ...
Featherstone finds layoff frustrating
Jan 01, 1992; ... DETROIT -- He sat quietly in the near-empty stands as the Bruinswent through their pregame skate at Joe Louis Arena last night. He looked one part wistful and one part depressed as he saw hishealthy teammates flying effortlessly around the rink. But GlenFeatherstone, who had back ...
Nebraska's Soto declared ineligible
Jan 01, 1992; ...Nebraska will play tonight's Orange Bowl game against top-rankedMiami without fullback Omar Soto, and the Cornhuskers could losetheir share of the Big 8 crown. Soto was declared ineligible by Nebraska after it was reportedthat the 5-foot-10-inch, 215-pound senior apparently ...
Brown, in Boston, assails GM ex-chief
Jan 01, 1992; ... Jerry Brown stopped in Boston long enough Monday and yesterday tospeak on three radio talk shows -- fuel for his free media campaignfor the White House -- and to unveil his latest symbol of thepolitical-industrial complex he says he's fighting: Roger Smith,former chairman of General ...
Bruins throw a New Year's wingding
Jan 01, 1992; ... DETROIT -- The Bruins played the ultimate party crasher last nightas they doused the red-hot Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena, 5-3, to ringin the New Year on a winning note. It was the best effort over 60 minutes that Boston has put in thisseason and it put the Bruins one game above ...
Bush readies for a hard sell in Australia
Jan 01, 1992; ...SYDNEY -- President Bush, saying he expects an unpleasant "hellof a year" on the presidential campaign trail, arrived here yesterdayon the first leg of a four-nation Far East tour that he has recast asa trade mission to create more jobs for American workers. But Bush's ...
Marcia Campbell, 54 Taught dance on Cape
Jan 01, 1992 ... Marcia Louise (Erwin) Campbell, a dance teacher in various CapeCod towns, died yesterday of congestive heart failure. She was 54and lived in East Sandwich. Born in Weymouth, Mrs. Campbell was a 1955 graduate of ArchbishopWilliams High School in Braintree. She was a resident of ...
POLICE SHOOT UNARMED MAN
Jan 01, 1992 ... Hilario Alcantara is shot and killed Sunday by police in aManila suburb after an inspector was slain. The ...
Road signs unclear to Celtics After a stop-and-go journey, they come home with questions
Jan 01, 1992; ... The trip ended with a win over the Clippers. In most years, thatwould fall under the "Big Deal" category. This year, it meant a 2-2road trip and, for the time being, more questions about the Celticsand their up-and-down season. There were a lot more lowlights than highlights on the ...
Markets closed
Jan 01, 1992 ... All stock markets and commodity exchanges, banks, ...
EDITOR' NOTE
Jan 01, 1992 ... Editor's note: Subscriber services will be ...
CORRECTION
Jan 01, 1992 ... Correction: Because of incorrect information supplied to theGlobe, a Page 1 story and accompanying chart yesterday carried thewrong dollar amounts to be ...
Chief justice warns of a court overload Presses Bush administration to fill vacancies
Jan 01, 1992; ... In a report released yesterday, US Chief Justice William H.Rehnquist warned against adding new responsibilities to the federalcourts and suggested that the Bush administration is dragging itsfeet in nominating candidates to fill some of more than 120 vacantjudgeships. In an ...
Robie A. Cushing, 70 Had owned Lynn appliance store
Jan 01, 1992 ... Robie A. Cushing of Saugus and Limerick, Maine, a formerappliance store owner, died Sunday at the Wentworth-DouglassHospital in Dover, N.H. He was 70. Born in Boston, he was a graduate of Lynn Classical High Schooland a Navy veteran of World War II. Mr. Cushing's business ...
Jobs program to be affected by day care cut
Jan 01, 1992; ... A $10 million cut in day care budgeting for the state Departmentof Welfare will force the agency to curtail child care services inJanuary and February to some people who enroll in work trainingprograms, a department spokesman said yesterday. Between 300 and 400 people in the Mass ...
Deer Island left to its ghosts
Jan 01, 1992; ... The red brick joint stands alone and abandoned in the harsh winterwinds that have forever swept across Deer Island, no island at all,in fact, but for the last half-century a peninsula jutting from thetown of Winthrop into the murky and polluted waters of Boston Harbor. For the ...
For higher education, a glint of good news
Jan 01, 1992; ... New England's higher education industry is being hit hard by therecession, budget strains and enrollment downturns, but it is stillstronger than in most other regions of the country, a report by theNew England Board of Higher Education says. The board, in its annual publication, ...
Maryland lures Duffner away from Holy Cross
Jan 01, 1992; ... The year 1991 ended on a sad note for the Holy Cross footballprogram when head coach Mark Duffner, the national Coach of the Yearin Division 1-AA, accepted the job at the University of Maryland. Duffner replaces Joe Krivak, who was fired after a 2-9 season. Heaccepted the job from ...
Weld's year-long honeymoon
Jan 01, 1992 ... Like a bridegroom on a year-long honeymoon, Gov. Weld has dancedthrough his first year in office with considerable grace. He had theLegislature following his lead, and the only toes he stepped on werethose of the poor and of state and municipal workers -- groups thatare widely perceived ...
Figures show many absent from city jobs on poll days
Jan 01, 1992; ... City employees stayed away from their jobs in droves on bothelection days last fall, with staffing levels in some departmentsfalling to as much as 34 percent below full strength, according toattendance figures obtained by the Globe. The attendance figures appear to support charges ...
F. Talbot Emery, 78 Retired laboratory worker
Jan 01, 1992 ... F. Talbot Emery, a retired laboratory worker, died Monday athome in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, after a long illness. He was 78 anda former resident of Wilmington. Born in West Medford, Mr. Emery was a graduate of Reading HighSchool and Burdett College. He worked for the Cabot ...
On environmental front, '91 was a bust in Massachusetts
Jan 01, 1992; ... Weld administration officials blamed the Legislature. Legislatorsblamed the administration and public interest groups. And publicinterest groups blamed everyone. But once the morning-after finger-pointing and hand-wringingsubsided, one fact emerged in the wake of the 1991 ...
The lure of the 30-minute candidate
Jan 01, 1992 ... We've clearly proven we're the best 30-minute candidate in therace. I just hope we can be the best 30-second candidate. -- JamesCarville, consultant to presidential candidate Bill Clinton, in aninterview with The New York Times. James Carville is one of the consultants who guided ...
Closing arguments in equal-pay case
Jan 01, 1992; ...CAMBRIDGE -- Closing arguments were heard yesterday in MiddlesexSuperior Court in the potentially precedent-setting case of femaleschool cafeteria workers in Everett who want to be paid the same asmale custodians because they say their work is comparable. The class-action suit, ...
First Nighters raise diverse joyous voices
Jan 01, 1992; ... Kelly Speed and Pamela Teehan contributed to this report. A new year began in Boston last night under open skies and aconstellation of fireworks as an estimated half a million peoplerollicked downtown in song, dance, and the collective fantasy of thecelebration known as First ...
New Year gavels in legislative session
Jan 01, 1992; ... When Senate President William M. Bulger and House Speaker CharlesF. Flaherty bang the gavels in their respective branches at 11 a.m.today to reconvene the state Legislature for a new year, they willtake part in a formal process that the General Court has followed forhundreds of ...
Richard J. Godfrey, 26 Services Friday in Dorchester
Jan 01, 1992 ... Richard J. Godfrey, son of retired Globe pressroom superintendentRobert Godfrey, died yesterday at University Hospital in Boston aftera long illness. He was 26 and lived in Taunton. Born in Boston, Mr. Godfrey had been a resident of the Paul A.Dever State School in Taunton for 24 ...
Mass. ends rate control of hospitals
Jan 01, 1992; ... Gov. Weld signed a far-reaching bill to deregulate the state's $8billion hospital industry yesterday, a move proponents say willimprove access and hold down costs but critics insist will do theexact opposite. By freeing hospitals from the web of state regulations that ...
What's in - What's out Let's take one last look back at the year's fads and follies
Jan 01, 1992; ... Mehegan, M.R. Montgomery, Ed Siegel, Steve Morse, Julie Hatfield, Mark Muro, Nick King, Mary Jane Wilkinson and Jane Simon. Is this a hangover remedy we're sipping, or are we just glad to beseeing a Scudless New Year? The old year sure began -- and ended ...
RECUPERATING
Jan 01, 1992 ... US District Judge William Hoeveler gets a peck from his wife,Griff, yesterday, in his room at Miami's Mercy Hospital. The judge,recovering from ...
Joseph Alfred LaBonte Shoe company supervisor; at 78
Jan 01, 1992 ... Joseph Alfred LaBonte of Peabody, a former shoe company supervisor,died yesterday in the J. B. Thomas Hospital, Peabody. He was 78. Born in Salem, Mr. LaBonte was employed for 35 years as asupervisor at the the former Goldstein Shoe Manufacturing of Lynn andretired from Bugatti ...
Governor wraps it up with signings, vetoes
Jan 01, 1992; ... Gov. Weld bid adieu to the 1991 legislative session yesterday bysigning bills that toughen sentencing for juvenile murderers,introduce competition into the heavily regulated health care industryand provide education funds for distressed communities. The governor also signed an ...
Time's Turner and New York's Broadway
Jan 01, 1992; ... Yeltsin shmeltsin. Ted Turner is Time magazine's 1991 man o'the year, for ushering CNN into the world and presenting the globalvillage with an image of itself. Oh -- and for quickening theirrelevancy of the print news medium, but then Time needn't muchworry since its parent company, ...
This one broke all of the rules
Jan 01, 1992; ... MIAMI -- Tom Osborne was late for the last lecture of the year.Lecture? Osborne, except for the missing elbow patches, was dressedas a college sociology prof, chinos and soft shoes, and his monotonewas thorough. The lecture was expected to be dull. But . . . "If they want to ...
16 left homeless by Mattapan fire
Jan 01, 1992; ... Sixteen persons were left homeless by a four-alarm fire inMattapan early yesterday that severely damaged a three-storyapartment house and also damaged two neighboring buildings. Two firefighters received minor injuries in the blaze that fireofficials said caused an estimated ...
Bridget McMullen, 63 Boston City Council aide
Jan 01, 1992 ... Bridget L. McMullen, an administrative aide for the Boston CityCouncil for the past 17 years, died Monday at Massachusetts GeneralHospital of heart problems. She was 63 and lived in Revere. Born in Boston, Mrs. McMullen attended St. Patrick's High Schoolin Roxbury before becoming ...
NAMES & FACES Celebrity resolutions
Jan 01, 1992; ... A selection of celebrity New Year's resolutions: Aging sexkitten Joan Collins vows to exercise every day ("It is one I makeevery year"). Syndicated radio broadcaster Paul Harvey wants toimprove his golf game ("I'm embarrassed to say it: I'm a bogeygolfer"). And horror writer Stephen ...
Neely should get word on his return today
Jan 01, 1992; ... DETROIT -- He finished his workout, skated over to the bench atJoe Louis Arena and was instantly surrounded by a handful of boysasking for his autograph. He obliged, then made his way into the visitors' locker room,where he began taking off his gear. Just another game-day ...
Smoke detector proposal fails
Jan 01, 1992 ... WORCESTER -- An effort to strengthen the law requiring smokedetectors in multifamily units failed in a 6-5 vote in the CityCouncil Monday night. The council's public safety committee, thefire chief and a tenants' group backed a proposal to requirepermanently wired smoke detectors in ...
Middlebury OKs tuition, fees hike
Jan 01, 1992 ... Trustees at Middlebury College in Vermont approved an 8 percentincrease in tuition and fees, hiking the price tag from $21,200 ayear to $22,900 starting in the fall. Acting president John ...
Grand jury indicts 3 on drug charges
Jan 01, 1992 ... Three Colombian nationals accused of making cocaine salesthroughout the Back Bay were indicted by a Suffolk grand juryyesterday on drug trafficking charges. Jaime Arteaga, 19, RenaldoRolon, 37, and Horacio Gallego, 35, were arrested on Dec. 20, whenstate and Boston police executed a ...
Cruisers collide in course of chase
Jan 01, 1992 ... Two Boston police officers reportedly sustained minor backinjuries after a car chase in Dorchester yesterday resulted in threecollisions. According to police, Officers Thomas Foley and JohnManning were responding to a report of a Welles Avenue burglary whena man near the scene of the ...
Cambridge police seize drugs, guns
Jan 01, 1992 ...Cambridge police arrested three people and seized two weapons and$11,000 in cash during separate drug raids in that city late lastweek. Executing search warrants on Dec. 28, police say they founda stolen 9mm Glock pistol and some crack cocaine during a raid at ahome on Columbia ...
Democrats preparing New Hampshire reply to Bush on economy
Jan 01, 1992; ... CONCORD, N.H. -- The specter of New Hampshire's distressedeconomy, which hovers over President Bush in the early days of hisreelection campaign, may haunt him even as he delivers his State ofthe Union message. As Bush prepares the address to Congress on Jan. 28, the NewHampshire ...
Disarming a fallen giant US to discuss undoing Soviet nuclear arsenal
Jan 01, 1992; ...WASHINGTON -- Early this month, a US team will travel to Moscowto open unprecedented discussions aimed at disabling or destroying abig chunk of the former empire's massive nuclear arsenal. Unlike talks in the past, however, these will not consist ofcomplex, painstaking ...
Battling in bowls, polls Beating Nebraska in Orange would be fruitful for Miami
Jan 01, 1992; ...MIAMI -- Sometime around midnight tonight, the ball will comecrashing down, signifying the official end of another collegefootball season and the crowning of a national champion. But, as was the case a year ago, the question remains whether itwill be one champion or two and ...
Clarence Patten, 85 Ran steel-erection company
Jan 01, 1992 ... Clarence Patten of Revere, who operated a construction companyfor 26 years, died yesterday in Malden Hospital. He was 85. A member of Local 7 of the Ironworkers Union of Boston, he foundedthe Clarence Patten Steel Erection Co. of Revere in 1953 and ran ituntil his retirement in ...
Reid and Bowes rule out Penn
Jan 01, 1992; ... Jim Reid and Bill Bowes have withdrawn as candidates for thefootball coaching job at the University of Pennsylvania. Al Bagnoli, who has coached Union College the last 10 years, wasat Penn yesterday, and it is expected he will be named to the post,said a source close to ...
Officials say pension bill will save city $17m
Jan 01, 1992; ... Boston officials said yesterday that a pension bill signed by Gov.Weld earlier this week will allow the city to save $17 million andease its strained fiscal position. However, aides to Mayor Flynn also said the fiscal future is sogrim that they will not use any of the savings to ...
Per Kirkeby: Power of pure painting
Jan 01, 1992; ... Per Kirkeby's large gestural paintings are abstract, but they alsosuggest landscape in both the most general and the most specificterms. They're like the impressions you hold in your mind after asplit-second glimpse of a scene, and also like the analyses oflandscape's shapes and colors ...
NEW YEAR'S TOOT
Jan 01, 1992 ... Angelyn Padilla, 1, gets help from her mother in blowing a gianthorn at a Manila sidewalk stand ...
Panel to call for replacing commissioner Study of police is said to advise major changes
Jan 01, 1992; ... A special commission appointed last year by Mayor Flynn toinvestigate the Boston Police Department has decided to call for theappointment of a new police commissioner, according to sourcesfamiliar with the panel's findings. In addition to recommending the replacement of ...
7-mile car chase ends in Milton pool Police say Brockton man, 24, is arrested atop sinking, stolen station wagon
Jan 01, 1992; ...MILTON -- A 24-year-old Brockton man was arrested yesterday,police said, following a high-speed chase that began in Randolph andended in a backyard swimming pool in East Milton with the suspectatop a sinking stolen car pleading for rescue. Randolph police said Ruben O. Velasquez ...
Suffolk workers glad to get back on track
Jan 01, 1992; ... There will be smiles everywhere, but, all things considered,Ambrose Pascucci might be the happiest person to pass through thereopened gates of Suffolk Downs today. For Pascucci, a trainer from Beachmont in Revere, having to raceat Rockingham Park in Salem, N.H., amounted to ...
Roache: A nice guy in a tough place
Jan 01, 1992; ... In recommending that Police Commissioner Francis M. Roache bereplaced, the St. Clair commission would give voice to a conclusionreached in recent years by even some of Roache's most ardentadmirers. "What amazes me," said one high-ranking police officer who countshimself among ...
Rose Bowl could produce No. 1 bloom
Jan 01, 1992; ... PASADENA, Calif. -- In the last decade, there have been theconstants: gorgeous scenery, warm weather, Big Ten defeats and eyeselsewhere when the national championship was at stake. The Rose Bowl was the ultimate reward for the Big Ten andPacific-10 champions, but schools such as ...
AT DEADLINE BID FOR PACT ON SALVADOR
Jan 01, 1992; ...WASHINGTON -- Under intense pressure to end El Salvador's 12-yearcivil war by the end of 1991, rebel and government representativesnegotiated into the night yesterday at the United Nations, hoping toreach a permanent peace accord. With key officials present to make a final push ...
Salvador civil war truce is reached Cease-fire set to begin Feb. 1
Jan 01, 1992; ... Material from the Associated Press was used in this report. WASHINGTON -- After more than a decade of civil war and years ofprotracted peace negotiations, the US-backed government of ElSalvador and leftist rebels agreed early today to accept a cease-fireto begin next ...
Show will go on at Rockingham Racing Commission votes, 2-1, to allow Suffolk simulcasts
Jan 01, 1992; ...You no longer have to go to Suffolk Downs to bet on the races atSuffolk Downs. Starting today, you can go to Rockingham, Seabrook orHinsdale. That was made possible Monday night by a 2-1 vote of theMassachusetts Racing Commission, authorizing Suffolk to send itssignal to Rock, ...
Touting the past Suffolk Downs reopening recalls racing legacy
Jan 01, 1992; ... Today will be First Day after a two-year hiatus at Suffolk DownsRace Track in East Boston -- a place commonly known to losers as"Sufferin' Downs." At a time when the state's economic horse is lagging on the farturn, the reopening of Suffolk Downs this afternoon is expected ...