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204266_0 | Soviet-Cuban Trade Up | LEAD: Trade between the Soviet Union and Cuba grew tenfold over the last 15 years to reach more than $9 billion in 1987, the official Prensa Latina press agency said today. The Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, is scheduled to arrive here Friday for a three-day official visit, and trade relations between the two nat... |
204292_0 | Method Detects Tumor Growth Far Sooner | LEAD: A NEW computer-assisted way to look at brain scans is enabling researchers to determine whether tumors are changing in size much sooner than was previously possible. A NEW computer-assisted way to look at brain scans is enabling researchers to determine whether tumors are changing in size much sooner than was pre... |
204456_0 | Patterns | LEAD: Moschino's Notoriety Moschino's Notoriety ''Fashion is the only place where I could be considered a real intellectual,'' said Franco Moschino, the Italian designer, who is in New York to promote his new book and to dress Bergdorf Goodman's Christmas windows, which will be unveiled tonight. ''Anywhere else, I'd be... |
204374_2 | Prague Shuts Door on East Bloc Shoppers | equipment like television sets and stereo equipment. The regulations also call for a 100 percent export fee on goods taken out with authorization. Under the new curbs, the total value of goods travelers can take from the country was cut by half, to 500 crowns, or about $50. Rigid Currency Exchange Economists attributed... |
209819_1 | A Death in Brazil | Project for his work in forest protection. His life had been threatened, he said recently, by local landowners, and yesterday the son of one of them claimed to have hired the killer. In the remote regions of the Amazon, such violence is not unusual, and Mr. Mendes had made enemies with his determined battle against fur... |
209806_1 | The Mysteries of the Familiar | get a message across. ''I don't make illustrations to hang on the wall,'' he said in an interview. ''My prime concern is to make drawings to work with words that will tell a story.'' Choosing the Familiar An economy of words and an abundance of detailed renderings are the secret to the 41-year-old illustrator's success... |
209734_0 | Gene-Altered Animals Enter a Commercial Era | LEAD: THE mice, light brown females of a common laboratory variety, look ordinary. But they carry a trait that sets them apart from all other mice on earth: they produce milk that contains a human blood substance valuable in treating heart attacks. THE mice, light brown females of a common laboratory variety, look ordi... |
209726_0 | Cuba Expects Growth in '89 | LEAD: Cuba's economy will grow 1.5 to 2.5 percent in 1989, the head of the central planning board was quoted as saying today. Cuba's economy will grow 1.5 to 2.5 percent in 1989, the head of the central planning board was quoted as saying today. Antonio Rodriguez Maurell gave the forecast during a meeting of the Nation... |
209812_0 | Man, 21, Held in Amazon Death | LEAD: A cattle rancher's son surrendered to the police today and said he arranged the killing of a labor leader who was an internationally recognized Amazon ecologist, the police said. A cattle rancher's son surrendered to the police today and said he arranged the killing of a labor leader who was an internationally re... |
206578_3 | Any Coffee Table Would Be Uplifted | decorators used much the same ingredients: yellow-painted walls, gilded Chippendale mirrors, chintz, benches and books in multiples and a lavish display of ceramics. The British room is just a touch shabby, and you know the owners slouch down in those saggy chairs. The American room is crisp and gleaming; woe to the cl... |
206771_3 | U.S. Trade Gap Narrows Again As Imports Fall | so he acknowledged that the trade deficit remained ''very large'' and that its elimination ''poses a major challenge.'' Imports during October fell by about $650 million, or 1.7 percent, to $38 billion, reflecting lower purchases of capital, consumer and automotive goods and higher imports of industrial supplies and fo... |
206733_3 | COMPANIES IGNORE MEN'S HEALTH RISK | Women Asked About Pregnancy A third of the companies that take a health history asked women whether they were pregnant at the time they were hired and 22 percent of the companies that take a health history asked about the outcome of prior pregnancies. Two companies reported conducting pregnancy tests at the time they h... |
205497_3 | ''We've Got To Stop Pollution Now'' | trying to find a parking spot, getting out of your car on a sleeting day in winter and running the length of the platform, then failing to catch the train just as it's pulling out. It's got to count your discomfort as you huddle waiting for the next train. Then suppose you're a heavy smoker. It's got to count the costs... |
205664_0 | Indian Airline Hampered by Strikes and Shortages | LEAD: With the tourist season about to reach its peak in India, the country's domestic carrier, Indian Airlines, has been flying in disarray for weeks because of strikes and shortages of aircraft. With the tourist season about to reach its peak in India, the country's domestic carrier, Indian Airlines, has been flying ... |
205587_1 | Set Guidelines for Export Market Share | in spite of the fact that Siecor has half the world market outside of Japan. In 1985, the United States undertook two major initiatives to solve its growing trade problem. One was to encourage the fall of the dollar against other currencies. The other was the ''market-oriented sector-specific'' talks aimed at removing ... |
205742_3 | The World Debates How to Trade a Food Supply in Jeopardy | to put everything on hold for four months to give them a chance to break the farm stalemate. Washington is pressing Brussels on agriculture, American officials say, because of ''near chaos'' in global agriculture - a condition they trace largely to European policies. These policies, they say, stimulate overproduction, ... |
205531_2 | The Case For Burning | back in 1957 I watched the grizzlies come in across the sage, scattering the innumerable black bears. I eventually counted 37 grizzlies in view at one time, sniffing at my old convertible, brawling, overturning burning barrels, in one of the most astonishing sights I have ever seen. For a hundred years, in summer and f... |
205502_2 | The Growth of Car Phones is Busy, Busy | phones, which are replacing the older models called Mobile Telephone Service and then Improved Mobile Telephone Service, are much less expensive said Peter Kelley, vice president of operations for Metro Mobile, which has branches in Norwalk, New Haven and Windsor. Metro Mobile and Southern New England Telephone Corpora... |
205576_1 | Census Study Looks at Aging in Third World | and debate. ''Aging in most developing countries has not yet emerged as a dominant social phenomenon,'' the report by Kevin Kinsella, a population researcher, said. But over the next 30 years, he said, the balance is expected to shift markedly, with some 72 percent of older people expected to be living in developing na... |
205739_2 | The Caribbean Under Sail On One's Own | small iceboxes and a stove with oven that operated on compressed natural gas. Lighter than air, C.N.G. is simple and safe. The sloop carried a spare freshwater pump. While charter companies will always send a mechanic at one's first radio call, there could still be a lost day. That spare pump was useful - we could have... |
205686_1 | Maryland Site Offers Hope for Crippling Condition | other people, but as important.'' 'It Really Isn't' a Tragedy' Dr. Kopits, who is 52 years old, has been treating skeletal dysplasia, a congenital growth disorder, for 20 years. His patients come from the United States and 38 other countries, suffering limp spines, bowed legs, club feet, disjointed hips. Bent and twist... |
210198_0 | In Amazon Rain Forest, a Vicious War Is Raging | LEAD: The killing last week of a noted Brazilian environmentalist has focused attention on a turbulent struggle between rubber tappers trying to protect the Amazon rain forest and speculators and ranchers seeking fast fortunes by clearing the land. The killing last week of a noted Brazilian environmentalist has focused... |
210208_2 | POWERFUL BOMB DESTROYED PAN AM JET OVER SCOTLAND, BRITISH INVESTIGATION FINDS | of the aircraft, rather than an explosion, had caused it to disintegrate. But earlier this week, after taking the remains of a suitcase and some wreckage to a laboratory to determine if they showed traces of an explosion, the investigators indicated they might have evidence that a bomb caused the crash. British newspap... |
210120_7 | Personal Health | University School of Medicine reported last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Furthermore, Dr. Ross pointed out, the most dangerous drunken drivers are problem drinkers, and they are the least susceptible to deterrent threats. Probably nothing in our society will change until vast numbers of peo... |
210152_0 | HEALTH: Aging; Finally, Doctors Ask if Brutal Falls Need Be a Fact of Life for the Elderly | LEAD: Scientists have embarked on major efforts to determine why so many elderly people suffer devastating falls and to identify medical and social measures that can curb the disastrous toll. Scientists have embarked on major efforts to determine why so many elderly people suffer devastating falls and to identify medic... |
210177_0 | F.A.A. to Toughen Check-In Security | LEAD: Reacting to the British announcement that a bomb had destroyed the Pan Am jet that crashed in Scotland, the Federal Aviation Administration said yesterday that it was planning tougher security rules. Reacting to the British announcement that a bomb had destroyed the Pan Am jet that crashed in Scotland, the Federa... |
208935_0 | Farm Exports To Spain Up | LEAD: Spain is rapidly turning into one of the American farmer's richest overseas markets, the Agriculture Department said today. In the fiscal year that ended Spain is rapidly turning into one of the American farmer's richest overseas markets, the Agriculture Department said today. In the fiscal year that ended Sept. ... |
208802_4 | The Crash of Flight 103; PAN AM WAS TOLD OF TERROR THREAT | bulletin, advising diplomatic travelers to decide for themselves about ''altering personal travel plans or changing to another American carrier.'' Government Defends Its Actions Government and airline officials said today that even though the Helsinki threat could not be fully assessed, it served as a basis for tighten... |
208914_0 | Eight Are Killed in Colombia As Rebels Attack Navy Boat | LEAD: Leftist guerrillas ambushed a small navy vessel today, killing eight military men and wounding seven others, Colombian officials said. Leftist guerrillas ambushed a small navy vessel today, killing eight military men and wounding seven others, Colombian officials said. Two officers and six other members of a comb... |
204771_1 | 29 AIRLINES FINED IN SECURITY CHECKS | said most of the security breaches were discovered between last April and September. He said the airlines, which operate airport security checkpoints, failed to detect test items that looked like weapons on X-ray screens or that triggered metal detectors. Penalties Were Toughened In September the department fined 32 ai... |
210387_2 | Their Economic Priority: A Job | Ph.D.'s has gotten deeper into math,'' said Eugene Smolensky of the University of California at Berkeley. Rarely do the interviews wander from the candidate's thesis and training, although Debra Holt, a 36-year-old Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan, said that at one of her 45-minute sessions the talk someho... |
210398_2 | U.S. IS TIGHTENING SECURITY CHECKS ON FLIGHTS ABROAD | people had given them parcels to carry. In addition to examination of checked baggage and small shipped parcels, the new F.A.A. rules require that passengers be denied access to luggage after the additional scrutiny until arrival at their destination, that airlines match passengers and baggage to keep unaccompanied bag... |
210473_0 | How to Defeat Plane Saboteurs | LEAD: No one yet knows the identities or motives of whoever destroyed a planeload of people aboard Pan Am flight 103 and took the lives of many others in a Scottish village. But there can be little doubt about what must be done to combat such massacres: The threat of infiltrating bombs onto airliners needs to be taken ... |
210456_4 | Washington Talk: Federal Aviation Administration; Turf Battle Over an Agency's Future | keep the agency in the Transportation Department but seeks to minimize any unnecessary interference by making the F.A.A. Administrator an Under Secretary of Transportation. Numerous observers believe that structural changes are less important than the proposed measures affecting the F.A.A.'s budget, procurement rules, ... |
204064_1 | Jewish Settler Sentenced for Killing Shepherd | Palestinians say that as many as a dozen Arabs in the occupied territories have been killed in clashes with settlers. On Wednesday, a prosecutor rejected a police recommendation that another West Bank settler, Rabbi Moshe Levinger of Hebron, be charged with the shooting death of an Arab shopkeeper there in October. He ... |
209098_5 | Countering Threat of Airline Bombs: Experts Say Security Isn't Foolproof | precautions in such cases would be to review the names of all passengers holding reservations, to increase the screening of passengers, baggage and cargo, and to add guards around aircraft that might be threatened. Mr. Crawford was once a pilot on Pan Am flights serving West Germany. Security Increased in 1986 Accordin... |
209093_0 | Brazilian Who Fought to Protect Amazon Is Killed | LEAD: A Brazilian union leader who received repeated death threats during a campaign to protect the Amazon rain forest was shot and killed Thursday at his home in northwestern Brazil. A Brazilian union leader who received repeated death threats during a campaign to protect the Amazon rain forest was shot and killed Thu... |
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206944_1 | U.S. Raises Sugar Quota 17%; Action Called Insufficient | times the world market level. But some domestic users immediately warned that the quota increase was not sufficient to forestall higher prices in the coming year. Shortages Feared ''We're fearful we may see some very high prices and even potential shortages in 1989,'' said Tom Hammer, president of the Sweetener Users A... |
206950_1 | Castro Tells Group From Congress He Wants to Assist in Drug Fight | to ship cocaine and marijuana through Cuban airspace and waters. The Cubans insist that they have been halting most of this traffic, but the United States alleges that the Cubans, at times, have aided it. ''Castro told the delegation that Cuba wants very much to work with both the United States and Latin America on nar... |
209627_0 | CHURCH CRITICIZES BRAZIL ON INDIANS | LEAD: Brazil's Roman Catholic Church has accused the Government of President Jose Sarney of adopting policies that could lead to the extinction of the Yanomami, one of the country's largest Indian tribes. Brazil's Roman Catholic Church has accused the Government of President Jose Sarney of adopting policies that could ... |
209678_1 | Mexico Opens Its Economy And the Imports Flood In | now sells imported toys and hair dryers from her sidewalk stand. ''Everybody has got imported goods now, so the prices have been forced way down.'' Both the stalls of Tepito and top-of-the-line department stores that advertise in Sunday-newspaper color supplements are now filled with goods that just a few months ago qu... |
209608_0 | Murdered Environmentalist Buried in the Amazon Region | LEAD: A prominent Brazilian enviromental advocate, Francisco Mendes Filho, murdered last week, was buried today as his colleagues began a campaign to block foreign loans until his killers are brought to justice. A prominent Brazilian enviromental advocate, Francisco Mendes Filho, murdered last week, was buried today as... |
209580_0 | Overpopulation Strains Earth's Resources | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: It is difficult to believe that the rosy predictions Robert Whelan of Britain offers on the benefits of continued population growth (''Population and Prosperity Often Grow Together,'' letter, Dec. 13) take into consideration facts with which he is familiar. In particular, he must be ... |
206354_3 | Boston U. Aids Those With Learning Disability | challenged them. 'What can we do to see that it never happens to another child like Andrea?' '' To her surprise, the university agreed to act and asked her help. Andrea's situation has since been straightened out. After taking a year off, she returned to Boston University in January, took only three courses and was sup... |
206506_0 | U.S. Plan to Restart Reactor Is Unsafe, Expert Panel Says | LEAD: The Energy Department's plan for restarting a crippled reactor at the Savannah River Plant in South Carolina overlooked crucial safeguards needed to make the nation's largest nuclear weapons plant operate safely, the department's principal scientific advisory committee said today. The Energy Department's plan for... |
206424_1 | Economic Scene; That Disturbing Deal on Steel | the status quo. The deal on steel also undercuts American trade negotiators, who have been clinging to the high moral ground in pressing for a dramatic opening in world markets for farm products and services. Big Steel persuaded President Reagan to tame foreign competitors just before the 1984 election, when some 27 pe... |
206537_1 | Prepared Foods Without 'Bad' Fats | marketed now. Along with other companies, Kellogg was responding to increased consumer awareness of the health hazards of tropical oils - including coconut and palm oils - in food products. In particular, the company acknowledged that recent newspaper advertisements criticizing the use of tropical oils prompted it to s... |
207931_1 | Los Angeles Weighs Change to Cut Smog | and local pollution control officials in Washington. Drastic Curbs Possible At issue is a sweeping three-tier plan aimed at reducing air pollution here to permissible Federal health levels by 2007. The plan was devised by the South Coast Air Quality Management District, a regional agency with broad powers over the 6,60... |
207901_0 | GLOBAL BRIEFS (NYT COLUMN)GLOBAL BRIEFS | LEAD: * Australian Government ministers said the nation's latest trade figures were alarming and far worse than anticipated. The country posted a November trade deficit of $1.55 billion Australian, or $1.3 billion American. The Government said the 3 percent rise in imports was mainly caused by increased demand for mach... |
206301_0 | Population and Prosperity Often Grow Together; Cutting Back | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: I am enjoying your letters about the prospect, or the need for, a global die-back of the human infestation to save whatever may be left of the planet. Allow me to add my 5 cents of sniping from the fringes. Donald Mann of Negative Population Growth defines the problem as one of an ex... |
206156_0 | Population and Prosperity Often Grow Together | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Donald Mann, president of Negative Population Growth, seems to think the day of doom is nigh (letter, Oct. 31). He fears the direst consequences for the world unless global population can be reduced from 5 billion to 1.5 billion or 2 billion and warns that all environmental problems ... |
206304_0 | Forests for Debt | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: In response to ''Amazon Tree Cutting Better Than Burning'' (letter, Nov. 14): Why not encourage the Brazilians to keep their rain forests intact as a way to repay their debts? A great portion of the earth's oxygen is created by rain forests, and Brazil, as well as other countries wit... |
206082_0 | Crime Fatalities Rise With Gun Availability | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: In ''Guns Do Kill People'' (editorial, Nov. 18) you summarized the most salient points of our study of the relationship between gun control and rates of homicide in Seattle and in Vancouver, British Columbia. We found that while these remarkably similar cities experienced nearly iden... |
208328_1 | About New York; For 100 Years, Providing a Tie To Italian Culture | the skeet-shooting tournaments that were once the pride of Tiro, as the club is commonly called. It has been five years since a quorum could be assembled for the annual boar shoot; Tiro's membership in the National Rifle Association has lapsed, and Fusileers turns out to be just the name of Tiro's golf team. The big ne... |
209559_4 | THE MAKING OF PARADISE | endnotes, but the authors do admit in the next paragraph that Jesus was even more famous than this illustrious compatriot.) The treatment of Jesus and Paul that follows is a caricature both of their own thought and that of modern critics, who, we are told, do agree that the ''outlook'' of Jesus was ''purely religious.'... |
209198_0 | Passaic Basin Flood Plan Faces Opposition | LEAD: AN $847 million plan developed by the Army Corps of Engineers to eliminate flooding in the Passaic River Basin has given rise to a dispute that threatens to doom the project before it has even begun. AN $847 million plan developed by the Army Corps of Engineers to eliminate flooding in the Passaic River Basin has... |
209560_0 | IT BROUGHT OUT THE WORST IN EVERYONE | LEAD: SAFARI A Chronicle of Adventure. By Bartle Bull. Illustrated. 383 pp. New York: Viking. $40. AFRICAN LIVES White Lies, Tropical Truth, Darkest Gossip, and Rumblings of Rumor - From Chinese Gordon to Beryl Markham, and Beyond. By Denis Boyles. Illustrated. 225 pp. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. SAFARI A Chronicl... |
209250_0 | THE REGION: In the Rockaways; A Queens Beachfront Is Ground for a Fight Over Housing Goals | LEAD: THE street sign, which identifies the intersection as Beach 69th Street and Story Road, is perhaps the only indication that civilization still has designs on the forlorn stretch of sand and weeds in the Arverne section of Queens. THE street sign, which identifies the intersection as Beach 69th Street and Story Ro... |
209324_0 | New Devices May Stop More Bombs At the Gate | LEAD: WHILE investigators were still trying to determine what caused Pan American World Airways Flight 103 to explode over a Scottish village last week, killing at least 275 people, the suspicion of sabotage gave fresh impetus to the search for ways to keep terrorists from endangering the skies. WHILE investigators wer... |
209251_0 | Suddenly, the World Itself Is a World Issue | LEAD: AFTER decades of neglect, environmental issues are moving from the periphery of geopolitics toward center stage. Several recent events demonstrate that the superpowers and other nations are starting to address problems like the greenhouse effect, acid rain and the thinning of the ozone shield with some of the sam... |
209413_3 | U.S. Bishops Assess Loneliness of Priests | is a major reason for men to leave the priesthood and for loneliness among those who stay, the bishops said. They added that the church had not helped priests deal with their sexual feelings as it should. The bishops recommended that a priest's sexuality be recognized as an ''essential component of human existence'' an... |
209380_0 | Down's Syndrome Study Ends Inconclusively | LEAD: A state study says researchers cannot determine if a high rate of Down's syndrome births in Vernon Township during the late 1970's can be attributed to the concentration of satellite communications towers in the rural area of northwestern New Jersey. A state study says researchers cannot determine if a high rate ... |
207281_0 | Patents; Anti-Skid Device | LEAD: UC Systems A/S, a Norwegian company, has won patent approval for an anti-skid device that coats automobile tires with an adhesive liquid when a driver encounters slippery roads. A reservoir of the liquid, which is not specified by the patent, is in the front of the car and is connected by hoses to nozzles over ea... |
207271_3 | Quake-Proof Buildings: Many Lands Take a Risk | a San Francisco engineering company, said several methods can greatly improve the quake resistance of existing houses built from the unreinforced masonry common throughout the third world or the precast-concrete walls widely used in the Soviet Union and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. ''One of the first steps is to fasten... |
207145_0 | News for Third World | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: In your Dec. 6 United Nations Journal, you state that Mexico, Cuba, Syria and Bangladesh insisted that a ''new information and communications order'' must not diminish national sovereignty, and that the West ''considers that wording a code phrase for censorship.'' Although it is cert... |
207194_1 | Sardinia Catches the Nuclear Jitters | operation since 1972 under an agreement signed by the Italian Government but never sent to Parliament for approval. Few Anti-Base Protests If Sardinians were unhappy about the arrangement, they kept their feelings largely to themselves. There have been only a few anti-base protests over the years, and the Americans see... |
207260_2 | 3 States Ask Waste Cleanup As Price of Atomic Operation | three assistant secretaries and several other high-ranking officials to today's meeting to stress its good intentions. To emphasize the national security implications of the issue, the Federal officials conducted a classified briefing in a windowless conference room watched over by guards armed with piles of electronic... |
203653_0 | MORE DELAY SEEN IN THE REOPENING OF A-BOMB PLANT | LEAD: Production of a perishable and increasingly scarce gas vital for nuclear weapons could be delayed far longer than officials have predicted because of problems involved in reopening the South Carolina plant that makes it. Production of a perishable and increasingly scarce gas vital for nuclear weapons could be del... |
203677_0 | Margaret Mee Dies; Amazon Artist Was 79 | LEAD: Margaret Mee, a botanical artist and explorer of Amazonian rain forests, died in a car accident, her family said Friday. Margaret Mee, a botanical artist and explorer of Amazonian rain forests, died in a car accident, her family said Friday. Mrs. Mee was 79 years old. She was killed Wednesday in an auto crash nea... |
203969_0 | The Case for a High-Estrogen President | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Unlike Marilyn Fitterman, president of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women, I am not troubled by the recent scientific findings that a woman's ability to perform certain tasks fluctuates with the monthly changes in her hormone levels (news article, Nov. 18). O... |
203814_3 | Like Having Another Set of Eyes | a pack of cigarettes.'' He added that such miniaturized computers are well within the realm of possibility. If there is a drawback to such a setup, Mr. Dvorak said, it is that ''you'd look kind of like an alien,'' staring off into space, fingering a keyboard with an odd contraption strapped to your head. Mr. Becker sai... |
203659_2 | Tower's Links to Contractors Factor in Choice for Pentagon | in the private sector, as well as his experience in Congress rebuilding our nation's defenses, will serve the President well in cleaning up the Pentagon.'' Mr. Tower did acknowledge through Mr. Billmire that he called Congress and the Pentagon about programs in which clients were involved. But Mr. Billmire insisted tha... |
203562_0 | The Case for a High-Estrogen President | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: In reference to your article on female hormones: May I assume that since verbal skills and muscular coordination are linked to high estrogen levels, men can perform such tasks only as well as the least able female, since men lack estrogen? A more interesting angle for me in this stor... |
203981_4 | Australia Goes Asian | in Asia,'' the political analyst Greg Sheridan wrote in 1984 in The Australian, one of the country's largest daily newspapers. ''The first task for all of us,'' he continued, is ''to know much more about the nations and the peoples who are our neighbors.'' Older Australians, however, find all this quite bewildering. Mo... |
203961_1 | New York Students Can Pick College by Using a Computer | Association for a Better New York. About 450,000 students are enrolled in institutions in the city. Students may take a quick ''tour'' of the campuses by viewing promotional videos of the schools, complete with students talking with professors, mixing colorful liquids in chemistry laboratories and mingling misty eyed a... |
204010_5 | Classical Bronzes Speak of More Than Art | the classical period for the ''Dead or Sleeping Youth'' of around 470 B.C. in the Cleveland show. It is without precedent, sui generis, and has a poignancy peculiar to itself. Once again, it is tiny; but among all the elegies that art has brought forth on the subject of fallen young manhood, this sprawling little figur... |
203608_1 | New Satellite Is the First in a Class Of All-Weather Spies, Experts Say | U.S. Intelligence Community.'' Verifying Arms Control William E. Burrows, director of scientific and environmental reporting at New York University, is the author of ''Deep Black,'' a book about military satellites and space espionage. He said military officials consider the satellite crucial to policing the treaty rec... |
203625_0 | Some Say 'Enough' to Seattle Boom | LEAD: Fed up with a downtown building boom that has remade this city's skyline, irate residents have forced a moratorium on all construction while officials consider permanent steps to curb skyscrapers. Fed up with a downtown building boom that has remade this city's skyline, irate residents have forced a moratorium on... |
203722_1 | Moscow And Havana Still Can't Differ Much | the director of the Institute of Inter-American Studies at the University of Miami. The simple explanation is that the Soviet Union needs Cuba as much as Cuba needs its benefactor. For nearly 30 years, Cuba has provided the Soviet Union with a military and political foothold just off the coast of Florida. The Soviet Un... |
205218_4 | Presidents News Conference on Foriegn and Domestic Issues | years from then until 1980, the budget increased to just about five times what it had been 15 years before. And the deficit increased to 58 times what it had been. So we came in inheriting literally deficit spending built in to the structure of government. Now, with regard to the tax cuts, yes, the rates were cut, but ... |
203327_0 | Aifs Inc reports earnings for Qtr to Sept 30 | LEAD: *3*** COMPANY REPORTS ** *3* Aifs Inc (AMEX) Qtr to Sept 30 1988 1987 Revenue 33,223,000 28,754,000 Net inc 1,787,000 1,189,000 Share earns .53 .33 Yr rev 95,604,000 66,259,000 Net inc 536,000 1,875,000 Share earns .16 .55 The company said results for its first quarter ending Dec. *3*** COMPANY REPORTS ** *3* Aif... |
205406_0 | Spaghetti and Meatballs From a Fat Substitute | LEAD: The Procter & Gamble Company received patent approval this week for new uses of olestra, the company's potentially revolutionary fat substitute made from nondigestible, calorie-free sucrose polyester. The patent also covers a dietary program for lowering a person's level of cholesterol. The Procter & Gamble Compa... |
205301_0 | Sugar Hits 4-Month Highs; Brazil Export Cut Foreseen | LEAD: Sugar futures prices soared to four-month highs yesterday on expectations of reduced availabilty of sugar from Brazil, analysts said. Sugar futures prices soared to four-month highs yesterday on expectations of reduced availabilty of sugar from Brazil, analysts said. On the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange in New... |
209944_0 | Brazil Burns the Future | LEAD: Brazilian governments commonly shrug off criticism of the cowboy strand in their society. That strand is evident in the environmental holocaust sweeping the Amazon rain forest and the cold-blooded murder of a trade unionist who dared to challenge slash-and-burn land developers. Brazilian governments commonly shru... |
199509_0 | MANY IN U.S. FACE BLEAK JOB OUTLOOK | LEAD: Young people who do not attend college have a high chance of facing unemployment or jobs with poverty-level income and little hope for advancement, said a report released Thursday. Young people who do not attend college have a high chance of facing unemployment or jobs with poverty-level income and little hope fo... |
197441_5 | 'This Is a Quality of Life Issue' | pre-menopause. They needed much more intense sensations. We treated these women with either a placebo or with estrogen for six months and we found the women who got estrogen, their levels of feeling came back to where they were before menopause. And the women who got placebos didn't change at all. Q. How does menopause... |
197491_1 | Need Aircraft Tires? How To Grow Them Yourself | large group of plants, including rapeseed and crambe, is not recommended as part of the human diet because it can severely damage the liver. But scientists have devised ways to chemically rearrange it into something resembling crude oil. From that state it can be further refined into plastics and other useful products.... |
197702_1 | IDEAS & TRENDS: Intensifying Competition; Northeast Fishermen Catch Everything, And That's a Problem | Bank, there was a 53 percent decrease in the stock of Atlantic cod. At the same time, increased competition and more efficient fishing techniques caused the annual catch to rise from 27.4 tons to 34 tons. As with the cod, stocks of haddock, flounder and pollock also declined significantly, according to Vaughn C. Anthon... |
197482_0 | To Market, To Market to Sell Microwave Popcorn | LEAD: IT'S one thing to produce an alternative crop. It's another to sell it. IT'S one thing to produce an alternative crop. It's another to sell it. Local grain elevators and cooperatives, futures trading and other components are all part of a well-tuned, international marketing infrastructure that takes grains from t... |
197629_0 | Maldivians Threaten Captive Tamil Mercenaries | LEAD: A coup attempt by Tamil mercenaries led by local rebels in the Maldives has aroused public anger against the attackers, according to reports from the Indian Ocean island nation. A coup attempt by Tamil mercenaries led by local rebels in the Maldives has aroused public anger against the attackers, according to rep... |
200271_0 | A Historic Asylum Needs Urgent Care | LEAD: Many dreadful sounds have reverberated through the yawning rotunda of the old Octagon on Roosevelt Island, the heart of New York City's first municipal insane asylum. But the noises that now shatter its silence are the final ones - as floors, walls and ceilings come crashing down. Many dreadful sounds have reverb... |
200177_0 | Too Many People - Global Pollution - X | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Donald Mann's formula for resolving the problems posed by pollution and other forms of global defilement inevitably reminds one of another final solution (''Population Size Can't Be Overlooked as an Environmental Danger,'' letter Oct. 31). But Mr. Mann's analysis implies the applicat... |
200230_1 | Ivory Coast Gambles to Prop Up Cocoa Prices | no Ivorian cocoa will be sold for less than $2 a kilogram and on Oct. 6, the start of the new cocoa season, he reaffirmed his position. The prices of chocolate bars in the United States and Europe have not gone down, the President reasoned, so why should the Ivory Coast's one million cocoa growers earn less for their c... |
200286_1 | Few Changes Are Expected in the Onassis Empire | daughter, Athena, one of the world's richest people, family business associates in Athens said yesterday. A Dramatic Story Like the tumultuous saga of the Onassis family itself, the story of Christina Onassis's death on Saturday was a dramatic, controversial and global affair, with implications in Europe and North and ... |
195715_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | LEAD: International A3-11 International A3-11 Andrei Sakharov arrived in Boston yesterday, beginning his first trip to the West. He said he was ''a freer man'' because he had finally been given permission to travel abroad. Page A1 A Jordanian austerity campaign was initiated as the Government announced laws against the... |
195639_3 | Murfreesboro Journal; Agonizing Over Worth of Diamonds | glass extending into a narrow, diamond-bearing stem, or is it the top of a deposit that extends straight down for hundreds of miles? ''The only way to tell is to test,'' Mr. Morgan said. ''And the only way to test is to dig.'' There has been talk of doing exactly that since the state first bought the park in 1972, but ... |
195646_0 | Voters Approve New Caledonia Plan | LEAD: President Francois Mitterrand and Prime Minister Michel Rocard were rebuffed today when only 37 percent of France's registered voters heeded appeals to cast ballots on the future of the South Pacific territory of New Caledonia. President Francois Mitterrand and Prime Minister Michel Rocard were rebuffed today whe... |
195735_0 | A Good Law for Bad Dogs | LEAD: New York, like other cities, must decide between two approaches to controlling vicious dogs. One, sponsored by the Koch administration, focuses on a dog: the Mayor would ban the American pit bull terrier. A far better approach, supported by dog-owner and animal-protection groups, focuses on canine behavior. New Y... |
195616_0 | Likely Shuttle Cargo Detailed | LEAD: An intelligence-gathering satellite capable of spying on 80 percent of the Soviet Union will be carried by the secret space shuttle mission scheduled for late this month, a magazine reports. An intelligence-gathering satellite capable of spying on 80 percent of the Soviet Union will be carried by the secret space... |
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