The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from December 1993:
Menino moving to step up AIDS fight
Dec 01, 1993; ...Mayor Thomas M. Menino will announce today an AIDS advisorycommittee in order to step up preventive programs that advocatecondom use, clean needle exchanges, and voluntary installation ofcondom machines in bars and restaurants. "While we have truly cared for the present, we must ...
Lloyd C. Ahlgren, 73; was official with the Chase Manhattan Bank
Dec 01, 1993 ... Lloyd Chalmers Ahlgren, a former executive with the ChaseManhattan Bank, died Sunday in his home in Old Bennington, Vt., ofcancer. He was 73. Mr. Ahlgren was born in Brockton. He graduated from Danbury(Conn.) High School and earned a bachelor's degree at Harvard Collegein 1941 ....
State's contracting with minority firms called `spotty'
Dec 01, 1993; ...Administration and Finance Secretary Mark Robinson yesterdaycalled his administration's record on contracting minority companies"spotty" and pledged to cut red tape and increase goals for minorityparticipation on the $7.7 billion Central Artery project and otherstate work. "The ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1993 ... Q. For whom was Storrow Drive in Boston named?C.K., Boston A. The scenic roadway along the Charles River was named in honorof Boston philanthropist James Jackson Storrow (1864-1926). As theGlobe's Peter Howe observed in a magazine article in 1989, Storrow'sresume reads like a ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1993 ... Q. When and how did the $10 bill come to be called the "sawbuck"?A.G., Belmont A. In their Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins, Mary andWilliam Morris say the nickname has been in use since before 1850,and was particularly popular on the Western frontier. The sawbuck,they say, ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1993 ... Q. Where can I find work by watercolorist Carolyn Bullis Blish?R.C., Weymouth A. The Washington-born artist, who studied under Edgar Whitney,has also worked as a designer and a pilot and lives in Wilmington,Del. She has been a top award winner from the American WatercolorSociety ...
BC takes its time, clocks Dartmouth
Dec 01, 1993; ...Boston College coach Jim O'Brien knew his team would be in for asurprise if it thought it would take all of 10 minutes to dispatchDartmouth. As it turned out, it took the Eagles precisely 29 minutes 32seconds to punch out the Big Green in last night's 94-73nonconference victory ...
Stewart returns to action, credits Boyle
Dec 01, 1993; ... QUEBEC -- Special splint? Check. Custom-fitted glove? Check. Left wing Cam Stewart checked back into the Bruins lineup lastnight against the Nordiques after missing seven games because of abroken left ring finger. Stewart broke the digit in a fight with Edmonton's Ian ...
Sutter: No complaints
Dec 01, 1993; ... Bruins coach Brian Sutter had nothing but kind words for thereplacement officials, whom the Bruins saw for the last time lastnight pending ratification of a new deal. "I think it's been refreshing to be honest," said Sutter. We'reso used to having everything called before ....
Patricia Bonelli, 71 Was chief justice administrator
Dec 01, 1993 ... Patricia (Dacey) Bonelli, former administrator in the office ofthe chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court, died Monday ofcancer in her home in Scituate. She was 71. Mrs. Bonelli was born in Boston. Before her retirement in July, she had been administrator of ...
ND would be sweeter, but Sugar is out
Dec 01, 1993; ... Florida State and Nebraska may be No. 1 and No. 2 among thepollsters, but Notre Dame still remains the most popular team withthe bowls, while West Virginia is having its feeling of being treatedunfairly reinforced. Sugar Bowl officials balked yesterday at announcing that ...
Bratton meets in NYC; offer likely, some say He calls Boston `consolation prize'
Dec 01, 1993; ... Boston Police Commissioner William J. Bratton met yesterday forthe second time with aides to incoming New York Mayor Rudolph W.Giuliani amid growing indications that he is likely to be offered theNew York City police commissioner's job this week. Bratton, meanwhile, irked Mayor ...
Bratton meets in NYC; offer likely, some say He calls Boston `consolation prize'
Dec 01, 1993; ... contributed to this report. Boston Police Commissioner William J. Bratton met yesterday forthe second time with aides to incoming New York Mayor Rudolph W.Giuliani amid growing indications that he is likely to be offered theNew York City police commissioner's job this ...
Bruins get job done in Quebec
Dec 01, 1993; ... QUEBEC -- The Bruins bid adieu to the National Hockey Leaguereplacement officials last night and said hello to a tie for firstplace in the Northeast Division with an impressive 5-2 victory overthe Quebec Nordiques last night at Le Colisee. The Bruins got a pair of goals from rookie ...
Silber defends record, calls faculty leader liar
Dec 01, 1993; ...Boston University president John Silber yesterday angrilydefended his record on academic freedom and called a faculty leaderwho raised the issue a coward. Silber vehemently denied the assertions of the Faculty Council andits chairman, James Iffland, that Silber had helped create a ...
Game is on Ch. 4
Dec 01, 1993; ... Channel 4 will televise the Boston University-Idaho playoff gameSaturday at 4 p.m. from Moscow, Idaho. Bob Lobel and ...
William G. Burke, 71 Longtime Braintree trial lawyer
Dec 01, 1993 ... A Mass will be said at 7 tonight at St. Francis of Assisi Churchin Braintree for William G. Burke, 71, of Braintree. A trial lawyerwho had offices in Quincy and Braintree for 40 years, he died lastWednesday in New Port Richey, Fla. Mr. Burke was born in South Boston and moved to ...
BUSH KNIGHTED
Dec 01, 1993 ...Queen Elizabeth II talks with George Bush yesterday in ...
Mark J. Caljouw, 14 Patriot Ledger newscarrier
Dec 01, 1993 ... Mark J. Caljouw of Hanover, a Patriot Ledger newscarrier, diedMonday in Boston City Hospital as a result of injuries suffered whenhe was hit by a van while delivering newspapers in Hanover onSaturday. He was 14. Mark was born in Weymouth and was a lifelong resident of ...
Hawks feast on Celtics
Dec 01, 1993; ... ATLANTA -- All night, the Hawks had pretty much had their way.The Celtics had never led, never threatened, and basically were sheepin sheep's clothing from wire to wire. But not until Craig Ehlocaught Dee Brown from behind to block a dunk in the fourth quarterdid the Omni faithful rise ...
Ehlo no new kid on the block
Dec 01, 1993; ... ATLANTA -- Craig Ehlo claims it was nothing new. After all, hemay be one of few people in the NBA to have blocked the Wilkinsbrothers -- Dominique and Gerald -- on successive nights. Or so healleges. Without proof to the contrary, we will take Mr. Ehlo at his word.He showed he ...
AIDS condom ads run into opposition Local, national squeamishness hinders prevention effort, some say
Dec 01, 1993; ... In Boston, the AIDS Action Committee has taken the MBTA to court,claiming the transit system is practicing censorship by rejecting thegroup's condom advertisements as offensive. In Washington, D.C., AIDS clinic officials plan to picket a CBS-TVaffiliate today for refusing to run ...
BOOKS FOR THE COOK The best of the crop cater to busy lifestyles, with a nod to ethnic tastes and health concerns
Dec 01, 1993; ... The era of buying one dependable, all-purpose cookbook is over.The cook looking for a single volume to solve nightly culinarydilemmas instead will find highly specialized books offering as muchculture as cuisine. Lots of these books are quite wonderful to sit and read; you ...
Athletes' flight signals the Cuban decay
Dec 01, 1993; ... MIAMI -- They are the cream of Fidel Castro's regime. They arecoddled by the government and are relatively well-off financially.They do not suffer from the food shortages that their compatriotsendure. And yet these elites are still abandoning communist Cuba. Thedefection of 39 ...
Foxborough may not host Ireland Seeding is the key for World Cup placing
Dec 01, 1993; ... The Boston/Foxborough venue has about a 50 percent chance ofplaying host to the Republic of Ireland during the 1994 World Cup,according to Federation Internationale de Football Associationcriteria. Even the fact that FIFA has announced that Ireland could determinethe placing of a ...
The Landers paragraph most readers never saw
Dec 01, 1993; ...Over the years, Ann Landers' readers have read the columnist'sviews on such thorny topics as domestic violence, masturbation,alcoholism and birth control. But what they didn't read was Landers' final comment in a recentcolumn on the right to die. The paragraph, deemed too ...
MEDALIST AT 103
Dec 01, 1993 ...President Clinton talks to Marjory Stoneman Douglas afterpresenting her with the Medal ...
Lessons of the stop-the-black-violence movement
Dec 01, 1993; ... On African-American crime, Jesse Jackson has said, "This is themost self-destructive, life-threatening generation we've known"; "Welose more lives to drugs and guns annually than we have to the Klanin our entire history"; and "If you don't study, you have pulled thetrigger on Malcolm, ...
Weld's responsibility for children
Dec 01, 1993 ...A public benefit can never completely outweigh a family'stragedy, but there has to be some lesson in the coincidence that senta bill requiring children to wear bicycle helmets to Gov. Weld's deskon the same day that a young paper carrier died of injuries receivedwhen he was knocked off ...
Signs of recovery in state seen
Dec 01, 1993; ... Consumer confidence soared in New England in November andMassachusetts added jobs in October, the latest signs that the thenational recovery is making an impact here. The Conference Board yesterday reported that consumer confidencein New England improved substantially in November ....
Helping hand gets a cuffing
Dec 01, 1993; ... This story has a happy ending, but a suspiciously happy ending, ormaybe that's just my reporter's skepticism. Graydon Hazenberg is a graduate student in astronomy at Harvard.Normally, I don't take much pity on Harvard grad students, but hiscase is an exception. He comes from ...
Hustling the homeless
Dec 01, 1993 ...A construction deadline appears to be creating a de facto andill-considered housing plan for Greater Boston's homeless. The plan is not the result of careful analysis. It is a responseto the impending dislocation of 300 homeless men from Pine StreetInn's auxiliary shelter at the ...
Backstage with the spin doctors
Dec 01, 1993 ...Winston Churchill once made the mischievous observation thatdemocracy is a bad political system, but all the others are worse.The need for Churchill's worldly wisdom as an antidote to cynicismabout the practice of politics will be evident to anyone who goes tosee "The War Room," a funny ...
Kin of Everett man suspicious about his death in Moscow home
Dec 01, 1993; ... An Everett economist found dead in his Moscow apartment may havebeen murdered to thwart his efforts to help President Boris Yeltsin'sgovernment privatize Russia's battered state-run economy, a familymember contended yesterday. Russian authorities said Michael Dasaro, 35, died of a ...
NFL gives team to Jacksonville and says Patriots will stay put
Dec 01, 1993; ... CHICAGO -- National Football League commissioner Paul Tagliabue,speaking after the league voted to expand into Jacksonville, Fla.,yesterday, said the league would not permit the Patriots to move outof New England. "We have an agreement with the present owner {James B ....
Menino meets union that plans leafleting
Dec 01, 1993; ... Mayor Menino met yesterday with leaders of the Boston police unionthat plans to begin handing out pamphlets describing Boston as "FearCity, U.S.A." in major shopping areas today. Menino, along with Superintendent in Chief Paul F. Evans outlinedground rules they expected union ...
Clinton cites officer for aiding in Maverick Square comeback
Dec 01, 1993; ... Tony Feudo was taking out the garbage when his commander called totell him that President Clinton had singled him out for praise in aspeech from the White House yesterday afternoon. "I was overwhelmed," said Feudo, a Boston police officer for thepast 14 years. "I really ...
Man, 69, is arraigned in 1967 killing of wife
Dec 01, 1993; ... Pedro Arce, a white-haired retired municipal worker, stood inthe prisoners' dock, his handcuffed wrists clasped in front of him ina prayerful pose."I don't know what you're telling me," Arce, 69, said through aSpanish interpreter as a court clerk read the murder ...
Fierce violence in Gaza shakes PLO-Israel talks
Dec 01, 1993; ... JERUSALEM -- Israeli troops and Palestinians clashed withincreased violence yesterday around the occupied Gaza Strip asofficials on both sides worked to salvage the Dec. 13 target date forthe start of Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza and the West Banktown of Jericho. With shops ...
SEC finds Genetics Institute broke rules
Dec 01, 1993; ... The Securities and Exchange Commission, ending a two-year inquiryinto stock trading and financial statements by officials of GeneticsInstitute Inc., has found that the Cambridge biotechnology companyviolated financial reporting rules. The SEC finding, however, does not change a ...
Golf-course pact called hasty FinCom: City failed to review profit data
Dec 01, 1993; ... The Menino administration acted too hastily in striking a new dealwith the manager of two city-owned golf courses last week, enteringnegotiations without knowing how much profit he was making from thecourses, the executive director of the Boston Finance Commissioncharged ...
Roy E. Gordon, 40 Was self-employed accountant
Dec 01, 1993 ... A funeral service will be held today for Roy E. Gordon, anaccountant, who died Monday from injuries sustained in a fire thatday in his Winthrop home. He was 40. Mr. Gordon was born in Malden. He graduated from HuntingtonPreparatory School and attended the University of ...
AG to seek reelection, not Weld challenge
Dec 01, 1993; ... Attorney General Scott Harshbarger, who had taken a serious lookat running for governor next year, will tell a gathering of hissupporters tonight that he intends to seek another term as thestate's top law enforcement officer, aides said yesterday.Harshbarger, who is turning ...
Everett teen-agers get 2-year jail terms in hate crimes
Dec 01, 1993; ...CAMBRIDGE -- Three Everett teen-agers who admitted desecrating aJewish cemetery, vandalizing Asian-owned businesses and defacing aHispanic family's home in April, were sentenced yesterday to servetwo years in state prison. The defendants, Edward Cordwell, Brian Merchant and Paul ...
City expected to help group with trade center hotel plan
Dec 01, 1993; ... Mayor Thomas M. Menino is expected to announce today that the citywill help a private development group obtain financing for along-delayed 413-room hotel and adjoining 1,100-car garage at theWorld Trade Center on the South Boston waterfront. Construction is expected to begin next ...
Hubble mission set to lift off Repair flight poses a test for NASA
Dec 01, 1993; ... CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- It's being touted as the most complexspace mission since the Apollo moon landings, and as a mission socritical that it stands to make or break the US space program. Those claims may be slightly overstated, but there's no questionNASA desperately needs to ...
Idaho QB no small potato Nussmeier has the scouts in NFL licking their chops
Dec 01, 1993; ...He is the first player in NCAA history to record more than 1,000passing attempts with fewer than 30 interceptions. Among Division1-AA quarterbacks, he's second nationally in pass efficiency.Through 12 games, he has thrown 37 touchdown passes, including fourin last week's 34-31 ...
Nikkei retakes some lost ground
Dec 01, 1993; ... TOKYO -- Japanese stocks rallied yesterday to regain about halfthe ground lost Monday, when the plunging Nikkei index hit its lowestlevel of the year and a panic seemed imminent. In early trading, the Nikkei rose 107.19 points to 16,513.73.Yesterday, the index rose 327.83 points in ...
Janet Jeghelian launches bid for Sen. Kennedy's seat
Dec 01, 1993; ... this report.Saying her gender would give her a political advantage, formerradio host Janet Jeghelian yesterday declared her candidacy for theUS Senate seat now held by Edward M. Kennedy."Of course, Ted Kennedy will again fall back on his old cliche,`I can do more for ...
COMING HOME
Dec 01, 1993 ...North Korean soldiers hand over remains yesterday of 33 USservicemen killed during the Korean War to honor guards at the ...
Slaying of Cambodian described as hate crime
Dec 01, 1993; ... A Bristol County grand jury charged a Fall River man yesterdaywith fatally beating a Cambodian on a Fall River street last Augustin what the grand jury classified as a hate crime. Harold R. Latour, 23, was indicted on charges of murder,robbery, and assault and battery by means ...
LIGHT DUTY
Dec 01, 1993 ...Coast Guardsman Mark Clement washes the windows at Boston Light,one of the few manned ...
AIDS has its day; Spy comes in from the cool
Dec 01, 1993; ... To mark today, World AIDS Day, Sunday's New York Times Magazineasks the question of the moment: "Whatever Happened to AIDS?"Frustrated by an America unable to keep its quick attention span onthe 12-year-old crisis, journalist Jeffrey Schmalz notes that AIDS isno longer a "hot topic." The ...
Future in doubt for R.I. facility
Dec 01, 1993; ... EXETER, R.I. -- There is no plan in place yet for what to do withthe Ladd Center, the 85-year-old state hospital for the retardedscheduled to close in a month. The latest proposal would send consultants back to their desks tostudy the future of the 300-acre facility for the second ...
UNH costs rise more than a third
Dec 01, 1993; ... CONCORD, N.H. -- The cost of attending the University of NewHampshire has risen about 35 percent since 1989, according to thelatest fiscal report by the state university system. Tuition and fees for in-state students at UNH increased from$5,767 in 1989 to $7,669 in the fiscal year ...
Hospital sells Longwood Towers for $16.5m
Dec 01, 1993; ... Children's Hospital is selling its historic Longwood Towersapartment complex -- at a loss of more than $6 million. Avalon Properties said yesterday it has a binding agreement topurchase the rent-controlled complex in Brookline for $16.5 million. Children's purchased the ...
Charles C. MacFarlane Longtime carpenter; at 67
Dec 01, 1993 ... Charles C. MacFarlane of Scituate, a carpenter, died in his homeFriday. He was 67. Mr. MacFarlane was born in Boston. He graduated from DorchesterHigh School. He served in the Navy during World War II in both the Pacific andAfrican-Middle Eastern theaters. He had ...
. . . but with this team, easier said than done
Dec 01, 1993; ... Sports is said to be one of Boston's two great passions, but thereis a sublime difference between it and politics, the other greatpassion. People back politicians with money. It is telling that only one of the four sports teams here is ownedby a New Englander, as if New England ...
SURVIVOR'S THANKS
Dec 01, 1993 ...Murray Pantirer (left) greets Emilie Schindler yesterday at theHolocaust Memorial Museum in Washington ....
NFL may have dealt megaplex staggering blow
Dec 01, 1993; ... In handing its second expansion franchise of the year toJacksonville yesterday, the National Football League may have thrownthe proposed $700 million Boston megaplex for a big loss. Just as the convention-sports complex project appeared to begaining a measure of hard-won political ...
HERE'S TO THE MEN WHO LUNCH From the Munchers to the Old Goats, retirees dine to satisfy their craving for friendship
Dec 01, 1993; ...LEXINGTON -- It was the third Thursday of the month, and so theThird Thursday Chowder & Munching Society was again hunkered downover lunch at a local restaurant, working its way from egg-drop soupto fortune cookies at $6.30 per person. For the 11 retired men inattendance, ages 71 to 93, ...
Mitchell defends labor on NAFTA fight
Dec 01, 1993; ... WASHINGTON -- Senate Democratic Leader George J. Mitchellyesterday defended organized labor's recent aggressive lobbyingagainst the North American Free Trade Agreement, differing withPresident Clinton's criticism of unions who opposed the pact.The Maine Democrat, in an ...
Murder wasn't in the deal Drug informer is now a suspect
Dec 01, 1993; ... Convicted Charlestown drug dealer-turned-informant MichaelMurray is suspected of murdering the man he was cooperating againstduring a federal drug investigation, a federal prosecutor testifiedyesterday.Murray, brother of the late Charlestown underworld leader JosephP ....
MWRA trades blows with inspector general
Dec 01, 1993; ... The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is wasting up to $65million on a new building complex at its Deer Island treatment plant,state Inspector General Robert A. Cerasoli has charged in a newreport that accuses the agency of "fiscal indifference" in managingthe Boston Harbor ...
Heroes in the AIDS war
Dec 01, 1993; ...Today on World AIDS Day, let us remember not only those afflictedwith the disease but those who labor, often selflessly andanonymously, to help patients and loved ones attain a higher qualityof life and greater measure of dignity. For, as the Boston-basedLiving With . . . Group ...