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MORE AID TO AFRICA IS URGED
LEAD: Many African countries will need dramatic increases in foreign aid to continue what development experts are calling historic economic reforms, according to State Department, World Bank and United Nations officials. Many African countries will need dramatic increases in foreign aid to continue what development exp...
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CHINA'S BIRTH RATE ON RISE AGAIN AS OFFICIAL SANCTIONS ARE IGNORED
showing a leap in the birth rate are taken very seriously. That has led to heightened concern among some diplomats and foreign experts about how China might respond. ''The key question is: Does this mean there will be another crackdown?'' said Aprodicio A. Laquian, a Filipino who works with the United Nations Fund for ...
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BOOKS OF THE TIMES
LEAD: THE SECRET MUSEUM. Pornography in Modern Culture. By Walter Kendrick. 288 pages. Viking. $18.95. THE SECRET MUSEUM. Pornography in Modern Culture. By Walter Kendrick. 288 pages. Viking. $18.95. THE Greeks had a word for it - or did they? According to a contemporary American dictionary cited by Walter Kendrick in ...
32142_1
THE SEARCH FOR PLANET SYSTEMS ACCELERATES AMID NEW CLUES
the theory goes, among the hundreds of billions of stars in our Milky Way galaxy alone there are probably some other planets that might be able to support life. Theory and observations began to converge with the unexpected findings of an orbiting spacecraft in 1983. The spacecraft's infrared telescope happened to detec...
32177_0
OCEAN SEDIMENTS TELL TALE OF GREEN ANTARCTICA
LEAD: THANKS to a companion ship that lassoed giant icebergs and towed them out of the way, a research vessel has drilled through the sea floor off Antarctica and extracted detailed samples recording the continent's complex, even verdant, past. THANKS to a companion ship that lassoed giant icebergs and towed them out o...
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Job Outlook Is Termed Good for Graduates
LEAD: The job outlook for college graduates is good despite the recent stock market collapse, according to a recruiting survey by Michigan State University. The job outlook for college graduates is good despite the recent stock market collapse, according to a recruiting survey by Michigan State University. Employers qu...
98073_0
Tiny Pacific Palau Has Good Reason to Worry
LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: James D. Berg of the State Department says (''New Day Is Dawning in Tiny Pacific Palau,'' letter, Nov. 4) that a news story about challenges to the vote to end Palau's nuclear-weapons ban contained ''inaccuracies and erroneous assumptions.'' Mr. Berg acknowledges recent violence and ...
97988_1
Child Abuse Found High in New York Mental Centers
incidence of such conduct.'' The recent death of a battered 6-year-old girl, Lisa Steinberg, has focused renewed attention on the thousands of cases of child abuse that lead to more than 100 deaths in the state annually. But rarely has the spotlight fallen on child abuse in mental hygiene facilities, where the disabili...
102653_0
Background Radiation Is Tied to Cancer
LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Karen A. Strauss, environmental engineer, says, ''decades of international study have found no evidence of any negative effects from the low levels of radioactivity that are typically found in nature'' (letter, Dec. 3). In ''Cancer Mortality: Environmental and Ethnic Factors,'' a 197...
102753_2
U.S. Orders Crews to Be Screened Before They Go Aboard Airliners
and airports' authorities to install computerized identification systems ''that will provide tighter control over ID cards, who has them, and where the employees can and cannot go in the airport.'' No Bags Without Owner And it said it was putting in effect a new rule to strengthen security screening of checked baggage ...
103162_2
PEACE PANEL PROPOSED IN NEW HAVEN
various fundraising tactics to survive. Although almost all the aldermen have indicate they favor the commission, Jonathon Einhorn, one of two Republican aldermen, has expressed opposition. He said the city does not have the authority to engage in foreign policy and should ''stick to improving life in the city.'' ''Thi...
103147_1
LEGISLATURE URGED TO TIGHTEN CONTROLS ON IMPAIRED DOCTORS
retained by the Medical Society of New Jersey. Members of the society who testified freely at closed S.C.I. hearings about the society's efforts to deal with problems of alcohol and drug abuse among physicians and to weed out incompetent physicians now believe they were treated unfairly in the commission's report. ''On...
103265_1
ADVOCACY GROUP PROTECTS STUDENT RIGHTS
100 professionals working with youths.'' Ms. Peters-Durrigan, who has a master's degree in social psychology and experience in working with adolescents, said the nonprofit organization had evolved ''out of a concern for the numbers of school-age children in the county who were out of school or being constantly suspende...
103172_2
PRESSURE TO HOUSE MENTALLY ILL
in Larchmont were reluctant to discuss the case pending the outcome of the administrative hearing, Jonathan Lovett, a White Plains lawyer and special counsel hired by the village, said there were a number of both substantitive and technical issues involved. Larchmont officials, he said, were unable to obtain necessary ...
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Job Outlook for '88 College Graduates Is Good, Survey Finds
LEAD: Businesses will significantly increase their hiring of college graduates in 1988 and will increase starting salaries, according to a survey by Northwestern University. Businesses will significantly increase their hiring of college graduates in 1988 and will increase starting salaries, according to a survey by Nor...
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FLOOD-CONTROL PROJECT IS OUTLINED FOR SAW MILL
LEAD: THE State Department of Transportation has mapped plans for a $3 million project to alleviate flooding on the Saw Mill River Parkway south of Dobbs Ferry - a problem that has become so severe that accidents on that road are actually decreasing. THE State Department of Transportation has mapped plans for a $3 mill...
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SCHOOL RADIO TOWER AT ISSUE
LEAD: PLANS to build a 150-foot microwave tower for the Syosset High School radio station, WKWZ, have been challenged by local residents who want a delay on the construction until more information on the tower is obtained. PLANS to build a 150-foot microwave tower for the Syosset High School radio station, WKWZ, have b...
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State Helps Bolster Regional Recycling
cans a day. Ms. Armstrong said she hopes the operation will soon increase its collections to at least 40 tons a day. Plans call for the recycling to be extended to yard debris and other material for a composting operation, as well as the collection of scrap metal, tires and waste oil, she said. ''The regional recycling...
103385_2
NORTHEAST JOURNAL
an arm, busily deliver the $1.25 special of two eggs, home fries and toast, the topic of Sam's closing has become part of the buzz. A complex of retail stores and offices is planned for the space. In January or February, the tiny cafe, morning mecca to mariners and business types alike, will have to close. The owner, S...
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WESTCHESTER GUIDE
in Riverdale. Susan Antenen, a naturalist at the environmental center will lead the group over the grounds and into Riverdale Park to identify cedar waxwings, brown thrashers, towhees, purple finches, flickers, goldfinches and turkey vultures, as well as geese, hawks and gulls over the Hudson River. Last year 23 specie...
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ROMANCE, THE SAVING REMNANT
modern sensibility discovers a naked politics - raw power deployed to enhance or aggrandize the self. Sexual desire, in this view, is at bottom a desire to seize control. Here Sartre's precursor was Nietzsche, who called love ''wild avarice and injustice . . . the most ingenuous expression of egoism'' parading as its o...
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When the World's Growth Slows
fixed exchange rates in favor of floating ones. Many economists said companies began hesitating before they invested, even when demand and profits were strong, because they feared future exchange rate fluctuations. Many conservative economists - and even some liberal ones - say the development of the so-called welfare ...
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NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN RESTORING AN ANCIENT ARCH
preserve the arch was to use the same natural ''breathing'' materials as the ancient Romans. To repair everything from tiny cracks to big fissures the team has used various consistencies of filler and mortar made from water mixed with marble dust, volcanic rock, brick fragments and sand. Lime, Milk and Honey It was vit...
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USING GENETIC ENGINEERING TO MAKE TOMATOES TASE LIKE TOMATOES AGAIN
LEAD: THE tomato is a symbol of the triumphs and disappointments of American agriculture. Over the last 50 years, breeders have crossed one variety with another to produce hybrids with large yields, long shelf lives and the ruggedness to survive a long trek to market. At the same time, the store-bought tomato has becom...
105171_3
U.S. Navy in the Gulf Is Seeking to Balance Protection and Force
reported by radio that Iranian speedboats were in the area, the Pentagon said. Neither the helicopter nor the two ships were damaged, but the episode showed both how American forces might be drawn into hostilities when no American-registered ships are in danger and how the American presence helps deter attacks. ] Rumor...
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Agency Serves Notice on Recycling
recycling law. Under a law passed this year by the General Assembly, all towns must recycle 25 percent of their waste by Jan. 1, 1991. That means residents will have to separate their trash into three categories: newspaper, office paper and cardboard; glass and metal food containers; and nonrecyclable garbage. In most ...
105248_1
IN THE WORK FORCE, A REAGAN EVOLUTION
and better teachers, smaller classes and other improvements to prepare students for the search for skilled and well-paying jobs. Property tax revenue, the chief source of school financing, has nearly doubled in the 1980's. While the Federal civilian work force has risen by 250,000 people, to nearly three million, since...
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When the Tide Turned on Rampant Growth
as a wholly innappropriate piece of architecture, and the cries against it began to mount. They grew louder and louder, and reached a climax earlier this month with the surprise victory of the Municipal Art Society in its lawsuit against the City of New York to block the project. The project is not dead; the city plans...
102087_0
New Zealand Assails Return To Paris of Convicted Agent
LEAD: A French espionage agent confined to a French atoll in the South Pacific for his role in the bombing of a Greenpeace ship in New Zealand was flown to Paris today for medical tests. A French espionage agent confined to a French atoll in the South Pacific for his role in the bombing of a Greenpeace ship in New Zeal...
101989_0
Biotechnology Merger Set
LEAD: Advanced Genetic Sciences Inc., which conducted the first outdoor experiment with genetically modified bacteria, has agreed to merge with the DNA Plant Technology Corporation, another biotechnology company. Under a tentative agreement an- DNA Plant's stock gained 12.5 cents in over-the-counter trading today to cl...
101896_1
Bangkok Journal; Once Upon a Time a Good King Had 4 Children . . .
King Bhumibol has additional meaning. It is a time to thank a hard-working ruler who has brought prestige to rural development and conservation as he slogs through muddy fields and climbs wild hillsides to meet poor farmers. So while there have been displays of Oriental splendor like elephant parades, traditional danci...
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THE PRIVATE PAIN OF INFERTILITY
any level over 100 on the first test is considered good. On day 8, my estrogen level is 370 - a good rise again. Restless in my hotel room, I turn off my computer and go shopping. Things are going well. On day 9, the euphoria begins to dissipate. My estrogen level is 399. I am told this signifies a flattening out - tha...
99425_0
'Time to Re-Tire'
LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: ''Madison Avenue's Baby Boom,'' (Nov. 22) gives the impression that Michelin is a pioneer in the use of toddlers to sell tires. Long before World War II, Fisk was famous for its billboard messages employing the same basic idea. Featured in the advertisement was a drowsy youngster in ...
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EASY STREET BLUES
LEAD: A BOAT OFF THE COAST By Stephen Dobyns. 260 pp. New York: Viking. $16.95. A BOAT OFF THE COAST By Stephen Dobyns. 260 pp. New York: Viking. $16.95. THE plastic-wrapped kilo of cocaine is to the modern suspense novel what the cache of gold in the Wells Fargo stagecoach was to the western - a small cargo of breatht...
99253_0
POPULATION BOMB': CONCERN FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS
LEAD: The need for population control is so critical that at the risk of belaboring the point, I would like to rebut the arguments challenging Diana Gerhardt's article. The need for population control is so critical that at the risk of belaboring the point, I would like to rebut the arguments challenging Diana Gerhardt...
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MICROWAVE TOWER WORRIES WOODBURY
LEAD: THE recent construction of a 100-foot microwave tranmission tower by the Long Island Rail Road has taken the community of Woodbury by surprise, causing anger and concern in residents who said they had no knowledge of its planning or execution. THE recent construction of a 100-foot microwave tranmission tower by t...
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NEWS SUMMARY: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1987
LEAD: International A3-19 International A3-19 The U.S. sharply criticized France for making what one official said was a deal with Iran to obtain the release of French hostages in Lebanon. The French-Iranian accord might reward hostage-taking, an official said. Page A1 Britain criticizes accord A15 West German capital ...
100026_0
Delay Is Seen for Three Mile Island Cleanup
LEAD: Difficulties in extracting debris from the damaged nuclear reactor at the Three Mile Island power plant have led officials to extend the date for completing the cleanup into 1989, a spokesman said today. Difficulties in extracting debris from the damaged nuclear reactor at the Three Mile Island power plant have l...
100050_0
Broad Limit on Growth Passes in San Francisco
LEAD: Amid growing public concern that San Francisco's neighborhoods are losing their distinctive character to ugly apartment buildings, the Board of Supervisors today imposed a 120-day freeze on demolition of houses throughout the city and on major additions to existing homes. Amid growing public concern that San Fran...
100248_5
New Space Challenge: Monitoring Weapons
the Navstar. Though primarily used today for transmitting a radio beacon for navigation, by the mid-1990's this family of spacecraft will also carry an advanced set of X-ray, optical and electromagnetic pulse sensors for detecting nuclear explosions in space. These sensors could also monitor subtler events. ''You might...
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American Economy Is Reported Shifting To Exports to Grow
However, this survey, taken around Thanksgiving, when fears about the stock market fallout remained high, also found 43 percent predicting that the next recession would begin in 1988. For its part, the Reagan Administration last week projected 2.4 percent growth, a target that assumes, among other things, stepped-up ex...
105754_0
Letter: On Consumer Costs; Sugar's Price Is Lower Than You Think
LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: ''Uncle Sugar's Sugar Deal'' (editorial, Dec. 21) asserts the price of sugar in the U.S. is ''more than triple'' the cost of heavily subsidized, surplus sugar dumped on the so-called world market. When the cost of getting that sugar here is added, it's barely twice as high. The cost ...
105695_0
Advances; New Efforts To Foil Food Tampering
LEAD: WHEN seven people in the Chicago area died in 1982 because they swallowed Tylenol capsules that had been laced with cyanide, the United States entered a new era of product tampering. WHEN seven people in the Chicago area died in 1982 because they swallowed Tylenol capsules that had been laced with cyanide, the Un...
100946_0
French Whines
LEAD: France has packed 14 Iranians and 3 Turks onto an airplane bound for Gabon in West Africa. An additional eight Iranians and a Turk are under house arrest. All were accused of harming French interests by plotting against the Khomeini regime. Oh no, says Paris, this isn't appeasement and has nothing to do with othe...
100944_0
A New Warning on the Trade Deficit
LEAD: Bad news on the October trade deficit came right in the middle of the Washington summit conference. Even as President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev explored arms control, there it was -stark confirmation that the Soviet Union is not the only superpower with economic problems. America's economy is also out of kilte...
105454_1
Philosophical Rift: A Tale of Two Approaches
believe is the control over the field exercised by what they see as a highly technical subspeciality, the Anglo-American analytical school. Bogged Down in Logic Underlying the pluralists' activities is the belief that philosophy, bogged down in a stress on logic, language, and empirical data, has lost its vocation of a...
105605_0
Home Resales Off in Month
LEAD: Sales of existing homes fell 4.5 percent in November, the biggest drop in five months, as the collapse in stock prices in October apparently dampened home-buying enthusiasm, a real estate trade group said today. Sales of existing homes fell 4.5 percent in November, the biggest drop in five months, as the collapse...
104103_0
Goodrich Abandons The Tire Business
LEAD: After decades as a major player in the tire business, the B. F. Goodrich Company said yesterday that it was getting out. After decades as a major player in the tire business, the B. F. Goodrich Company said yesterday that it was getting out. The company said it had agreed to sell its 50 percent interest in the Un...
104129_0
New Methods Of Handling Toxic Waste
LEAD: FOR decades environmental engineers cleaned up toxic waste in one way: by enclosing and burying it, either in landfills or at the site. FOR decades environmental engineers cleaned up toxic waste in one way: by enclosing and burying it, either in landfills or at the site. But this approach has proved inadequate fo...
104059_3
Comes the Postman
speeding car while crossing the street, because you had to accept some trade-offs if you wanted to enjoy the miracle of the automobile, without which there would be no traffic jams to sit in while listening to Beethoven or ''War and Peace'' on the auto cassette player. But darned if he was willing to be killed by sides...
104210_0
India Copter Kills 5 in Boat
LEAD: An Indian helicopter gunship sank a fiberglass boat running guns into Sri Lanka's eastern province, killing five men on board, an Indian External Af-fairs Ministry spokesman said today. An Indian helicopter gunship sank a fiberglass boat running guns into Sri Lanka's eastern province, killing five men on board, a...
104380_0
The Clearer Message
LEAD: Some may think the meaning of the Howard Beach trial is that racial violence no longer will be tolerated. Others may think the manslaughter convictions of three young white men demonstrate the power of black political pressures. But the clearer ''message'' comes not from the verdict - reached only after 12 days o...
104401_0
U.S. Providing Information On Performance by Airlines
LEAD: The Department of Transportation has put into use a computerized system that will permit airline passengers to select a flight on the basis of on-time performance. The Department of Transportation has put into use a computerized system that will permit airline passengers to select a flight on the basis of on-time...
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WASHINGTON TALK: Journalism and Scholarship; I. F. Stone at 80: The Scooping Goes On
LEAD: His eyesight and hearing are failing. He can no longer study or write for 12 hours at a stretch without a break. But I. F. Stone, who turns 80 years old on Thursday, is gloriously happy, surrounded by the books he loves. His eyesight and hearing are failing. He can no longer study or write for 12 hours at a stret...
102251_2
U.S. Cutting Sugar Imports In Blow to Trading Partners
domestic production rises, imports have to fall, assuming demand is constant. Since 1985, production has risen from 6 million tons to an estimated 7.4 million tons in the current crop year. Agriculture Department economists have estimated that at the current domestic price of 21.76 cents a pound for sugar - about three...
102166_0
A New Use For Sludge: To Make Oil
LEAD: OVER the years, cities have tried all manner of methods to dispose of sludge, the end product of the typical sewage treatment plant. They have burned it, buried it, dumped it in the ocean, spread it on farms and even made bricks of it. OVER the years, cities have tried all manner of methods to dispose of sludge, ...
99007_0
SATURDAY NEWS QUIZ
LEAD: Questions are based on news reports in The Times this week. Answers appear on page 54. Questions are based on news reports in The Times this week. Answers appear on page 54. 1. In the event of a trial, this may be a key piece of evidence. What is it? 2. Lawyers for the Rev. Jerry Falwell and the sex magazine Hust...
99136_2
For San Francisco, 'Cure' Is Worse Than High-Rise 'Disease'
more discretionary power than any similar city agency elsewhere, and consequently private real estate developers have less. New Perception of City ''The downtown plan has changed the way people perceive San Francisco -it is seen as an anti-growth, anti-business town,'' said Timothy Tosta, a real estate lawyer here who ...
104707_0
Preserving Balance on Landmarks
LEAD: New York's rich architectural heritage, like that of other older cities, justifies efforts to protect truly distinguished buildings from onrushing change. In New York, that is the job of an 11-member Landmarks Preservation Commission. But the commission has been eroding credibility and undermining its proper func...
104738_1
CHINA SEES TRADE SURPLUS FOR '87, THE FIRST IN 4 YEARS
and to new incentives to companies to export their products, the trade minister said today. China in 1987 achieved its first trade surplus in four years thanks to a crackdown on imports and to new incentives to companies to export their products, the trade minister said today. The official New China News Agency quoted ...
101710_0
A Glimpse of Kremlin Economics
LEAD: The Soviet Union could pay, in part, for increased imports from the United States by selling Americans inexpensive cars, a top Soviet economist has suggested. Those cars would be intended to compete with low-cost Yugoslav and South Korean models. The Soviet Union could pay, in part, for increased imports from the...
103060_0
Patents; A Bacterium to Treat Wood and Crop Wastes
LEAD: A bacterium genetically engineered to break down wood and other crop fibers has been invented by V. R. Srinivasan and two associates after research at Louisiana State University. Patent 4,713,336, granted them this week, is assigned to Research Corporation Technologies Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., which is offering rig...
102927_3
Coping: With Autos and Air Travel
about the same basic warranty, for 12 months or 12,000 miles, and Japanese makers, who used to offer the shortest warranties, have become more competitive in this area. The bottom line is that improvements in warranties have made it unnecessary for car buyers to purchase expensive extended service contracts. Individual...
101552_0
Women's Leukemia Rate Higher in 4 Jersey Towns
LEAD: Four small industrial communities in northern New Jersey with histories of chemically contaminated ground water had elevated levels of leukemia among women and girls from 1979 to 1984, according to a study by the New Jersey Department of Health. Four small industrial communities in northern New Jersey with histor...
101463_0
ILLNESS FUELS THE ANGUISH OF A FAMILY No One Can Precisely Diagnose the Problems of the Children
LEAD: ''Nelson never could ride his bicycle without the training wheels,'' the woman said. ''That was the first sign.'' Her son was 10 years old at the time, a bright student who had won a school spelling bee and sang in the church choir. ''His teachers,'' she said, ''thought he would be a scientist or a doctor. ''Nels...
101410_0
ARMS PROTESTERS STAY AT U.S. BASES
LEAD: Participants in the free-wheeling peace camps that have grown up outside American nuclear bases in Western Europe plan to continue their nonviolent protests despite the new treaty between the United States and Soviet Union. Participants in the free-wheeling peace camps that have grown up outside American nuclear ...
101501_1
The Costs of Cutting an Education Short
and improvement, has been a leading spokesman for the Reagan Administration on the issue. David Hornbeck, as the Maryland state superintendent of schools and recent president of the Council of Chief State School Officers, has also been actively involved in devising strategies to curb dropout rates. The two have sharply...
101640_0
'THE BEST MAN FOR THE JOB'
LEAD: ''HIRE him; he's got great legs,'' reads a tongue-in-cheek pin distributed by the National Organization for Women. ''HIRE him; he's got great legs,'' reads a tongue-in-cheek pin distributed by the National Organization for Women. The pin is now in the possession of Hewlett-Woodmere's director of personnel. She ke...
103690_1
Uncle Sugar's Sugar Deal
world countries, it is substantially less. To avoid Federal outlays for surplus sugar, Congress ordained that the price be enforced by curtailing imports. If American production rises, imports must fall and the consumer pays. The Administration, having no real choice but to obey the law, has just whacked the 1988 quota...
103610_1
GERMANS' DEFENSE PLEDGED BY PARIS
has traditionally been a prickly defender of France's strict autonomy in military matters. In a speech to French military officers on Dec. 12, the Prime Minister overleaped Mr. Mitterrand on the German issue. 'Immediate' Engagement Seen If West Germany is attacked, Mr. Chirac declared, France's engagement on its side w...
104621_1
News From Bethlehem
deeply human. we see it everywhere, lately in Sri Lanka and India, Iran and Iraq, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya, South Africa, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Peru, and on the streets of the United States of America. That is why love has to be preached. It is deeply human too. But it is often forgotten. Sti...
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News From Bethlehem
the secret of improving the world with their manufacture, their science, their impatience with things as they were. Now we are not so sure. We have much more manufacture, much more science, much more impatience. But we also know more of dread and of the terrible things we can do to each other and to ourselves. Progress...
104570_0
U.S. Plans Inspections Of Security at Airports
LEAD: The Federal Aviation Administration, using special teams of inspectors, plans to put security programs at 16 major airports to the test next year. The Federal Aviation Administration, using special teams of inspectors, plans to put security programs at 16 major airports to the test next year. In making the announ...
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Sugar Plan Advances
LEAD: Congressional negotiators tentatively approved a sugar re-export program today for Caribbean countries and the Philippines that could soften the blow of sharply lower United States sugar import quotas next year. Congressional negotiators tentatively approved a sugar re-export program today for Caribbean countries...
102389_2
WHY THE COLUMBUS CIRCLE PLAN IS SHAKY
be increasing, rather than abating, as they often do in such instances, when a controversy takes on a life of its own. Among the complications are these: * The city lost the first round of a suit this month that had been filed against the original plan, Coliseum I, by the Municipal Art Society. The case is on appeal. *...
100454_2
U.S. TO USE ROBOTS TO FIND GULF MINES
that detect virtually anything lying on the bottom or floating near the surface. A Picture From Echoes One crewman at a sonar scope explained that the instruments listen to echoes and paint a picture of the waters in much the same way that an obstetrician's sonogram detects a fetus floating in the womb. But the sonar s...
100711_2
Suicide Exposes British Church Rift
bitter about his being passed over for people who had not his conviction in the faith of the church.'' A Labor member of Parliament, Frank Field, another lay Synod member, said Dr. Bennett was ''an example of the blackballing'' of conservative theologians by ''the Runcie group.'' Only seven or eight of Britain's 43 bis...
103895_0
Disarmament Jitters
LEAD: The reason America's European allies have firmly endorsed the new treaty to destroy Soviet and American medium-range missiles is that it would be politically damaging to refuse. Their own voters would be indignant. The reason America's European allies have firmly endorsed the new treaty to destroy Soviet and Amer...
103939_0
China Taking Stringent Steps To Prevent the Entry of AIDS
LEAD: Trying to isolate itself from the worldwide spread of AIDS, China has adopted rigorous measures, including blood tests for foreigners and Chinese who return from abroad and renewed efforts by the police to prevent casual sexual contacts between foreigners and Chinese. Trying to isolate itself from the worldwide s...
103845_0
Group of 7 Expected to Back Halt in the Dollar's Decline
LEAD: The United States and other leading industrial countries appear to have agreed on a declaration endorsing a halt in the decline of the dollar but making no lasting commitments to stabilize it, foreign economic officials said today. The United States and other leading industrial countries appear to have agreed on ...
105328_1
Port Louis Journal; Land of Apartheid Befriends an Indian Ocean Isle
Movement, foresees a role for Mauritius as a regional warehouse for trade and re-exporting to Africa. After turning his back on radical socialism in 1982, Mr. Lutchmeenaraidoo was named Finance Minister and has remade the economy by slashing corporate taxes, moving to abolish exchange controls and offering financial in...
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CARRY-ON LUGGAGE FACES NEW CURBS
LEAD: Travelers who hauled large, heavy bags aboard planes when they left for their holiday trips may find a surprise on return flights as tighter restrictions on carry-on luggage take effect on New Year's Day. Travelers who hauled large, heavy bags aboard planes when they left for their holiday trips may find a surpri...
100304_1
For the Cellular User, Ecstasy and Agony . . . As the Industry Hunts for Cures
portable phones, such as Motorola Inc. and the Tandy Corporation, say they are developing even smaller, lighter and less expensive models with more power and batteries that last longer. Portable cellular phones operate on a very low wattage, about sixth-tenths of a watt, compared with 3 watts from a car's battery for c...
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Verifying the Agreement: The Rules Governing Inspections by Both Sides
located to the point of entry, no less than six hours before the scheduled departure time from that airfield. Such a plan shall be filed in accordance with the procedures of the International Civil Aviation Organization applicable to civil aircraft. The inspecting Party shall include in the remarks section of each flig...
100280_0
For the Cellular User, Ecstasy and Agony . . .
LEAD: IT is 6 P.M. on the tarmac of National Airport in Washington, and a passenger on the Eastern Airlines shuttle realizes that he has neglected to make an urgent phone call. IT is 6 P.M. on the tarmac of National Airport in Washington, and a passenger on the Eastern Airlines shuttle realizes that he has neglected to...
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NEWS SUMMARY: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1987
LEAD: International A3-19 Washington charged Moscow with a new technical violation of the 1972 anti-ballistic missile treaty. The charge may increase Senate opposition to the treaty to eliminate medium- and shorter-range missiles. International A3-19 Washington charged Moscow with a new technical violation of the 1972 ...
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Two Seamen Convicted In Federal Mutiny Case
LEAD: Two deckhands in a Federal mutiny trial were convicted today of murdering the skipper of a shrimp boat and trying to kill the first mate in a takeover on the high seas. Two deckhands in a Federal mutiny trial were convicted today of murdering the skipper of a shrimp boat and trying to kill the first mate in a tak...
106051_0
Winchester Purchaser Sees Huge Potential
LEAD: G.L. (Peter) Alcock Jr., an avid hunter and sportsman, bought a Winchester rifle in 1982. Yesterday, he and the six other investors of the New Haven Arms Company announced that they had completed negotiations for the purchase of the U.S. Repeating Arms Company, the manufacturer of Winchester hunting firearms. G.L...
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Art: Gothic Sculpture of Giovanni Pisano at Met
LEAD: ''GIOVANNI PISANO IN GENOA'' is a slightly smaller version of a show that took place this spring in Genoa. It brings together the recently restored marble fragments of the last two works by Giovanni Pisano, the great Gothic sculptor who had never before had an exhibition in the United States. There are around 20 ...
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INSIDE
LEAD: New on Wednesdays: The Education Page The decline of the college interview. And a new column, Lessons, looks at old-fashioned teaching in a modern-day classroom. Page B6. Also today: Eating Well, a column about food safety, health and nutri tion. The Living Section, page C10. New on Wednesdays: The Education Page...
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Advertising; Agencies Greet New Business
LEAD: THREE good-sized advertisers announced new agency alliances yesterday. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is returning to Young & Rubicam, the agency that served it from 1945 to 1975. DDB Needham, Chicago, is getting the Discover credit card from Sears, Roebuck & Company. And Grey Advertising and its subsidiary...
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Life in the 30's
the time when he was eager to teach me all the tiniest permutations of organized sports. If I ask about the error, he asks me to wait until the commercials. At the commercials, however, we talk about the kids. Apparently, he is accustomed to the gaps in my knowledge, and I to the gaps in his. I've talked to people who ...
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New Look on College Campuses: Gray Hair
for Learning in Retirement has an enrollment of 400 largely retired professionals between 52 and 95 years old. They take courses for $140 a term that are taught by other retired professionals. ''There's a very significant number of elderly persons who realize - and quite rightfully so - that if retirement means sitting...
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WAS MAN MEANT TO FLY?
competence, or the public perception of it, is a factor in passenger choice: Some travelers avoid a particular airline after news reports of near-misses, pilot errors and the like. But news items are a poor guide; most pilot errors never make the papers. A better guide: F.A.A. findings released to the press. In Septemb...
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In Yugoslavia, Rising Ethnic Strife Brings Fears of Worse Civil Conflict
out of the region. Attacks on Slavs Last summer, the authorities in Kosovo said they documented 40 ethnic Albanian attacks on Slavs in two months. In the last two years, 320 ethnic Albanians have been sentenced for political crimes, nearly half of them characterized as severe. In one incident, Fadil Hoxha, once the lea...
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Quandary in Gulf: Success Brings Escalation
political point. A senior naval officer said he never doubted the Iranians would use the Silkworms when other operations, including the laying of mines and the use of speedboats that could make rocket attacks against United States ships, were shut down. Few military authorities expect the American attack on the offshor...
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Securing the Lean In Tower of Pisa
LEAD: NOBODY in the Italian Government wants to straighten the Leaning Tower of Pisa; its tilt keeps the tourist lire flowing. But in January, the Government approved a $25 million project to keep the 800-year-old tower from tipping farther. NOBODY in the Italian Government wants to straighten the Leaning Tower of Pisa...
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Escaping To the Freedom Of the Seas
on Royal Viking ships. They chatted about cruising aboard the Royal Viking Sea, on which my wife and I spent a month this spring en route from San Francisco to Rio de Janeiro. The Sea's Norwegian captain, Jan Fjeld-Hansen, stressed one element that I'd noted. ''An important factor is security,'' he said. ''the repeat p...
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Minister With Wide-Ranging Goals
LEAD: The Rev. Patricia Ann McClurg, the first female minister to head the National Council of Churches, was installed yesterday in Jacksonville, Fla., but amid the celebration that followed she was quick to say that her election did not signal the end to what she sees as a persistent problem of sexism in the nation's ...
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New Course, Fresh Risks
by what the Administration and the Federal Reserve are doing. Mr. Baker has made clear that after the stock market shock, the present need is to drive down interest rates as an urgent means of avoiding a recession. This means pumping money into the economy. And if financial markets, already badly shaken, conclude that ...