The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from May 1999:
POLICE NEED CULTURAL CHANGE
May 01, 1999; ... {A PUBLISHED CORRECTION HAS BEEN ADDED TO THIS COLUMN.} In the ever-roiling racial atmosphere of this city, it takes solittle for an act of stupidity to incite tension. So it is with thenoose fashioned from yellow tape left above the motorcycle ofLieutenant Valimore Williams of the ...
Grandparents to get safety training
May 01, 1999 ... The Boston Public Health Commission is offering safety trainingfor grandparents. Citing a study that shows nine out of 10grandparents care for their grandchildren at some point each year,the commission and the Boston SAFE KIDS Coalition will ...
ASK THE GLOBE
May 01, 1999 ... Q. To what country does the island of Iwo Jima now belong? H.H., Littleton A. The volcanic island, where a total of nearly30,000 American and Japanese fighting men died in 1945 overpossession of a Japanese airbase, ...
ASK THE GLOBE
May 01, 1999 ... Q. Who was the English talent agent who launched the career of the late Italian singer Sergio Franchi? T.D., Peabody A. It was JamesGilmore, who first heard Franchi singing in amateur shows in SouthAfrica, where Franchi's family had emigrated from Codogno, Italy.Gilmore had the ...
ASK THE GLOBE
May 01, 1999 ... Q. I purchased a few Enesco Disney mechanical pieces several years ago. Two of them, Hip Hip Parade and Mickey's Magical Toychest, nolonger work properly. I've contacted several vendors, but no oneseems to know where to get the items repaired. Can you help? J.O.Revere A. A ...
ASK THE GLOBE
May 01, 1999 ... Q. During the last presidential election, I remember reading thatBob Dole, candidate from the Republican Party, had hurt his arm inWorld War II. How did this happen? How old was he? S.A., MedfordA. Dole, born in July 1923, was wounded as an Army second lieutenantin April 1945 in the ...
April showers a no-show this spring
May 01, 1999; ... April showers have a lot of work to do. Not only are they countedon to bring May flowers, but they are supposed to help the treesshake off their winter torpor and begin to sprout buds and leaves. Unfortunately, this year's dry-as-dust spring in Massachusetts hasdelayed much of the ...
CORRECTION
May 01, 1999 ... CLARIFICATION: Homicide statistics in a story about a schoolshooting in Taber, Canada, in Thursday's Globe may have beenmisleading. The US homicide rate in 1997 was 6.8 per 100,000population, about ...
Interest developing One of last available industrial pockets in city, Newmarket district, site of many grand but failed plans, quietly drawing real estate investors
May 01, 1999; ... A proposed $1 billion megaplex for the area went belly-up. ThePatriots have taken a pass on several attempts to persuade them tobuild a stadi um there. One plan even sought to locate the Bruinsand the Celtics on nearby land. Boston's gritty Newmarket district -- one of the last ...
One of NATO's newest members offers only lukewarm support
May 01, 1999; ... PRAGUE -- It was a short-lived honeymoon. Twelve days after NATO's newest members -- Poland, Hungary and theCzech Republic -- signed themselves into the military alliance onMarch 12, they found themselves in the middle of a military offensiveon nearby Yugoslavia. Compared ...
Despite its closing, drug court called a success Officials want project to go statewide
May 01, 1999; ... Like many longtime substance abusers, Brian was an idealcandidate for the Mattapan drug diversion court: a nonviolentoffender who drifted from prison to prison, taxing the state'sperennially underfunded court system and taking up jail space. So when the 36-year-old Boston ...
Hartford's disappointment
May 01, 1999 ... Robert Kraft's decision to keep the Patriots in Foxborough iswelcome to every sports fan in the Boston area, but it is a shamethat the people of Connecticut, and especially its capital, Hartford,were subjected to a roller coaster of emotion. Governor John Rowland will no doubt ...
Dark horse at the Derby
May 01, 1999 ... Every Kentucky Derby comes truffled with mysteries worthy ofSherlock Holmes. This is the year of the sheik from Dubai, Mohammedal-Maktoum, crown prince and defense minister of his oil-rich kingdomand a horse owner willing and able to pay any price for the rightbloodlines. The ...
CBS should fire Stern for crude remarks after Littleton tragedy
May 01, 1999; ... At a supermarket in Englewood, Colo., last week, a woman waitingin line to pay for her groceries suddenly started to cry. Soon,others at the checkout counter began to tear up as well. This iswhat life is like after Littleton. Routine errands can betransformed by raw emotion. At around ...
Russia as rescuer
May 01, 1999 ... Russia's role as a mediator between NATO and Slobodan Milosevicis no longer a matter of speculation. Intensive discussions inMoscow between Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and ViktorChernomyrdin, the former Russian prime minister whom Boris Yeltsinhas appointed special Balkans ...
Evans stresses `zero tolerance' for racism in police force
May 01, 1999; ... Trying to address racially tinged tensions in the Boston PoliceDepartment, Commissioner Paul F. Evans met separately yesterday withhis command staff and local black leaders to underline what he calleda "zero tolerance" policy toward racial discrimination. Allegations have plagued ...
Catherine Ferry, 98 Longtime Mattapoisett resident
May 01, 1999 ... Catherine "Cappie" (MacLeod) Ferry, a longtime Mattapoisettresident, died Thursday at Tobey Hospital in Wareham. She was 98. Born in Roslindale, Mrs. Ferry lived in West Roxbury for manyyears. She had summered at Crescent Beach in Mattapoisett beforemoving to the town permanently ...
Fleet technology chief will retire at end of year
May 01, 1999; ... Fleet Financial Group confirmed yesterday that its chieftechnology executive will retire at the end of this year, the latesttop Boston banker to leave in the wake of the company's plannedmerger with BankBoston Corp. Michael Zucchini, a 52-year-old Fleet vice chairman who joined ...
Fans unsurprised but relieved by Patriots turnaround
May 01, 1999; ... Globe correspondent David Fagan contributed to this report. FOXBOROUGH -- Nothing spectacular had happened on John Frias'sday off in a long time. But that was before New England Patriotsowner Robert Kraft decided to keep the team in Foxborough. Frias, who heard the news on the ...
Tony Frasca, 71 Was hockey All-American
May 01, 1999 ... A memorial service will be held Sunday at 5 p.m. in St. Timothy'sChurch in Norwood for Tony Frasca, a former hockey star and all-scholastic in baseball and football at Cambridge Latin High Schoolin the 1940s. Mr. Frasca died April 1 in Colorado Springs. He was 71. After ...
Mary Geaney, 74 Homemaker, hospital volunteer
May 01, 1999 ... Mary "Pat" (Kelly) Geaney of Lynn, a devoted homemaker and acommunicant of St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Nahant, died Thursday athome. She was 74. Mrs. Geaney was born in Peabody and was a graduate of St. Mary'sHigh School in Beverly. She was a resident of Lynn for most of ...
Scorned state sees Kraft as the villain Rowland threatens to sue over pullout
May 01, 1999; ... HARTFORD -- Robert Kraft has turned overnight from communitysavior to Public Enemy No. 1 here. With carefully chosen words that dripped with scorn and disbelief,Governor John G. Rowland last evening said it looked as if the NewEngland Patriots owner had apparently used Connecticut ...
Priest joins delegation in Belgrade
May 01, 1999; ... Kevin Cullen of the Globe staff contributed to this report. AJesuit priest from Boston College with an expertise in conflictresolution joined the Rev. Jesse Jackson's entourage in Belgradeyesterday. The Rev. Raymond Helmick, a theology teacher, is an old hand attrying to ...
Quincy Hospital, BMC sign accord Pact aims to boost troubled health facility
May 01, 1999; ... Boston Medical Center and Quincy officials yesterday signed apreliminary agreement that could pave the way for an affiliationbetween the medical center and financially strapped Quincy Hospital. A final pact will hinge on whether the city of Quincy is able tocome up with sufficient ...
New hotel proposed on ex-strip club site Offices also planned for 20-story project
May 01, 1999; ... In what would be another blow to Boston's shrinking adultentertainment district, developer Kevin Fitzgerald said yesterday hehopes to build a $100 million hotel-office building on the WashingtonStreet site of a strip club and burlesque house he razed three yearsago. His plan for ...
Harvard Pilgrim loses $94m; vows a hike in premiums
May 01, 1999; ... Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, New England's largest healthmaintenance organization, yesterday posted its biggest annual lossever after having vastly underestimated its expenses. Joining the growing ranks of the nation's financially ailing HMOs,Harvard Pilgrim said it lost $94 ...
Plant owner may face jail time Cleanup deadline set for Hyde Park site
May 01, 1999; ... A Suffolk Superior Court judge has ordered the owner of a formerHyde Park chemical plant to start cleaning up the toxic waste site byTuesday or face imprisonment. The former Lewis Chemical plant, located on a half-acre next tothe Neponset River, has been a neighborhood eyesore and ...
Jackson prays with US soldiers held in Belgrade Seeks an end to `dark night'
May 01, 1999; ... WASHINGTON -- They prayed for morning to come after their "long,dark night" of captivity. They expressed love for their families.And after 30 days of solitary confinement in a Yugoslav militaryprison, one of the three US soldiers issued a touching apology to hisparents amid the horror of ...
`Whining millionaire' becomes `public hero'
May 01, 1999; ... Almost since he bought the New England Patriots in 1994, RobertKraft has been engaged in a tug of war over his image. With yesterday's decision to choose Massachusetts overConnecticut, Kraft did more than simply select a home for the team.He also took a giant step in defining his ...
Referendum needed on $70 million gift to Patriots
May 01, 1999 ... There is no clear mandate from the people that we would want $70million in state funds to go toward keeping multimillionaire BobKraft and the Patriots in Massachusetts ("Leaders OK offer toPatriots," Page A1, April 28). In fact, there seems to be only a small vocal minority who ...
Evelyn Leeson, 89 Longtime Rhode Island resident
May 01, 1999 ... Evelyn Talbot Leeson of Providence, a graduate of the ChapinSchool in New York, died Monday in Rhode Island Hospital. She was89. Born in Short Hills, N.J., Mrs. Leeson was a direct descendant ofSilas Talbot, a captain of the frigate Constitution. She moved to Rhode Island in ...
Failure to act in Kosovo would haunt Americans
May 01, 1999 ... The Globe's April 22 editorial, "A self-defeating war," omits themain issue in the Kosovo conflict: the right of the Albanians toreturn to their homes, free of Serb oppression. You blame thevictim, branding the KLA as terrorists. You mention "ethniccleansing" only in passing and fail to ...
The phone company's Net service isn't news
May 01, 1999 ... Your article "Bell Atlantic kicks off high-speed Net service"(Business, April 28) left out some important information thatconsumers should know. DSL service has been available in the regionfor quite some time now from many Internet service providers. Icurrently use Shore.Net of Lynn; ...
A fairer fare on the T
May 01, 1999 ... The MBTA wants to raise fares? ("House budget chief seeks fareincrease at MBTA," Metro/region, April 28.) Since the level of service and the ...
Don't expect savings from universal health system
May 01, 1999 ... I congratulate the Massachusetts Medical Society on exploring thepossibility of endorsing a single-payer health care system inMassachusetts (Page A1, April 28). I must warn them, however, toseriously question the research they commissioned that claims thatMassachusetts can simultaneously ...
Shirley D. MacInnes, 70 Headed Millis housing agency
May 01, 1999 ... Shirley D. MacInnes, a lifelong resident of Millis and retiredexecutive director of the town's Housing Authority, died Thursday atMetrowest Medical Center in Natick. She was 70. Born in Haverhill, Mrs. MacInnes was educated in Millis shools andgraduated from the Massachusetts ...
Philip B. Madsen, 51 Software engineer
May 01, 1999 ... Philip B. Madsen of Mashpee, a software engineer, died Wednesdayin Mashpee of a heart attack. He was 51. Born in Minneapolis, Mr. Madsen was a graduate of CornellUniversity. He lived in Wayland and summered on the Cape prior tomoving to Mashpee permanently a little less than two ...
Honoring a revolutionary defense Group to re-create Adams's historic work on behalf of Boston Massacre soldiers
May 01, 1999; ... Law student Anthony Dellorfano will don a black robe and powderedwig this afternoon, and thrust out his chest with corpulent pride. "The law will not bend to the uncertain wishes, imaginations, andwanton tempers of men," he will declare, in a voice strong enough toblow away the ...
Mayors applaud take-charge approach to education
May 01, 1999; ... CHICAGO -- Boston's Thomas M. Menino and Chicago's Richard M.Daley yesterday welcomed Detroit's Dennis Archer to the growingranks of big-city mayors who have seized control of flagging urbanschool systems, a trend also seen in Cleveland and Memphis. "The buck stops with us," ...
An old-style battle brews in E. Boston
May 01, 1999; ... In East Boston, the tribes are at war again. Political blood isflowing from Orient Heights all the way to Jeffries Point. It's a throwback neighborhood fight to succeed stateRepresentative Gus Serra, who recently resigned after 28 years totake a big job at the Massachusetts Port ...
CambridgePark buildings sold to New York company
May 01, 1999; ... Two office buildings totaling 436,000 square feet on CambridgeParkDrive in Cambridge have been sold to a New York company. Industrysources said the price was $84 million. The buildings, 125 and 150 CambridgePark Drive, were sold byTriangle Park Associates to Blackstone Real Estate ...
Panama readies for a future without the US Challenges await as canal transfer at year's end nears
May 01, 1999; ... PANAMA CITY -- There is more than the usual end-of-the-year springfever at Balboa High School. There is also a deep sadness. In two weeks, this stately school with the red Spanish-tile roofwill graduate its last class of seniors. By the end of May, it willsay goodbye to the rest of ...
Top hotel company turns sights on Boston
May 01, 1999; ... The biggest hotel company in the world is already a lot bigger inBoston than most people would ever guess. It has plans to get biggerstill. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. delivered that messagelast week at its first-ever Boston "media day." The company istrying to ...
Deal's failure could bring heavy fallout for Rowland
May 01, 1999; ... HARTFORD -- Just hours after he boldly declared that "failure isnot an option," Governor John G. Rowland, father of this city'ssoured stadium deal, absorbed his administration's biggest politicaldefeat yesterday. Few politicians had clambered farther onto a limb than Rowland ...
Brooks H. Sawyer, 52 Asset management consultant
May 01, 1999 ... Brooks Hitchins Sawyer of Westwood, an asset managementconsultant at George Beram and Co., died of a heart attack Tuesday atNewton-Wellesley Hospital. He was 52. Born in Boston, Mr. Sawyer grew up in Dedham and Dover. Hegraduated from the Fessenden School, Noble & Greenough School, ...
Bomb threats, hit lists keep area students home
May 01, 1999; ... Bomb threats, possible hit lists, and anti-Semitic graffiti wereenough for parents to keep hundreds of area students home yesterdayas fears continued of copycat crimes stemming from the schoolshootings in Colorado. Swastikas were found scrawled in Newton North High School ...
Co-conspirators may be back at Colo. school Investigators remain frustrated
May 01, 1999; ... LITTLETON, Colo. -- As frustration mounted about the pace andprogress of their investigation, authorities acknowledged yesterdayit was possible that co-conspirators in the Columbine High Schoolshootings might return to classes Monday among the survivors. Investigators also grew ...
Signs of progress Language helps troubled youths
May 01, 1999; ... NEEDHAM -- Christian Budge strode single-mindedly, with armsoutstretched, across the soccer field toward the counselor. The 9-year-old boy was having a bout of anxiety, and as usual, wasintent on latching onto someone for comfort -- whether or not theperson wanted him ...
Joseph E. Simard, 95 Was steelworker, baseball player
May 01, 1999 ... A funeral Mass will be said this morning for Joseph E. "Sib"Simard of Cambridge, a steelworker and a former AA baseball player,who died Wednesday at Beth Israel-Deaconess Hospital in Boston. Hewas 95. Born in Quebec, Mr. Simard moved to Cambridge and graduated fromCambridge ...
Steeples Project helps put new life in Boston's historic churches
May 01, 1999; ... Two years ago, an area was roped off around Union United MethodistChurch on Columbus Avenue in Boston's South End. Church leaders wereafraid that pieces of concrete from the crumbling steeple wouldinjure someone. Each year, the congregation put off making desperately ...
Upon further review: Foxboro Patriots sack Hartford stadium deal
May 01, 1999; ... Tina Cassidy, Scot Lehigh, Brian MacQuarrie, and Frank Phillips ofthe Globe staff contributed to this report. Material from theAssociated Press was also used. New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft walked away from therichest stadium deal ever in professional sports yesterday, a ...
Parades to mark return of swans
May 01, 1999; ... Boston will make way for ducklings -- and swans -- next week withthe return of four swans in the Boston Public Garden lagoon andJamaica Pond. The 11th annual return of the swans kicks off at noon Tuesdaywith a parade beginning at the corner of Beacon and Charles streets,near ...
JAM SESSION
May 01, 1999 ... An accident involving four tractor trailers along the SoutheastExpressway near the Savin Hill overpass ...
BALKAN UPDATE
May 01, 1999 ... - After NATO jets conducted their heaviest attack so far onBelgrade, Yugoslav media reported at least 11 dead from attacks inBelgrade and other parts of the country. - The Russian special envoy, Viktor S. Chernomyrdin, met YugoslavPresident Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade, but no ...
Changes in Chiapas Using the Internet and tourism, Zapatistas create a new image.
May 01, 1999; ... Evon Z. Vogt is professor emeritus of anthropolgy at HarvardUniversity and director of the Harvard Chiapas Project. On a recent visit to San Cristobal Las Casas in the highlands ofChiapas, Mexico, where the Zapatistas captured the town hall on Jan.1, 1994, my wife and I were ...
Police need cultural change
May 01, 1999; ... In the ever-roiling racial atmosphere of this city, it takes solittle for an act of stupidity to incite tension. So it is with thenoose fashioned from yellow tape left above the motorcycle ofLieutenant Valimore Williams of the Boston Police Department onPatriots Day. The ...
Williams is a `close to the book' commander
May 01, 1999; ... By all accounts, Valimore Williams is a tough cop. He joined the Boston Police Department in 1968, four months afterthe assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and during the height ofBoston's civil unrest. One of the few blacks on the force, his on-the-job training as a cadet put ...
NATO increases bombing raids Clear skies allow over 600 sorties; more are planned
May 01, 1999; ... BRUSSELS -- Aided by the clearest skies since it began attackingYugoslavia six weeks ago, NATO conducted its heaviest night ofbombing, targeting army headquarters, the Defense Ministry and anopulent suburban home of Slobodan Milosevic, the alliance saidyesterday. Brigadier ...
Three shots at third straight Baffert's making a run at history
May 01, 1999; ... LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- D. Wayne Lukas took a turn in the role,peaking when he won back-to-back Kentucky Derbys. Before that, NickZito played the part, winning two Derbys in four years. But the starof this production, today's 125th Run For The Roses at ChurchillDowns, is Bob Baffert, who is ...
Bradley's also-rans back in contention
May 01, 1999; ... When Mike Bradley chose the University of Kentucky two years ago,he had to tell six prominent college basketball programs they weren'tin his future. But this week's announcement by Bradley that he willtransfer has given those schools a second chance, according to ...
Extra, extra: Bruins deliver Carter wins it in double OT
May 01, 1999; ... GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Twists and turns. Momentum shifts. Crazybounces. A million highs and nearly as many lows. It wasnail-biting, edge-of-your-seat, crazy. It was vintage playoffhockey. It took 94 minutes 45 seconds, and it wasn't decided until AnsonCarter took a pass from Joe ...
It hasn't gotten old for Bourque At 38, he's still having a grand time
May 01, 1999; ... He is playing in his 35th playoff series, a statistic thatboggles the mind considering that Dave Ellett is the second higheston the Bruins with 19 postseason series, and Pat Burns is coachinghis 19th series. For 38-year-old Ray Bourque, the playoffs are asexciting as ever. "It's ...
Pitino has to get to the point
May 01, 1999; ... It doesn't matter what his plans call for this summer. Itdoesn't matter if he vacations in the suburban beauty of Waltham orthe sun- dappled bliss of Miami. Wherever Rick Pitino decides tospend his time at the end of this season, the coach can take a fewCeltic- related thoughts on the ...
Boxford -- a former farming town dealing with growth
May 01, 1999; ... BOXFORD -- Like Wenham, Boxford is a small, woodsy, upscale townnorth of Boston that has no industry. "There are not even anysidewalks to roll up at night," said Sharon Benson, an owner ofBenson's Homemade Ice Cream Inc., which has been dispensing old-fashioned recipes here since ...
No surprise: Some of us knew this was going to be the play
May 01, 1999; ... It's going to be really deep around here now that Bob ("you likeme, you really like me") Kraft gets to say he turned down thegreatest sweetheart deal in the history of sports because he lovesBoston so much. It's right there on paper. Check the balance sheet. Given thechoice to ...