The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from August 1993:
THIS WEEK: WOBURN
Aug 01, 1993; ... A sampling of sales recorded April through June in Woburn. %EC% 33 Anna Rd. Single-family ranch, built in 1957, 987 square feet, 6rooms, 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths, on an 11,923-square-foot lot. Soldfor $138,000. 18 Olympia Ave. Single-family ranch, built in 1954, 1,040 ...
GATHER WITH THE CLANS AT FESTIVAL OF SCOTTISH ARTS
Aug 01, 1993; ... Kick up your kilts at the 10th annual Tam O'Shanter ScottishHighland Games and Festival held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday onthe campus of Stonehill College, Route 138, Easton. Organized as afamily event, activities range from entertainment by pipe bands,tartan weaving demonstrations ...
DULCIMER'S SOUND FITS HER STYLE
Aug 01, 1993; ... The Appalachian dulcimer can produce some of folk music's mostcliched sounds. Played by Gail Rundlett, however, the instrumentbecomes a source for lilting melodies, rhythmic syncopation and heart-warming harmonies. "I wasn't taught to play in a boring style," Rundlett said ...
Push is on to punish abusers of elderly
Aug 01, 1993; ... In one case, an 85-year-old man allegedly was held down as anurse's aide smeared his face with his own excrement. In another, an aide allegedly fondled the breasts of a 95-year-oldwoman. And in a third, a 91-year-old woman allegedly was packed nakedinto a laundry cart and ...
Quincy girl, 7, is killed in Dorchester car crash
Aug 01, 1993 ... A 7-year-old Quincy girl was killed and her mother seriouslyinjured yesterday morning in a one-car accident in Dorchester, Bostonpolice said. Police said a car driven by Ilian Rodriquez smashed into a pole onOlney Street at 9:50 a.m., trapping the mother and Temisha ...
Two students share top honors in poster contest
Aug 01, 1993; ... Tri Pham wore a charcoal-colored suit to the ceremony at theBoston Park Plaza Hotel, its gray contrasting with the multi-hueddrawing of a safe and clean street Pham had drawn. Pham, 11, a Fields Corner resident who attends the Richard J.Murphy elementary school in Dorchester, was ...
Basics urged for academia Group has plans to rate colleges
Aug 01, 1993; ... Courses that tout multiculturalism and turn out to be fluff.Inflated grades and loose standards. No requirements for math orscience. All for $25,000 a year. That's an increasingly common -- if overly cynical -- view ofAmerican college education among parents today. To many, the ...
A capital of calamity In sanction-hit Belgrade, people suffer as hyperinflation and outlaws rule
Aug 01, 1993; ... BELGRADE -- Every month Dr. R. Kostic receives a pension check forabout 200 million dinars, enough presumably to cover his modestwants. But in the blockade-bound city, a place where inflation isrunning at an annual rate of about 1.5 billion percent, Kostic barelyhas enough money to cover ...
A page turns Loved bookshop changes hands -- and a town
Aug 01, 1993; ...MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- It was in this tunnel of a bookstore, with itscreaking wooden floors and vaulted racks of books, that the paths ofthe poet, the pitcher and the pitchman crossed. What linked the two Roberts -- Frost, the great poet and Feller,the Hall of Fame pitcher -- and the ...
Bosnia parties chase settlement US steps up pressure for force to end Sarajevo siege
Aug 01, 1993; ... GENEVA -- The warring sides in Bosnia's civil war continued toargue over the division of the country yesterday as the United Statesstepped up the pressure for Western air strikes against Serbsbesieging Sarajevo. US officials called a meeting of NATO foreign ministers inBrussels ...
He yearns to tackle this sport
Aug 01, 1993; ...SMITHFIELD, R.I. -- The day he knew for sure he was a fighter,The Football Player had two black eyes and a battered ego to show forit. That is not the way you want to go in boxing. The idea is toinflict black eyes, not wear them, but The Football Player was stilllearning about ...
William T. Brennan, 76 Engineer, WW II veteran
Aug 01, 1993 ... William T. Brennan, a retired operating engineer, died Friday atthe Veteran's Administration Medical Center in Tucson of coloncancer. He was 76. Mr. Brennan, a resident of Medway for 30 years, was born andraised in Cambridge. He served in World War II aboard the US Navytorpedo ...
PROTEST TARGETS US
Aug 01, 1993 ...Supporters of Somali warlord Farrah Mohamed Aidid protestyesterday in Mogadishu against the alleged ...
Black Caucus fights to oust Republican
Aug 01, 1993; ... WASHINGTON -- The campaign to drum the only Republican member outof the Congressional Black Caucus is growing while lawmakers strugglewith the question: What does a House member have to do -- or think --to be a member of the increasingly influential group?It's a question that is ...
Celtics reunite on somber terms Lewis services to bring team together
Aug 01, 1993; ... When they were last together, the Boston Celtics assembled at theCopley Plaza Hotel for their annual spring breakup dinner. Eventhen, there was a cloud over the normally nostalgic proceedingsbecause Reggie Lewis was not there. He was in the hospitalundergoing tests for a heart ...
Family that loaned money to church sees its faith tried
Aug 01, 1993; ... MILTON -- For Donald and Emma Jean Moulton, Christianity hasalways been a matter of trust, a matter of faith. So in 1986, when the Walpole Assembly of God Church appealed toits members for loans -- "NOT EQUAL GIVING, BUT EQUAL SACRIFICE!"-- the Milton family answered the call, to ...
Going on vacation? Then secure your home
Aug 01, 1993; ...If you're one of the millions of homeowners about to leave townfor your summer vacation, add one more item on your "To Do" list:Make sure your house still looks and sounds as if someone is home. "It's better not to take any chances today," warns Carol A. WalshPagliccia, president ...
CORRECTION
Aug 01, 1993 ...CORRECTION: Because of a library error, a caption in lastSunday's Focus section gave the wrong name of the company thatmanufactures the F-16 ...
CORRECTION
Aug 01, 1993 ...CORRECTION: Because of an editing error, a display quoteaccompanying a story on the White House budget in last ...
WRONG WAY
Aug 01, 1993 ... Patricia DeVoe telephones her husband to say that a van crashedinto their ...
ARMS ACROSS THE SEA As US defense spending slows, contractors find eager customers abroad
Aug 01, 1993; ...Thou shalt not abet the merchants of death. Fifteen years ago the Carter administration handed down thatcommandment to US diplomats around the world. Dubbed the "leprosyletter," the worldwide cable banned US officials from helpingAmerican weapons-makers to sell their wares ...
Some fear Demjanjuk ruling opens door to doubt Nazi hunters see peril to pursuit
Aug 01, 1993; ... JERUSALEM -- It began as one of the most searing Nazi war crimetrials of the era. One by one, survivors of the Treblinka death camp told of theinsatiable cruelty of the gas chamber operator known to them as Ivanthe Terrible, how he tormented naked prisoners with his sword ...
Pasquale DiRocco, 86 Retired Boston firefighter
Aug 01, 1993 ... Pasquale (Pat) DiRocco, a retired Boston firefighter, diedWednesday in Milton Hospital after a long illness. He was 86. Mr. DiRocco was born in Milford, N.H. but was raised and attendedschool in Brighton. He was a resident of Randolph for the last 27years. He was appointed to ...
Casino fantasies
Aug 01, 1993 ... Gov. Weld has undercut his proposal for a megaplex in Boston byhis reliance on casino gambling to finance most of the $700 millioncost. If he is serious about building the complex, he and theLegislature need to provide a less speculative source of revenue topay off the ...
Major disaffection
Aug 01, 1993 ...John Major should be scared, both for his party and for hiscareer. His Conservative Party's loss in a widely watchedby-election was the mourning of a foghorn, a warning that thebattered Tory ship is nearing the rocks of electoral repudiation. The precinct of Christchurch has been ...
Power shift being felt in Mass. school systems
Aug 01, 1993; ... When the Athol School Committee refused in May to rehire a73-year-old man who had coached middle school sports for 15 years,Superintendent James P. Kelley, who backed the coach, simply bidedhis time. Then, two weeks ago -- using the new power given him under thestate's education ...
European economic disunity
Aug 01, 1993 ...Europeans are being treated, if it can be called a treat, to avivid lesson in the need for a unified currency and a centralmonetary policy. The current exchange crisis centering on France andGermany illustrates perfectly the residual flaws in exchange ratesamong the national currencies, ...
HITCHING A RIDE ON THE HIGH-TECH HIGHWAY Marblehead's AT/Comm speeds along with electronic toll-taking system
Aug 01, 1993; ... The people at AT/Comm of Marblehead have seen the future, and itbeeps. There will come a day, they say, when nearly every motorist willkeep a small electronic transponder on the dashboard. With a beep itwill pay the turnpike toll -- while traveling 50 miles an hour. Witha beep it ...
A deadly ruling on clean needles
Aug 01, 1993 ...The Supreme Judicial Court's conviction of two men for givingclean hypodermic needles to intravenous drug users in the interest ofslowing the spread of AIDS was misguided and mischievous. If Gov. Weld feels any compulsion to redress injustice, he willsign the sidebar to the 1994 ...
Pedro carries a torch for Olympic judo medal
Aug 01, 1993; ... SAN ANTONIO -- Throw, pin, choke, armlock. Jimmy Pedro probablyfelt like using all of them on his father that day at the US Openjudo championships. The Danvers, Mass., native was about 15 or 16, fighting in the132-pound weight class against men with 10 more pounds and the kindof ...
Women's hockey team sets sights on Japan
Aug 01, 1993; ... SAN ANTONIO -- Men, women, boys, girls . . . according to TeamUSA's women's hockey coach Karen Kay, it does not really matter tothe folks who have been coming to the Alamodome the past week. "It's been a lot of fun for the men's and women's teams. Peoplehave been so receptive," ...
Simplicity curbs chaos in load arrangements
Aug 01, 1993; ...People who turn to financial advisers and brokers to help thempick mutual funds expect the adviser to lead them through the thicketof various stock, bond and money market funds. For that service,plus ongoing education about which funds are best for eachindividual's goals and risk ...
A slumping player gets her cut this time
Aug 01, 1993; ... CANTON -- Life atop the LPGA leaderboard is peaches and cream. There are corporate outings on Mondays, practice rounds onTuesdays, pro-ams on Wednesdays, then four days of competition. Shirley Furlong remembers those salad days. The 34-year-old Texanfrom San Antonio was 16th on ...
James M. Gallagher, 67 Retired bank vice president
Aug 01, 1993 ... A funeral Mass will be said tomorrow morning for James M.Gallagher, a retired vice president of Norfolk County TrustCompany/BayBank, who died of heart failure at his home in Needham onFriday. He was 67. Mr. Gallagher was a 32-year employee of the bank, working at theNeedham ...
A sense of place
Aug 01, 1993; ...CASCO BAY - From my window, I watch the cat as he sets out on hisappointed rounds. He stops to inspect the bird feeder, moves on tothe asparagus bed and then, gingerly, steps around the wasp mound.Having staked out this territory, he assumes his morning post amongthe peony ...
Edward A. Habin, 65 Was United Airlines supervisor
Aug 01, 1993 ... Edward A. Habin, a retired supervisor for United Airlines, diedFriday at his home in Derry, N.H., after a bout with cancer. He was65. Born in Cambridge, Mr. Habin lived in Watertown, Springfield andWilbraham before becoming a resident of Derry, where he lived for ...
Edward N. Hegge, 76 Was vice president of Maine firm
Aug 01, 1993 ... Edward Nelson Hegge, a retired vice president of Fiber Materialsin Biddeford, Maine, died yesterday in Southern Maine Medical Centerin Biddeford after a lengthy illness. He was 76. Mr. Hegge was a former resident of Watertown. He lived inKennebunk, Maine, at the time of his ...
Bike helmets key in reducing injuries Mass. bill would require use by children under 12
Aug 01, 1993; ...Barnstable police officer James Dunn does not remember the nameof the boy who was hit by the car last year while riding his bike,but he does remember the dent in the boy's helmet. "There was a large indentation where he hit the ground," saidDunn, who responded to the accident. ...
UPHILL BATTLES With little fanfare Russell Hill is luring retailers back to Boston's inner city
Aug 01, 1993; ... In 1989, when Val Hyman was trying to find tenants for a new $4.5million office building at the corner of Massachusetts and ColumbusAvenues, he hit a wall. The real estate market had crashed. Prospective tenants werebacking away from tentative agreements, and few wanted to sign ...
Taking a few risks argument against prepaying the mortgage
Aug 01, 1993; ...Q. My wife and I are 56 and 63 respectively, and arecontemplating retiring in about seven years. We are in the processof refinancing our mortgage, and will end up with a $108,600 loan at7.25 percent over 15 years. We also are in the enviable position ofhaving about $500 a month ...
The Demjanjuk odyssey
Aug 01, 1993 ...Key events in the war crimes case of John Demjanjuk. 1941 -- Conscripted into Soviet army. May 8-19, 1942 -- Captured by Germans in the Crimea. Says hewas prisoner of war in Rovno in Ukraine, later in Chelm, Poland,but US government and Israel say he was placed in ...
Harshbarger in the lead against a racial barrier by banks
Aug 01, 1993; ...When bankers whine I would rather hear someone scratchfingernails on a chalkboard. Attorney General Scott Harshbargerwants banks to reveal the racial makeup of employees, the location ofbranch offices and their marketing practices. Nine banks, including Shawmut National Corp. and ...
It's a brave new world for tourists on the Pike
Aug 01, 1993; ... No matter how they pay their tolls, tourists traveling theMassachusetts Turnpike will soon get a high-tech helping hand: Acomputer system that can assist in making hotel reservations, locaterestaurants and attractions -- even print customized maps. By next summer a computerized ...
Israel ends assault in southern Lebanon Deal to halt Hezbollah attacks
Aug 01, 1993; ... TEL AVIV -- Israel declared an end to its six-day military assaulton southern Lebanon last night, saying that a US-brokered dealinvolving Syria and Lebanon had produced a promise that Hezbollahguerrillas would stop firing Katyusha rockets into northern Israel.Last night a column ...
Case study Medical lessons from Lewis' death
Aug 01, 1993; ...Reggie Lewis' tragic death last week has become national topicNo. 1 for many health professionals who are trying to learn from thecase and ensure that mistakes allegedly made in it aren't repeated. Start with doctors and the advice they dispense. Lewis got the best money could ...
Media tributes planned
Aug 01, 1993; ... One pool camera will be allowed inside Northeastern University'sMatthews Arena tomorrow to provide television coverage of thememorial service for former Celtics star Reggie Lewis. The localnetwork affiliates, plus New England Cable News, will have livecoverage beginning at 1 ...
Lots & Blocks
Aug 01, 1993; ...From the top down: The downtown Swissotel next door to LafayettePlace isn't waiting for a decision about the future of its neighbor.As part of an $11 million improvements project, hotel manager DavidGibbons has gone ahead with remodeling the "tower floors," 19 through22, into an atrium ...
Andrews takes control With a 3-shot lead in Ping-Welch's, she's still having fun
Aug 01, 1993; ... CANTON -- Donna Andrews decided at the end of her second season onthe LPGA Tour that the best way to go about it was to have fun. Shehas taken this approach into the pressurized US Women's Open the pasttwo years, and she has a third and a tie for second, respectively, toshow for ...
A passing grade for `Indy Anna' in Test
Aug 01, 1993; ... SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- A half-hour before the race Miss IndyAnna was the calmest of all. "Sure," owner Charles Matses said, hisprogram rolled and re-rolled and then rolled again into the thinnestof telescopes, "I slept well last night." Matses' eyes didn't leave his filly. "Why ...
Charles McIntyre, 48 Ad company salesman
Aug 01, 1993 ... Charles F. McIntyre, a salesman for advertising companies inBoston, died July 25 of AIDS in the Hospice at Mission Hill. He was48 and lived in Boston. Mr. McIntyre was a salesman for Metro-Media, an advertisingcompany in Boston, until his illness. He was a longtime member ofthe ...
Menino calls for $41m fund to renovate health centers
Aug 01, 1993; ... Acting Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced yesterday that the citywill provide $5 million in funding to help modernize Boston'scommunity health centers and will attempt to raise an additional $36million from a variety of public and private sources. The announcement curbed what ...
Nixons aren't biting at latest pitch from Boston
Aug 01, 1993; ...The Red Sox' negotiating team tried to make a last-ditch effortto sign Trot Nixon, their No. 1 pick from Wilmington, N.C., during avisit to Nixon's home Friday. While the Sox remain optimistic about their offer -- reportedlyslightly less than $1 million -- it didn't impress ...
Sharing the liability
Aug 01, 1993 ...If your spouse has a tendency to fudge on taxes, think twicebefore signing a joint return. It could return to haunt you. Robertand Billie Gill filed joint returns from 1983 to 1986, when Billiewas a homemaker with no income except Social Security disabilitybenefits. Robert was a ...
Where soup can cost fistsful of dinars
Aug 01, 1993; ...BELGRADE -- It was just about one week ago that the Cafe Avalaerased the prices from its menu. Not because it is coy about thecost of its food, but in a city suffering the highest inflation inthe world it is hard to know the price of food from one day to thenext. "One day the ...
Foster's note read like resignation
Aug 01, 1993; ...WASHINGTON -- The note White House lawyer Vincent Foster wrotebefore his apparent suicide resembled the outline of a resignationletter and mentioned specific job frustrations, according to apublished account. In the note, Foster discussed embarrassment overthe firings of White House ...
Steel companies avert walkouts
Aug 01, 1993; ...PITTSBURGH -- United Steelworkers and Bethlehem Steel Corp.extended a midnight strike deadline last night after two other steelmakers averted walkouts -- one with a new contract, the other with apostponement. Bethlehem Steel employs 12,300 steelworkers in NewYork, Maryland and Indiana. ...
5 dead as planes collide in Neb.
Aug 01, 1993; ...NORFOLK, Neb. -- Two small planes collided as one was taking offand the other was landing, leaving five people dead. The fiery crashoccurred late Friday afternoon near Karl Stefan Memorial Airport inNorfolk, in Nebraska's northeast corner. Renato Balestra, operatorof Mid-Plains ...
A perilous mentality Lesson of Lewis tragedy may be: reconsider `playing in pain' credo
Aug 01, 1993; ..."You know, you are taught that from day one, that if you have apain, you persevere through it. If it hurts, it'll stop hurting. Ifit hurts real bad even after you think it's going to stop, then youkeep persevering through it and you'll get it straight . . . You'renot taught to be real, ...
Will Newton fly, or fall on Apple's head?
Aug 01, 1993; ...Tom Jacobs pauses about 1 millisecond when asked if AppleComputer Inc.'s Newton MessagePad will be an easy sell. "Incredibly easy, extremely easy," says Jacobs, president of theNew Hampshire-based Computer Town stores. "We've already gotten3,000 phone calls about it and we have ...
Gillman's influence felt in NFL Hall inductions
Aug 01, 1993; ... CANTON, Ohio -- Sid Gillman sat at the back of the stageinconspicuously but with the pleasant knowledge that his influencewas undeniable at this year's Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrinementceremonies. Five new members were accepted yesterday on a perfectly beautifulday, and it ...
Cowboy Millen gets a chance to ride herd
Aug 01, 1993; ...Hugh Millen begins the joyride tonight, but he doesn't think itwill be a long trip. "I am like the kid whose father throws him the keys to theFerrari," said Millen. "The kid always wanted to drive a car likethis, but even when he got the keys for the first time, he ...
6 die in collision on Tenn. highway
Aug 01, 1993; ...SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. -- A pickup truck crossed a highway centerlineand collided head-on with a car, killing the truck driver ...
Where is Perot with his budget plan now?
Aug 01, 1993; ...WASHINGTON - The guy who made his reputation vowing to stick hishead under the hood and fix things is in danger of becoming aback-seat driver. At the top of his game, this is how Ross Perot put it in hisupdated campaign manual, "Not For Sale At Any Price": "We the people ...
Padres no bargain for Fehr Moves concern union head
Aug 01, 1993; ... MILWAUKEE -- The San Diego Padres are in the process of breakingan unwritten promise to their fans, and the sad thing is that therest of baseball ownership apparently does not care. The man with that opinion was not Bruce Hurst or Greg Harris, thetwo veteran pitchers who were ...
Patriots, Brisby come to terms He's final draft pick to sign
Aug 01, 1993; ... SMITHFIELD, R.I. -- It was an unusual sight, an NFL player intraining camp, eating a team's food, high-fiving the players, talkingwith the coaching staff -- yet not officially being a member of theteam because he hadn't signed a contract. That has been the scene since Thursday ...