The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from February 1993:
Boston aid agency says state bidding for control
Feb 01, 1993; ... Boston's leading human services agency is accusing the Weldadministration of attempting to control spending of the federalantipoverty funds funneled to Head Start, job training and othersocial programs in Massachusetts. Action for Boston Community Development's director, Robert ...
AIDS patients' partners tracked, informed Colorado says its program fights spread of disease while protecting privacy
Feb 01, 1993; ... DENVER -- It was the sort of phone call John thought happened onlyin steamy novels -- or bad dreams. The health official asked if he was someplace they could speakcandidly, then she dropped the bombshell: "You've been exposed tosomeone who tested positively for HIV." Dead ...
The QBs: A game of highs, lows Dallas' Aikman hits the heights as game's MVP
Feb 01, 1993; ... PASADENA, Calif. -- He had seen the comments from Jim Kelly duringthe week, the ones that said Kelly could retire tomorrow and stillfeel he had a complete career, minus a Super Bowl win. Troy Aikman didn't feel that way. Once he got to the Super Bowl,he made it his overriding ...
Boston's new geography Vietnamese edge into Chinatown, transforming an enclave
Feb 01, 1993; ... One weekend in the winter of 1980, Bong Nguyen parked his orangePinto at the corner of Beach Street and Harrison Avenue in Chinatown,and from the trunk peddled Vietnamese spring rolls, a staple of hishomeland. Although he could not have known it then, those homemade springrolls ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Feb 01, 1993 ... Q. Who gave the first inaugural ball? S.W., Boston A. Dolley Madison began the tradition of inaugural balls in 1809.Even before her husband, James, was elected president in 1808, Dolleyhad assumed the role of First Lady for President Thomas Jefferson,who was a widower, while James ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Feb 01, 1993 ... Q. Where is Harry Truman's daughter, Margaret, nowadays? C.T.,Boston A. Now 67, Margaret and her husband, former New York Times reporterClifton Daniels, live on Park Avenue in New York City. She is theauthor of a number of mystery novels, including her most recent, the1990 "Murder at ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Feb 01, 1993 ... Q. The US Mint made just five 1913 Liberty head nickels. Whathappened to them? W.K., Brockton A. The Columbus Dispatch reported in 1990 that the five nickels weremade on the sly. Government plans called for production of Libertyhead nickels to end on Dec. 13, 1912, and for production of ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Feb 01, 1993 ... Q. Who starred in the 1936 movie "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine"?B.K., Somerville A. Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda, Nigel Bruce and Spanky McFarlandwere among the stars of the movie, which is chiefly famous as thefirst ...
Behind those . . . ahhhh, unusual ads
Feb 01, 1993; ... Perhaps this has happened to you. You are savoring one of those cunning ruminations on prosciuttoin The Atlantic; suddenly your eye encounters an advertisement forthe Xandria Collection, sensual products "designed for both the timidand the bold." Or you are leafing through a ...
BC's Cedorchuk will have a different view
Feb 01, 1993; ...First-year Boston College coach Steve Cedorchuk will take in his32d Beanpot tournament tonight at the Garden.Cedorchuk has watched the spectacular since he was 12 years old. "I was a sixth grader in Charlestown when I saw my firstBeanpot," said Cedorchuk, who follows legendary ...
Stirring the Pot for tonight's action
Feb 01, 1993; ... Seniors Matt Mallgrave of Harvard and David Sacco of BostonUniversity are on opposite ends of the Beanpot spectrum. Mallgravedoesn't know what it feels like to win a Beanpot title. Saccocertainly does -- his Terriers have taken home the hardware the pastthree years. The ...
The bitter and sweet of Black History Month
Feb 01, 1993; ... The day's mail brings casually chatty press releases about suddenexhibits of African-American art, university missives on crisp papertouting the black intellectual of the moment and slim, sleek volumesby black authors who just happen to be touring in February. Theairwaves are sprinkled ...
Pleased with punch Sutter enjoyed team's production, and victory, Saturday night
Feb 01, 1993; ... Coach Brian Sutter concedes he's hard to please, but he seemedvery satisfied by his club's seesaw 6-5 victory over the Islanders inNew York Saturday night. The Bruins led, 2-0, were tied, led 3-2, were tied, trailed 4-3,tied it, led 5-4, were tied 5-5, then won it with a Ray ...
`Fugitive Blue' can't shake identity issue
Feb 01, 1993; ... FUGITIVE BLUE By Dani Shapiro Nan A. Talese / Doubleday 246 pp., $20 Like its heroine and narrator, up-and-coming actress JoannaHirsch, Dani Shapiro's second novel has a lot of issues aroundidentity, as they say in the therapy trade. Jump ...
Flight attendant files suit against Bruins
Feb 01, 1993; ... Former USAir flight attendant Connie von Hundertmark, 46, saidyesterday she has filed a $5 million negligence suit against theBruins, claiming the club failed to control drinking on USAir charterflight 5483 from Pittsburgh to Boston May 12, 1991, which vonHundertmark claims led to her ...
Clinton gets a warning on benefits Moynihan sees danger in cuts
Feb 01, 1993; ... WASHINGTON -- A powerful Senate Democrat yesterday labeled as apolitical "death wish" a proposal that is under consideration by theClinton administration to cut the federal deficit by curbing SocialSecurity cost-of-living adjustments.Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York set ...
Bulger says he'll push for choice in school bill
Feb 01, 1993; ... With the fate of a sweeping public school bill now in the hands ofthe Massachusetts Senate, Senate President William M. Bulger isplanning a major push for statewide school choice and denouncing theMassachusetts Teachers Association as the biggest obstacle to schoolreform. In an ...
Amy Campbell, 90 Taught high school in Lexington
Feb 01, 1993 ... Amy Campbell, a retired high school teacher in Lexington andWhitman, died Saturday of a heart attack at the home of her niece inAnnandale, Va. She was 90 and lived in Milton before moving toVirginia a year ago because of failing health. Born in Malden, Miss Campbell grew up in ...
NEW YEAR'S DANCE
Feb 01, 1993 ... A dancing dragon leads celebrants yesterday on Beach Street asChinatown ushers in ...
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
Feb 01, 1993 ... Bibi, a lowland gorilla born in Zaire, celebrates her 40thbirthday yesterday at the Franklin Park Zoo with a piece of cake.Kaitlin Riley, 3, ...
IN TRAINING
Feb 01, 1993 ... Tim Bosse, 3, removes snow with his toy truck yesterday ...
UNWORLDLY
Feb 01, 1993 ...Behind the snow and the ski mask is Meaghan Geary, 8, of ...
YOUNG SKIER
Feb 01, 1993 ... Su(e) Waddell and her son, Imani, 8 months, ski ...
SWEPT AWAY
Feb 01, 1993 ... An aerial view of the river in Mtito Andei, Kenya, wherefloodwaters swept away a passenger train on Saturday. Besides thefour ...
BOMB AFTERMATH
Feb 01, 1993 ... Antonia Rondon and her son, Leonardo, comfort one another outsidetheir Bogota shop yesterday in the aftermath of a Saturday ...
Celtics hit flat note vs. Lakers
Feb 01, 1993; ... The Lakers and Celtics lived up to advance billing yesterday, butthat is no longer a good thing. Early on, it was starkly apparentthat, despite their storied pasts, the two teams were better comparedto a Jack Nicholson impostor who surfaced in the fourth quarter. Afterward, ...
THE GENOME PROJECT A `superstar' takes over the helm Renowned gene hunter call perfect fit for the job
Feb 01, 1993; ... Dr. Francis Collins made a splash in 1989, when he and anothergeneticist found the long-sought gene that causes cystic fibrosis,the most common of deadly inherited diseases. Only a year later, he was co-discoverer of another key gene, thecause of neurofibromatosis. Now, he's ...
Flynn to lead six-state conference to discuss regional economics
Feb 01, 1993; ... Girding for a new series of cuts in the federal defense budget,Mayor Flynn announced yesterday he will convene a six-stateconference of New England mayors and business leaders to prepare aregional plan for economic conversion. The two-day conference fulfills a promise Flynn made in ...
For most part, NBC seemed to have things in focus
Feb 01, 1993; ...Except perhaps for the viewers in Buffalo, no one could complainabout last night's Super Bowl telecast on NBC. All the plays were covered, then covered again on replay. DickEnberg was his usual smooth self on play-by-play. The replaysproved analyst Bob Trumpy slightly off a ...
Peeler provides glitter in LA
Feb 01, 1993; ... They say Anthony Peeler has no fear, and he might be the onlycurrent Laker player with a solid future in Los Angeles. Nerves of steel. Will go right at you. Not afraid to take thebig shot. Then why so much angst over a creaky old building? "I had certain expectations ...
Defense makes name for itself
Feb 01, 1993; ... PASADENA, Calif. -- Maybe somebody will notice them now, becausethe Buffalo Bills couldn't miss them yesterday. The defense of the Dallas Cowboys was not the only reason theymangled the Bills, 52-17, to win Super Bowl XXVII at the Rose Bowl,but when you force nine turnovers and ...
N.H. group seeks tougher drunk-driver standards
Feb 01, 1993; ... CONCORD, N.H. -- A coalition of state highway safety officials,police chiefs, insurers and relatives of drunken-driving victims isleading a major effort to make New Hampshire the sixth state tolower the standard for deciding when a driver is legally intoxicated. The Coalition for ...
The attraction may be fatal for some tourist spots
Feb 01, 1993; ... The tourists basking on the beaches often don't have a clue, orthey don't want to know. The locals and the resort operators know about the problem, butthey don't want to talk about it. News that pollution is killingcoral reefs could be bad for business. The beaches still look ...
Recycling Boston State Hospital
Feb 01, 1993 ... After seven years of meetings and meanderings, the Boston StateHospital site in Mattapan still sits unlovely and undeveloped. Its200 acres is the largest parcel still available for development inBoston. But neither dreamers nor schemers have made even marginaladvances in bringing jobs, ...
A doctor who did harm
Feb 01, 1993 ... A wall of denial, braced by euphemisms, has been built aroundGerman physicians who once diagnosed chronically ill children as"unworthy of life" and have since moved into leadership positions inGerman and international medicine. But that wall is crumbling around Dr. Hans Joachim ...
Recall effort is a bogus one
Feb 01, 1993; ... WILMINGTON -- Voters will go to the polls tomorrow in a bogusrecall election that never should have made it onto the ballot. Theywill be asked to recall two veteran School Committee members, Dr.Shirley Callan and Linda McMenimen. Now, Callan and McMenimen did not take off with the ...
BU's standards and Silber
Feb 01, 1993 ... Boston University stands paralyzed in the face of mountingallegations of unethical practices, some with potential legalimplications, on the part of several of its highest officials. It isimportant to note that none of the aspersions apply to BU'shigh-caliber educational ...
She's no longer Sarah Who? First lady lifts designer from obscurity
Feb 01, 1993; ... Sarah Phillips, the designer who made Hillary Rodham Clinton'spurple beaded inaugural gown, could not afford to give a fashion showprior to Jan. 20. Now she doesn't have the time. Phillips, a 37-year-old New Yorker, is too busy coping with everyfashion designer's dream. Through a ...
GOP's Gramm in N.H. with an eye on '96 State visit seen as opening move
Feb 01, 1993; ... MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Eleven days into President Clinton'sadministration, Republican Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas made his openingmove of the 1996 presidential campaign. Yesterday the temperature was in single digits and the knifingwind made the snow fall sideways, but several hundred ...
HOW & WHY
Feb 01, 1993; ... Q Are human beings the only animals who get mental retardation?If so, why are they the only ones?B.E.E.WeymouthA This is a difficult question to answer. Mental retardation isnot a specific term addressing a specific form of brain dysfunction.Some forms of mental retardation are ...
Environmental law extends outside US
Feb 01, 1993; ... In what environmentalists are hailing as a landmark decision, afederal appeals court ruled Friday that environmental reviews must bedone on US projects occurring outside the United States. "This a major win for the global environment, which is underassault from US projects that ...
Japan ponders a larger role in world arena
Feb 01, 1993; ... TOKYO -- For more than four decades Article 9 of Japan'sConstitution -- the section that "forever" renounces war and forbidsthe government from using force or even the threat of force toachieve national ends -- has been the most sacred of politicaltaboos. But now some of the most ...
Johnson kept it all in place
Feb 01, 1993; ... PASADENA, Calif. -- They didn't stop with the Gatorade shower.Getting Jimmy Johnson wet wasn't enough. Mussing up the hair, nowthat was something to celebrate. The Cowboys got to their coach in the waning moments of their52-17 rout of Buffalo in yesterday's Super Bowl. They gave ...
Margaret Lindberg, 85 Retired Medfield State nurse
Feb 01, 1993 ... Margaret R. (Fuller) Lindberg, a retired registered nurse, diedSaturday of pneumonia at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield. Shewas 85 and a resident of West Springfield. Born in Des Moines, Mrs. Lindberg lived in New Jersey andMedfield prior to moving to West Springfield 11 ...
Team expected to keep Williams around Power forward has `intrigued' Celtics
Feb 01, 1993; ... The Celtics are expected to announce today that they have retainedforward Lorenzo Williams, who started at power forward for the secondtime yesterday and pulled down 11 rebounds, 10 in the first half. The team informed Williams of the decision after yesterday's lossto the Lakers ...
Surgery hasn't knocked Jennings off her course
Feb 01, 1993; ... The appendectomy that Lynn Jennings experienced in England wasone month ago yesterday, and she can wear the faint traces of theincision as her badge of honor. "It's very frightening," saidJennings. "I've never been hurt. I've never had anything happen tomy body. You're at the mercy of ...
Clarence R. Lyons, 72 Funeral director in Danvers
Feb 01, 1993 ... Clarence R. Lyons, 72, of Danvers, a funeral director for morethan 40 years, died Saturday in the Beverly Hospital. Mr. Lyons, a life-long resident of Danvers, was funeral directorof the C.R. Lyons & Sons Funeral Home there for over 40 years withhis brother and son. He was also a ...
Bills left in depths of despair
Feb 01, 1993; ... PASADENA, Calif. -- Down and down we went, with the AmericanFootball Conference, down into the depths of the Rose Bowl, wonderingwhen the NFL will rescind the AFC's automatic berth, worthless now asthe Ivy League's automatic trip to the NCAAs ever was. Maybe, just maybe, the AFC ...
Once again, scalpers on cutting edge
Feb 01, 1993; ... PASADENA, Calif. -- When America has reached its final excess, itdoesn't stop. The outer boundary was broken . . . once again . . .at yesterday's Super Bowl. "I've driven 2,700 miles," read the sign held aloft by one fanoutside the Rose Bowl an hour before game time. "Just one ...
Behind scenes of Malden bank investigation
Feb 01, 1993; ... Last Friday, almost exactly three years after it began, the fraudinvestigation of Bank for Savings in Malden ended with five peoplestanding tensely before a judge in federal court in Boston. The five, including a former assistant district attorney and a52-year-old grandmother, ...
Senator urges improved Mass. tracking effort
Feb 01, 1993; ... For the third year Sen. Louis Bertonazzi (D-Milford) is promotinghis plan to make Massachusetts do a better job tracking down partnersof people infected with HIV. And it may finally pay off. That's because the 20 or so states with ambitious notificationprograms are having ...
Buildup of pressure led to a major blowout
Feb 01, 1993; ... PASADENA, Calif. -- A few years ago Tom Landry, the great Cowboycoach, was explaining why so many Super Bowls become blowouts, likeyesterday's 52-17 Dallas destruction. "There is more pressure on the players in the Super Bowl than anyother game," he said. "It is the last game of ...
SUPER BOWL MVPs
Feb 01, 1993 ...1967 -- Bart Starr, GB1968 -- Bart Starr, GB1969 -- Joe Namath, Jets1970 -- Len Dawson, KC1971 -- Chuck Howley, Dallas1972 -- Roger Staubach, Dallas1973 -- Jake Scott, Miami1974 -- Larry Csonka, Miami1975 -- Franco Harris, Pitts.1976 -- Lynn Swann, WR, Pitts.1977 -- Fred ...
Hunter's prey
Feb 01, 1993; ... If the book critics are as tough on his book as movie reviewerStephen Hunter is on movies, he'll be very depressed. Hunter, whose fifth novel "Point of Impact" has already receivedpraise from Publishers Weekly and was swooped up as both aBook-of-the-Month Club Selection and a ...
Andrew's toll now placed at 85 dead
Feb 01, 1993; ... MIAMI -- Hurricane Andrew continued to claim lives months afterthe storm slammed through South Florida, and the deaths have not beenrecorded in official estimates, The Miami Herald reported yesterday.Basing its estimate on a review of coroner and police records and oninterviews. It found ...
Roxbury youth is shot on street
Feb 01, 1993 ... A Roxbury youth was shot in the chest in Dorchester Saturday nightand police were looking for a suspect last night, according to ThomasSantry, a spokesman for Boston police. Adornous Hazelwood, 17, wasin critical condition last night at Boston ...
2 men assaulted in MBTA station
Feb 01, 1993 ... Two men were assaulted and robbed by a group of teen-agersSaturday night in Arlington Street Station on the MBTA's Green Line,according to Peter Dimond, a T spokesman. Robert Ferris, 24, ofWatertown, was beaten and robbed of his knapsack, and Romero Yvan,25, of Boston, was assaulted by ...
Boston to recycle additional waste
Feb 01, 1993 ... Boston residents will soon be able to recycle some waste materialswhich now end up in the trash bin, Mayor Flynn announced yesterday.Beginning Feb. 6, the Mission Hill drop-off center will accept junkmail, catalogs, magazines and phone books for recycling, he said.Currently, curbside ...
Maine man dies in one-car crash
Feb 01, 1993 ... BRIDGTON, Maine -- A Bridgton man was killed Saturday when thecar in which he was a passenger crashed into an embankment, ...
Suspect sought in street shooting
Feb 01, 1993 ... A Roxbury youth shot in the chest in Dorchester Saturday remainedin critical condition last night and police were still looking for asuspect, according to Thomas Santry, a spokesman for Boston police.Adornous Hazelwood, 17, was at Boston ...
Hendricks' ambitious but uneven `Ascona'
Feb 01, 1993; ... ASCONA Opera by Newell Hendricks and Karen Henry, presented by the Boston Theater Group in Sanders Theater Friday night. Ascona was a place that became a symbol for the creativecountercultural energies that emerged before World War I. "Ascona" isa new opera ...
A benefit spawned by a burglary
Feb 01, 1993 ... Some 500 people attended a benefit dance Saturday night at theJorge Hernandez Cultural Center in the South End. The dance raised money to make up losses from a burglary at thecenter in ...
Don't mess with Pigface
Feb 01, 1993; ... PIGFACE At: Man Ray, Friday night. CAMBRIDGE -- In just about any other context, a rock 'n' rollchant that zeroes in on certain seductive female body parts -- lipsand hips are two we can reprint here -- is apt to be a piece ofsexist crap, the kind of garbage spewed by ...
Check the cost of an early retirement
Feb 01, 1993; ... A few months ago, a woman stopped by Carol Berman's office andsaid she had recently accepted an early-retirement buyout offer.Now, the woman was asking Berman, can she afford it? Of course, that's a little late to be asking that question, saysBerman, a financial planner in ...
Christopher's UN visit seen symbol of priority
Feb 01, 1993; ... WASHINGTON -- It is a measure of just how drastically the worldhas changed in four years that Warren Christopher's first trip asSecretary of State today will be to the United Nations.In 1989, newly confirmed Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d'sfirst trip was a whirlwind ...