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705537_1 | Ignore Bid, Cyanamid Advises | future is a long time, and who knows, but the deal is not contingent on us doing anything like that," John R. Considine, vice president for finance of American Home Products, said in an interview. Breaking two weeks of silence since American Home Products began pushing for a deal, American Cyanamid said in a statement ... |
705515_3 | U.S. Lets Cubans From Hijacking Stay, Detaining One | carrying Cubans to Florida would be turned back while boats heading from Florida to Cuba to fetch those hoping to flee would also be stopped. In what some Cuban-Americans viewed as an effort to placate Mr. Castro, the State Department appeared to adopt a sterner attitude today toward Cuban boat hijackers. Prosecution C... |
705596_3 | House Proud | or three, on the floor, and when he removed the carpets, the darker color was what was left where the carpets had been -- and the pale edges were the sun-bleached areas," Dr. Rifkind said. But the room lacked something. It was a built-in bookcase, a simple one made of boards, nails and a sheet of tin, not late-20th-cen... |
705575_0 | Rockefeller Corn | THERE'S a wonderfully incongruous patch of corn ripening in Rockefeller Center this month, along with a lot of other vegetables and flowers, in honor of the city's unsung heroes -- those people who turn vacant lots full of junked cars into green oases. The exhibition, in the Channel Gardens off Fifth Avenue between 49t... |
705518_1 | Does This Mean Abortion?; Vatican and U.S. Battle Over Document for Population Talks | said a senior Vatican official closely involved in negotiations still under way to seek a consensus before the Cairo conference opens in September. "On each side, some phrases are looked on as loaded language." Thus, in a debate that sometimes resembles the kind of textual dispute more familiar to theologians, the Unit... |
706526_1 | 14 Detained In Bid to Bar Cuban Exodus | Monroe County Jail, near Key West, and five at the Krome Avenue Federal immigration center in Dade County, have not been charged with any crimes. But a Justice Department spokeswoman in Washington, Ana Cobian, said that officials were reviewing four separate incidents involving the men and that charges could be forthco... |
706638_1 | Reassuring Non-Nuclear Nations | provide countries that renounce nuclear arms with adequate security assurances, like guaranteeing never to threaten them with nuclear weapons and pledging aid if others make such threats against them. In recent years the U.S. has given Ukraine and Kazakhstan such assurances as part of deals to disarm. The issue of assu... |
706614_5 | Galileo Craft, Most Direct Observer, Finally Reports on Comet | Saturday that an analysis of the light emitted by the fireballs thrown up by the impacts revealed the presence of water in Fragments G and K, which hit Jupiter on July 18 and 19. The signature of water disappeared within a half-hour of each of the impacts, suggesting that the water had come from a cometary source and n... |
706527_1 | Cruising Takes On New Image | a half blocks of it. Campaigns Against Cruising This was not "American Graffiti," the classic movie about cruising in Modesto, Calif., before the Vietnam War. Shane was cruising Cruise Avenue -- that is the name of the strip, not Main Street. There are no stores or restaurants along Cruise Avenue, only a brightly light... |
708073_1 | Embargo Dries Up Haiti Fuel Supply | stealing it, has refused to release some 500,000 gallons of fuel donated by the United States and other countries for relief purposes. The feeding centers and hospitals have fuel for a few more days, and some perhaps for a few weeks. But if the fuel is not released soon, or if the military government seizes it for its ... |
708095_3 | U.S. Government Broadcasts to Cuba, And Wonders If Anyone Is Listening | Most conversations abruptly end moments after the connection is made, presumably because of interference from Castro's government. Nothing Is Normal These days, almost nothing is normal. Even the station's once reliable mix of talk shows, news bites, salsa music and soap operas has been transformed. The staff has toned... |
708183_0 | Population Conference Isn't About Abortion; A Planet Threatened | To the Editor: "Population Enrichment vs. Population Control," a full-page ad Aug. 15, misrepresents and misstates important aspects of the draft program of action to be considered at the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo. Nowhere in the document does the term population "control" appear. ... |
708182_0 | Population Conference Isn't About Abortion | To the Editor: This is a letter from two neighbors at the United Nations with a strong interest in population issues. Namibia is very sparsely populated and has limited arable land. Nevertheless the population doubles every 25 years. This is a threat to Namibia's environment and its possibilities for economic developme... |
704194_3 | For Pataki, a Life Story More Than a Record | Wall Street firm before entering politics. When Republican polls and focus groups spit out the profile of an ideal Cuomo opponent last year, Mr. Pataki fit it to a T. He is white, Catholic, suburban, has voted against tax increases and maintains that he supports abortion rights, although he has changed positions twice ... |
703363_0 | 2 Ulster Protestants Slain | Masked I.R.A. gunmen ambushed and killed two Protestants today. The victims were said to belong to an outlawed guerrilla movement. Witnesses said the police firing shots chased the killers as they sped off by car toward a Catholic area of Belfast. The car was later found abandoned, a police spokesman said. Local reside... |
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703362_0 | 2 Ulster Protestants Slain | Masked I.R.A. gunmen ambushed and killed two Protestants today. The victims were said to belong to an outlawed guerrilla movement. Witnesses said the police firing shots chased the killers as they sped off by car toward a Catholic area of Belfast. The car was later found abandoned, a police spokesman said. Local reside... |
707263_2 | Illinois Indicts a Congressman In a Sex Case Involving 2 Girls | June, the Congressman persuaded one of the girls involved to lie to the police about their relationship and to leave Illinois. Mr. Reynolds was also indicted on child pornography charges after asking the girl, who is now 18, to obtain for him "lewd photographs of another girl who was age 15." He asked for the pictures ... |
707236_10 | Effort to Solve Energy Woes Clashes With Nuclear Safety | shipment of plutonium fuel derived from it has come back. In short order, Japan has become a vital customer for the Europeans. Originally, the European reprocessing installations were supposed to produce fuel for European breeder reactors and conventional reactors using mixed-oxide fuel that combines uranium and pluton... |
706887_0 | Vatican Seeks Islamic Allies In U.N. Population Dispute | Seeking to head off approval of abortion rights or sexual freedom at a coming world population conference, the Vatican has been reaching out for support to some radical and fundamentalist governments and groups in Islamic countries, including Iran and Libya. Less than a month before representatives of 180 nations meet ... |
706916_0 | NASA Prepares Shuttle for 2d Test of Environmental Eye in Sky | The space shuttle Endeavour faced few outstanding problems today as it was being readied for a 10-day flight to test an experimental Earth-imaging radar system that may one day help scientists predict volcanic eruptions and earthquakes or track ocean oil spills. NASA officials said they had dealt with a few minor hardw... |
706902_0 | U.N. Population Report Urges Family-Size Choice for Women | The best way to avert a catastrophic global population explosion is to give women more choice in the size of their families and greater access to education and health care, a United Nations report on world population trends declared today. The strong advocacy of family planning and women's choice by the United Nations ... |
706902_2 | U.N. Population Report Urges Family-Size Choice for Women | billion coming from industrialized countries. About $6 billion is currently spent on population control, with about $1 billion coming from international donors like Japan, the United States and Europe, and the rest from the developing countries themselves. The conclusions of the report released today, "State of World P... |
705714_4 | Meeting Lays Bare the Abyss Between AIDS and Its Cure | blood cell that is killed by H.I.V. To learn more, scientists are carefully studying the small percentage of infected people who do not seem to get sick, even after 12 or more years. "It's very clear there's a group of people for whom it was not a death sentence," said Susan Buchbinder of the San Francisco AIDS Office,... |
706389_4 | SEOUL OFFERS HELP ON NUCLEAR POWER TO NORTH KOREA | on students and others trying to express support for North Korea. The police were on alert today because the Liberation Day holiday is a traditional time for such protests. While President Kim was preaching reunification, thousands of riot police clashed with students who had gathered at Seoul National University to de... |
706390_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A2-7 A GESTURE FROM SEOUL After Washington and Pyongyang signed an agreement on nuclear issues, South Korea offered the North modern nuclear power plants if it will open its nuclear program to international inspection. A1 SIGNED, SEALED, STRANDED There are about 800 of them. Their papers are in order and ... |
706474_0 | World Economies | |
708534_1 | India Fights Abortion of Female Fetuses | been widening throughout the century, has been tipping even more sharply toward men. But as the new law passed through Parliament, many women's groups were divided. For one thing, India's uphill battle to overcome the poverty that traps more than 40 percent of its people is linked closely to the failure to curb the bir... |
704438_1 | Fed Details Spending In Efforts to Aid Dollar | in the May 4 effort to support the dollar. The May 4 intervention came after several weeks of decline by the dollar in what the New York Fed characterized as "increasingly volatile" trading. i The intervention on June 24 took place during a period when the dollar was again under selling pressure and was trading around ... |
703983_4 | Federal Panel Proposes Register To Curb Hiring of Illegal Aliens | prohibits the employment of illegal aliens and requires employers to ask all job applicants for documents to verify that they are either citizens or aliens authorized to work in this country. The law lists various documents, like passports and birth certificates, that may be used for this purpose, either by themselves ... |
706770_3 | Personal Health; A warning about drugs that rob bones of calcium. | a California research team documented serious bone loss in the wrists and hips of postmenopausal women taking relatively high doses of thyroid hormone. The researchers, from the University of California-San Diego at La Jolla, also showed that the use of estrogen replacement therapy helped protect the bones of women tak... |
706779_0 | Food Notes | Fast Pasta and Sauce Cucina Tosca, a line of pastas with sauce that take less than 10 minutes to prepare, is to be available in supermarkets in coming weeks. The products were developed by Pino Luongo, the restaurateur. "I wanted consumers to be able to have a fresh-tasting sauce without preservatives," Mr. Luongo said... |
706822_0 | When the Juniors Are Senior | A love for learning is certainly helpful to older students in search of sheepskins, but the real incentive may be money. The 1990 census found that college graduates earn an average of $2, 116 a month compared with $1,077 a month for those with only a high school diploma. ANNE CRONIN |
706716_5 | A Master Builder for Asia's Future | capacity is 175,000 megawatts, so they want to increase 10 percent per year for the next 10 years." Mr. Wu explained, "We see the opportunity in power generation for the simple fact that in this part of the world they need a lot of power." Later this month Mr. Wu will take an exploratory trip to India, which has an acu... |
708313_3 | Robert Ballard 20,000 Bytes Under the Sea | and cool sea breezes. But beneath its warm and cozy surface, the house is a monument to technology, the ultimate home office. It has been wired by AT&T for multiple computer stations and instant access to any path on the information highway. "And you don't have to drive," Dr. Ballard says. Or go to sea, either, for he ... |
708888_0 | Population Growth Is Anything but Harmless | To the Editor: Surely you published Julian L. Simon's "Population Distraction" (Op-Ed, Aug. 21) only because of his prominence during the Reagan-Bush years, not for its "facts" or the validity of his position. Mr. Simon remains stuck in the now thoroughly discredited theory that rapid population growth is harmless. Bef... |
708925_4 | Dollars Define Cuba's Haves And Have-Nots | belongings to pay for spaces on the raft for herself and her daughter. "I cry that I am doing this, but I have to," she said. "Here we will die of hunger." Most of the people leaving in rafts appear to be young men who work at low-paying jobs. As two of the few women traveling, Ms. Ochendo and Ms. Betancourt have bande... |
708986_0 | The Cairo Conference | A week from now thousands of people from all over the world will gather in Cairo for the once-in-a decade International Conference on Population and Development. Like the conferences in 1974 and 1984, this one will deal with a population explosion that despite the extraordinary worldwide acceptance of family-planning p... |
709012_0 | Letters Are Acts of Faith | To the Editor: Vivian Gornick's article ignores a rapidly growing form of literate communication: electronic mail. After only six months on line, I have found myself writing more letters than ever before. Perhaps some of the novelty will wear off, but much of the excitement and thoughtfulness of letter writing is being... |
709015_0 | Letters Are Acts of Faith | To the Editor: Vivian Gornick's article ignores a rapidly growing form of literate communication: electronic mail. After only six months on line, I have found myself writing more letters than ever before. Perhaps some of the novelty will wear off, but much of the excitement and thoughtfulness of letter writing is being... |
707764_2 | President Considers a Cuban Blockade | the wave of Cuban boat people. "We are concerned about this," said a White House official. "We didn't expect the number to drop off immediately. We are redoubling our efforts to get the message across that this trip is very dangerous and you can't get to the U.S. this way." In his television appearance today, Mr. Panet... |
707858_1 | The U.S. and Cuba: A Tense History | collapses as Fidel Castro's forces occupy Havanna. 1960: Cuba receives its first Soviet military aide. At the United Nations, Nikita S. Khruschchev and Castro meet. 1961: In the final days of the Eisenhower Administration, the U.S. severs all diplomatic relations because of disputes over the nationalization of American... |
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705338_2 | Not Just Another Brick in the Wall; Central Park Stoneworkers Revive Some Old Traditions | of the park is now being supported by the invisible structure of this highly skilled work force," Mr. Rabinowitz said. Diverse Background Mr. Rabinowitz, 40, was trained in Italy, at the Rhode Island School of Design and in many rock quarries. His sculptures are on display in plazas around the city. He came to Central ... |
705344_2 | Doubts Raised on Number of Internet Users | social scientists, investors and journalists. The Internet has been described as a prototype of the Clinton Administration's proposed information superhighways. Companies seeking to tap a vast new customer base are spending millions to stake out storefronts in cyberspace, and Internet-related businesses are popping up ... |
705315_0 | U.S. Picks Up Cuban Group Near Florida | The Coast Guard today intercepted a group of 26 Cubans who Cuban diplomats said had hijacked a Government boat and killed a Cuban Navy lieutenant. The Cuban officials demanded that the United States prosecute the hijackers or return them to Cuba. The Coast Guard cutter Monhegan picked up the men, women and children 60 ... |
705351_0 | U.S. Asks Bishops to Discuss Family Issues | Despite a disagreement over abortion, the United States has invited American Roman Catholic bishops to meet with Administration officials to explore other areas where they may be able to reconcile their positions before a United Nations population conference next month in Cairo. The Administration seems determined to p... |
709390_2 | And Still Cubans Flee: 1,300 More Picked Up | Cuba's privileged class. He has a car, he is buying his apartment and recently he took a vacation in Varadero, Cuba's premier beach resort. But he explained what a "privileged" life meant in Cuba. He bought his car 14 years ago, at a special price as a reward for having served four years as a doctor in Africa for his c... |
709454_5 | Gold Mine of Psychiatric Data Discovered in Danish Registry | lower-than-average risk of dying from cancer, Dr. Mortensen discovered. Men in the study who had been treated for schizophrenia had a rate of death from cancer a third lower than for other men, Dr. Mortensen found; for prostate cancer the rate was about half that of the general population, according to a report publish... |
709389_0 | Reinforcements for an Endangered Species | |
709484_2 | The Fracturing of the Middle Class | and benefits for workers without high-level skills. But today, only 11 percent of the private-sector work force is unionized. Let there be no doubt: a revitalization of the labor movement would help reverse the erosion of the middle class. But the forces unleashed by technology must be mastered, not merely buffered. As... |
709367_5 | CUTS IN MEDICARE ARE ON THE TABLE, BUT PERIL IS SEEN | said: "The private sector has succeeded in eliminating insurance premium caps. The proposed restraints on the growth of Medicare have increasingly been used as a means of financing not only improved benefits for Medicare beneficiaries, but also the proposed subsidies for low-income people." Under Mr. Clinton's original... |
709361_5 | I.R.A. Said to Be Close to Truce To End Violent Ulster Campaign | call a halt to the violence, which has taken 3,168 lives during the last 25 years. In a joint declaration to try to get peace talks going in December, the British and Irish Governments pledged that Sinn Fein would have a place at the negotiating table if it publicly renounced violence. Afterward, Prime Minister John Ma... |
709401_0 | Deaths Won't Halt Anti-Drug Flights in Peru | As grieving United States drug agents left here this morning to retrieve the bodies of five colleagues whose surveillance plane crashed Saturday in the Andes, American officials said the tragedy would have no effect on their anti-drug efforts in Peru. Thomas Constantine, administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administra... |
703818_1 | A Latvian Bars Ordaining Women | of ordination of women is not just an internal dispute in Latvia. The issue has also alienated the Latvian-based church from branches in Europe and the Americas that were established by Latvians who fled the Communists in 1940. This is particularly true of the American branch, a church that grew large and prosperous in... |
703847_0 | THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Advertising; From an executive at Ogilvy & Mather, some guidelines for tasteful advertising on the Internet. | EARLIER this year, when an tiny immigration law firm in Phoenix flooded the Internet with advertisements for its services, outraged Internet users responded by "flaming" -- sending the firm electronic hate mail -- and various other forms of hackers' revenge. Martin Nisenholtz, an executive with Ogilvy & Mather, had ano... |
705224_1 | Effects of El Nino Reach Across Ocean And Linger a Decade | Research Laboratory at the Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., and six colleagues, is reported in the current issue of the British journal Nature. Since the amount and location of warm water in the Pacific have much to do with the births and wanderings of storm systems, the finding could complicate the alre... |
705181_2 | VATICAN ATTACKS POPULATION STAND SUPPORTED BY U.S. | 16-year-old papacy. The Old Testament " 'Thou shalt not kill' is as valid for the embryo as for individuals who are already born," the Pope said on Sunday in his weekly Angelus message, which focused of abortion. "At the 1984 International Conference on Population in Mexico City, it was rightly said that 'abortion shou... |
705207_0 | Rescue Bid Planned For Robot | THE Dante 2 robot, which successfully explored an Alaskan volcanic crater before an accidental fall stranded it, could be rescued by a helicopter if weather permits, project officials said yesterday. An attempt to pull up the eight-legged robot, which toppled over last Friday while trying to climb out of the active cra... |
705219_3 | Who's the Coolest Internet Provider? | an hour, to offset their costs. The hip thing to do, then, is to find a cool Internet service provider who can be reached with a local phone call. But how does one do so? The first step is often to ask friends or acquaintences who are on the Internet to recommend one. If you don't know anyone on the Internet, you might... |
704777_0 | Did the Chinese Arrive Before Columbus? | To the Editor: In William C. Sturtevant's letter about "When China Ruled the Seas" (July 10), he says that Louise Levathes cites "shaky" evidence for one of the claims made in her book. After doing two years of research for a documentary film on ancient and medieval China, I agree with Ms. Levathes that early Chinese s... |
704786_3 | Blind Eye; Africa Allows Its Tragedies to Take Their Own Course | been Mandela versus the Zulus, how many people would have been interested?" asks Robert Oakley, who was special envoy to Somalia for Presidents Bush and Clinton. When it comes to promoting human rights and ethnic equality when the offenders are black, however, few African leaders have much to say, because few have the ... |
704519_3 | Disabled Pupils: No Baby-Sitting | emotional and developmental problems. "What happens with a lot of emotionally disturbed kids in both public and private schools," Ms. Koplow said, "is that they are put in small groups so that the teachers can contain them. And if a kid has a certain quirk that he doesn't do twelve thousand times in a row, he gets a st... |
704533_1 | Votech That Works | in the atmosphere they will face when they leave." One fact that makes the Lancaster program of double interest is that it guarantees its students jobs if they successfully complete their programs. "We've been guaranteeing jobs for five years, " Mr. Burley said. "We say that if a student comes to school 95 percent of t... |
704523_0 | IN SHORT: NONFICTION | PHILOSOPHY THE PURSUIT OF LOVE By Irving Singer. Johns Hopkins University, $25.95. "We are living during a period in which large numbers of people have renounced their faith in love," writes Irving Singer, a professor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of the three-volume "Nature of L... |
706349_0 | Aug. 7-13: Papal Diplomacy; The Vatican Takes On The Population Planners | With only a few weeks left before a major world population conference in Cairo, Pope John Paul II has marshalled his diplomatic divisions for what some see as his most heartfelt campaign since his crusade against Communism. At issue is the Vatican's contention that the United States and American feminist groups want to... |
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706113_4 | Car Sales Falter, So a Dealer Turns to Development | No tenants have been announced, but a special-permit application has been submitted to the Department of City Planning. The Northern Boulevard developments, farther removed from private houses than the Howard Beach site, can take more parking, zoning specialists say. In New York City commercial streets outside Manhatta... |
706254_0 | Ideas & Trends; Kneeling at the Altar of Death: From Belief to Fanaticism | IT is an enduring paradox, how religions that teach peace can be taken by some adherents to justify acts of violence and bloodshed. Combatants in some of the world's seemingly intractable conflicts often boldly wear their religious identities, whether in Bosnia, the Caucasus or Northern Ireland. But in many cases, thei... |
706023_1 | SUNDAY, August 14, 1994; A Fable for Fleas | is not that of Communism or Moscow's colonial empire, but something much more deeply rooted in Western culture: the era of rationalism that began with the Enlightenment. Rationalism has ended? Yes, says Havel, because the scientific certainties it has taught us are fatally incomplete. Science fails to account for the p... |
708419_1 | Ireland's Premier Meets U.S. Irish on Ulster | announcing a halt to its campaign of killing in the north. "We are renewed in our belief in the importance of the moment," said Mr. Morrison, the author of legislation that expanded immigration quotas and allowed tens of thousands of Irish citizens to become American citizens. He is considered a friend of President Cli... |
707463_2 | The Nation: Baseball Walkout Is a Throwback; Strikes: They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To | for all of them," said Richard Thomas, a Bridgestone spokesman. Changing Tactics The baseball players enjoy other advantages. They earn much more than the $17-an-hour tire workers and can afford to stay out longer. If they should run short, they can draw on their union's strike fund, which is larger than that of the Un... |
707610_0 | Islam Without Militance | RETHINKING ISLAM Common Questions, Uncommon Answers. By Mohammed Arkoun. Translated and edited by Robert D. Lee. 139 pp. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. Cloth, $59.95. Paper, $19.95. MOHAMMED ARKOUN'S "Rethinking Islam" is an illustration of the contemporary fecundity of Islam. Mr. Arkoun, born in Algeria, is a profess... |
705903_2 | Haiti Embargo Hurts Poor, and Nearly Everyone Else | a breaking point is reached. It is clear, though, that even smuggled goods are becoming very expensive and that an agreement signed by the Dominican Republic last week to step up patrols along the border will increase the pressure on General Cedras. Many Sellers, Few Buyers At first glance, this country of about seven ... |
707084_4 | Venezuela's Tight Grip Has Investors Gasping | us foreign exchange as soon as possible, the entire auto parts industry will stop in the next two weeks," Jose Luis Hernandez, a director of the national association for auto parts producers. The industry, which he said normally imported $400 million worth of materials a year, had not received any dollars for six weeks... |
707197_2 | A Journey That Began 2 Years Ago | evening in Mariel. They got in the boats and headed north. "The Cuban Coast Guard saw us from the land. They let us go," she said. "Before, they would throw you in jail." On the way, all but 4 of the 15 got seasick, but other than that, it was a ride of relative comfort. They had good weather, calm seas and plenty of w... |
659838_1 | Major Says Northern Ireland Initiative Still Stands | join peace talks was still on the table. But he said they must agree to accept the current proposal from him and the Irish Prime Minister as it stands, without negotiation. "I have no more to tell them and I don't think Albert Reynolds will either," Mr. Major said in a BBC radio interview. The British leader refused to... |
659948_0 | World Economies | |
659934_0 | Modern Maternity | Several weeks ago, in London, a woman gave birth to twins. Why did this seemingly unremarkable event merit headlines? Simple. She is 59 years old. True, her children came into this world by a somewhat circuitous route. Eggs donated by a younger woman were fertilized by the older woman's 45-year-old husband and implante... |
661028_2 | Many in Haiti Now Believe the U.S. Has Given Up on Aristide | point," said a member of Father Aristide's Government, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "If they are applying sanctions just for the sake of doing something, what good does that do the Haitian people?" For months, Haitian commentators on the left and right have criticized Washington for imposing economic sancti... |
660966_0 | G.M. Renovates Its Compact Pickups | WHAT with myriad models and trim levels, choosing an automobile is no easy matter these days. But consider the poor shopper who wants a pickup truck. That buyer confronts an even more bewildering array of engines, suspensions, sizes and configurations. And the pickup is certainly worth considering. According to the Nat... |
660873_0 | POSTINGS: Renaissance for a Co-op; Retrieving The Future | Less than two years ago, 111-127 Cabrini Boulevard, a co-op just north of 181st Street, seemed destined for disaster. Its reserve fund was depleted, its systems were breaking down. Only 20 of its 39 apartments were occupied and most of those were still rentals. Today, thanks to $750,000 in refinancing from the Fourth F... |
660796_2 | Key Concerns For a Safe Trip | to the Passport Office. These statistics were the subject of a study published in 1992 by Dr. Hargarten and Dr. Timothy D. Baker of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore and Katharine S. Guptill, then at the University of California School of Nutrition in Berkeley. Studying the figures for 1975 and 198... |
665789_3 | F.C.C. 'Pioneer' Policy Under Attack | of the radio spectrum. The staff was forced to review 96 requests for pioneer preference; even after disqualifying many on their face, it was left to wrestle with the competing claims of 57, including industry heavyweights A.T.& T., Bell Atlantic, Time Warner, Pacific Bell, Tele-Communications, Southwestern Bell, Cable... |
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665738_0 | U.S. to Give I.R.A. Political Chief Visa to Attend Talks in New York | Citing what it called newly conciliatory comments by the leader of the Irish Republican Army's political wing, the Clinton Administration announced today that it would issue him a visa to attend a conference on Northern Ireland in Manhattan on Tuesday. The Administration had been leaning against issuing the visa to the... |
665784_0 | Cartagena Journal; On Tranquil Coast, Colombia Traffics in Tourists | Dropping anchor here the other day, the Queen Elizabeth II brought more to this old Spanish colonial port than platoons of sneaker-clad American and European tourists. The serene white lines of the cruise ship spoke of a tourism renaissance in Colombia's calm corner, the Caribbean coast. In September 1989, drug traffic... |
665761_0 | Both Sides Describe Ulster Talks as 'on Track' | Seven weeks after Britain and Ireland formally proposed a framework for peace in Northern Ireland, leaders of both Governments suggest that their plan, while vulnerable, is firmly on the track toward its ultimate goals: an end of violence by the Irish Republican Army and the inclusion of Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s politic... |
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664935_1 | U.S. Sets Terms on Visa for I.R.A. Political Chief | ban against Mr. Adams's entry. After avoiding contact with Mr. Adams for years, the United States Government is in effect "reaching out" to him, by instructing American diplomats in Dublin or Belfast to talk with him to determine his views on violence, the official said. "The move is designed to recognize that Adams ha... |
665029_0 | Ford Plans Lease Program for Used Cars | The Ford Motor Company is hammering out the details of a program to lease used Ford vehicles through its dealers. The auto maker said it might announce the plan within a week. Tom Rhoades, a spokesman for Ford, said the program, which was first reported in The Wall Street Journal, was in the works. The concept, while n... |
663553_2 | U.S. Is Setting Up Tent Cities As Nerves Fray After Quake | belongings." Henry G. Cisneros, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, who is in Los Angeles to help direct relief efforts, talked to reporters at a briefing in Encino today. "It's very important that people go to the shelters where there's food, medical aid, security, warmth and dryness," he said. "You hear c... |
662567_1 | Internet Users Get Access To S.E.C. Filings Fee-Free | that links millions of large and small computers so they can share information, there is typically no extra fee for document transfers. Financed by Taxes "We have a policy that Government information ought to be made available at only the marginal cost to provide the information," said Tom Kalil, who coordinates scienc... |
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662593_1 | Lessons About King For a New Generation; In Some Classrooms, a Freedom Fighter | today he'd be the head of a large corporation," said Patrick Chancy, a senior at King High School. "No, his focus would be on us teen-agers," said Taboo Joseph, another senior, joining a hallway conversation last week. "He'd be trying to stop kids from dissing each other." Today's students were born a decade or more af... |
662603_1 | Leftists Help to Swell School Protest in Paris | the turnout at around 260,000. The most recent demonstrations of this size, in 1984 and 1986, were also protests over education policy. This time, the protest went ahead even though the Government decided to abandon its disputed plan to increase state financing of private and religious schools after some of its feature... |
662606_1 | Dover Journal; Under the Chalk Cliffs, Mountains of Contraband | of the European Union, formerly the European Community. A year ago the organization removed most border controls, including routine customs inspections, between its 12 member nations, opening new opportunities for criminal gangs and wily entrepreneurs to sneak in hidden caches of cheaper Continental whiskey and cigaret... |
659991_2 | Liege Journal; Gold in Streets (Some Call It Trash) | Peereboom, an administrator, said Terre was able to produce the panels without chemical additives. As word has spread of this group that turns waste into jobs, profits and foreign aid, Cabinet ministers from Brussels and specialists in recycling from Germany, France and Scandinavia have come to visit Terre, some of the... |
660088_0 | Indian State Cuts Population Without Coercion | To the Editor: "Preventing 'Inferior' People in China" (editorial Dec. 27) very rightly protests the announcement in China of a draft law to "avoid new births of inferior quality." You link this with China's coercive measures of population management. While forced abortion in the cause of eugenics would draw almost uni... |
660024_5 | Ancient City of Petra Is Yielding Its Secrets | centers. In the fourth century, it continued to be an important political outpost for the Byzantine empire, becoming the seat of a bishopric. But the city soon began to fall into decline. Petra sank into obscurity after a shift in trade routes that was followed by two powerful earthquakes, one in A.D. 363 and a second ... |
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