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390057_3 | Trying to Reclaim the Rain Forest | hotter, and has three times as much combustible material, largely dead branches, vines and saplings. High Risk of Fire ''Six days without rain is enough for the combustible materials to be ready for burning,'' Dr. Uhl and his colleagues wrote in the August issue of Ciencia Hoje, the monthly publication of Brazilian Soc... |
389915_0 | Soviet Coast Guard Seizes A Greenpeace Ship in Arctic | LEAD: The Soviet coast guard boarded and seized a Greenpeace anti-nuclear protest ship today near the Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya after firing warning shots, the official press agency Tass said. The Soviet coast guard boarded and seized a Greenpeace anti-nuclear protest ship today near the Arctic island of Novaya Ze... |
396161_2 | Club Med at Sea: New Ship, Old Themes | of a certain age at dinner in one of the two dining rooms, La Louisiane restaurant, a damasky white place with prints of New Orleans. Handsome Mauritian waiters gently flourish napkins into our laps, making the often uninspired food seem more worthy than it really is of a first-class French ship. All the women are enth... |
396066_0 | Women's Group Seeks Environmental Role | Alarmed by the deteriorating health of the planet, women from around the world have come together to demand a bigger role in all levels of decision-making on the environment and development. In a four-day session that ended Monday, 50 women met at the United Nations Church Center to establish a worldwide network for br... |
396014_0 | No Headline | International 3-19 A new initiative toward peace and a settlement of the Persian Gulf crisis is being undertaken by the Soviet Union. A ranking Soviet official went to Baghdad at the invitation of President Saddam Hussein. Page 1 Iraq's plan to ration gasoline was a maneuver to persuade Baghdad's enemies to postpone an... |
395985_0 | Vatican Synod Reaffirms Celibacy for Priests | Roman Catholic bishops from around the world ended a monthlong synod today, calling for better-trained priests but firmly ruling out any change in a celibacy rule that has hindered the recruitment of clergymen in the United States and elsewhere. In a closing speech to the assembly, Pope John Paul II assured the bishops... |
396103_3 | Turning Used Oil Into Gold | fraction of the total supply, which analysts estimated to be 2 billion gallons annually. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 800 million gallons annually are recycled by numerous small companies, some for re-refining and some for blending into fuel oil. "Our biggest challenge in this business will be to ... |
395990_2 | Soviet Woman Fights for a Home for Those Labeled Retarded | are estimated to number 1.5 million. That cause, as much as free-market changes, will define the nation's progress beyond Communism, say the new social activists. Pressure groups for helping the retarded are slowly forming in a few areas, like Georgia. But Mrs. Belous is the first to come forward in Moscow with a plea,... |
390223_2 | Wine Talk | the fruit pulp and juice even more. Botrytis does its work grape by grape. At Yquem and a few other vineyards where money is no object, the pickers return to the vines day after day as late summer drifts into fall, picking only single grapes touched by the mold. Quantities are minuscule and the amount of wine made each... |
391714_7 | Call of the Wildmen | almost every pre-industrial culture, from ancient Greece to the Middle Ages, projected in its myths and poetry an image of an ideal man as a forceful, spontaneous, primal being. ''What I'm proposing,'' Bly once said, ''is that every modern male has, lying at the bottom of his psyche, a large, primitive man covered with... |
391463_1 | English Cleric Braces for Women's Ordination | England's state church, will have a majority in favor of ordaining women. Preliminary soundings by British newspapers predict that it will, but the die seemed cast last summer when Queen Elizabeth II named a firm advocate of women's ordination, Dr. George Carey, formerly Bishop of Bath and Wells, as the new Archbishop ... |
391464_1 | English Cleric Braces for Women's Ordination | England's state church, will have a majority in favor of ordaining women. Preliminary soundings by British newspapers predict that it will, but the die seemed cast last summer when Queen Elizabeth II named a firm advocate of women's ordination, Dr. George Carey, formerly Bishop of Bath and Wells, as the new Archbishop ... |
391763_0 | Postings: Slipping Slates; Mansard Problem | LEAD: The cooperative apartment building at the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and 90th Street, a Beaux-Arts beauty, is remarkably well preserved for its 89 years. Recently, though, slates started slipping from its mansard roof, creating a hazard as well as spoiling its ornate appearance. The cooperative apartment ... |
391764_0 | Postings: Slipping Slates; Mansard Problem | LEAD: The cooperative apartment building at the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and 90th Street, a Beaux-Arts beauty, is remarkably well preserved for its 89 years. Recently, though, slates started slipping from its mansard roof, creating a hazard as well as spoiling its ornate appearance. The cooperative apartment ... |
391715_7 | Call of the Wildmen | almost every pre-industrial culture, from ancient Greece to the Middle Ages, projected in its myths and poetry an image of an ideal man as a forceful, spontaneous, primal being. ''What I'm proposing,'' Bly once said, ''is that every modern male has, lying at the bottom of his psyche, a large, primitive man covered with... |
395647_4 | Airlines Curbing Passengers Who Skirt Rules to Cut Fare | has sued travel agencies to recover lost revenue. And earlier this month the airline changed its prices to San Antonio, effectively closing the loophole that Mr. Gelfuso and others were flying through. American has also developed a computer program that enables it to spot people using hidden-city fares, albeit not unti... |
389321_0 | World Markets; The Tokyo Market's Strange Rally | LEAD: The market's doldrums here have been called everything from a transition to a pause or a correction. Last week, however, even the normally insouciant Japanese Finance Minister expressed alarm at what is, by any measure, a vicious bear market that is not just savaging share prices but is threatening the financial ... |
389370_3 | The Learning Disabled: Challenge to Identify | in junior high because he was in the wrong environment.'' That summer, she took the boy to Schneider Children's Hospital for a complete evaluation. ''And $825 later they said something was wrong, but they were not sure what,'' Ann recalled. Because Joseph-Paul was classified as learning disabled, he had been receiving ... |
389672_0 | Works in Progress; Back to Their Sunday Best | LEAD: Since 1986, Yves Boiret, the Inspector General of French Historical Monuments, has been directing the restoration of the great Cathedral Notre Dame de Reims. Though the general structure is, as 700-year-old edifices go, fundamentally stable, old age, weather and pollution have combined to ravage many of the nearl... |
389257_2 | SPIES & THRILLERS | O'Brian has a vast knowledge of the subject, and he does his best to bring the period to life. But, alas, he does not have Forester's flair. His Capt. Jack Aubrey has none of Hornblower's complexity and charm. And Mr. O'Brian's writing is rather long-winded, even turgid. He is also easily beguiled into side issues. In ... |
389477_1 | Sex Asks Its Due at Vatican Synod on Priests | the only country where the celibacy requirement weighs heavily, and Vatican officials acknowledge that it is an important reason for the recruitment crisis that they face in many parts of the world, especially industrialized societies. In the United States, the ranks of Catholic priests have been thinning steadily for ... |
389308_6 | The Songs of Therapy | music functioned as an auditory focal point: when they were listening to the music, it was difficult to think about the pain.'' Hanser says that it has become quite common for couples to bring music into the delivery room. ''It's natural, it makes sense,'' she says. ''You just need some guidelines and support.'' She re... |
389325_7 | Venture Capital's Assault on The Genetic Code | anti-sense companies relish the endorsement the large companies' investments represent. And because medicinal chemistry - turning synthetic RNA compounds into usable drugs in this case - will play a great part in anti-sense, pharmaceutical manufacturers have much to offer the new companies in technical expertise as wel... |
389299_9 | On Ill Health and Air Pollution | disease or anemia. Dr. Sidney Gottlieb at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has found that exposure to levels of carbon monoxide commonly found in cities may cause measurable cardiac effects. Extended exposure to levels of carbon monoxide that are low enough to comply with the E.P.A. standard can interfer... |
394026_2 | Ecologists' Foe to Become Amazon Governor | termites and fungus,'' Mr. Mestrinho continued. ''We should cut and replant with better species.'' One logging restriction adopted this year requires registration of all chain saws with the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Natural Renewable Resources, known as Ibama. On the campaign trail, Mr. Mestrinho won whoop... |
393802_4 | Along the Thames to the Great Port of London | 12th century, were taken by boat up the Fleet, which continued to be used as a waterway until the 18th century. Since it was also used for the disposal of sewage and refuse, the journey was a malodorous one, all too graphically described by Ben Jonson in his poem ''On the Famous Voyage.'' By 1800, having finally degene... |
393877_1 | A Suffocating and Demoralized Island | effect of the American economic blockade. As the Argentine journalist Jacobo Timerman remarks with bitter scorn in his new book on Cuba, ''It would take more than a Freudian or Lacanian psychoanalyst to explain why non-Cuban Castroists accept the demythification of the Communist leaders of Eastern Europe and China but ... |
394044_0 | Pact Limits Timber Cutting in Alaska Forest | LEAD: House and Senate negotiators have reached a compromise on a bill to protect an additional one million acres in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska from timber cutting. House and Senate negotiators have reached a compromise on a bill to protect an additional one million acres in the Tongass National Forest in Al... |
393726_0 | Ideas & Trends; Mapping the Alien Landscape Of a Newly Fathomable World | LEAD: In the back rooms off the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's deep-space flight control center in Pasadena, Calif., the gray walls are trimmed in beige, like slate with clay outcrops. The geologists working there may feel right at home. They are admonished, however, to check their terrestrial prejudices at the door. In t... |
393757_10 | SETI, Phone Home | the machine. ''It can dice and slice the noises in the universe into neat little bins so that our computers can recognize if they're anything interesting.'' The result is that science ''for the first time now has the practical engineering ability to transform Professor Morrison's dream into a reality,'' he says. ''We'v... |
366418_0 | Suburbs Are Wary of Bears' Wanderlust | LEAD: More and more lately, young and wayward black bears have been popping up in the leafy outer suburbs of metropolitan New York, providing residents with nervous amusement and testing the wits of the police. More and more lately, young and wayward black bears have been popping up in the leafy outer suburbs of metrop... |
366421_0 | Patents; Red Dye Is Produced From Carrot Cultures | LEAD: Two Israeli researchers this week patented a method for producing an intense red dye for foods and cosmetics from carrot cells grown in petri dishes. Two Israeli researchers this week patented a method for producing an intense red dye for foods and cosmetics from carrot cells grown in petri dishes. In such cell c... |
371586_1 | Study Suggests Menopause Doesn't Affect Mental Health | does not cause stress or depression in most healthy women, and it may even improve mental health for some. A new study suggests that contrary to popular belief, menopause does not cause stress or depression in most healthy women, and it may even improve mental health for some. ''Women don't have to expect menopause to ... |
371662_1 | New Leader Of Anglicans: George Leonard Carey | thirdly, it is a fact that he is an evangelical and that will encourage a very large constitution in the Church of England.'' In a brief statement, Dr. Runcie described the choice of his successor as imaginative and said Dr. Carey was a theologian who commanded broad respect. Others described Dr. Carey as ''gifted,'' '... |
371648_2 | Castro, Standing Firm Against the Tide, Is Bracing Cuba for Harder Times | situation deteriorating, but the external situation is getting worse too. We don't have any hard currency, and here Fidel is fighting with his friends,'' he said referring to Spain, which has been Cuba's most sympathetic Western partner. But Madrid cut off economic aid and called back its ambassador on Monday to protes... |
368072_0 | The People Threat | LEAD: Lucien Paye, head of the O.E.C.D., which groups 24 industrialized countries, was asked what worried him most on the horizon. U.S. budget and trade deficits? Protectionism? Recession? Lucien Paye, head of the O.E.C.D., which groups 24 industrialized countries, was asked what worried him most on the horizon. U.S. b... |
368100_0 | Patents; Using a Gene To Prevent Crop Spoilage | LEAD: A biotechnology company in New Jersey won a patent this week for a method of preventing fruits and vegetables from spoiling by using genetic engineering to enhance their natural defenses against fungus. A biotechnology company in New Jersey won a patent this week for a method of preventing fruits and vegetables f... |
368117_0 | Greek Orthodox Group Backs Married Bishops | LEAD: Representatives of the clergy and the laity of the Greek Orthodox Church in the Western hemisphere have recommended that the church allow married priests to become bishops. The proposal, which would alter 1,300 years of Eastern Orthodox practice, would require an unusual consensus among Orthodox Christian bishops... |
368045_0 | CONSUMER'S WORLD: Guidepost; For Summer Driving | LEAD: Automobile experts warn that if your car is not properly maintained in summer, a vacation could come to an unexpected stop. Make sure that lights, brakes and wipers are in good condition. The Automobile Club of New York says that a car's engine should always be properly tuned, and it suggests that the following i... |
367874_0 | House, 377-28, Approves Bill to Protect Disabled | LEAD: The House of Representatives gave final approval today to legislation that would extend full Federal protection against discrimination to millions of Americans with physical and mental disabilities. The House of Representatives gave final approval today to legislation that would extend full Federal protection aga... |
367953_7 | Beating Japan at Its Own Game | manager of Motorola's international cellular telephone handsets division. Motorola has found that it can manufacture as cheaply in the United States as anywhere in the world, Mr. Fisher said. ''The percentage of a product's cost that is labor is diminishing,'' he said. From Radios to Chips Until recently, Motorola had ... |
370068_0 | Letter: On the Environment; What Astronauts and Cosmonauts See | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Your support of Senator Sam Nunn's proposal for the Pentagon to use military technology and forces to monitor global environment (''Painting the Pentagon Green,'' editorial, July 9) will be backed by the ultimate observers of the planet's worsened condition - astronauts and cosmonaut... |
370178_0 | Patents; A Food Preservative That's Made Naturally | LEAD: Researchers at Microlife Technics Inc. of Sarasota, Fla., which specializes in developing commercially useful bacteria, obtained a patent this week for a naturally produced food preservative that fights common molds. Researchers at Microlife Technics Inc. of Sarasota, Fla., which specializes in developing commerc... |
365875_2 | The Hispanic Voice of New York: A 2d Theater Festival Chimes In | by Pregones in San Antonio in 1988. The emphasis there was on Chicano, or Mexican-American, theater, said Ms. Rolon. Subsequent discussion led to the idea of bringing the Westerners east to New York, where Puerto Rican and Caribbean populations predominate. Same Methods, Other Themes ''The Chicano theater has similar m... |
365907_0 | Economic Scene; College Tuition: A Better Idea? | LEAD: THE problem: The earnings gap between those who went to college and those who did not has never been greater. Yet tuition subsidies for all but the poorest students have become scarcer than Taittinger in Teheran. Loans at market-rate interest are generally available to students who need them. But not surprisingly... |
365772_0 | France to Attend Talks on Atom Arms Curb | LEAD: France said today that for the first time it would attend talks on curbing the spread of nuclear weapons. France said today that for the first time it would attend talks on curbing the spread of nuclear weapons. The announcement was seen as a sign that Paris is reviewing a 22-year refusal to sign the treaty on nu... |
371423_0 | ULSTER NUN KILLED WITH 3 POLICEMEN | LEAD: A Roman Catholic nun and three policemen were killed today when a bomb ripped through a car near Armagh in Northern Ireland, the police said. A Roman Catholic nun and three policemen were killed today when a bomb ripped through a car near Armagh in Northern Ireland, the police said. The three uniformed members of... |
371528_0 | Bid to Curb Aid On Sugar Fails | LEAD: The House and Senate easily defeated a proposal today to trim the United States sugar program, sidestepping charges that the subsidies hurt sugar-exporting nations and inflated domestic food prices. The House and Senate easily defeated a proposal today to trim the United States sugar program, sidestepping charges... |
369108_1 | Will the Manson Story Play As Myth, Operatically at That? | replaced the original prosecutor, Vincent T. Bugliosi, with Steve McGarrett, the chief detective in the television series ''Hawaii Five-0.'' After two weeks of workshop presentations at Performance Space 122, the only protest they said they had heard came last week from CBS, which owns ''Hawaii Five-0.'' Mr. Moran agre... |
369101_0 | Careers; Unusual Ways Used In Filling Jobs | LEAD: LAST year, Travelers Mortgage Services of Cherry Hill, N.J., a unit of the Travelers Corporation, the insurance giant, increased its staff about 30 percent nationwide, to 1,800 people. LAST year, Travelers Mortgage Services of Cherry Hill, N.J., a unit of the Travelers Corporation, the insurance giant, increased ... |
368787_3 | Foreign Influence Gains In the Adventist Church | Even today, 80 percent of the $160 million annual budget of the church's world headquarters in Silver Spring, Md., comes from American donors. Today, only 12 percent of Adventists live in North America. About 30 percent live in Africa and 40 percent in Central and South America and the Caribbean. On the question of whe... |
367174_5 | Growing Pressures for a Married Priesthood | the sexual revolution and the feminist movement. He predicted that the Catholic Church would allow a married priesthood ''within a decade or two.'' Without it, he said, ''the church stands to lose its most important traditions: the Eucharist, the other sacraments and the hierarchical governing structure.'' Only priests... |
367046_2 | Careers; Graduates Find Tighter Job Market | ''The whole hiring picture has changed, and the bulk of the recruiting this year has come from firms that did not have much visibility in previous years with us,'' Mrs. Lynn said. For example, the Andersen Consulting Company, an affiliate of Arthur Andersen & Company, the accounting firm, has been ''scooping up all the... |
367200_1 | A Summit Challenge: Farm Subsidies | developed countries should end their protectionist farm policies, there's a good chance of a new trade pact, with benefits for almost all. Disagreements over farm subsidies won't be resolved in Houston. But the leaders can make a crucial start with a ringing declaration to their trade negotiators to phase down farm sub... |
367241_0 | Tropical Rain Forest In Mexico Is Facing Destruction in Decade | LEAD: THE largest tropical rain forest in North America is being razed even more rapidly than that of the Amazon and is likely to disappear altogether in this decade unless the Mexican Government takes immediate steps to halt its destruction, scientists and environmental groups here say. THE largest tropical rain fores... |
367075_3 | In Northern Ireland, a Centuries-Old Conflict Is on the March | Adams dismissed the attempt by the British Northern Ireland Secretary, Peter Brooke, to begin talks among Protestant and Catholic politicians in the province on restoring local government, which was suspended in the early 1970's after the violence resumed. The dialogue, which excludes Sinn Fein, is hung up over the que... |
367236_8 | Homophobia: Scientists Find Clues To Its Roots | membership in their group, and affirms their shared values. But it's also crucial that it is their sexuality that defines homosexuals as outsiders. If you feel insecure about your own sexuality, as so many adolescents do, you can reassure yourself by attacking gays.'' A Steady Rise in Violence An exact accounting of su... |
370566_9 | Is 'Quality' An Idea Whose Time Has Gone? | ignore or defuse content. No matter how obsessively these two artists sought a formal perfection that could objectify their images and fix them in the imagination, there is no clear unity of form and content in their photographs. Their art does not offer a sense of an overriding order and harmony. Their works, like ''T... |
370595_2 | Travel Advisory | example, it has already ruled that no gambling will take place while the boats are docked. Because the two states passed their gambling laws to promote tourism, it seems likely that the Iowa commission and the Illinois board will require the applicants to base their boats in economically depressed cities such as Rock I... |
370569_3 | C-Span Dials Call-In Radio And Gets Quite an Earful | Mario Cuomo (whose name he pronounces ''Coo-mo,'' in imitation, he says, of ''the Reverend Jackson,'' whose name Mr. Limbaugh speaks in hushed tones) and Mikhail S. Gorbachev. He lays claim to having invented the term ''Gorbasm'' to describe the sensation aroused in some Americans by the sight of the Soviet leader. Mr.... |
370600_1 | Practical Traveler; A New Rental Car Option: the Mobile Phone | time going to a pay phone. I waited for an opportunity to rent a cellular phone to test other uses This summer, the Budget car-rental counter at the Minneapolis airport offered a portable cellular phone for $4.95 a day plus a per-minute charge for use, and we took it. At first it was a frustrating toy, but we worked ou... |
370634_0 | Three New York City Success Stories | LEAD: Saving and rehabilitating old buildings has become so common in the last few years that it is tempting to think of the whole process as easy - after all, if no one is clamoring any longer to tear a landmark down, hasn't the hardest battle been won? Not necessarily: roughly 15 years passed between the departure of... |
370606_22 | The Ant Man | let one species go because you want to clear another mile of road,'' Wilson says heatedly, ''seems to me obscene.'' With 40 to 50 million acres of tropical rain forest disappearing each year, Wilson estimates we are now losing as many as 100,000 species a year. When loggers cleared a mountaintop in Ecuador, 38 plant sp... |
370441_3 | In Eastern Europe's Churches, Triumph Leads to Uncertainty | is 64. There is also the delicate and painful question of what to do with religious leaders who were compromised by their ties with Communist governments. In Romania, where church leaders had praised the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu for years, Patriarch Teoctist, head of the Romanian Orthodox Church, was forced into reti... |
370321_6 | The People Who Are Putting Taste Back on the Table | Zick said, ''when you can literally find a flavor profile reaching all aspects of consumption.'' The next trend? Peanut-based sauces from Southeast Asia, he said. Mr. Zick has already spotted several frozen chicken entrees that offer a peanut sauce glaze. ''Just wait,'' he said, ''It is going to end up on a potato chip... |
372044_0 | Letter: On Ecology; Brazil's Small Share of the Greenhouse | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: ''Preaching to Brazil From Hawaii'' (editorial, July 24) gives credence to the ill-founded rumors that ''Brazil is the world's third-largest creator of greenhouse gases, after the United States and the Soviet Union.'' Such rumors originated in a recent report from the World Resources... |
365681_0 | New View of Ocean | LEAD: A NEW invention that is about to be tested at sea promises to give scientists a view of marine life that until now has been hidden from humans. A NEW invention that is about to be tested at sea promises to give scientists a view of marine life that until now has been hidden from humans. The system combines newly ... |
372893_7 | Rising Incidence of Brain Tumors Is Drawing Attention and Concern | fish with suspected carcinogens like nitrites, and they ate few fresh vegetables and fruits, which contain anti-oxidants and other compounds thought to act as anti-cancer agents. Other researchers note that in the past, doctors and dentists were more cavalier in using X-rays and other forms of high-energy, or ionizing,... |
372896_4 | New Eye on Nature: The Real Constant Is Eternal Turmoil | Latin America, for instance, owe some of their character to the intervention of humans who planted and transplanted trees and other plants throughout the jungle. And the supposedly unspoiled Serengeti plain of Africa, some ecologists are convinced, owes its tremendous abundance of grazing animals at least partly to hum... |
365135_2 | TRAVEL ADVISORY | red-orange cliffs - and the Royal Gorge, with stone walls 1,055 deep. Along the way are hot springs, wildlife including mule deer, blue heron, bobcats and Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, and spectacular views of the Rockies. Fourteen entities - including Federal, state and local organizations and private landowners - joi... |
365232_1 | Disturbed Children Focus of Parents' Group | of paying for treatment for her two emotionally disabled sons, one of whom threw televisions and nearly committed suicide. ''I spent everything,'' she said. ''We have no furniture.'' The mother of an 18-year-old schizophrenic described her own life as isolated and nightmarish. Support and Advocacy The parents were atte... |
365162_0 | Social Security Fund for Tuition Is Proposed | LEAD: As many as nine million Americans at all income levels could pay for college and vocational training by borrowing from the Social Security surplus, under a newly proposed educational loan program. As many as nine million Americans at all income levels could pay for college and vocational training by borrowing fro... |
367716_0 | Bush Defends Blocking Kohl Environment Plan | LEAD: After blocking new worldwide environmental initiatives at the economic summit meeting here, President Bush attacked domestic critics of his stand today, insisting that he had defended American jobs from the assault of a radical fringe. After blocking new worldwide environmental initiatives at the economic summit ... |
367707_0 | Seventh-day Adventists Vote To Bar Ordination of Women | LEAD: The ruling body of the Seventh-day Adventist Church voted today to continue current practice and bar the ordination of women. The ruling body of the Seventh-day Adventist Church voted today to continue current practice and bar the ordination of women. Delegates to the church's 55th world conference voted along ge... |
367667_1 | New Therapy Shown to Fight Bone Loss in Elderly | were found. But the study did not find evidence that the regimen prevented broken hips, which are a less frequent but more serious hazard of osteoporosis, which afflicts an estimated 15 million Americans, mostly women. The research is being reported today in The New England Journal of Medicine. The etidronate-calcium r... |
367683_10 | Excerpts From Economic Declaration by Chiefs of Seven Industrial Nations | debt reduction, debt-service reduction and new money. 60. Creditor governments have also provided special support for the poorest countries through the implementation of Toronto terms in Paris Club reschedulings. All of us have canceled official development assistance (ODA) debt for the poorest countries. We encourage ... |
367692_0 | Summit Promise - and Shame; A Chance, at Least, for Fair Farm Policy | LEAD: The Houston summit meeting resolved no important dispute. The leaders of the seven major industrialized nations did more agreeing to disagree than agreeing. But to judge their annual economic conference a failure is hasty. The leaders differed about how to aid the Soviet Union. Dismayingly, they condoned help for... |
369261_4 | New Jersey Court Seen as Leader on Rights | on common law in continuing a longstanding tradition requiring valid search procedures based on warrants issued by a court. A few years earlier Princeton University successfully sought the conviction on trespassing charges of a member of the American Labor Party who was seeking to distribute pamphlets on campus. Its ac... |
369281_1 | Home for Retarded Faces Legal Fight | would do with the building, but the city said the center would be rehabilitated for use as state offices, community organizations and day programs. The building will also contain 96 residential beds, operated by a voluntary agency, for the mentally ill and developmentally disabled, the city said. #5-Year Effort by City... |
369233_4 | Race On for an Electric-Car Battery | say they have developed a venting system that prevents a dangerous buildup of the hydrogen given off by nickel-iron batteries. But G.M. is betting on an improved lead-acid battery, hoping it will be available in a few years to power early versions of the Impact. Electrosource Inc., a small, publicly held technology com... |
369274_0 | Senate Votes Import Curbs On Apparel but Veto Looms | LEAD: The Senate, by a vote of 68 to 32, approved legislation today to curb imports of textiles and apparel. The Senate, by a vote of 68 to 32, approved legislation today to curb imports of textiles and apparel. But two similar efforts to legislate quotas in the last five years failed when President Ronald Reagan vetoe... |
369273_2 | Kohl Outlines a Vision: A Neighborly Germany | the World Cup a week earlier. In fact, half the flags on display were in honor of the visiting President of Tunisia. The country's most popular newspaper, Bild Zeitung, did not even treat the fall of one more obstacle to German unity as the most important news this morning, displaying the article under the slaying of W... |
372000_0 | Church Can't Afford to Spurn Married Priests; Never Any Ban | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Your report that the Clergy-Laity Congress of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America has recommended that the church allow married priests to become bishops (news article, July 14) incorrectly states, ''Unlike the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church permits ... |
368453_2 | The French Seek Their Own 'Peace Dividend' | 1995. In defending a strong military, he has the support of the armed forces, the arms industry and the two main conservative parties. ''If France is a nation that counts in Europe and the world, it is due largely to its defense,'' said Pierre-Andre Wiltzer of the center-right Union for French Democracy. Today, the ver... |
368241_1 | Over the Bounding Maine? | If the boat is docked at a slip, the captain unplugs the electric line, shifts to battery power and starts the engine. The guests bring up the seat cushions and fill the ice cooler. The first mate undoes the mooring lines, jumps on board and stows the supplies. All this would be a relatively smooth operation, except th... |
368367_4 | Showing the World That China Is Still in Business | chief executive of the East Shanghai Development Office. ''It will also be the intersection of the Chinese economy and the international economy, and so many companies want to invest here and make it a window on the world.'' Mr. Sha, a 53-year-old scientist who lived in the United States for two years in the early 1980... |
368422_2 | Houston Scorecard | Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany has pledged more than $3 billion in credits to the Soviet Union and with the support of President Francois Mitterrand of France is pushing for a $15 billion aid package from the industrial countries. The United States and others oppose direct aid but are prepared to offer technica... |
368529_0 | SHORTWAVE LINKS TRAVELERS TO WORD OF HOME | LEAD: American tourists have always had a way of seeking out offbeat places. This summer they may roam even farther afield than before, as Eastern Europe seems increasingly congenial to visitors. So chances are that vacationers abroad may find themselves at some point a long way from the nearest newsstand that carries ... |
368245_7 | Recycling: New Report, New Debate | what they did was collect it separately, and then to fulfill the contract, they shipped it to the incinerator to burn.'' Incinerator operators, however, say that even this might be good business that is environmentally sound. ''We like to think of ourselves as an industry that is also involved in recycling,'' said Will... |
368441_0 | Amy's Daytona Air-Bag Experience | LEAD: I have known about Amy ever since she ran into a tree. She is 23 years old, a restaurant manager on Long Island, and a friend of my son's. She also knows more about air bags than most of us. I have known about Amy ever since she ran into a tree. She is 23 years old, a restaurant manager on Long Island, and a frie... |
366153_1 | Ulster Negotiations Delayed As Dublin Considers Its Role | Prime Minister, told Parliament, ''Further consultations with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland are necessary at this stage, but we are confident that a satisfactory formula and basis for meaningful discussions can be found.'' Parties Are Divided The main Protestant parties in Northern Ireland, which represen... |
365385_6 | Construction Fades as Boom Loses Its Vigor | money. And then the auto industry is hurt.'' Ray Dean, a steamfitter working on the new Embassy Suites hotel at Seventh Avenue and 47th Street, said he was disappointed with what he clearly regarded as an anti-development attitude at City Hall - a view commonly heard at construction sites and union halls. He singles ou... |
366527_6 | If Mozart Has Arrived, Can Kochel Be Far Behind? | today. (Much of the old Breitkopf edition, meanwhile, is inexpensively available in Dover reprints, with Kochel's numbers at the foot of each page; it is by no means universally agreed that this edition is completely superseded by the new one.) Even in these years, Kochel's interests remained extraordinarily diverse; h... |
366631_5 | Yes, Plastic Can Be Recycled | of all our municipalities already recycle plastics. Yet misconceptions die hard. I've spent a number of evenings in the last year speaking to municipal councils about the plastics ban ordinances they have proposed, ranging from urban Paterson to suburban Bridgewater and rural Mount Olive. My home county of Hunterdon pr... |
366680_2 | The Executive Computer; Worries About Radiation Continue, as Do Studies | a link between magnetic radiation and health problems; other researchers, as well as equipment manufacturers, disputed those findings or were skeptical about them. ''Extremely low frequency magnetic emissions may prove to be one of the most troublesome issues we face with information technology over the next decade,'' ... |
366680_3 | The Executive Computer; Worries About Radiation Continue, as Do Studies | the radiation. Many American computer makers already offer low-radiation monitors for sale in Europe, where government and union standards require monitors to meet strict guidelines. A few companies, including the International Business Machines Corporation, sell low-radiation monitors in the United States. But they do... |
366617_0 | Eight Conductors Are Passing the Baton at Caramoor | LEAD: THERE is more to ponder at the Caramoor Music Festival this summer than music's relationship to nature, or the stoicism of a wind player with a fly buzzing about his mouthpiece. THERE is more to ponder at the Caramoor Music Festival this summer than music's relationship to nature, or the stoicism of a wind player... |
367325_0 | Ending Interference On FM Broadcasts | LEAD: A European consortium developing a system for digital radio broadcasting has come up with a solution for a problem that causes interference in FM radio broadcasts. A European consortium developing a system for digital radio broadcasting has come up with a solution for a problem that causes interference in FM radi... |
367439_1 | The New Fancy Food Products | it was dominated by products imported from Europe,'' said John Roberts, executive director of the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade, which organized the show. ''Then American producers started realizing they can make the same things - the fancy European-style jams, condiments, chocolates and even cheese... |
367349_0 | Business Technology; Next, Digital Radio For a Superior Sound | LEAD: Radio broadcasting is preparing for its biggest technological leap since FM technology was developed in the 1940's and 50's. Radio broadcasting is preparing for its biggest technological leap since FM technology was developed in the 1940's and 50's. The leap will be to digital broadcasting, in which music and inf... |
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