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72103_0 | Removal of Organs Raises Mystery on Death of Halas Heir | LEAD: Almost all of the internal organs were removed from the body of George Halas Jr., the son of the Chicago Bears founder, before his burial, and were replaced with sawdust, according to a court document submitted by a pathologist. Almost all of the internal organs were removed from the body of George Halas Jr., the... |
71945_1 | NORTHEAST JOURNAL | He said Cohasset was one of four towns under consideration as the movie's setting, and that he would not film there without the town's approval. Last year movie crews turned Cohasset's town hall into a church and its card shop into an ice cream parlor for a Warner Brothers movie, ''The Witches of Eastwick.'' Mary Lou C... |
72212_4 | SCULPTURE TESTS ITS MUSCLES OUTDOORS | painted blue so that it seems to - although it does not in fact - reflect the sky. Both objects are partly coated with a jam-thick confection of roots and twigs. If the work acknowledges earth and sky, the pencil form also suggests a mast and the oval a boat or ark. And in the way the two objects seem to face and back ... |
72150_2 | TRAVEL ADVISORY | renovation work. The Beverly Hills Hotel will spend about $40 million this year on major refurbishing. The Beverly Hilton recently completed a $35 million renovation and the Beverly Wilshire, which opened in 1928, has embarked on an improvement program that will be finished next February. For information contact the Be... |
72151_0 | Protecting Film From Airport X-Rays | LEAD: One of the problems facing air travelers in the United States and abroad is the X-ray scanning of photographic films at airport security checkpoints. These measures, introduced in 1973, are part of efforts to prevent devices that would be used in a highjacking, such as explosives and guns, from being carried onto... |
72181_3 | CENTRAL AMERICAN PLIGHT IS PEOPLE IN ABUNDANCE | ending in 1980, which saw a doubling of per capita income in the region after allowing for inflation, the current population spurt is occurring at a time of economic crisis and austerity programs. Every country in the region has had at least one year of negative economic growth in the last five, which means that more p... |
72181_9 | CENTRAL AMERICAN PLIGHT IS PEOPLE IN ABUNDANCE | often takes a nationalist position, arguing that more people are needed to settle unpopulated areas and defend the nation, while the oligarchy wants to preserve its privileges. ''I've had Honduran hacienda owners ask me where they are going to get their maids and who is going to pick their coffee and bananas if the pop... |
72032_0 | Dam's Threat to Rain Forest Spurs Quarrels in the Amazon | LEAD: A giant new dam in the middle of the Amazon rain forest is about to flood millions of trees and animals, even though energy and environment experts say it should never have been built. A giant new dam in the middle of the Amazon rain forest is about to flood millions of trees and animals, even though energy and e... |
72032_2 | Dam's Threat to Rain Forest Spurs Quarrels in the Amazon | today, the Balbina dam would probably not be built since its energy output was inadequate and the impact of flooding such a large area was not known. Oil Bill To Be Halved Environmentalists have protested the building of a hydroelectric project in a region as flat as this. They say that to amass enough water to drive t... |
77720_3 | GHOST SHIPS ON THE HUDSON | who speaks to us of these matters seems concerned not alone with registering the hum and buzz of another age - the terror of Lowlanders transported to a ''barbaric new world'' teeming with trees, demons, savages, strange animals - but with such problems as that of rendering correctly the thunder, in our own day, of rev... |
77868_0 | Healthy, Stealthy, And Wise | LEAD: You're a nut who loves driving fast. Your ''fuzz buster'' warns that your speeding vehicle is being tracked by a state trooper's radar. What to do? You're a nut who loves driving fast. Your ''fuzz buster'' warns that your speeding vehicle is being tracked by a state trooper's radar. What to do? You stop, hop out ... |
77929_0 | SAILING INTO PORT | LEAD: WHILE ROVING THROUGH Portugal in 1678 looking for wines suitable for the British market, two young Englishmen stopped for dinner at a monastery in Lamego, near the River Douro. Unlike most local wines, the vintage served by the abbot was smooth, sweet and suprisingly palatable. After persuading his guests to buy ... |
77713_0 | NOT EVERYTHING CAUSES CANCER | LEAD: THE DREAD DISEASE Cancer and Modern American Culture. By James T. Patterson. Illustrated. 380 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. $25.95. THE DREAD DISEASE Cancer and Modern American Culture. By James T. Patterson. Illustrated. 380 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. $25.95. CANCER has alw... |
78119_0 | TV: Amazon, in 'Nature' | LEAD: ''NATURE'' explores the Amazon rain forest tonight at 8 on Channel 13, and finds it in danger from the chainsaw. As many as 30 million acres may be lost each year. ''Nature'' is solemn about this, but a good deal less than gloomy. Help, it says, is on the way. ''NATURE'' explores the Amazon rain forest tonight at... |
78088_10 | America's Army of Non-Workers | make job training or getting a job a requirement for assistance. And numerous proposals are afoot to improve secondary school education, so that young people leave school literate and job-ready. Inadequate education, in fact, is getting most of the attention as the root cause for the rise of the long-term non-worker. M... |
77858_0 | Verbatim: Waiting for Parity | LEAD: 'In the American educational system, some students have had, metaphorically speaking, the advantage of great training from the day they were born, while others are thrown belatedly into the game without a glove. The scores are thus not so indicative of the quality of play, but rather of economic advantage, level ... |
77747_2 | Soviet Space Photographs Stir U.S., but Agency Plan to Buy Them Faces Barriers | approval within the Federal Government for purchasing Soviet photos, which would involve signing contracts with a Soviet trade organization. Proposal in the Works ''We're preparing to submit a proposal to the U.S.S.R.,'' said the geological survey official who requested anonymity. The proposal needs the approval of the... |
77943_0 | Airline Baggage | LEAD: To the Editor: I would like to call your attention to the fact that as a result of an article in the Travel section I suffered extreme embarrassment and had unnecessary confrontation with Trans World Airlines personnel. To the Editor: I would like to call your attention to the fact that as a result of an article ... |
77909_9 | How to Read a Label | and stabilizer extracted from the seaweed Irish moss, is added to many processed milk products, such as instant breakfast mixes and canned infant formula. Small amounts of carrageenan are considered safe for adults, but studies have shown that it may inhibit the development of the gastrointestinal tract of premature in... |
77748_1 | Chinese Fight 40-Year-Old Propaganda War | after troops fired warning shots. The crews of those boats are also accused of harrassing fishing boats from Quemoy and Matsu, another frontline Nationalist island 150 miles to the north. The crews of the boats from the mainland rob the Nationalist boats, or force them to trade goods that are hard to find on the mainla... |
77662_3 | Baghdad Is Working to Restore (Some Say Devastate) the Ruins of Babylon | to see for their masters.'' Few Pictures of City The current restoration, Mr. Razak said, began eight years ago, although excavations by Iraqi archeologists has been going on for around a quarter century. One problem, a Western archeologist said, is that there are few original pictures of the city that, at its zenith, ... |
77716_3 | SO MANY CHIPS, SO LITTLE TIME | wave of personal computers that flooded the country in the 1980's. Microcomputers with workable word processing, spreadsheets and data bases which were far more usable than their mainframe counterparts inspired many professionals with a visceral sense that, once they ignored the manufacturers' oversell, their personal ... |
74573_0 | Careers; 2 Surveys Find Bright Job Outlook | LEAD: TWO recent reports, one by the Conference Board, the business research organization, and the other by Manpower Inc., the temporary service firm, indicate that the outlook for employment is bright, at least for several months. TWO recent reports, one by the Conference Board, the business research organization, and... |
74724_6 | Raw Material Prices Recover | sugar and copper, from 90 percent a decade ago to just 40 percent. The share of oil and minerals among Mexico's exports dropped from 78 percent in 1982 to a low of 38 percent in 1986. These and other developing countries must reconsider whether to move away from commodities now that prices are rising again. So far, mos... |
74622_0 | Report on Birth Control Services Ranks Britain as World's Leader | LEAD: Britain leads the developed world in making birth control available to its people, and the United States ranks seventh, according to a report by a leading population control group. Britain leads the developed world in making birth control available to its people, and the United States ranks seventh, according to ... |
74784_0 | Impact of Star Wars Work | LEAD: The Pentagon expects no significant environmental damage from research projects in its ''Star Wars'' antimissile program except at the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands of the South Pacific. The Pentagon expects no significant environmental damage from research projects in its ''Star Wars'' antimissile prog... |
75169_6 | Dissent and 'Good Catholics' Are Incompatible, Pope Says | of sexual inferiority, but want to be seen as necessary to the full life of a church that teaches and shows by example the co-discipleship of the sexes as instruments of God's Kingdom.'' The Archbishop did not explicitly call for ordination of women and took note of the Pope's frequent statements entrusting the priesth... |
75141_9 | Respectful Bishops Tell Pontiff of a Loving but Restless Laity | pain turns easily to anger and is often shared and transmitted to the younger generation of men and women. Women do not want to be treated as stereotypes of sexual inferiority, but want to be seen as necessary to the full life of a church that teaches and shows by example the co-discipleship of the sexes as instruments... |
71510_3 | New Jersey | Avenue. Turn left to the museum. Information: (201) 787-1807. Tomorrow and Sunday, visitors to Atlantic City can take time out from casino-hopping to listen to a country-music jamboree featuring Gerry Cooper at Brighton Park, just outside the Claridge, Sands and Bally Hotels. Sessions are at 3 and 6 P.M. Visitors can a... |
72907_0 | Howard Beach Judge Starts Questioning Possible Jurors | LEAD: Jury selection began yesterday in the first trial in the Howard Beach assault case. Jury selection began yesterday in the first trial in the Howard Beach assault case. The judge questioned 32 of 150 prospective jurors after telling them they had been summoned to a case that has ''generated a great deal of publici... |
72918_2 | Columbia to Pay Off Loans for Some Minority Students | ''Unless more black and Hispanic college undergraduates are encouraged to become the black and Hispanic professors of their generation,'' said Robert E. Pollock, dean of Columbia College, ''it is hard to see how Columbia or any other great university will ever have a truly multiracial faculty.'' The Equal Employment Op... |
71384_2 | AIRLINES ORDERED TO DISCLOSE DATA ON FLIGHT DELAYS | required to be entered in the airlines' own computer systems so travelers dealing directly with the airlines could ask about them. Each flight will be accompanied by a one-digit performance code indicating the percentage of time the flight arrived on schedule. A code of 7, for example, would indicate that the flight ha... |
71340_0 | 41 French-Speaking Nations Confer | LEAD: The leaders of 41 French-speaking nations and territories began a summit meeting here today to the accompaniment of angry human-rights demonstrations. The leaders of 41 French-speaking nations and territories began a summit meeting here today to the accompaniment of angry human-rights demonstrations. The group, t... |
73078_0 | Parish Without Priest Finds a Way | LEAD: It used to be that when Roman Catholics in this prairie town fell seriously ill, or were planning to marry, or were about to have a baby, they sought out the priest at St. Paul's, the parish that has served Walnut Grove and its surrounding farms for 80 years. It used to be that when Roman Catholics in this prairi... |
76584_0 | Air Travel Needs Peak-Hour Premium Rates; Try Satellite Radar | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Your Sept. 4 story on air traffic control of over-ocean flights (front page) states that no radar monitoring is available, ''because of the limited 200-mile-plus range of conventional radar.'' Two hundred miles is simply the distance from a plane 5 miles over the ocean to a point on ... |
76596_1 | SOUTH AFRICA SAYS IT MAY SOON SIGN ATOMIC AGREEMENT | confirm or deny persistent rumors that it has collaborated with Israel in the development of nuclear weapons. Weapons Tests Charged South Africa has faced accusations in the United Nations and other international forums that it has tested nuclear weapons. The accumulated suspicion has been compounded by its refusal to ... |
76589_0 | RJR Nabisco Plans Biotech Venture | LEAD: RJR Nabisco Inc. and Biotechnica International Inc., a small genetic engineering company, said today that they would jointly develop improved food products through biotechnology. RJR Nabisco Inc. and Biotechnica International Inc., a small genetic engineering company, said today that they would jointly develop im... |
78257_3 | Cruise Lines Ride a High Tide | offer nonstop parties and food fests, wild discos and Las Vegas-style floor shows, and ships that quietly meander the seas with a crowd that packs plenty of books and that dresses for dinner. Most ships also have gambling casinos. As passengers streamed aboard the Carnival Lines' 1,800-passenger ship, the Holiday, one ... |
74428_4 | Top U.S. Corporations Lobbying Against Curb on Toshiba Imports | to let American companies and the Administration take the initiative against the sanctions. Neither the American industry groups nor Toshiba have been able to list precisely the number of companies, products or lost dollars that would result from the imposition of sanctions, but Mr. Freedenberg said ''dozens'' of major... |
74363_1 | New Caledonia Votes to Remain French Territory | the southwest Pacific. Most of the population consists of white French settlers or Vietnamese, Indonesians and others who for economic reasons want to preserve ties to France, which annexed the islands in 1853. 'Anti-Democratic Swindle' The Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front, the major independence group, had de... |
72376_0 | Getting Together: Dating for the Disabled | LEAD: Dateable - pronounced with the accent on the ''able'' - is a dating service for single people with physical disabilities and illnesses, the first such service in Washington and one of only a handful in the United States. Dateable - pronounced with the accent on the ''able'' - is a dating service for single people... |
72489_5 | Meadowlands Glances Back At Dirty Past | Rutherford during a state Health Department investigation of abnormally high clusters of 13 cases of leukemia and 9 of Hodgkin's disease in that town. Undeveloped parts of Rutherford are in the Meadowlands, but nearly all its 21,000 people live on the other side of a ridge about a mile from the district. The levels of ... |
75650_3 | OSTEOPOROSIS AFFLICTS MEN, TOO | among people over 45, most of them due to osteoporosis, according to Dr. Peck. The third common site for such fractures is the wrist. If estrogen is not a primary factor in the development of osteoporosis in men, to what is it attributed? ''Osteoporosis has many causes,'' Dr. Rivlin said. ''Besides the hormonal, it's n... |
75677_1 | Pope Hears Woman's Plea to Give Laity Larger Voice | Hanson, of Spokane, Wash., drew loud and long applause when she told the Pope: ''Your Holiness, please let me know that you are willing to walk with me. Accustomed as I am to dialogue, consultation and collaboration, I do not always feel that I am heard. In my cultural experience, questioning is neither rebellion nor d... |
73766_1 | Scientists Seek New Uses for Carbohydrates | bags and plastic containers that are bio-degradable. * Using carbohydrates to make a new polysaccharide, which is used in powdered drinks and baker's emulsions. Polysaccharides now come from a crop difficult to acquire because it is grown in a politically volatile region south of the Sahara, the director said. * Trying... |
73878_1 | Pirates Rob Filipino Fishermen of Traditions | help them compete for declining catches with sophisticated, sonar-equipped Japanese trawlers. ''But a new boat means a new motor,'' Mr. Abirin explained. ''The pirates have spies, and when we take it out to sea, they are waiting.'' Piracy is as old a profession as fishing in the Sulu and South China Seas. But lately, f... |
74064_1 | A Guide to Antique Shops . . . | differences in cost of shipping or mailing purchases. Most important is a bill of sale properly identifying the date of a work, a document that is essential at United States Customs, where purchases of antiques - objects produced 100 years or more ago -are admitted duty free. The following is a selection of dealers who... |
73817_0 | Dispute Grows Over Cornell Computer Center | LEAD: ''Ithaca is gorges,'' say hundreds of bumper stickers in this scenic upstate town. And when Cornell University announced plans to build an eight-story, $29 million supercomputer center on the rim of Cascadilla Gorge, residents and officials rose up. ''Ithaca is gorges,'' say hundreds of bumper stickers in this sc... |
74259_1 | DATA BANK: September 13, 1987 | Equipment Spending I Q'87 IV Q'86 Year Ago In billions, annual rate $372.74 $388.69 $387.42 Mfg. Inventory-Shipments Ratio June May Year Ago Current dollars 1.68 1.63 1.44 Sales at Retail Outlets July June Year Ago In billions $127.6 $125.1 $118.7 Index of Leading Indicators July June Year Percent change, monthly and y... |
73809_2 | Outdoors; 2 NEVERSINK TRIBUTARIES TO BE RENAMED | that matter, the Neversink. In this, Wechsler and his group have been sagacious. It is unlikely that any champions of ''Mullet'' - which probably refers to the white sucker, a fish that ascends small streams in spring to spawn - will emerge, and the other three streams have no names on topographic maps. All four are, m... |
74265_1 | Prospects | overseas investors. ''If the dollar goes down enough and interest rates go high enough, as a foreign investor I would go running in,'' he said. The reason: The prospect of the dollar's going back up, which would increase returns for foreigners. Personal Computers Grow Personal computer sales are in a robust recovery, a... |
76362_3 | Europeans Weighing an Expanded Role in Space | understandable feeling of nervousness'' among many Europeans about taking on so many expensive projects at once. The ministerial meetings was postponed from June to November to give governments more time to study the proposals and weigh their positions. ''Europe's been successful in all its programs,'' Mr. McLaurin sai... |
76337_3 | Kingston Journal; From Fiery Man of Jamaica Politics, a Mea Culpa | is behind us.'' Mr. Manley brought Jamaica to the brink economically by spending more than the country earned on a wide range of social and economic programs. Thousands of middle-class managers and junior executives abandoned Jamaica as the country veered to the left. Foreign lenders tightened their purse strings. Unit... |
55294_0 | STUDY CITES INCIDENCE OF CANCER NEAR POWER LINES | LEAD: A study issued today by the New York State Health Department says that children with leukemia or brain cancer are more likely than healthy children to be living in homes where the exposure to the magnetic fields generated by electric power lines is high. A study issued today by the New York State Health Departmen... |
55171_0 | BOTTLING VINTAGE SHIPS | LEAD: GLENN BRAUN, top, has been putting ships in bottles for 15 of his 33 years. ''In the 1740's,'' he said, ''Europeans and Americans constructed miniature chairs and crucifixion scenes, but not ships, and put these into bottles. But during the 1840's - the era of the clipper ships, which have low, narrow hulls - peo... |
53919_3 | Economic Scene; Limited Impact Of the Young | firm in Wayne, Pa. ''After that, as the post-baby boomers take over, sales will drop slowly to the 10.5-to-11-million range by the year 2000,'' Mr. O'Grady said. ''But the industry does not plan that far out.'' The big puzzle is why the post-baby boomers' earnings aren't rising and whether this will change. Their avera... |
55453_0 | IN 1988, IT'S TRENDY TO TELL ALL | LEAD: It was not surprising that Kitty Dukakis, the wife of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, a Democratic Presidential contender, decided to discuss her onetime addiction to diet pills in public. And that, politicians, political consultants and academics said today, may be the most remarkable fact about the way the 1988 It was... |
55401_0 | Economic Scene; Latin Market Ebbs for U.S. | LEAD: THE United States is slowly increasing its exports, whittling away at the nation's huge trade deficit. If that deficit is to be dissolved, however, buyers must still be found for tens of billions of dollars of new sales abroad. In the past, whenever American exports expanded, Latin America always stepped forward ... |
55462_3 | ARCHITECT OF SOVIET CHANGE | press center, he described policies, now official party doctrine, that five or ten years ago were so far removed from the mainstream of Soviet economics they would have seemed almost heretical. He talked about the need to cut agricultural subsidies and raise the price to produce more food. He spoke of increasing compet... |
55383_2 | ROAD TO GOOD WATER STREWN WITH FAILED PROJECTS | in a landscape strewn with failed water projects -even now, in the view of some water experts, at least 40 percent of the facilities are not working at any one time - that used inappropriate technology and lacked community participation. The current program, which receives financial support from several donor nations, ... |
58818_0 | STATUS OF WOMEN RISES BUT PAY LAGS, STUDY FINDS | LEAD: American women are achieving record earnings, political influence and participation in the labor force but, on average, are still paid far less than men, according to a comprehensive study released today by women in Congress. American women are achieving record earnings, political influence and participation in t... |
58975_0 | Street Heat, and Life | LEAD: To walk around New York on a hot summer day is to realize just how old-fashioned a place it is, and how noisily human. In more modern, Sun Belt cities - Houston, perhaps, or Phoenix - serious summer heat forces windows shut to keep in the air-conditioned chill. To walk around New York on a hot summer day is to re... |
58964_1 | IRAN IS HARSH | deliberately announces that in any case of continuation of Iraq fire-kindling in the Persian Gulf, flags of any country will not be the criterion of consideration.'' The inference drawn by some Western diplomats here was that Iran was restating a policy of attacking gulf shipping only in retaliation for Iraqi attacks o... |
60625_6 | Vast Effort Aims to Reveal Oceans' Hidden Patterns | the flow of the Gulf Stream is vulnerable to change and, to some extent, unpredictable. That worries scientists concerned that the ''greenhouse effect'' will result in a global warming trend. Oceanographers haved pointed out that most of any global warming would occur at high latitudes, reducing the temperature differe... |
60627_6 | Cracks in a Great Dome in Florence May Point to Impending Disaster | needing a large-scale intervention, says Mr. Rossi. But then man intervened. One of the mysteries of Brunelleschi's design involves 48 holes, each exactly 60 centimeters square, that were left in the base of the dome and that are open on the inside and covered by the outer skin of the dome. It has long been assumed tha... |
60566_0 | Nuclear Monitoring | LEAD: The Defense Department is spending $43 million for construction of a 3.3-ton satellite meant to perfect the military's ability to detect and inspect nuclear materials in orbit about the earth. The Defense Department is spending $43 million for construction of a 3.3-ton satellite meant to perfect the military's ab... |
59722_3 | Henley Journal; A Scene of Old England: The Mute Swan Census | of London to accuse swans of ''formidable'' vices, including the drowning of grebes and mallards. He added that he had ''frequently intervened forcibly.'' The Daily Express has reported the near drowning of a fisherman who panicked and capsized his boat when it was rammed by a ''crazed swan.'' The royal management of m... |
57399_0 | TOUGHER AIRPORT SECURITY ORDERED | LEAD: Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole ordered the Federal Aviation Administration today to get tougher with airlines if lax security is found at airport passenger checkpoints, imposing fines when necessary. Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole ordered the Federal Aviation Administration today... |
54147_0 | Goodyear Changes | LEAD: The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company plans to build a new plant and sell its retread machinery operations, the company said. The Long Mile Rubber Company, a Goodyear subsidiary based in Dallas, will build a plant at an undetermined site to help strengthen the company's position in commercial retreading, Goodyear ... |
54073_0 | A CALL TO SAVE TROPICAL FORESTS | LEAD: An appeal for urgent international action to save the world's fast disappearing tropical forests was made here today by a group of third world political leaders, environmentalists and development experts. An appeal for urgent international action to save the world's fast disappearing tropical forests was made her... |
54141_0 | NEWS SUMMARY: SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1987 | LEAD: International 2-4, 28 Moscow called for a withdrawal of all foreign warships from the Persian Gulf and condemned the American military buildup in the region as an effort to establish ''military-political hegemony.'' Page 1 Moscow plans to cut its work force in industries and farms by up to 20 million people by th... |
57845_0 | Venice | LEAD: To the Editor: In Q & A (Travel, May 31), a reader asks if Tintoretto's painting ''Paradise'' has been reinstalled in the Doges Palace in Venice. Stanley Carr correctly answered that it was reinstalled in the palace in 1985 after two and a half years of restoration work. To the Editor: In Q & A (Travel, May 31), ... |
58032_0 | Britain to Review Citizenship in War-Crimes Case | LEAD: The Home Office plans to review the citizenship status of a man reported to be a Nazi war criminal who lives in Scotland, according to a Government spokesman and representatives of a Los Angeles-based organization that investigates war crimes. The Home Office plans to review the citizenship status of a man report... |
57936_1 | The Global March to Free Markets | ''Politics and Markets.'' The most important recent move toward the market was the historic policy change that Mikhail Gorbachev announced late last month that would transfer much of the power of Moscow's central planners to the Soviet Union's factory managers. For the first time, managers would be allowed to negotiate... |
57725_0 | PIT BULL ATTACKS PROMPT A CALL TO STIFFEN LAWS | LEAD: TWO months ago, an 8-year-old girl in New Britain was attacked by a pit bull that knocked her down, broke her leg and inflicted bites that required 47 stitches. TWO months ago, an 8-year-old girl in New Britain was attacked by a pit bull that knocked her down, broke her leg and inflicted bites that required 47 st... |
56456_1 | Schools, Jobs and the Year 2000 | the future of the city's economy. Why couldn't the schools involved produce 250 youngsters able to meet the banks' requirements? Neither the students nor their teachers deserve the blame: one school, whose principal paid attention to the program, turned out its quota of qualified graduates. Robert F. Wagner Jr., the bo... |
56468_0 | You'll Need a Death Certificate for Your Last Car | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: As the sponsor of legislation in the New York State Senate aimed at cracking down on individuals who choose to dump their abandoned automobiles on New York City streets, I read with interest your article detailing the plan to slap a $500 fine on the owners of junked cars, with the Pa... |
58695_0 | Link Brazil's Forests to Debt Relief | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: ''Let's Not Write Off Latin America'' by David Rockefeller (Op-Ed, July 5) bristles with wisdom. It also demands creative solutions to ease the debt burden of Latin American countries, Brazil in particular. Brazil is in deep economic trouble, with inflation climbing upward of 1,000 p... |
58437_5 | NEW KIND OF AIRCRAFT IS ON HORIZON AS DESIGNERS TRY MICROWAVE POWER | about twice as high as commercial jets and way above what you can do with a tethered balloon,'' said Donald Bouquet, head of the project at Lockheed. Staying aloft for about 90 days, the drone could carry up to 150 pounds of sensing equipment to gather continuous data on the carbon dioxide buildup in the atmosphere. ''... |
58516_2 | Import-Reliant Port Wary of Trade Bill | corridor. In a revival that reflects these changes, the city's unemployment rate now rests comfortably below the national average. According to the Census Bureau, imports through the Port of Baltimore rose 15 percent last year, while exports were down 24.7 percent, largely because of declines in coal shipments. ''This ... |
59948_2 | A Sunset Park 'Fortress' Rescued From Destruction | rope moldings of terra cotta, zigzag and Romanesque carving, rock-faced brownstone and decorative ironwork. The use of a castle form was not necessarily incidental in Gruwe's design. Nineteenth-century police stations often served near-military purposes, as officers were often asked to control political and labor viole... |
60288_1 | A Degree of Detachment | need for the car. I'm not particularly thinking about the needle I'm about to stick into a patient's abdomen. I walk into the room smiling. ''Hi, Mrs. Chambers,'' I say to a fairly robust, fiftyish woman lying on a gurney. ''How are you feeling this morning?'' She does her best to smile. ''Fine. Well, good as can be ex... |
59846_5 | ; What Radio Is Saying . . . | it means developing countries - small, poor countries . . . Barry: ''Small countries'' - so India's not ''third world''? Josh: Well, India is . . . Barry: What about Communist countries, Red China, for instance? Josh: No, not Communist countries. We're getting off the track . . . Barry: We're not getting off the track,... |
59847_4 | . . . And Why Radio Still Sings | broadcast, in the mysterious haze of fantasy. Without the picture, the brain is required to take over, and even though the brain may have been programmed to stay within the boundaries of the video vision, the radio presentation encourages the secret spots of imagination to raid the premises, forcing the picture to yiel... |
59968_1 | In Bethlehem, Focus Is on Wood | has separated them from the realm of art . . . the internal,'' his statement concludes. To make his point, Mr. Sasso has chosen a disparate range of furniture, objects and sculpture that work together because of the spaces between them. Although not every piece lives up to the curator's premise, there are a number of i... |
60236_0 | Westerlies Prevail | LEAD: It would be hard to think of two activities that are further apart, in terms of the alphabet, the equipment, the setting, or the type of effort, than bridge and yachting. The connection used to be the person of Harold Stirling Vanderbilt who brought contract bridge to the world via Newport, R.I., in the 1920's an... |
60270_4 | Smoked Fish From Maine | rate. The smoke then travels through a long pipe to the water-jacketed smoker. There, vents and fans control airflow, smoke mix and humidity. A separate heating element rewarms the smoke if a ''hot smoked'' product is desired, the heat generated by the burning sawdust being both inconsistent and insufficient. In the so... |
56631_4 | Canada Seizes Freighter Believed To Have Put 174 Sikhs on Shore | escape the religious and political feud with India's majority Hindus. The people who arrived in Newfoundland last August also were members of an embattled minority in the land they left behind: Hindu Tamils in Buddhist, Sinhalese-dominated Sri Lanka. Canadians Better Prepared The Canadians seemed to have a better grip ... |
56528_2 | SOVIET OFFERING TO SELL PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN FROM SPACE | the Industry' ''This is very interesting, and very positive, for the remote sensing industry,'' said David S. Julyan, director of marketing for the SPOT Image Corporation in Reston, Va., which sells such space photographs. ''This is clearly advancing the industry,'' he said. ''But it's too early for a commercial and po... |
56538_2 | U.S. Salutes Victor in Australia; Contrast to New Zealand Is Clear | by blaming the United States. Indeed, Mr. Hawke's Minister of Agriculture was sent to the the countryside to placate the wheat growers. And a special Australian envoy has been sent to Washington to lecture the Congress - not the Reagan Administration - on what the Australians consider the folly of the subsidies. When N... |
56551_4 | Costa Rica Journal; In the War on Want, Is There a Military Front? | The coast route south to Panama is in poor condition, but troops and equipment could probably be moved by land from the main regional American base in Panama up to the Nicaraguan border within 24 hours. American Army engineers have built or improved at least 15 bridges in one of the worst parts of the coastal route to ... |
56507_1 | Bolivia to Protect Lands in Swap for Lower Debt | to set up ''debt-for-nature'' pilot programs. And in the Senate, there are plans for legislation that would pave the way for tax credits for commercial banks that forgive debts of countries that agree to conserve ecologically important land. The executive director of Conservation International, Peter Seligmann, said at... |
54383_3 | Gauging Value of an '87 College Degree | government and social service, but that is not where the money is. Q. This year and last you reported some increase in job offers for liberal arts graduates. Do you think that in college the emphasis on vocation is easing? A. My personal opinion is that the primary reason one goes to college and graduate school is not ... |
54416_0 | POST FUTURUM BLUES | LEAD: THE RAT By Gunter Grass. Translated by Ralph Manheim. 371 pp. San Diego: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book/ Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. $17.95. THE RAT By Gunter Grass. Translated by Ralph Manheim. 371 pp. San Diego: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book/ Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. $17.95. IMAGINE the following: You find yourself... |
54400_2 | A Vision of New York as It Reaches for the Next Millennium | report even assumes that the city is ''built out'' - that there are no longer bridges, tunnels and highways to be built -and focuses on maintaining and improving the existing infrastructure. In Manhattan, it favors preservation over development, and everywhere else encourages the continued use of existing structures. T... |
54440_0 | THE SLOW, STYLISH REDESIGN OF SNUG HARBOR | LEAD: IT IS NOT AS FAMOUS AS THE FERRY and it has not aroused tempers the way the one-way toll on the Verrazano Narrows Bridge has, but the struggle over Sailors Snug Harbor must still be Staten Island's epic drama. This collection of Greek Revival buildings, constructed in the 19th century as a retirement home for sea... |
54198_6 | A Sense of Adventure and Then Some | or TTY. SOURCES FOR DISABLED TREKKERS The following organizations and companies provide information or facilities for disabled people seeking active vacations. The Voyageur Outward Bound School (10900 Cedar Lake Road, Minnetonka, Minn. 55343; 612-542-9255 or 800-328-2943) offers to disabled people courses that have bee... |
54200_1 | A Neighborhood Tour of Jakarta | is. Some people who have lived here a decade -not all of them foreigners - say they never stop finding new, always unadvertised corners. To explore Jakarta in its own footsteps, from trading port to capital of the world's fifth most-populous nation, start at the seafront - Sunda Kelapa, the ''coconut'' town. From the 1... |
59403_1 | PROTESTS PLANNED FOR POPE'S VISIT | women -Catholic and non-Catholic alike.'' Sponsors of the protests said women had been negatively affected by Vatican positions in four key areas: reproductive rights, including access to contraception and legal abortion; equal rights for women; the church's refusal to ordain women and to allow them to participate full... |
57102_5 | Generation Struggle Divides Protestants In Northern Ireland | report calls the expedient of compromise and barter. There are many problems to inhibit any negotiations, not least the cycle of violence maintained by the Irish Republican Army and Protestant paramilitary groups. Also, there is Northern Ireland's record of discrimination against Catholics, a record dating back to the ... |
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