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774892_1 | A Quiet Evening River Cruise Became a Terrifying Adventure | they still could not explain what caused the Other Office to capsize as it traveled north toward the United Nations at about 9:15 P.M. All 38 aboard were rescued. Passengers yesterday described how the leisurely night turned into a terrifying adventure. For about an hour, the boat remained moored at the North Cove Mari... |
778070_0 | For Used Cars, a Leap to a Fashion Pedestal | Like the devil at their shoulders, Automobile magazine inflames Americans' passion for cars and trucks each month, rolling out the sweetest new things that Detroit, Tokyo and company have to offer -- and, incidentally, making that Taurus in the garage seem dowdier than ever. "Sell Your Soul!" the magazine urged on its ... |
778124_0 | The French Repudiate Crimes of Vichy | To the Editor: "Mr. Chirac Honors the Truth" (editorial, July 18) is just another distortion of the truth of the German occupation of France. As a teen-age girl in Paris during that occupation, I can attest to the hatred millions of my compatriots felt for the Vichy Government. Do you know that any Jew wearing a yellow... |
778010_0 | I.R.A. Gives Nod to International Panel | Gerry Adams, the political leader of the Irish Republican Army, today gingerly accepted the idea that an international commission to arrange the disarmament of the I.R.A. might lead to the start of full-fledged negotiations toward a political settlement of its 25-year fight against British rule. The Irish and British G... |
773225_6 | Conspiracy Theories' Impact Reverberates in Legislatures | conspiracy-minded say the bomb exploded inside the building. The Government's motive for the brutality, Mr. Duke says, was to create a sentiment in the country for stronger powers for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. House Speaker Newt Gingrich is described by Mr. Duk... |
773242_1 | Belfast Catholics Loyal to I.R.A. Say It Stirred Up Street Violence | and the rest of the province were "very quiet," with only a half-dozen incidents of violence and no serious injuries reported after nightfall, indicating that the rioters were heeding the appeal for calm by Sinn Fein's president, Gerry Adams. Sinn Fein asserted that the British decision to free the soldier, Pvt. Lee Cl... |
772279_0 | F.B.I. Checks Bomber Credo For New Clues | Experts at the Federal Bureau of Investigation spent today poring over the lengthy manifesto written by the self-described anarchist who has engaged in a 17-year campaign of mail bombings, but agents offered no new theories in the case. The man, suspected of having mailed 16 bombs that killed three people and injured 2... |
772279_4 | F.B.I. Checks Bomber Credo For New Clues | carriers will be affected. No date has been set for ending the new security requirements, prompted by threats from the serial mail bomber. TRAVELERS Exact procedures may vary from one airport to another. The F.A.A. advises that passengers may have indentification checked more than once, and warns against leaving baggag... |
772193_0 | How the March of Dimes Got Behind Dr. Salk | To the Editor: The obituary of Dr. Jonas Salk (front page, June 24) omitted mention of a major figure in his career. Basil O'Connor, law partner of Franklin D. Roosevelt during his brief venture into private practice, was drafted by the President to organize and conduct the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. ... |
772249_1 | Philip W. Bonsal, 92, Last U.S. Envoy to Cuba | nationalization of American-owned companies proceeded, his counsel of quiet negotiation was largely ignored in Washington. Without notifying him, the Eisenhower Administration suspended Cuba's sugar import quota -- three million tons -- in July 1960, in response to Havana's sale of a million tons of sugar to the Soviet... |
772317_0 | For Greece, Olympic Aspiration Is a Reality | Ancient Greeks built the Parthenon, wrote the Iliad and put an indelible stamp on everything from philosophy to battlefield tactics to the city-state. But the modern Greeks do have at least one edge on their ancestors. They play basketball. In fact, they play it very well, and tonight in the quarterfinals of the Europe... |
776123_1 | Web of Cellular Phone Fraud Widens | assistant manager for loss prevention at Ameritech Cellular. According to industry statistics, 25 million Americans now use cellular phones and subscribers are growing by 28,000 every day. Fraud victims are not responsible for the counterfeit calls, estimated to have cost the industry more than $1 million a day last ye... |
776284_0 | NEWS BRIEFS INTERNATIONAL SQN##386430##SERBS SAY THEY TOOK 'SAFE AREA' The Bosnia Serb army said it had captured the besieged "safe area" of Zepa, but the Bosnian Government in Sarajevo denied the claim and U.N. officials said they were unable to verify it. SQN##386332##ALLIES CAN'T AGREE ON BOSNIA Rejecting a French p... | |
774402_0 | Cancer Link Contradicted By New Hormone Study | Just one month after a study found that women who took hormone replacement therapy after menopause had an increased risk of breast cancer, another study has found no such effect. The new study, being published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association, compared some 500 women aged 50 to 64 who had newly ... |
774397_2 | Fancy This, Fancy That | of fresh ingredients available year-round." As with salsas, the interest in olive oils, especially flavored ones, hardly seems to have peaked. Not with 176 brands -- even an Israeli one, Land of Canaan, blended with souri olives from 2,000-year-old trees. Though "Jurassic Park" and "The Flintstones" are not among this ... |
774427_0 | In Venezuelan Hinterland, Gold Beyond Imagining | Scouring the vast Amazon wilderness for gold in the late 19th century, cricket-playing British miners and hard-bitten Venezuelan panners missed the mark by only 88 kilometers. That 55-mile distance south of the town of El Dorado, engineers at a jungle camp here hunched over computer models one recent morning, drawing b... |
774447_0 | Foreign Affairs; Meddling For Peace | Strap on the electrodes and rev up the car battery. It's time for President Clinton to administer another jolt of shock therapy to Britain's Prime Minister, John Major. He's gone wobbly again on Northern Ireland. The cease-fire in Northern Ireland is fast approaching its first anniversary, Sept. 1, and yet efforts to b... |
774435_1 | Business Travel; A travel industry study shows it's best to keep on the move to avoid becoming a victim of crime. | a benchmark for future surveys. Airline Update Beginning today, first-class and business-class passengers who fly Northwest Airlines to Europe can select from new menus created by three chefs, Waldy Malouf of the Hudson River Club in New York, Brian Polcyn of Acadia in Auburn Hills, Mich., and Todd English of Olives in... |
774434_1 | Business Travel; A travel industry study shows it's best to keep on the move to avoid becoming a victim of crime. | a benchmark for future surveys. Airline Update Beginning today, first-class and business-class passengers who fly Northwest Airlines to Europe can select from new menus created by three chefs, Waldy Malouf of the Hudson River Club in New York, Brian Polcyn of Acadia in Auburn Hills, Mich., and Todd English of Olives in... |
774268_2 | Fancy This, Fancy That | of fresh ingredients available year-round." As with salsas, the interest in olive oils, especially flavored ones, hardly seems to have peaked. Not with 176 brands -- even an Israeli one, Land of Canaan, blended with souri olives from 2,000-year-old trees. Though "Jurassic Park" and "The Flintstones" are not among this ... |
775823_1 | Observer; How the Going Got Bad | impulse, a sentimental expression of yearning for the buggy and village blacksmith. Not at all. It was based on my studies of how technology works on us all. These studies made it obvious that the Internet simply had to produce a breakdown in good manners, the very collapse in civility which is now occurring. First, th... |
775621_0 | Radio Astronomers See Mobile Phone Threat | ASTRONOMERS say that if the multibillion-dollar mobile telephone industry continues to expand without safeguards, radio astronomy will be swamped by a sea of radio interference. The warning was issued this month by the European Science Foundation from its headquarters at Strasbourg, France. "Great fleets of new generat... |
775669_1 | Mr. Chirac Honors the Truth | admission is welcome. It does more than aerate and mend the wounds of a not-too-distant past. It also reclaims the French Republic's founding principles of liberty, equality and fraternity, principles once again under challenge from racist politicians who would deport immigrants and harass ethnic minorities. Mr. Chirac... |
775629_0 | Restoring Ebbing Hormones May Slow Aging | WHY do some people in their 80's look, act and feel vigorous and energetic while others need help just to get through the chores of daily living? A good part of the answer may lie in their hormones. If studies now under way bear out their initial promise, hormone treatments for people over 60 may help to turn back the ... |
776743_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | halt the construction of a nuclear research reactor that would use bomb-grade uranium in what American critics call a "brazen violation" of efforts to halt the spread of nuclear weapons. 3 France's President is in Africa, leaving many problems behind. 5 Beit El Journal: Jewish settlers establish their own radio voice. ... |
773992_3 | They Let Their Fingers Do the Talking | services as independent contractors, and they sign nondisclosure agreements. But industry executives say the forum leaders are typically paid a share -- usually about 10 percent -- of the fees collected by the on-line service for time spent by members in their forum. A handful of the most popular forums are multimillio... |
774065_0 | Tools of Brain Surgery | To the Editor: We were pleased to read the article explaining the value of stereotactic radiosurgery for treatment of a variety of tumors and other abnormalities in the brain (Health page, July 5). However, the article gives the impression that radiosurgery, which uses highly focused radiation beams, can only be perfor... |
779232_1 | After a Raid, Ball Bearing Manufacturer Back at Work | because each type of bearing is built to specification, and a ball bearing used in a military aircraft would not be used in commercial aircraft. "None of the parts in question pose any threat to civil aviation," said Anthony J. Broderick, the F.A.A.'s associate administrator for regulation and certification. The nature... |
773597_0 | Bumping | To the Editor: As travelers who have often received vouchers, or cash or both in return for agreeing to be bumped from flights my wife and I agree with all but one of Betsy Wade's suggestions in "Passengers Play the Airlines' Bumping Game" (Practical Traveler, May 21). That suggestion was that would-be volunteers not c... |
773689_0 | Rubber Trees Being Planted in Brazil, the Source | A thousand miles from the Amazon, a new chapter in Brazil's rubber epic is being written in modern plantations where rubber trees are planted like corn. Defying history and Henry Ford, the plantations are thriving, placing Brazil back on the road to self-sufficiency in rubber for the first time since 1950. A century ag... |
773809_0 | POSTINGS: A New Use for an Old Folly; A Learning Center for the Belvedere Castle | Central Park's Belvedere Castle is getting a $340,000 rehabilitation as part of $3 million in education grants from the Henry Luce Foundation and the Lila Wallace Readers Digest Fund. The castle, perched on a rock outcropping overlooking the Delacorte Theater near West 79th Street, is to reopen next May as the Luce Lea... |
773639_1 | The Ulster Minefield | divided the region ever since. Most of the marches by the Catholics, commemorating their victories, will come in August. Even if the marches pass without sustained violence or terrorist attacks, the effort to arrange a political settlement must still overcome many obstacles. Most relate to the political will and streng... |
772741_2 | Technology: ON THE NET; Out, damned geek! The typical Web user is no longer packing a pocket protector. | technology front was that while more than half of the respondents last fall gained access to the Internet through educational institutions, that portion has dropped to about one fourth. More than half are now getting on the Internet and sampling the Web through commercial access providers, like Netcom or PSInet. That t... |
772735_1 | Patents; A hybrid car, with battery and internal combustion engine, may be the bridge to a fully electric auto. | drivers to travel up to 300 miles before recharging, and would vastly increase mileage performance in hybrid gas-electric cars. "The battery makes it possible for a car to get 80 miles to the gallon because it will be used for the power surges," Mr. Burghart explained. "You'll use the same internal-combustion engine to... |
772727_9 | Job Insecurity: A special report.; In New Work World, Employers Call All the Shots | you back to five-and-a-half hours on Sundays,' " Mr. Almond recalled. "The guy said, 'It's nothing personal. Just a function of money.' " For most workers, an often fruitful route into a permanent job is the temporary help agency, which has displaced the old Main Street employment agency. Temporary agencies hire worker... |
772954_1 | VIOLENCE ERUPTS IN ULSTER CITIES | before the British Prime Minister, John Major, faced a vote on his leadership of the Conservative Party, and was certain to help Mr. Major appease right-wing critics who have long made the imprisoned soldier a cause. Officials of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the I.R.A., said that the release was timed to pander for... |
772939_2 | Bear Kills Woman and Her Son in Alaska | party of state troopers and park rangers found the bodies of Mr. Waldron and Mrs. Trent in thick bushes about 30 yards from a buried moose carcass. The trail that the victims were hiking has been closed indefinitely while game officials search for the bear, which they say they will kill if they satisfy themselves that ... |
772910_3 | New Analysis of the Parthenon's Frieze Finds It Depicts a Horrifying Legend | the front, with a garment still folded and carried upon the stool on her head. Dr. Connelly said this new interpretation "has far-reaching implications for our understanding of the role of women in Greek myth and culture." Greek writings of the time were making much of the sentiment attributed to Praxithea that just as... |
775546_0 | What France Risks With Nuclear Tests; Overkill Response | To the Editor: The French Navy's raid on the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior II (news article, July 10) is a fitting prelude to France's coming nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Paris has shown disdain for protests against setting off thermonuclear explosions in a part of the world often described as a paradise on ea... |
775563_0 | What France Risks With Nuclear Tests | To the Editor: I commend you for calling on the French President, Jacques Chirac, to show courage and statesmanship by canceling France's proposed nuclear tests in the South Pacific (editorial, July 5). His announcement has caused outrage in Australia and other South Pacific countries and is provoking a response from o... |
775567_0 | Disarming Must Precede Irish Peace Talks | To the Editor: Peter Martin (letter, July 11) suggested that the British Prime Minister set a date for all-party talks in Northern Ireland. A good idea. But I would like to make four points: (1) The British Government has been working toward all-party talks. But these will not happen simply by naming a date. Sinn Fein ... |
775579_0 | Shrinking Gap Between Church and Polish State | As Poland has worked during the last four years to write a new constitution, the Roman Catholic Church has become intimately involved in the process, wielding decisive influence on some important provisions. The church has an official observer on the drafting commission, mobilizing the bishops into action on potential ... |
775545_0 | Disarming Must Precede Irish Peace Talks; British Bad Faith | To the Editor: Reports from Belfast (July 6, 7 and 9), following the freeing from prison by the British Government of Pvt. Lee Clegg, carried allegations that Sinn Fein was behind the street disturbances after his release. Such allegations are extremely serious in the context of the peace process. They are also untrue.... |
775479_1 | Companies Use Web Hoping to Save Millions | Federal Express customers tracked 90,000 packages through the Web site. Internet tracking has become one of the most cost-effective ways to track packages, said Robert Hamilton, manager of electronic commerce marketing for the company, whose headquarters are in Memphis. Mr. Hamilton declined to quantify the savings, sa... |
775477_3 | Old distinctions blur. Advertising on line now involves audience consent. | to determine how many different people are using it. Is a site that is called up 12 times seen by 12 different people or the same person 12 times? The kind of demographic information that advertisers need is also scarce. Some Web sites have gathered such data about their consumers, but usually with the assurance that i... |
777553_0 | Talking Peace in Ireland | Peace is looking a bit less shaky in Northern Ireland. According to news accounts that have not been officially confirmed, the British and Irish Governments have outlined a plan to break the impasse that has stopped the peace process from going to its next natural stage. That stage would be all-party talks to end the c... |
777502_0 | New Plan Drawn to Promote Irish Peace Effort | The British and Irish Governments have drawn up a new plan to deal with the major obstacles that have been impeding the Northern Ireland peace effort. After months of impasse in the effort toward a peaceful settlement of the sectarian warfare that has plagued the predominantly Protestant British province since 1969, th... |
777465_1 | Arabs Say Attacks Hurt Them Too | between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization to extend self-rule beyond Gaza and the West Bank town of Jericho. But many residents interviewed here predicted that today's attack would set back prospects for an Israeli withdrawal any time soon. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel has in the past slowed ne... |
776589_0 | Hostages Hero Works to Save Yellowstone | To the Editor: Re "New Star Scores Home Runs for Democrats" (news article, July 18): Your article describing Representative Bill Richardson's successful human rights initiatives around the globe omitted an important element of his remarkable work here at home on behalf of all Americans. Representative Richardson is pro... |
776594_0 | Irish Hurdle Raised | To the Editor: The assertion by Peter Innes, director of British Information Services, that the Irish Republican Army's disarming must precede British-Irish peace talks is disingenuous and discouraging (letter, July 17). Disingenuous because disarming was never part of the initial, secret talks between Sinn Fein and th... |
775853_3 | French War Stories | the French silently or actively supporting the Resistance. Intellectuals, so prominent in postwar France, might have been expected to force the issue. Yet people like Jean-Paul Sartre and Michel Foucault were curiously silent. One reason was their near-obsession with Communism. While proclaiming the need to "engage," t... |
776036_1 | Big New Trade Gap Deepens Clinton's Political Problems | has been carping in both parties about the North American Free Trade Agreement. Mr. Clinton is still trying to quell periodic rebellions in his own party over his advocacy of free trade, and today, Representative Peter A. DeFazio of Oregon cited the most recent figures in a letter to House members calling for a commiss... |
774637_1 | Ulster Protestants March, Celebrating History, as Catholics Jeer | as the parade passed for five minutes, they made no gestures, no shouts; they could barely hear the jeers of the Catholics, who tossed a few bottles that fell far short. As tens of thousands of Orangemen marched in dozens of parades in this predominantly Protestant British province, there were fears of violence that wo... |
774589_1 | Seeking China Deal, Bonn Shuns Rights Issue | for subways and trains. To Germany's political opposition, the Government's readiness to juggle contracts and human rights smacked of scandal. "The Stalin of China is not wanted in Germany," the Green Party said in a statement. The opposition Social Democrats have also urged the German Government to raise human rights ... |
773403_1 | U.S. Envoys Press the I.R.A. To Take Steps to Yield Arms | Ambassador to Britain, William Crowe, delivered a "strongly worded" message from the Administration on the subject of arms when he met with Mr. Adams here last week. But one official said, "We have no quibble with that story." The American Ambassador to Ireland, Jean Kennedy Smith, said in an interview that she was awa... |
773409_3 | Clergy in Rwanda Is Accused of Abetting Atrocities | army, the Government forces and militia carried out what various United Nations bodies and international human rights organizations have said was genocide. In its report to be published next month, African Rights condemns the church leadership in Rwanda generally for "surrender in the face of evil" and for "moral failu... |
773354_0 | Careiro da Varzea Journal; Who Braves Piranha Waters? Your Avon Lady! | Padding down cow paths in flip-flop sandals or paddling a canoe through piranha-infested creeks, Iraci Macedo da Costa Queiroz lugs from door to door what rain forest dreams are made of: Mesmerize cologne, Forever Fragrance perfume and Cool Confidence deodorant. With no doorbells to ring at the riverside shanties on st... |
774788_1 | Merck's Drug for Bone Weakness Gets F.D.A. Backing | while Warner Lambert will market the nonprescription Zantac for Glaxo. Analysts said worldwide sales of the Merck osteoporosis drug might exceed $1 billion a year. An estimated 20 million American women and 5 million men have thinning bones that often break at the hip, spine or wrist. On the Big Board yesterday, shares... |
774811_3 | France Asks Allied Forces to Help Hold 'Safe Areas' | initial reactions from Britain and the United States tonight did not reject his latest proposals out of hand. The French suggestion came after sharp attacks by Mr. Millon and Foreign Minister Herve de Charette on United Nations passivity in the face of the Bosnian Serb attack in Srebrenica. "Ultimately they are becomin... |
774806_0 | F.C.C. Proposes Dual Use For One Part of Airwaves | The Federal Communications Commission proposed rules today that would allow new global satellite communications systems to share a part of the airwaves with a technology for transmitting dozens of television channels over microwave frequencies. The new rules would essentially settle a dispute between businesses that wa... |
774739_0 | Ellis Island Succeeds As Park Restoration | To the Editor: Re "Parks in Peril" (editorial, July 4): We agree that the national parks are in need of support and expanded avenues of revenue. However, we take exception to your statement that "many of the park system's 22,000 historic buildings, as any visitor to Ellis Island can confirm, are simply falling apart." ... |
777804_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-11 BOMB ATTACK IN PARIS SUBWAY Four people were killed and 62 wounded when a bomb exploded in a crowded Paris train station near Notre Dame Cathedral in the middle of the evening rush hour. A1 NATO BOWS TO U.N. ON AIR STRIKES Four days after the United States, Britain and France threatened the Bosnian ... |
777693_1 | In a Ranking of Maternal Health, U.S. Trails Most Developed Nations | great wealth scored relatively poorly. Last year, at the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, 180 nations reached an agreement urging all countries to make reproductive health services and contraceptives available to all by the year 2015. The United States did not rank higher largely because... |
777792_2 | Many U.S. Aides Seem Sure That French Bombed Serbs | reported that in retaliation for the killing of French soldiers in Bosnia, a single Mirage 2000 had flown from France and dropped a one-ton bomb on the house of an associate of the Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic. The paper said the warplane had traveled with a previously scheduled reconnaissance mission to evade... |
777808_3 | EXPLOSION KILLS 4 AND INJURES MANY ON TRAIN IN PARIS | the injured, but it was not known if any tourists were hurt in the bombing. No victims have yet been identified. The train, which was headed south toward St.-Remy-les-Chevreuse, a few miles outside the perimeter of the City of Paris, is normally crowded with commuters, carrying some 400,000 people to, from and within t... |
790203_2 | Bill to Tighten Economic Embargo on Cuba Is Passed With Strong Support in the House | were not American citizens at the time of the 1959 revolution to sue foreign investors in Cuba for damages in Federal courts. The Clinton Administration says this provision will clog American courts, offend American allies and violate international laws by giving American courts jurisdiction over disputes in another co... |
791326_0 | Irish Peace Won't Come at Point of a Gun | To the Editor: If making peace in Northern Ireland were as straightforward as Thomas L. Friedman suggests (column, Sept. 20), we would have got there long ago. Mr. Friedman criticizes the British Prime Minister, among others, for lack of courage. In less than two years we have had the joint declaration, the joint frame... |
787707_2 | The Second Sex in the Third World | storytellers, recreated their agenda in their heads overnight and hand-wrote their document. "When the energy goes, we provide our own," said Gertrude Mongella, a Tanzanian who is Secretary-General of the Beijing women's conference. Rounaq Jahan, a Bangladeshi political scientist and the author of "The Elusive Agenda: ... |
787688_0 | Detonation in the French Pacific | WITH the flip of a switch on a tiny white-sand atoll close to nowhere, France may have managed to guarantee the end of centuries of Western colonialism in the Pacific. What began in the 1520's when Magellan bravely crossed an uncharted ocean to discover Guam and the Philippines for the Spanish crown could well be drawi... |
787931_4 | Temporary Work Finds a Permanent Niche | with the required skills, and that's compared to three or four weeks for a company to fill the same position on its own." Mr. Steinberg pointed out that a survey of 47 companies representing about 10 percent of temporary-help services showed that they spent $45 million on training for their temporary employees, accordi... |
787911_1 | Gerry Adams Discusses I.R.A. Arms | Ireland policy had been "even-handed" and that he did not expect pressure to make concessions on Sinn Fein positions. Asked if he might accept a commission where the disarmament issue could be "parked," meaning where it could be considered without binding decisions on deadlines and methods of disarming, he said, "We wi... |
787460_0 | At U.N. Women's Meeting, An Outbreak of Harmony | It was billed as a clash of civilizations over how to define the rights of women in language that could influence how all nations act. So when delegates and advocates from 185 nations started converging on the Chinese capital late last month for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women and a parallel forum o... |
787370_0 | I.R.A., Not Britain, Holds Up Peace Talks | To the Editor: Re "Next Step in Ireland" (editorial, Sept. 5): You assert that Britain's insistence on Irish Republican Army disarmament is causing a stalemate in the peace talks. You mischaracterize the British position, asserting that the British Government is "insisting on the surrender of all arms before talks can ... |
787433_0 | French Troops Impose Peace in Riot-Torn Tahiti | Hundreds of French riot police and soldiers were deployed today across Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia, after anti-French riots gutted the international airport and dozens of shops and Government offices. Although demonstrators lingered near the blackened terminal building, there was relative calm at the airpo... |
787449_1 | Port-au-Prince Journal; Haiti Task Force, Battling for Women's Rights | bureaus dedicated to women's issues, Haiti is one of the few to have a Cabinet-level ministry for them. Its creation came in November 1994, after years of lobbying and organizing by Haitian women, who have doubly suffered as the poorest members of what is already considered the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere... |
786358_0 | Safe Haven For Old Cars, Or Junkyard? | James Dulligan's passion for antique cars and trucks began in childhood. In 1946, at the age of 13, he took $75 he had earned as a paper boy and as a hired hand in a repair shop and bought his first truck, a Packard roadster that was used as a service truck during World War I. Since then, Mr. Dulligan has collected and... |
786578_0 | Companies Merge; Families Break Up | No country without a revolution or a military defeat and subsequent occupation has ever experienced such a sharp a shift in the distribution of earnings as America has in the last generation. At no other time have median wages of American men fallen for more than two decades. Never before have a majority of American wo... |
786426_0 | French Tow Ships off Site Of Atom Test | The French Navy today towed two protest ships away from the site of planned French nuclear protests in the South Pacific after seizing the vessels and arresting dozens of their passengers and crew, including an American congressman and the leader of a Polynesian independence movement. Word that the independence leader ... |
786402_4 | History You Can Eat | a bite and said, 'Now I know why people put sugar on tomatoes.' It was like somebody opened the tomato, poured sugar in it and closed it up." Mr. Cavanaugh ordered from heirloom-seed companies. There are scores, mostly quite new, the most prominent of which is Seed Savers, a nonprofit exchange in Decorah, Iowa. He met ... |
786400_0 | U.S. Embargo on Cuba Slows Pace of Reform; Business Loses Big | To the Editor: Richard Nuccio, the White House special adviser on Cuba, is dead wrong in stating (front page, Aug. 27) that American businesses are not losing out with respect to investment opportunities in Cuba, as the rest of the world opens its doors to trade and investment with the island nation. Cuba is busy settl... |
786406_0 | Irish Peace Talks Are Waiting for Britain | To the Editor: This is the first anniversary of the cease-fire in Northern Ireland, but the peace is tenuous. The British Government is now calling for decommissioning arms as a condition of Irish Republican Army participation in peace talks. This new condition is both unrealistic and unnecessary in light of the critic... |
786509_5 | Old-Style Drudgery Bests a Modern Foe; Workers Use Scoops and Scrapers To Get the Lead Out of Oyster Bay | remote control. The watery muck was dumped into a special mud barge and the water separated and filtered by hydrocyclone cones, which are ordinarily used in oil fields to separate mud from oil. That process proved to be too time-consuming, according to Mr. McVay, who said the cleanup crew spent more than a year using t... |
786228_5 | What Do Women Want? | Newsweek and Forbes, that were encouraging women to take control of board meetings and get mammograms. With all the choices, mainstream women's magazines still leave plenty of women in the dust. Few of the books tend to have much to say, for instance, to lesbians, outside of the occasional piece written by a straight w... |
786706_1 | Helpful Corporate Pressure on Cuba | have had to stand by while Grupo Domos, a Mexican corporation, recently signed a huge deal to overhaul Cuba's telephone system. Louisiana rice growers would love to recapture what was once their biggest export market. Otis Elevator fears that Japanese manufacturers will move in to replace Otis equipment installed throu... |
786688_2 | Technology: DIGITAL COMMERCE; An author with global ambitions uses the Internet to break into print. | the cheap shot: "THEM TOO: Reuters recently issued a correction to a story 'to correct headline on Dutch item.' Rather than the story headlined 'Dutch Protestants Unionize to Protect Rights,' editors were asked to use the version headed 'Dutch Prostitutes Unionize to Protect Rights' instead. (Reuters) . . . Just in tim... |
786656_0 | In Suriname's Rain Forests, A Fight Over Trees vs. Jobs | The women still wash in the chestnut-brown river and the men launch sleek canoes to fish and hunt in rituals as old as the rain forest itself. Life here seems unchanged and unchanging, but when the Granman Matodja Gazon looks into the future what he sees is sorrow for the forest and for his people. "When our ancestors ... |
786658_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International 2-5 STANDOFF AT CHINA MEETING Groups meeting in advance of the world conference on women decided to keep meeting despite China's surveillance, increasing the likelihood that the problem will remain when Hillary Clinton arrives. 1 BATTLE OVER SURINAME'S FOREST The country of Suriname, desperate for money, ... |
786623_1 | French Navy Seizes a Third Ship At Site of Planned Nuclear Tests | said that the sailboat, the Kidu, and its crew of two were seized by commandos this morning after the boat entered the 12-mile exclusion zone around Mururoa. Lieut. Col. Yves Bourboulon, a spokesman in Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia, said that the Kidu pierced the exclusion zone three times and was warned awa... |
788905_2 | Diary | label nicotine an addictive drug, for instance, and to reduce sales to teen-agers -- the tobacco industry is pouring money into Republican coffers. In the first half of this year, the industry contributed $1.5 million, five times as much as last year's first six months. Nearly half that sum came from Philip Morris. Rep... |
788978_2 | Cuba's Drive for Tourists Stirs Neighbors to Action | result of a 34-year-old economic embargo, one provision of which prohibits American citizens from spending money in Cuba. But in testimony to the Puerto Rican Senate, Mr. Fortuno also warned that "in the medium to long term," the resurgence of the Cuban tourist industry creates "the possibility of a disastrous impact h... |
789079_1 | Group Sees Ozone Danger In Illicit Chemical Trade | produced abroad was illicitly brought into this country. Exports from the United States are legal. The producers argue that they are even desirable, because they will forestall countries like India and China from building their own factories, which they might not shut down when their deadline arrives in 2005, said Davi... |
789324_0 | Reluctant Conscripts In The March of Technology | AFTER resisting for years, Robert Post finally succumbed to electronic mail. Mr. Post, a curator of technology at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History and a fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had long watched with amused detachment as E-mail became first fashionable and then pervas... |
789350_0 | For Fair Play on Ireland | To the Editor: Re "Ireland's Path to Peace" (Op-Ed, Sept. 12): Sir Patrick Mayhew does himself and the world a disservice when he states that only Sinn Fein has been associated with violence in the North of Ireland. The violence of the British Army; the massacre of civilians and Bloody Sunday; the sectarian slaughter b... |
789018_1 | Women of The World Disperse. To What? | issuing proclamations that lead to breathtakingly few concrete results. Has anything changed? This time, delegates promised that the governments that agreed to the platform would be required to make commitments to implement specific items. Yet monitoring their progress is a sprawling, almost impossible job, because wom... |
790882_1 | Much-Traveled Pope Ready for U.S. Whirlwind | He has succeeded in doing much of what he set out to do when he was elected Pope 17 years ago. As the Polish Pope -- the first non-Italian to head the church in 455 years -- he played his part in the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. As one of the most charismatic pastors in centuries, he has made 67 trips outsi... |
789860_2 | Practicing Safety On the Internet | the suggestions: * Don't give out personal information, like a home address or telephone number, in a public message such as in a chat room or bulletin board. Don't give out personal information in an electronic-mail message unless both the parent and child are sure of the identity of the recipient. * Never respond to ... |
789600_5 | Disputed Meeting To Ask if Crime Has Genetic Roots | the conference. "They have a probabilistic effect that makes us more likely to act one way or another, but that action is always done in conjunction with the environment." Summing up a common sentiment among many participants, Dr. David Comings, a medical geneticist at the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, Calif.,... |
789594_1 | Bizarre Parasite Invades Trout Streams, Devastating Young Rainbows | say the Vandals have broken into the cathedral of fly-fishing," said Dr. Karl M. Johnson, a virologist who in the 1970's discovered the Ebola virus as a human killer and who now is one of many experts grappling with whirling disease. He moved here for the fishing, and his expertise has made him a central figure in the ... |
789605_0 | Brazilian Squatters Fall in Deadly Police Raid | On a day so bright it seemed to hide no secrets, the 500 or so landless men, women and children of Santa Elina thought they had won in their occupation of a virgin forest belonging to an estate more vast than Manhattan and the Bronx combined. Faces painted with coal, brandishing sticks, slingshots, sickles and chain sa... |
788414_1 | AT BREAKFAST WITH: The Archbishop of Canterbury; An Outsider And Leader Of the Flock | Back home in London he drinks tea, but in the United States, the Archbishop said, "the coffee is so good and the tea is not." The Archbishop, who will turn 60 on Nov. 13, looked more like an unpretentious businessman occupying the next seat on a bus than the exalted head of the Anglican Communion, which claims more tha... |
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