The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from March 1994:
Kerry opposes balanced-budget effort
Mar 01, 1994; ...WASHINGTON -- Sen. John F. Kerry, who had been among the handfulof undecided lawmakers who will determine the fate of thebalanced-budget amendment in a vote expected tonight, said yesterdayhe will vote against pulling the Constitution into Congress' effortsto balance the country's ...
SIDEBAR Despite barriers, an American presence remains a constant
Mar 01, 1994; ...HAVANA -- They met on Halloween night of 1953. Lorna Burdsall was standing on the edge of a Manhattan dance floorwhen she glimpsed a body so in sync with the music, so rhythmic inits movements, that she knew it could not be an American. Afterward,she asked the man who he ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Mar 01, 1994 ...Q. What is the origin of the name Lebanon? N.H., West RoxburyA. The Illustrated Dictionary of Place Names says Lebanon came fromthe Semitic word "laban," meaning "to be white," probably for thechalk cliffs of what ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Mar 01, 1994 ...Q. What is the "ides of March"? J.D., WellesleyA. The ancient Roman calendar was a lunar one, with the ides markingthe full moon in the middle of the month. The ides fell on the 15thday in March, May, July and October, and on the 13th day of the ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Mar 01, 1994 ...Q. What's the latest on singer George Michael's suit against SonyMusic for release from his contract? S.A.,AshlandA. Although Michael's lawyers assured him that the contract could bebroken for a mere $900,000 ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Mar 01, 1994 ...Q. Is blues singer Oscar Brown Jr. still performing?D.C., NewtonA. He is. He appeared last fall on the Chicago television program"Chicago Slices" along with writer Studs Turkel. Brown, 68, issometimes seen at Chicago's Spices Jazz Bar. He appeared last yearat "Jazz, the ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Mar 01, 1994 ...Q. What causes seborrheic dermatitis? E.S., HaverhillA. According to our sources, the cause of the chronic inflammatorydisease of the skin, also called seborrheic eczma and seborrhea, isunknown. Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary says the diseasebegins on the ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Mar 01, 1994 ...Q. Can you give me some background on actor Nick Nolte? L.F., Pawtucket, R.I.A. Born in Omaha, Nolte, now 53, was originally a shy young man whomoved frequently because of his father's job as an irrigation pumpsalesman ....
From birth, seeds of death
Mar 01, 1994; ... While another taxpayer, the grocer Manuel Monteiro, 58 years old,was shot to death yesterday during a robbery of his store, the AMCMarket on Geneva Avenue in Dorchester, the attorney general of theUnited States, Janet Reno, was downtown dispensing well-intentionedadvice to a pack of ...
Edward R. Baylor, 80 Was professor of physiology
Mar 01, 1994 ... Edward Randall Baylor of Woods Hole, professor emeritus at StateUniversity of New York at Stony Brook, died of congestive heartfailure Wednesday in Falmouth Hospital. He was 80. Dr. Baylor was born in Uvalde, Texas. He attended the Universityof Texas at Austin and the University ...
BC's seniors are silent partners
Mar 01, 1994; ...They were like church mice, seated side by side -- Bill Curleynext to Malcolm Huckaby next to Howard Eisley next to Gerrod Abram --in awkward silence. A gabfest, it wasn't. "We were in the horseshoe at Conte Forum and Father {J. Donald}Monan was giving all the freshmen a ...
She's baffled by boyfriend's moods
Mar 01, 1994 ...Dear Beth: I'm a 17-year-old high school dropout with a 7-month-olddaughter. My boyfriend, her father, is a high school graduate andlooking to go beyond. We are total opposites. He has extremely badmood swings. One second he's the sweetest guy and the next he's coldand ...
Wesley back home from hospital
Mar 01, 1994; ... While the Bruins were taking yesterday off to rest from the drainof their two-week road trip, during which they compiled an impressive5-1-1 record, defenseman Glen Wesley was being discharged from theIllinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago after undergoing a seriesof tests on his ...
The disillusioned black middle class
Mar 01, 1994; ... THE RAGE OF A PRIVILEGED CLASS By Ellis Cose HarperCollins, 192 pp., 20 Ellis Cose's "The Rage of a Privileged Class" delves into thefeelings of deep-seated anger, frustration and isolation that manymembers of the black middle class continue to experience ...
Turning point: US downs 4 Serb jets First NATO combat mission comes after raid in Bosnian no-fly zone
Mar 01, 1994; ... ZAGREB, Croatia -- In the first NATO combat action in its 44-yearhistory, US warplanes shot down four Bosnian Serb aircraft yesterdayafter they violated the "no-fly" zone over Bosnia by attacking aMuslim munitions factory. President Clinton defended the NATO action, saying that ...
Burglary careers go downhill
Mar 01, 1994; ...While the cat burglar may not be an endangered species, thenumber of reported burglaries in Massachusetts dropped 35 percentbetween 1980 to 1992, at least partly due to the proliferation ofburglar alarms, law enforcement officials said. Across the state -- from Boston, where ...
Cambridge firm claims accurate colon cancer test
Mar 01, 1994; ... Using a technology developed at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, Matritech Inc. of Cambridge said yesterday that it haddeveloped what appears to be a highly accurate way to distinguishbetween cancerous and healthy cells in the colon. The technique is not yet available as a ...
PENTAGON DEMONSTRATION
Mar 01, 1994 ... A police officer arrests a member of People for the EthicalTreatment of Animals, which was ...
LEBANON MOURNERS
Mar 01, 1994 ...Relatives of a man killed in a bomb explosion in a MaroniteCatholic church Sunday weep at ...
Albert A. Capone; retired coach, fund-raiser in Dedham; at age 80
Mar 01, 1994; ... Albert A. (Honey) Capone, a retired custodian, coach andfund-raiser in his hometown of Dedham, died Sunday in NorwoodHospital from injuries sustained in a fall. He was 80. Mr. Capone was born in Dedham. He worked for the railroads in NewYork, New Haven and Hartford before ...
Conviction overturned of priest who blocked Boston abortion clinic
Mar 01, 1994; ... The Massachusetts Appeals Court yesterday overturned theconviction of a Roman Catholic priest sent to prison for illegallyblockading abortion clinics, because prospective jurors withIrish-sounding surnames were improperly challenged by the prosecutionin the apparent belief that they were ...
Jurors hear two versions of fatal yacht club shooting
Mar 01, 1994; ... An argument over a $1,500 debt led to the death of Thomas H. Hartat the Old Colony Yacht Club in Dorchester last May, but jurorsyesterday in Suffolk Superior Court heard differing versions of theconfrontation that ended with Hart's being fatally shot through theleft eye. In her ...
Western trip was Celtics' ticket to lottery
Mar 01, 1994; ... In the past, coming home meant many things, all positive. TheCeltics were finally rid of the West and could focus on the last twomonths and gear themselves up for the playoffs and bounties beyond. In the present, we find just the opposite. Coming home representslittle more than the ...
BCMS pulls together a triumphant evening
Mar 01, 1994; ... THE BOSTON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY in a concert in Sanders Theatre Sunday night It is reassuring to see that virtue is sometimes rewarded allaround. After a dozen years of activity, the Boston Chamber MusicSociety can still fill Sanders Theatre with an audience ...
Chamber reverses on health care stand
Mar 01, 1994; ... WASHINGTON -- The US Chamber of Commerce, in a rebuke to bothPresident Clinton and its own advisory board, yesterday flatlyrejected its previous position that business has a "sharedresponsibility" for health care costs and formally suspended itssupport of universal coverage. The ...
Clinton, Major reaffirm commitment to Bosnian peace
Mar 01, 1994; ... PITTSBURGH -- President Clinton and Prime Minister John Major ofBritain reaffirmed their commitment toward brokering a peace forwar-torn Bosnia yesterday, each vowing to try to end the bloodshed inthat Balkan nation as they started two days of talks. In an airport meeting here, ...
Leonard tabbed for NL post
Mar 01, 1994; ... SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- For more than a year, major league baseballhas operated with two lame ducks as league presidents. But itappears that one of the vacancies could be filled today. National League owners are expected to elect Leonard Colemanpresident, replacing Bill White, who ...
Helen C. Connors, 96 Retired John Hancock secretary
Mar 01, 1994 ... Helen Catherine (Phelan) Connors of Medford, a retired secretaryfor John Hancock Insurance Co., died yesterday in the CourtyardNursing Home in Medford. She was 96. Mrs. Connors was born in Medford and was a lifelong resident ofthe city. She was a secretary at John Hancock ...
CORRECTION
Mar 01, 1994 ...CORRECTION: Because of a reporting error, a story in Sunday'ssports section about the purchase of the New ...
CORRECTION
Mar 01, 1994 ...CORRECTION: Because of a reporting error, an incorrect date wasgiven in yesterday's Health and Science section Calendar for alecture on depression by Kathy Cronkite of ...
High court to hear child pornography case
Mar 01, 1994; ... WASHINGTON -- The US Supreme Court agreed yesterday to hear achild pornography case that turns on a dispute over the grammaticalconstruction of a single sentence in a federal law.In asking the high court to take the case, Clintonadministration lawyers argued that a lower court's ...
Kerrigan's image does a pirouette
Mar 01, 1994; ... In addition to sorting out opportunities to help make NancyKerrigan rich, ProServ, her agency, is paid to protect her image. Itis not too soon to begin damage control. Step one is to keep Kerrigan from repeating remarks that popped upon TV over the weekend in which she said she ...
Some US businesses join call to end Cuba embargo
Mar 01, 1994; ... Last of three parts HAVANA -- It is late afternoon in a dim corner of the intimateVictoria Hotel, and a young blond American businessman is huddledover a stack of documents across from a Cuban official. The American is prohibited by law from doing business. He can ...
Walter H. Dray, 81 Retired VA chief of counseling
Mar 01, 1994 ... Walter H. Dray of Osterville, former chief of counseling andrehabilitation for the Veterans Administration in Boston, diedSaturday in Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. He was 81. Mr. Dray was born in Hyde Park. He graduated from Boston Collegein 1934 and earned a master's degree in ...
Founder of NHL union facing indictment here
Mar 01, 1994; ...R. Alan Eagleson, former agent to Bobby Orr and founder of theplayers' union of the National Hockey League, is expected to beindicted in Boston this week in a groundbreaking case that,Washington sources said, would apply labor racketeering laws to aprofessional sports union figure for ...
NATO's warning shot
Mar 01, 1994 ...If they are rational, Serb political and military leaders inBosnia will heed the message implicit in NATO's downing of four Serbplanes Sunday. The downed planes had been on a bombing run over Bosnia,violating the no-fly zone monitored by NATO aircraft since October1992. The ...
City Council challenges $5m request for schools
Mar 01, 1994; ... During a grueling four-hour interrogation that highlighted intensepolitical interest in the operation of Boston's public schools, theCity Council yesterday questioned the school superintendent and citybudget director on a $5.1 million supplemental budget request. "We can't have an ...
Fishermen's choice
Mar 01, 1994 ...It is not difficult to sympathize with the fishermen who staged aprotest in Boston against the latest restrictions on ground fishcatches in the waters of New England. But they would be betteradvised to lobby in Washington to cushion the blow of urgently neededconservation ...
Awakenings
Mar 01, 1994 ...In Dorchester Lower Mills, at least, this is the first day ofspring. Never mind the calendar. Or the thermometer. Or the depthof the snowpack. Today David Mabel opens The Ice Creamsmith after a four-monthwinter hiatus, and if the air outside is colder than Mabel's ...
Siren call in Jamaica Plain
Mar 01, 1994 ...DJs at the Friday night dances at the now-silent Club Siren inJamaica Plain had the knack for mixing hip hop, house, reggae andLatin tunes for a diverse and enthusiastic group of teen-agers. For 18 months, Club Siren, an underage club at the nonprofitFirehouse Multicultural Arts ...
Weld chooses BC professor to chair Ethics Commission
Mar 01, 1994; ... After a number of people turned him down, Gov. Weld yesterdaynamed Boston College law professor George D. Brown to chair the stateEthics Commission.Brown, 53, of Acton, replaces Edward F. Hennessey, the retiredchief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court. Brown was an aide ...
Predawn fire destroys Falmouth Playhouse, a summer tradition
Mar 01, 1994; ... FALMOUTH -- A raging predawn fire brought down the final curtainat the Falmouth Playhouse on Cape Cod yesterday. The 550-seat theater, an important stop on the summer stockcircuit since 1949, was reduced to rubble by the blaze, which hadengulfed the structure when firefighters ...
Carol E. Feldman, 33 Field research supervisor
Mar 01, 1994 ... A funeral service will be held today for Carol E. Feldman ofCambridge, a market researcher, who died of breast cancer Saturday inBeth Israel Hospital in Boston. She was 33. Ms. Feldman was a field research supervisor who collected data andassessed the effectiveness of federal ...
Union leaders say Flynn run is sure
Mar 01, 1994; ... Two state labor union officials said yesterday that VaticanAmbassador Raymond L. Flynn told them last week he has made up hismind to run for governor of Massachusetts.Joseph Faherty, president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, saidthat he and a handful of union officials had an ...
Brady law in effect, but not in Mass.
Mar 01, 1994; ... The Brady law went into effect nationally yesterday, but not inMassachusetts. Massachusetts and 17 other states have gun licensing laws thathave been judged by the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms tobe stricter than the Brady law, which calls for a five-day ...
The Battle for Worcester HMO start a price war that could influence the national health care debate
Mar 01, 1994; ... WORCESTER -- This old industrial city is not a place youassociate with the future. But in the medical business, it may bewell ahead of Boston and the rest of the country. Worcester is in the middle of a price war in health insurance.In the latest skirmish, Pilgrim Health Care ...
Quincy man pleads innocent in friend's shooting death
Mar 01, 1994; ... A 19-year-old Quincy man pleaded not guity in Dedham SuperiorCourt yesterday to second degree murder in the shooting death of hisbest friend Feb. 6 in the defendant's home. Sean Hynes was indicted last week by a Norfolk County grand juryafter evidence in the case called into question ...
Clinton's inaction hurting Haiti
Mar 01, 1994; ...Several times in an interview at Logan Airport, Jean-BertrandAristide, the deposed president of Haiti, was asked if PresidentClinton was working hard to help restore democracy to the island.Aristide barely answered, never saying Clinton's name. He was askedwhy he did not utter Clinton's ...
Sen. Kennedy calls balanced budget plan a `gimmick'
Mar 01, 1994; ... US Sen. Edward M. Kennedy yesterday called a balanced budgetamendment a "gimmick" and said he would vote against it, adeclaration that drew Republican accusations that he is anout-of-touch spendthrift. The US Senate is expected to vote tonight on the amendment, whichwould require ...
Panel postpones vote on booth
Mar 01, 1994; ... The turf tug of war over a proposed ticket pavilion in CopleySquare Park continued yesterday, as more than 30 supporters andopponents of the plan testified before the city's Parks Commission. Following an impassioned and often acrimonious debate, thefive-member commission postponed ...
Kraft seeks state help for stadium Patriots owner plans $60m Foxboro overhaul
Mar 01, 1994; ... Saying he'd already paid a premium to buy the New EnglandPatriots, new owner Robert Kraft yesterday asked the state to helpfinance $60 million in renovations at Foxboro Stadium. "I've never gone to government and asked for help before," saidKraft, a multimillionaire businessman ....
Property owners back law restricting lead paint suits
Mar 01, 1994; ... Arguing that Massachusetts' lead-paint removal law puts a strainnot only on property owners but also on families in search ofaffordable housing, property owners yesterday tried to persuadelegislators to endorse a bill allowing parents of young children togive up the right to sue on ...
A mental health jewel in the rough
Mar 01, 1994; ... Loretta McLaughlin is the former editor of the Globe's editorial page. Among the most important benefits President Clinton's version ofuniversal health care coverage would offer Americans is assurance oftreatment for mental or emotional disorders and alcohol or ...
Macedonian demands Greece halt blockade
Mar 01, 1994; ... SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Macedonia's president, Kiro Gligorov, saidyesterday that the two-week Greek border blockade is having "veryserious effects" on Macedonia's economy, particularly its energysupply, and called on the European Union to force Greece to stop "anact unknown except in ...
It's a long trip from Boston to Norway and back
Mar 01, 1994; ... EN ROUTE FROM OSLO -- "Look at this," Mary Scotvold said a fewmoments after reaching America, an American airport, and buying anAmerican newspaper. "Look!" It was a full-page advertisement for Nancy Kerrigan, one ofseveral in the American paper, but it all seemed so unreal. At ...
Maine issue to be discussed
Mar 01, 1994; ... The Hockey East athletic directors will hold a conference callthis morning to discuss Maine's use of an ineligible player in itsfirst 30 games this season. Acting commissioner Bob DeGregorio said there are three possibleresolutions: "One, if the NCAA acts before the ...
MCI acts to build `wireless' business Invests $1.3 billion in N.J. firm in bid to outdo AT&T
Mar 01, 1994; ... In a bid to dominate the fast-growing market for portable pockettelephones, MCI Communications Corp. said yesterday it would invest$1.3 billion in a small New Jersey company developing an alternativeto cellular phone technology. MCI and Nextel Communications Inc., of Rutherford, ...
Down, not out in Medford Businesses vow to survive fire
Mar 01, 1994; ...MEDFORD -- Her friends said she was crazy, quitting a good job ina Woburn medical center to open a family business in an economic deadzone. But Cheryl Delafano knew what she and her husband Robert weregetting into, and four years later, Sweeties Candy was thriving in arejuvenated ...
`Judaism spits you out,' Rabin says of gunman
Mar 01, 1994; ... report. Material from Reuters and the Associated Press was also used. JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, saying that Israelshares Palestinian tears over the massacre of dozens of worshipers inHebron last Friday, implored the Palestine Liberation Organization ...
2 more challenge Mt. Washington and lose Ice climbers die trapped by arctic wind, cold
Mar 01, 1994; ... PINKHAM NOTCH, N.H. -- The arctic cold and ferocious winds of theWhite Mountains have claimed two more lives, the second and third ofthis winter. Beneath crystalline blue skies and in howling, bitter cold,searchers yesterday found the frozen bodies of two New Jersey men.They were ...
Egypt lifts shroud on its mummies
Mar 01, 1994; ... CAIRO -- A few lie in blissful remove, their shrunken faces taut,smooth and regal, their eyes closed peacefully, their long bloodlessnecks the girth of a child's arm. Others are caricatures of death: pocked skin pulled back likeplastic wrap from protruding brown teeth, skulls ...
Panel to hear options on dividing MWRA costs
Mar 01, 1994; ... On the heels of a lawsuit by Quincy and Boston officials claimingthat the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is overbillingresidents of the two cities, a special panel begins hearings inWeymouth tonight on how to divide the MWRA's rapidly rising sewercosts. The MWRA formula ...
Exercising family values
Mar 01, 1994; ... Linda Gray is ebullient. The woman who played Sue Ellen on "Dallas" for 11 years and hasrecently starred in the TV movies "To My Daughter With Love" withRick Schroeder and "Why My Daughter: The Gayle Moffitt Story," is nowdancing to a different tune. Surprise! She has her own ...
Countdown starts for oldest shuttle
Mar 01, 1994; ...CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The countdown began yesterday for atwo-week scientific research flight by NASA's oldest space shuttle,Columbia, to blast off at 8:54 a.m. Thursday. Meteorologists gave an80 percent chance of ...
Menendez retrial date undecided
Mar 01, 1994; ...LOS ANGELES -- The retrial of Erik and Lyle Menendez was left inlimbo yesterday as two defense lawyers asked to bail out and a judgepostponed a decision on where the trial will be held. Attorneysrepresenting Lyle Menendez ...