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808365_0 | BOOKS IN BRIEF: NONFICTION | GHOST GRIZZLIES By David Petersen. John Macrae/Holt, $27.50. In 1979 a Colorado outdoorsman named Ed Wiseman was nearly killed by -- and eventually killed -- a grizzly bear in the state's San Juan Mountains. The attack was a surprise: although grizzlies once roamed in abundance, the Colorado Division of Wildlife had co... |
808643_0 | Nobel Winner Says Test Ban Seems Nearer | France's decision to resume nuclear testing may have brought a comprehensive test ban treaty closer, the man who won a Nobel Peace Prize last month for his anti-nuclear activities said at a conference on nuclear disarmament today. Joseph Rotblat, who was awarded the prize for his campaign for the abolition of nuclear w... |
808271_9 | BAROQUE SPLENDOR IN AN OLD PORT | scholar and traveler, remembered how it was in the 1920's: "In the clear air the city rises like a gigantic jewel glittering in its rugged Alpine setting. . . . From the boat, it looks like a fantastic city of the Genii, created by magic power." Today, alas, the Genii are out to lunch. This is no longer the harbor that... |
808404_5 | No Headline | matter how menial the task, three students -- Jeanine Spero of Farmingville, Jennifer Weidner of Stony Brook and Jennifer Kaleita of Selden -- said they wanted to return. "We're hoping to go back as alumni," Ms. Spero said. "I ran the souvenir cart in front of M-G-M studios," Miss Kaleita said. "I sold hats to people i... |
811144_0 | Who's Out of Step? | To the Editor: Your news article "Vatican Says the Ban on Women as Priests Is 'Infallible' Doctrine" (front page, Nov. 19) includes an astonishing assertion that you attribute to the Rev. Richard P. McBrien of the University of Notre Dame. Father McBrien is quoted as saying that "There are literally millions of Catholi... |
806696_0 | Call of the Wild | THIS WEEK |
806788_3 | Bluefish Are Running, So What's Wrong? | also with about 15 customers on board. Capacity is more than 80. "This is supposed to be the best fishing time of the year. Ten years ago, if we were catching this quantity of fish, we'd have a big crowd. Now it's a struggle for survival. The economy won't let you raise your fare, so you're trying to get more out of le... |
806907_1 | A Booming Colorado Weighs Its Future | movement is taking hold as memories fade of the Rockies' bitter recession of a decade ago, a bust triggered by falling oil and gas prices. With Colorado's economy increasingly diversified, many economists believe that the state may be breaking a century-long boom-and-bust cycle. Today, only 1 percent of Coloradans work... |
807105_3 | Cape Town's Inventive Chefs | asparagus mousse in a crepe with raspberry vinaigrette. An elegant dish of warm gratineed oysters with coriander on a bed of mashed potatoes would have been perfect with a little less salt. Red cabbage, found frequently on South African menus, reflecting the old Afrikaans influence, accompanied very tender and lean med... |
806945_1 | California Immigrants Make Fast Economic Gains, Study Finds | said the author of the report, Dowell Myers, a demography professor at the University of Southern California. "Everybody is moving up at different speeds, but faster than many thought." The nonpartisan study, paid for by a private foundation, comes at a time when many Californians are calling for stricter immigration l... |
806753_3 | The View From: Enviro-Lab II;All Things Wet, and Sometimes Slimy | group soon recognized that it had two species -- a striped sea robin (horizontal stripes, a straight tail fin) and a northern sea robin (no obvious stripes, a concave tail fin). "With the keys, you really have to be observant, pay attention to small details," said Nikki Gullickson, who teaches social studies in a Bacon... |
806753_4 | The View From: Enviro-Lab II;All Things Wet, and Sometimes Slimy | soon recognized that it had two species -- a striped sea robin (horizontal stripes, a straight tail fin) and a northern sea robin (no obvious stripes, a concave tail fin). "With the keys, you really have to be observant, pay attention to small details," said Nikki Gullickson, who teaches social studies in a Bacon Acade... |
812358_0 | A Break in the Irish Impasse | The agreement announced in London on Tuesday night by Prime Ministers John Bruton of Ireland and John Major of Britain provides a welcome nudge to the peace effort in Northern Ireland. That drive was dangerously stalled until President Clinton's visit to London and Belfast "concentrated the mind," as Mr. Major put it, ... |
807636_0 | World News Briefs;Possibly Ancient Carving Delays Portuguese Dam | Portugal's new Socialist Government stopped work today on a dam project whose waters threatened to flood caves containing Stone Age rock carvings that archeologists say are among the oldest in Europe. Prime Minister Antonio Guterres told Parliament that work on the Foz Coa dam project would be halted while experts were... |
807470_0 | Scientists Say Rain Forests Lower Levels of Global Carbon Dioxide | Scientists working in Brazil have found the first proof that undisturbed tropical rain forests soak up huge amounts of the carbon dioxide that people produce by burning fuels. The measurements, published on Friday in the journal Science, show that each year, each hectare (2.47 acres) of the southwestern Amazon rain for... |
806165_2 | A Cigarette, a Precious Relic | only on the patio. Though it seems strange now, I never worried about her health. In her early 60's, she was trim and fit, working as a computer systems analyst at an aerospace company. She had regular chest X-rays. She cleaned her own house and, after my parents divorced, mowed her own lawn. As she approached retireme... |
810838_0 | Clinton Plans TV Talk | President Clinton will make a televised address Monday night in an effort to build public and Congressional support for his plan to send 20,000 American troops to help NATO police the Bosnia peace agreement, the White House announced today. As a result, Mr. Clinton will delay until Tuesday his planned departure for Eng... |
810901_0 | GAINS IN EXPORTS CUT TRADE DEFICIT | American exports unexpectedly continued to climb to new heights in September as the nation's trade deficit inched down to $8.35 billion, the lowest level of the year, Commerce Department figures showed today. At the same time, the American deficit with Japan narrowed for the sixth consecutive month to a level nearly on... |
812115_4 | China's Inevitable Dilemma: Coal Equals Growth | rancor-filled question of whether the West, led by the United States, is seeking to limit China's emergence as a great power. "Developed countries discharge more carbon dioxide than developing countries on a per capita basis and the United States discharges 10 times more than China on a per capita basis," Qin Zhongda, ... |
812145_3 | NEWS SUMMARY | held that employers may not retaliate against union organizers or refuse to hire applicants they suspect may be interested in such organization. B11 AID FOR CHARITIES In a bipartisan agreement, the House passed a measure to exempt charities from the antitrust and securities that apply to businesses and the Senate is ex... |
812130_0 | BRITISH AND IRISH BREAK ULSTER JAM | The British and Irish Governments broke a logjam in the Northern Ireland peace effort tonight, forging an agreement that they said should lead to participation by political representatives of the Irish Republican Army in negotiations over the future of the embattled province. But in a clear sign of how difficult the pa... |
808128_0 | Commonwealth Opposes Major on French A-Tests | With thousands of antinuclear protesters pouring into the streets and marching beneath banners that read "Major Disgrace," Prime Minister John Major of Britain had little reason to feel welcome today in a land that is traditionally a bastion of Anglophile good will. Mr. Major's refusal to condemn the resumption of Fren... |
810564_4 | Spun Mercury Is Eye of Telescope | a deep pit. The mirror was turned by a pulley connected to an electric motor. By adjusting the motor's speed he could change the curvature of the mercury and bring an image of stars directly overhead to focus on a photographic plate mounted at the top of the pit. The system produced blurred images but worked well enoug... |
810597_0 | World News Briefs;German Petition Raises New Challenge to Pope | Two days after the Vatican strengthened its ban on the ordination of women as priests, Roman Catholic dissidents here raised a new challenge to Pope John Paul II today with a petition signed by more than a million German Catholics opposed to his views on a celibate, male-only priesthood and traditional sexual morality.... |
810554_0 | F.D.A. Backs Combined Hormone Pill | The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first tablet combining estrogen and progestin for women taking hormone replacement medication during menopause. Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories said today that it had won clearance to market the combination tablets, which will be sold under the brand names Prempro and Prempha... |
810568_0 | Scope System Also Offers a Tool For Submarines and Soldiers | ALTHOUGH astronomy and upper-atmosphere research are the immediate beneficiaries of a new liquid-mirror telescope in Alaska, experiments using the telescope may eventually lead to new military techniques for signaling submarines and probing battlefields for secret tunnels and bunkers. As part of what is being called th... |
810568_1 | Scope System Also Offers a Tool For Submarines and Soldiers | oscillates at speeds of less than about 1,000 hertz (cycles per second) -- far below the speed of any conventional radio transmission -- is classified as ELF. A coded ELF message sent from land cannot be answered from the depths of the ocean, but a submarine responds to an ELF "bell ringer" by rising close enough to th... |
810436_0 | Scandal Over Plan for U.S. Company to Monitor Brazil's Amazon | Wiretaps of a top Brazilian official that were leaked as the Senate prepares to vote on $1.4 billion in foreign loans for a controversial project to monitor the Amazon have led to the dismissal of two presidential appointees and thrown the future of the project into doubt. The project would use radar stations and satel... |
808743_2 | Patents;Borland gets a patent for making graphs from spreadsheets; some experts don't get the picture. | From Bottles Designer handbags made out of discarded soda bottles? "They look sort of like a cross between an Armani and a Chanel," said Judy A. Samelson, a former psychotherapist who last week received a patent for a way to transform plastic bottles into purses. Ms. Samelson said she came up with the idea while taking... |
808783_2 | Advertising;Classified ads are rapidly finding a new home on the Internet. | On many Web sites, job listings are free. And by using them, employers can reach an audience that is generally well educated and comfortable with technology. Electronic classifieds also have the advantage of offering graphics, audio and video clips, color photographs and other features that traditional newspaper listin... |
808748_1 | Dublin Leader Urges London to Compromise With the I.R.A. | to "megaphone" diplomacy. In his speech and again today, Mr. Bruton said in effect that Britain should agree with Ireland on submitting the issue of disarmament to an international panel while setting a target date for the start of full-fledged talks aimed at a political settlement of the disputes that have produced 25... |
808723_4 | As Welfare Compromise Emerges, Clinton Aide Says Veto Is Certain | the Senate version would have saved $65 billion. The legislation would cut projected spending on welfare, child care, food stamps, child nutrition and other programs by about 11 percent in seven years. But the cuts are bigger in the later years and would slice projected spending by nearly 15 percent in 2002. Republican... |
810132_1 | A Little Hope Pumps Up An Attitude | foray in New York capped what has been an unusually active year for him on the international diplomatic stage, and the result has been a strengthening of Cuba's ties with the rest of the world, including some of America's closest allies. Since August alone, he has attended regional conferences of heads of state in Trin... |
810139_0 | Bottle That Boycott | Worldwide opposition to France's nuclear tests in the Southwest Pacific put a damper on the annual welcoming of Beaujolais nouveau to foreign shores. In Japan, where the Consumers Union called for a nationwide ban, one shop in Akita invited customers to come in and smash as many bottles of the new wine as they wished. ... |
810161_4 | Suspect in Golden Venture Case Was Leading a Life of Luxury | one dating back to the summer of 1992, when he was involved in smuggling more than 200 illegal Chinese immigrants. Though bound for the United States, their ship, Najd II, became unseaworthy and put in at Mombasa, Kenya, where they were stranded for months. Mr. Lee, meantime, organized the purchase of the Golden Ventur... |
810095_0 | Getting Ahead in College (Before the First Class) | IN BRIEF |
809951_1 | Hospital Is Classroom For Emotionally Fragile | appropriate curriculum for the emotionally fragile students who are in-patients, as well as day patients, at the New York Hospital-Westchester Division campus, the White Plains public school runs three separate programs, supplying teaching staff, textbooks and other materials. The program costs $145 a pupil a day, and ... |
810160_0 | Vatican Says the Ban on Women As Priests Is 'Infallible' Doctrine | In a statement approved by Pope John Paul II, the Vatican announced yesterday that Roman Catholics must consider their church's doctrine that only men can be priests to be "infallibly" taught. Invoking the word "infallible," which in Catholic theology is reserved for teaching considered irreversible, free from error an... |
809988_1 | Panel to Examine Causes of School Violence | coordinator of the Boces student-assistance service. "There is no one-shot curriculum that will cure the problem of violence in the schools," Mr. Rosen said. "In the field of prevention services, violence has become the latest problem that specialists are trying to tackle. We need to take a broader look at violence tha... |
807352_1 | Gilles Deleuze, 70, French Professor and Author | literature and human thought influenced French intellectuals, died in Paris on Saturday. He was 70. Family members said he had jumped from his apartment window to end a worsening chronic respiratory illness for which he had recently undergone a tracheotomy. Mr. Deleuze taught at the university established in the Paris ... |
808996_8 | Glasses for the Ears' Easing Children's Language Woes | to the level they achieved on the previous day, Dr. Merzenich said. Processed speech is the grammar they can use to win points in the computer games, he said, and they play to win. Processed speech, played on a tape recorder, is also used in a variety of one-on-one exercises with the children. They learn to listen to s... |
808915_0 | Women Wary About Aiming To Be Priests | A group that has been struggling for 20 years to have women ordained as Roman Catholic priests spent the weekend debating whether it was still interested in the priesthood at all. "Ordination means subordination," said Dr. Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, a feminist scholar at Harvard Divinity School, as long as the Catho... |
809005_1 | Biodiversity Study Sees More Species in Danger | report ever to examine earth's biodiversity. This is the first time that a thousand scientists from more than 50 countries have gotten together to write a single document on the state of biological diversity," said Robert T. Watson, a member of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy who headed the Glob... |
811620_4 | Musicologists Roll Over Beethoven | business, in policy and in culture." He has gotten his wish, but probably it is not quite the way he pictured it. The new musicology has its origins in the writings of Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), a German Marxist philosopher (and a composer who studied with Alban Berg). Adorno showed how musical styles could be analyze... |
811771_0 | Travel Advisory;F.A.A. Limits Rights Of 5 Foreign Countries | The Federal Aviation Administration's continuing assessment of the aviation safety standards of other countries has added five nations to its list of those that do not meet international requirements. The countries -- Ecuador, Israel, Jordan, Peru and Venezuela -- got "conditional" ratings in the F.A.A.'s study of coun... |
811577_12 | The Council And How It Really Works | Board of New York, representing builders and landlords, which gave $30,000 to candidates, according to a study by the New York Public Interest Research Group. One of the more contentious issues for the Council has been rent control. In 1993, the Rent Stabilization Association, a landlord group, gave $21,000 to Council ... |
811677_0 | Cuba Gambles on Reversing Fall in Sugar Harvest | The sugar cane stood tall and strong as it rippled in the breeze, ready for cutting. At the September 21 Cooperative here, the mechanics were preparing for the harvest by replacing the old Soviet-made engines in their tractors and trucks with new Mercedes-Benz motors. As the workers know, the harvest is probably the mo... |
811443_5 | If You're Thinking of Living In: Black Rock;A Bit of New England In a Troubled City | of 1821 blew away a protective island land mass and sent shippers scurrying to safety in Bridgeport Harbor -- the second deepest in the state after New London. In 1836 Bridgeport incorporated as a city, and by 1870 it was a thriving industrial hub looking to annex Black Rock to develop it residentially for Bridgeport's... |
811670_0 | Wariness Greets Vatican Doctrinal Claim | A week after the Vatican declared Pope John Paul II's position that women cannot be ordained Roman Catholic priests to be "infallibly" taught, many Catholics in the United States are taking a wait-and-see attitude. Some who welcomed the statement from the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said that t... |
811617_0 | Catholics Defying An Infallible Church | POPE John Paul II didn't need a legalization of divorce by the voters of Ireland this weekend to find out that a large number of Catholics simply ignore a lot of what he has to say: Italy, a country where 84 percent of the population professes to be Catholic, has the lowest birth rate in Europe, a fact that suggests po... |
811658_3 | In New Mexico, an Order on Elusive Owl Leaves Residents Angry, andCold | Forest is opening up new areas where trees can be thinned, and a Santa Fe environmental group called the Forest Guardians is working with the nearby Santa Fe National Forest to make more dead wood available. But Mr. Cordova said he was worried that there still would not be enough. "The Forest Service and the environmen... |
811975_4 | Remember the Nixon Doctrine | recent years has become increasingly more aggressive. A perception that the United States is not paying attention to or is not worried about such long-term threats could in itself cause a major realignment in Asia. One cannot exclude even Japan, whose strong relationship with the United States has been severely tested ... |
811983_1 | Editorial Notebook;A Sloop Named Clearwater | absentee landlords had ruined Europe's villages, here, too, we had allowed some people to make a good profit along the Hudson, and then go somewhere else to enjoy clear water." His anger sparked a new idea -- to use the boat to champion the cause of cleaning up the river. Many benefit concerts later, the Clearwater was... |
812042_6 | Navy Is Releasing Treasure of Secret Data on World's Oceans | hot. The Medea group said decades of ice data promised to be a major aid in pinning down the reality of global warming, in studying fluctuations in climate, in forecasting ice conditions and in calibrating civilian satellite sensors that pass over polar regions. *Marine bathymetry. For decades Navy ships crisscrossed t... |
810711_0 | A Brisk Market Develops in College Term Papers | For millions of college students, Thanksgiving marks the start of the heaviest workload of the term, with final exams and papers due in a few weeks. But thousands of students will reduce the preparation time for a full-length research paper to just minutes -- or however long it takes to thumb through a catalogue, pick ... |
806334_1 | Ex-Im Bank's President Is Stepping Down | and the General Electric Company. Martin A. Kamarck, vice chairman and chief operating officer, will assume Mr. Brody's duties on an acting basis in January. The bank is scheduled to announce the moves formally on Friday. Mr. Brody, a 52-year-old Clinton appointee who took office in early 1993, said in an interview tha... |
806275_0 | U.N. Urges U.S. to End Ban on Cuba | The General Assembly, for the fourth year in a row, called overwhelmingly today for an end to the three-decade United States embargo against Cuba, which has been increasingly toughened in recent years. The Cuban-sponsored resolution was endorsed by a 117 to 3 vote, with 38 abstentions. Only Israel and Uzbekistan joined... |
807673_0 | Cuba Allowing Citizens to Buy and Sell Foreign Currencies | In an attempt to challenge the flourishing black market for American dollars and to soak up surplus pesos that have been fueling inflation, the Cuban Government is permitting its citizens to buy and sell foreign currencies on the open market for the first time in more than 30 years. Until July 1993, it was illegal for ... |
806493_1 | British-I.R.A. Talks Break Off, and Sinn Fein's Leader Looks toWashington | very serious setback." He said no further meetings with the British were scheduled. Michael Ancram, the British Minister for Northern Ireland at the Belfast talks, said negotiations failed because Sinn Fein had introduced unacceptable new demands, including one stipulating that any disarmament commission would have to ... |
809485_0 | Nuclear Tests Cutting Sales Of Beaujolais | The annual ballyhoo over Beaujolais nouveau this year was upstaged in many places by boycotts to protest French nuclear tests in the Pacific, dealers said today. In an annual marketing tactic that brings in about $100 million to producers of the fruity red wine, the first bottles from this year's Beaujolais harvest wen... |
809470_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-14 WAR CRIMES CLOUD PEACE TALKS With Balkans peace talks in Dayton, Ohio, at a crucial stage, Bosnia and Serbia are said to be at loggerheads over the fate of the two Bosnian Serb leaders under indictment for war crimes. A3 U.S. PRESSURE ON BALKAN FOES Defense Secretary William J. Perry and the command... |
809483_0 | French Strike Called Over Social Security Plan | France's largest confederation of labor unions called today for a general strike and national demonstrations on Nov. 24 to protest a Government plan to eliminate the deficit in the social security system, the heart and soul of the French welfare state. The sweeping rescue plan that Prime Minister Alain Juppe announced ... |
811224_1 | Ulster Foes Rule Ghettos With Fear | is happening in poor Protestant communities, where loyalist paramilitary forces often dispense their own rough justice, although there has not been the sharp rise in the number of attacks seen in Catholic areas. Sometimes the attacks are against people believed by the terrorist groups to be criminals -- that is apparen... |
775240_3 | Crusader for New York City Landmarks Moves On | we start painting the fence and the next thing you know there are a hundred people on each side painting the fence. Everything we do is coalition-building. The Municipal Art Society isn't strong enough to really do much by itself." Mr. Barwick said he felt that the society's largest contribution, at least locally, in r... |
775063_0 | Winning Reprieves for Historic New Jersey | A decade ago, dozens of New Jersey's historic sites had become so dilapidated that they were shuttered and forgotten. While a few major attractions continued to thrive, smaller ones either struggled to remain open or closed indefinitely. In the cities, elaborately designed buildings that once evoked civic pride stood c... |
775178_1 | Medieval Metropolis | metals, and filled his throne room with gilded bronze automata in the form of songbirds and lions" -- inspiration, clearly, for Yeats's Byzantine poems.) Of gilded songbirds, or indeed the palaces that housed them, little is to be seen in Mr. Ash's journey through contemporary Turkey -- although, as the author reminds ... |
777311_0 | Now the British Want to Change the Rules on Irish Peace Talks | To the Editor: Peter Innes, director of the British Information Service (letter, July 17), predictably ignores crucial points in relation to the Irish peace process and the British Government's refusal to treat Sinn Fein equally with the other parties. * No peace process based on inequality can work. Sinn Fein has a de... |
777318_0 | Sinn Fein Leader Says He Met In Secret With British Official | Gerry Adams, the political leader of the Irish Republican Army, said today that he had a secret meeting last week with the chief British official in Northern Ireland, Sir Patrick Mayhew, to try to break the impasse in the Northern Ireland peace effort. Mr. Adams said the meeting, which was confirmed by British official... |
773029_0 | China Knows Costs Of Birth Control | To the Editor: Your article about the Chinese people's responses to the country's birth control laws (front page, June 25) presented examples of "coercion and evasion" in China's family-planning effort in Hunan and Anhui. Such problems are also the focus of concern in China itself. No question: There are pockets of pov... |
773036_1 | Personal Health | tumor -- or some other hazard in the brain -- early enough for cure. It is important to remember that even when a growth is technically classified as benign it is not; although it may not be malignant, any growth in the brain is trapped in an unyielding skull and can press on and ultimately destroy vital brain tissue. ... |
773004_0 | Dangerous Nuclear Tests | There is ample time and good reason for France's new President, Jacques Chirac, to reconsider his reckless decision to resume nuclear tests under a coral atoll in the Pacific come September. Paris invokes the familiar explanation that it needs to conduct a limited number of low-yield underground tests to insure the rel... |
773097_0 | Violence Flares Again on Ulster Streets, Ending Brief Lull | The street violence that raged into the early hours of Tuesday morning in Roman Catholic areas of Belfast and other parts of Northern Ireland resumed Tuesday night, with the police reporting at least 50 incidents involving the hijacking and burning of cars and the hurling of firebombs at vehicles and police officers. A... |
773035_2 | Device Transforms Brain Surgery | be repeated again and again. Free of surgical complications like infection, hemorrhage and leakage of spinal fluid, radiosurgery has proved very appealing to the candidates for brain surgery who have so far been given this option. Radiosurgery is also appealingly cost-effective, its proponents say. Although the procedu... |
778809_0 | Alternative for Children With Cerebral Palsy | TO the strains of his teacher's softly accented phrases like "I am standing tall" and "I am very glad and proud of you," Zachary Borodkin -- his face a mixture of pride and astonishment -- took a few steps and stood erect for a count of 10. Such a feat would be unremarkable in any other 6-year-old, but Zachary has cere... |
779006_0 | The World; Trade's Bottom Line: Business Over Politics | EARLIER this month Henry A. Kissinger and a delegation of American business executives and academics paid a visit to Li Peng, China's Prime Minister. As would be expected at a moment when relations between the two countries has reached a low point -- on human rights, missile proliferation and Taiwan -- the opening minu... |
778725_0 | New Face in the Urban Jungle | THOSE funny faces staring back at you in the Central Park Zoo's rain forest exhibit are the city's latest addition to its urban jungle: four black lion tamarin monkeys, among the world's rarest primates. The adult tamarins, two males and two females, were born in Brazilian zoos and arrived last week at the Central Park... |
779072_0 | Asian Nations Putting Pressure on France Over Nuclear Tests | With France only weeks away from resuming nuclear tests in the Pacific, governments across Asia and the South Pacific are demanding that the French reconsider, and there are warnings of an economic boycott that could damage the French economy. The most potent threat may come from Japan, where the Government has bitterl... |
778830_0 | New Face in the Urban Jungle | THOSE funny faces staring back at you in the Central Park Zoo's rain forest exhibit are the city's latest addition to its urban jungle: four black lion tamarin monkeys, among the world's rarest primates. The adult tamarins, two males and two females, were born in Brazilian zoos and arrived last week at the Central Park... |
779068_5 | After Three Months on the Job, France's President Exudes Elan | intractable problems of unemployment, which he himself has said is the Government's first priority. He has taken steps to encourage employers to hire the long-term unemployed and entry-level workers. In Bosnia, he has repeatedly signaled that he will not be satisfied with the status quo, threatening to withdraw the Fre... |
772423_0 | China Has World's Best Reason to Limit Births | To the Editor: That the tone of your June 25 front-page article on birth control in China appears to condemn coercion by the Chinese Government to limit births greatly surprises me. Every society creates laws to limit individual actions that adversely affect the community. For a country bursting with people, am I to sy... |
772344_2 | Monumental Toil to Restore the Magnificent | bare with a wire brush and others flattened with a hot iron. For 300 years, restorers have used every imaginable fixative to try to arrest the painting's slow but inexorable disintegration. As a final insult, an Allied bomb fell on the refectory in August, 1943, demolishing the roof. Buttressed by protective scaffoldin... |
772585_5 | Colombia's Rebels Grow Rich From Banditry | and "humanizing" the war by opening human-rights offices, banning torture, and other measures. Offering rural Colombia a "social leap," Mr. Samper, a Social Democrat, is directing a mixed public and private plan to channel $10 billion into rural areas over the next three years to improve roads, telephones, schools and ... |
772372_1 | Visitors to Spanish Steps Can Look but Not Sit | city's next big party -- its Grand Jubilee, which will take place during the year 2000. Thinking, perhaps, of the famous Villa Borghese art gallery, which has been mostly closed for the last 10 years or so, some skeptics say that with that kind of deadline, the steps project could easily drag on for more than eight mon... |
772493_2 | Bridging the Income Gap After Law School | rock and a hard place," Mr. Doyle said. "They have graduated, so they don't really qualify for Federal financial aid." That move closed the only door to dollars open to many graduates. Banks are likely to reject many of them for loans. Graduates with no job in hand cannot seek advances from employers. And many employer... |
773496_4 | Latin America Now Ignores U.S. Lead in Isolating Cuba | countries have accords that allow investors to swap shares in Cuban state companies for trade debts. Cuba has run up large trade debts with Latin America: $1.3 billion to Argentina, $340 million to Mexico, $50 million to Colombia, and $30 million to Brazil. While Latin American multinational companies enter Cuba attrac... |
773499_1 | For Greenpeace Guerrillas, Environmentalism Is Again a Growth Industry | was also a vindication of those who want to continue the Greenpeace strategy of confrontation. During much soul-searching last year, some Greenpeace leaders argued for a more conciliatory and pragmatic route, including working with business and government. For Greenpeace, the timing of its oil-platform victory could no... |
773473_2 | BUSINESS DIGEST | stronger measures to revive the economy. [ 35. ] Mexican Stocks Rise Again The Mexican stock market has regained most of the ground it lost after the peso devaluation in December. Some big international funds are buying again, although stock values in dollar terms are still deflated. [ 34. ] I.B.M. Forms New Division I... |
773571_0 | The Next Step in Belfast | The violence that erupted again in Belfast this week was contained and predictable. The Irish Republican Army seemed to encourage a frustrated community to let off steam after the British Government released Pvt. Lee Clegg, who was serving a life sentence for killing an Irish teen-ager. These events should not be allow... |
777110_4 | The World; Chirac Dusts Off An 'Idea of France' | Serbs attacked Gorazde. This might seem a way for the Americans to politely avoid any commitment to send helicopters and men soon, as the French had demanded, but the French pronounced themselves satisfied and took credit for putting backbone back into the international community over Bosnia. (How much backbone is anot... |
776924_0 | French Intellectuals Wanted Truth Told | To the Editor: In "French War Stories" (Op-Ed, July 19), Tony Judt goes so far in praising President Jacques Chirac for finally admitting French Government complicity in the deaths of 76,000 Jews during the Nazi occupation, and in attacking the French left, that he seriously distorts history. He writes that the left ha... |
777032_1 | Foreign Afffairs; Enter Le Bulldozer | own way, whose instinct for snap decisions can border on the reckless. As one diplomat in Paris remarked to me: "Chirac is a bulldozer without a steering wheel, and when one of those is on the road everyone else should put on their seat belts." Consider his first two months: He dominated the G-7 summit in Halifax, arm-... |
777178_2 | Puerto Rico Reeling Under Scourge Of Drugs and Rising Gang Violence | year, the Drug Enforcement Administration seized 17.6 tons of cocaine in Puerto Rico and the eastern Caribbean, more than twice the catch in 1990. Law-enforcement officials say a crackdown on drugs entering South Florida in the mid-1980's shifted more trafficking to the Caribbean, where Colombian cocaine, and to a less... |
774164_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-13 SERBS BATTLE PEACEKEEPERS Bosnian Serbs clashed with peacekeepers protecting a Bosnian enclave and ordered them and the civilians they were protecting to leave. NATO air protection was requested, but called off. A1 DOLE REBUFFS CLINTON ON BOSNIA Senator Bob Dole refused an invitation to meet with Pr... |
774240_0 | Pope Calls for an End to Discrimination Against Women | In a special letter issued in Rome in advance of a United Nations international conference on women, Pope John Paul II said yesterday that after centuries of discrimination, equality for women was now a matter not only of justice, but also of necessity. The letter, addressed to women throughout the world, gave credit t... |
774157_4 | Prairie Dog Colonies Bolster Life in the Plains | but a variety of ground squirrel -- live in a violent and unforgiving world. They are continually beset by predators of one kind or another. The defense strategy they have evolved lies at the heart of their ecological role. By organizing themselves in colonies and living underground, they have set up a cooperative dete... |
774139_0 | Only Peace Talks Can Save Northern Ireland | To The Editor: During the past few days Belfast and Londonderry have been the scene of street riots, which included firebombing of cars and trucks (front page, July 6). Most significant, the police have also been attacked. The next step will be the use of guns. If the rioting continues, the police will fire plastic bul... |
774212_0 | Paris Defends Seizing Ship in Atom Test Zone | France today brushed aside a wave of international protests against the boarding and seizure by French Navy commandos in the South Pacific of a ship carrying protesters against its plans to resume underground nuclear testing at Mururoa Atoll in September. "France will command respect for the measures it has decided to ... |
774177_0 | Only Peace Talks Can Save Northern Ireland; Empty Promises | To the Editor: The release of British Pvt. Lee Clegg from prison for the murder of an Irish teen-ager (news article, July 4) only adds to the growing belief that Britain is not serious about the peace process. In looking back on past events, Britain has only reacted to the situation and rarely, if ever, initiated a pos... |
774237_1 | Protestants Fight Police In Ulster | the 1,000 members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, the overwhelmingly Protestant security force in this British province, and the police responded by firing plastic bullets. Several injuries were reported as some of the demonstrators briefly broke through police lines in an attempt to reach the Catholic area. No clash... |
774893_2 | U.S. Weighs a Response To French Call on Bosnia | call for the rapid reaction force to open up a road out of Sarajevo to stop its strangulation by the Bosnian Serbs. As the Administration debated how to respond to the Balkan crisis, there were signs of divisions inside the Western alliance. President Clinton consulted by telephone with Prime Minister John Major of Bri... |
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