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857082_0 | Bomb Attack on Key Chechens Strains Peace Pact With Russia | The fragile peace in Chechnya was disrupted again today when two powerful sets of explosions rocked a convoy of Chechen rebel leaders as they returned from a negotiating session with their Russian counterparts. No one was killed in the blasts, which came came less than a day after the two sides signed a peace treaty in... |
857343_0 | Bomb Attack on Key Chechens Strains Peace Pact With Russia | The fragile peace in Chechnya was disrupted again today when two powerful sets of explosions rocked a convoy of Chechen rebel leaders as they returned from a negotiating session with their Russian counterparts. No one was killed in the blasts, which came came less than a day after the two sides signed a peace treaty in... |
857177_0 | Blacks Show Gains in Getting College Degrees | Black students are showing striking gains in attending and graduating from colleges and universities and last year received a record number of Ph.D.'s, according to two recent studies of minorities in higher education. Supporters of affirmative action hailed the results as evidence that programs aimed at identifying, e... |
857261_0 | Blacks Show Gains in Getting College Degrees | Black students are showing striking gains in attending and graduating from colleges and universities and last year received a record number of Ph.D.'s, according to two recent studies of minorities in higher education. Supporters of affirmative action hailed the results as evidence that programs aimed at identifying, e... |
857055_0 | Mayor and Council Hold Strings For $276 Million Schools Pledge | Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and the City Council's leaders agreed yesterday to provide an immediate infusion of $276 million to repair New York City's public schools but only after making an unusual demand that they, not the Board of Education, dictate where the money is spent and on what. The $276 million in new spendin... |
858531_1 | British Officials Harden Stand On Talks With I.R.A. Allies | center. It shook up the entire peace effort in Northern Ireland, by confirming the deep suspicions of Protestant Unionists, who want to remain tied to Britain, that the Catholic republicans cannot be trusted to negotiate without using violence. It also made it more difficult for the Governments of Britain and the Irish... |
858585_0 | Canada Warns U.S. on Law Penalizing Cuba Commerce | Canada threatened retaliatory measures today against a United States law that penalizes Canadian and other foreign companies doing business in Cuba. Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy called his Government's action "the beginning of a chain reaction among other countries in developing a collective response" to the law, th... |
858709_0 | New Branch Of Primate Family Tree | A CURIOUS, squirrel-size marmoset from the Amazon rain forest is the sixth new monkey species to be discovered in Brazil since 1990, and a scientist predicts that several more primate species will be found there by the end of the century. "This shows how little we know about biological diversity among even our closest ... |
859103_1 | U.S. Says Valujet Ignored DC-9 Defects | a maintenance contractor, Sabretech, each says the other was responsible for the fact that the DC-9 was carrying hazardous devices that Sabretech had removed from other Valujet planes. The devices, oxygen generators, are believed to have set off the the fire. In one of the most striking cases in today's list, a 19-year... |
854477_0 | Safety Panel Urges Evaluation Of How Airlines Handle Cargo | The National Transportation Safety Board urgently recommended today that the Federal Aviation Administration evaluate airline procedures to keep "undeclared or unauthorized hazardous materials" out of their cargo holds. Three weeks ago, improperly labeled and packaged chemicals apparently touched off a fire that led to... |
854498_1 | Sinn Fein Runs Strongly in Vote for Ulster Negotiating Teams | bomb attacks in London. Party officials would not say whether they would try to persuade the I.R.A. military command to restore the cease-fire. But Mr. Adams added, without elaboration, that whether his party is admitted to the talks or not, "we will be part of a negotiated settlement." Most officials and experts say t... |
855617_1 | What Men Won't Discuss: Their Health | journalists, attended the conference, which was sponsored by the World Association for Social Psychiatry, Men's Health magazine and SmithKline Beecham, the pharmaceutical company. In the opening session, physicians discussed how much is still unknown: What is the "normal" testosterone level for a man in midlife? Do men... |
855608_0 | The Certified Forest | To the Editor: Re "Advocates of Sustainable Mahogany Harvests Counter Boycott" (Science Times, June 4): Dr. Nick Brokaw advocates "buying tropical timber so that it remains valuable." The answer to deforestation is not to buy more timber, but to buy the right timber -- from forests certified as being sustainably manage... |
855767_0 | Bears and People Clash | The state's black bear population has quadrupled over the last decade to about 400, and these days, bears and people seem to be coming into contact more often as suburbia encroaches into the animals' habitat. The Senate Natural Resources and Economic Development Committee today will consider whether action is needed to... |
855669_1 | Latin American Nations Rebuke U.S. for the Embargo on Cuba | on Friday, the United States delegate, Harriet C. Babbitt, condemned the resolution as an act of "diplomatic cowardice." "What is the message that will emerge from this assembly?" she asked her fellow delegates. "That the hemisphere will flex its muscles to defend and justify illegal expropriations, but remain silent w... |
860625_1 | Bombing Attack Raises Questions About Stability of Saudi Government | the State Department, the Pentagon and the Federal Bureau of Investigation is that the truck bombing is linked to a similar attack last November on an American military compound in Riyadh, the capital. "This is the time for decisive decision-making and that's precisely what the Saudis don't have because there is no dec... |
860673_7 | New Issue At Work: On-Line Sex Sites | Jay Friedland, sales manager of Surf Watch, said 15 to 20 percent of the company's sales are now to businesses. "In many cases, the calls that come in are driven by human resource departments," he said. He said that corporate clients typically have two worries: their liability in the event of a harassment claim, and th... |
860490_2 | Essay;Stay Out of Touch | section is being put in for those who don't mind the ringing. Presumably this will be divided into smoking and nonsmoking cellumaniacs, subdivided further into tables for those who don't mind the ringing summons and those who thrill to silent vibrations. To be sure, the professions of some people in any modern city req... |
823851_0 | Woe to Those Displaced by China Dam Project | To the Editor: Re "Cracks Show Early in China's Big Dam Project" (front page, Jan. 15): You report that despite being advised against lending to help China build its gargantuan Three Gorges Dam, the United States Export-Import Bank is going ahead with a review of the financial, technical and environmental aspects of th... |
823895_0 | Doctors Optimistic as Camby Leaves Hospital | Marcus Camby left the hospital today, taking the optimism of doctors that he will soon resume his college basketball career, but no more certain of what caused his 10 minutes of unconsciousness last Sunday than he was when he arrived on a stretcher at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center on Monday. "All we're... |
824411_1 | Same Old Red Storm Loses to Boston College | is running out of explanations and time. "For whatever reason," Brown said, "we didn't play with the same intensity we did for the first five minutes. It just seemed like we didn't know what we were doing out there after the first five minutes. We were flat. We weren't unified." Scoonie Penn, the freshman guard, had hi... |
824521_0 | China's Dam Project Must Go Forward | To the Editor: Re "Woe to Those Displaced by China Dam Project" (letter, Jan. 19) and your Jan. 15 front-page article on the Three Gorges Dam project: The two photographs of construction activities that you published on Jan. 15 indicate that excellent progress has been made in only a year's time. All such projects face... |
824487_0 | Ulster Commission Says Breakthrough Is Unlikely | Former Senator George J. Mitchell, the chairman of the commission created to deal with the difficult issue of disarmament of the Irish Republican Army and other paramilitaries in Northern Ireland, has indicated that the commission is unlikely to produce a breakthrough when it issues its recommendations on Wednesday. Th... |
824628_0 | A Hooligan's Handbook | |
824567_0 | Conference Addresses Problems of Children | ONE HUNDRED teachers, principals, social workers and advocates for homeless children gathered at Mercy College here recently for a conference on "Parting the Seas for Homeless Children." The group discussed the social and academic challenges of homeless children. "There's an ongoing debate about letting teachers know i... |
825499_1 | Cornell Sets Record by Raising $1.5 Billion in 5 Years | $77,078, putting the university in top 40. Even so, Cornell's endowment per student remains a little more than a fifth of Harvard's. Because universities use the income from their endowments to defray costs, particularly to keep tuitions down, a low endowment means higher tuition and less financial aid. When they first... |
825578_1 | A New Obstacle in Ireland | problem, and broke ranks with the Irish Government, which has helped build the fragile consensus for peace. The commission rejected the British Government's longstanding insistence that the Irish Republican Army hand over some of its weapons before talks begin. As a compromise, it suggested that the disarming go forwar... |
822694_3 | Word for Word/Anti-Nuclear Reaction;Refusing to Learn to Love the Bomb: Nations Take Their Case to Court | the site of 67 nuclear weapons tests conducted by the Administering Authority [United States] from 30 June 1946 to 18 August 1958, during the period of the United Nations Pacific Islands Territories Trusteeship. The total yield of those weapons was equivalent to more than 7,000 bombs the size of that which destroyed Hi... |
822769_0 | Peace Brings Boost In Tourism to Ulster | Northern Ireland had a 68 percent increase in the number of vacationers in the first year of peace after guerrilla cease-fires in 1994, tourist officials said today. A survey commissioned by the Northern Ireland tourist board said that 92 percent of those questioned said they wanted to make a return visit. Visitors sur... |
822646_0 | Queens Sewer Project Still Faces Opposition | More than three months after the Federal Government ordered a halt to construction of a key segment of a $100-million storm sewer project for southeastern Queens, officials have not persuaded environmental activists and some local civic associations to drop their opposition. At a recent meeting, representatives of the ... |
822456_21 | Does a Sugar Bear Bite? | through. Now all they have to make money off of is the lyrics." Fuchs, who left Time Warner in November, denies having said "What I don't know can't hurt me." But when asked about Time Warner's publishing rights to the lyrics, he responded: "I don't think it's hypocritical. In a volatile atmosphere we made a decision. ... |
820967_3 | Not So Fast: E-Mail Sometimes Slows to a Crawl | for as long as seven days," he said. That is better than some mail sent to subscribers of America Online, the giant of the on-line service providers with about 4.5 million subscribers. Electronic messages addressed to A.O.L. subscribers sometimes do not get through, or enter its system only after repeated tries that ta... |
821118_1 | DATEBOOK | the tax tips to corporate executives. Students can work in accounting and other areas. CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING Salary: $100 per month or college credit Positions: varies Length: 6 months in San Francisco Deadline: May 1 Information: (415) 543-1200 Do research for some of the country's top reporters, but ther... |
820963_2 | Where Do New Edibles Come From? | much more use is the cherimoya, which is quite popular in South America. The fruit is often called soursop and although it is not too attractive on the outside, its inside is white and almost custardlike, with a flavor akin to a combination of pineapple and banana. In the Andes, cherimoya ice cream is popular, and Cuba... |
820951_0 | Most Hunters Aim Well, But Beware the Columnists | To the Editor: The topic of bear population control requires factual analysis by the state's wildlife professionals and an open public debate. Joe Sharkey's Dec. 17 Jersey column "When Bears Get Too Close for Comfort" fell irresponsibly short of that with cliches about "untrained" hunters, a "dangerous breed" who "lurc... |
820964_2 | Where Do New Edibles Come From? | much more use is the cherimoya, which is quite popular in South America. The fruit is often called soursop and although it is not too attractive on the outside, its inside is white and almost custardlike, with a flavor akin to a combination of pineapple and banana. In the Andes, cherimoya ice cream is popular, and Cuba... |
820965_2 | Where Do New Edibles Come From? | much more use is the cherimoya, which is quite popular in South America. The fruit is often called soursop and although it is not too attractive on the outside, its inside is white and almost custardlike, with a flavor akin to a combination of pineapple and banana. In the Andes, cherimoya ice cream is popular, and Cuba... |
820095_1 | As Tory Majority Slips, British Election Looms | Conservatives, and Mr. Major's political staff has been hoping to delay an election until 1997, which would give them time to push through a tax cut to win some voters and to find chinks in the popularity of the Labor Party leader, Tony Blair. Ms. Nicholson was the second Tory M.P. to defect in recent months -- Alan Ho... |
820045_0 | Do Artificial Flavors Spoil Us For the Taste of Real Food? | THROUGHOUT the country, people are chewing watermelon gum, applying strawberry-flavor lip balms and eating fruit-flavored candies. At the movies, Americans munch popcorn drenched with artificial butter. And at the supermarket, there are so many flavored seltzers it is sometimes impossible to find the plain variety. The... |
826717_0 | A France Less Aloof | Jacques Chirac, the first Gaullist President of France since 1974, has used the initial months of his tenure to undo the Gaullist legacy of deliberate estrangement from NATO and the United States. That has created a positive atmosphere for his state visit to the United States, which begins today. Just as it took the co... |
826607_4 | Studies Using Brain Imaging Hint at Alzheimer Precursors | sibling had it, or who know they have a newly discovered genetic marker for susceptibility to the disease, the ApoE-4 allele, or variation, on chromosome 19. Several laboratories are in a scientific race to establish a method to use brain imaging to make early diagnoses of Alzheimer's disease. "Three labs are doing lon... |
821662_0 | Brazil Government Changes Rules for Creating Indian Reservations | Brazil, trying to resolve a dispute between businessmen and Indians over land, rewrote the rules today for creating reservations over the protests of Indian activists who say their homelands are at risk. "Lots of Indian areas now run a serious risk of being reduced," warned Roberto Liebgopt, secretary of the Indigenous... |
826155_1 | Many Exchange a Briefcase For the Sample Case of Sales | of middle-management executives who've been laid off because of corporate downsizing. The American reality of 'you work hard, play by the rules and your talent will get you to the top' is not true anymore in the corporate world." The number of Americans involved in direct sales rose 34 percent from 1990 to 1994, to 6.3... |
826046_2 | Cuttings;Keeping the Vegetable Gene Pool Lively and Well | varieties were sold by about 100 companies. But more than half of those varieties were available from only one source, which is right next to zero. So you can do your part for the gene pool by buying one of those endangered vegetables, growing it, saving its seed and sharing it with others. The good news is that while ... |
825899_6 | Angry Neighbors Fight Brookhaven on Water | minimize the emissions by saying there are worse things, because we should try to reduce emissions to the maximum extent possible," said Dr. Blume. But ground-water contamination involving volatile hydrocarbons like trichloroethane were common on Long Island, he added. Offering a comparison that critics find difficult ... |
826132_0 | 6th French Atom Test Held | France set off the sixth in a series of nuclear weapons tests in the South Pacific today, the Defense Ministry said. The tests broke a 1992 moratorium on French nuclear testing, drawing protests from around the world. The first took place on Sept. 5. President Jacques Chirac has said that France probably would conduct ... |
825345_5 | In Japan, a Ritual of Mourning for Abortions | to cleanse the spirit. Once in a while, he and a group of gynecologists who all perform abortions go to a shrine or a temple together to attend a special memorial to purify themselves. Three decades ago, more than a million Japanese women each year turned to abortion as a form of birth control. Now, partly because of t... |
825359_0 | British Make Offer to Sinn Fein, but It's Conditional on Ulster Vote | Prime Minister John Major of Britain proposed a new format for full-fledged peace talks on Northern Ireland that would allow Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army, to take part before the I.R.A. actually began to disarm. The proposal, which includes setting up an elected negotiating body, came hours... |
823222_3 | As Fellow Traveler of Other Illness, Depression Often Goes in Disguise | or condition, the institute says. Almost two-thirds of these sufferers do not get treatment, which is effective in 80 percent of cases, it said. Depression costs the nation $30 billion to $44 billion a year in medical expenses, absenteeism from work and lost productivity. The classic symptoms of depression include feel... |
820130_2 | Spreading Their Faith Wherever It Leads;Catholic Laity Is Increasingly Replacing Priests and Nuns as Missionaries | or die. Protestant denominations have dispatched lay people on short-term missions since the turn of the century, and in some denominations lay people have long been the backbone of the missionary force. Another reason for the shift from clerical to lay missionaries, Mr. McNeil said, is the Catholic Church's own ambiva... |
825808_5 | Economic Surge in BangladeshUndercut by Political Turmoil | rise up, and now the politicians are fighting again," said Ahmed, 18, a tractor owner at a brick kiln near the town of Bogra, an hour's drive north of Dhaka. Kiln workers nodded in agreement. But when they were asked about a military coup, there was a chorus of dissent. Among many Bangladeshis, army rule is associated ... |
825755_0 | China Needs Americans' Help With Dam | To the Editor: Two articles reflecting diametrically opposite points of view appeared in your paper on the same day, Jan. 16. A front-page article described problems associated with the Three Gorges Dam project in China. On the Op-Ed page, Jeffrey Garten, former Under Secretary of Commerce in the Clinton Administration... |
825754_0 | West Is Distant Mirror to China's Infant Deaths | To the Editor: Many recent letters have declared horror at the practice of infanticide in China and the unconscionable rates of infant mortality in the country's orphanages. This was a principal mode of population control in Europe and the United States from 1750 to 1850, when the industrial revolution was in high gear... |
822899_5 | Limiting a Medium Without Boundaries;How Do You Let the Good Fish Through the Net While Blocking the Bad? | computer is blocked by one route, a moderately skilled computer user can simply tap into another computer by an alternative route. Or one can easily disguise a flurry of bad bits, either by data encryption, which renders them unreadable except by the intended recipient, or simply by changing the file name to something ... |
822970_0 | New Jersey Daily Briefing;Special Education Report Due | A task force on special education will present its report on how the state can more effectively serve special education students on Wednesday at the State House. The panel, which includes parents and members of groups representing retarded and disabled adults and children, studied the costs of schooling in and out of s... |
822921_0 | Paul Borsky, 75; Studied Effects Of Sonic Booms | Paul Borsky, who studied the effects of aircraft noise on people just when the term sonic boom was entering the common vocabulary, died last Tuesday at his home in Plainview, L.I. He was 75. The cause was cancer, his daughter Phyllis Borsky said. At a time when jet planes were making the world an ever smaller and noisi... |
822938_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-9 CHINA DAM'S PRECARIOUS FUTURE With a massive dam project under construction in China, serious problems are expected with resettlement and with pollution, and the Government is being accused of insufficient planning. A1 STRENGTHENING BOSNIAN FORCES Bosnia has agreed to an American plan for retired Ame... |
822936_8 | THE NEXT WONDER: A special report.;Cracks Show Early in China's Big Dam Project | a new place in the same year, but then for three years there were no houses, and a lot of people had to live in tents. And they still haven't solved the problem of offering jobs. "Wanxian is only a small city. If we can't solve a small number of resettlement problems here, just think about the overall project." Past re... |
823577_2 | Metro Matters;The Old World In the Schools Of New York | million to repair P.S. 101, authorities have told Mr. Castillo. So the fifth floor sits there, crumbling and serving as a police lookout. AT P.S. 109 just a few blocks away, this school has a fifth floor, too. It's a huge gym. Or was. Now it is a mess of rotting walls and water damage so bad that the beams had to be re... |
823503_0 | France Says It Is Willing to Discuss Its Nuclear Role in NATO | France, spelling out details of its plan to return to closer military cooperation with NATO after 30 years at arm's length, said today that it was willing to discuss the role its independent nuclear deterrent could play as part of a strengthened European pillar within the alliance. "France is willing to participate in ... |
823492_1 | Anxious Vigils For Chinese Babies | such adoptions. The Forslinds and the Woods found out last Friday that their trip had been pushed back a month. The delay came a week after the report, by Human Rights Watch, was released. "We were scared when we heard about it," Mr. Wood, an elementary school assistant principal, said of the Human Rights Watch report.... |
823710_0 | France Says It Is Willing to Discuss Its Nuclear Role in NATO | France, spelling out details of its plan to return to closer military cooperation with NATO after 30 years at arm's length, said today that it was willing to discuss the role its independent nuclear deterrent could play as part of a strengthened European pillar within the alliance. "France is willing to participate in ... |
823699_1 | Anxious Vigils For Chinese Babies | such adoptions. The Forslinds and the Woods found out last Friday that their trip had been pushed back a month. The delay came a week after the report, by Human Rights Watch, was released. "We were scared when we heard about it," Mr. Wood, an elementary school assistant principal, said of the Human Rights Watch report.... |
823764_2 | Metro Matters;The Old World In the Schools Of New York | million to repair P.S. 101, authorities have told Mr. Castillo. So the fifth floor sits there, crumbling and serving as a police lookout. AT P.S. 109 just a few blocks away, this school has a fifth floor, too. It's a huge gym. Or was. Now it is a mess of rotting walls and water damage so bad that the beams had to be re... |
822078_0 | Shrugging Off the Cold, Shuttle Sets Off on a Satellite Hunt | The space shuttle Endeavour today began an orbital chase of a large Japanese satellite that it is to capture and bring back to Earth as the highlight of an ambitious nine-day mission. The Endeavour and its crew of six astronauts began the hunt before dawn when the shuttle lifted off from Kennedy Space Center at 4:41 A.... |
824165_0 | No Headline | They were very heavily armed, with TNT sticks strapped to their bodies. But when they realized that news of their action had been sent around the world, they decided that they had achieved their goal." UGUR DUNDAR, a Turk, describing the Black Sea hijackers. [1:4.] |
819659_6 | When Pointing and Clicking Fails to Click;More and More Questions, and Employees, at Computer Help Services | tethered to telephone headsets and their personal computers. They make $20,000 to $29,000 a year and generally see the job as a steppingstone rather than a dead end. They view the help desk as a one- to three-year commitment on the way to jobs in marketing, product development or other areas, with higher salaries, stoc... |
819667_0 | Study Finds Estrogen Hormone Helps Postmenopausal Women | A new study provides strong evidence that taking estrogen hormone pills significantly reduces the rate of death from all causes for postmenopausal women and offers even greater protection against heart attacks and strokes. The study found that women who took the pills had a 46 percent reduction in the rate of death fro... |
820312_0 | Add Fertility Contol To Ethiopia Equation | To the Editor: In "Even With Peace and Rain, Ethiopia Fears Famine" (news article, Jan. 3), the consultant Henry Gordon claims that generating growth in the economy will "in itself bring the population of Ethiopia down." Dr. Gordon asserts that economic, rather than demographic, considerations should be foremost in the... |
825150_5 | Japan Trade Surplus Shrinks For the First Time in 5 Years | in a lull, partly because Washington does not want to alienate Tokyo at a time when Japan is growing more edgy about the American military bases on its soil. But part of the lull stems from the fact that exports to Japan have started to grow rapidly. With President Clinton facing an election in November, his Administra... |
825046_0 | International Panel Asks Britain to Ease Terms on I.R.A. at Talks | The international commission for disarmament in Northern Ireland has recommended that Britain drop its demand that the Irish Republican Army begin to disarm before its political arm, Sinn Fein, is allowed to take part in full-fledged peace talks, officials and diplomats said today. The commission, headed by former Sena... |
825147_4 | Newark Airport Is Pressing to Surpass Kennedy | Kennedy had 98.5 percent of all international passengers at the three airports. Now, Newark has 17.5 percent, La Guardia acounts for 5.8 percent and Kennedy's share has fallen to 76.6 percent. The Port Authority, which keeps these statistics, said this balance was likely to remain. "I would say those percentages are no... |
825052_2 | In a Cashless Future, Robots Will Cook | slow that people presumed that the lives of their children and grandchildren would not be very much different from their own. And then came the 20th century, when people went from flying in the first airplane at Kitty Hawk to planting their first footsteps on the moon -- all in the blink of a lifetime. One group of sci... |
823006_2 | When Can Killers Claim Sleepwalking As a Legal Defense? | more dramatic examples of a phenomenon known as sleep-related violence, in which part of the brain wakes up enough to allow the person to perform complex acts while the rest of the brain remains unconscious with sleep. To sleep specialists and increasingly to the law, it is called "noninsane automatism" -- an act done ... |
823122_4 | Dwayne's World;Influence of Archer-Daniels Is Wide as Well as Deep | 1993; he has reimbursed the company for the price of a first-class fare, about a quarter of the actual cost. Mr. Dole has been working to put ethanol in the tanks of American cars ever since he became a senator in 1969, introducing some 50 bills on its behalf. He has always said that his interest lies solely with the c... |
823149_0 | Ivory Tower Eluded Baby-Boom Academics;Yale Helps Students | To the Editor: Debby Applegate and Bruce Tulgan (Op-Ed, Jan. 13) claim that until 1990, when graduate students organized, Yale offered "no teacher training" and "no job-placement services." The English department has offered a graduate seminar, "The Teaching of English," since the mid-1970's. We have offered workshops ... |
823044_2 | Flying With a Swoosh, Hornbills Help Indonesian Rain Forest | at the base with red chevrons, and the number of stripes may signal the bird's age. "According to local lore, a new stripe is acquired each year," Dr. Kinnaird said. Most hornbills nest in tree cavities, and they are noted for the female's habit of sealing the entrance with mud or, in the case of the red knob, excremen... |
821857_1 | I.R.A. Says Impasse on Disarmament Could Endanger the Truce | I.R.A. and Protestant paramilitary groups began its final week of work toward a compromise plan. Britain insists that the I.R.A. must start disarming before Sinn Fein may participate in full-fledged peace negotiations. Sinn Fein calls this an unacceptable condition. At the same time, however, Sinn Fein made public a ne... |
821954_0 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ;U.S. to Withhold Sanctions In Tricontinental Banana Rift | The Clinton Administration will not immediately impose sanctions against Costa Rica and Colombia in a trade dispute involving bananas, officials said today. The United States trade representative, Mickey Kantor, announced that after a year of talks, Costa Rica and Colombia had signed agreements pledging to cooperate in... |
824816_2 | Looking for Exotic Worlds? Nearby Sea Floor Rivals Planets | appear in this month's issue of Geology, a monthly publication of the Geological Society of America, based in Boulder, Colo. The analysis was financed by the Office of Naval Research and the Department of Energy. The imaging work got under way after President Ronald Reagan in 1983 in effect doubled the size of the Unit... |
824840_0 | Hold the Mustaches | To the Editor: Re Maureen Dowd's "Fall of Man" (column, Jan. 21): Imagine if a man wrote a column chuckling in print over women's use of estrogen replacement therapy to ease the discomfort of menopause. What if he chortled about their mustaches and poked fun at change-of-life emotions? I can't imagine your publishing s... |
824939_0 | Mexico Trade Surplus | Mexico racked up a $7.4 billion trade surplus in 1995 compared with a deficit of more than twice that size in 1994, the Finance Ministry said yesterday. It was the country's first trade surplus since 1989. Fueled by a sharp decline in the peso that made Mexican goods cheaper abroad, exports surged 31.2 percent to $78.8... |
824876_2 | Evangelicals Ask Government to Fight Persecution of Christians | our attention," and was "trying to see how we can better respond to legitimate concerns." Much of the persecution cited by Christian leaders arises in the remaining Communist regimes or in nations under militant Islamic governments. China and Vietnam bar religious activity outside government-controlled agencies, a poli... |
826363_0 | France Dismisses Atom-Test Protests | France brushed aside protests today over its nuclear test in the South Pacific on Saturday, the biggest and probably the last in a series it began last year. President Jacques Chirac "did what he said he would," Urban Affairs Minister Jean-Claude Gaudin, the first Cabinet minister to comment on the test, told Europe 1 ... |
821336_0 | Corrections | An article on Dec. 29 about Northern Ireland misstated when the Protestant paramilitaries there declared a cease-fire. It was in October 1994, not October 1995. |
821182_0 | Killings Tied to Drugs Delay Return of Mediators to Ulster | The international commission set up to deal with the disarmament of the Irish Republican Army has delayed its return to Ireland, apparently because of a recent resurgence of violence in Northern Ireland. The new spate of killings, attributed by most officials to the overwhelmingly Catholic I.R.A., has thrown the Northe... |
821316_0 | Killings Tied to Drugs Delay Return of Mediators to Ulster | The international commission set up to deal with the disarmament of the Irish Republican Army has delayed its return to Ireland, apparently because of a recent resurgence of violence in Northern Ireland. The new spate of killings, attributed by most officials to the overwhelmingly Catholic I.R.A., has thrown the Northe... |
821258_0 | Corrections | An article on Dec. 29 about Northern Ireland misstated when the Protestant paramilitaries there declared a cease-fire. It was in October 1994, not October 1995. |
819893_0 | Ego Is the Rationale for France's Nuclear Tests;Why Reward India? | To the Editor: While "India's Nuclear Temptation" (editorial, Dec. 29) correctly argues that a second nuclear test by India will raise tensions in South Asia and damage the cause of nuclear nonproliferation, the remedy advocated -- United States help on Indian security issues, trade and technology transfer -- is surpri... |
819892_0 | Ego Is the Rationale for France's Nuclear Tests | To the Editor: Re France's continuing detonation of nuclear bombs in the South Pacific (news article, Dec. 28): Many impartial voices from scientific communities around the world have said that it is nonsense for President Jacques Chirac to assert that these tests are somehow essential for France's computer simulations... |
826495_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A2-7 SAUDI GADFLY IN BRITAIN Britain has made no pretense about why it wants to expel a leading Saudi opposition figure: his presence imperils its relationship with Saudi Arabia and billions of dollars in weapons sales. A1 United States ships wait in the Persian Gulf, watching Iraq. A6 FRANCE ENDS NUCLEAR... |
826518_3 | France Ending Nuclear Tests That Caused Broad Protests | from his office in Elysee Palace. "I know that nuclear tests can inspire fear." But, he continued, nuclear weapons served peace by deterring aggression, and the French deterrent is now assured for decades into the future. It was to gather data necessary for simulation, authoritative French officials said, that the last... |
881742_0 | A Shaky Peace in Northern Ireland | By now, the Northern Ireland peace talks were supposed to be addressing the political issues at the core of the conflict. Instead, they are going nowhere, haunted by the Irish Republican Army's reckless decision to resume deadly bombing attacks in Britain and all but paralyzed by a Protestant Unionist demand to revise ... |
881584_2 | In Decaying Rubber Mountains, Old Tires Haunt the State | when the piles are ignited, the smoky fires can burn for days or longer, polluting the air. ''It's a disaster waiting to happen,'' said Mr. Blumenthal There have been at least 176 fires at tire dumps since 1974, according to the Federal Environmental Protection Agency. In Winchester, Va., in the early 1980's, an inacce... |
881776_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International 3-16 SAVING CHINESE ANTIQUITIES Two years after the start of construction on the world's largest dam in China, a rescue effort for some of the country's best-known cultural antiquities has yet to begin. 12 JAPAN'S LOW BIRTH RATE Japan's tumbling birth rate, which hit a new low last year, is causing concer... |
881755_0 | An Appeal to Save China's Past | Two years after the start of construction on the world's largest dam in China's scenic Three Gorges area, the extensive rescue effort that had been envisioned to save some of the country's best-known cultural antiquities has yet to begin. Instead, it is mired in a rancorous dispute pitting hundreds of historians and ot... |
881689_5 | Taking a Hard Line Amid the Wreckage | leaving Frankfurt, and then transferred onto the ill-fated 747 that left from London. In 1991, the Justice Department indicted two Libyans in connection with the bombing, though they remain free. Mr. Aviv, however, had his own theory. He asserted that United States intelligence agents, as part of a broader sting operat... |
881765_0 | Dam's Inexorable Future Spells Doom for Yangtze Valley's Rich Past | Two years after the start of construction on the world's largest dam in the scenic Three Gorges area of central China, the extensive rescue effort envisioned to save some of the country's best-known cultural antiquities has yet to begin. It has become mired in a rancorous dispute pitting hundreds of historians, archeol... |
885779_2 | Public Pays for the Learning-Disabled to Attend Private Schools | at you when you have one of those handicapped stickers on your car. Like I couldn't wait to have a handicapped child so I could get one of those stickers. It's only the money that the Board of Ed is worried about, not the way they educate your child.'' Education experts said that these cases are a new and troubling ref... |
885927_3 | Going Ape | and these authors sensibly dismiss the simple biology-culture division. Thus, the high homicide rate in American, as compared to European, cities, has an obvious nonbiological cause -- guns. But homicide rates in different societies have a rather constant sex ratio (men kill at about 20 times the rate that women do) an... |
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