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35760_1 | LENGTHY TALKS PRECEDED U.S. - JAPAN RATE MOVES | it ''falls somewhere between uncoordinated and coordinated.'' The overall aim, shared by the Reagan Administration, was to resolve an impasse over the huge American-Japanese trade imbalance, but the main impact may be not on trade but on currency values. The lower Japanese interest rates are intended to stimulate Japan... |
37648_3 | FOR ALABAMIAN, L.I.'S GARBAGE IS DREAM GONE BAD | need to do,'' he said. Mr. Harrelson - the son of Alabama farmers - acknowledged that his plight is partly attributable to naivite. He trusted those he should not have, he said, and placed his faith in those who later turned on him. ''I shudder at the thought of how some elected officials and appointed bureaucrats have... |
37496_0 | PERSONAL HEALTH | LEAD: SINCE cancer has changed from a topic nobody talked about to one that everyone talks about, many people have the impression that cancer rates are rising rapidly and that we live in a sea of carcinogens. Hardly a week goes by without a report that the foods we eat, the beverages we drink or the air we breathe cont... |
37572_1 | World Bank Offers Environmental Projects | promising advances in resource management,'' Mr. Conable said in his speech to the World Resources Institute, a research and policy group based in Washington. These are among other new environmental initiatives for the bank: * An ''urgent country-by-country assessment of the most severely threatened environments'' in 3... |
44066_2 | Require Airline Truth in Scheduling | the satellite airport in White Plains, N.Y., tends to arrive on time. It would not cost the airlines any more money to provide correct information. They already generate accurate delay tables for internal use. Moreover, travel departments at large corporations have access to this information, published in a guide sold ... |
44182_0 | The Constitution Is Still a Plan for All Seasons | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: I feel compelled to answer some of the points that Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall raised in criticism of the Constitution's bicentennial celebrations (front page, May 7). Justice Marshall complains about ''those who debated and compromised in Philadelphia.'' As a grade school st... |
44113_0 | DEVELOPER SAYS CHINESE AGREE ON THEME PARK | LEAD: A New York developer said today that he had signed a $17 million contract in Beijing last week to build a Chinese theme park 60 miles north of New York City. A New York developer said today that he had signed a $17 million contract in Beijing last week to build a Chinese theme park 60 miles north of New York City... |
43723_0 | Books of The Times; A Sailor's Journal | LEAD: RACING THROUGH PARADISE: A Pacific Passage. By William F. Buckley Jr. Photographs by Christopher Little. 344 pages. Random House. $25. RACING THROUGH PARADISE: A Pacific Passage. By William F. Buckley Jr. Photographs by Christopher Little. 344 pages. Random House. $25. One approaches ''Racing Through Paradise: A ... |
43816_1 | DETROIT'S STEAMERS: NOSTALGIA ON DECK | Columbia and the Ste. Claire are the largest passenger steamships in the world, officials here say. Each is more than 200 feet long and 60 feet wide, weighs more than 900 tons and can carry 2,500 passengers. This weekend balloons swayed from the deck and bands played golden oldies in a spectacle that gave Detroiters a ... |
40947_4 | RESTORATION IS CALLED KEY TO PROTECTING LAND | of business operations for Sleepy Hollow, is controversial, but he added, ''in the real economic future, absolutely necessary.'' The expansion plan for Sleepy Hollow Restorations is one of the many consequences of a study of the cultural and historic institutions in the Hudson River Valley and of ways to protect them. ... |
41289_0 | Developers Confront The Past | LEAD: ON the wide-open spaces of Albuquerque's west side of the Rio Grande, developers are facing a challenge from the past: Public awareness of the city's rich archeology is raising preservation issue sthat could interfere with growth. ON the wide-open spaces of Albuquerque's west side of the Rio Grande, developers ar... |
41240_3 | When to Test for AIDS | proportion of known syphilis cases are detected this way. New York recently dropped the syphilis test because the results were not worth the cost, and because of suspicion that some couples nowadays have sex before marriage. The same logic applies to AIDS, but there's another, far more cogent reason. Lesson Five: False... |
41237_2 | INDY TRIALS: A FRIGHTENING TURN | apparently stem from the unhappy marriage between the Marches and the new radials. Kevin Cogan, who finished second to Bobby Rahal last year by less than one and a half seconds, became the first victim of this phenomenon - if, in fact, it is the fault of the tire or machine. Cogan took his '87 March into a turn and the... |
41026_0 | SHOULD WE CARE WHO WROTE IT? | LEAD: DOES IT MATTER THAT STRAVINSKY WAS A Russian? If that question strikes you as too obvious to deserve serious consideration, you probably haven't kept up with the hot debate being waged in scholarly circles over two seemingly irreconcilable methods of appraising music. The argument originally was joined over the n... |
40921_2 | IN MYSTIC'S TROVE, TALES OF 19th-CENTURY LIFE AT SEA | ''There ain't nothing worse than losing a mate,'' he told his audience in Lebanon. ''That bunk don't ever fill up again.'' In Mystic, Mr. Gordinier included tales about life aboard packet ships, regularly scheduled vessels. Playing Gardner, he noted that the crews of the ships were often toughhard-drinking Irishmen cal... |
41044_2 | IN PARIS, A FACE LIFT IN GRAND STYLE | recently completed Musee d'Orsay, the new museum housing the Louvre's 19th-century collections within the restored Gare d'Orsay. * La Villette, a complex at the northeastern edge of the city that includes a vast science museum and an exhibition hall, both finished. It also has an extraordinary park, now half completed,... |
41094_10 | IS WALL STREET READY FOR BAD TIMES? | of dollars of their precious capital on the line. ''These firms are beginning to realize that they do not have the abilityto manage their size,'' said Perrin Long, an analyst with Lipper Analytical Securities. ''It's not just more employees to manage, but a much greater diversity of products. All of their systems for m... |
36977_0 | The Editorial Notebook; The Near-Nuclear Club | LEAD: For decades, the effort to contain the spread of nuclear weapons has depended on several assumptions. There were five nuclear-weapons nations, the rest were nonnuclear-weapons nations, and the best way to maintain that status was to control nuclear technologies and materials. But in the meantime, other countries ... |
36982_0 | TOMATO GROWERS HURT BY SUCCESS | LEAD: The tomato growers of California's Central Valley say they did everything right to increase productivity, improve quality and cut costs, expecting, with Yankee self-confidence, ''to feed the world.'' Now, in a microcosm of the problems facing much of American agriculture, many of the growers are worrying about fe... |
38528_2 | SATURDAY NEWS QUIZ | in the Bavarian city of Augsburg, a center of Reformation history, Pope John Paul II made an unusual ecumenical statement. What did he say? 6. With the withrawal of Gary Hart from the Democratic Presidential contest, only one active contender in the race enjoys the support of 10 percent of Democrats, according to the l... |
38554_0 | How Right-to-Lifers Promote Abortion | LEAD: In July 1986 the world's population, which didn't top a billion until 1850, passed the five billion mark. The Population Institute, a public-interest group that seeks a better balance between population and world resources, warns that the five billion may be ten billion by 2028. All the more reason to lament the ... |
36628_0 | COLLAPSE INQUIRY YIELDS FEW ANSWERS | LEAD: After a week of preliminary investigations into the collapse of the L'Ambiance Plaza apartment complex here, engineers and investigators have reported little progress in determining what caused the building to fail, killing 28 people. After a week of preliminary investigations into the collapse of the L'Ambiance ... |
36477_2 | LIFE STYLES OF THE RICH AND PAGAN | evaluation of these things by philosophical and religious minds. On the whole, the intellectuals are not thought to cut a lot of ice and, especially in Mr. Veyne's pages, they come on stage in a faintly comic role, sometimes as if they were lecherous professors of high moral principles and low achievement. The high-min... |
36655_2 | SOVIET MONITORING OF PHONES IS CITED | Embassy, like the Czechoslovak Embassy, is on a hill known as Mount Pleasant overlooking the White House. Moreover, the two diplomatic missions are between the White House and a microwave relay point in northwest Washington near Tenley Circle. The Russians use diplomatic compounds elsewhere in the United States to coll... |
36710_1 | EVERYBODY IS EDGY AS GOETZ TRIAL OPENS | set the tone for the prosecution with a broadside that questioned Mr. Goetz's values, emotions and mental state on the day of the shootings. From the lead defense lawyer, Barry I. Slotnick, came an equally impassioned attack on the youths Mr. Goetz shot, whom Mr. Slotnick repeatedly referred to as ''savages''and ''vici... |
36635_2 | IN CENTRAL PARK, A TERRACE IS SAVED FROM DECAY | terrace its name. The angel, wings aloft and striding purposefully forward, was seen to represent, in 1873, the advent of a pure water supply to the city. 'Advanced State of Decay' When restoration first began, the terrace was in an ''advanced state of decay,'' E. Timothy Marshall, Central Park's chief of construction,... |
36355_3 | EATING THE COMPETITION FOR LUNCH | eye each other warily to see who actually eats the grim pickings. A simple business lunch will come to resemble a Fischer-Spassky chess match. Chief executives will no longer woo securities analysts with new product mumbo-jumbo, stock buybacks or tall tales about the future. In this nutritionally correct new world, ana... |
45104_2 | For St. Kitts-Nevis, It Pays to Be Independent | is building a road that will open up the best beaches on St. Kitts to tourism. The country has been slowly attracting small, light manufacturing plants where workers assemble such things as clothing and electronic equipment. There are now 25 such plants. Hopes are highest for tourism. The Government has dredged the mou... |
45239_7 | LOOKING BACK ON THE THAMES | notorious pirates executed there was Capt. William Kidd, who was hanged in 1701, cursing his mistress whom he recognized in the throng. The launch cruises by other famous riverside pubs still open to the public. These include the white frame Prospect of Whitby, said to be the oldest pub in London, once a hangout for pr... |
44968_4 | Commercial Property: Storing Worlds of Paper; New York Area Concerns Feed Giant File Cabinets | protect permanent records prompts some companies to go to great depths. Near Hudson, N.Y., 50 to 350 feet underground, the Iron Mountain Group maintains a maze of document-storage vaults in a former iron-ore mine. Thirty miles south, near Kingston, N.Y., the company has a 15-building storage facility within a vast lime... |
45142_0 | Sophisticated Sailer | LEAD: The time has come, in the wink of a computer screen, to redefine the romance of sail. For centuries, sailing meant following unpredictable winds to little-known places. In his 1926 book, ''The Romance of Navigation,'' Master Mariner W. B. Whall relived an era ''when the seaman from stormy Europe could find fairyl... |
44948_0 | TRADING IDEAS: PROGRAM PROMOTES SELF-SUFFICIENCY | LEAD: FOR decades, many third-world countries have been suspicious of Western offers to help curb their exploding populations. Family-planning programs sponsored by government agencies and private foundations have often been seen less as altruistic enterprises than as attempts by the industrial nations to preserve thei... |
45154_0 | Sailor Is Challenging Coast Guard Over Boardings | LEAD: A Great Lakes sailor is challenging the United States Coast Guard's right to board vessels without warrants or the suspicion of illegal activity on board. A Great Lakes sailor is challenging the United States Coast Guard's right to board vessels without warrants or the suspicion of illegal activity on board. On M... |
39182_6 | IN PRAISE OF ALIENATION | that mind, in the societies and organizations that reject its ''objective'' systems. The latent risk of liberalism, then, is that its belief in reason may turn into mere positivism or historical materialism, and that its compassion may turn into doctrinaire puritanism. The attraction of Stalinism for intellectuals was ... |
38984_1 | A Slow Modernization of India's Ancient Cart | still one of the biggest transporters of goods and people. It was described as the ''ideal solution for rural transport'' by one official, M.P. Dhir, the director of the Central Road Research Institute, where workmen and engineers have fabricated 60 model carts incorporating the mechanical changes necessary to make a b... |
38950_0 | Germans Stand Up Not to Be Counted | LEAD: In the eyes of the authorities, the 30 young people gathered in the smoky back room of a bar called the South Railroad Station were plotting against the state. In the eyes of the authorities, the 30 young people gathered in the smoky back room of a bar called the South Railroad Station were plotting against the s... |
38817_4 | Where There's a World There's a Way | nature's patterns that future generations will be unable to enjoy what I have had? Yet if I abstained, as best I could, from contributing to the gaseous wastes what effect would it have? What could a single person do? I had to do something. I searched and found a few others who also felt the way I do. Last January six ... |
42681_0 | Corrections | LEAD: An article yesterday about the boy who was killed by polar bears at the Prospect Park Zoo in Brooklyn included an incorrect word in a quotation from Parks Commissioner Henry Stern. He said: ''People see bears as honey-eating, tender loving creatures. But polar bears are carnivorous animals and highly protective o... |
44406_0 | SATELLITE IMAGES MAY SPUR CONFLICT | LEAD: A Congressional study released yesterday predicts a rising conflict between the Federal Government and journalists seeking to use high-resolution pictures taken by satellites to report on military movements, nuclear missile installations and disasters. A Congressional study released yesterday predicts a rising co... |
44416_0 | THE SMELTERS' PRICE: A JUNGLE REDUCED TO ASHES | LEAD: The Amazon rain forest, already under siege from roads and dams, mines and cattle, is now about to lose a part of its timber as fuel for industry. The Amazon rain forest, already under siege from roads and dams, mines and cattle, is now about to lose a part of its timber as fuel for industry. As Brazil continues ... |
43904_2 | Careers; A Variety Of Jobs In Credit | more than one membership. George N. Christie, executive vice president of the Credit Research Foundation, said the number of credit managers and their assistants runs into the ''tens of thousands.'' Is education after college necessary for credit personnel? Mr. Christie thinks it is. In an interview last week, he said:... |
43873_0 | REFINEMENTS FOR 'E-MAIL' | LEAD: PERSONAL computers are bringing about a subtle change in the way we exchange information. PERSONAL computers are bringing about a subtle change in the way we exchange information. The written word and telecommunications are converging in electronic mail. Although ''e-mail,'' as it is called, has not spread as rap... |
40186_1 | 4 WIN GENERAL MOTORS CANCER RESEARCH PRIZES | have made important contributions to the understanding, treatment and prevention of cancer were named winners of the three 1987 General Motors Cancer Research Foundation prizes yesterday. The winners were Dr. R. Palmer Beasley of the University of California at San Francisco and the University of Washington's medical r... |
40307_0 | NEWS SUMMARY: THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1987 | LEAD: International A3-15 International A3-15 The President was frequently told by Robert C. McFarlane, the former national security adviser, of what his staff was doing to help the rebel forces in Nicaragua, Mr. McFarlane told investigators. A1 News analysis: The President knew more about aid to the contras than he or... |
37945_0 | Bear Kills Girl in Yugoslavia | LEAD: A bear killed a 5-year-old girl who tried to protect her grandmother, the daily Vecernje Novosti reported today. The 480-pound bear was killed and was being examined for possible rabies after the attack last Friday, according to the report. The bear attacked Nevenka Malic and her granddaughter Vanja as they were ... |
38010_0 | Government Report Understates Gains on Cancer; Outdated Statistics | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: The unfavorable publicity from the General Accounting Office on lack of effect of Federal cancer research programs on mortality statistics up to 1982 is outdated and misleading. For breast cancer, which takes a toll of 40,000 lives a year, the data reflect treatments initiated in the... |
37891_1 | MODERATE DRINKING MAY INCREASE RISK OF CANCER IN BREAST | of the eating and drinking habits of more than 89,000 women. An American woman faces a 10 percent chance of developing cancer at some time in her life; a 50 percent increase in that risk would mean her chances of developing the disease were 15 percent. The other study, by the National Cancer Institute, concluded that w... |
41741_2 | AFRICAN POPULATION STILL SURGING, STUDY SAYS | force an increasing proportion of the world's residents into poverty over the next 100 years. Growth rates for most regions except Africa have come down since the mid-1960's, in some cases more than was expected, the report states. But population in the world's poorer countries is rising by an estimated 1.94 percent ye... |
41917_2 | NEITHER LIQUID NOR GAS, ODD SUBSTANCES FIND USES | 500 times the pressure of air in an automobile tire. The test chamber, Dr. Kiran said in an interview, is fitted with windows made of half-inch-thick blocks of colorless synthetic sapphire, one of the hardest materials known. 'A Wonderful Thing to Watch' Using the pressure cell, Dr. Kiran's group has experimented with ... |
41715_0 | Massachusetts Faulted On Its Law on Disabled | LEAD: The percentage of disabled students who are segregated from the general school population has gone up despite a 13-year-old state law requiring them to be in regular classrooms when possible, according to a study released today. The percentage of disabled students who are segregated from the general school popula... |
39915_3 | U.S. LAWS OFFER LESS PROTECTION THAN THOSE OF MAJOR TRADING PARTNERS | the Sumitomo infringement because it was able to sell all that its plants could produce. Yet in Japan, Britain, West Germany and other industrialized countries, the sale of products made abroad by infringing on patents is impermissible. 'Major Segments' Affected ''The impact of intellectual property abuses is being fel... |
40000_0 | Nation Is Demeaned by Press Prying on Hart | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: I am appalled at the cynical and willful hypocrisy of the journalists who went after Gary Hart on the ''womanizing'' issue. I doubt that this is a simple case of reporters out for a hot story. We are becoming inured to seeing any viable Democratic candidate for President savaged in t... |
42469_2 | Some New Caledonians Fear Clash Over Vote | hurtle past Melanesians waiting at bus stops. ''There is too much injustice,'' Jean-Marie Tjibaou, a priest and a leader in the independence movement, said in an interview in his office in the northeastern town of Hienghene. ''We can't let foreigners always keep power in our country.'' Boycott of Vote Seen Mr. Tjibaou,... |
42513_2 | BOY ENTERED BEARS' AREA ON A DARE | He said that there had been about 14 reported illegal entries into the zoo since 1984 and that employees regularly have to chase youths attempting to scale the fence after closing. ''It's closed off at 5, but sometimes kids do walk through it after hours,'' Mr. Stern said. ''But it's never led to a tragedy. People tend... |
42502_0 | CANCERS NEAR A REACTOR: A MYSTERY AND A DEBATE By MATTHEW L. WALD | LEAD: Men living in a coastal strip that extends 20 miles north from a nuclear reactor in Plymouth are developing some forms of cancer more than 50 percent more frequently than the statewide rate, according to a study endorsed by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Men living in a coastal strip that extends ... |
42565_3 | CIVIL LIBERTY FOR CUBANS: TWO VERSIONS | Watch, a New York human-rights group, says that although it has no firm statistics, it believes that Cuba under Mr. Castro has held larger numbers of people for political crimes compared to population for longer periods than any other country in the world. The group says only South Africa, Indonesia and possibly China ... |
42422_1 | GENE FOR RARE DISEASE TIED TO BREAST CANCER | suggested that ''7.5 percent of all breast cancer could be attributable to the action of this gene.'' His research, which was conducted at the University of North Carolina, was to be published in the May 21 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. ''Breast cancer shows a great degree of running in families,'' said... |
10516_1 | U.S. BARS NUCLEAR FREE ZONE FOR GROUP OF PACIFIC NATIONS | said today. The United States has decided to reject a request from South Pacific nations to accept conditions designed to help make the region a nuclear-free zone, diplomats and Government officials said today. The Reagan Administration has been deliberating over whether to agree to a set of diplomatic protocols reques... |
10392_1 | WHEN PLANES SIT AT GATE, IT'S FLOW CONTROL'S PLAN | crowded terminals or stuffy airplanes. And many of those more routine delays are imposed by Central Flow Control in an effort to smooth out an overloaded system. The office keeps airliners on the ground so that fewer will be stuck circling above the airports where they are supposed to land. This is safer and it saves f... |
13929_0 | RISE IN RETARTED CHILDREN PREDICTED FROM CHERNOBYL | LEAD: Up to 13 of the 300 Soviet children born since the reactor accident at Chernobyl to women who lived nearby are expected to suffer mental retardation because of exposure to hazardous levels of radiation, an American physician who recently returned from the contaminated area said here today. But none of the childre... |
13965_0 | SEMINARY CONSIDERING CONDO PROJECT | LEAD: Amid questions about its Christian mission and its role in the neighborhood, Union Theological Seminary is cautiously exploring whether to raise money by allowing a developer to build a luxury condominium tower on its Collegiate Gothic campus just north of Columbia University. Amid questions about its Christian m... |
13851_0 | WOMEN IN THE CLERGY: STRUGGLE TO SUCCEED | LEAD: Mimi Williams, 32 years old, always longed to be ordained into the clergy. But because she was a Roman Catholic and the Catholic Church still refuses to ordain women, ''I knew there was no hope,'' she said. Mimi Williams, 32 years old, always longed to be ordained into the clergy. But because she was a Roman Cath... |
13935_0 | OFFICIALS SEEK MARKETS FOR RECYCLED GARBAGE | LEAD: Northeastern state officials want to create stronger markets for recycled products in an effort to deal with the growing problem of garbage disposal. Northeastern state officials want to create stronger markets for recycled products in an effort to deal with the growing problem of garbage disposal. At a meeting i... |
16144_5 | TERROR'S CHILDREN: MENDING MENTAL WOUNDS | after they were resettled in New England. ''They had done a lot of killing when they were as young as 8 years old and continued to assassinate people until they were around 14,'' he said. ''They were psychologically intact as long as they stayed with the Khmer Rouge. But when they finally came to a refugee camp filled ... |
16007_1 | MEXICO NON-OIL EXPORTS JUMP | had been forced to rely exclusively on a national market, which has contracted drastically, I don't know what would have become of us.'' Non-Oil Exports Up 33.8% All over Mexico, business executives who have traditionally looked to Mexico's protected domestic market for their profits have apparently come to the same co... |
16062_1 | NEWS SUMMARY: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1987 | France's Interior Ministry. The seizing of four members of Direct Action, the country's main underground group, represents a major blow against European terrorism. A1 A trial of another accused terrorist will begin in Paris after two and a half years of seeming hesitation by the Government. Georges Ibrahim Abdallah's i... |
12418_0 | GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM PROPOSING SCALED-DOWN DESIGN FOR ADDITION | LEAD: Officials of the Guggenheim Museum, conceding that an earlier plan to add a cantilevered tower to the museum's celebrated Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building on Fifth Avenue had won little support while incurring the resentment of community groups and preservationists, presented a new, scaled-down design yesterd... |
12179_3 | MEXICO: WORLD'S BACK DOOR TO U.S. | illegal immigrants on the border between the United States and Mexico last year. But the rapid growth and increasing diversity of the ''other than Mexico'' group is an indication that smugglers and illegal immigrants worldwide continue to regard the 1,952-mile border as more easily penetrable than more traditional rout... |
12342_2 | PERSONAL HEALTH | for some, triggering the formation of kidney stones and possibly interfering with iron absorption. Excess calcium is also sometimes deposited in soft tissues throughout the body, which on an X-ray can be confused with cancer. As for calcium supplements themselves, they sometimes cause constipation, and they may stimula... |
12225_0 | CALGENE INC reports earnings for Qtr to Dec 31 | LEAD: *3*** COMPANY REPORTS ** *3*CALGENE INC (OTC) Qtr to Dec 31 1986 1985 Revenue 3,901,000 1,107,000 Net loss 24,000 196,000 The company said it acquired Agro Ingredients in May 1986. *3*** COMPANY REPORTS ** *3*CALGENE INC (OTC) Qtr to Dec 31 1986 1985 Revenue 3,901,000 1,107,000 Net loss 24,000 196,000 The company... |
9508_0 | 20TH-CENTURY GALLEY SLAVE | LEAD: IN the America's Cup, the men on the 12-Meters do essentially what men on sailboats have done for centuries. At the wheel, the skipper peers through the salt spray on his bronzed face. Nearby, his tactician and his navigator observe the wind. Other members of the crew handle the sails. And on the deck are the gri... |
9608_0 | FILIPINOS VOTE PEACEFULLY ON CONSTITUTION | LEAD: Filipinos voted today on a new constitution that was seen as a test of strength for President Corazon C. Aquino. Officials said the turnout was heavy in what appeared to be the most peaceful nationwide vote in years. Filipinos voted today on a new constitution that was seen as a test of strength for President Cor... |
9479_0 | THE U.N. TODAY: Feb. 2, 1987 | LEAD: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL Population Commission - 10:30 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL Population Commission - 10:30 A.M. and 3 P.M. |
11247_0 | The Eternal Race For Tourist Cash | LEAD: EVERY year the pursuit of tourist dollars leads to imaginative planning in communities across America. EVERY year the pursuit of tourist dollars leads to imaginative planning in communities across America. A sampling last year turned up a plan in Fall River, Mass., for a museum that would re-create the city's not... |
11324_0 | ISRAEL'S NAVY SEIZES A BOAT OFF LEBANON AND 50 PALESTINIANS | LEAD: The Israeli Navy today reported seizing a cargo boat with 50 Palestinians described as guerrillas trying to sail to Lebanon. The Israeli Navy today reported seizing a cargo boat with 50 Palestinians described as guerrillas trying to sail to Lebanon. The boat, intercepted outside the Lebanese port of Khalde, was t... |
11442_0 | GROWTH OF CITIES CONCERNS EXPERTS | LEAD: Scores of urban areas in underdeveloped countries are growing at an explosive rate that may create severe economic and social strains, according to experts gathered at the United Nations this week for a population conference. Scores of urban areas in underdeveloped countries are growing at an explosive rate that ... |
11226_9 | CASTRO RECOILS AT A HINT OF WEALTH | of Cubans who fled into exile. All the homes were assigned to families who paid a monthly rent of 10 percent of one worker's salary. Under the new ownership rules, a family could either purchase a home outright or continue to pay rent, with current and past rent credited toward the purchase price. If a family moved, it... |
10840_3 | NEWS SUMMARY: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1987 | A10 A dispute on appliance standards prompted Senate Democrats to assail Republicans. At issue is a bill that would set national energy-efficiency rules for major household items and pre-empt state standards. A13 Carl R. Rogers, a psychologist, died at the age of 85. Dr. Rogers, an influential author and a founder of h... |
10818_1 | 438 PROTESTERS ARE ARRESTED AT NEVADA NUCLEAR TEST SITE | the desert test site 65 miles north of Las Vegas was organized by a consortium of groups that included Greenpeace, the American Peace Test, Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Peace Committee of the American Public Health Association. Test Moved Up Two Days The demonstration was initially called to protest the... |
10712_1 | ART: 'OUT OF THE STUDIO,' COMMUNITY SETTINGS | the show is not being presented as better than or more ''authentic'' than studio art. The aim of the exhibition is to call attention to work made by artists who, according to Mr. Finkelpearl, ''have dedicated their lives to their community activities.'' What distinguishes the ''art in this show'' from ''simple communit... |
10769_0 | A SEX BARRIER FOR CANTORS IS BROKEN | LEAD: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America announced yesterday that it would for the first time certify women as cantors to lead services in Conservative congregations around the world. The Jewish Theological Seminary of America announced yesterday that it would for the first time certify women as cantors to lead... |
13384_2 | WATCHING THEM WATCHING US WATCHING THEM | ''has ever lied for purposes of expediency or because it worked for the opposition, had a lapse of memory, or became confused.'' As described by Mr. Burrows, the routine activities of manned and unmanned systems deployed in space, the upper atmosphere, at sea and on earth seem more remarkable than exploits of human spi... |
13716_0 | Bulgaria Accused of Persecuting Ethnic Turks | LEAD: More than 1,000 people have been killed and 40,000 imprisoned during a campaign of ''forced Bulgarianization'' of ethnic Turks in Bulgaria, a former member of the Bulgarian Parliament said last week. More than 1,000 people have been killed and 40,000 imprisoned during a campaign of ''forced Bulgarianization'' of ... |
13701_8 | BACARDI'S GLASS IS HALF EMPTY | perceived. Therefore I think we are in a much better position to weather the knocks the industry is taking at the moment.'' But the lack of product diversification - Bacardi's only non-rum drinks are lines of French wines - has intensified the company's search for new ways to entice Americans to buy more rum. In partic... |
13675_7 | THE RHINE STRUGGLES TO SURVIVE | about 1970; it has gradually been improving since then. In recent years, governments along the Rhine passed legislation mandating construction of water treatment plants for cities and industry. Germany strictly regulates construction of new factories along the Rhine and bars large companies already operating there from... |
13808_2 | MAN SAID TO TAX EARTH'S SYSTEMS | the next generation,'' the report said, adding, ''By many measures, contemporary society fails to meet this criterion.'' Damage From Fossil Fuels The report noted that much of the world's economic growth over the last century has been based on the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil. But that activity, it asse... |
13597_1 | DEALING WITH THE LAWS OF THE LAND | standards. When the outcome seems unduly harsh, I find that my guilt over the thief's fate is worse than the unpleasantness of being robbed. That became clear a few years ago when a friend and I were traveling through Pakistan. Tom and I took a local bus from Lahore to the border with India and, like everyone else, we ... |
17071_12 | Excerpts From the Tower Commission's News Conference | Mr. McFarlane and later to Admiral Poindexter about his involvement in resupplying the Contras. Do you conclude from that that was the policy of this Government, in contradiction of the Boland Amendment, and that others in the N.S.C., including Shultz, Weinberger, the President, the Vice President, were aware of it? TO... |
17092_2 | THE WHITE HOUSE CRISIS: The Discovery; How the Tower Inquiry Stumbled on Aid Effort | today outlining their conclusions in a news conference in the Old Executive Office Building. It was in this building, just across the street from the White House, that Colonel North worked until he was dismissed in November. After praising one another and their staff, the panel members turned to the task of assessing t... |
17253_1 | U.S.-Cuba Cold Front | not an old man. Still, he added, "We are so close to each other, we have to find some way to live side by side." At this point, however, neither side is willing to take the slightest step toward easing tensions. These were increased by stages after the U.S. put Radio Marti on the air, a Radio Free Europe-type station a... |
17069_2 | WESTIN, ABC NEWS OFFICIAL, SAID TO BE DISMISSED | document, ''then this manifesto seems like a gauntlet of some sort, a personal bid for power.'' However, Mr. Westin said in an interview on Wednesday that he had not meant for his report to be seen that way. ''I don't regard it as a criticism of Roone Arledge at all,'' he said. ''There are probably two or three or four... |
17235_1 | Naples Journal; From Earthquake and Decay, a New Flowering? | the historic center. All of this is making Naples easily Europe's largest construction site. "There has been an awakening, a flowering in the wake of the earthquake," said Mr. D'Angelo, a veteran of the city's struggle against decline. "There were two elements: first, the need to act quickly and to develop flexible adm... |
17046_2 | TEMPORARY LOAN FOR ARGENTINA | indicate how much the United States was contributing to the Argentine loan or which other countries were participating. The Treasury spokesman, Robert D. Levine, said negotiations with other countries are continuing. The Treasury contribution may amount to as much as half of the loan. The money comes from the Exchange ... |
17233_0 | Anglicans Favor Female Priests | LEAD: The Church of England today approved the drafting of legislation that would admit women to its all-male priesthood. The Church of England today approved the drafting of legislation that would admit women to its all-male priesthood. The church's General Synod voted 317 to 145 to approve a report by 44 bishops that... |
17072_3 | THE WHITE HOUSE CRISIS: The Contras INQUIRY FINDS REAGAN AND CHIEF ADVISERS RESPONSIBLE FOR 'CHAOS' IN IRAN ARMS DEALS White House Cast Wide Net In Seeking Aid for Contras; A Web of Maneuvers | provided to the contras in 1984 and 1985 from the ''personal funds'' of a foreign official. The report based that finding on testimony by Mr. McFarlane and two other officials. A source familiar with the testimony said the money was from the royal family of Saudi Arabia. * The report cited a letter dated April 18, 1985... |
14903_2 | Wall Street and Our Business Students | reaping $12.6 million in insider trading profits, followed in November by arbitrager Ivan Boesky's $100 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for trading on information provided by Mr. Levine, has dismayed business students. Given Mr. Boesky's agreement to cooperate with Federal prosecutors - h... |
14957_2 | SPECIAL TOYS FOR SPECIAL PLAY | children and their families. A few are mobile. Every weekday morning two vans roll away from the David G. Osterer Cerebral Palsy Center in Rye Brook, N.Y., carrying most of the center's 1,400-piece library. Driven by the center's two librarians, they traverse five New York counties, all New York City boroughs and parts... |
15072_0 | Advanced Genetic | LEAD: Advanced Genetic Sciences Inc., a biotechnology company based in Oakland, Calif., said that it had received preliminary approval from the California Department of Food and Agriculture to conduct field experiments on Frostban, genetically altered bacteria that protect fruit and nut crops from frost damage. Advance... |
12539_1 | Community Colleges Open Door to Education | than if he begins at a four-year, public university. This year, when the Department of Education releases its 13-year update of the national longitudinal study of the class of 1972, we will have the first, major long-term view of postsecondary participation by that age group. ''High School and Beyond'' clearly shows th... |
12661_0 | Anti-Frost Bacteria Test | LEAD: Advanced Genetic Sciences Inc., a biotechnology company in Oakland, Calif., has received final approval from the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a field test on its genetically altered bacteria that is intended to protect plants from frost damage. The bacteria, called Ice- Advanced Genetic Sciences Inc... |
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