The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from October 1992:
A generation gap was bridged
Oct 01, 1992; ... My father, born slightly less than four years after the Red Soxlast won the World Series, turned 45 years old that March. His onlyson, I was 14, and my now-tattered Red Sox scrapbook of 1967 istestament that baseball to me then was nothing less than the mostimportant thing in my ...
Denizens suffer Cape aquarium
Oct 01, 1992; ... BREWSTER -- Clariss the harbor seal is at least partially blind.Her right eye is covered with an ugly gray and pink film, and herleft eye is cloudy. But the brownish pool where she lives at the Cape Cod Aquarium isso crowded with other seals and sea lions that veterinarians ...
The price is might High-style king Armani readies 3d Boston store
Oct 01, 1992; ... Boston, slave to fashion? Outfitter to everyone from Eric Clapton's rock band to the ItalianAir Force, stylish Milanese designer/entrepreneur Giorgio Armani onSaturday will open yet a third store in Boston, joining A/X: ArmaniExchange and Giorgio Armani boutique. The arrival ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Oct 01, 1992 ... Q. Have state revenue departments reached any agreement on mutualcollection of sales taxes from out-of-state mail order retailers?D.D., Arlington A. No. According to Harley Duncan of the Federation of TaxAdministrators and Robert Levering, counsel for the Direct ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Oct 01, 1992 ... Q. What year was the Springfield Arsenal attacked by theimpoverished farmers who had joined Shays' Rebellion? F.F., Auburn A. The arsenal was attacked in January 1787 by followers of DanielShays, but the onslaught was defeated by Hampshire County militiaunder the command of William ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Oct 01, 1992 ... Q. What was the year singer Joan Baez refused to pay that portionof her federal income taxes she figured was going to the DefenseDepartment?M.T., Wellesley A. Baez' letter to the IRS was written in 1964 and she held to herresolve until the end of the Vietnam War. The IRS took the ...
ASK THE GLOBE SASSY II CORRECTION:
Oct 01, 1992 ... Georgia writer Olive Burns' partially finished sequel to her firstnovel, "Cold Sassy Tree," has been published by Ticknor & Fields.Contrary to information given earlier in this column, Burns'unfinished 159-page manuscript, titled "Leaving Cold Sassy," has beenprinted along with a ...
Brooks, Gill winners at Nashville ceremony
Oct 01, 1992; ...Garth Brooks, alias country music's cash register, and VinceGill, the genre's Mr. Nice Guy, were the big winners at last night'sCountry Music Association awards in Nashville. They walked off withtwo awards each, though Brooks, predictably, outshone everyone bytaking the grand prize of ...
Andean music
Oct 01, 1992; ... Andean music is a highly ritualized expression of ancientcultures. It is centuries old, it has a vast repertoire and featuresa wealth of instruments -- some indigenous, some the product of theclash of cultures with Spanish conquerors. Yet the best-known Andean music piece is "El ...
Unsung heroes are true magic
Oct 01, 1992; ... This is how it works now in America: You get a big, famous,millionaire athlete who apparently is so stupid, selfish or both thathe cannot control his sexual appetite and when he becomesHIV-positive, practically the whole country collapses in tears, putshim on a pedestal and turns him ...
George E. Bates, 90; was official, professor at Harvard Business
Oct 01, 1992 ... George E. Bates, James R. Williston professor emeritus ofinvestment management at Harvard, died Friday in his home in Camden,Maine. He was 90. Professor Bates also worked as a senior advisor to the businessadministration institute of the University of Istanbul in Turkey andas ...
Pieces fall into line Despite graduations, BC is putting up a great front on offense
Oct 01, 1992; ... They had been through it all at Boston College. The best of timesand the worst of times. They celebrated euphoric victories and stoodtogether amid the rubble of ruinous seasons. So when doubts wereraised about BC's offensive line after the graduation of threeveterans and the sudden ...
Eleanor P. Beith, 72; was pilot in WWII noncombat service unit
Oct 01, 1992 ... Eleanor P. (Peterson) Beith, a former member of the elite WorldWar II-era WASP unit, a group of select women pilots, died Monday inPlantation, Fla. She was 72. Mrs. Beith, who had lived in Dorchester and Canton for many yearsbefore moving to Florida, was born in East Grand Forks, ...
Teen's fed up with immature boys
Oct 01, 1992 ...Dear Beth: I just started high school, and I was looking forward to beingwith older guys who know how to behave like gentlemen. NOT! I stillget eyed and have to put up with rude remarks and yesterday some jerkeven snapped my bra! Why do guys act like this?FED UP We live in ...
Bird was surprised
Oct 01, 1992; ...Larry Bird really wasn't expecting the announcement that MagicJohnson would be returning to the Los Angeles Lakers one year afterretiring because he is HIV positive. "I didn't think Magic was coming back," Bird explained yesterday."When he called me on Tuesday morning, we talked ...
N.J. bank attaches LeRoux's properties
Oct 01, 1992; ...Edward (Buddy) Leroux, the entrepreneur-developer and former RedSox partner, has more problems. Middlesex Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Butler granted ordersyesterday for real estate attachments on LeRoux properties inMiddlesex and Suffolk counties, and barred him from ...
N.E. job drain continues
Oct 01, 1992 ...New England lost 19,500 jobs in August, the sixth drop in thelast seven months, US Department of Labor officials said. Nonfarmemployment dropped to a seasonally adjusted level of about 5,879,700,according to Anthony J. Ferrara, regional commissioner for the Bureauof Labor Statistics ....
More layoffs at Raytheon
Oct 01, 1992; ... Raytheon Co. said it will lay off an additional 253 employees inNew England because of a continuing decline in defense contracts.The company will cut 168 jobs in Massachusetts, including 60 at themissile systems division, with most of the cuts coming at facilitiesin Lowell and Quincy; ...
Wright Line to pay US $3.6m
Oct 01, 1992 ...Department of Justice said that Wright Line Inc. of Worcester,will pay the United States more than $3.6 million to resolve civilclaims that the company failed to provide the government full andcomplete information while negotiating a contract concerning thepurchase of automated data ...
Etc.: $30m senior loan approved
Oct 01, 1992 ...Town & Country Corp. has reached an agreement for a new seniorterm loan with a large institutional owner of the company'soutstanding subordinated debt. Funds managed by Fidelity Managementand Research Co. have agreed to provide Town & Country with a $30million senior secured loan, the ...
Today . . .
Oct 01, 1992 ...Analysts take a mildly optimistic view of three indexes. Theysee initial jobless claims, for the week ended Sept. 19 falling to415,000 from the week before's 424,000. They expect constructionspending in August rose 0.2 ...
Hope dims on Wesley talks
Oct 01, 1992; ... Jack Craig of the Globe staff contributed to this report. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The back-and-forth between the Bruins andGlen Wesley's agent, Rick Curran, has moved back a big step,according to assistant general manager Mike Milbury.As of yesterday, there appeared to be ...
SEC sanctions for von Germeten Former Boston Co. president charged with inflating 1988 profits
Oct 01, 1992; ... A Securities and Exchange Commission investigation resultedyesterday in strong sanctions against James von Germeten, The BostonCo.'s former president, after charges that he inflated the company's1988 profits. SEC charges were filed against von Germeten and former chieffinancial ...
Bratton one of two finalists for NYC job, sources say
Oct 01, 1992; ... The No. 2 man at the Boston Police Department, William Bratton, isone of two finalists for the job as the next police commissioner inNew York City, sources said yesterday. Bratton was interviewed Tuesday by the panel set up by New YorkMayor David Dinkins to help him choose a ...
He has fighting chance Would-be Bruin Banks must show that punch isn't just in fists
Oct 01, 1992; ...JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The Bruins are only a week from the startof the season, and big league wannabe Darren Banks has never beenaround a training camp this late. After three years of lumberingaround the minor leagues, this is his shot. He's 26, hungry, andsays he isn't afraid of a ...
Bush sets crackdown to force child support
Oct 01, 1992; ... FOND DU LAC, Wisc. -- President Bush turned to law enforcementgroups for support yesterday in the Midwest, announcing a proposaldesigned to snare fathers who fail to make child support payments. Bush also accused Bill Clinton of talking tough on crime whilerefusing to adequately ...
COUP ANNIVERSARY PROTEST
Oct 01, 1992 ...Supporters of Haiti's deposed president, Jean Bertrand Aristide,call for his return to power yesterday at a Boston City Hall Plazarally marking the ...
VIETNAM RALLY
Oct 01, 1992 ...A group of 11 French motorcycle riders, all driving 1957Harley-Davidsons that were used in South Vietnamese presidentialmotorcades, rev their engines on a street in Ho Chi Minh City,formerly ...
BRAVING FLOODWATERS
Oct 01, 1992 ...Two Guatemalans follow a cable to safe ground yesterday at ariver crossing in Puerto Iztapa. Torrential rains ...
More music at Catch a Rising Star
Oct 01, 1992; ... Look for more music to be booked at Catch a Rising Star, theCambridge club that has offered comedy seven nights a week, but isundergoing changes that include a wide turnover in personnel. "Rather than seven nights a week comedy, we're definitely going tomix in more music," says new ...
Chicopee killer's parole unnoticed
Oct 01, 1992; ... Had Chicopee police known that the man who defied an emergencyrestraining order and shot three people to death was on parole, stateofficials said yesterday, police could have arrested him or had hisparole revoked in time to save the victims. Although the restraining order was ...
Decision on child by DSS decried
Oct 01, 1992; ... The state Department of Social Services' decision to return ayoung foster child to the home in which he was abused repeatedly asan infant was criticized by children's advocates yesterday asevidence that the department may be adhering to a policy ofpreserving biological families at the ...
Clinton woos small firms
Oct 01, 1992; ...CLINTON, Md. -- Gov. Bill Clinton traveled to a small strip mallin suburban Maryland yesterday and promised tax breaks that wouldcover the owners of the mall's dry cleaner's, sandwich shop andbakery as part of his plan to make American business more competitivewith international ...
House approves bill giving condo groups six months in fees
Oct 01, 1992; ... A state bill that would help financially ailing condominiumassociations collect six months worth of condo fees from delinquentowners passed the House yesterday. The bill has been denounced by lenders because the fees will bepaid before the mortgage if the unit is foreclosed ....
Debate debate rages on in 7th
Oct 01, 1992; ... Seventh district GOP congressional candidate Stephen Sohn wants adebate, and he wants it soon. And he has found some leverage in anunlikely place -- US Rep. Edward Markey's own legislative record. Markey, a Democrat from Malden, last year sponsored legislationthat would require ...
Blute fires shot at Rep. Early
Oct 01, 1992; ...Republican candidate Peter I. Blute has fired the first missivein the relatively quiet 3d Congressional District campaign,criticizing Rep. Joseph D. Early for voting in favor of acontroversial pay raise for Congress while supporting increases intaxes on the middle class. "To ...
Advocates question bankers' contributions to Bush
Oct 01, 1992; ...WASHINGTON -- Associates of a Dallas holding company, whichobtained approval from federal regulators for a bank merger in 1987,contributed more than $800,000 over the past seven years to GOPorganizations working to elect George Bush to the White House in 1988and 1992. Advocates ...
Corn bread
Oct 01, 1992 ...Corn bread. It's a complex issue. Emotional, even. Everyonethinks that they know what it should taste like. Yet tastes differ.There's the issue of the meal. Southerners generally prefer white,Yankees yellow, except for some Rhode Islanders who also like white.Some cooks sniff at the ...
CORRECTION
Oct 01, 1992 ... CORRECTION: Because of a reporting error, a Page 3 story inyesterday's Globe about the health risks and benefits of drinkingmilk incorrectly quoted ...
Council override of condom veto fails
Oct 01, 1992; ... After a week of predicting victory, city councilors who favor alaw to require most bars and restaurants to install condom vendingmachines failed yesterday to muster the nine votes necessary toreverse a mayoral veto. But the council also refused to adopt a compromise ...
Graduate student hauls a disputed C+ to court AG's office will defend Framingham State grade
Oct 01, 1992; ... It's known as the "gentleman's C," the average grade, the middleof the pack, the grade Ronald Reagan had to make to stay on theEureka College football team. But Chukwu Azubuko will have none of it. The graduate student inbusiness administration at Framingham State College is ...
Aides to Cronin, Meehan exchange jabs on resumes
Oct 01, 1992; ... Aides to Republican congressional candidate Paul W. Croninyesterday charged that his Democratic opponent, former countyprosecutor Martin T. Meehan, has been "a career politicalpencil-pusher" with "less legal experience than a paralegal." In challenging Meehan to produce a resume of ...
Delinquents found among worker comp claimants
Oct 01, 1992; ... Bay State tax officials said yesterday they have identified 8,486child-support delinquents, owing a total of more than $40 million,who are also awaiting settlement in worker compensation claims. Robert Melia, director of strategic planning for the Department ofRevenue, said the ...
But what a way to go
Oct 01, 1992; ... TORONTO -- Only the Red Sox. They almost get their firstno-hitter in 27 years and it comes on the night they clinch theirfirst last-place finish in 60 years.Frank Viola last night took a no-no into the ninth. Devon Whiteled off the inning with a single, but he died at second and ...
Aides to Bush, Clinton discuss debate plans
Oct 01, 1992; ... John Aloysius Farrell and John W. Mashek, both of the Globe staff, contributed to this report from Clinton, Md., and Fond du Lac, Wisc., respectively. WASHINGTON -- With presidential debates quickly becoming even morepivotal than usual in an election, Gov. Bill ...
PLUGGED IN TO COLLEGE LIFE The '90s dorm room is a deluxe retreat
Oct 01, 1992; ...Just try telling the guys in Walsh 318 about the austere old daysof student living when a hot pot, a forlorn milk crate and a postermade a dorm a home. As sophomores at Boston College, the guys in 318 inhabit a plush,high-tech clubhouse of three rooms that plainly reveals just how ...
Partners in Haiti's crimes
Oct 01, 1992 ... In "Haiti: Killing the Dream," a PBS documentary that chroniclesthe events that led to the current crisis in Haiti, narrator OssieDavis says, "Washington's promise to defend democracy in a new worldorder rings hollow in its own back yard." Yet when Haiti's exiled president, ...
Bush's debating game
Oct 01, 1992 ... With his proposal for presidential debates on four consecutiveSunday nights, President Bush has bowed to the inevitable -- but inas cynical a manner as possible. Certainly it is better that there be some debates than none, asBush's monthlong intransigence had threatened. But ...
PUZZLED NO MORE
Oct 01, 1992 ...Two University of California computer scientists, T.C. Hu (right)of the San Diego campus and Andrew Kahng of Los Angeles, show offtheir answer to a 150-year-old problem, finding the ...
Child slavery in India
Oct 01, 1992 ... A recent advertisement for hand-knotted rugs from India pictured amiddle-aged man, suitably clad in turban and dhoti, working away onwhat readers could imagine would be a richly colored and carefullycrafted rug. Unfortunately, the reality is quite different. The worker is ...
Thinking smaller
Oct 01, 1992 ... Corporate size has often been a bugaboo for Americans worriedabout the raw power of money to make success seem inevitable ratherthan the consequence of selling better products or services at lowerprices. That fear reached a crescendo during the heyday ofconglomeration, when big ...
`Reluctantly,' panel halts McNeil probe
Oct 01, 1992; ... The House ethics panel is on the verge of recommending thatindicted Malden state Rep. John McNeil be expelled from the House,but it has suspended its work at the request of state and federalprosecutors, sources said yesterday. The Committee on Ethics decided yesterday to suspend ...
Leave veto is upheld in House
Oct 01, 1992; ... WASHINGTON -- The House yesterday upheld President Bush's vetoof a bill requiring employers to allow workers 12 weeks of unpaidfamily leave, dashing Democrats' hopes of delivering an election-yearrebuke to the president. The 258-to-169 House vote fell far short of the ...
`Fires': A scathing universal portrait of hatred
Oct 01, 1992; ... FIRES IN THE MIRROR Monologue conceived, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith. Projections by Wendall K. Harrington. Music, Joseph Jarman. Costumes, Candice Donnelly. Lighting, John Ambrosone. In the ART Fall Festival '92 At: the ...
Plenty of musical options at WFNX's birthday bash
Oct 01, 1992; ... WFNX's 9th BIRTHDAY PARTY At: Avalon, Axis, Venus de Milo and Bill's Bar, with Too Much Joy, Michael Penn, Kitchens of Distinction, the Mighty Lemon Drops, Wailing Souls, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, the Breeders, Kimm Rogers, Mary's ...
10 in Cambridge treated for fumes
Oct 01, 1992 ... CAMBRIDGE -- Ten people, including three firefighters, were treatedfor carbon monoxide poisoning last night after problems with anexhaust system sent fumes into a restaurant. Firefighters werecalled to the India Gate restaurant at 24 Holyoke St. about 7 p.m.,said Robert ...
State family planning group says `gag rule' won't stop counseling
Oct 01, 1992; ... The Massachusetts Family Planning Association said yesterday itwould continue to include abortion among its counseling optionsdespite today's implementation of the so-called gag rule on abortionadvice in federally financed clinics. The association said it would abide by the rule by ...
Mother: Confine my son, keep him alive
Oct 01, 1992; ... The mother of a 14-year-old South End youth charged withshooting at four gang members, who were allegedly stalking him, andat three police officers in Roxbury on Tuesday said yesterday shewants her son confined in state custody to keep him alive. "I am going to have him put away ...
Scientists complete first maps of 2 human chromosomes
Oct 01, 1992; ... Scientists have completed genetic maps of two entire humanchromosomes, a landmark achievement indicating that the ambitiouseffort to decipher man's cellular blueprints is on track. The chromosome maps are the first of what will be a complete setfor all 23 pairs of human ...
Heeding the cry for family
Oct 01, 1992; ...This is what passes for a happy ending after a sequence of familydisasters: A 12-year-old boy has gotten what he wants. Gregory Kingsley, sturdy and unshakable in the face of courtroomlawyers in Florida, has a new family, a new name and a new life. Theboy who went from mother to ...
POSTWAR RELICS
Oct 01, 1992 ...An excavator carries skeleton fragments from a site in Bautzen,Germany, near Poland, where a mass grave of victims ...
A moment that must be seized for Mideast peace
Oct 01, 1992; ...`What we have, then, is a unique constellation of external andregional support for a US-led Arab-Israeli peace process, agreedground rules for ongoing negotiations and a new Israeli governmentwith peacemaking its priority." So says a recently released report by the Washington ...
Residents testify on aftermath of youth's killing by patrolman
Oct 01, 1992; ... A resident of the Dorchester street where a teen-ager was shot andkilled by a police officer last year testified yesterday that he tolda 911 dispatcher to send back a cruiser that had just backed down thestreet because someone apparently was injured. "I heard a moan and saw the ...
Freedom police await word from Wilmington
Oct 01, 1992; ... While the investigation of the alleged hazing incident involvingthe Wilmington High School football team continues within the schoolsystem, police in the town of Freedom, N.H., await word on whataction, if any, comes next. Police in Freedom, where the incident allegedly occurred ...
Clinton sets Ireland on Flynn horizon
Oct 01, 1992; ... After months of taking the political hit for having backed awrite-in campaign for New York Gov. Mario Cuomo in the New Hampshirepresidential primary, Mayor Flynn appears well on his way to enteringthe good graces of Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton. Last week, on the eve ...