The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from July 1993:
Local leader says plan `doesn't go far enough'
Jul 01, 1993; ... The head of a Boston-based foundation dedicated to reducingviolence on television yesterday criticized an agreement by thecountry's four broadcast networks to provide on-air warnings, sayingthe measure "clearly doesn't go far enough." "By itself, this will not solve the problem," ...
US House keeps ban on funding for abortion
Jul 01, 1993; ...WASHINGTON -- The House voted yesterday to continue to banfederal funding of abortions for poor women under most circumstances,giving abortion-rights opponents a surprisingly strong victory aftera debate punctuated by angry shouts and tears. The 255-178 vote was described by ...
OUSTED FROM GREECE
Jul 01, 1993 ...Two young Albanians tend their family's belongings yesterday atthe Albanian border after being deported by Greek police. Athenssaid 13,000 illegal ...
The Bucks pluck Baker at No. 8
Jul 01, 1993; ... HARTFORD -- The crowd noise simmered at the Prospect Cafe justbefore the seventh pick in the NBA draft was announced last night.University of Hartford basketball fans, a group that hasn't had muchto cheer about the past few years, had gathered to watch the draft,hoping favorite son Vin ...
Bay State bankruptcy filings are declining
Jul 01, 1993; ... Bankruptcy filings in Massachusetts have dropped about 10 percentso far this year, the first decline since 1985, officials said. The local statistics follow a 12.3 percent decline in bankruptciesnationwide in the first three months of 1993, the latest period forwhich the data was ...
Accommodating wrong guests
Jul 01, 1993; ...Odds are you never heard of Ian Doyle, don't know him and willnever meet him. Odds are a bit better you may have heard of SheikOmar Abdel-Rahman, although -- if you're lucky -- you'll never getthe chance to shake his hand at a family picnic. Doyle and Abdel-Rahman have never met ...
Some sobering facts about teen sex
Jul 01, 1993 ... The following is some wise advice from one of our country'sforemost sex educators, Sol Gordon. It's short and to the point.People who read it may be more able to stop and think, and then thinkagain, before they say yes to sex.NINE MAJOR MESSAGES. 1. Girls become pregnant because ...
O'Connell back in Providence?
Jul 01, 1993; ... Mike O'Connell, coach of the Providence Bruins, met with Bostonassistant general manager Mike Milbury yesterday to discuss amultiyear deal to remain in charge of the Bruins' American HockeyLeague affiliate. "We're close," said Milbury. "I think we'll get it done ...
Tracking Alzheimer's genetic time bomb
Jul 01, 1993; ... HANNAH'S HEIRS The Quest for the Genetic Origins of Alzheimer's Disease By Daniel A. Pollen Oxford University Press, 296 pp., illustrated, $25 When Hannah died in the late 1890s, apparently of an asthmaattack during a pogrom against her Jewish ...
Bratton to be selling safety
Jul 01, 1993; ... Gone is the extraordinary string of controversy -- therecord-setting murder rate, the spree of deadly force, the harshcriticisms from lawyer James St. Clair. Now, as William J. Bratton enters his long-awaited career asBoston police commissioner, it is the public's fear of crime and ...
21-day budget enacted because talks unfinished
Jul 01, 1993; ... With no state budget in place for the fiscal year that beginstoday, legislators yesterday enacted -- and Gov. Weld immediatelysigned -- an emergency 21-day budget to keep state government going.Weld aides and legislative sources said they expect it willprobably be July 7 or 8 ...
DON BYRON PLAYS THE MUSIC OF MICKEY KATZ Elektra/Nonesuch
Jul 01, 1993; ... White musicians playing blues hardly raise an eyebrow, yet manyconsider Don Byron -- a young, superb African-American avant-gardeclarinetist -- playing klezmer music or reinterpreting the music ofJewish bandleader and noveltymeister Mickey Katz a quaint notion.But Byron, who learned ...
Youth gets 15-20 years in murder of cabbie
Jul 01, 1993; ...A Brockton 16-year-old pleaded guilty in Roxbury Juvenile Courtyesterday to charges he murdered a Boston cabdriver last winter in abotched robbery attempt, becoming the first youth to be affected bythe state's new tougher juvenile sentencing law.Richard Jason Andrew was ...
FINAL ASSIGNMENT
Jul 01, 1993 ... Thomasine Graham, waiting to finish her last day of third gradeat Dorchester's Russell School, briefly ponders a last ...
Earl, Radja big Celtic pickups
Jul 01, 1993; ... His family members were mostly Lakers fans. And then there wasUncle Glen. He went to school with Larry Bird at Indiana State. Andhe told his nephew Acie eight years ago that he'd be a Celticsomeday. "You," Glen Earl told young Acie, "will be the little Chief." "I think my ...
Celebrities have clubs, will travel for charity
Jul 01, 1993; ...There are hundreds of them all over New England. On any givenMonday, there is bound to be a charity golf tournament close to you.The tournaments are convenient vehicles for many charities and also aweekly release for the celebrity golfer.Charities depend on the ...
Newton cafe's fare, decor are a tribute to the past
Jul 01, 1993; ... BILTMORE CAFE 1205 Chestnut St., Newton Upper Falls TELEPHONE: 964-9179 HOURS: Monday through Friday 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Closed Saturday and Sunday CREDIT CARDS: AE, MC, VISA, Discover, Diners' Club FOR HANDICAPPED PERSONS: A ...
Clemens is still hurting He tries a simulated game
Jul 01, 1993; ...So much for medical science. Will Roger Clemens come off the disabled list Sunday? "It's a coin toss right now," said Red Sox physician ArthurPappas. "We'll have to see how he feels tomorrow." Clemens threw a simulated game off the Fenway Park mound for partsof 26 ...
Kleine likely to be a goner
Jul 01, 1993; ... Material from the Associated Press was used in this report Dino Radja and Acie Earl added up to a big night for the Celtics.They also added up to a probable sayonara for Joe Kleine. The Celtics' backup center for the last four-plus seasons is nowan unrestricted free agent ...
Congressmen got big money from industry
Jul 01, 1993; ... Connecticut's congressional delegation has reaped bigcontributions from its insurance industry. The biggest recipient:Democrat Rep. Barbara Kennelly, whose district includes theHartford-based insurance industry, got $287,500 between 1979-82,according to the advocacy group Citizen ...
CORRECTION
Jul 01, 1993 ... Correction: Because of incorrect information supplied to the Globe,an item in the New England News Briefs in yesterday's paper gave anincorrect telephone number for people to call about a new study ofaspirin and warfarin to prevent a second heart attack. The ...
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS
Jul 01, 1993 ... Notice to subscribers: On Monday, July 5, home delivery customerservice will be ...
A step toward the left Souter's surprise shift may alter high court
Jul 01, 1993; ...In his first term, he wrote so little he was nicknamed the"stealth justice." Last term, he was lumped into a trio of moderateconservatives. Now, in the term just ended, Supreme Court Justice David H. Souteris the surprise of most high court prognosticators for ...
Damon favors Corning bid
Jul 01, 1993 ... Damon Corp., the Needham clinical testing laboratories, yesterdaysaid a proposal by Corning Inc. to acquire all of Damon's outstandingcommon shares for $23 each in cash is "superior" to its previouslyannounced merger agreement with National Health Laboratories Inc. The terms of ...
What's the big deal? A mystery Magic take, trade Webber to Warriors for Hardaway plus three No. 1s
Jul 01, 1993; ... AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- All day long, everyone knew there would bea trade at the top. There had to be a trade. Don Nelson lusted forShawn Bradley, didn't he, and wasn't this also a fabulous opportunityfor Orlando to get the biggest bang for its buck? Indeed there was a trade. But ...
Children and the budget
Jul 01, 1993 ... Although passage and funding of the education reform bill was awelcome demonstration of the Legislature's commitment toMassachusetts' children, there are other areas of children's livesthat must not be neglected. As legislative leaders seek agreement onthe state budget, here are some ...
Breaking the ice around Cuba
Jul 01, 1993 ... US policy toward Cuba remains antiquated, but recent weeks havewitnessed several developments that point to a possible thaw inrelations between the United States and the island nation. - A House subcommittee voted this month to eliminate funding forRadio Marti and TV Marti, which ...
Russia's dwindling trust fund
Jul 01, 1993 ... Boris Yeltsin is now learning about the downside of success. Bygiving up on the idea of a privatization trust fund for Russia, theWest is shortchanging its own long-term interests. Back in April, when Yeltsin was locked in a bitter politicalbattle with the speaker of the Russian ...
State orders firms to supply records of investment deal Inspector general probing contract
Jul 01, 1993; ... The Massachusetts inspector general's office this week issuedsummonses for records from Merrill Lynch & Co. and Lazard Freres &Co. as part of its investigation into a lucrative contract in whichthe two investment houses split fees on bond deals in Massachusettsand elsewhere. ...
Fidelity Investments preparing to launch a no-fee program
Jul 01, 1993; ...Fidelity Investments has been a leader in introducing mutualfunds, but the Boston-based company is playing catch-up in at leastone area of the fund business: Almost a year after Charles Schwab &Co. rolled out its No-Transaction Fee program -- and as Schwab isabout to expand it -- ...
Mayor bids to speed school vote
Jul 01, 1993; ... Mayor Flynn, with perhaps only days left in his administration,yesterday re-entered the controversy over school governance byproposing that a scheduled 1996 referendum on Boston's appointedSchool Committee be held next year instead. Flynn fought a bitter but successful battle ...
Celebrating 4TH of July, Boston-style
Jul 01, 1993; ...Boston has never been bashful about celebrating the Fourth ofJuly. And the city was downright boastful after making the GuinnessBook of World Records for drawing the largest classical concertaudience ever to the Esplanade in 1976, the nation's bicenntenial.The crowd numbered ...
An intimate setting for intimate performer Michael Franks
Jul 01, 1993; ... MICHAEL FRANKS At: Scullers, Guest Quarters Suite Hotel. Tuesday. First set. Pop jazz singer and songwriter Michael Franks, who has made acareer of whispering to big crowds in large arenas, made an unusualstop Tuesday at the small, wood-paneled Scullers, ...
Thoroughly modern window boxes
Jul 01, 1993; ... Our grandmothers' gardens were often bigger than our own, but notnecessarily better. Gardeners tend to idealize the past, butgardening itself has benefited a lot from technology, and every yearthere are innovations to help gardeners grow healthier plants withless effort. You can ...
Taunton-Rigby quits Genzyme She assisted in company's development of the drug Ceredase
Jul 01, 1993; ... Alison Taunton-Rigby, who guided Genzyme Corp.'s successfuldevelopment of the drug Ceredase, has resigned to seek a job as thefirst woman chief executive of a US biotechology company."I think Genzyme is a fabulous company, but I saw my rolegetting narrower and narrower," ...
Razor's Edge, Part II Gillette earmarks $100m to market sequel to Sensor
Jul 01, 1993; ...NEW YORK -- In announcing a $100 million marketing campaign forits biggest sequel ever, Gillette Co. yesterday acted like aHollywood studio hyping its next megahit hope -- the new SensorExcel,in this case. "It's much more than a line-extension," insisted Robert J. Murray,an ...
South Shore's 15th deserves high five
Jul 01, 1993; ...South Shore Country Club in Hingham has one of the greateststretches of finishing holes you will find at a public course.The heart of this roller-coaster ride is the par-5 15th. It isa US Open quality hole, especially from the back tee, from which itplays 557 yards. It is 530 ...
Golf is attracting more and more professional athletes in other sports, including (clockwise from left) Bruin Cam Neely, former Celtic Gerald Henderson, the Patriots' Fred Smerlas and Red Sox pitcher Greg Harris, which begs the question among sports fans . . . WHO PLAYS BEST?
Jul 01, 1993; ...It's that time of year again. Then again, when isn't it thattime of year? Chicago Bull Michael Jordan and Phoenix Sun CharlesBarkley managed to work their NBA schedules around their golf games.Lawrence Taylor was absent from a New York Giants minicamp because hewas playing ...
Scramble about to begin
Jul 01, 1993; ...What is the most popular golf tournament? The Masters? Maybe for viewing. The US Open? It has thousands of entries. How about the Oldsmobile Scramble? More golfers participate inthe Oldsmobile Scramble than any other tournament in the country. Last ...
CORRECTION
Jul 01, 1993 ... CORRECTION: Because of an editing error, last week's golf hole ofthe week was ...
Summertime and the reading is easy
Jul 01, 1993; ...Have you tried flying lately without taking John Grisham orMichael Crichton along? Were the people to the right of you reading"The Client" and the people to the left of you reading "JurassicPark?" Did you feel like an unaccompanied minor? These days Grisham and Crichton together ...
The lion of the left
Jul 01, 1993; ...When visiting statesmen, ranking academics and intellectualtourists come to Boston, the door to which they are most likely tobeat a path belongs to that old lion of the left, Harvard's economistand polemicist, John Kenneth Galbraith, now in his 85th year.After visiting ...
Rise in health costs slows HMOs say new premium hikes to be kept in single-digit range
Jul 01, 1993; ... The downsizing of the health care system has a silver lining:Health care costs are getting squeezed, too.Medical costs in Massachusetts are rising more slowly than theyhave in years, say health insurers, the flip side of the process thathas brought the recent wave of hospital ...
Johnny on the spot Natick 4-year-old learned mother's 911 lesson well
Jul 01, 1993; ...NATICK -- Patricia Dunn has been meaning to find time to teach4-year-old Johnny Dunn to tie his shoes, but she managed to squeezein a lesson on dialing 911 in an emergency. It's a lesson that savedher life. Dunn remembers waking up Tuesday morning and taking her insulinshot at ...
Campaign has Weld near the black
Jul 01, 1993; ... Having for the past two years hit up a long list of donors,including nearly every special interest -- fat cat lobbyist, rogue,and Beacon Hill alley cat -- Gov. Weld is now on the verge ofcollecting the final installment of the $1.1 million he loaned hisown campaign in 1990....
All politics is local, very local
Jul 01, 1993; ... The governing maxim in real estate is location, location,location, and this week the mayoral campaign of Christopher Lydon setup shop on Friend Street directly across from the campaign office ofRosaria Salerno. David Williams, Salerno's campaign spokesman,perked up at the sight. ...
Southbridge has fingers crossed
Jul 01, 1993; ... Having collared President Clinton for a private pitch two weeksago on why the town of Southbridge should be chosen as the site of a4,000-job Pentagon accounting facility, the ever-optimistic townofficials are eagerly anticipating today's release of a report by amilitary base realignment ...
Diversifying portfolio will reduce risk
Jul 01, 1993; ...Q I have all my funds -- about $81,000 -- in the Franklin AGEHigh-Income fund. Would it be better if I invested half of this insome other mutual fund? I would like a higher interest rate, ifpossible.C.W., San Mateo, Calif.A Yes, it would indeed be better were you to diversify. But ...
Finishing walls of a shower stall
Jul 01, 1993; ...Q I have a fiberglass shower in my Maine cottage. There isGreenboard on three walls above the fiberglass. I have some leftoverlinoleum that looks pretty good. Can I apply that to the greenboard?JOE BARAN, ArlingtonA If the linoleum is not severely curled (that is, if it is niceand ...
Ice cream cake
Jul 01, 1993 ...Ice cream and cake have always gone hand in hand but through theyears they've become one, the ice cream cake, a dessert witheverything you need -- cake, ice cream, frosting and even a fruittopping and a decoration or two. However, not all ice cream cakes are created equal. We ...
Activists cite trade's impact on nature
Jul 01, 1993; ...Environmental advocates have jumped into the debate overinternational trade agreements, including the North American FreeTrade Agreement, because trade rules have become a powerful forceshaping, and often clashing, with environmental, health and safetylaws around the world. The ...
Reality in Conn.: Adapt or perish
Jul 01, 1993; ...WASHINGTON -- Connecticut lawmakers are wrestling with a harshnew reality: The Clinton administration's health care overhaulproposal will probably force the state's mammoth insurance industryto adapt, or face extinction.At stake is big money -- huge employment rolls in ...
Patricia Ireland, here and NOW As the convention starts in town tomorrow, where is she headed?
Jul 01, 1993; ...WASHINGTON -- On the seventh floor of a building at 16th and K inNorthwest Washington, the staff of the National Organization forWomen has been called to the conference room by the president,Patricia Ireland, for a private meeting to figure out how to increasepressure on the White House ...
Cambridge gives dancers down payment
Jul 01, 1993; ... The Cambridge City Council has given $75,000 toward the dancecommunity's effort to buy The Dance Complex in Central Square. Themoney will become the down payment on the building, according toRozann Kraus, the dancer who has choreographed the community'scampaign to acquire the historic ...
Wiretap hurts Chelsea man at sentencing
Jul 01, 1993; ...Relying in part on transcripts of wiretaps from an ongoinginvestigation targeting alleged crime boss James J. (Whitey) Bulgerand reputed New England Mob boss Francis (Cadillac Frank) Salemme, afederal judge yesterday sentenced a Chelsea bar owner to more than 15years in prison. ...
Police nab eight men in Lowell drug bust
Jul 01, 1993; ...LOWELL -- It began, as most drug arrests do, with a tip -- andended with the arrest of eight young men huddled on a neighborhoodfront porch. Eight cars carrying 25 undercover police officers converged fromall directions on the men, who within seconds found themselves facedown on ...
Conn. job or just a con job?
Jul 01, 1993; ... Call a press conference and they will come. And hear nothing. What happened yesterday in Hartford was mega-amazing,mega-astounding and truly a megajoke. In Massachusetts, they aretrying to pull the wool over our eyes to build something that can'tpay for itself; in ...
Helping your baby get with the program
Jul 01, 1993; ... Of all the issues that parents of healthy, full-term newbornsface, perhaps none is more important than the question of a schedule. "The Mideast could be exploding, the world could be in chaos, butuntil that baby is regulating his or her patterns, the family isall-consumed," says ...
US will send senior diplomats to Middle East to spur peace process
Jul 01, 1993; ... WASHINGTON -- In a virtual admission that 19 months ofArab-Israeli peace talks have produced no real breakthroughs, theState Department announced yesterday that it is sending a team ofsenior diplomats to the Middle East next week to hold talks withpolitical leaders. "We are ...
Millstein is deputy ME for features
Jul 01, 1993 ... Lincoln Millstein, assistant managing editor, features, has beenpromoted to deputy managing editor, features, with additionalresponsibilities for new technology in the news business, editorMatthew V. Storin announced yesterday. Millstein will continue to oversee the Globe's feature ...
Vigilance urged for investors in bond funds
Jul 01, 1993; ...If the articles and advice coming out of the mutual fund industryare any indication, the long decline in interest rates may soon beover. Hoping to make sure investors understand the risks of bond funds,investment companies and some brokerage firms have been turning outarticles, ...
He's a shaker and a would-be mover
Jul 01, 1993; ...Fran Murray's role as a player in yesterday's announcement of anoffer to buy the Patriots from James Busch Orthwein should be nosurprise to anyone who has kept pace with Murray's movements the pastseveral years.Since his emergence as a potential buyer from former ...
The Noise works out the Kinks
Jul 01, 1993; ... The Who's "Tommy" is the big Broadway hit these days with Tonysand all, but the Kinks' "Preservation Act II" just may be the bestrock opera of 'em all. The 1973 album wasn't ever a huge hit, but its caustic, comic takeon the political power struggle -- skewering populist leaders on ...
Time travel
Jul 01, 1993; ...In July, the tourist traffic peaks on Mount Washington. The CogRailway belches black soot into the crystalline mountain air, carssnake up the auto road and hikers sweat and grumble toward the summitof the 6,288-foot peak. Every thousand feet they gain in altitudeis the ecological ...
Hornets make a first-round pitch to Burrell
Jul 01, 1993; ... Normally around this time of year, Scott Burrell concentrates onhis baseball career. He spends all fall and winter honing hisbasketball skills. By the end of June, Burrell is hard at workpitching in the Toronto Blue Jays' minor league system. Sometimes those skills overlap, as ...