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55792_1 | PHOTO SATELLITES RESTRICTED BY U.S. | Private satellite photographs have offered news organizations a new dimension in reporting major events. That dimension was first apparent in coverage of the nuclear reactor explosion in the Soviet Union last year, when photos showed hot spots at the Chernobyl reactor complex. Landsat's systems can distinguish objects ... |
60728_0 | Stop Importing Beef From Cleared Jungles | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: The notion of buying debt in exchange for conservation of tropical forest, as accomplished in Bolivia by Conservation International (news story, July 14) is absurd. Weak, debt-ridden economies and the destruction of natural resources for quick economic growth are problems that demand... |
59214_1 | NEWS GROUP FAULTS MILITARY DELAY ON GULF REPORTS | the United States invasion of Grenada in October 1983. American news organizations had complained that they were not allowed to cover the invasion and therefore had to rely on official military reports from the Caribbean island. In this case, reporters and photographers from Time magazine, The Washington Times, Knight-... |
61290_16 | THE TESTIMONY: 'DIFFERENT PEOPLE WITH DIFFERING RECOLLECTIONS' | you go any further, recall what you just said in response to Senator Cohen, now. A. There I said the possibility that criminal laws might possibly have been violated -- Q. Criminal implications I think-- A. Criminal implications, right. Q. -- was on Sunday -- A. -- on Sunday -- Q. When you talked to Colonel North. A. T... |
60358_1 | Bolivians Fight Efforts to Eradicate Coca | Government of Victor Paz Estenssoro would honor its commitment to the United States to have the instructors remain as long as necessary to train all members of the drug force. But the peasant leaders said they intended to continue efforts to prevent Americans from participating in narcotics control operations. Their or... |
56736_0 | 60-MINUTE GOURMET | LEAD: I HEARD one of my favorite anecdotes about food - no doubt apocryphal - many years ago when I came to this country. The story was set around the turn of the century, when the producers of canned tuna and the producers of canned salmon were supposed to have been engaged in a great merchandising battle. I HEARD one... |
56827_2 | North's Final Day on Stand: U.S. Neutrality and Iran, Iraq and the Israelis | our covert arms sales. So my question is, didn't anyone involved in this operation ever say that all of our cutouts and secrecy won't work? That plausible denial couldn't protect us? That it would be those who did know who eventually would betray us? * * * A. I think that plausible deniability is still a factor. Whethe... |
55855_0 | BOATING INCREASE TESTING MARINE POLICE | LEAD: THERE will be a record number of boats on New Jersey's waterways this summer, a situation that makes industry officials smile but law-enforcement authorities scowl. THERE will be a record number of boats on New Jersey's waterways this summer, a situation that makes industry officials smile but law-enforcement aut... |
55844_2 | BOATERS ON THE SOUND: THE MORE, THE RISKIER | the president of the recently formed Connecticut Boat Owners Association, Shale Tulin. ''We've got a big problem on the Sound, and at times it becomes dangerous.'' ''The biggest offenders are the big yachts,'' said Mr. Tulin, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Air Force. ''Some of them deliberately create huge wakes t... |
56083_0 | Harold F. Cherniss, an Expert In Greek Philosophy, Is Dead | LEAD: Harold F. Cherniss, a specialist in ancient Greek philosophy and professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., died June 18 at the Medical Center of Princeton after a long illness. He was 83 years old. Harold F. Cherniss, a specialist in ancient Greek philosophy and professor emeritus... |
56149_3 | Series of Pit Bull Attacks Stirs a Clamor for Laws | liability insurance of at least $100,000 for current pit bull owners and would prohibit new owning or leasing of the dogs. Violation of the ordinance would be a misdemeanor punishable by fines of $500 to $5,000, up to a year in jail, or both. Breeders Object to Laws Ordinances specifying pit bulls are in effect in plac... |
55824_4 | ILLNESS, CANCER; PROGNOSIS, GOOD; REACTIONS, UNEXPECTED | the wheel (much like my husband's). One analytic theory would suggest that, by adopting my mate's driving style, I was rushing in to fill the void his disability had created. My own explanation is simpler and far less logical. I felt temporarily immune to the dangers of car accidents. After all, would fate dare to deal... |
56023_0 | Priests Increasing Rapidly in the Third World | LEAD: Someday priests from Asia and Africa might have to look after Roman Catholics in countries that once sent off boatloads of missionaries, according to Vatican documents showing that the number of priests is rapidly growing in third world countries while declining in Europe and the United States. Someday priests fr... |
55858_2 | BOATERS ON THE SOUND: THE MORE, THE RISKIER | pleasure boats that had remained on the shrouded waters, putting a lot of extra traffic on the ferries' radar screens. The Coast Guard says there is a lesson to be learned. ''The fact that an incident like that can occur, involving two vessels with radar and other sophisticated equipment, proves how dangerous it can be... |
57620_2 | Senate Aids Sugar Refiners | requiring the Treasury Secretary to initiate talks on the establishment of an international facility to purchase debt from developing nations. The change would allow the Secretary to chose not to negotiate if he thought such discussions could lead to debt-service disruption. The proposals were debated as the Senate con... |
57637_5 | A Majority in New Poll Still Find Reagan Lied on Iran-Contra Issue | a week ago. Contrasting Results The Times/CBS News Poll found the public still opposed to ''military and other aid'' to the rebels trying to overthrow the Nicaraguan Government, with 51 percent saying they disapproved of such aid and 35 percent approving. In the current survey, only a small number of people reported ha... |
58326_0 | FRANCE STEPS UP SECURITY IN ITS IRAN RIFT | LEAD: France today stepped up security measures around the world for its ships, planes and armed forces as it braced for a long confrontation in the war of nerves with Iran. France today stepped up security measures around the world for its ships, planes and armed forces as it braced for a long confrontation in the war... |
86801_2 | Gene-Altered Mice Make Human Protein in Their Milk | mouse pups three weeks later. In some of these mice, the transplanted gene directed the production of the human substance in the animals' milk. The achievement indicated that the transplanted gene became activated in the proper way and in the proper place: the mammary tissues involved in milk production. The scientists... |
82996_6 | MARKETS PLUNGE | require the President to negotiate the removal of unfair foreign trade barriers. An overwhelming majority of categories of manufactured exports, however, showed increases in August, and if there had not been a halving of commercial aircraft shipments, the overall $200 million decline would have been transformed into a ... |
80279_2 | House Backs Air Travel Protections | particularly a measure to limit departures and arrivals to airport capacity ''will do more harm than good.'' ''The key is to expand capacity, not to look for short-term ways to restrict it,'' he said. Representative Dan Glickman, Democrat of Kansas, supported the bill, but in remarks on the floor of the House he expres... |
79059_2 | Talking Deals; The Liquor Consolidations | of sale, your own management skills are at test. You are effectively wiping out the competition.'' In addition, said Frank Walters, the director of research at Impact, a spirits industry newsletter, building new brands can be costly. ''It's a lot more economical to buy a brand,'' he said. ''The one-brand company is goi... |
84026_0 | DOWN TO THE GREAT SHIP | LEAD: WHERE COMES A TIME when the nature of one's interest in a tragedy becomes historical, to use the word loosely; not human, to use that word loosely. When I was 13, I was taken to Pompeii, and the guide spoke about the phenomenon and dealt only macrocosmically with the human tragedy. The people who died because Ves... |
84026_5 | DOWN TO THE GREAT SHIP | celebratory handshake in midocean, a merchant vessel spotting another from the same line somewhere in the distance. Captain Lord turned over and went back to sleep in his immobilized liner (he had ordered the engines stopped because of ice conditions). Captain Lord, who might have saved 1,500 people from drowning, walk... |
83678_5 | The Clouds Burn Off in Schenectady | think the real start-up for the recovery happened several years ago when the community was able to save Proctor's Theater. That success gave people in this town the idea that they could do something to turn the city around.'' Proctor's, designed by Charles Lamb, a well-known theater architect, was built in 1926 by F. F... |
84077_0 | Europe Under Wraps; Scaffolding: A New Esthetic...and a Report by 6 Times Correspondents London | LEAD: For most of this year, one of London's most photographed monuments, the statue of Lord Nelson in Trafalgar Square, has been wrapped in scaffolding. For most of that time, only the cocked hat atop Nelson's head was visible above the thick green brattices attached to the scaffolding. By the end of this month, amid ... |
84121_1 | A Conference for L.I. Sound | environmental organizations in Westchester and Connecticut and on Long Island. These include the Federated Conservationists of Westchester County, the State University at Purchase, Wainwright House in Rye, the Westchester County Department of Parks, Recreation and Conservation and the Long Island Sound Task Force of th... |
84079_0 | Europe Under Wraps; Scaffolding: A New Esthetic...and a Report by 6 Times Correspondents Athens | LEAD: The Athens skyline is supposed to bristle a little with antiquity. These days, the bristling comes more from the ravages of modernity on older things, symbolized in the gantries and scaffolding atop the Acropolis, which in recent years have grown to enfold the Parthenon. The Athens skyline is supposed to bristle ... |
84039_3 | Europe Without Price Tags | find a solemn plaza; instead it is a scruffy corner of Paris, lately enjoying a bohemian vogue. The old prison, which held no more than seven convicts when the enraged populace stormed it on July 14, 1789, has long been razed, but the neighborhood still breathes an air of the common person. Go out to Versailles to get ... |
84042_3 | Europe Under Wraps; Scaffolding: A New Esthetic... | the end of the month, after nine months of scaffolded renovation; likewise Big Ben, following over two years of grooming, now looks its nattiest since 1934, when it last came out from under covers. In Florence, the Loggia della Signoria, the great outdoor sculpture theater, is outdoors no longer. But the stately 14th-c... |
83785_3 | Beguiling Nuisance Raids Northern Maine Towns | it come before the Legislature next year. 'Gunslingers' Are Decried Some fear a spring hunt will mean the sows will be killed, abandoning and all but leaving their cubs for dead. Also, some say it is inhumane to hunt the black bear, which grows to about 6 feet tall and weigh about 300 pounds, from the moment they ventu... |
84043_0 | Europe Under Wraps; Scaffolding: A New Esthetic...and a Report by 6 Times Correspondents Rome | LEAD: Polemics have raged over the bright colors used in the restoration of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes, but there is one Roman monument, now surrounded with scaffolding, that everyone agrees should remain dark and gloomy even after it is refurbished. Polemics have raged over the bright colors used in the re... |
84074_0 | Taming an Oversize Building | LEAD: From its first appearance in architects' renderings, the proposed new tower on the Columbus Circle site of the Coliseum struck New Yorkers as too much of a not-very-good thing. From its first appearance in architects' renderings, the proposed new tower on the Columbus Circle site of the Coliseum struck New Yorker... |
83911_0 | NEWS SUMMARY/SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1987 | LEAD: INTERNATIONAL/3-25 INTERNATIONAL/3-25 In an abrupt shift from its most recent policy, the United States would allow the dollar to decline against the West German mark, a senior Administration official said. Page 1 Unesco's leader withdrew his name from the international organization's election. It was unclear why... |
83997_2 | Up-and-Coming Designers: How to Find Them | thought I was totally insane,'' she recalls. That was before the decorators, Tom Scheerer and Jeffrey Bilhuber, made a splash at the prestigious Rogers Memorial Library Designer Showhouse in Southampton, L. I., where the work of leading area designers is exhibited. Suddenly her friends were calling her up and saying, '... |
84134_1 | ENVIRONMENTAL FORUM ON THE SOUND | the Purchase campus of the State University of New York, represents the first time that the meeting is being been co-sponsored by major environmental organizations in Connecticut, Westchester County and on Long Island. Among the conference co-sponsors are the Long Island Sound Task Force of the Oceanic Society, the Fed... |
83705_5 | SOUNDS OF DISCORD FROM PLATO'S CAVE | stirs their passionate involvement, as he wishes philosophy would. This is not a new or dreadful role for music, which has from time immemorial been connected with ritual. Rock embodies many of the ideas that concern Mr. Bloom. He takes issue with cultural relativism (the idea that different cultures should be judged b... |
84109_1 | CONFERENCE ON SAVING THE SOUND | at the State University of New York campus in Purchase, represents the first time, however, that the meeting has been co-sponsored by major environmental organizations on Long Island and in Connecticut and Westchester County. Conference co-sponsors include the Long Island Sound Task Force of the Oceanic Society, the Fe... |
82121_0 | One Tropical Forest That Can Be Saved | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Extinction of species through destruction of tropical forests is one of the major crises of our time. Conservation, the obvious remedy, is often hard to implement. But in Costa Rica, at this very moment, there is an opportunity to save a prime tract of forest. The land, the so-called... |
82092_0 | Aix Journal; Blight of Hate Creeps Over a Political Landscape | LEAD: Across a lovely stretch of southern France best known for its sunshine and beaches, unlovely racist sentiments have seeped into the mainstream of political debate as France gears up for a presidential election next spring. Across a lovely stretch of southern France best known for its sunshine and beaches, unlovel... |
82196_2 | The Crunch at Airlines' Hubs | each hub. On the plus side, increased jetliner service is available to medium-size and smaller cities once served mainly by small commuter planes. But passengers flying to those cities often have little choice of airlines. Dissatisfied passengers often cannot take their business elsewhere - and often have to pay whatev... |
82207_0 | United States Sugar to Go Private | LEAD: The United States Sugar Corporation, the nation's largest producer of raw cane sugar, will be acquired by the Sugar Acquisitions Corporation for $80 a share in cash. The United States Sugar Corporation, the nation's largest producer of raw cane sugar, will be acquired by the Sugar Acquisitions Corporation for $80... |
84662_0 | 2 Grocer Chains Testing for Pesticides | LEAD: Two California supermarket chains have become the first in the nation to test fresh fruits and vegetables for the presence of pesticides, environmental scientists and industry executives say. Two California supermarket chains have become the first in the nation to test fresh fruits and vegetables for the presence... |
84547_1 | Everest, the Old Champion, Is Crowned Anew | long-term application of the same surveying techniques used by the Italians is expected to give scientists a better understanding of the collision of deep crustal plates millions of years ago that created the world's greatest mountain range in the first place. It also should help scientists interpret the internal force... |
84554_4 | Doctors Try to Refine Breast Cancer Diagnosis | have already reached menopause and if their cancer cells grow in response to the female sex hormone estrogen, the women usually are given the estrogen-blocking hormone tamoxifen or some other hormonal therapy instead of or in addition to chemotherapy. Fluorescent Labels on DNA Dr. Kent Osborne of the University of Texa... |
85785_0 | Saturday News Quiz | LEAD: Questions are based on news reports in The Times this week. Answers appear on page 62. Questions are based on news reports in The Times this week. Answers appear on page 62. 1. This was the grim reality of a glittering fantasy. Explain. 2. Under pressure caused by the tumultuous week on Wall Street, President Rea... |
85820_0 | Gaudi's Cathedral: And Now? | LEAD: A visitor to Antonio Gaudi's Sagrada Familia peered at its facade as though in a trance and said the cathedral's four bell towers, reaching toward the heavens, appeared to be swaying magically and mysteriously against the blue sky. A visitor to Antonio Gaudi's Sagrada Familia peered at its facade as though in a t... |
83395_3 | A Complex Trade Gap | as Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong. American exports to these countries rose by 16 percent this year, but imports from them are up by 19 percent. One reason why their products are selling so well in the United States is that these countries have refused to permit their currencies to rise significantly agai... |
83273_3 | Athens Journal; A Hinted Love Affair Becomes an Affair of State | photographs of Mr. Papandreou with his wife and four children, one of whom, George, is a member of Parliament. ''The controversy around the private life of the Prime Minister is now quite well known,'' the magazine said. In response to the article, Mr. Papandreou was said to have ordered his followers to boycott a lavi... |
80768_3 | Indian Rebels Out of Jungle In Nicaragua | He has said he opposes the release of large numbers of prisoners accused of contra activity. Nor will he accept any arrangement in the western half of the country that allows contras to keep their weapons. ''You cannot see the Atlantic coast the way you see the rest of the country,'' Mr. Borge explained. The eastern ha... |
80854_0 | At the Met, a Hudson Revival | LEAD: The crowds are pouring in, and John K. Howat, the Metropolitan Museum of Art curator who organized the exhibition of paintings that is attracting them, thinks he knows why. The crowds are pouring in, and John K. Howat, the Metropolitan Museum of Art curator who organized the exhibition of paintings that is attrac... |
79301_0 | NEWS SUMMARY: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1987 | LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-9 Two Soviet long-range missile tests have been protested by the United States, the State Department said. The tests earlier this week sent unarmed warheads into the Pacific Ocean about 600 miles northwest of Hawaii. Page A1 Moscow's intellectual elite gathered last week for an unfettered discuss... |
79323_1 | 'Spreading Vicious Truths' | as a Washington wag put it yesterday, was spreading vicious truths. Senator Biden did misappropriate other people's words, and legacy, as his own; the Dukakis forces caught him at it and spread the word by way of ''attack videos,'' cassettes proving the plagiarism. Senator Biden conceded the truth and gracefully withdr... |
79291_1 | U.S. PROTESTS TEST OF SOVIET MISSILES NORTH OF HAWAII | States. The Russians never formally responded to the American protest. In the event, no warheads fell south of Hawaii, and today the Soviet Union said no more tests were planned in the area. Administration officials, even as they expressed their unhappiness with the tests, said they did not expect the incident to disru... |
79223_2 | Pope Opens Synod of Bishops on Role of the Laity | such as the nomination of bishops and the training of priests. The speech was marked by an unusually frustrated tone, with the Pope remarking at one point, ''What can we say of dioceses in which already entire generations of faithful are forced to live without pastors?'' Vatican officials and church scholars generally ... |
79197_1 | U.S. Bureau for Water Projects Shifts Focus to Conservation | was over. Some Projects Would Continue The reorganization would not affect big water projects already authorized by Congress, including the Central Arizona and Central Utah irrigation and water supply projects. James W. Ziglar, Assistant Interior Secretary for Water and Science, called the reorganization ''a new beginn... |
81539_0 | The Job Outlook Across the Nation; NEW ENGLAND | LEAD: THE GOOD NEWS for workers in New England is that salaries and wages are rising rapidly; the bad news, for their employers, is that there are generally not enough able bodies to fill job openings. THE GOOD NEWS for workers in New England is that salaries and wages are rising rapidly; the bad news, for their employ... |
81845_7 | Panda-Watching In a Chinese Zoo | to 250 B.C. This vast irrigation project is still functioning today, and visitors are given a detailed explanation of the system in English and Chinese in the exhibition and film room. On the mountain nearby, people may visit the Two Kings Temple, a sprawling Taoist temple complex that was erected to honor the enlighte... |
81603_0 | A LONG AND WINDING REGULATORY REVIEW | LEAD: ALACHLOR, sold by the Monsanto Company since 1969 under the trade name Lasso, is perhaps the most widely used herbicide produced in this country. Up to 84 million pounds of it is sprayed on fields of corn, soybeans and peanuts each year. ALACHLOR, sold by the Monsanto Company since 1969 under the trade name Lasso... |
81855_0 | Home Design Preview; MODERN TOUCHES | LEAD: A NEW KIND OF MODERN furniture will be making news this fall at the Southern Furniture Market, this country's largest furniture exposition. A NEW KIND OF MODERN furniture will be making news this fall at the Southern Furniture Market, this country's largest furniture exposition. For the first time since knock-off... |
81531_3 | Making a Living Is Now A Family Enterprise | 43.3 in 1982 and 51.9 as of last March. ''These families need the money to maintain what is perceived as the ideal life style,'' said Howard Hayghe, a Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics economist. ''In a sense, the wife brings along a dowry to the marriage, and the dowry is her job.'' That job, however, usually brings ... |
81995_0 | Miss Payne Plans A February Bridal | LEAD: Mr. and Mrs. George L. Payne Jr. of Ridgewood, N.J., have announced the engagement of their daughter Leslie Payne to Edward J. Gerrity 3d, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerrity Jr. of Rye, N.Y. A February wedding is planned. Mr. and Mrs. George L. Payne Jr. of Ridgewood, N.J., have announced the engagement of their dau... |
81833_0 | FOCUS: Lubec, Me.; Winds Of Change Down East | LEAD: TWO years ago, anyone suggesting that developers might be interested in building subdivisions here to house wealthy people would have been laughed right out of Tippy's Restaurant, the local gathering place on the town boat ramp. TWO years ago, anyone suggesting that developers might be interested in building subd... |
81639_0 | Rome Synod Is Focusing on Women's Rights | LEAD: The need to correct discrimination against women in the Roman Catholic Church has emerged as a major theme of a Synod of Bishops meeting here on the role of lay Catholics. The need to correct discrimination against women in the Roman Catholic Church has emerged as a major theme of a Synod of Bishops meeting here ... |
81876_0 | GOOD IDEA THAT NEEDS RECYCLING | LEAD: I SAT at the kitchen table with a small bottle of Coke, a half-empty jar of Planters dry-roasted peanuts and Vol. 1, No. 1 of the Town of Islip's ''WRAP Report,'' a four-page flyer that had just arrived in the mail detailing the town's new recycling program. About five minutes later I had finished the I SAT at th... |
81648_0 | People and Wildlife Paying the Price As Timber Demand Rises in Borneo | LEAD: The waters of the mighty Rajang River, for centuries a major route into the heart of Borneo, run by this small town the color of milky coffee. The waters of the mighty Rajang River, for centuries a major route into the heart of Borneo, run by this small town the color of milky coffee. It was not always so in this... |
81719_1 | IRAN EMBARGO: THE MAIN IMPORT IS POLITICAL | of the trade between the two countries. Some policymakers are concerned that the embargo moves could jeopardize the adjudication of several billion dollars' worth of claims by both the United States and Iran at a special tribunal at the Hague and that it might be legally challenged by Iran. They also fear that such uni... |
85699_0 | Colorado's 'Shrine of Trout Fishing' Is in Danger | LEAD: For trout fishermen like David S. Taylor, there are not enough superlatives to describe the South Platte River as it tumbles through Cheesman Canyon in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains southwest of here. For trout fishermen like David S. Taylor, there are not enough superlatives to describe the South Platte R... |
87446_1 | At a Racers' Club, Speed Is Just One of the Lessons Learned | who was invited by the Board of Education's Division of Adapted Physical Education to give workshops for teachers and handicapped students last November. In 1978, Mr. Traum, who lost a leg in an accident, became the first amputee to run the New York City Marathon. ''Dick showed a film of him running the marathon,'' sai... |
82415_0 | Concern for Rain Forest Has Begun to Blossom | LEAD: THE movement to save the richest ecosystem in the world - the tropical rain forest - is making slow but certain progress as forest dwellers and local activists join with international conservation groups to halt projects that would destroy these wet jungles along with the diverse human cultures they sustain. THE ... |
82415_2 | Concern for Rain Forest Has Begun to Blossom | rain forest management throughout the world, this essentially nonrenewable resource will be reduced by another 20 to 40 percent from the current level by the turn of the century. Because mature rain forest takes centuries to grow back - assuming the soils are not permanently damaged - experts say it is more akin to a n... |
82504_1 | U.S. Leasing President Bullish on Ford Link | Mundell has been president of U. S. Leasing International Inc., which by offering everything from medical equipment to commercial aircraft, has grown into the most diverse equipment leasing company in the world. With the acquisition of U. S. Leasing by the Ford Motor Company, Mr. Mundell expects to venture into still m... |
84371_0 | World Effort Required To Save Rain Forests | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Plans have been proposed to harvest Brazil's Amazonian rain forest, and predictions are that it could be done in just a few decades. No one could blame Brazil for exploiting its greatest natural resource to enliven its economy. Yet I wonder if this country, or the Soviet Union, can a... |
84932_1 | Release of Altered Microbes Is Approved in Tracking Test | happens to living, altered microbes? ''We've needed some way to identify microbes after they are set free,'' said Dr. Margaret Mellon, a molecular biologist and attorney at the National Wildlife Federation, an environmental group that has previously voiced concern about Government regulation of biotechnology. ''This pr... |
84872_1 | Danli Journal; Flames of Revolution Keep a Family on the Run | human will and a kernel of hope for this war-ravaged region. But the family's roundabout journey from Spain to Cuba and finally to Danli, 30 miles east of Tegucigalpa near the Nicaraguan border, is also a paradigm of the violent conflicts that in the last 25 years have embroiled the region, transforming the political a... |
80624_0 | Wave of Profit Taking Lowers Coffee Prices | LEAD: Coffee futures prices fell on a wave of profit taking yesterday after reaching their highest levels since mid-May on Monday. Coffee futures prices fell on a wave of profit taking yesterday after reaching their highest levels since mid-May on Monday. Monday's price rise came after member nations of the Internation... |
80686_0 | Senate Protests Soviet Tests | LEAD: The Senate approved a non-binding resolution today condemning the Soviet test firing of intercontinental ballistic missiles last week within 600 miles of Hawaii. The vote was 96 to 0. Senator Malcolm Wallop, Republican of Wyoming and sponsor of the measure, called the tests a ''deliberate provocation. The Senate ... |
80695_1 | About New York; Urban 4-H Club: Message of Hope Amid the Sorrow | the 4-H members how to make a housing complaint, a shade more useful skill, really, than learning to milk a cow. When the group wanted to emphasize physical fitness several years ago, members made glittery costumes and break-danced at the New York State Fair in Syracuse. ''The socialization is a very important thing to... |
80570_0 | Lebanese Hijacking Suspect Is Arraigned on New Charges | LEAD: A Lebanese suspect arrested in international waters was arraigned today on four additional charges in the hijacking of a Jordanian airliner in 1985. A Lebanese suspect arrested in international waters was arraigned today on four additional charges in the hijacking of a Jordanian airliner in 1985. The suspect, Faw... |
86612_2 | Relationships; Students Who Need Special Aid | medical team views the hospital school. ''When a child is diagnosed with cancer, it's devastating,'' he said. ''It disrupts everything in a child's life. We want to try to restore normalcy to a child and to the family. Schoolwork is the most important thing in the life of a child, outside the family. The questions we a... |
86745_0 | Paris Sends Troops to Tahiti After Violent Demonstrations | LEAD: France sent nearly 500 policemen and troops to Tahiti today to restore order after clashes between striking longshoremen and the police, French officials said. France sent nearly 500 policemen and troops to Tahiti today to restore order after clashes between striking longshoremen and the police, French officials ... |
82645_3 | Economic Scene; Glum Outlook On Trade Gap | deficit with the three Pacific rim countries, for example, is running at an annual rate of $28.3 billion this year compared with $22.9 billion in 1986. ''What we may see is a change in the pattern of merchandise trade, where instead of so much coming from Japan or Europe, more will come from Mexico and Asia,'' said Joh... |
87132_1 | Mrs. Reagan as a Cancer-Patient Role Model | surgery was performed. Evidently, Mrs. Reagan and her advisers are not impressed with the statistical significance of data indicating that lumpectomy, radiation and breast preservation would be as safe as mastectomy - at least not for her case. The expectations for node-negative cancer are usually 85 percent to 95 perc... |
87286_3 | U.N. Tells Reagan It Must Have U.S. Money | A. Walters, the chief United States delegate to the United Nations, who said he would seek to take it personally to President Reagan. The letter implores the President to press Congress to insure full and prompt payment of the $212 million American share of the organization's budget this year. The officials said the Un... |
79418_0 | What Value Education? Counting the Ways | LEAD: For high school students, graduating means $352 a month in extra earning power. And students who finish four years of college earn $672 a month more than those who attend college but do not get a degree. For high school students, graduating means $352 a month in extra earning power. And students who finish four y... |
79489_2 | France Must Pay Greenpeace $8 Million in Sinking of Ship | the arbitration, said that as far as he knew this was the first time that an international damages case had been arbitrated by agreement between a sovereign nation and a private organization. He said large awards for aggravated damages ''are usually awarded only when the wrongdoer's conduct warrants special condemnatio... |
81040_0 | Finding New Ways To Build With Trash | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Ida Kline suggests adopting Shanghai's innovative use of garbage and trash for making bricks (letter, Sept. 16). As director of the Waste Management Institute of the Marine Sciences Research Center on the SUNY Stony Brook campus, I wish to point out that we have for years been explor... |
81115_0 | Constantine Tsatsos, Ex-Greek President And a Philosopher | LEAD: Former President Constantine Tsatsos, a philosopher who was head of state from 1975-80, died today, his former secretary said. He was 88 years old. Former President Constantine Tsatsos, a philosopher who was head of state from 1975-80, died today, his former secretary said. He was 88 years old. The secretary, Ele... |
88012_0 | Rome Synod Bars Action on Women | LEAD: A worldwide Synod of Bishops ended today without accepting an American recommendation that ministries short of the priesthood be opened to women, a Vatican official said. A worldwide Synod of Bishops ended today without accepting an American recommendation that ministries short of the priesthood be opened to wome... |
80056_2 | Hackers, Thieves and Carelessness | incorrect data - or lending a secure password to a co-worker not entitled to the same computer access. The end result can be as disastrous as computer fraud or sabotage. To guard against carelessness, companies should place a high priority on training for new employees. And to protect against improper activities, that ... |
79874_4 | DECLINE IN STUDENTS AT MEDICAL SCHOOLS | residents but welcomed those from elsewhere and still had plenty of applicants. ''The quality of the pool is still very good, but there are some long range concerns,'' he said. ''Many schools are beginning to reduce class size; at our place, that's just being discussed,'' Dr. Markowitz said, adding that ''perhaps down ... |
79651_0 | U.S. TIES WITH CUBA IN WARMING TREND | LEAD: The icy relationship between the United States and Cuba has warmed slightly over the last few months, with both countries softening their positions and indicating a willingness for at least some compromise in hopes of reinstating a key immigration agreement. The icy relationship between the United States and Cuba... |
79875_1 | YALE PROFESSOR TURNS TO SPORTS | some rather unusual directions. At the age of 45, as a full professor, he was playing tackle in an intramural tackle football league made up - except for him -of undergraduates, including the oldest of his two sons, Robert. And now, a decade later, he is the only authority on the history of classical Greece serving as ... |
79608_4 | Soviet Courts South America With an Eye for Trade | the Sandinistas rely on East German trucks, Soviet helicopters and North Korean rifles. The Soviet Union has not moved overtly to build a strategic base in Nicaragua, however, and has steadfastly refused to sell jet fighters to the Sandinistas. Cuba Cuba is the Soviet Union's principal outpost in Latin America. At more... |
79592_0 | CENTRAL PARK WEST TOWER APPROVED | LEAD: Amid vociferous community opposition, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission has approved a scaled-down plan for a condominium tower attached to the abandoned Towers Nursing Home building on Central Park West at 106th Street. Amid vociferous community opposition, the New York City Landmarks Preservat... |
86603_4 | POPULATION BOMB IS STILL TICKING | expect to wait an hour for a table in a restaurant, to enter a movie theater, even a line for the restroom. Try to recall a few short years back - it wasn't that way, was it? Unfortunately, population questions are the ultimate ''hot potato'' of any political debate. What politician with a prayer of a chance for electi... |
86292_3 | LESS THAN PHYSICS, MORE THAN BEANBAG | structure has made it incomprehensible not only to business people and politicians, but also to most economists, academic and nonacademic alike. But is the criticism valid? Unquestionably, earlier economic writings reflected the evolution of economic society and offered a rich set of social, cultural, political and phi... |
86302_2 | No Industrial Proletariat Need Apply | posterity of the Boston Associates' own families, of course, but also - indistinguishably from that, at least at first - for the posterity of their city and its institutions: the Boston Athenaeum, Harvard College and its professional schools and the Massachusetts General Hospital. ''The Athens of America'' was no silly... |
8578_1 | NEWARK BISHOP SEEKING TO BLESS UNWED COUPLES | of the Newark diocese that begins today. If it is adopted, a committee will begin drafting a liturgy that would be used in blessing unions between homosexuals and unmarried couples. The press officer for the diocese, the Rev. Leslie Smith, said the ceremonies would not be a marriage ceremony, which he said was to be pe... |
380_5 | TO SOME, DAVIS IS 'HERO' AMID ATTACKS ON BLACKS | something involved in the wishes, desires, fantasies that people can't express directly but can vicariously through other people or fictional characters.'' In his scholarship, Professor Wolfgang has identified America's black ghettos as one of several ''cultural pockets'' in which ''the ready resort to physical violenc... |
298_3 | European Anger At 'Ramboism' | is counting on a $30 billion to $40 billion improvement in the trade deficit. If that does not materialize, there would be a greater risk of recession, higher unemployment and a deeper budget deficit. The Administration's strategy of trying to reduce the trade deficit by depreciating the dollar and trying to preserve o... |
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