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164903_0 | President of Skylink Is Closer to His Dream | LEAD: Michael Exner, president of the Skylink Corporation of Boulder, Colo., is seeing his dream of a mobile communications system based on a satellite link, taking another step closer to fruition. Michael Exner, president of the Skylink Corporation of Boulder, Colo., is seeing his dream of a mobile communications syst... |
164786_0 | Slaying of Irish Family Jolts O'Connor and Koch | LEAD: The agony of Northern Ireland left Cardinal John O'Connor and Mayor Koch shaken today. The agony of Northern Ireland left Cardinal John O'Connor and Mayor Koch shaken today. ''When will it end?'' asked Cardinal O'Connor in a rising voice at an interfaith prayer service in Armagh's hilltop St. Patrick's Cathedral.... |
164781_4 | Noumea Journal; On an Island in the Pacific, but Far From at Peace | persuade their following to fall into line. But the outcome remains in doubt. Mr. Lafleur, leader of the Rally for Caledonia in the Republic, appears to be having a somewhat easier time. This is ironic, because it is a conservative party whose sentiments are close to Mr. Chirac's. It is virtually the only group represe... |
164716_2 | New Generation of Tiny Motors Challenges Science to Find Uses | away in others. Engineers hope that by taking advantage of silicon chip technology, they will be able to manufacture micromachines as cheaply and as uniformly as computer chips are produced. ''You're not just reducing things, you're making lots of them,'' said Kaigham J. Gabriel, a scientist at Bell Laboratories, who h... |
164716_3 | New Generation of Tiny Motors Challenges Science to Find Uses | the same ''micromachining'' techniques have already found commercial uses, mainly as sensors. Automotive Systems A tiny pressure sensor, for example, can be made by etching a thin diaphragm in the middle of a silicon chip that bends in response to pressure. Circuits embedded in the silicon on the rim of the diaphragm m... |
161213_1 | Los Angeles Journal; City Folk Are Learning The Furry Facts of Life | Animal Regulation issued their annual summer warnings about rattlesnakes. Recently the police in suburban Pasadena shot and killed a 110-pound mountain lion that had wandered into a yard where three children were playing. A few weeks before that, the police killed a 120-pound cougar crouching behind a hedge in Yorba Li... |
161260_3 | Leaders in Albany Agree on Plan To Guarantee College Expenses | since 1974.'' The Liberty Scholarship plan would provide funds to any New York student who is accepted into college and who meets income guidelines. The amount would depend on the college the student attends, with greater amounts for students going to State University or City University colleges. The agreement on the L... |
161125_3 | Books of The Times; Decalcifying Scientists (and Science) | and by the time Greek science began to decline, Eratosthenes had measured the circumference of the earth and the distance of the sun to within a few percent of the correct values, and Aristarchus of Samos had proposed a sun-centered cosmos, thus anticipating Copernicus by some 1,700 years, though the world listened to ... |
159489_2 | Airports Tightening Security Measures | we start discussing in public what we're doing,'' said Derek Ross, a British Airways spokesman. Mr. Reder of the Paris Airport Authority said, ''The less one gives of precision regarding security, the better the security.'' Passengers Are Questioned Airline officials said, however, that they are increasingly asking dep... |
186345_1 | Q and A | explains the redecoration of the Governor's residence and grounds. This one is held on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and starts from the courthouse at 4:15 P.M. A series of mock trials are on the agenda. In one version, called Cry Witch, a woman stands accused of witchcraft. The event is on Monday evenings this month,... |
186519_6 | The Next Generation of Poison; An Issue for the No-Issue Campaign | grave risk. Urgent reform of farm practices is one remedy. Another is to upgrade sewage plants and combined storm-sewer lines like New York's, that overflow after heavy rainfall. Eastern lakes and forests are threatened by acid rain. Injected into westerly winds by tall smokestacks in the Ohio valley, waste gases mingl... |
186534_8 | Bass Verite: The Poetics Of Fishing | in Calais, Me. And I mean he kept regaling us, causing my friend to invent the concept of the talking seat, which is the one in the canoe in which you face the guide and talk, or listen to him talk, as long as you are in the boat, a span of time over which the guide has complete control. On another trip, I had an exper... |
186417_1 | An Answer To Jails Is Reading | could hardly read - they tested to about second- or third-grade reading level. Their math ability was slightly, but not much, higher. Chronologically these children ranged in age between 14 and 19 and were placed in grades seven through eleven. I kept wondering how our children could have been passed on in school witho... |
186328_3 | Head Trauma | letting in the poisonous environment. Toxic reactions tore gaping holes out of the cell's membranous walls. And the remains were cannibalized by scavenger white cells. Once started, the process became an irreversible confluence of breakdowns. Nothing could be done. Last year, however, a Cornell autopsy study of people ... |
186126_3 | Boston Case Raises Questions on Misuse of Affirmative Action | said that when they took the Civil Service test in 1977, the only criterion for racial classification was self-description. ''They made a good-faith claim and were always listed as black,'' he said. ''It was never questioned, even in the 1980's, when there were layoffs and race was relevant. For the Fire Department to ... |
186210_0 | A War on the U.S. War on Abortion | LEAD: THE Reagan Administration's strong anti-abortion policy has produced little change in the United States, but it has given rise to an impassioned debate about its effect on the third world. THE Reagan Administration's strong anti-abortion policy has produced little change in the United States, but it has given ris... |
186323_10 | THE HARD RIDE OF WILLY T. | Yates estimates that 75 percent of the drivers at this year's Indianapolis 500 ''bought'' their rides. ''Unfortunately,'' says Yates, ''in modern automobile racing, the cream doesn't always rise to the top unless it's accompanied by money.'' Not surprisingly, to major-league sponsors controversy is anathema. And to his... |
186388_1 | STREETSCAPES: The High Bridge Water Tower; Fire-Damaged Landmark To Get $900,000 Repairs | to authorize a new waterworks on the Manhattan side of the High Bridge Aqueduct in 1863. From the aqueduct, water would be pumped up nearly 100 feet to a seven-acre reservoir at ridgetop and also to a 47,000-gallon tank in a 200-foot-high tower. Completed by 1872, the entire project was designed by John B. Jervis, an e... |
193399_1 | Learning Disabilities and Crime: Struggle to Snap the Link | Children With Learning Disabilities, were intended to underscore a factor in the rise in cases of truancy, juvenile delinquency and criminal behavior that are flooding court dockets in New York City. Preliminary results of a pilot study conducted by the foundation in Brooklyn Family Court, which were released several w... |
193299_0 | Population Size Can't Be Overlooked as an Environmental Danger | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Your editorial ''The Next Generation of Poison'' (Oct. 9) provides an excellent description of the environmental dangers that now threaten the earth's natural systems on which all life and economic activity depend. The remedies you feel are sensible - which include banning CFC's, sav... |
193280_0 | Friends of Forests | LEAD: Jungle fever is sweeping the nation's capital. Jungle fever is sweeping the nation's capital. Last night, a group of environmental organizations, headed by the Tropical Ecosystem Research and Rescue Alliance International, held a rally to publicize and raise funds for a campaign to stop they destruction of Malays... |
186801_0 | Corrections | LEAD: A listing in the Guide of the Long Island Weekly yesterday gave an incorrect telephone number for the Oyster Festival next Saturday and Sunday in Oyster Bay. The correct number for information is (516)-624-8082. A listing in the Guide of the Long Island Weekly yesterday gave an incorrect telephone number for the ... |
186642_0 | Schooners Transport Sailors Into Another Era | LEAD: For the modern sailor, to step aboard today's traditional schooner is to enter the sailing world of the 18th century. For the modern sailor, to step aboard today's traditional schooner is to enter the sailing world of the 18th century. It's a world of belaying pins, four-sided sails on highly varnished wooden gaf... |
192241_1 | China Explains Policy Shift Retightening Economic Grip | Authorities Curbed For the first time, some precise details of the Government's drive to reassert control over the economy were disclosed today, measures that will directly affect existing foreign investments in China and sharply restrict the local authorities. In Guangdong Province alone, seven joint Chinese-foreign h... |
192345_0 | DOCTORS PROTEST COMPANY'S ACTION ON ABORTION PILL | LEAD: A French company's decision to suspend distribution of an abortion-inducing drug caused a furor here today at a congress of the main international body of gynecologists and obstetricians. A French company's decision to suspend distribution of an abortion-inducing drug caused a furor here today at a congress of th... |
190269_3 | Mending the Leaking, Crumbling Police Headquarters | were laid. The architects - whose firm was then called Gruzen & Partners - were sued by the city, and paid a $1 million settlement after years of litigation. But they insist that their decision to settle did not constitute an admission that they had made design errors. Contractor No Longer in Business The general contr... |
191265_1 | New Phase for Superconductors | progress in different areas. Advances in making microscopically thin films of the new materials, a form useful for electronic circuits, have been particularly rapid. By contrast, researchers have had trouble making flexible wires that can carry the needed current. Electric transmission and floating trains are 10 to 20 ... |
191211_2 | Autumn Traditions Fall With the Leaves | required to either have their own composting sites or send their leaves to a private compost heap.'' In Connecticut, leaves are expected to be included in a statute requiring towns to recycle 25 percent of all waste by 1991. In Westchester County, towns will soon receive manuals explaining how to build and operate muni... |
191133_2 | Satellite to Improve Monitoring of Ozone Loss | sensor, which cost about $5 million, is more sensitive and stable than the old one. ''Generally, the data will reproduce what's happening in the atmosphere with greater accuracy and fidelity,'' Dr. Planet said. Thomas N. Pyke Jr., an assistant administrator for the Federal agency who heads its satellite operations, sai... |
185143_1 | Women Need to Know Risks of Hysterectomy | such as fibroid tumors, prolapse and endometriosis. In 1983, 13,000 hysterectomies were carried out for premenstrual syndrome, which can often be controlled by medications, diet and exercise. Why is hysterectomy occurring on such a broad scale? It seems we have come to believe that women's organs are unimportant after ... |
184998_0 | New Goal: 3d World Debt Reduction | LEAD: A consensus has developed among many countries that ways should be sought to reduce, and not simply restructure, the third world's staggering $1.2 trillion debt. A consensus has developed among many countries that ways should be sought to reduce, and not simply restructure, the third world's staggering $1.2 trill... |
184917_0 | Hammer View On China Deal | LEAD: The American industrialist Armand Hammer said this weekend that he remained optimistic about a giant coal project in Shanxi Province in northern China, despite technical problems that have slashed output and set off a dispute with the Chinese Government. The American industrialist Armand Hammer said this weekend ... |
187470_0 | Brazil Acts to Slow Destruction of Amazon Forest | LEAD: Faced with growing warnings from scientists and the threat of losing international funds, President Jose Sarney today announced a series of steps aimed at slowing the rapid destruction of the Amazon rain forest. Faced with growing warnings from scientists and the threat of losing international funds, President Jo... |
187425_2 | Caribbean Nations Say Drugs Imperil Stability | to adopt the new convention, which among other things gives drug consuming, transit and producing countries guidelines for dealing with their drug problems. Help for Caribbean Urged Particularly in the last two years, Caribbean countries have begun to feel the effects of drug traffic, mainly cocaine and cocaine base dr... |
189225_1 | McAllen, Tex. | that cluster here. This means that the Rio Red, a sweet and ruddier variety, will be available for the first time in markets in many parts of the United States. THE first major harvest of a redder breed of grapefruit began last week in the Rio Grande Valley orchards that cluster here. This means that the Rio Red, a swe... |
189322_0 | U.S. Gets Taste of Managua Embargo | LEAD: Shrimp and lobster fleets from this Caribbean port have been helping Nicaragua evade the economic embargo imposed by the United States. Shrimp and lobster fleets from this Caribbean port have been helping Nicaragua evade the economic embargo imposed by the United States. The fishermen here have paid the Nicaragua... |
189891_0 | France Plans Meeting on Chemical Weapons | LEAD: France announced today that it would hold an international conference intended to stiffen and extend a 1925 convention banning the use of chemical and biological weapons. France announced today that it would hold an international conference intended to stiffen and extend a 1925 convention banning the use of chemi... |
189790_0 | Beatrice Braude, 75; Challenged Blacklist | LEAD: Dr. Beatrice Braude, a retired professor of French and former radio producer, died Sunday of brain cancer at the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington in Rockville, Md. She was 75 years old and lived in Washington. Dr. Beatrice Braude, a retired professor of French and former radio producer, died Sunday of brain canc... |
191614_3 | Gradac Journal; Englishwoman Seeks and Finds Serenity in Serbia | the task, and she replied, ''My heart is not totally closed to it.'' Within two days, she said, word was out that she had accepted, and ''I was stuck.'' No Question of Sacrifice Within Eastern Orthodoxy, transfer from one national church to another is a mere formality. The nun rejects any thought that she is making a s... |
191678_1 | For Senate Rivals in Jersey, It's Personal | you, Frank.'' Mr. Lautenberg bristles at the memory. ''He said that to me in front of my children,'' he hissed. ''In front of my children!'' Another exchange occurred just after the televised debate on Oct. 19. Though both men had managed to remain polite, if tense, through the hourlong event, as soon as the program en... |
191547_2 | Reining In Unfettered Development | bottom, in small towns and big cities alike, who are, in effect, saying to developers: ''Back off. The joy ride is over. We want to protect what's left, to take back the frontier.'' On Election Day, millions of Californians will have the chance to vote once again on what are commonly called slow-growth measures. In the... |
185297_2 | Little Brother Watches | computer enhancement system that can double the quality of its pictures. The Network uses pictures bought from commercial satellites, American Landsats, the French SPOT, and has even found it can make significant use of fuzzy weather satellite photographs because the archives go back some 15 years and offer a basis for... |
190918_3 | Curbside Pickup and Sludge Forests: Some Cities Make Recycling Work | toxins and harmful bacteria. Los Angeles mixes its sludge with sawdust and sells it as compost. Milwaukee markets its sludge under the trade name Milorganite; it is used as a nutrient for grass and playing fields. According to Environmental Protection Agency figures, 25 percent of the nation's 7.6 million dry tons of s... |
190965_0 | Conservationists Laud Efforts For the Hudson | LEAD: They began with a passion for a mountain, a band of volunteers determined to stop Consolidated Edison from building a power plant on the slopes of Storm King Mountain overlooking the Hudson River Gorge. They began with a passion for a mountain, a band of volunteers determined to stop Consolidated Edison from buil... |
188624_3 | End of Partnership Forged in Birth of Atomic Age | undertaking with great pride, noting in the 1951 annual report, for example, that ''it is now probably the largest industrial project ever attempted.'' ''The work has proceeded satisfactorily, although the size and urgency of the project, and the fact that it is in a new and highly specific technical field, makes it ex... |
188425_0 | WOMEN AND THE IDEAL FAMILY | LEAD: The thinking woman's and man's reaction to the cautions raised in Jane O'Reilly's essay ''Talking About Women, Not to Them'' (Hers, Sept. 11), should be a loud Brava! I refer, in particular, to her observation that our politicians are presenting their version of the ''ideal'' woman, ever so subtly ensconced in th... |
188587_4 | DU PONT DISPUTES CHARGES ON SAFETY AT NUCLEAR PLANT | reduced to an acceptable level.'' Government officials have complained in recent days about the attitude and training of the Du Pont employees who operate the reactors. The sharp disagreement between Du Pont and the Energy Department comes after more than two weeks of disclosures about unsafe conditions, accidents, rad... |
188480_1 | A Breathtaking Bridge Soars High Over Tampa Bay | freighter on a foggy night, killing 35 people. The State of Florida and the Federal Government considered repairing the bridge, which was only nine years old at the time (the companion span was 26 years old), but decided to replace both spans with a larger and safer bridge instead. For roughly $220 million they got not... |
188356_0 | NONFICTION | LEAD: CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTIONS: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology, and Education. By Neil Postman. (Knopf, $17.95.) Neil Postman is that rare social critic whose commentary on the current state of American culture and education is as funny as it is thoughtful and well argued. In these 18 incisive essays (s... |
188369_4 | Gaffe Me Your Tired. .. | turned in our Government-issue uniforms and gear before being discharged (explaining the damages with an innocent ''but this is the way it was issued, Sarge''), the man who glowered back at us was known as the supply sergeant. As bureaucratic pomposity continues to triumph, he will become known as the Acquisition & Mat... |
188287_2 | WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM SOME FRIENDS | history of the rise of the Dutch Republic and various ups and downs of the House of Orange - indeed, at 27 pages, not potted enough. Both Mrs. Tuchman and her publishers seem to think there is widespread failure to understand the importance of sea power in the War of Independence, but her discussion of naval matters co... |
188595_3 | Salvador's Poverty Is Called Worst of Century | product has declined for 10 straight years and has plummeted by almost 25 percent in the last eight years, according to the Central Bank. Big Jump in Food Costs The Ministry of Planning says inflation, which totals 507.1 percent since 1980, has pushed the minimum cost of a nutritious diet for a family of five to $240 a... |
186969_1 | Mayor Sees City's (and His) Renewal | Reputation That may come as news to 1,300 city workers who jump at his orders,and to people who remember how histough-guy reputation began in his first administration (1961-1966). Then, he packed a gun, led police raids, unleashed dogs on rioters and had Allen Ginsberg, a native son, arrested for saying at a poetry rea... |
186928_1 | Bangladeshi Asks for Help on Controlling Floods | flood, which was the worst in the country's history, the President of Bangladesh, Lieut. Gen. H. M. Ershad, reached individual agreements with India and other neighboring countries for cooperation. But he has thus far failed to win sufficient support for a regional response to the flooding. ''What we want is a regional... |
186922_1 | Amazon Settlers Turn Forests To Ash in Name of Progress | gold diggers came, then the road and the lumbermen. They were followed by cattle ranchers, who in this region get generous Government subsidies. ''Everybody around here sets fires because flames can do what the hand cannot,'' said Bolival Alves, a tinder merchant. ''It is easier and cheaper. Only the valuable wood is p... |
190491_3 | A Loving Treatment for Mental Illness | about my sister's illness, something to hide. In his book, Dr. Torrey addressed these fears, explaining that ''people do not cause schizophrenia; they merely blame each other for doing so.'' He also stated emphatically ''Schizophrenia is a brain disease, now definitely known to be such. It is a real scientific and biol... |
190580_2 | TRAVEL ADVISORY | for both airlines were quick to point out that the weather early this month was good; both warned that bad weather, combined with the restrictions, would mean serious delays. Under the F.A.A.'s program, landings at O'Hare are being limited to 80 an hour during the evening rush hour, from about 4:45 P.M. to 9:15 P.M. Th... |
190424_1 | MOUTH, EAR, NOSE | the right questions could be divined. In the disorderly aftermath of Joyce, Kafka, S. Y. Agnon, Borges, all the questions appear to be used up, repetitive, irrelevant; and their answers - which only recently did take on experimental form - have been marred by struggle, stoicism and a studied ''playfulness'' more plucky... |
190823_0 | DRUG BILL PASSES, FINISHING BUSINESS OF 100TH CONGRESS | LEAD: In a self-congratulatory mood, Congress early today passed comprehensive legislation aimed at curbing the supply of illicit drugs and the public's demand for them, approving the measure as its final act before adjournment. In a self-congratulatory mood, Congress early today passed comprehensive legislation aimed ... |
190784_0 | No Headline | LEAD: I would like to respond to the article ''Brand-New Degree and No Place to Go'' [ Opinion, Aug. 28 ] . I would like to respond to the article ''Brand-New Degree and No Place to Go'' [ Opinion, Aug. 28 ] . Fundamentally, what these newly minted liberal arts graduates are suffering from is reality shock. For the fir... |
190484_2 | The Better the Colleges, The Better for Us All | that is second to none. Most obvious is the long-held consensus value in our society that education is vital to our future well-being. The problems and complexities of a new decade as well as a new century will soon be upon us, and New Jerseyans must be prepared to meet them head on. That preparation is best nurtured i... |
192644_5 | FRANCE ORDERING COMPANY TO SELL ITS ABORTION DRUG | 15 percent of the abortions in the country. They said they expected that within a decade, it could be used in half of all abortions. International health officials expect there to be a large market for RU 486 in countries besides France. The company, however, has not disclosed its revenue projections for the drug. Card... |
184476_1 | PUTTING THE WORLD ON HOLD | to name it as a limiting bias, that Anthony Storr, who is a lecturer in psychiatry at Oxford University, has written ''Solitude: A Return to the Self.'' Dr. Storr's point is deceptively simple: psychoanalytic thinkers underrate solitude and overrate relationships in gauging the ingredients of contentment. Solitude is t... |
184454_0 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS/PEOPLES OF THE WORLD | LEAD: GREEK MYTHS: GODS, HEROES AND MONSTERS Their Sources, Their Stories and Their Meanings. By Ellen Switzer and Costas. Photographs by Costas. 208 pp. New York: A Jean Karl Book/Atheneum. GREEK MYTHS: GODS, HEROES AND MONSTERS Their Sources, Their Stories and Their Meanings. By Ellen Switzer and Costas. Photographs ... |
184670_0 | Leaders and Experts Join in Child Care Drive | LEAD: Organized child care, it has long been argued, is beneficial to children, to working parents and to families. But more and more, organized child care is also being considered essential to a healthy economy. Organized child care, it has long been argued, is beneficial to children, to working parents and to familie... |
192880_1 | Courts Altering Criteria | it has become vitally important for both owners and tenants to remain up to date concerning how the courts interpret ''primary residence.'' Lately, two significant shifts have taken place. One concerns conditions that must be met before a tenant can claim an apartment as a primary residence. The second is a procedural ... |
193025_0 | In Secular France, Stirrings By an Angry Religious Right | LEAD: REVIVING old enmities, church and state have stumbled, almost reluctantly, into a clash over the emotional issue of abortion in France. Although this is a highly secularized nation, a series of controversies this month has demonstrated the power and passion of committed Roman Catholics and has provoked an angry d... |
193042_4 | Belfast Amid the Strife: Wrenched but Not Ruined | Volunteer Force, the Ulster Freedom Fighters, and the umbrella Ulster Defense Association, are also ''alive and well and living in East Belfast and stockpiling weaponry and carrying out sectarian attacks against Catholics,'' said Steve Hewitt, an official of the Northern Ireland Office. More than 20 people, about half ... |
192860_2 | NORTHERN PART OF COUNTY IS IN CONCERT SPOTLIGHT | Haydn and Mendelssohn for Performers of Westchester at a private home in Bedford (693-1151). Turning to other Westchester venues, in Bronxville today at 3 P.M. the Contreras Ensemble, a 21-piece chamber orchestra under the direction of Jose Contreras, comes to Concordia College. The program lists a Handel Concerto Gros... |
192979_0 | Letting Computers Lend a High-Tech Helping Hand | LEAD: COMPUTERS are now helping with the dirty work of the job hunt, from addressing letters and tracking contacts to rewriting resumes. COMPUTERS are now helping with the dirty work of the job hunt, from addressing letters and tracking contacts to rewriting resumes. These software programs generally fall into two basi... |
185631_1 | The Planetary Heat Wave Is Real | In addition, greenhouse theory does not preclude extreme cold or extreme heat in any particular place or time, and the Florida freezes noted by Mr. Watt do not contradict the theory. His main claim is that the evidence for global warming is strongly biased by, and is indeed the result of, warming from urban activity, k... |
185618_1 | Landmark Status for a Lost Cause? | buildings (see photo) known as City and Suburban homes. New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission meets today to consider whether it ought to landmark good intentions. That's all that might justify landmark status for the buildings (see photo) known as City and Suburban homes. The 14 buildings on East 79th Stre... |
192117_2 | Health: Treatments; Breast Cancer Patients Face Daunting Array Of Options on Therapy | something or something. A lot of the choices are basically left up to the patient and her doctor. You're left absolutely staggered.'' Studies indicate that 70 percent of the women whose lymph nodes show no sign of cancer after breast surgery will never have a recurrence of the cancer. But there is no certain way to ide... |
192090_1 | Corte Madera Journal; Brain Tuneup at 'McMeditation' Spas | has improved her tennis game. ''Some people like to face north to be aligned with the planets'' during the sessions, said Randy Adamadama, the proprietor. For the last 14 months Mr. Adamadama (ne Stevens) has presided here at the Universe of You, Marin County's first brain spa and the first multiuser facility for the S... |
192109_2 | DRUG MAKER STOPS ALL DISTRIBUTION OF ABORTION PILL | Planned Parenthood Federation of America, called Roussel's decision ''a tragic display of cowardice and a shocking blow to women around the world.'' Anti-abortion groups in France were jubilant. They have been protesting the use of RU 486 for abortions ever since a French researcher discovered in 1982 that the drug, wa... |
192015_0 | Critic's Notebook; The Writer's Enduring Struggle for Faith | LEAD: Earlier ages, secure in their faith, once produced works like ''The Divine Comedy,'' ''Paradise Lost'' and ''The Oresteia'' - works of religious artists who used their talent not to annotate the ways of men, but to ratify man's relationship to the everlasting. With the dawning of more secular times, it seemed, ar... |
187991_0 | CONSUMER'S WORLD: Guidepost; Resumes That Work | LEAD: Autumn is a peak time for job hunting, and a well-prepared resume is the first thing you need. Several formats are now popular. A chronological resume lists experience by dates; a functional resume describes areas of job experience and skill and a targeted resume states a job goal and describes achievements and c... |
189126_0 | What's Burning in Brazil | LEAD: The Amazon rain forest, the greatest natural wonder of the planet, is rapidly disappearing. Spurred by misguided Government incentives, an army of settlers is torching the trees to convert the forest to cattle ranches. Brazil's President, Jose Sarney, last week decried the ''predatory development. The Amazon rain... |
188903_1 | Studies Link AIDS Virus Directly to Cancer and Dementia | not offer any direct clues to the manner in which Kaposi's is caused in patients who do not suffer from infection by the HIV virus, which causes AIDS. Protein May Produce Effects A report on the research in the Oct. 13 issue of Nature said the scientists used a gene, called tat, in the experiments because it is known t... |
189069_2 | The Growth of the Global Office | New York-based publishing house, last July began processing subscription renewal and marketing information for several of its magazines in Galway. Others, like Boeing and Bechtel, have also set up software development offices for their own use. To be sure, computer and software companies, including I.B.M., Microsoft an... |
188919_0 | French Government Is Criticized For Failing to Condemn Algeria | LEAD: The French Government has come under sharp domestic attack for failing to criticize Algeria for repression in quelling riots and protests there last week. Some 250 people were reported killed in the clashes. The French Government has come under sharp domestic attack for failing to criticize Algeria for repression... |
188907_0 | For Iguanas, Place in Sun May Be Too Bright | LEAD: CONSERVATIONISTS breeding green iguanas in captivity to replenish the dwindling population of the species in Central America face a quandary: is it better to turn loose the bullies or the more submissive iguanas? CONSERVATIONISTS breeding green iguanas in captivity to replenish the dwindling population of the spe... |
187241_0 | Cup Yacht Detained by Cuba | LEAD: New Zealand, the 132-foot sloop that failed in her challenge for the America's Cup last month, is now in a Cuban port after a gunboat intercepted a ship carrying the yacht from San Diego to New York. New Zealand, the 132-foot sloop that failed in her challenge for the America's Cup last month, is now in a Cuban p... |
187322_0 | Goodrich-Michelin | LEAD: The B. F. Goodrich Company is negotiating the sale of its aircraft tire operations to the French tire maker Michelin for undisclosed terms. The companies said their talks included an agreement for aircraft wheel, brake and tire assembly operations, and a license for Michelin to use the Goodrich name and other tra... |
189492_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | freed after spending more than a year in jail. The former Foreign Minister, Clodomiro Almeyda, has been a rallying point for the Chilean opposition since he came home from enforced exile. A5 A town in San Salvador was seized and two powerful car bombs were detonated by leftist rebels in a surge of guerrilla violence th... |
184101_6 | Excerpts From John Paul II's Apostolic Letter 'On the Dignity of Women' | exclusive dedication to God by virtue of the evangelical counsels: in particular, chastity, poverty and obedience. . . . In this wider context, virginity has to be considered also as a path for women, a path on which they realize their womanhood in a way different from marriage. . . . In calling only men as his Apostle... |
184053_0 | The Breath of the Black Dragon in Russia and China | LEAD: Just a year ago, I inspected the scene of the great Black Dragon forest fire, which broke out in May 1987 along the Amur River, the boundary between eastern Siberia and Chinese Manchuria. As I walked in the world left by the fire -every tree, every bush, tuft of grass turned to black - I felt I was walking in a p... |
184167_0 | Disdain and Praise For Vatican Letter | LEAD: Prominent American Catholic women were divided today in their initial reaction to the Vatican document on their role. Prominent American Catholic women were divided today in their initial reaction to the Vatican document on their role. An American nun who became prominent in 1979 when she publicly challenged Pope... |
110193_0 | PUT LIFE IN DEAD-CAR COLLECTION | LEAD: American cities are awash in a tidal wave of hulks - abandoned cars. They could be reducing the tide and making money in the process. Instead, notably in New York, they are sinking. American cities are awash in a tidal wave of hulks - abandoned cars. They could be reducing the tide and making money in the process... |
110244_0 | Dismissed Officer Held in Attack on Captain | LEAD: An officer who was dismissed for running a British container ship aground stabbed his captain and threw him overboard today, the Coast Guard reported. An officer who was dismissed for running a British container ship aground stabbed his captain and threw him overboard today, the Coast Guard reported. Two Coast Gu... |
110153_10 | U.S. TRADE: TAKING THE LONG VIEW | quote from Marty Feldstein - must be: only to a very limited extent. Q. But there is also the question of diversion. For example, even though higher growth in Japan or Western Europe might not provide the market for the United States, they could perhaps absorb more exports, say, from the third world countries and, ther... |
110312_0 | Practical Traveler; Coping With New Baggage Rules | LEAD: IF your Christmas gifts did not include carry-on luggage, perhaps your New Year's self-improvement project should be measuring your suitcases and practicing how to pack everything into two bags. IF your Christmas gifts did not include carry-on luggage, perhaps your New Year's self-improvement project should be me... |
110058_13 | The Theory Gap on the Trade Gap | tariff on all imported goods and a 10 percent subsidy on all exported goods. Its short-run impact on the trade balance dwarfs anything that can be done to improve productivity.'' But evidence presented at the Brandeis Conference suggests that such standard assumptions have been overtaken by events. Since 1985, a 10 per... |
110358_1 | Police Are Monitoring a New Drug | private outpatient addiction treatment center, said that basuco had the potential of overtaking crack as the most popular street-available drug. Produced in South America, particularly in Colombia, it appears as a wet, sticky, muddy-brown paste. To break down the coca leaf, large quantities of such leaves are placed in... |
110106_0 | Meese Meetings Are Disclosed | LEAD: Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d, under investigation for his stock holdings in the telephone industry, apparently met with top executives of two regional Bell companies while his financial manager held $10,000 worth of his telephone stock. Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d, under investigation for his stock holding... |
106978_0 | NEWS SUMMARY: MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1988 | LEAD: International A2-11 International A2-11 Israeli air strikes in Lebanon killed 21 people and wounded 14, the Lebanese police said. The casualty toll was the highest since a similar attack by Israel four months ago. Page A1 Israel will expel nine Palestinians. The army accused them of instigating the rioting last m... |
108009_1 | France Criticizes East German Chief on Arms | ''We do not want a Europe separated into cells.'' A Symbolic Visit Mr. Honecker's three-day visit to Paris is of considerable symbolic importance, since France shares legal and military responsibility for West Berlin along with the United States and Britain and, like them, officially regards its authority extending to ... |
106460_4 | A Tempered Skyline Strengthens a City of Steel | of Mr. Johnson and Mr. Burgee's work, the reality is not so much startling as banal. The building looks dreadful at close range - its outdoor plaza and winter garden are cold and uninviting and the glass skin of the tower has a crude, chilling kind of glitter to it. Where the building actually works is from a distance ... |
106685_0 | Special Today: Education Life/Section 12 | LEAD: Special reports in this issue include: Special reports in this issue include: * How the need for credentials is bringing more adults back to college. * Where government executives go for a mid-life crisis course. * Why many students delay college for a 13th-year hiatus. * How colleges are coping with a severe hou... |
106737_4 | LATE-BREAKING NEWS ON THE WORDS WE USE | by the charade of evenhanded ''objectivity'' and thereby to accelerate the trend. ''Objectivity'' is in fact coercive, a bludgeon. That most users expect dictionaries to provide them with normative usage is acknowledged by Mr. Flexner; but the expectation, it seems, is an atavistic weakness of which the user must be cu... |
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