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234720_4 | Pipeline Proposal Is Still Unloved, But Very Much Alive | who have been keeping a close eye on the proposal for the region as a whole is Lynn Werner, the Valley Watch director for the Housatonic Valley Association, a Cornwall Bridge-based environmental organization. She said she was encouraged that Iroquois, which had hoped to have the project approved quickly, had not succee... |
234871_1 | A Bristol Visit Anchored In the Past | provide a constant water level), which allowed Bristol to continue against all odds as a major seaport through the 19th century; and the Clifton Suspension Bridge, which soars over the Avon Gorge. Though expansive and exposed rather than encompassed, vertiginous rather than claustrophobic (and thus the antithesis of Gr... |
235002_1 | Study Finds More New York Trash, Despite 'Crisis' | eventually require recycling of 25 percent of the city's waste. It would also call on city residents to separate recyclable material from their trash. But several environmental groups have maintained that the recycling goals should be much more ambitious. Otherwise, the groups say, there would be tremendous pressure to... |
234895_2 | Why Seek The Sound Of the Past? | the meaning of slurs or accents in various contexts - and, of course, financing. The musical past is dealt with, but most often in a parochial way. Occasionally, an iconoclast such as Frederick Neumann or Nikolaus Harnoncourt will take a larger view, perhaps pointing out that historically authentic performance is a chi... |
234936_2 | Ecological Threats, Rich-Poor Tensions | of the world control pollution. But they said that the developing countries must also do their part by instituting reforestation and vigorously seeking alternatives to fossil fuels and chlorofluorocarbons. The global environmental battle could be lost, the London conference was told, if the third world continues to fol... |
234941_3 | The Struggle for Land in Latin America | - has it achieved both social justice and economic efficiency. The Mexican Revolution, between 1910 and 1917, was fought around the banner of land for those who work it, and in the decades that followed most large haciendas were turned into communal farms. But peasants were rarely given the education, credit, fertilize... |
234863_4 | A Short Skyscraper With a Tall Assignment | side Mr. Meier has produced a facade of remarkable strength and self-assurance, a 16-story concave surface of metal that both possesses great impact as pure geometric form and makes great sense within its difficult urban context. The tower faces Main Street with a large plaza, and there is something genuinely spectacul... |
234747_0 | A Note on Work At Croton Site | LEAD: The Feb. 19 article entitled ''The Wiew From: The Croton Reservoir Gatehouse'' is well done, except that one vital component of the project is totally missing: Mergentime Corporation is doing all the construction work reported on with such interest. The Feb. 19 article entitled ''The Wiew From: The Croton Reservo... |
234773_2 | been less and less service at higher and higher prices to many relatively out-of-the-way places. The result has been that only the relatively wealthy can enjoy flying to and from those less well-known places (with some exceptions). In the late 70's, airline bottom lines were doing badly, everyone was fed up with route ... | |
229440_1 | Many Fires Ravage Brazil's Coastal Jungles | remaining coastal jungles are being destroyed by thousands of fires along a 420-mile stretch of coast, the Government said today. Brazil's few remaining coastal jungles are being destroyed by thousands of fires along a 420-mile stretch of coast, the Government said today. The Brazilian Institute of the Environment and ... |
229381_0 | Siblings of Retarded | LEAD: Studies on the interaction between children with Down's syndrome and other children in the family show that the disability does not prevent the retarded child from having normal sibling relationships; in fact, a more positive interrelationship was noted. Studies on the interaction between children with Down's syn... |
309259_0 | GATT Critiques U.S. Policy | LEAD: In its first examination of overall United States trade policy, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the world body that oversees trade, said today that its 96 member nations saw the United States as one of the countries most open to imports. But it added that they were troubled by persistent protection fo... |
312297_5 | Despite Perception, New York City Is on the Mend | the city would grind to a halt. What the Critics Say Uncovering Delays And Cost Overruns Some critics dispute the contention that the rebuilding effort has been a success. They say too many projects have been completed behind schedule and with large cost overruns - assertions that city officials contest. Many critics a... |
312297_11 | Despite Perception, New York City Is on the Mend | and Manhattan to Queens. This first section of Water Tunnel 3 is to be completed in 1992. Three more stages are planned, with the second to be completed by about 1996. The tunnel will improve water pressure in some sections of New York, and it will provide flexibility in routing water. But its primary purpose will be t... |
312463_0 | Samuel Beckett Is Dead at 83; His 'Godot' Changed Theater | LEAD: Samuel Beckett, a towering figure in drama and fiction who altered the course of contemporary theater, died in Paris on Friday at the age of 83. He died of respiratory problems in a Paris hospital, where he had been moved from a nursing home. He was buried yesterday at the Montparnasse cemetery after a private fu... |
306851_0 | Gambling on a New Recycling Device | LEAD: In states with container-deposit laws, people can insert their used cans or bottles in a ''reverse vending machine'' and get back their nickel or dime deposit. But delivering an immediate reward that encourages such recycling is not as easy in states without deposit laws. Now, the Howard Marlboro Group, a sales p... |
306885_0 | Greenpeace Asserts Navy Was Malicious During Protest at Sea | LEAD: The protest group Greenpeace today accused the Navy of maliciousness in ramming its flagship during a protest of the test launching of a Trident 2 missile off Florida on Monday. The protest group Greenpeace today accused the Navy of maliciousness in ramming its flagship during a protest of the test launching of a... |
305579_1 | Prostitution Called Link in Rochester Deaths | been arrested, and some convicted, on such charges. The killings form a story of prostitutes slain while earning money to satisfy a deep addiction to cocaine while others continue to defy the risks of streetwalking and soliciting. It is also the story of the Jones Park neighborhood, a middle-class, multiracial communit... |
305464_0 | Catholicism With a Human Face | LEAD: It is fitting that, on the way to his shipboard summit meeting with George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev is stopping today at Vatican City for an audience with the Pope. More than any American President or Western leader, John Paul II has played a crucial role in the historic liberalization of the Communist world. It i... |
310753_4 | Higher Cancer Risk Found in Radiation | amount that nuclear plants may give off, may also be affected. It will take some years for the conclusions of the report to change regulatory standards. Dr. Arthur Upton, a former head of the National Cancer Institute who was chairman of the committee that wrote the report, said that daily radiation exposure is essenti... |
308680_0 | South Pole Emerging As Center of Astronomy | LEAD: Fighting chronic fatigue caused by thin air and deadly cold, scientists here are assembling a new type of telescope that may reveal the mysterious origin of cosmic rays. Fighting chronic fatigue caused by thin air and deadly cold, scientists here are assembling a new type of telescope that may reveal the mysterio... |
308665_0 | Uncle Sugar, Uncle Milk | LEAD: Christmas brings candy canes, chocolate bonbons - and a woeful tangle of Federal meddling. Candy makers' grief over sugar import quotas peaks during this big selling time. Milk chocolate makers suffer added grief this year, over milk quotas. What's happening is regulation gone haywire. Christmas brings candy cane... |
310192_1 | Newspapers Promise to Use More Recycled Paper | on newspaper recycling, and it was made voluntarily. Newspapers have been coming under increasing pressure to use recycled newsprint. Florida recently imposed a 10-cent-a-ton tax on newsprint made from trees, and legislators in New York and New Jersey have discussed ways to increase the use of recycled paper. Less Soli... |
310208_3 | Salvation Army Is More Than Christmas Kettles | New Sounds for Christ. It has performed from Detroit to St. Thomas, the Virgin Islands, and often plays on Friday and Saturday evenings. Like her mother, Mrs. Burton directs Sunday school at the Temple, runs Bible study groups for young people in her home and belongs to the Home League, the Army's women's organization.... |
309449_0 | Brief Closing for Pisa's Tower | LEAD: The Mayor of Pisa signed an order today that will close the Tower of Pisa to the public from Jan. 7 to April 7 for safety reasons. Mayor Giacomino Granchi said officials would at least consider adopting safety measures that would allow a limited reopening of the tower. Shifting ground under the 180-foot tower lef... |
309411_0 | Administration Supports Family Planning | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: To paraphrase my fellow Missourian Mark Twain, assertions of the demise of United States support for family planning in developing countries are highly exaggerated and without foundation. Many opinion leaders, including you, have concluded that because the Bush Administration opposes... |
311527_0 | Recycling: Creative Challenge | LEAD: I really enjoyed ''Recycling as a Permanent Life Style'' (Dec. 3). In addition to conserving materials and protecting the environment, the author demonstrated prudence and wisdom in approaching packaging from more than one perspective. I really enjoyed ''Recycling as a Permanent Life Style'' (Dec. 3). In addition... |
311871_1 | Trees Don't Vote | not share the romantic and pastoral view held by the sort of ecological groups that defend trees more ardently than the human beings who starve under them. Nor do they take the paternalistic stand of the industrialized nations that, having burned their own forests, now think Brazil incapable of caring for the Amazon wi... |
311694_0 | PORTRAIT OF THE 1980's; What the Rich and Famous Did to Be So Noticed | LEAD: Disgrace was a main theme for the famous (Jim Bakker), along with wealth (Donald Trump) and tastelessness (Morton Downey Jr.). Not a few of the big names were big, and appear here, because they did something wrong. Disgrace was a main theme for the famous (Jim Bakker), along with wealth (Donald Trump) and tastele... |
311814_7 | For an Amazon Indian Tribe, Civilization Brings Mostly Disease and Death | world opinion on the Amazon issue, Brazil's Government has taken several steps to defuse charges of ''genocide through negligence.'' On Nov. 1, a new Funai state director took office here and dispatched four airborne medical teams to Yanomami areas. In a change of tone, he said he would welcome the return of qualified ... |
311532_2 | DES Victims: Search Must Go On | who took the drug to prevent miscarriage are at 44 percent greater risk for breast cancer.) Vital to the identification and treatment of the DES-exposed is a research project called the DES-Adenosis Study (Desad), which has been funded by the National Cancer Institute since 1974. The $271,000 grant needed to continue t... |
311706_1 | Educating The Handicapped | year, 9.9 percent (about one in 10 students), 297,000, were registered in special education programs. This number will increase as drug-addicted babies and infants with fetal alcohol syndrome will need and enter into special education programs. Although special education students are individually tested every three yea... |
311773_2 | A CHURCH WITHOUT PRIESTS | to rise. In the Fort Worth diocese, the growth is expected to be dramatic. These are some of the considerations that propelled the Fort Worth diocese into an experiment in church governance four years ago. At present, seven parishes, including San Patricio, are entrusted to the care of men and women who are not priests... |
311847_0 | IN SHORT: Nonfiction | LEAD: THE DIVERTED DREAM: Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900-1985. By Steven Brint and Jerome Karabel. (Oxford University, $24.95.) The United States sends more of its young people to college than any other nation in the world. Approximately half of them are enrolled in commu... |
311763_1 | Ten Escapes to the Exotic: Zimbabwe | is fortunate that the fantastic nature show is combined with one of the grand hotels of Africa. The Victoria Falls Hotel, spiffed up during 1989 after becoming a little dilapidated, began life in 1904 as a wood and corrugated iron shack for railway workers. But by the 1920's, when Rhodesia was developing into a premier... |
306734_5 | The Cost of Drug Abuse: $60 Billion a Year | arrests. New patterns of flight capital, particularly from Peru, Colombia and Bolivia, are also being perceived by economists. Most of the cocaine smuggled into the United States and Europe is processed from coca plants grown in the Andes. Drug Profits Invested The Latin drug dealers have traditionally moved a substant... |
306711_2 | Tight Limits Proposed for Popular Farm Chemical | those uses would not take effect until the spring of 1991, unless the manufacturers act voluntarily. Environmentalists asserted such a delay represented a health hazard, but the Government said the additional risk was negligible. The delay could be greater if manufacturers seek an administrative hearing to fight the ba... |
306707_1 | After Skirmish With Protesters, Navy Tests Missile | one three feet long, and began to flood. Protesters said the Navy turned water cannons on the ship to flood her further. They supplied a videotape showing water from the hoses pouring onto the deck. The Navy declined to comment on the videotape. By late in the day, the Greenpeace, with about 30 people on board, had man... |
306707_5 | After Skirmish With Protesters, Navy Tests Missile | Greenpeace vessels approached the same submarine, the Tennessee, and successfully blocked the test launching of a Trident 2. Protesters managed to place an anti nuclear banner on the sub, and the Navy could not move them out of the area. Over the years, Greenpeace demonstrators in rafts have become common at launchings... |
306685_0 | U S West In Budapest Phone Deal | LEAD: U S West Inc., one of the nation's seven regional Bell telephone companies, said yesterday that it had signed an agreement with Hungary to build a mobile cellular telephone system in Budapest. U S West Inc., one of the nation's seven regional Bell telephone companies, said yesterday that it had signed an agreemen... |
306793_0 | Hotter, Drier Amazon Seen in Forest Study | LEAD: CONVERTING all of the Amazon's tropical forests to pastureland would reduce rainfall there by 20 percent and make the region substantially hotter, a British study has found. CONVERTING all of the Amazon's tropical forests to pastureland would reduce rainfall there by 20 percent and make the region substantially h... |
312939_0 | Philosophers Hang Out The Shingle | LEAD: Following the example of psychotherapists, Dutch philosophers are opening private practices and charging clients up to $50 an hour to discuss ideas. Following the example of psychotherapists, Dutch philosophers are opening private practices and charging clients up to $50 an hour to discuss ideas. ''There's a new ... |
312977_0 | 5 Acquitted in Carrier Protest | LEAD: Five members of Greenpeace, an anti-nuclear group, have been acquitted of mischief by a judge who ruled that the anchoring of a United States Navy vessel, capable of carrying nuclear weapons, off Vancouver was an invitation to protest. The provincial court judge, Wallace Craig, said on Thursday that they were rig... |
312980_1 | Bridgeport's Hot Trash | A relatively new plant in Bridgeport, Conn., makes clear that resource recovery has a strong future. How best to reduce the solid waste that is burying the nation? The windy debates have produced two choices: recycling and ''resource recovery,'' or incineration to produce electric power. A relatively new plant in Bridg... |
312956_4 | Rio Journal; Autos Cry for Alcohol; France Will Do Its Part | environmentalists blocked an effort to ease the shortage with the 22 percent alcohol content of gasoline sold in the city. Scientists said the widespread use of sugar-cane alcohol had cut air pollution in Brazil's largest city. With environmental threats largely averted and American and European alcohol shipments not e... |
305849_0 | Christians in the Soviet Union | LEAD: About half the Soviet Union's 286 million people profess a religious affiliation. In addition to the groups cited below, there are 40 million to 50 million Muslims, 1.8 million to 2 million Jews and 665,000 Buddhists. Figures for adherents are Western estimates. RUSSIAN ORTHODOX: 50-60 million adherents About hal... |
307458_0 | Priest Tells of His Role In Nevada Bomb Tests | LEAD: As an Episcopal priest, Bob Nelson prays that no one will ever use what he helps to make in his day job. As an Episcopal priest, Bob Nelson prays that no one will ever use what he helps to make in his day job. While other priests may lead protests against nuclear weapons, Mr. Nelson leads the teams that explode t... |
307420_0 | Protest Ends on Indian Ocean Isle | LEAD: Soldiers used tear gas and clubs today to disperse 1,000 high school students protesting a coup in which the island nation's president was killed, witnesses said. Soldiers used tear gas and clubs today to disperse 1,000 high school students protesting a coup in which the island nation's president was killed, witn... |
307537_3 | Many Wrongly Losing U.S. Payments | from the program's rolls should have received payments. Agency officials said that they would not vouch for the statistical accuracy of the study, but that it defined a major problem on which action was required. The study said it had identified two significant problems in the suspension process ''that are cause for co... |
311013_1 | Personal Health | be pursued to determine whether this sometimes devastating problem can be prevented. The Condition Cerebral palsy is really a group of conditions involving varying degrees of nerve and muscle dysfunction that results from damage to the central nervous system. Though the damage is usually incurred before birth, cerebral... |
310928_1 | Orange Juice Prices Climb On Fear of a Florida Freeze | 3.05 cents higher, with the contract for delivery in January up 2 cents, at $1.3445 a pound. Freezing temperatures are almost certain to reach Florida's citrus region this weekend as one of the most powerful cold-air masses of the decade moves lumbers down from Canada, said Jon Davis, a meteorologist who tracks the eff... |
310505_0 | Retread a Tire to Keep It Out of the Dump | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Your Nov. 24 article about the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to promote recycling by proposing reductions in the amount of garbage that incinerator operators may burn did not mention the E.P.A.'s recent endorsement of retreaded tires. Because worn tires are practically in... |
310460_0 | Daedalus Enterprises Inc reports earnings for Year to July 31 | LEAD: *3*** COMPANY REPORTS ** *3* Daedalus Enterprises Inc (OTC) Year to July 31 1989 1988 Revenue 1,604,000 1,613,000 Net inc 254,000 439,000 The company said the reduction in net earnings is attributable primarily to increases in research and development and the exhaustion of all tax loss and credit carryforwards wh... |
308739_0 | French Honor an Abbot the Church Dislikes | LEAD: After an exhausting calendar of events, France's bicentennial celebrations ended appropriately today in an argument over history, with the Roman Catholic Church having the last word that the French Revolution was perhaps not such a good thing after all. After an exhausting calendar of events, France's bicentennia... |
308877_0 | Fishing Boat Dodges Gunfire and Canadian Navy | LEAD: It is not unusual for Canadians and Americans to feud over fishing rights. Nor is it unusual for Canadian patrol boats to chase American vessels back to their own territorial waters. It is not unusual for Canadians and Americans to feud over fishing rights. Nor is it unusual for Canadian patrol boats to chase Ame... |
308775_0 | College Graduates Facing More Money and Fewer Jobs | LEAD: College graduates next spring will earn more money but find fewer job opportunities, a survey of United States employers indicates. College graduates next spring will earn more money but find fewer job opportunities, a survey of United States employers indicates. Hiring will be down 13.3 percent compared to last ... |
307142_2 | St. George and the Dragon | It used the Yellow River as a metaphor to suggest that Chinese culture was stagnant and needed to be refreshed from abroad. An official called the series ''a propaganda coup for bourgeois liberalization.'' The police hunt for political ''subversives'' has not abated. A recent directive called for fresh efforts to arres... |
307143_1 | The Truth Won't Out | and a half period. We've got two holes in the side of the hull to show it and plenty of videotape. What happened out there was a very belligerent and premeditated and repeated series of attacks against our ship. It was very clear from watching the Navy earlier in the week, they had planned to do something along these l... |
307149_1 | Grain and Soybeans Climb On Prospects of Export Rise | on the Chicago Board of Trade, with buying spurred by news that the Department of Agriculture plans to have a million metric tons of wheat shipped to China under the department's Export Enhancement Program. Under the program, private exporters can sell United States commodities at reduced prices to meet foreign competi... |
307216_2 | Bonn Expected to Award Cellular Contract | million potential customers. Share Price Rises Shares of Pacific Telesis rose 25 cents, to $47.75, on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday in response to news reports about the license. In an effort to modernize outdated telephone systems, European nations have been opening sectors of their telecommunications markets ... |
308971_0 | Disincentive to Study | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Under the revised Federal income tax reform act of 1987, graduate student income from grants or fellowships is taxed as regular income. After college, I chose the quick earning potential of industry. But several years later, I felt strongly enough about furthering my education to ret... |
312131_0 | California Town Seeks Way to Harass Bears | LEAD: Some residents of this remote gold-mining village are calling for a hunt to thin an aggressive population of hungry black bears that are searching out food at the local dump and in people's trash and freezers. Some residents of this remote gold-mining village are calling for a hunt to thin an aggressive populatio... |
312199_1 | Computer Mail Gaining a Market | of computer communications. It will be possible, for example, to append spoken voice notes to standard text messages and documents. And commercial services are exploring selling data in response to electronic mail requests. Companies that have switched to electronic mail say the systems speed communications by avoiding... |
312263_0 | Rhinestone Streets | LEAD: Holiday lights sparkle from store windows, fire escapes and cornices these days, and drivers on an increasing number of New York streets are likely to find points of light shining up from the pavement as well. Holiday lights sparkle from store windows, fire escapes and cornices these days, and drivers on an incre... |
312610_5 | RUMANIANS MOVING TO ABOLISH WORST OF REPRESSIVE ERA | in the new Government, which will serve until elections in April. ''We have a program, but we need tranquillity,'' he said. From its makeshift headquarters at the Foreign Ministry, the Government has been issuing a stream of decrees this week. The army has been put in charge of the Securitate, the security force many o... |
312631_2 | MANAGUA ECONOMY HINGES ON PANAMA | States. With large American-style supermarkets and associated services that range from gourmet food shops to one-hour film processing, the diplotienda system is estimated to generate more than $100 million a year in sales. That sum breaks down to about $30 for every Nicaraguan citizen - roughly one full month's pay for... |
312584_2 | Excerpts From Bush's Panama News Conference | Vatican. We've made clear our preference, and that is to bring the man to trial and subsequently to justice. Q. Is the Vatican being wrongheaded in not turning him over immediately? What do you think the legal issues are? A. Now, how would you like it if people were negotiating and talking and then somebody jumped up a... |
307960_0 | PORTS IN A STORM | LEAD: DO YOU KNOW THE BISHOP OF Norwich? No reason why you should, actually, but his eminence was a 19th-century man of the cloth much given, we are told, to garrulity, especially at table. His name comes down to us not so much for what he did, which was talk too much, but for what he didn't, which was pass the Port. D... |
307835_2 | What's That I Hear? Far Too Much | huge radios used by teen-agers. Yes, the police will come if called, but the teen-agers are back the next day, and it's a losing battle. At the college where I taught for 20 years, it was the custom to stage live rock concerts in the main hall, in the middle of the school day. These were supposed to be confined to the ... |
308063_1 | Water Scarcity Is Found to Be Mounting Problem | lagging development, Ms. Postel said. Irrigated Land Peaked in 1978 As a result, she said, irrigated areas in the world are now growing at about half the rate of the population. Irrigated land peaked in 1978 at 1.18 acres per person worldwide, but has since fallen about 6 percent, she said. ''As world population grew f... |
307813_1 | New Directory for County Students | and making decisions,'' Dr. Collarini said. ''There are quality services for young people in Westchester and the next step is to make sure that the young people who need them know where to go for help.'' Dr. Collarini pointed out that, while resource directories exist for local areas, this was the first youth directory... |
307799_5 | A Woman Blessed With the Gift of Compassion | over the years. ''I took them out of jails, off the streets and out of the arms of strangers,'' she said. ''We always tried to make room in our lives.'' In 1974, after serving as a minister for 20 years, she was ordained as one of the first female Pentecostal bishops in Connecticut. (In the Pentecostal, which has 3.7 m... |
307822_0 | Those Unique Students, The 'Average' Ones | LEAD: DO you sometimes wonder why television and print media remind us again and again about the needs of gifted or handicapped children with scarcely a mention about the needs of most children: our average children? DO you sometimes wonder why television and print media remind us again and again about the needs of gif... |
307949_0 | Lose Your Bag, Sir? And Other Stories | LEAD: TALES of what the Government calls ''mishandled'' luggage are legion: Try any dinner table. To give you an idea of the pool you are dipping into, in September, 226,303 travelers complained to United States airlines about their luggage: misdelivered, rifled, crushed, burned, emptied or never seen again. TALES of w... |
308039_3 | Now the Recyclable Trash Is Overwhelming New York | very far behind the game on developing demand for products made from recycled materials,'' said Stephen Gallagher of the Environmental Action Coalition. ''As far as the actual collections go, they're collecting to the capacity they can process right now. They need to have 10 or 15 more plants than they have in operatio... |
313203_4 | ART GALLERY VIEW: Egyptian Art Is Alive and Well in the West | you would live forever. ''In childhood we were told we were mortal, and I wouldn't accept it, or couldn't figure it out,'' she continued. ''Art was a way of dealing with death, or with the death of each moment. My sculpture has something to do with the Egyptian idea of the Ka - the belief that there was another self th... |
313396_2 | Threatened Northwest Flight Lands Safely | can cause this panic.'' The airline chose not to cancel the flight but took extra security measures for it and all of its flights between Europe and the United States. Northwest offered to book ticket holders on another flight - even on a competing airline - without any penalty. Northwest and the Federal Aviation Admin... |
307672_3 | Upheaval in the East; Castro Says He'll Resist Changes Like Those Sweeping Soviet Bloc | United States and the Soviet Union will translate into changes in the military status quo in Europe that would increase Washington's ability to impose its own views elsewhere, including the Caribbean. He also remains firmly committed to the principle of ''proletarian internationalism,'' a justification for intervention... |
307689_3 | Soviets Seek U.S. Venture | and makes a public stock offering or is bought by another company. Sierra Ventures is putting up $1.85 million for a 50 percent share. The founders and employees will own the rest of the company. Transgene will also lend the Soviet institute up to $500,000 over five years for research. That amount will be paid back if ... |
306223_0 | Battle on Paving a Utah Trail Highlights a Clash of Cultures | LEAD: These are lean days in this depressed southern Utah town of 652 people. The mining and lumber industries have fallen on hard times and the trickle of summer tourists has dwindled to almost nothing. These are lean days in this depressed southern Utah town of 652 people. The mining and lumber industries have fallen... |
306105_6 | Fishing for Shrimp in Flanders | ride their wading horses back and forth parallel to the shoreline. The seagulls that circle in gluttonous admiration above the booty of shrimp accumulating in the nets are merely an amusing annoyance and seldom descend. But surfboards with sails are a menace to these equestrian fishermen; Roland Vanbillemont told how h... |
306279_5 | U.S. Adds Spy Satellites Despite Easing Tensions | 12 at any given time. On Thursday, the Martin Marietta Corporation, maker of the 20-story Titan 4 rocket, which lofts the nation's biggest spy satellites, announced that it had won a $1.6 billion Air Force contract to build 18 more of the giant launchers, with an option for 8 more. The Government is considering other m... |
305929_0 | WESTCHESTER GUIDE | LEAD: HURDY-GURDY MAN HURDY-GURDY MAN ''A Medieval Christmas'' is the title of the first special program ever held for children at Caramoor in Katonah. The 45-minute entertainment features Donald Heller, the hurdy-gurdy man, at 2 and 4 P.M. Saturday. Mr. Heller, dressed in a gaudy striped coat and feathered hat, tells ... |
306355_7 | On the Scaffolds, a Delicate Labor in the Duomo | anchored onto the scaffolding supports that Brunelleschi himself had inserted during the construction of the cupola. When the building was completed, he dismantled his own bridge but left the supports, presumably to allow future access to the dome. ''Some people claimed that by inserting the base of our scaffolding int... |
306432_0 | China Problems That Slow Economy Are Reflected in Lag for Port Project | LEAD: Perhaps the boldest single project envisioned during the last decade of China's economic restructuring was a plan to copy the success of Hong Kong, 300 miles to the northeast, here on southern China's Hainan Island. Perhaps the boldest single project envisioned during the last decade of China's economic restructu... |
309845_1 | REFINED MODERNISM MAKES A SPLASH IN THE LAND OF GLITZ | making architecture, of course, but it is striking in this city, where most modern office buildings have been garish boxes. The C.A.A. building positively brims over with conservative good taste: in the context of Los Angeles, it is a Chanel suit among polyester jumpsuits, a BMW amid Hyundais, a Mont Blanc amid Bics. O... |
309604_0 | Clergy and Fire Marshal Agree on Use of Candles | LEAD: COMMON sense will be the standard for the use of candles in worship services this Christmas season to avoid clashes with local fire marshals, the Christian Conference of Connecticut and the state fire marshal have agreed. COMMON sense will be the standard for the use of candles in worship services this Christmas ... |
309688_0 | Fixing the Schools Is Not Enough | LEAD: PLANS to reform our schools tend to overlook the fact that about half of our youngsters grow up in families that are not viable from an educational viewpoint. Frequent divorces, a bewildering rotation of boyfriends and parents who come home from work exhausted both physically and mentally, have left many homes wi... |
309681_5 | Help for the Big Holiday Spenders | automobile, a home improvement or a boat) and you want decreasing-term life insurance to cover the outstanding debt, think twice about buying the coverage through the lender. A commercial bank, acting as a middleman, charges a sizable commission to provide insurance tied to a loan and you would do better by buying such... |
309606_1 | Holiday Gift Baskets That Promote Peace | understanding and address issues like hunger and homelessness. In particular, the organization urges the passage of legislation allocating the equivalent of 1 percent of the United States defense budget for projects that foster peace. For Each Continent Ms. Dyer and Ms. Shirely said they researched 1 Percent for Peace,... |
309852_0 | Gifts, From Wipers to a Rolls | LEAD: IF that Christmas stocking feels a bit thin and spindly this year, it may be because the world's largest supplier of windshield wipers has had its way with Santa. IF that Christmas stocking feels a bit thin and spindly this year, it may be because the world's largest supplier of windshield wipers has had its way ... |
309624_0 | Legislators Nearing Deadline on Budget | LEAD: COUNTY legislators grappling with a proposed $1 billion budget for 1990, Westchester's largest, face what may be a large and hostile crowd tomorrow night at the Board of Legislator's last public hearing. Final action on the spending plan is expected a few days later. Those likely to fill the lawmaker's eighth-flo... |
309662_0 | Church Seeks to Raise the Human to the Divine | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: One would have thought that someone who, presumably, once possessed all the faculties normally attributed to a Roman Catholic priest would see the church as something distinct from, if not more important than, secular political institutions. One would also have thought that analogies... |
309856_8 | Birding in Mexico's South | pack horses made as they grazed close to our tents. We are able to feel some optimism about the future of El Triunfo, because some of the local people are deeply committed to saving its rich forest. El Triunfo has been declared a natural reserve by the state of Chiapas. A state agency, the Institute of Natural History,... |
309973_1 | Raising Money Tops Colleges' Agenda for 90's | the increasing expense of buying equipment and supporting faculty members doing advanced research. ''Our entire society now must make do with more limited resources,'' Dr. Gray said. ''For higher education, that means sharpened competition for students, faculty and dollars at all levels.'' That has made getting private... |
309850_2 | TRAVEL ADVISORY | guide contains listings for more than 100 museums in North America, with address, telephone number, admission, hours, exhibits for 1990, highlights of the permanent collection, tours, facilities for the handicapped and restaurants. There is a section on traveling exhibitions, and notes on the architecture and history o... |
309965_1 | OPENLY GAY PRIEST ORDAINED IN JERSEY | said, ''I expected them to be there.'' Mr. Williams's ordination had been vigorously opposed by a group of six bishops, who argued that it violated Scripture and a 1979 church resolution against ordaining ''practicing homosexuals.'' Mr. Williams, 34 years old, has lived with a male companion for the last four years and... |
311952_1 | Brazil's New Chief Raises Doubts on Amazon | a five-year term, Mr. Collor, who takes office on March 15, is to set the direction for Brazil in the 1990's. Brazil's top environmental official, Fernando Cesar Mesquita, has cited Mr. Collor's close alliance with Amazonian businessmen as a potential obstacle to action on limiting the burning of the rain forest and on... |
311923_0 | Call Sugar Complaints Just Sour Grapes | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: In ''Uncle Sugar, Uncle Milk'' (editorial, Dec. 12), you uncritically accept candy industry complaints about sugar policy. What's worse, you assume that candy manufacturers are reliable spokesmen for consumer concerns. You state that United States candy makers pay twice the world pri... |
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