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290215_0
Stricter Rules Urged for Cruise Ships
LEAD: The National Transportation Safety Board, pressing a campaign to more closely regulate cruise ships, today called for extensive changes in safety standards aboard vessels operating from United States ports. The National Transportation Safety Board, pressing a campaign to more closely regulate cruise ships, today ...
290304_3
Opening the World to a Generation
at everything.' '' As their children venture into public schools, some attending regular classes, but many more in special-education classes in the schools, parents speak of conflicting emotions. On the one hand, they are excited to see their children growing up in the real world. On the other, they are fearful that th...
290316_0
New Spark For Classic Cigarette Lighters
LEAD: REPAIRING old Ronsons, Dunhills, Duponts and Zippos is a dying art. Many cigarette lighter companies have gone out of business, and some who are still around do not fix old models, encouraging customers to buy new ones instead. Luckily, there are a few independent repair shops that specialize in the task. REPAIRI...
290162_6
Personal Health
It is also not known whether the benefits to the heart observed among women taking estrogens by mouth will apply to women who use the recently introduced estrogen patches, which allow estrogen to be absorbed through the skin, resulting in less loss through metabolic processes. The patches produce lower blood levels of ...
291946_0
2-Year College Viewed As Vital to Life in City
LEAD: Urban community colleges have the potential to improve the quality of life substantially in cities and spread equality of opportunity among their residents, but they need more government money and greater coordination of effort, a new report says. Urban community colleges have the potential to improve the quality...
291989_0
South Korea Offers Plans To Ease U.S. Trade Surplus
LEAD: President Roh Tae Woo of South Korea told President Bush today that his nation would take significant steps to curb its trade surplus with the United States by the mid-1990's. President Roh Tae Woo of South Korea told President Bush today that his nation would take significant steps to curb its trade surplus with...
292039_3
Trade Deficit Widened by Import Surge
a percentage point, to 83.6 percent. Mr. Logan and others also took little comfort in the fact that much of the import rise was in capital goods, items used to make other goods and that thereby expand the nation's own long-term productive capacity. Many of these capital imports, Mr. Logan said, were electronics and oth...
291955_0
Unnecessary, or Worse, for Airlines
LEAD: Should the public worry about attempted airline takeovers, like Donald Trump's aborted bid for American Airlines? Such takeovers inevitably saddle new management with huge debt. That, in turn, raises fears that the company will go bankrupt or else skimp on safety. Should the public worry about attempted airline t...
291993_0
School-Building Agency Changes the Old Rules
LEAD: A new agency responsible for rebuilding New York City's crumbling schools has adopted procedures it says will speed a $4.3 billion construction program and reduce corruption. A new agency responsible for rebuilding New York City's crumbling schools has adopted procedures it says will speed a $4.3 billion construc...
292853_0
U.S. Critical on Export
LEAD: Venezuela is subsidizing exports of aluminum sulfate and selling it in the United States at less than fair value, the Commerce Department said today. It said that if the International Trade Commission finds that the shipments have injured the United States industry, countervailing duties would be imposed. Venezue...
294088_1
Baker Sees in Gorbachev a New Chance for Peace
officials say they view the two speeches as their answer to critics, in particular the Democrats, who have contended that the Bush team not only has no enthusiasm for the changes initiated by the Soviet leader but also has no coherent strategy for responding to them. Mr. Baker's speech clearly comes down on the side of...
291375_0
Sugar Shortfall Seen
LEAD: The amount of sugar available for export from some nations in the coming year will be reduced by strong local demand and bad weather conditions, delegates to the annual meeting of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean Sugar Exporters said last week. The group said in a report that world sugar consumption for ...
291350_0
Whatever Happened to Tiny, Tasty Fruit?
LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Allow a consumer to sound a note of dissent regarding the miracles of biotechnology in the plant world (''Biotechnology's Harvest: Plants That Stay Healthy,'' front page, Sept. 18). I long for the crisp, acidulous apples -the Dutchess and the Jonathan - of childhood. Why have pitiful...
287686_0
Europe Takes On Auto Pollution
LEAD: With environmental concerns rising and the influence of the European Community growing, the nations of Western Europe have begun to take united action to curb air pollution from automobiles. With environmental concerns rising and the influence of the European Community growing, the nations of Western Europe have ...
289009_1
Children Who Set Fires Prompt a Conference
psychologist with a private practice in Hastings-on-Hudson, who recently retired as the chief psychologist of the Pleasantville Cottage School in Pleasantville. Consultant to County Dr. Sakheim is a regular consultant to the county's Department of Social Services and the County Medical Center on juvenile fire-setters a...
289362_6
America Tackles The Pesticide Crisis
other parts of the central nervous system. The chief villain in the N.R.D.C. report was Alar, a growth regulator that, as of last spring, was sprayed on about 15 percent of the nation's apple orchards to make the fruit ripen at the same time. A number of studies had found that when the treated apples were processed - t...
288991_0
Into the Woods: Junk Cars and Old Stoves
LEAD: A HIKER in the woods accustomed to rounding a corner and coming upon a deer or other wild animal is just as likely these days to confront a rusting Ford or a rotting La-Z-Boy. Across the state, many of the remaining unspoiled areas are fast becoming spoiled by the illegal dumping of automobiles, tire, furniture a...
289358_5
The Cancer War: A Major Advance
loss. Some patients who received very high doses of the drug were left with longstanding nerve damage that resulted in varying degrees of hearing loss and numbness of the extremities. Castillo recalls dropping a subway token on the way to a clinic visit about a year after he had finished his chemotherapy treatment, and...
288978_1
THE SKY IS MELTING
which Mr. McKibben considers to be a sure thing, is another. We may be able to avert disaster by delaying or adapting to the greenhouse warming, just as international action has been taken against the chemicals that chew up the ozone layer. But Mr. McKibben is not happy with this outcome, for it would lead us into mana...
289046_0
Great Care Taken In Education Plan
LEAD: The recent article ''Plan to Revamp Special Education Draws Criticism'' provided valuable information to parents of educationally handicapped pupils and special-education professionals. The article presented a balance of the different points of view expressed by a variety of people. The recent article ''Plan to R...
296092_0
Irish 'Peace Trains' Halted by Bomb Threat
LEAD: Two ''peace trains'' that were formed to protest Irish Republican Army bomb attacks on the Dublin-Belfast rail link have been halted by a bomb threat. Two ''peace trains'' that were formed to protest Irish Republican Army bomb attacks on the Dublin-Belfast rail link have been halted by a bomb threat. Most of the ...
296098_0
David Savage, 60, a Specialist in Mail Ads
LEAD: David Savage, an expert in direct-response advertising and a managing director of Krupp/Taylor USA, a subsidiary of Foote, Cone & Belding, died of a heart attack on Friday in his Manhattan office. He was 60 years old and lived in Manhattan and East Hampton, L.I. David Savage, an expert in direct-response advertis...
289857_2
Lessons
Recruiting publications are growing longer, in part because colleges are throwing in more information on financial aid and the attractions of their towns. This has led to a proliferation of factoids, brief items of information that may or may not be related to the text around them. ''Students today read less,'' said Ro...
295490_1
Don't Waste Time Planning - Act
Almost every company has the capacity for such improvements. And these gains can change the very basis for longer-range planning. The Pennwalt Corporation, for example, was seriously considering closing a major plant and getting out of a troubled line of business. But, when the comany substantially reduced the cost of ...
295691_2
In Bolivian Drug War, a Question of Will
success in reducing the flow of Bolivian cocaine paste to the cocaine refineries in Colombia. One reason is corruption. During a recent raid on a drug site on the banks of the Yacuma River 75 miles northwest of the navy base at Trinidad, the police came under fire from what they later said were Bolivian Navy forces col...
295716_0
William Warmus: Curator of Glass
LEAD: Both his father, a glass blower at the Corning Glass Works, and his wife's grandfather, a Norwegian glass blower, may have had something to do with William Warmus's interest in contemporary glass. Both his father, a glass blower at the Corning Glass Works, and his wife's grandfather, a Norwegian glass blower, may...
295862_2
DROPPING IN ON A DRAGON
to charge into the urban jungles of Southeast Asia: ''Here was another frontier that invited exploration,'' Mr. Kelly writes in the introduction. ''For all either of us knew about them, the people of these countries might have been Indians from the remotest rain forest. Yet more than the Amazon, the Four Little Dragons...
295656_2
On the Ancient Nile, a Modern Voyage
for the river is at the heart of everything; in that vast arid landscape it lies like a cool narrow miracle. So crucial to the Egyptian sensibility is the Nile that it serves as the orientation point instead of the North Pole. Its inexorable current, flowing from south to north, determines what is up and what is down: ...
295759_0
Paper Says Lockerbie Bomb Possibly Originated in Malta
LEAD: The police have found evidence that the bomb on Pan American Flight 103 that killed 270 people was planted in Malta, The Sunday Times of London reported. The police have found evidence that the bomb on Pan American Flight 103 that killed 270 people was planted in Malta, The Sunday Times of London reported. The ne...
295669_2
Tearing at the Deep Roots of Protectionism
and services represents half of world trade. Under current conditions, said United States Trade Representative Carla A. Hills, ''corn growers in Iowa, lawyers in New York, citrus farmers in Florida, high-tech manufacturers in California, and a host of our best and most competitive entrepreneurs from coast to coast are ...
295625_0
Long Talks Bring Child Rights Charter to U.N.
LEAD: After 10 years of negotiations, the first comprehensive Convention on the Rights of the Child is expected before the General Assembly for approval next month. After 10 years of negotiations, the first comprehensive Convention on the Rights of the Child is expected before the General Assembly for approval next mon...
295683_1
Effort to Repair an Old Project Lifts Tenants' Spirits (and Paintbrushes)
I can't find anyone who can remember the last time anyone asked for a can of paint at Cabrini-Green.'' The ''Cabrini Alive'' effort took shape last summer at a church group in the Gold Coast neighborhood a few blocks east of Cabrini-Green on the North Side. Parishioners were looking for a way to improve relations with ...
295863_2
THE SELLING OF DNA
- was faintly ridiculous. ''Interferon,'' one scientist told a Forbes magazine reporter in 1980, ''is a substance you rub on stockbrokers.'' Mr. Teitelman, a writer for both Financial World and Oncology Times, begins his tale with the story of Genentech, the largest and most ambitious of the fledgling biofirms. Genente...
295659_3
Under Full Sail From Monte Carlo To Italy's Coast
in the Veranda, a glass-enclosed room on the ship's uppermost deck or in individual cabins. Passengers can help themselves to fresh fruit, yogurt and freshly baked croissants and Danish, or have one of the ever-present waiters fetch a plate of eggs and bacon, or even blueberry pancakes. By late morning passengers had t...
293847_1
U.S. to Offer Plan to Curb Farm Support
get done.'' Mr. de la Garza said there was still ''basic agreement that we should try to ease out of major trade-distorting activities,'' adding, ''If other countries do it, then we should do it also.'' Among the American programs most affected would be those for dairy products and sugar, where price supports are set w...
293861_2
War on Cocaine in Peru Is Sputtering
and tons of semi-refined cocaine are piling up in jungle redoubts. As demand from Colombia has fallen, the officials say, the price for a kilogram of semi-refined cocaine, or base, as it is called, has plunged from $1,400 last August to about $600. Prices in U.S. Remain Steady ''There's been a lot of disruption in Peru...
293821_1
Outdoors: A Reel of Diplomacy
German and her native Catalan, but also issues the fishing licenses. I wanted special permission to fish, a permit she was reluctant to grant since one had never been issued before, ever. She realized I was going to appeal to the Prime Minister in the course of an interview about local economics, and considered it a wa...
292489_4
THE CALIFORNIA QUAKE: Earthquake Engineering; Why the Skyscrapers Just Swayed
between the Giants and Athletics, since it is the only roadway spanning San Francisco and Oakland - the Bay Bridge broke in only one section, along the seam of an expansion joint. ''I would be surprised if there is any real structural weakness in the bridge,'' Dr. Buckle said. ''If you consider the height of the bridge...
293088_0
Soviet Citizens Protest Nuclear Tests
288907_0
Phony Reform for Congressional Mail
LEAD: Roused by the ethics scandal that drove House Speaker Jim Wright from office, Congressional leaders of both parties vowed ethics and campaign reforms. But the House failed an important test last week when it reneged on a pledge to impose stringent curbs on lawmakers' free mailing privileges. Roused by the ethics ...
288924_0
Patents; Creating New Tomatoes In Test Tube Procedure
LEAD: In their pursuit of better tomatoes, researchers at the DNA Plant Technology Corporation in Cinnaminson, N.J., have patented a method for breeding them. In their pursuit of better tomatoes, researchers at the DNA Plant Technology Corporation in Cinnaminson, N.J., have patented a method for breeding them. The meth...
288821_1
Harsud Journal; Water, Water Everywhere? Many Now Say 'No!'
They will forever alter the course and character of the Narmada, a sacred river to the valley's tribal people. More than 1.5 million mostly poor Indians will be displaced or have their traditional livelihoods altered, environmentalists say. Tens of thousands will lose homes and land. One of the two largest dams, the Na...
290632_0
Population Bomb Keeps Ticking
LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Sixteen years ago, when George Bush was United States delegate to the United Nations, he wrote: ''Success in the population field, under United Nations leadership, may . . . determine whether we can resolve successfully the other great questions of peace, prosperity and individual ri...
290796_0
Population Bomb Keeps Ticking; China's Policy Decried
LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: I am baffled by the statement of Richard N. Gardner, a professor of international law at Columbia University, that ''Recent assessments by Congress confirm that Beijing's population policy is not coercive'' (''Bush, the U.N. and Too Many People,'' Op-Ed, Sept. 22). As a member of the...
290797_0
Disabled Newborns Deserve to Live
LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Is there any more compelling evidence of the need for national civil rights legislation to protect individuals with disabilities than ''Fetuses' Right Not to Be Born'' by Mary Steichen Calderone (Op-Ed, Sept. 16)? In the name of the unborn who have disabling conditions, Dr. Calderone...
289700_2
Gene-Altering Process for Animals Is Patented
into its chromosomes. The method was developed in the early 1980's by Thomas Wagner, head of Ohio University's Edison Animal Biotechnology Center in Athens, Ohio, and Peter C. Hoppe, a researcher at Jackson Laboratories in Bar Harbor, Me. Ohio University holds the patent, which DNX said would be issued Tuesday, and it ...
293345_1
TRIMMING SCHOOL COSTS: READERS RESPOND; The 'Good Old Days' May Rest in Peace
had one superintendent and an assistant superintendent. There were no therapists or teachers for the blind. We did have three classes for the ''retarded.'' Classes for the learning disabled, emotionally disturbed and handicapped were unknown. I have spent the last 33 years with the Huntington School District. When I be...
293558_1
Archbishop of Canterbury Hails Unity on Women
which has done so much to foster it,'' he said, referring to Bishop Edmond Browning, the church's presiding bishop. ''It needs translation into every diocese in the communion.'' Archbishop Runcie, spiritual head of the world's 70 million Anglicans, is taking part in festivities here marking the bicentennial of the Epis...
293312_2
The Amistad Revolt: 'A Tale of Triumph'
of those stories that has been ignored but which everyone thinks they've discovered on their own.'' Ms. Boone, who has participated in symposiums on the Amistad, is an associate professor of history of art and African and African-American studies at Yale University. ''It's a story for everyone to teach, to study,'' she...
295356_2
The Big Oil Spill From Home Mechanics
represents a lost opportunity to reduce dependence on imported oil. The petroleum institute estimates the oil dumped could, if burned, meet the annual electricity needs of 360,000 houses. The institute says it takes 42 gallons of crude oil - but only a single gallon of used oil - to make 2.5 quarts of virgin lubricatin...
289437_0
Benefits of Soviet Entry Into Tariff System
LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: In ''Keep Moscow Out of Gatt'' (Op-Ed, Sept. 17), Michael Samuels, former United States delegate to General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade meetings, correctly argues that the Soviet Union is not yet a market economy, but he incorrectly concludes that we must therefore keep it out of ...
287981_1
Nations Agree to Extension Of Coffee Pact for 2 Years
Agreement has received the necessary backing of importing and exporting nations, allowing it to take effect without new provisions for price supports, officials said today. About 41 exporting and 18 importing countries have notified the United Nations that they accept the extended coffee agreement, said Alexandre Beltr...
287941_4
New Fight in Old West: Farmers vs. Condo City
Bergmeyer,'' said Jake Kittle, who lives in the nearby town of Wilson, Wyo. Mr. Bergmeyer said that when he and his wife bought the resort two years ago they were considered saviors of the valley. ''Now I'm labeled as the bad developer,'' he said. Court Delays Land Swap Because the ski resort, one of three in the Jacks...
287901_1
Pope and Runcie See Snag to Reunion
practice out of hand. The two spiritual guides - one to 850 million Catholics, the other to the Church of England and 70 million Anglicans worldwide - spoke hopefully of eventual reunification and of a cooperative spirit that they said had permeated their discussions here over the last four days. Nevertheless, they sai...
288028_2
Acid Rain and Fertilization Linked to Greenhouse Effect
Aber of the University of New Hampshire. Nitrogen is being deposited on soil in increasing amounts through agricultural fertilizer, whose use is increasing worldwide, and through acid rain, which is a growing problem both in Europe and North America. The Massachusetts experiment was intended primarily to assess the eff...
296289_0
Supreme Court Roundup; Product-Liability Ruling Left Standing by Justices
LEAD: The Supreme Court today let stand one of the most far-reaching product-liability rulings ever issued by an American court. The Supreme Court today let stand one of the most far-reaching product-liability rulings ever issued by an American court. That ruling, by New York's highest court last April, made all manufa...
296380_2
Rediscovering the Lost Crops of the Incas
developed. ''I think they're fascinating, myself,'' said Dr. Norman Borlaug, the agricultural scientist who in 1970 won a Nobel Prize for developing the high-yield wheat that helped bring about the ''green revolution'' in the third world. ''Given reasonable research,'' he said, some of the Incan plants ''might turn up ...
294259_0
'College Age' Means Almost Any Age
LEAD: On college campuses around the country, more and more people in their mid-20's to their 90's are joining their younger counterparts in pursuit of knowledge for their careers or their fulfillment. On college campuses around the country, more and more people in their mid-20's to their 90's are joining their younger...
294411_0
Customs Eases Rule On Seizing Vessels That Contain Drugs
LEAD: The Federal guidelines instituted to hit hard at illegal drug users by seizing their cars and boats have been altered, allowing some people to pay fines and go on their way, a Customs Service official said today. The Federal guidelines instituted to hit hard at illegal drug users by seizing their cars and boats h...
291741_3
Using Art as a Sword to Defend Brazil's Forests
led him to a home life integrated with nature. In Nova Vicosa, his house is in a 2,000-year-old, 23-foot-high tree, a scorched gift from a friend. But, within the last few years, Mr. Krajcberg's work and great will to spread his message have taken him far from the isolation of his tree house. In 1987, he had an exhibit...
291601_6
Gold Monkeys Learn How to Live in Wild In Brazilian Preserve
the structure offers exhibits on animals and plants of the reserve. Locally, the project has become so popular that about 40 local farmers have signed up to have golden lion tamarin families on their land. ''Only 20 years ago, people used to trap the monkeys with bananas and sell them by the side of the road,'' Antonio...
258182_1
7 Polystyrene Makers Form Recycling Project
packaging in some areas are ''certainly one of the reasons we are moving aggressively.'' A Disposal Problem Polystyrene, the material used in throwaway hot drink cups and fast-food containers, has drawn the ire of groups concerned with the growing problem of solid waste disposal. It accounts for only a small percentage...
258347_0
PATTERNS
LEAD: Canadian Beachhead in U.S. In anticipation of the end of trade barriers between the United States and Canada, Mr. Jax, one of Canada's leading sportwear manufacturers, has established a beachhead in this country. The company hired an American designer, Ron Leal, last year to strengthen its fashion image and opene...
259781_3
Peru Is Trying to Shift Focus of Trade to Pacific
created a growing chaos, compounded by a Maoist-armed revolt that is gaining strength in Peru's Andes. The confidence of foreign investors was shaken in the late 1980's by two moves by Mr. Garcia - a campaign to nationalize private banks and a two-year freeze on paying dividends and profits to overseas companies. Econo...
259775_0
Washington Talk; New Cuban Diplomat: At Ease in a Hot Spot
LEAD: At a reception at Cuba's small diplomatic mission here the other evening, an American said she was disappointed that the hors d'oeuvres gave no hint of Cuban cuisine. At a reception at Cuba's small diplomatic mission here the other evening, an American said she was disappointed that the hors d'oeuvres gave no hin...
259814_4
I. F. Stone, Iconoclast of Journalism, Is Dead at 81
be virtuous. Plato as a Threat Without defending the verdict, Mr. Stone sought to show that Plato had failed to report that Socrates, his mentor, was regarded as a threat to national security for assailing the Athenians' faith in participatory democracy at a time when their democratic government was threatened with ove...
259831_1
High Ozone and Acid-Rain Levels Found Over African Rain Forests
scientists, who belong to separate teams from West Germany and France, said the acid rain and ozone pollution - held to be harmful to plants - are largely caused by man-made fires that rage for months across thousands of miles of African savannas. Farmers and herdsmen set the fires to clear shrubs and to stimulate the ...
256674_2
Pennsylvania Schools Chief Quits Amid Criticism
is the lack of communication,'' said Thomas Gentzel, a lobbyist for the Pennsylvania School Boards Association. ''There was no dialogue.'' Vigorous Denial In an interview, Mr. Gilhool vigorously denied that, saying that he had met with directors of the intermediate units three times in the past year and that some of th...
258559_0
Ford to Expand Research Center
LEAD: Citing the need to find ways of meeting new environmental regulations, the Ford Motor Company said it would spend $97 million to expand its laboratories in Dearborn, Mich., southwest of here. A new building containing 125,000 square feet of floor space will be erected within four years next to the existing plant ...
258579_2
Mestre Journal; Life With Glamorous Venice Isn't All Romance
run high that Venice gets too much attention and that tax revenue could be better spent. For some, independence is a matter of civic pride, and there are those in Venice who agree. It would be good for Mestre to stand on its own, they say. A few, it must be noted, also recoil at the idea of their jewel of a city going ...
258603_0
U.S. Says It Has Hard Evidence of Salmon Pirating by Foreigners
LEAD: The Coast Guard has taken custody of a Taiwanese fishing vessel in the middle of the North Pacific after collecting what American officials say is the first hard evidence of large-scale pirating of West Coast salmon by foreign boats. The Coast Guard has taken custody of a Taiwanese fishing vessel in the middle of...
261619_0
Conservationists Worldwide Are Determined to Save the Elephant
LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: In a June 9 news article in which you characterized the new United States ban on ivory imports as one of the greatest triumphs of a relatively young wildlife lobby, you also referred to dissension among conservation groups. The real issue is that, despite different approaches, the co...
261561_4
NICARAGUAN STUDY DEPICTS ECONOMY IN DRASTIC DECLINE
presented in the report, the country's per-capita gross domestic product has fallen to roughly $300 a year. That figure is less than the comparable figure of $330 a year for Haiti, long the hemisphere's poorest nation. According to World Bank data, it would put Nicaragua on a par with such very poor nations as Somalia,...
260498_1
As the Labor Pool Dwindles, Doors Open for the Disabled
discriminating against the handicapped in hiring and promotions. A major provision of this sweeping package of civil rights measures would prohibit a private employer of 15 or more workers from discriminating against a qualified job applicant or worker because of a handicap. The proposed Americans with Disabilities Act...
260423_0
Researchers Discover New Way Gene Defects Can Lead to Cancer
LEAD: Scientists have found a previously unknown way in which gene defects can lead to cancer, a discovery that may eventually offer improved ways of detecting some forms of cancer in the earliest stages when treatment can be most effective. Scientists have found a previously unknown way in which gene defects can lead ...
260479_2
Paris Leader Speaks Little, Does Much
a nation that is manifestly weary of what the Prime Minister called ''political fanaticism'' - the partisan squabbling between right and left. Pact for New Caledonia In an extensive interview in his grand office in the Hotel Matignon, Mr. Rocard noted that journalists had the obligation to write but that he had ''the r...
257372_0
Your Money; Popularity Grows For Incentive Pay
LEAD: The millions of Americans who hope for a salary increase might well expand their horizons. Incentives and perquisites are the most rapidly growing areas of executive compensation, and they are starting to filter down to middle management, said Avery E. Neumark, a partner in Ernst & Whinney. The millions of Americ...
257401_5
Mobile Phones, as Prices Drop, Aren't Just for Work Anymore
Peak rates are in effect on weekdays, usually during a 12-hour period starting at 6, 7 or 8 A.M., and off-peak rates are usually 25 to 50 percent less. Rates vary considerably from market to market, and within markets carriers - the Government requires two in each market - offer packages tailored to different amounts o...
255599_0
NEW GROUP FIGHTS EPISCOPAL CHANGES
LEAD: Traditionalist Episcopalians who oppose their church's approval of women as priests and bishops today founded a new national association that could become an independent denomination if they felt their views were not respected. Traditionalist Episcopalians who oppose their church's approval of women as priests an...
255535_0
Letter: On Trade; Sugar Quota Our Exception, Their Rule
LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: There you go again. In your May 23 editorial on trade, you claim that U.S. sugar quotas serve as a good example of why we should not accuse anyone else of unfair trade practices. As the lawyer who wrote the briefs in the case you cite with regard to the General Agreement on Tariffs a...
255608_1
Youths With Brutal Pasts, in a Prison 'Without Cruelty'
murder, rape or robbery. Soaring Juvenile Crime Questions about the program are being raised at a time when the deterrent value of New York's juvenile offender law is being debated because of the April attack on a woman jogging in Central Park. Five of the six youths charged in the attack are 14 or 15 years old and wil...
255513_0
Amgen Faces Challenges on Anemia Drug
LEAD: Although Amgen Inc. won a major victory Thursday, when the Food and Drug Administration gave it exclusive permission to market the drug epoetin alfa, under the name Epogen, the company still faces two serious challenges to its patent position. Although Amgen Inc. won a major victory Thursday, when the Food and Dr...
257074_0
Film Planned On Brazilian Ecologist
LEAD: A Brazilian film company has won the rights to the life story of the slain Brazilian ecologist Francisco (Chico) Mendes. A Brazilian film company has won the rights to the life story of the slain Brazilian ecologist Francisco (Chico) Mendes. The announcement, made at a news conference on Wednesday by the producer...
257196_1
Kuwait Statement on Output Spurs a Rally in Oil Prices
much less than its current production. On Wednesday, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries had signed a new production agreement that set Kuwait's new quota at 1.093 million barrels a day. It is now producing nearly 2 million barrels a day. West Texas Intermediate crude oil was 15 cents to 33 cents higher, ...
255637_1
NOTED WITH PLEASURE
at his feet, a hush seemed to fall in the mesquite and paloverde, as if the bright early-morning desert had died with the shot. Guided Tour of Heavy Thoughts To read philosophy through Arthur C. Danto's eyes, with most of the difficulty peeled away, is like a stolen pleasure. Here's a wry example from his ''Connections...
255654_4
BUT SOME BOOKS ARE STILL BAD
undisclosed and unexamined doctrine to underpin the literary project that I call sociological. This doctrine holds that the identity of the literary work is such as to allow it free and transparent passage through different historical and cultural moments. Ms. Smith expresses this in contesting Hume's observation that ...
256045_9
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 89, the Unwavering Iranian Spiritual Leader
book called, ''Unveiling the Mysteries.'' ''The orders of the dictatorial state of Riza Shah,'' he declared, ''are valueless and all laws approved by the Parliament must be burned.'' The book, foreshadowing the Ayatollah's later campaign, accused Riza Shah of persecuting the clergy, destroying Islamic culture and submi...
255704_2
Professor Backs Natural Gas for Autos
at about 50 service stations that have converted to the new fuel. The movement is spreading easterly through Canada, Dr. Durbin says. Now that he is hooked on the concept, Dr. Durbin speaks of it with the impatient zeal of a crusader who is ahead of his time. He notes with gloom that the swing to automotive natural gas...
256006_1
Lapses Found in Handling of Iran-Contra Material
in the White House and evidence of disorder in at least some of the Congressional record-keeping, particularly in the House committee, which was unable to find some of its correspondence with the White House and had to ask for copies from the Bush Administration. Review Still Under Way While their review is not yet com...
255669_1
In a Wheelchair but in the Mainstream
of 1,240 out of 1,500 points on the Scholastic Aptitute Test, David has maintained a B-minus average since 1984 when he started attending classes full time in the Amity regional school system. He has also taught disabled students how to use computers, discussed his experiences as a disabled student in public schools wi...
255748_10
GETTING THE ELECTRONICS JUST RIGHT
sits down to breakfast in her home in suburban San Mateo, thanks to an E-mail system that she can phone into from her personal computer. Her E-mail directory routinely includes status reports from night-shift employees who run data and telecommunications centers under her supervision. She might also find suggestions fr...
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Let's Not Do as the French Do on Nuclear Power
LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: The interview with Remy Carle, assistant director general of Electricite de France, on the French nuclear power program (''France Stands by Nuclear Power,'' Business Day, May 8) was interesting for the public-policy aspect of nuclear power. However, it missed the mark on what's reall...
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Flood of Newsprint Erodes Success Of Recycling
LEAD: Americans bought 13.2 million tons of newspapers last year, then put 4.7 million tons of them out on the curb to be recycled and advance the cause of conservation. But public officials say a growing glut of used newsprint, brought on by an increase in recycling programs, has thrown many of the programs into disar...
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JAPAN TO CURTAIL ITS IVORY IMPORTS
cut raw-ivory imports here from about 110 tons a year to about 15 percent of that level. Also banned would be ivory products from non-African countries, which were recently running in the range of 30 tons a year. Message to Ivory Syndicates Those imports have led Japan to consume about 40 percent of the world's ivory e...
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Debate on Aiding Gifted Disabled Pupils
all too familiar. A legislative effort to aid such families has led to a division among educators, state officials and others. Under the law, if a local school district cannot provide the educational services a handicapped student needs, it can place him in a private-school special-education program that is approved by...
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All the World Stands Ready To Turn Away The Boat People
attacks and hostile reception they face if they are lucky enough to reach shore in Hong Kong, Malaysia or Thailand. They also hear about the shrinking chances of being accepted by the United States, Canada, Australia or France, the principal countries of asylum. The fact that the exodus from Vietnam continues despite t...
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For the Palestinians, Washington Is Losing Promise as a Peacemaker
the P.L.O. is given a role - and Mr. Shamir says yes to elections, provided the P.L.O. is not given a role? Before the Bush Administration figures out how to untie this Gordian knot, though, the whole rope could unravel in its hands because of the dialogue of deeds. The Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupati...
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Careers; Companies Urged to Add To Training
the future.'' While companies are increasing their inside training staffs, they are also using more outside consultants for special projects. Another indication of greater emphasis is the growing role of the training director in management. Still another trend is for more top human resource directors to have a backgrou...
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Private Space Projects Lagging
the production of a hormone that could be used for the development of new drugs, space-policy experts were predicting a rush of similar ventures and the opening of a new business frontier. McDonnell Douglas and Ortho announced plans to have an orbiting production plant aboard shuttle flights within a few years, and a n...
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The Nuclear Version of 20 Questions
LEAD: Until 1985, U.S. law prohibited the sharing of nuclear weapons design with any other country except Britain. Yet for a decade, American officials had been secretly helping France design nuclear weapons. The extensive help secured France's tacit cooperation in NATO plans, despite its supposed independence, and man...