The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from April 1998:
CORRECTION
Apr 01, 1998 ... OMISSION: In a story on asteroid research in Sunday's Focussection, a hyphen was left out of the Web addresses for two siteson the ...
THE EAGLE '49ERS STRUCK GOLD BC'S LONE NCAA HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIP SERVES AS INSPIRATION TO '98 EDITION
Apr 01, 1998; ... On Sunday March 20, 1949, the Cold War dominated the Globe'sfront page headlines as the State Department warned the Kremlin notto underestimate the West's power. But beneath the news fromWashington appeared a story with a Colorado Springs dateline,carrying news closer to home. "B.C. Wins ...
CONGRESSWOMAN LED THE WAY FOR WOMEN IN POLITICS
Apr 01, 1998; ... Former New York congresswoman Bella Abzug, a founder of thefeminist movement whose trademark was her broad-brimmed hats, wasremembered upon her death yesterday as a role model who paved theway for other women in politics. Ms. Abzug, 77, died of complications after heart surgery in ...
EPA URGED TO REFOCUS ON HEALTH RISK IN AIRBORNE PARTICLES
Apr 01, 1998; ... Federal environmental officials must take a different road inthe effort to learn how tiny particles in the air kill 15,000people every year and incapacitate many more, according to a newNational Research Council study. The report, released yesterday, says the US ...
ANGEL OF GLUTTONY AND LUST BLESSINGS OF FOOD, EROS HEAL IN ISABEL ALLENDE'S NEW BOOK
Apr 01, 1998; ... NEW YORK -- When Isabel Allende orders a cappuccino, sheredefines the parameters of zest. "Put a lot of froth in it becauseI like it lush," she tells the waiter, her head tilted back, andeven he has to laugh, a little nervously, at the enthusiasm. And when she bites into a cinnamon ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Apr 01, 1998 ... Q. During the mid-1980s, I did business with a fine tailorshop, Mattie of Boston, at 81 Essex St. in Boston. Gene Mattie andErnie Palladino were exceptional in that they wouldn't tell youwhat you wanted, although they never allowed anything out the doorthat they (or you!) were ashamed ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Apr 01, 1998 ... Q. Where is Angela Cartwright nowadays? She played PennyRobinson in the TV series "Lost in Space."G.L., Wellesley A. Now 44, she runs a specialty gift shop called Rubber Bootsin Toluca Lake, Calif. She began appearing in public ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Apr 01, 1998 ... Q. Who invented the metronome, the device that shows the exacttempo in which a musical work should be performed?D.M., Haverhill A. Johann Maelzel, a German instrument maker who was a courtmechanic in Vienna. He also devised the ear trumpet that a deafLudwig van Beethoven used for ...
PARENTS CLAIM `WRONGFUL BIRTH' JURY IN MAINE MULLS SUIT OVER DISABILITY
Apr 01, 1998; ... BANGOR -- Sally and Gaylen Thibeault squeezed each other'shand as attorney Dan Perry asked a federal jury yesterday to awardthem nearly $3 million to care for a 7-year-old son they would havepreferred to abort. The son, Eric, has Down syndrome. He is loved by his parents,but Eric ...
FORGIVE ME; I'VE BEEN A FOOL
Apr 01, 1998; ... I take it all back. I recant. I abjure. Each and every column.They were all terrible mistakes and I'm truly, deeply sorry ifanything I wrote might have offended anyone. That was certainly notmy intent. Whatever got into me, suggesting that Channel 4's "news that'scool to know" ...
US STRIPS BERRIGAN OF VISITING PRIVILEGES AFTER WOMAN'S SIT-IN
Apr 01, 1998; ... WASHINGTON -- Philip Berrigan, the former Catholic priest andpeace activist who has spent a decade of his life in prison forcivil disobedience, has lost more than his freedom in a federalpenitentiary in Virginia. Berrigan, 74, who is serving a two-year term for damaging aNavy ...
HOUSE ACTION URGED ON ATM SURCHARGE BILL
Apr 01, 1998; ... A coalition representing consumers and community banks isscheduled to urge the House to pass a bill that bans out-of-networkautomatic teller machine surcharges in Massachusetts. But anindependent study also set for release today shows surcharges of $1or more -- in addition to standard ...
PUTNAM GRANTS LASSER $35 MILLION IN OPTIONS
Apr 01, 1998; ... Lawrence J. Lasser, chief executive of Putnam Investments Inc.,the Boston-based mutual fund firm owned by Marsh & McLennan Cos.,has been granted options in both companies potentially worth morethan $35 million. Lasser, one of the fund industry's highest-paidexecutives and the force ...
COVENANT HEALTH BUYS WORCESTER NURSING HOME
Apr 01, 1998; ... Covenant Health Systems Inc. purchased a 172-bed nursing homein Worcester from Mariner Health, a for-profit nursing-home companyin Framingham. Terms of the sale were not disclosed. Covenant, anonprofit Catholic health care system based in Lexington, owns oroperates nine nursing homes ...
OCEAN SPRAY, PEPSI TO CONTINUE THEIR DEAL
Apr 01, 1998; ... Ten months after announcing plans to end a distributionagreement with Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc. of Lakeville, PepsicoInc. reconsidered. Now the company's Pepsi division said it willcontinue to deliver Ocean Spray single-serve juices and juicedrinks in its trucks at least until the ...
BELL ATLANTIC NETWORK NOW ALL DIGITAL IN N.E.
Apr 01, 1998; ... With the installation of a digital switch in Hyannis, BellAtlantic Corp. said it now has a 100 percent digitally switchedtelecommunications network in New England. The regional telephonecompany said digital switching is more reliable and dependable thanolder analog switching systems ...
NURSES PLAN TO PICKET AT BROCKTON HOSPITAL
Apr 01, 1998; ... Nurses at Brockton Hospital said they will hold aninformational picket at the hospital Friday. Represented by theMassachusetts Nurses Association, the nurses say discussions withmanagement have stalled over staffing, overtime ...
HAY RENEWS A VISION OF CAPE COD
Apr 01, 1998; ... There are two John Hays. One was Abraham Lincoln's personalsecretary and biographer, a poet ("Jim Bludso"), and TheodoreRoosevelt's secretary of state. The other is his grandson, whosedozen or so books about Cape Cod belong in the company of Thoreau,Donald Culross Peattie, Henry Beston, ...
MATTER OF TIMING MEANS LOSS OF MILLIONS FOR HANCOCK
Apr 01, 1998; ... Sometimes the difference between a good idea and a blownopportunity just boils down to timing. Rarely has that proven to be so true or cost so much money asin the case of Freedom Securities Corp. of Boston, which plans tolaunch an initial public stock offering worth about $120 ...
AGAINST GOOD OR BAD TEAMS, BRUINS' EFFORT IS ON THE LEVEL
Apr 01, 1998; ... WILMINGTON -- It's April Fools' Day, and the Bruins have 10games left in this surprising season. Five are against opponentswith sub.-500 records, including tonight's against the Rangers inNew York. But don't let coach Pat Burns hear you say those games oughtto be gimmes or he ...
UC'S FALL CLASS IS WHITE, ASIAN2 CAMPUSES REPORT EFFECTS OF NEW LAW
Apr 01, 1998; ... LOS ANGELES -- Unable to consider an applicant's raceanymore, the University of California's two showcase campuses saidyesterday that the number of blacks and Hispanics who won a spot intheir fall freshman classes has plummeted from a year ago. Overwhelmingly, the faces of the ...
EFFORT IS REVIVED TO FORCE HOUSE CAMPAIGN FUNDS BILL
Apr 01, 1998; ... WASHINGTON -- Democrats and a handful of Republicans made arenewed effort yesterday to circumvent the House's Republicanleadership and force a vote this spring on changingcampaign-finance rules. The effort followed a vote late Monday night in the House,which overwhelmingly ...
CCC VETERANS REMEMBER THEIR WORK AND SPIRIT
Apr 01, 1998; ... It was the depth of the Great Depression, people were talkingopenly of revolution, Karl Marx was hailed as a prophet, and one ofevery three Americans was out of work. But the White House had just gotten a new tenant, and 24 daysafter he moved in, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, ...
MIAMI ROUT LEAVES CELTICS IN STUNNED SILENCE
Apr 01, 1998; ... MIAMI -- The Celtics' locker room was quiet last night, whichmeans they know more than we think they do. Everyone has heardabout their youth. But no one has said they are unwise. It wastheir wisdom that allowed them to see that sometimes it is betterto leave things as they are and keep ...
BREWING A NEW LEAF SWEET, SPICY AND SERVED WITH MILK, THE AMERICAN VERSION OF INDIA'S CHAI IS THE HOT NEW SIP
Apr 01, 1998; ... Nowadays, stop by most coffee shops and note that thetrendiest beverage is neither espresso nor cappuccino, butsomething called chai. Rooted in the tea-drinking traditions ofIndia, chai is suddenly the hottest sip in America. "Chai" is the word for tea in India. Masala chai is ...
MALFUNCTION CAUSES ARMS INCINERATOR TO BE CLOSED
Apr 01, 1998; ... The problem-plagued $650 million incinerator built to destroyAmerica's largest stockpile of chemical weapons is on the fritzagain. And as usual, its Utah neighbors appear not to mind. Officials at the Deseret Chemical Depot outside Tooele, Utah,yesterday said their main ...
UMASS OFFICIALS SAY MALLEN SAFE AS COACH
Apr 01, 1998; ... University of Massachusetts coach Joe Mallen is not underpressure from his administration or alumni, despite the Minutemen's54-103-11 record the past five seasons. Word around Albany, N.Y., during last week's NCAA EastRegional was that a group of alumni had asked UMass ...
MD. TROOPER BURIED
Apr 01, 1998 ... Lee Spencer carries the oldest son of Maryland State trooperRaymond G. Armstead Jr. at St. Mary's Church in Lynn after afuneral yesterday. Spencer is the stepbrother of the officer, whowas ...
CORRECTION
Apr 01, 1998 ... CORRECTION: Because of a reporting error, a story in Thursday'sGlobe reported incorrectly that Muhammad Abdul Aziz, one of the menconvicted of assassinating Malcolm X, had been named to head theHarlem mosque once led by the civil rights leader ....
CORRECTION
Apr 01, 1998 ... CORRECTION: Because of an editing error, a headline in theNational Briefs in yesterday's Globe ...
SUPREME COURT CALLS POLYGRAPHS UNRELIABLE BACKS BAN IN MILITARY TRIALS
Apr 01, 1998; ... WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court, concluding that liedetectors are unreliable gauges of innocence or guilt, yesterdayupheld a ban on their use in military courts. Though the case involved the military, the 8-1 decision wasthe high court's first direct consideration of the ...
ARTHUR CURLEY, SAW BOSTON LIBRARY THROUGH TOUGH FISCAL TIMES; AT 60
Apr 01, 1998; ... Arthur V. Curley, who directed the Boston Public Library duringsome of the most challenging days of its 150-year history and wasdescribed as "a librarian's librarian," died yesterday in hisSwampscott home. He was 60. Along with the Boston Symphony and the Museum of Fine Arts, ...
NO REASON TO STOP RUNNING FOR MARATHONER MARY-LYNN CURRIER, HER BATTLE WITH LYME DISEASE IS . . .
Apr 01, 1998; ... PLYMOUTH -- These are the props of elite marathoner Mary-LynnCurrier: one metal cane, one plastic leg brace. It seems like bad theater when the 33-year-old attaches thebraces to her left leg with a Velcro strap and hobbles around herPlymouth living room aided by the cane. Her calf ...
CURVE MISSES ITS CHANCE TO `COME CLEAN'
Apr 01, 1998; ... The skinny on "Come Clean" -- Curve's latest album, its thirdoverall and first after a three-year hiatus -- is that it mixes theguitar-noise and seductive, sexy spookiness of yore with trip-hopbeats, atmospheric synth bits, and sharp-shooting, zig-zaggingsamples. It covers a semi-vast ...
NOT PICTURE-PERFECT BUT WORTH A LOOK
Apr 01, 1998; ... OAKLAND, Calif. -- The starting second baseman weighs 165pounds, wears No. 52 on his skinny back and has never played aninning in the big leagues. The starting outfield drags down thebottom of the batting order. The starting first baseman officiallyknows that the team doesn't want him ...
SEVEN ACRES OF SHADE
Apr 01, 1998 ... The first panels of the roof fabric for the Millennium Dome inLondon were placed yesterday. When completed, the roof will be ...
27 VOTES SHY ON CAMPAIGN REFORM
Apr 01, 1998 ... The bitter wrangling over campaign finance reform thatenveloped Capitol Hill over the weekend, including the charge byRepresentative Christopher Shays, a Connecticut Republican, thathis own party leaders had conducted a "sneak attack," reveals afact those leaders would rather keep ...
BETTER THAN A VANITY PLATE
Apr 01, 1998 ... Massachusetts's new "Invest in Children" license plate, whichgoes on sale today, depicts a bright sun beaming on twostick-figure children -- unfinished characters who might eitherblossom or fade. Motorists who opt for the new license plate willhelp to ensure a fruitful outcome by ...
MEMORIAL SERVICE ON FRIDAY FOR AUTHOR WALTER D. EDMONDS
Apr 01, 1998; ... A memorial service will be held Friday in Cambridge for WalterD. Edmonds, the author of several historical novels including"Drums Along the Mohawk," a best-seller that was made into a moviestarring Henry Fonda. Mr. Edmonds died Jan. 24 in his home in Concord. He was 94.The author ...
AN ADVOCATE FOR AMTRAK
Apr 01, 1998 ... Who better than the Green Line's most celebrated straphangerto burnish the nation's rail network? Although no formal nominationhas come from the White House, President Clinton has talked withMichael S. Dukakis, the former Massachusetts governor, about apossible appointment to the new, ...
IN AYER, FACTORY RISES NEAR TOFU'S `MECCA' AMID GROWING US DEMAND, TOP MAKER NASOYA FOODS MOVES FROM CRAMPED QUARTERS IN LEOMINSTER TO MODERN FACILITY
Apr 01, 1998; ... AYER -- A thousand miles separate this town from the Iowafields where soybeans grow, making it an unlikely locale for one ofAmerica's largest makers of soy-based organic food products. On the other hand, the Nasoya Foods Inc. factory here is lessthan an hour's ride from Cambridge, ...
SQUEAMISH ON NEEDLE EXCHANGES
Apr 01, 1998 ... Boston and Cambridge have had a needle exchange program forfour years now, and despite opponents' warnings, intravenous druguse has not increased as a result. What has happened is that drugaddicts have reduced their chances of getting and spreading AIDSwhile increasing their chances of ...
LOOKS FROM SPARE TO GLITZY FALL WILL BRING LUXURY FABRICS, SIMPLE LINES
Apr 01, 1998; ... NEW YORK -- "Spare in form. Flexible in function." That's howdesigner Donna Karan described her much-anticipated DKNY fallcollection, unveiled during fashion week here. And, well, who are we to argue with her? At a time when Hollywood glitz (sequins and sparkly fabric)is ...
FLYNN SWIMS AGAINST THE TIDE SAYS STATE SURPLUS SHOULD AID NEEDIEST
Apr 01, 1998; ... As state leaders quarrel over saving the state's big budgetsurplus or giving out a tax break, candidate Ray Flynn has a grandplan to spend it. As his gubernatorial opponents one-up each other on tax cutplans, Flynn says he's willing to consider a tax increase. And where even ...
FAMILY TRUST PUTS PORTLAND PRESS HERALD ON THE BLOCK GUY GANNETT ALSO TO SELL 2 OTHER PAPERS, 7 TV STATIONS
Apr 01, 1998; ... The company that owns the Portland Press Herald in Maine is upfor sale, company officials said yesterday. Guy Gannett Communications, which also owns two other Mainenewspapers and seven network affiliate television stations, wasfounded by Guy P. Gannett in 1921 and has been owned ...
COPERTINO RISERVA ROBUST AND SUNNY
Apr 01, 1998; ... Copertino Riserva 1994, $7.99. Apulia is Italy's callousedheel, and its southernmost tier -- known as the Salento -- is apunishingly dry, stony flatland. But its fertile limestone-rivensoil annually begets Italy's finest hard wheat (best for hearty,rustic breads), most flavorful olives, ...
BIRTHDAY BASH
Apr 01, 1998 ... Vice President Al Gore high-fived Amanda Asgari-Rad, asecond-grader at Cason Lane ...
KENNEDY COUSINS BACK AN AMMUNITION BAN
Apr 01, 1998; ... WASHINGTON -- Two Kennedy cousins, citing the pain caused bygun violence to their family, yesterday joined an effort to ban theimportation and sale of large ammunition clips like those used inlast week's schoolyard shooting in Jonesboro, Ark. "This is an issue that not only affects ...
PORT RULING CREATES TAX TEMPEST FOR STATE SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN LEVY ON EXPORTS SHIPPED FROM US HARBORS, WHICH MASS. HAD WAIVED FOR FIRMS
Apr 01, 1998; ... WASHINGTON -- An arcane state tax credit promoted by formerGovernor William F. Weld to help the Port of Boston may be turninginto a headache for the state Revenue Department because of aSupreme Court ruling yesterday. Justices struck down a tax that the federal government ...
WILLIAM HASKINS, 83 RAN SIMONDS SAW & STEEL CO.
Apr 01, 1998 ... William Chandler Haskins of Concord, former general manager ofSimonds Saw & Steel Co. in Fitchburg, died Saturday at EmersonHospital in Concord. He was 83. Mr. Haskins was born in Belmont. He graduated from HarvardCollege in 1937 and earned a master's degree at Boston ...
JUDGE OK'S SUIT OVER HERALD HIRING
Apr 01, 1998; ... A federal judge has authorized a class-action suit by blacksand Hispanics who contend they weren't hired at the Boston Heraldin the early to mid-1990s because of a nepotism policy that nearlyguaranteed an all-white work force in the pressroom. The suit, filed in US District Court ...
TASK FORCE CALLS FOR SHRINKING HUB HIGH SCHOOL CLASSES MASSIVE RESTRUCTURING ESTIMATED AT $1 MILLION
Apr 01, 1998; ... A task force is moving aggressively to reorganize city highschools by creating small, personalized learning environmentswithin some large schools, perhaps as early as September. But while many educators laud these plans, the biggest obstacleappears to be the cost. The School ...
LAYOFFS LOOM IN HOME HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY BLAMES CUTBACKS IN MEDICARE REIMBURSEMENTS
Apr 01, 1998; ... The Massachusetts home health care industry yesterday said itexpects "considerable" layoffs this year as a result of majorcutbacks in Medicare reimbursements. In a survey of 40 home health agencies conducted betweenOctober and February, 60 percent of the agencies said they ...
RECYCLER ASSAILS NEW HOOD BOTTLE COLORED PLASTIC YIELDS LOWER RETURN
Apr 01, 1998; ... It was supposed to have been nothing more than a marketingtactic. But HP Hood's new light-proof milk bottle is causing publicrelations headaches -- with recyclers. The opaque white plastic bottles keep light from damagingflavor and vitamin content, Chelsea-based Hood claims ....
BRADLEY HAPPY TO DO HIS BIT FOR NATIONAL CHAMPION
Apr 01, 1998; ... SAN ANTONIO -- Reporters and camera crews crowded the lockerroom, bumping into each other and huddling around players whosebackgrounds have become familiar to March Madness enthusiasts. They sought out Kentucky forward Heshimu Evans, whotransferred from Manhattan after coach Fran ...
MOURNING FELLED WITH FRACTURE HE BREAKS HIS CHEEKBONE IN COLLISION
Apr 01, 1998; ... MIAMI -- The Celtics had talked of putting a dent in theplayoff chances of other teams. They may have done that last night,but it was not exactly what they had in mind. Two minutes into the third quarter, Andrew DeClercq andMiami's Alonzo Mourning were chasing a loose ball. The men ...
OUTDOOR DINING
Apr 01, 1998 ... Sadie, a mixed-breed dog, waited outside a Newbury Streeteatery yesterday while her ...
THE '98 SOX SWING INTO ACTION MARTINEZ'S OPENING ACT OVERDUE
Apr 01, 1998; ... OAKLAND, Calif. -- Every time Pedro Martinez takes the mound,he expects to win. Most pitchers say the same thing; Martinez hasmore reason than most to believe it. But when Martinez opens the 1998 season for the Red Sox heretonight against the Oakland A's -- a matchup of the 1997 ...
AT HISTORY'S DOOR FOR 50 YEARS HE SAW JERUSALEM'S DRAMA
Apr 01, 1998; ... JERUSALEM -- For a half century, George Kumsieh has stood on athreshold of history. The doorman since 1948 at the storied and elegant AmericanColony Hotel, George has greeted the famous and the infamous:Graham Greene, Marc Chagall, John Steinbeck, Peter O'Toole. He's carried ...
SAME OLD SONG IN ICE DANCING
Apr 01, 1998; ... MINNEAPOLIS -- You expected a top-to-bottom shakeup? Areshuffling and a new deal? This is ice dancing, remember, wherethey just got around to deciding that music with vocals wouldn'tbring the world to an end. So despite all the teeth-gnashing and garment-rending at theOlympics ...
A FLEETING ATTEMPT AT JUSTICE FOR FREED AMERICAN SLAVES
Apr 01, 1998; ... One of the reasons slavery haunts Americans despite PresidentClinton's regrets and photo ops in Africa is because the nation hada chance to make reparations but chickened out to racism. African-Americans refer to the moment as "Forty Acres and aMule." Union General William T ....
LEGISLATIVE SEASON BEGINS
Apr 01, 1998 ... Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi (center left) reviewed anhonor guard ...
NORTHERNERS SHOULDN'T THROW STONES AT THE SOUTH
Apr 01, 1998 ... I agree completely with Dan Jones, we must stop theencroachment of the Southern culture now ("America's moral compasshas shifted south," letter, March 31). We must turn the moral compass back to the North. We must getrid of gun manufacturers in the area. We must stop the culture ...
SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENTS
Apr 01, 1998 ... Jack Thomas, in his March 30 ombudsman column ("Small errorsadd up to big doubts about credibility"), responded to the outrageof several readers over the Globe's use of the headline "Slaughterof the schoolmates" in a March 25 story on the murders inJonesboro, Ark. Thomas ends his ...
EMPTY-CALORIE MOVIES; WUNDERKIND WOES
Apr 01, 1998; ... An unintentionally touching "Critic at Large" column by DavidDenby is tucked into this week's New Yorker, behind a huge pieceabout multiple personality disorder. It's an apocalyptic,cinema-may-be-going-to-hell essay, pointing to our culture'sshrinking emotional attachment to movies and ...