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243819_1 | Ex-Burpee Chief Named To Du Pont Joint Venture | company, has been named the president of a new venture called Freshworld that hopes to market better-tasting varieties of fresh produce. ''What we're looking for is genetic exclusivity,'' said Mr. MacDowell, 57. In essence, he wants to put the taste of backyard garden vegetables into commercial crops, he said. At Burpe... |
243783_4 | Gan Attack: Unusual for Its Viciousness | seem to personify a level of unattainable affluence is a common pattern among particpants in wolf-pack attacks. ''From what I have been able to gether about the Central Park case, there seem to be some socioeconomic factors involved,'' said Dr. Leah Blumberg Lapidus, a specialist in adolescent behavior in Columbia Univ... |
243638_1 | Warming of Oceans Spurs Concern Over Shift in Climate | were skewed because a Mexican volcano, El Chichon, erupted in 1982. But climatologists said that while the findings did not prove global warming, they were consistent with it. ''It's too soon to tell'' whether the new readings say anything about climatic trends, said A. E. Strong of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric... |
242328_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | LEAD: International A2-11 International A2-11 A rise in West German interest rates was announced. It upset stock and bond markets in West Germany, the United States and other countries and fueled fears that other nations will follow suit. Page A1 Unrest among Soviet troops that once would have been invisible is breakin... |
242372_0 | Sensible Ways to Save Young Lives | LEAD: America may be the richest country in the world but its infant mortality rate still lags shamefully. The National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality, headed by former Senator Lawton Chiles, offers a sensible program for improvement. America may be the richest country in the world but its infant mortality rate... |
242287_2 | KEY LENDING RATES INCREASED BY BONN TO CURB INFLATION | currencies. The rate increase by West Germany highlights the extreme importance that nation places on keeping inflation tightly checked. The West German inflation rate, while much below other countries, is currently at an unusually high 2.7 percent a year. The Bundesbank said the move ''reflected the fact that monetary... |
242296_0 | A Worried Liquor Industry Readies for Birth-Defect Suit | LEAD: Already faced with declining sales and increasingly hostile public attitudes, the alcoholic beverage industry is bracing for the first in a series of trials in which they are blamed for causing birth defects. Already faced with declining sales and increasingly hostile public attitudes, the alcoholic beverage indu... |
242272_0 | Mitterrand Ends a Visit to Bonn Tainted by Kohl's Domestic Woes | LEAD: President Francois Mitterrand and Chancellor Helmut Kohl today ended a two-day meeting that was colored by the West German leader's sharpening domestic difficulties, which are causing deep concern in Paris. President Francois Mitterrand and Chancellor Helmut Kohl today ended a two-day meeting that was colored by ... |
239688_2 | Moscow Rations Sugar, a First Since '45 | ''It's the right decision,'' said Irina V. Solenova, a cash- register clerk, who complained that the quest for sugar, currently selling at about 75 cents a pound, has been getting out of control. ''People have been coming from everywhere to Moscow to buy sugar, and there's not enough for Muscovites.'' Around the corner... |
241410_0 | A Forest Near Times Sq. Faces Danger | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: You report that Brazilians are smarting from the outcry among ''rich nations'' that object to destruction of the Amazon rain forests (news story, March 23). No wonder. How can we complain when our own Government provides huge subsidies for the clear cutting, at an economic loss, of r... |
241434_2 | Book Notes | publisher plans to auction the book for paperback reprint, and it has already accepted a six-figure minimum guarantee (''floor'') from Warner Books. An Unlikely Best Seller Stephen W. Hawking's ''Brief History of Time'' (Bantam Books) has now been on the best-seller list for 52 weeks. Since the book is by a scientist w... |
241504_2 | Panel Finds U.S. Lags on Schools and Health Care | shortfall of savings relative to investment in the American economy.'' It added, ''The nation simply consumes so much of its output that there is not enough left over, or saved, to meet its investment needs. The nation has met this savings shortfall by borrowing overseas to finance its investment.'' The nation's second... |
238067_2 | Brazil Announces Plan to Protect the Amazon | 49 environmental decrees. Some of the decrees created new parks. Others provided investments totaling $76 million in new environmental programs. Stand Is Criticized The highly nationalistic tone of the speech followed a week of incidents that reinforced the belief held by many Brazilian officials that they are under at... |
240129_3 | Foreign Repairs on Jets Prompt Concern in U.S. | trade surplus in airliner maintenance, according to a study conducted by Gellman Research Associates Inc, of Jenkintown, Pa., for the Air Transport Association, the airline trade group. In 1987, the 14 largest United States airlines earned $104 million from maintenance done for foreign airlines while they spent only $8... |
244078_1 | The Jogger and the Wolf Pack | leaving her for dead in the April mud. New Yorkers respond with unanimous fury: Those guilty of the atrocity deserve swift, stern punishment. The news inspires horror and outrage: A pack of teen-agers rampages through Central Park, harassing and assaulting several people, ultimately brutalizing and raping an innocent y... |
243961_2 | Bonn's Dovish Nuclear Stand Winning Support in NATO | on different issues, the West German coalition within NATO typically includes Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Greece and Luxembourg. Yet a decisive turn in Bonn's favor occurred after President Francois Mitterrand of France was re-elected to a second seven-year term last May. In his first term,... |
243874_1 | Lessons | the same thing at Queens?'' The new research is from Michael Useem, director of the Center for Applied Social Science at Boston University, who conducted surveys of 535 corporations and 505 middle and senior managers. The results are discussed in ''Liberal Education and the Corporation,'' published by Aldine de Gruyter... |
243925_0 | Maxwell Smart's Phone Is Moving Onto the Market | LEAD: In the 1960's television series ''Get Smart,'' the secret agent Maxwell Smart had a radio telephone so small that it fit inside his shoe. Now Motorola Inc. appears to be ahead in the race for such a phone with a cellular model small enough to fit in a pocket or purse. In the 1960's television series ''Get Smart,'... |
243881_0 | Economic Scene; Burger Flippers Take the Heat | LEAD: AS America's white-collar elite grows rich, must the poor and near-poor be left behind? AS America's white-collar elite grows rich, must the poor and near-poor be left behind? The widening income gap, especially disheartening for its disproportionate impact on the young and non-white, has been casually linked to ... |
228601_1 | From Bumpers to Hoods, Detroit Opens the Door for Plastics | to change. Taking cues from the Japanese, American auto makers have shifted from mass producing single models in runs of 300,000 or more to building several distinct models on top of the same platform, but in smaller quantities. Plastics are cost competitive with steel for these lower production runs of 100,000 cars or... |
228914_4 | Solo or Package? The Choice Is Yours | visits seven countries. Travelers are accompanied by ''a professional multilingual American Express tour manager.'' After two days in London, the group flies to Amsterdam, then goes by tour bus to West Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and France. City-to-city bus journeys, each lasting several hours, are made on ni... |
228595_1 | Producers Share Research To Whip the Competition | university research on projects with commercial appeal. For instance, since 1985, 41 companies, the Government and trade groups have given a total of $4.5 million to the Center for Plastics Recycling Research at Rutgers State University in New Jersey to develop products from recycled plastics, some of which are now bei... |
228596_1 | Polishing Thier Image with Consumers, Even First Graders | Corporation to make products like insulation materials from fast-food containers collected from the restaurant chain. Manufacturers have also created advertising campaigns to promote recycling over more severe measures to reduce waste. In response to a law passed last year by the legislature in Suffolk County, N.Y., th... |
228755_2 | Dependency Leads to Abuse | his family or has been friendlier. The agents, understandably, are insecure about client relationships based only on good will. The agent is reluctant to refer his client to someone else for fear of losing the client. Some agents try to handle all aspects of the athlete's life themselves. This renaissance-man approach ... |
234301_1 | Forests Are Still Vanishing | the Pacific Slope are ancient or ''old-growth'' forests in sizable tracts still to be found in this country. Even they may be gone within 20 or 30 years. Thus has the United States done throughout its history what a righteous world denounces Brazil for doing today; no wonder Brazilian leaders point to the United States... |
234423_1 | Children: Patients, Pupils, People | and Henry Waxman have just proposed to help poor children the right way: comprehensively. Legislation they introduced this week seeks to insure physical and educational development of all children. The details remain to be evaluated, but the approach is surely welcome. Representatives George Miller and Henry Waxman hav... |
231998_2 | TRADE GAP SHRINKS AS U.S. EXPORTS DIP LESS THAN IMPORTS | than it appeared since he could find no particular reason for the deterioration with Canada. Exports in January fell $1.3 billion, or 4.3 percent, to $27.8 billion, after reaching a record high in December, the Commerce Department said. Exports of capital equipment fell $1.2 billion while industrial supplies and materi... |
232060_1 | Chile Halts Exports of Fruit But Assails U.S. Warnings | Drug Administration said Monday that traces of cyanide had been found in two seedless red grapes from Chile that were in a batch at the port in Philadelphia. The discovery came during spot checks by Federal officials after the United States and Japanese embassies in Santiago received anonymous telephone calls earlier t... |
230596_3 | WITH TIRES | will provide more even wear. Because of new technology and the accuracy used in manufacturing, it is less important than it used to be to follow a certain pattern in rotating radial or bias-ply tires. But many of the makers recommend what is called the ''Forward-X'' pattern, particularly for front-wheel-drive cars. Wit... |
230665_1 | U.N. Rights Panel Avoids Cuba Issue | Human Rights Commission ended its annual session today without making provisions to review human rights abuses by Cuba again next year, as the Bush Administration wanted. The commission warned several other countries for the first time about their human rights record and adopted a number of international agreements des... |
235652_1 | Next Hurdle for Cleaner Cars: Find a Fuel Besides Gasoline | and eventually become a minor component of air pollution, the scientists say, vehicles will have to switch to energy sources like natural gas, electricity and fuels containing methanol. Progress Seen by 2000 In the meantime, they predict that by 2000 the total number of cars employing the latest technology will have in... |
235736_0 | Topics of The Times; Fido Calling, and Calling | LEAD: Imagine the house dog or cat marooned on a doorstep, its plaintive bark, meow or scratch drowned out by passing traffic or its owner's TV set. Imagine rain making the scene all the more pathetic. Or imagine the same dog or cat desperate to get out and thus avoid a spanking for sullying the rug yet again. Imagine ... |
235640_3 | 20 Retarded Children Shunted To Squalid Foster-Care Home | neglected or abused by their parents, but the majority were placed voluntarily, in effect abandoned by parents who were overwhelmed by trying to care for them and unable to get them in state institutions on their own. Action After Lawsuit Yet the foster-care system was ill-prepared for them. Foster families would not t... |
233970_0 | Sugar Prices Fall Sharply After Report of Soviet Intent | LEAD: Sugar futures prices plummeted to a two-week low yesterday, and the market braced for further declines amid reports that the Soviet Union had said for the second time in as many weeks that it had finished its sugar buying for this year. Sugar futures prices plummeted to a two-week low yesterday, and the market br... |
234043_0 | Brazil, Smarting From the Outcry Over the Amazon, Charges Foreign Plot | LEAD: Embarrassed by the international outcry against the destruction of the Amazon rain forest, the Brazilian Government has begun a nationalist campaign that includes denunciations of foreign meddling and charges that the rich nations themselves covet the region's immense spaces and mineral wealth. Embarrassed by the... |
234043_6 | Brazil, Smarting From the Outcry Over the Amazon, Charges Foreign Plot | not to finance a road that environmentalists said could speed destruction of the jungle. Japan then strongly denied any involvement in the project. Indignant to see the United States and Japan discussing Brazil's future, Mr. Sarney declared the road to be a national priority and said it would be built with or without f... |
234115_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | LEAD: International A3-14 A treaty to restrict waste shipments across borders was unanimously adopted by more than 100 countries. The treaty aims to prevent the exportation of hazardous waste to unsafe, inadequate sites. Page A1 International A3-14 A treaty to restrict waste shipments across borders was unanimously ado... |
227798_2 | Last Civilian Photography Satellites to Shut Down | No money for operations was set aside by the Reagan Administration in its fiscal 1989 budget, but Congress provided six months of operating funds. That money will run out on March 31, forcing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which oversees the system, to order yesterday that it be readied for shutdo... |
227807_1 | Tokyo Orders a Cut in Buying of Iranian Oil | edict against Mr. Rushdie last month, West Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands and Japan, among others, have acted to stop further economic negotiations with Teheran, depriving Iran of $3 billion to $4 billion in credit lines it had hoped to secure from those countries over the next few months. Last Thursday, West ... |
227870_3 | For the Undecided, Tower Vote Poses Hard Choice | one group says that.'' Battle Over Bork Recalled In terms of pressure from back home, the politics of the decision leave much to the discretion of the senator. In contrast to the furor over Judge Robert H. Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court, comparatively little mail has been received on the Tower nomination, sever... |
229612_1 | Trace That Call No More! | their wits. And you'd be wrong. Because, look what happens: Phone rings, you look at your new phone attachment with its digital display showing the number the call is coming from, and you say, ''Do I know anybody at that number?'' You can't remember, can you? If you're like me, you can't remember your own home number h... |
229661_1 | About New York; In Williamsburg, Hasidim Find A Door of Hope | seen walking with retarded children late at night to avoid detection. The most obvious reason is the deliberate distance separating the Hasidim from the modern world. No television, movies or theater - and traditionally no contamination by such modern concepts as psychotherapy. Moreover, mental impairments are linked t... |
235758_1 | A Yachting Pox on Both Spinnakers | court appeal, New Zealand now owns the old silver mug it has yet to earn. Finally, it has come to this: that a judge can decide who won and who lost. In this litigious society, where people yell ''whiplash'' at the sound of screeching brakes, it had to happen sooner or later. Ideally, sports trophies and titles should ... |
235895_1 | Depressed Parents Put Children At a Greater Risk of Depression | ''A seriously depressed mother or father is not able to have an emotionally attuned, reciprocal engagement with anyone. That can have devastating effects on their children.'' Ways to Cushion Children By identifying difficulties in the way depressed parents treat their children, researchers hope to design ways to interv... |
235921_0 | Sand in His Shoes | LEAD: The ''swarming horde'' is about to hit Cuba. Yanqui media moguls, ever eager for excuses to drop network anchors in exotic waters, will provide more air coverage in their invasion than J.F.K. ever assigned to his fiasco at the Bay of Pigs. The ''swarming horde'' is about to hit Cuba. Yanqui media moguls, ever eag... |
229261_2 | NEWS SUMMARY | computers sometimes do a better job. A1 John Tower has talked about things he never thought he would have to talk about, from rumors that he chased women to what kind of pomade he puts on his hair, as he wages an 11th hour counteroffensive A1 Many Texans cooling toward Tower B11 A Time-Warner merger would create an ent... |
229149_0 | Tax Code Will Send Research Overseas | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: A key point missed in ''U.S. Com-panies Lift R.& D. Abroad'' (Economic Scene column, Feb. 22): the tax code in effect for 1989 may encourage United States companies to move research and development out of this country. Here is just one of the ways the Internal Revenue Service sends r... |
235142_2 | Recycling Law's Mechanics: Symphony of Sorting, Maybe | the Mayor, it could take effect on about July 1. The Sanitation Commissioner is developing regulations and intends to have a six-month education period before imposing fines. Q. How will it be enforced? A. Sanitation police would inspect buildings and issue summonses similar to traffic tickets. Violators would be fined... |
235181_3 | Food Industry Now Testing Crops For Pesticides to Calm Consumers | markert have been testing produce for residues of pesticides in a program developed by NutriClean, a laboratory certification company in Oakland. Earlier this month, the Stop & Shop Supermarket Company of Braintree, Mass., owner of 116 stores in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island signed a contract to join the ... |
235119_3 | A Bumper Crop Of Grapes And Uncertainty | The brunt of the economic loss could fall on the dozens of export companies that take fruit on consignment from hundreds of growers, large and small, and ship it to 40 countries for sale. Working Capital Exporters usually take bank loans, fruit industry officials say, and use them to advance capital to growers, who rep... |
231846_4 | Putting Space-Age Materials to Use | matrix. This imparts some of the properties of the reinforcement to the material. But in applications requiring more strength and stiffness, the fibers are continuous and often loosely woven into tapes or cloth for ease of handling. By orienting the direction and quantity of the fibers, product designers can build in s... |
230695_4 | Paying for Employee Education Benefits | new trade or profession or a substantially different job classification.) Some of those affected will notice the change in their W-2 forms, which will include the educational benefits as additional income. But because the change came late in the year, additional withholding may not have been made. Indeed, some employer... |
230993_0 | CAMPUS LIFE: Barnard; Tradition Revived As Greek Games Stage a Return | LEAD: Read into it, whatever significance you will, but the Greek Games, a once-hardy perennial of Barnard College life, are returning to campus after a 22-year absence. Read into it, whatever significance you will, but the Greek Games, a once-hardy perennial of Barnard College life, are returning to campus after a 22-... |
230698_3 | E-Mail Searches for a Missing Link | wastebaskets, no more misunderstandings on the phone. E-mail is faster and cheaper than overnight services, and for personal messages it is more convenient and secure than fax. If it were easier to use and reached a broader audience, the potential for e-mail would seem unlimited. Besides communicating with one another,... |
230947_0 | U.N. Population Plan for China a Test for U.S. | LEAD: A new United Nations plan to help China control its population growth will provide an early test of the Bush Administration's attitude toward Beijing's forced abortion and sterilization policies, officials and diplomats say. A new United Nations plan to help China control its population growth will provide an ear... |
230833_0 | THE WORLD: The Amazon Forest; Brazil Wants Its Dams, but At What Cost? | LEAD: THE rising waters are already lapping at the treetops and soon a new expanse of rain forest will completely disappear in Brazil's rush for energy. In a few months' time, Samuel, a new hydroelectric dam near this town in the Amazon Basin, will be ready to operate. THE rising waters are already lapping at the treet... |
230833_1 | THE WORLD: The Amazon Forest; Brazil Wants Its Dams, but At What Cost? | harness the power of Brazil's main rivers if the country's industrial south is not to be held back by serious shortages of electricity. Already three new dams are in place in the Amazon Basin. Plans call for the region to fulfill close to 37 percent of Brazil's energy needs within two decades. The quest for energy help... |
231109_7 | 'Students Are a Lot More Self-Concerned' | applicants is better. And, of course, people in health-care jobs are in great demand. Q. Can you quote some starting salaries? A. Engineers are getting in the range of $29,000 to $30,000 or a little more with a bachelor's degree. Accountants average around $26,000 to $28,000. With some of the enrichment money going to ... |
231020_1 | A Puritan At the Helm | than the coast of Maine in a dour mood. In spite of this risk, there are those of us who are drawn irresistibly to sail there. It is not that we forget the awful days; it is partly because of them that we go. The brilliant days owe some of their gleam to the very existence of the awful ones. Those of us who have inheri... |
231024_1 | A Diver's Map of Bermuda: Here There Be Treasures | shifting sand until, back in 1983, a sharp-eyed Bermudian spotted an anomaly on the bottom and decided to investigate. What is she now? A ship? No longer. No more than a skeleton is a man. For what used to be 30 or 40 feet high, deck upon deck of bilge space and cargo space and living space; what used to carry stout ma... |
230689_1 | Goodrich Finally Gets It Right | also history. In their place are a healthy plastics business and a fast-moving bunch of specialty chemical and aerospace businesses run by managers who were handpicked for their entrepreneurial styles, and who have been given the authority to run with their instincts. Today almost all of Goodrich's revenues come from p... |
230909_0 | Aloof Giant, Brazil Warms To Neighbors | LEAD: Displaying the daring shapes of the country's most famous architect and the idealistic vision of a well-known anthropologist, a $50 million monument has been built to a subject that interests few Brazilians: Latin America. Displaying the daring shapes of the country's most famous architect and the idealistic visi... |
232652_6 | Drastic Steps Are Voted to Reduce Southern California Air Pollution | products. The first phase of the new plan, the first five years, would place sharp new controls on the content of paints, solvents, deodorant sprays and the like, which emit hydrocarbons, or reactive organic gases, that create ozone when exposed to sunlight in the air. This is expected to have a drastic effect on indus... |
232588_0 | 2 Are Killed as Medieval Tower Collapses in Italy | LEAD: A 900-year-old medieval tower collapsed in a downtown square of this northern Italian city today, killing two people, injuring 15 and burying parked cars and a newspaper stand, officials said. A 900-year-old medieval tower collapsed in a downtown square of this northern Italian city today, killing two people, inj... |
232525_0 | Japan Denies Backing Amazon Road Project | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: You report that the governor of a state in Western Brazil is negotiating the financing of a 500-mile highway link to Peru with the Government of Japan (front page, Feb. 19), but disregard the simple fact that Japan is not extending any financial cooperation to the project. The Govern... |
232606_3 | Suitcase Shards May Offer Clues To Identities of Pan Am Bombers | bomb was loaded aboard a Pan Am flight there, and later transferred to the jumbo jet at Heathrow Airport near London. The warnings about a bomb in a radio-cassette player followed a raid on suspected cells of a terrorist group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, General Command, on Oct. 26. In that raid... |
233285_1 | NEW AIRPORT RULES ISSUED IN BRITAIN | Flight 103 in December. New security orders have been issued to all of Britain's major airports, according to an airport spokesman. The orders came as a furor continued over warnings received before the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in December. British news reports said the new directive is believed to require passenge... |
233259_0 | With Fate of the Forests at Stake, Power Saws and Arguments Echo | LEAD: In the American rain forests, a misted expanse of coastal evergreens running from Northern California through Southeast Alaska, more of the tallest and oldest trees in the world are being cut from public land than ever before. In the American rain forests, a misted expanse of coastal evergreens running from North... |
227532_3 | Fiery 'Mountains of Tires' Defy Firefighters at Dump | hundred feet away, he was watching a soap opera on television today. ''I'm not going to tell you a thing,'' he said, briefly opening the door to a visitor. Richard Evans, the owner of the company, would not say how much he paid for the use of Mr. Valentine's land, but he said he was angered by the local officials' comp... |
227562_0 | U.S. Ponders Trade Aid for Caribbean | LEAD: The Bush Administration is weighing a plan to increase economic benefits for countries in the Caribbean region by raising their entitlements to ship textiles to the United States at the expense of richer Asian countries. The Bush Administration is weighing a plan to increase economic benefits for countries in the... |
230072_1 | Amgen Beats Japanese on Protein Patent | States patent covering the biological materials and the genetic engineering process used to produce a naturally occurring protein in the human body that stimulates production of white blood cells. Amgen Inc., a small biotechnology company, said today that it had been awarded the first United States patent covering the ... |
230098_0 | Board to Study Disputed Tower Plan | LEAD: Having been debated and reshaped and debated again, a proposal to build a luxury apartment tower over the West Side Y.M.C.A. will come to the New York City Board of Estimate today carrying a narrow rejection from the local community board. Having been debated and reshaped and debated again, a proposal to build a ... |
230057_0 | 8 Amazon Nations Denounce Pressure to Save Rain Forest | LEAD: Seven Amazon countries have united behind Brazil to denounce foreign pressure to save rain forests, saying they would not take orders from abroad on their environmental policies. Seven Amazon countries have united behind Brazil to denounce foreign pressure to save rain forests, saying they would not take orders f... |
236030_0 | Tax Code Also Reduces U.S. Scientist Pool | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: John Pickett (letter, March 6) points out that the tax code encourages United States companies to move research and development centers out of the country. The new tax code also penalizes students who enter graduate study in science, mathematics and engineering, as well as postdoctor... |
236170_0 | Brazil Wants Foreign Aid to Fight Pollution, but No Strings | LEAD: Addressing Brazil's growing environmental problem, President Jose Sarney appealed today for foreign aid, but rejected foreign supervision. Addressing Brazil's growing environmental problem, President Jose Sarney appealed today for foreign aid, but rejected foreign supervision. Speaking in Brasilia, Mr. Sarney war... |
236049_1 | Reviews/Film; A Greek Exile Returns Amid Existential Anguish | years. Spyros, the white-bearded, craggy-faced returned exile, says very little. He gazes at the world with penetrating, stoical, weary hostility. When he first arrives at the port of Piraeus, he asks almost plaintively for his children to kiss him. Thereafter, he evinces no interest in them at all. He rebuffs the ques... |
233798_1 | Bolivia Shifts Tactics in Drug Fight | ''but there would be a high cost in social and economic terms. If we cut off the peasants' income they will react, and we want to avoid violence.'' Bolivia, the poorest nation in South America, is the second-largest grower of coca, after Peru. Most of the Bolivian coca is processed at clandestine laboratories into coca... |
233872_1 | Navy Trident 2 Missile Explodes In Its First Underwater Test Firing | 11 submarines planned for the Trident fleet. The United States also intends to sell the new missile to Britain. The Navy, Congressional staff aides, industry executives and nuclear specialists said the failure today would set the program back several weeks during an investigation into the cause of the explosion. Not un... |
233829_2 | U.S. Trying to Halt Abuses Of Incompetent Pensioners | the poor aged, blind and disabled. The agency says its policy is to not give benefit checks directly to people it considers incompetent to conduct their affairs unless they fail to find a representative within 90 days. But legal experts assert that in some cases the agency has withheld payments for as long as a year. T... |
235350_1 | Talking Business with Shea of Worldwatch Institute; Cleaning Up On Cleaning Up | pollution. In all of these areas, there's a need for innovative devices and approaches. Recycling is particularly rich. Q. Why? A: Waste is the new mother lode. We're producing ever greater volumes of waste - over 150 million tons in the United States over the course of a year. And there are no longer inexpensive, acce... |
235362_0 | Merger in Plant Research | LEAD: Calgene Inc., a leading company in agricultural biotechnology, said today that it planned to acquire its rival, Plant Genetics Inc., in a stock transaction. Calgene Inc., a leading company in agricultural biotechnology, said today that it planned to acquire its rival, Plant Genetics Inc., in a stock transaction. ... |
234544_2 | Satellite Is Lofted for Anti-Missile Test | of an electrically neutral beam of subatomic particles The launching yesterday was preceded by two similar experiments that operated for hours rather than months. In September 1986, a Delta rocket carried a sensor-laden satellite that worked for a few hours. And in February 1988, another Delta carried a satellite that ... |
234550_0 | Crumbling English Cathedrals Go Abroad for Aid | LEAD: The medieval cathedrals of England are crumbling, and their custodians are looking with increasing desperation to wealthy private donors in Britain, the United States and elsewhere to save them. The medieval cathedrals of England are crumbling, and their custodians are looking with increasing desperation to wealt... |
234548_3 | E.P.A. WILL REVIEW DAM IN COLORADO | the announcement ''has a chilling effect on the economic development prospects of the entire Denver metropolitan area. Financed by Local Water Districts ''When we hit the turn of the century, we will have to have a major water project on line to support growth, or we'll be severely constrained,'' Mr. Christopher said. ... |
232381_1 | Koop Says Abortion Report Couldn't Survive Challenge | Committee subpoenaed it and supporting documents. The subcommittee, which oversees some Federal health budgets, has had periodic hearings on abortion policy. Few Surprises There had been speculation that the report was not released previously because it contained information that favored one side of the abortion issue ... |
232367_0 | U.S. Halts Plan to Turn Off the Landsat Satellites | LEAD: Two Landsat Earth-sensing satellites that were to be turned off at the end of the month for lack of money have been given a reprieve by the Bush Administration. Two Landsat Earth-sensing satellites that were to be turned off at the end of the month for lack of money have been given a reprieve by the Bush Administ... |
232355_0 | China Purchase Rumors Send Sugar Prices Soaring | LEAD: Sugar futures prices surged to their highest levels in nine months yesterday amid rumors that China had purchased as much as 500,000 tons of sugar. Sugar futures prices surged to their highest levels in nine months yesterday amid rumors that China had purchased as much as 500,000 tons of sugar. ''What you saw was... |
228333_0 | Japan Declines to Pay For Highway in Brazil | LEAD: Japan has decided not to finance construction of a 500-mile highway through the Amazon rain forests in Brazil, a senior Republican Senator said today. Japan has decided not to finance construction of a 500-mile highway through the Amazon rain forests in Brazil, a senior Republican Senator said today. Senator Robe... |
232978_0 | Newark Will Hold Meeting on Auto Thefts | LEAD: MORE than 300 lawmakers, insurance experts and law-enforcement officals are expected to meet in Newark tomorrow to try to devise solutions to the problem of automobile thefts in New Jersey. MORE than 300 lawmakers, insurance experts and law-enforcement officals are expected to meet in Newark tomorrow to try to de... |
232820_4 | Sports of The Times; How About an Academic Media Guide? | a serious student of Picasso. Not that Harmon's academic schedule was confined to watercolor painting. As an Iowa freshman, he produced a 1.62 average (on a 4.0 scale), an overall D, in such physical-education courses as billiards, bowling, soccer, and coaching football. On the stand Harmon insisted that his curriculum... |
233045_0 | Elcetronic Gear Is Prized But Few Can Afford It | LEAD: Technology enables physically impaired people to hold jobs they otherwise could not. A computer equipped with an electronic voice will read back letters typed in by a visually impaired person for accuracy. Similarly, some computers will articulate words identified on the screen, enabling people with speech diffic... |
232766_0 | Pesticide Regulation, Slow and Unsteady | LEAD: WHAT is the public supposed to think? Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency identified Alar, a chemical used to make apples redder and crisper, as a carcinogen and said that it should be banned - though not until 1990. The E.P.A.'s Acting Deputy Administrator, John Moore, told a Senate subcommittee that... |
232776_3 | The Vatican and the American Ways | did not include, except in the most marginal way, any difficulties created by the Vatican officialdom itself. The problem was aptly illustrated during the meeting when Eduard Cardinal Gagnon, head of the Vatican's office on the family, got headlines in the United States with a scattershot attack on everything from Plan... |
232926_8 | 'YOUR MOTHER IS IN YOUR BONES' | years, it can finally be let go.'' As Amy Tan tells us of her own homecoming on the jacket of ''The Joy Luck Club,'' it was just as her mother had told her it would be: ''As soon as my feet touched China, I became Chinese.'' Woven into the narrative of the lives of June and her mother are the stories of the three other... |
232688_1 | Boone Country: Rugged Land For Recreation | border of Kentucky and the northern border of Tennessee. Largest of the three is the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, which opened last May. Adjoining it is the Rugby Historic District, Hughes's pleasant village, which is undergoing restoration. Visitors to the primitive Big South Fork Area may find b... |
232975_1 | ; Tall Ships and Modern Times | fishing boat, yacht, ferryboat, trawler. The shore is lined with sailboats. I can see Shelter Island between their masts. An enormous shed takes up a lot of space. This is where the sailboats and yachts are wintered. Work, in winter, is mostly on fishing boats and other work boats, such as the Coast Guard cutter that w... |
232886_0 | Radar and Health: Additional Views | LEAD: A journalist who calls attention to an environmental hazard educates the public. One who educates without evidence about such a hazard merely spreads rumors. A journalist who calls attention to an environmental hazard educates the public. One who educates without evidence about such a hazard merely spreads rumors... |
231212_3 | Restorers Gather to Review Their Successes | preservation of art than Italy, and it is the paintings of the Renaissance and Baroque eras that have served as test subjects for some of the most important advances in the history of conservation. During previous centuries, restoration involved such dubious practices as dusting with abrasive brooms, washing with Greek... |
233534_4 | Terrorism Alert: A System Shows Gaps | than normal. Additional batteries used to arm the explosive device would rattle around inside. ''Any item about which a searcher is unable to satisfy himself/herself must, if it is to be carried in the aircraft, be consigned to the aircraft hold,'' the bulletin said. That is where the bomb that destroyed Flight 103 was... |
233408_1 | Long-Term Forest Studies Offer Insight Into Effect of Pollutants | was a regionwide problem. They noted that high acidity levels had made streams uninhabitable for some kinds of aquatic life and made trees more vulnerable to disease. They predicted that if acidity levels remained high, the vegetation would deteriorate, as it has in polluted areas of Europe. ''We really don't know, nor... |
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