The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from May 1993:
Vietnamese business owners battle arson, other crimes in Fields Corner
May 01, 1993; ... A series of arson fires and other crimes aimed at Vietnamese-ownedbusinesses in Dorchester's Fields Corner is frustrating lawenforcement officials and threatening a peaceful transition in theneighborhood's ethnic makeup. Several restaurants, bars and a liquor store owned ...
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May 01, 1993 ... Q. What's become of this city's semipro football team, the HydePark Cowboys? M.K., Boston A. The Cowboys have been reorganized as a new semipro team, theBoston Braves, which will play in the Eastern Football League.According to Braves' general manager and head coach Larry DeVoe, ...
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May 01, 1993 ... Q. What ever became of St. Leo's Chapel, which used to be locatedin this city in the D Building at Mattapan Hospital? P.O., Boston A. Mattapan Hospital is now known as the Boston Specialty andRehabilitation Hospital. According to hospital spokesman DorothyNorcott, St. Leo's ...
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May 01, 1993 ...Q. What vidoes has actor Judd Nelson appeared in? J.H., Medford A. You may have seen Nelson in "Getting an Arm up on ShowBusiness." He's also appeared in HBO's horror ...
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May 01, 1993 ... Q. Which of Barry Hannah's short story collections includes thestory "Water Liars"? J.M., Chicopee A. "Water Liars" appeared in Hannah's 1978 collection, "Airships,"published by Knopf (paperback by Vintage). The southern ...
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May 01, 1993 ...Q. How can I subscribe to The Flush Rush Quarterly, whichlampoons conservative radio and television talk show host RushLimbaugh?J.L., Winchester A ....
ASK THE GLOBE MORE ON MILDEW
May 01, 1993 ... The Northeast Document and Conservation Center in Andover wouldlike to emphasize that the treatment for mildewed books includesdouble-bagging the book. The book itself should be placed inside asmall, ...
Center for Auto Safety defends its role in passive seat-belt controversy
May 01, 1993; ... Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety,responded to the Automobilia column of April 17 wherein the columnisttook him to task for critical attacks of domestic car design in theinterest of fuel economy while ignoring the issue of door-mountedseat ...
MY FAIR BABY Expo gives parents-to-be a peek at the joys -- and expenses -- that await
May 01, 1993; ...As a first-time father-to-be, I've read the books. All of them.I can debate the merits of midwifery or cost benefits of diaperservices, and I'm fairly sure I know what's happening with my wife,wombwise, at this state of our pregnancy.I thought I knew it all. Until the Baby ...
Bias inquiry seen focusing on 36 banks
May 01, 1993; ... Three dozen Massachusetts banks have been targeted by the stateattorney general for an investigation of alleged mortgage lendingdiscrimination, sources said yesterday. If proven to have favored white home buyers over blacks andHispanics, the banks could face civil fines and be ...
Barrett opts out of mayor's race; to run new redevelopment agency
May 01, 1993; ... Boston Redevelopment Authority director Paul Barrett saidyesterday that he is passing up a mayoral run this year to head thecity's new consolidated economic development agency. Barrett said he feared that if he left his BRA job, in which hehas served only nine months, the move ...
Center Knipscheer signed as free agent
May 01, 1993; ... He would've preferred a seat in Harry Sinden's sky box watching aBruins playoff game, but 23-year-old Fred Knipscheer, whom Bostonsigned yesterday as a free agent, was treated to a Celtics playoffgame Thursday night instead. Knipscheer, an affable 5-foot-11-inch, 185-pound center ...
US envoy to seek allies' support on Bosnia action
May 01, 1993; ... WASHINGTON -- As diplomats launched a new effort to end theBosnian war peacefully, President Clinton was expected to dispatchSecretary of State Warren Christopher to Europe today to seek alliedsupport for military action against the Serbs. Asked by reporters in New Orleans ...
Brown is set to step in Guard is accustomed to a variety of roles
May 01, 1993; ... Dee Brown says he is ready. Ready to do more than score 16 pointsand hand off for seven assists in 32 minutes, as he did in theCeltics' 112-101 win over the Charlotte Hornets Thursday night.Ready to assume more of a burden if captain Reggie Lewis is unable toplay today in the second game ...
Firms say water bills put a drag on growth
May 01, 1993; ... Boston businesses said yesterday that rising water and sewer rateswould dampen economic growth and called for federal and stategovernments to contribute more to pay for the cleanup of BostonHarbor. A report released by the state inspector general's office Thursdaypredicted that ...
Candela Laser lays off 30; strategy ills blamed
May 01, 1993; ... Reeling from the twin blows of bad strategic moves and intenselycompetitive markets, Candela Laser Corp. yesterday laid off 30employees, or 15 percent of its work force. The layoffs came as the Wayland company reported a loss of $9.3million, or $1.79 a share, for the third quarter ...
WILD RIDE OVER
May 01, 1993 ...David Andrade Jr. gets a lift from his father outside their FallRiver home yesterday after his safe return from a ride with a carthief. The 6-year-old was in his mother's idling car at 6:45 ...
FULL-SERVICE MOM
May 01, 1993 ... An apparently orphaned baby gray squirrel joins a litter ofkittens nursing on Tootsie, a 1-year-old cat, in the Hudson Falls,N.Y., home of Kathleen ...
Ex-mayor seen key to Chelsea bribe case
May 01, 1993; ... Former Chelsea Mayor Joel Pressman received at least $5,000 inpayoffs from bookmaker Samuel Berkowitz when he was mayor more than adecade ago, according to a document filed by a prosecutor in USDistrict Court yesterday.Pressman, who was mayor of Chelsea from 1976 to 1983, when ...
Robert L. Cleland, 65 Dartmouth chemistry professor
May 01, 1993 ... Robert Lindbergh Cleland of Norwich, Vt., professor emeritus ofchemistry at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., died Thursday inUppsala, Sweden, while conducting research at Uppsala University. Hewas 65. Mr. Cleland died of an apparent heart attack while boarding a busto meet his ...
Clemens wonders He'll test stiff elbow today
May 01, 1993; ... It may all work out and Roger Clemens will pitch 260 innings, ashe says he will. But though Clemens' tender right elbow keepsimproving, there's doubt lingering even in his mind. Asked whether he'll be OK for today's rematch against ScottSanderson, Clemens said last night, "I can't ...
Hornets look to get even
May 01, 1993; ... The Charlotte Hornets feel they have seen the Celtics at theirbest. Now they hope it's their turn in today's second game of theNBA Eastern Conference first-round playoffs. "Boston can't play much better than they played the other night,"said Charlotte center Alonzo Mourning after ...
Genzyme decision leads to a round of finger-pointing
May 01, 1993; ... Conrail blamed the Boston Redevelopment Authority. The BRA blamedthe Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. And the turnpike authorityblamed the BRA. In classic Boston fashion, public and private officials yesterdayblamed each other in response to news that Genzyme Corp. has ...
correction
May 01, 1993 ...CORRECTION: Because of an editing error, a story in yesterday'seditions incorrectly reported the fate of ...
Sources were misinformed
May 01, 1993; ... A little bad and erroneous news can travel a long way. Case in point was the initial report on the cause of Reggie Lewis'collapse 5 1/2 minutes into the Charlotte-Celtics game Thursdaynight. Jeff Twiss, the Celtics' public relations chief, informedpress row that Lewis had been ...
Mass. crime report is mixed
May 01, 1993; ... Thanks to a major drop in the Boston homicide rate, the number ofmurders in Massachusetts dropped 27 percent last year, but theincrease in reports of rape and other violent crime in the state faroutpaced the national increase, according to 1992 crime statisticscompiled by the Weld ...
Tacoma to honor accused murderer
May 01, 1993; ...TACOMA, Wash. -- A high school student charged in the hacking andshooting death of his mother is to be inducted into the city's YouthHall of Fame. The teacher who nominated Frank Dalton noted only that his future"is a bit dim." Dalton, 18, is on a list of 872 young people ...
It's not just question of if he'll play, but should he?
May 01, 1993; ... Twenty-seven-year-old athletes do not have trouble breathing whenthey run up and down a basketball court. They do not collapse. Theydo not hyperventilate. Celtics captain Reggie Lewis collapsed while running the floor inthe first quarter of Game 1 against Charlotte Thursday night ....
Service on May 10 for William R. Day
May 01, 1993 ... A memorial service will be held May 10 for William R. Day ofBoston, a Boston-area baritone soloist who died April 7 aftersuffering a stroke. He was 59. Born and raised in Madison, Wis., Mr. Day moved to the Boston areain the mid-1960s. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees at ...
Immigration agency focuses on criminals
May 01, 1993; ... When he walked into court Monday morning to answer charges that hehad threatened a girlfriend, Nicholas Howe was hoping for the usualtreatment. He was hoping to get home by noon. What he received instead was life back in his native country ofMontserrat, an island in the eastern ...
Personal Hope's trainer has realistic ambition in Derby
May 01, 1993; ... LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The conventional wisdom is that there is nostandout in today's Kentucky Derby. The field is generallyconsidered mediocre and the majority of handicappers have avoidedembracing any particular steed with enthusiasm. But the conventional wisdom may be wrong. There ...
ECAC chooses Lake Placid for title games
May 01, 1993; ... Lake Placid, N.Y., yesterday was awarded the ECAC Division 1hockey championships for the next two years, winning the nod overAlbany's Knickerbocker Arena after both sites made presentations tothe league athletic directors two weeks ago. Lake Placid's Olympic Arena hosted the ECAC's ...
A classic Derby
May 01, 1993 ... The ancient Greeks, who believed in historical cycles and not inprogress, would have appreciated this afternoon's running of theKentucky Derby. One need not be a classicist to understand that this is the yearof the Arkansans. The president drawls like few other old boys ...
Mental instability
May 01, 1993 ... Uncertainty has been a regular attendee at meetings of thoseconcerned with treatment of the mentally ill. This year, at theannual convention of the Alliance for the Mentally Ill in Taunton, ithas risen to new levels because of the impending report of PresidentClinton's task force on ...
Reviving Somalia
May 01, 1993 ... The US mission to Somalia was America's first humanitarianintervention under UN authority. As the United Nations prepares totake over the operation today, US policy makers are calling it asuccess, but the final verdict depends on whether Somali civilsociety is able to regenerate ...
At what price a nice, clean harbor? Families left drained by hefty bills
May 01, 1993; ... At the beginning of every month, Elaine and Edward Testa areforced to play a kind of Russian roulette with their bills. With themonthly statements before them, they carefully choose which one willgo unpaid. One month it's the telephone bill. Another month it maybe the car ...
Defense lawyer to get $200 an hour in bombing case
May 01, 1993; ...At a time when the federal court system is about to run out ofmoney to pay court-appointed defense attorneys, US District Judge RyaW. Zobel has agreed to pay defense lawyer Nancy Gertner $200 an hour-- five times the going rate.Gertner, a prominent Boston attorney, was ...
Brother L. Francis, 95 Teacher at Xaverian schools
May 01, 1993 ... A funeral Mass will be said today at the St. John's PreparatorySchool chapel in Danvers for Brother Leonard Francis, a Xaverianbrother for more than 75 years, who died Tuesday in Mary ImmaculateNursing Center in Lawrence after a long illness. He was 95. Brother Leonard, born John ...
Gang leaders meet in spirit of harmony Boston among cities sending participants
May 01, 1993; ... KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The scars crisscrossing Ron Williams' cheeksspeak of a lifetime of battle. After seven years as a member of the Crips in California's SanBernardino Valley, he estimates that he is directly or indirectlyresponsible for 19 lost lives. As he speaks of countless ...
Charlotte's Gill can relate Migraines diagnosed as cause of guard's collapse last season
May 01, 1993; ... Kendall Gill didn't see Reggie Lewis pass out on the Garden floorduring Thursday night's opening playoff game against the Celtics. Heheard him. "It was just a loud thump," said the Charlotte Hornets guardyesterday afternoon just a few feet from where Lewis went down. "Andhe hit ...
Guns N' Roses cancels 4 shows
May 01, 1993 ... Guns N' Roses has canceled four concerts, including shows slatedfor the Providence Civic Center Monday and the Mullins Center atUMass-Amherst Thursday, because guitarist Gilby Clarke broke hiswrist in a motorcycle accident this week. The ...
H&H Society's planning pays off with delightful concert
May 01, 1993; ... HANDEL & HAYDN SOCIETY Christopher Hogwood, artistic director In a concert in Symphony Hall last night (repeats this afternoon). Most successful ensemble concerts are triumphs against the odds,so it is a pleasure to salute the planning behind last ...
Mrs. Clinton offers voluntary health-cost caps
May 01, 1993; ... WASHINGTON -- Hillary Rodham Clinton, offering an olive branchto Republicans and other economic conservatives, yesterday toldsenators from both parties that the White House is consideringvoluntary rather than mandatory price controls on doctors andhospitals.Lawmakers ...
Costly American clot-busting drug is better lifesaver, study says
May 01, 1993; ... In a major international study involving 41,000 patients in 16countries, heart researchers yesterday said they have shown that anexpensive American clot-busting drug called t-PA is better at savinglives than streptokinase, which is 10 times cheaper. Other heart specialists, ...
Imus takes some pages out of Pacers' playbook
May 01, 1993; ... As it is, the Pacers are going to have a difficult time beatingthe Knicks in their first-round playoff series. What they certainlydidn't need was a public airing of their assessment of New York'spersonnel. Don Imus, WFAN's morning personality, yesterday read details ofthe Pacers' ...
EXCHANGE IDEAS
May 01, 1993 ...Members of the China Securities Regulatory Commission yesterdayvisited the Boston Stock Exchange to observe its role in the USsecurities markets. From left ...
`Workfare' plan will not work
May 01, 1993; ... By any name, it is still the same old program that never works. Under Gov. Edward King, it was called "workfare," and under Gov.Michael Dukakis, it was called the same for a while before he junkedthe program in his first administration. Now under Gov. Weld comes the same ...
Springfield official admits tax evasion
May 01, 1993; ...Springfield City Councilor Francis G. Keough 3d pleaded guilty inSuffolk Superior Court yesterday to a criminal tax charge, and aspart of the plea agreement must cooperate with state prosecutors intheir ongoing probe into municipal corruption in the city.Keough, 35, a ...
Author testifies to King papers' condition at BU
May 01, 1993; ... A Pulitzer Prize-winning author testified yesterday that anarchivist in Atlanta asked him several years ago to write a letterdenouncing the condition of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.collection at Boston University as being "substandard," but that herefused."I didn't think, ...
Two soulless TV treatments of heartless teens
May 01, 1993; ... Two otherwise unrelated programs focus on American teen-agerswhose lives have curdled into murderous hatred. The first is are-creation in a two-part TV movie, "Murder in the Heartland," ofCharlie Starkweather's killing spree in the 1950s. The second is"Skinheads USA: Soldiers of the Race ...
Miller Laufman, 88 Was a chief trader for Fidelity
May 01, 1993 ... A memorial service will be held today for Miller Laufman, formerchief financial trader of Fidelity Mutual Funds, who died Saturday athis home of leukemia. He was 88 and a resident of West Newton. Mr. Laufman was a pioneer in the mutual fund trading business. In1954 he joined the ...
TAMING THAT GREEN MONSTER, YOUR LAWN
May 01, 1993; ... For some people The Green Monster isn't the wall in Fenway Park.It's the lawn around their house. Like its baseball counterpart, it's a potential source ofhumiliation out there in full view of thousands of strangers. Not tomention the neighbors. No wonder so many weekend warriors ...
Lewis is hospitalized Cause of blackout is still unknown as tests continue
May 01, 1993; ... Reggie Lewis was admitted to New England Baptist Hospital forobservation last night after day-long tests failed to determine whyhe collapsed during the first quarter of Thursday's playoff gameagainst Charlotte. Lewis, 27, was listed as doubtful for Game 2 this afternoon ....
Lowell investigators seek link in arson fires
May 01, 1993; ... LOWELL -- Fire investigators are probing seven fires of suspiciousorigin that have struck vacant residential buildings in the HosfordSquare area, south of Central Street in this aging industrial city,striking fear into neighbors there. "We don't sleep," said a woman who has lived ...
Didja hear that . . .?
May 01, 1993; ...Over dinner in East Boston, a North Shore friend asked who wasahead in Boston's mayoral race. I was afraid somebody was going to ask. I hoped we might go on tothe next question, something easier, such as, "What should ouragricultural policy be toward Tajikistan?" But he really ...
Secretariat memory still sweet
May 01, 1993; ... LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Down in Barn 27, away from the maddening hubbubof the Derby horses, Eddie Sweat was on his hands and knees, puttingwraps around the legs of Sweet Pea. The filly might be OK, saidSweat, "since I heard she won her maiden last year up in Canada by 8lengths." Sweat ...
Mzwakhe Mbuli: Dancing with the revolution
May 01, 1993; ... MZWAKHE MBULI At: Johnny D's, Somerville, Thursday, First Set. For all the look-tough posing and calculatedly outrageousstatements, claims to subversion in contemporary pop in America areoften no more than a marketing strategy. But in the developing world, ...
Doctors get an OK on bill restricting board of medicine
May 01, 1993; ... In a move that critics say could make one of the nation's weakestmedical boards even weaker, the Legislature's health care committeehas approved a bill to prohibit the Massachusetts board fromdisciplining doctors for actions that are more than six years old. The committee also ...
Lessons of a life term commuted Woman on abuse: `That's not love'
May 01, 1993; ... LANCASTER -- Eugenia Moore, the first woman in Massachusetts tohave a life sentence commuted because of alleged battering by theman she killed, said yesterday that she hopes other women, especiallyyoung women, learn from her life and her mistakes. "Young women now, they are into ...
Inside track
May 01, 1993; ... If you're looking for a horse in this afternoon's running of the119th Kentucky Derby, look no further than Dixieland Heat. Therearen't many handicappers out there who give this rough-and-tumble3-year-old son of Dixieland Band much of a shot -- he's 15-1 on themorning line -- but for the ...
18 children hurt in bus accident
May 01, 1993 ...WALLINGFORD, Conn. -- A tractor-trailer crashed into the back ofa school bus at a railroad crossing yesterday, injuring 18 Hamdenelementary school students and the bus driver, police said. The bus,carrying 62 students, had stopped at ...
Clammer missing in Buzzards Bay
May 01, 1993 ...Two of three crew members of a 72-foot clam boat that capsizedwere rescued from waters in Buzzards Bay yesterday, but Coast Guardauthorities were still searching for the third member eight hourslater. Lt. Keith Smith said the crew member ...
Aide sentenced in ballot scandal
May 01, 1993; ... AUGUSTA, Maine -- Kenneth P. Allen, the former top legislativeaide whose ballot tampering set off a major political scandal, wasordered to spend less than a month in jail yesterday by a judge whosaid the seriousness of the crime must be balanced against Allen'spotential ...
Beverly, Salem hospitals to link
May 01, 1993 ...North Shore Medical Center and Northeast Health Systems, parentcorporations for Salem and Beverly hospitals, yesterday said theyhave signed a memorandum of understanding that will lead to a mergerby Oct. 1. The two hospitals are the largest on the ...
Man gets life for killing baby
May 01, 1993; ...CAMBRIDGE -- A Woburn man who told police he threw his baby sonon the floor to make him stop crying was sentenced to life in prisonyesterday for second-degree murder. Jay Procopio, 33, had pleadedguilty last week to the death of his 5-month-old son, Erik. The ...