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124514_0 | Episcopal Women Seek Bishop Posts | LEAD: Even while the Church of England remains deeply torn over whether to ordain women as priests, its sister Episcopal Church in the United States is moving toward the consecration of women priests as bishops. Even while the Church of England remains deeply torn over whether to ordain women as priests, its sister Epi... |
128345_1 | Remove the Trade-Bill Shackles | in the same inflexible direction. Representative Richard Gephardt's amendment to the House version of the bill has generated much public passion, pro and con, and only partly because its sponsor is a Presidential contender. It appeals to a gut instinct that America loses jobs because other countries don't play fair. Th... |
130342_1 | Review/Film; A Comedy On Island Of Rhodes | include the very old Basil Sharp (Sebastian Shaw), a famous art historian with a fondness for contemporary Greek lads; Yanni (Paris Tselios), a contemporary Greek lad out to make his fortune from tourism; his mother, Penelope (Irene Papas), who hates tourists, and a clumsy British agent (Kenneth Branagh) sent to the is... |
128765_2 | Lost $8 Million Recovered After Arrest of 4 in Brazil | bags of $4 million each and 2 bags of $3 million, was loaded onto Varig Flight 861 at Kennedy International Airport on Feb. 4 and was checked with the airline as the personal luggage of a Brink's courier, identified by the company as Robert Denisco. At Rio de Janeiro's Galeao International Airport, Mr. Denisco reported... |
127180_4 | China's Waters And Mountains Of Eternity | cities, were once stones carried from central China by conscripted laborers to fill up the South China Sea. The laborers got only as far as Guilin, and the ''stones'' have remained here ever since, making Guilin the epitome of Chinese landscape when in reality it is a landscape unique to Guilin. Guilin's importance as ... |
127156_0 | When The Message Becomes Meaningless | LEAD: ''ARE you the station that gives twice as much weather? ''ARE you the station that gives twice as much weather? Well turn it off, I'm drowning.'' Some fellow said that back in the late 60's. I read it in a book by Marshall McLuhan. Remember the catchy saying, ''The medium is the message,'' which had an impressive... |
126986_2 | British-Irish Violence Is 'Appallingly Normal' | defeat these people far better by putting them on trial.'' The basic issue is much larger than the Gibraltar incident. It is the Irish community's age-old complaint that it cannot obtain even-handed justice from the British authorities who control Northern Ireland, especially as the authorities are baited by the I.R.A.... |
127191_2 | Jamaica | the entrance to the runway. When our flight was announced, we walked briskly toward the plane and arrived as Nos. 4, 5 and 6 at the foot of the stairs. ''Tickets, please,'' said the flight attendant. No. 1 tried to explain that the tickets were taken at the check-in counter. Nos. 2 and 3 showed tickets and walked up th... |
127048_1 | For Deaf, Gallaudet Was Just a Start | computer programmers, but none of them are moving up to supervisory jobs. This is the just the beginning, but in 10 years, maybe we'll see more deaf people moving up.'' Educational Leadership Mr. Stout said he and others who share his handicap want to see more deaf people leading education programs for the deaf. Mr. St... |
127079_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | LEAD: INTERNATIONAL/3-21 INTERNATIONAL/3-21 Palestinians in the Israeli police resigned from their jobs in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Almost 500 had already resigned amid predictions that the entire 1,000-man Palestinian force would give up their jobs by today. Page 1 The Israeli Defense Force struggles not... |
126866_1 | Love and Murder Among the Chimps | rain forest in the Uganda made dangerous by Idi Amin in order to observe chimpanzees, without luring them with food or constraining them with wire. He wanted to see how social groups interacted with one another, with their food supply, with other species and with homo sapiens, their nemesis. His living conditions were ... |
126867_10 | FROM THE CAULDRON OF LITERATURE: AN EXILE'S JOURNAL | understand. To Fear Nothingness, But Fear the Dentist More Today, in today's raw times, there is no thought or art which does not shout to you in a loud voice: don't escape, don't play, don't poke fun at yourself, don't run away! Fine. I, too, in spite of everything, would also prefer not to lie to my own being. I, the... |
125514_0 | U.S. Ships Broke Law in Black Sea Scrape | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: In ''A Serious Scrape, but Still a Scrape'' (editorial, Feb. 16), you discuss the Feb. 12 incident in the Black Sea in which two United States warships, the destroyer Caron and the cruiser Yorktown, sailed within the 12-mile limit the Soviet Union claims as its territory, and were bu... |
125512_2 | When It Comes to Population, More Isn't Better | babies? We can easily confirm this preposterous result directly. In 1960, the world population was 3 billion, thus supposedly a totality (living plus ancestors) of 60 billion. By 1988, with 5 billion alive, the totality would be 100 billion, requiring 40 billion to have been born in between and 38 billion to have died,... |
127523_3 | A Dutchess Prosecutor Vows Brawley Case Slander Suit | said: ''These outrageous and unfounded remarks are typical of the ongoing hoax that these three individuals - Maddox, Mason and Sharpton - are perpetrating on this community. Hopefully, this case will be solved despite their egotistical and arrogant disrespect for the law.'' Told that Mr. Maddox had called for his arre... |
135711_0 | Airline Deregulation Creates Massive Problems; Discomfort at Airports | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: A recent holiday in Florida, which included going through Miami International Airport, followed by a visit to Toronto by way of New York City's La Guardia Airport, pointed up how inefficiently passengers with luggage are catered for at those airports. For more than 30 years I have be... |
135498_0 | LESSONS | LEAD: No doubt a fair number of houses have been painted during a professor's sabbatical, and it is probably true that while on academic leave, someone brought a tan or two to chestnut maturity. But for every Aegean port that was visited, 100 ancient texts were read; for every redwood deck sanded and stained, 1,000 mon... |
135668_1 | Harvard Gets Mouse Patent, A World First | presented scientists with a more efficient biological system for testing new drugs and therapies to treat cancer, and for determining whether chemicals and other toxic substances found in food or the environment are harmful. The announcement elated researchers and biotechnology industry executives who said it would att... |
137405_0 | U.S. Signs a U.N. Document That Seeks an End to Torture | LEAD: The United States today signed a United Nations document deploring torture. The document, known as the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, was adopted by the General Assembly in 1984. The United States today signed a United Nations document deploring torture. ... |
137327_0 | Pirelli to Buy Armstrong From Armtek | LEAD: In another sign of a worldwide consolidation in the tire industry, the Armtek Corporation, a tire and industrial products company, said today that it had agreed to sell its Armstrong Tire Company to Pirelli S.p.A., the Italian tire maker, for $190 million. In another sign of a worldwide consolidation in the tire ... |
133919_1 | HEALTH: Infant Care; Why Fewer Blacks Choose to Breast-Feed Than Do Whites | scientists. The latest figures, from 1987, show that 62.2 percent of white mothers nursed their babies while in the hospital, as against 50.6 percent of Hispanic mothers and 24.9 percent of black mothers, according to Julie Stock of the La Leche League International, a breast-feeding advocacy group with members in 50 c... |
133864_0 | Gibraltar I.R.A. Shootings Are Vigilantism | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Margaret Thatcher exacerbates the climate of violence in Northern Ireland by openly praising the killing of unarmed suspects in Gibraltar, and by blocking the prosecution of police charged with shoot-to-kill activity. The British Prime Minister sends signals that killing on the side ... |
133921_1 | Cocoa Glut: Good News and Bad | to plant more cocoa trees, which take seven to nine years to mature. The harvest from those trees is a major reason for the current surplus and low prices. The cocoa contract for May delivery rose yesterday by $16, to $1,562 a metric ton (2,204.6 pounds), on the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange in New York. Last season... |
133937_2 | Santo Domingo Journal; At 80, the Master Builder Is Busy (and Boastful) | address crowds two or three times a week. He chooses not to hold Cabinet meetings, but calls in his ministers one at a time for briefings, interrogations and scoldings. ''His mind is like a computer,'' said a senior Dominican official who, even in praising Mr. Balaguer, did not want to be quoted by name. Perhaps the re... |
135853_1 | Designs Take Heed Of Human Frailty | movement of the late 1960's - from curb cuts in sidewalks to kneeling buses - that is now part of our urban landscape. ''Over the past 20 or 30 years, more attention has been paid to people with disabilities as we have become more integrated in society, articulating discrimination and working together as a movement,'' ... |
135831_0 | Amazon Projects Threaten More Indians | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: The animal rescue operation that has needed an Amazon River Noah's ark of zoologists (news story, March 30) parallels the situation I heard of from two Kayapo Indian chiefs who recently visited me in Washington with Darrell Posey, an anthropologist committed to preserving the Amazon'... |
139684_0 | NEW SUMMARY | LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A2-13 News analysis: Jean-Marie Le Pen, by his strong showing in the first round of France's Presidential election, may have helped President Mitterrand reorient French politics around the moderate Socialist Party. Page A1 John Demjanjuk is to be hanged, an Israeli court ordered. INTERNATIONAL A2-13... |
139629_0 | Danes Divided on Nuclear Resolution | LEAD: What seemed at first just another of Denmark's regular domestic squabbles over military policy - this one over visiting allied warships - has swollen into a major political confrontation with ramifications for the entire North Atlantic alliance. What seemed at first just another of Denmark's regular domestic squa... |
139716_0 | Jordan River Project Could Help Peace Bloom | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: For 40 years, I have watched the situation in the Middle East with concern. My concern began in 1946, when a member of a delegation of experts attached to the English-American commission of inquiry was a house guest of ours in Paris. I watched him pacing the garden repeating over and... |
139550_0 | Mitterrand Calls for Voiding Of New Caledonia's Ballots | LEAD: President Francois Mitterrand called today for Sunday's first ballot for the French presidential election in the South Pacific territory of New Caledonia to be declared null. President Francois Mitterrand called today for Sunday's first ballot for the French presidential election in the South Pacific territory of... |
140163_0 | Advanced Genetic Cites Frostban Test Special to The New York Times | LEAD: Advanced Genetic Sciences Inc., a biotechnology company in Oakland, Calif., said it had successfully completed the second field test of Frostban, a genetically altered bacterium intended to prevent frost damage in fruit and nut crops. Test results confirmed that Frostban protects strawberries from natural bacteri... |
140165_1 | Boston City Council Backs Plan On Sterile Needles to Fight AIDS | Boston and New York are the only big cities actively considering needle exchange programs. In New York State, Dr. David Axelrod, the State Health Commissioner, has said he would approve such a program but must still adopt regulations to get it under way. City council and state legislative approval is not required in Ne... |
139958_1 | Havana Journal; Balm for a Bruised Clergy, and Hope for Believers | America, Mr. Castro has been moving toward reconciliation with Cuban Christians and the country's small Jewish population. Fresh Bibles and New Priests Progress toward more freedom and equity has been agonizingly slow for Cubans who want to practice Catholicism or Judaism, and for a while last year it seemed to have st... |
140068_1 | Europeans Placed Stiffer Curbs on Acne Drug | estimated that hundreds of babies may have been born severely deformed because of the drug, was the need for a change in policy widely accepted. Many European doctors have for years expressed concern about the relative lack of controls on the drug in the United States, American and European experts said in interviews. ... |
134959_4 | Memorial to Women Veterans Is Sought | the ''tension'' of the wall. The statue depicts a female officer with a stethoscope around her neck. Some Vietnam veterans object to this because it is too specific. Sharon Vennel of Brick Township, a 36-year-old cryptanalyst who served in Vietnam in 1970 and '71, said in an interview: ''I believe that the statue is li... |
134908_3 | TRAVEL ADVISORY | River 21 miles west of London, has been damaged by shifting foundations, the Department of the Environment announced recently. A series of bore holes have been dug to determine the cause of the settling, but the department said it was too early to give an explanation. Test results were not expected before May. Although... |
134916_1 | Family Outing On a Slow Boat In the Midlands | began spreading a transportation web across England in 1755, eventually traversing about 4,000 miles. By the early 1800's, canal boats had become the dominant form of cargo transportation. The network incorporated an intricate system of reservoirs, aqueducts and pumping stations to keep the locks supplied with water. (... |
134684_0 | Ambitious Eradication Goals and Withering Obstacles | LEAD: Perhaps the most ambitious goal of a Cabinet-level internal report on drug strategies is to cut in half coca leaf production in Latin America over the next five years. Perhaps the most ambitious goal of a Cabinet-level internal report on drug strategies is to cut in half coca leaf production in Latin America over... |
134842_10 | On-the-Job Learning | discount the financial benefit of co-op education. To this, Paul E. Dube, director of the Center for Cooperative Education at Northeastern, noting that students there earn an average of $7,300 a year, says: ''It would take a $700 million endowment to give 10,000 students that kind of aid. An engineering student may ear... |
134975_1 | Recycling's 'Superhero' Zaps Trash With Song | motor oil and other nasty substances, moving toward drinking-water supplies. ''Let's hear you say, 'Landfills stink,' '' Mr. Rowlands urged he introduced a song with that title. Children eagerly participate in the show, which is peppered with pop, rock and rap music. Afterward, the pupils line up to ask for Ray Cycle's... |
134843_0 | The Reality of Crime On Campus | LEAD: A MAN ON A university campus walks up to a woman he has never met and bites her breast in a collegiate fad known as ''sharking.'' Racial brawls break out on campuses from Massachusetts to Maryland. Four university football players in California gang-rape a woman. A student rapes and strangles a 19-year-old colleg... |
133011_0 | Special Education: Readers Respond | LEAD: HOW sad and disturbing it is to read a lengthy, articulate letter to the Long Island editor concerning special education for children with disabilities (Jane Goldlatt, March 6), which, while full of facts and figures, seems totally absent in appreciation and understanding of the human values that underlie special... |
132763_0 | SPECIAL EDUCATION: READERS RESPOND | LEAD: Jane Goldblatt's letter, ''Realistic Goals in Special Education,'' demonstrates naivete about the nature of the special-education process. Jane Goldblatt's letter, ''Realistic Goals in Special Education,'' demonstrates naivete about the nature of the special-education process. The writer, herself a special-educat... |
133124_0 | 'Unruly Dragon': An Excursion In Need of a Guide | LEAD: ''The Unruly Dragon'' flows along like its subject, the Yellow River in China. It's long and it's muddy, but it has lots of bright flashes of color. The Yellow River, or Huang Ho, starts in the Tibetan highlands and empties out in Bo Hai Bay off southeast China after twisting and turning 3,300 miles. ''The Unruly... |
132962_4 | A FAILURE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD | beyond the institutionalized terror of the early 50's. Of course, the relative liberalism of many of these governing elites hardly sustains the commonplace notion that student radicalism was somehow the product of a society grown far too permissive and consumption-oriented. One can't explain the rebelliousness of unive... |
132889_1 | A Need to Be Stirred | was never more than partly true. Ethnic, national, religious and other loyalties usually predominated over straight class interest. But the Marxist prophecy had tremendous intellectual and emotional impact, and is still implicit in the way many people talk about politics, if not in the way they practice it. Neo-conserv... |
133042_7 | County Presses Recycling Program | the county's ''work on recycling was being paid for out of the general Westchester budget, while the refunds will just be in terms of those municipalities involved in the refuse district.'' Mr. Hogan said that was correct. ''So isn't it a reasonable assumption,'' Mr. Gilchrist asked, ''that any work you do on recycling... |
134475_0 | Broadcast Executive Charged With Importing Wild Animals | LEAD: Ted Turner, the broadcast executive, has been charged with importing and possessing three black bears and two cougars without a permit, officials said today. Ted Turner, the broadcast executive, has been charged with importing and possessing three black bears and two cougars without a permit, officials said today... |
133278_2 | 1916 Irish Rebellion: It Is Not Over Yet | on March 19, two British soldiers who apparently drove into an I.R.A. funeral by mistake were beaten and shot dead. Troops Line Parade Route At both incidents, security arrangements were minimal, with few members of the British Army or the Royal Ulster Constabulary in attendance. The Government was severely criticized ... |
133234_0 | Illinois Project Gives Families a New Way To Aid Disabled Kin | LEAD: Danny and Fay Moore have lived with anxiety since the births of their daughter and their son, both mentally retarded as a result of the genetic disorder Down's syndrome. The Moores shape their family life around providing special schooling and counseling for Stacey, 7 years old, and Aaron, 4, who are growing into... |
136744_1 | The Inner Landscape | study the magnetic fields of virtually every part of the body, they have the unprecedented ability to see how each of us is put together - and how we each diverge from ''normal.'' But, though they might be able to see the extra parts, the missing pieces, the multiple cysts, they often don't know how, or even whether, s... |
136853_1 | Garbage In and Out? Recycling Begins at Home | the advertising targets for that very catchy-looking packaging. It's up to us to make clear to manufacturers and retailers what kind of packaging is acceptable to us. Most businesses react to pressure from customers - and very little will be done without that nudge. We do need large government recycling efforts, but th... |
136615_7 | Mutual Solace From Mutual Cares | trying to break fully away. Mr. Winchell said the group also served to create public awareness of what they considered ''the harmful effects of cults'' like the Unification Church, Scientology and Way International. ''These people suffer severe traumas,'' he said. Members gather at locations that vary from meeting to m... |
136613_2 | The Pilots at Sandy Hook: 294 Years of Taking the Helm | Britain and win for the United States the coveted cup that still bears her name. * Paid with their lives and vessels in the pursuit of their calling. Records show that 34 pilot boats have been wrecked in storms and collisions and that 51 pilots have drowned or frozen to death, including Capt. Dick Brown, skipper of the... |
136997_1 | Bolivia, With U.S. Aid, Battles Cocaine at the Root | The operations have made it extremely difficult for farmers to get their coca leaves and coca paste to buyers in other regions. With farmers desperate to sell, prices have plummeted. ''We cannot cover our costs and the people are not harvesting,'' said Herman Portanda, a 40-year-old farmer. ''If a person has a child, w... |
136941_0 | Women's Salaries Are Raised By University of Connecticut | LEAD: In what experts consider a major step toward ending sex discrimination in wages for professors, the University of Connecticut has agreed to broad salary increases for its female faculty members. In what experts consider a major step toward ending sex discrimination in wages for professors, the University of Conne... |
136763_12 | THE PAPERBACKING OF THE AMERICAN MIND | because it is surprising that some of his critics have evidently forgotten them in expressing shocked surprise at his views. ''Why, this is reactionary stuff, this fellow is an elitist, even an authoritarian!'' they have exclaimed. Taking note of Mr. Bloom's veneration of Plato, they have accused him of harboring an an... |
137064_1 | TRAVEL ADVISORY | from the Chicago airport on the hotel's van. Monday through Thursday from 4 to 7 P.M. a hotel clerk on the vehicle phones the hotel with the names and reservation code numbers of the passengers. On arriving, guests simply pick up their room keys at a special desk. Information: O'Hare Marriott, 8535 West Higgins Road, C... |
139442_0 | News Summary | LEAD: International A2-10 Chernobyl still has problems two years after an explosion and fire. The nuclear power station is riddled with negligence, and managers have ignored safety regulations, the Soviet newspaper Pravda charged. Page A1 Soviet economic change has failed so far to produce much growth or raise living s... |
139380_2 | San Francisco Journal; Asian Children Play Amid Despair | her four younger siblings rarely ventured outside, spending their afternoons watching movies on the video cassette recorders that seem to be in every refugee's apartment. Khan Tran, a 14-year-old Vietnamese boy, is one of the scores of refugee children who play Ping Pong and pool everyday in a basement recreation cente... |
139451_1 | In Amazon Jungle, a Gold Rush Like None Before | decade old but it is accelerating as a severe economic recession leaves more and more people without regular jobs. The gold fever has reached such a vast scale that mineral experts are now describing it as the greatest mining rush on record. 'No One Knows the Number' In the past year, new wildcat diggings have opened. ... |
139367_1 | G.M. Plans to Phase Out Its Purchases of Firestone Tires | the hopes for bigger G.M. sales of Firestone competitors like the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and Michelin of France. Sales to General Motors have accounted for about 20 percent of Firestone's production in North America. Also, tires purchased from Firestone have amounted to about 20 percent of the tires purchased... |
136103_2 | U.S. Bishops Oppose Anti-Missile Plan | Daniel P. Reilly of Norwich, Conn., Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton, an auxiliary bishop from Detroit, and Bishop Angelo Accera, an auxiliary bishop in the military chaplaincy program. Welcome Changes in the Air The treaty recently signed by the superpowers banning intermediate and shorter-range missiles and the changed atm... |
136339_1 | Cracks in Foreign Policy Tax Paris's 'One Voice' | or shifts in the French consensus that many analysts say could come into the open after the May 8 runoff vote. Setting the Mood With an eye on Communist and other leftist voters, President Mitterrand has declared disarmament to be a ''principal stake'' in the election, an assertion nowhere buttressed by public opinion ... |
139762_3 | Lessons | is simple,'' he said. ''Bring a person to a condition where he can tell the difference between sense and nonsense to where he can tell when a man is talking rot. Let's just do that much. In other words, learn to read so well that you stop and you say, 'Look, this word here is the same as this word over here, but it doe... |
139917_2 | Everyman's Guide to Life as a Paraplegic | a great cross-fertilization going on in what I consider a significant community. But they said there wasn't. ''The more I saw this, the more it seemed like an opportunity.'' He formed a limited partnership, Spinal Associates, and, with $150,000 raised from several acquaintances, laid the book out on a Macintosh compute... |
139860_0 | Saturn to Continue Firestone Supplies | LEAD: The General Motors Corporation's Saturn subsidiary said it would retain the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company as its sole supplier of tires for the planned Saturn compact auto even though G.M. has said it will drop Firestone as a supplier for its existing models. The Saturn automobile, which will be built in Spri... |
139803_2 | Soviet Rations Sugar in Move to Foil Moonshiners | be the Ukraine, the second most populous Soviet republic and a leading producer of sugar beets. In Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, residents said the Government on April 1 began issuing rationing coupons entitling each consumer to 1.5 kilograms, or 3.3 pounds, of sugar a month. According to Government estimates, that is a... |
133620_0 | Eric A. Havelock, 84, Professor of Classics | LEAD: Prof. Eric A. Havelock, a scholar of Greek philosophy and politics, died Monday at his home in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He was 84 years old. Prof. Eric A. Havelock, a scholar of Greek philosophy and politics, died Monday at his home in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He was 84 years old. Professor Havelock, an advocate of classical... |
133726_0 | Oh, to Dine in Saugus, Mass. | LEAD: A 68-FOOT-HIGH neon cactus towers over the suburban prairie along Route 1 north of Boston, a commercial badlands of mini-malls, muffler shops and markdown liquor marts. This startlingly garish landmark beckons hungry passers-by to the Hilltop Steak House in Saugus, Mass., America's largest restaurant, both in num... |
132291_0 | Review/Art; Ninth-Century Views Of the Constellations | LEAD: Readers who have rushed to have their horoscopes read at some moment of crisis in their lives should proceed forthwith to see the Aratea manuscript that has been lent by the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands, to the Pierpont Morgan Library. Though it is from the layman's point of view primarily a picture-b... |
137726_2 | Greening Central America | on another such preserve in the mountain forest where their borders meet. Each of these multiuse projects would create ''biosphere reserves'' of totally protected core areas surrounded by buffer zones for sustainable economic development, ranging from forestry to subsistence agriculture and more efficient use of misuse... |
137230_5 | CONTINENTAL LINE WILL BE INSPECTED FOR PLANE SAFETY | in the afternoon, which, he added, was very unusual, and the flights between New York and Washington's National Airport carried about 400 more passengers than the previous Thursday. Pan Am's shuttle had its best day ever last Friday, he said, and it also had its best Saturday ever. But a spokesman for Eastern said it w... |
137134_0 | From Walls and Halls, Art Heritage Emerges | LEAD: No one is likely to flunk a course in art appreciation for failing to recognize names like Constantino Brumidi, Lucien Lebaudt, Edward Simmons and Henry Oliver Walker, and yet the legacy of these painters is being cleaned, touched up, chemically stabilized and protected with a loving care not always accorded the ... |
135386_1 | Bishops' Panel Would Expand Role of Women | A Pastoral Response to Women's Concerns,'' will now be circulated among Catholics in the United States for comment. It may go through more revisions before a final draft is presented for a vote by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in November 1989. If approved, it would effectively serve as a policy guide for... |
135365_3 | Mitterrand Above the Campaign Trail | Socialist passions seven years ago, the President is turning his party's idealism to other battles - defending the rights of the indigenous population of the distant Pacific territory of New Caledonia and, closer to home, protecting Arab immigrants pilloried by the National Front. Under the big tent, Mr. Mitterrand sta... |
135263_0 | Sweden Has a Better Way of Dealing With Dead Automobiles | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Tens of thousands of abandoned cars litter the streets of New York City, as you attest in ''The Incredible Hulks'' (editorial, March 27). You recommend better enforcement and prevention of new automobile registration as solutions. While these remedies may do some good, they are unlik... |
135338_0 | Excerpts From Draft Pastoral Letter on Women by Catholic Bishops in U.S. | LEAD: Following are excerpts from the conclusion of a draft pastoral letter on women issued today by Roman Catholic bishops in the United States: Following are excerpts from the conclusion of a draft pastoral letter on women issued today by Roman Catholic bishops in the United States: I give you a new commandment: Love... |
135410_2 | Careers; Prospects In Industry Improving | development is done by the manufacturing sector. ''Productivity is higher and grows faster here than elsewhere,'' the report stressed, adding that the production of United States manufacturing companies accounted for 60 percent of the gross domestic product. Kodak, like other manufacturing companies, insists that ''a c... |
136578_0 | Patents; Cholesterol Drug Brings Honors to 4 | LEAD: WHILE the award of the first patent for a higher form of life, given to Harvard Medical School researchers for genetically altered mice, captured the attention of researchers this week, honors were given for inventions in other areas. WHILE the award of the first patent for a higher form of life, given to Harvard... |
138883_4 | Architecture View; A Novel Design And Its Rescue From Near Disaster | great deal more troubled than had been publicly known. The science of testing for the effects of wind, which has become quite sophisticated in the last decade, was relatively primative in the years when the Hancock Tower was designed, and neither engineers nor building codes took into account the effect of gravity on a... |
139039_12 | Breat Cancer: Anguish, Mystery and Hope | studies have shown that women who delay pregnancy to age 30 or later increase their risk. A woman who has her first child when she is 30 is three times more likely to develop breast cancer than a woman who has her first child while still a teen-ager. (Studies indicate that abortions and miscarriages at any age also inc... |
139236_0 | New Caledonia Rebels Demand Halt to Vote | LEAD: Melanesian separatists holding 27 French police officers hostage on the small island of Ouvea demanded today that regional elections scheduled for Sunday in this French Pacific territory be canceled. Melanesian separatists holding 27 French police officers hostage on the small island of Ouvea demanded today that ... |
133530_0 | U.S. Moves to Ban Nicaraguan Coffee | LEAD: While the Nicaraguan Government and the contras are negotiating a peace settlement, the Reagan Administration is considering ways to tighten the trade embargo that it imposed on Nicaragua three years ago, Administration and Congressional officials say. While the Nicaraguan Government and the contras are negotiati... |
133431_4 | Restoration of Environment Emerges as a Major Goal | obstacles to slow the water flow and by laying down hay and nettings to hold together eroded hillsides. Scientists then decided that to control erosion, they needed the same heavy equipment that had caused the destruction. Logging roads have been torn apart, and bulldozers have pushed the dirt back up on the hillsides.... |
133551_3 | Arizona's Senate Ousts Governor, Voting Him Guilty of Misconduct | had not paid his state taxes. The State House of Representatives impeached the Governor by a 46-to-14 vote on Feb. 5 in what was tantamount to an indictment. A few days later, the House approved and sent to the Senate three broad articles of impeachment. Trial Prejudice Feared Besides the two charges voted today, the H... |
132539_0 | Amazon Wildlife Traffic Needs Regulating | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Herbert R. Axelrod (letter, March 5), who attacks regulation of fishing and traffic in wild animals in the Amazon region, shows poor understanding of fish ecology in flood-plain and riverine forests. The pioneering work of Michael Goulding has proven that fish play a critical role in... |
138706_1 | Coping/With Buying a Used Car | percent saving is obviously what makes a used car so attractive. But how can you be sure you aren't buying trouble? You can't. But you can certainly minimize the possibility by knowing what to look for. It also helps to have a friend who is a mechanic and to carry a rabbit's foot. First, of course, you have to know wha... |
138803_1 | EXODUS OF PILOTS IS CAUSING EASTERN TO CANCEL FLIGHTS | 600 more would leave this year, almost double what Eastern had expected. Not only are pilots leaving but an unusually large number have been taking sick leave, Mr. Croucher said. For example, he added, 295 pilots took time off in February, double the past rates. Some industry analysts say that Eastern's difficulties, a... |
135102_5 | New Hopes for a Global Oil Coalition | New York Mercantile Exchange, May contracts for West Texas Intermediate, the leading United States crude, stood at $16.88 a barrel. More important, such action would establish a new principle of cooperation between the 28-year-old OPEC and the group of newer oil producers that is beginning to act in concert for the fir... |
135149_1 | Dominican Republic Tourism Surges | has been soaring as investors rush to cash in on the boom. Last year, 2,000 rooms were added, to give the country a total of 12,000 rooms in about 180 hotels, according to Fernando Rainieri, the 39-year-old Minister of Tourism. Twenty-five more hotels are being finished this year, he said, which will give the Dominican... |
207392_5 | Companies Help Employees Buy Homes | below the prime rate, with mortgage payments deducted from salary. ''About 800 employees now hold mortgages from the company,'' he said, ''with about 100 a year being added annually. Most of those being helped make less than $40,000 a year. This has proved beneficial in attracting people and in retaining our trained pe... |
207321_2 | 'THINGS GET BAD,' SAYS DAD | teaches Ned to steal, gamble, shoot pool, and carouse with as seedy a crew of rednecks, derelicts and hustlers as the reader is likely to encounter in a contemporary novel. So accurate and sustained are Mr. Russo's depictions of lunatic drunk talk and petty pool-hall violence that they become almost surreal, as well as... |
207332_3 | KEEP THINKERS IN THEIR PLACE | Harry Truman in anguished conversation with a Hiroshima housewife and a G. I. Joe over whether or not he ought to drop the bomb. That image, often invoked as a paradigm for the intractable nature of moral judgments, conveniently overlooks Truman's own claim that he never lost a night's sleep over it. Mr. Barber's own p... |
207635_0 | U.N. TELLS OF GAINS ON RIGHTS IN CUBA | LEAD: A United Nations investigation into human rights violations in Cuba, demanded by the Reagan Administration this year, has concluded that such abuses have declined, diplomats and officials say. A United Nations investigation into human rights violations in Cuba, demanded by the Reagan Administration this year, has... |
208068_2 | Unicef Says Third World Children Are Dying as Development Falters | the debt crisis is required if you're going to get light into those tunnels.'' The Unicef report says there have been some welcome areas of improvement. It says that in the last decade, the proportion of children in the developing world who are immunized against major diseases has risen from 5 to 50 percent. This means... |
208044_1 | Job Outlook for College Seniors Appears Healthy | 3.1 percent more graduates than they did this year, and the average starting salary would rise to $23,810, 3.5 percent more than last year's figure. Both reports predicted that the job outlook for 1989 would be especially good for women and members of minority groups, particularly those with degrees in business and the... |
202885_3 | Review/Theater; Brooding Look at Dismal Lives in Wilson Revival | here, busy foreground. Several of the performances convey the original sensibility. That fine actress, Kaiulani Lee, is precisely in character as Nelly, the strong but sad daughter of old Mary. Adam Storke and Danielle Du Clos are fairly close to the mark as the two lonely young people at the center of the drama -Mr. S... |
204354_0 | Nations Agree to Cut Tariffs On 3d-World Tropical Items | LEAD: The United States and other major trading nations agreed today to cut tariffs and other import barriers on bananas, tea, coffee and myriad other tropical products from the third world. The United States and other major trading nations agreed today to cut tariffs and other import barriers on bananas, tea, coffee a... |
204237_2 | Survey Finds Native Plants in Imminent Peril | promote collection of specimens of imminently endangered plants so they can at least be preserved in botanical gardens and arboretums. The center also plans to promote storage of their seeds in seed banks. Scientists have previously estimated that about 3,000 plant species, more than 10 percent of an estimated 25,000 s... |
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