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93109_0 | JAPAN: For Its Retirees, Tokyo Is Relying on Self-Reliance | LEAD: IT is not just in the United States that people worry about who is going to pay for social security. Throughout the industrialized world, because of the baby boom's huge presence and low fertility rates, the classic demographic pyramid is narrowing at the base and swelling at the top. The Organization for Economi... |
93265_0 | WHO WILL CONTROL POPULATION GROWTH? | LEAD: This letter is in response to the Oct. 25 Opinion Page article ''The Population Bomb Is Still Ticking.'' I agree with Diana Gerhardt's assessment that Long Island is overcrowded; we do have too much garbage, too much population and too many shopping centers being built. Our traffic situation is deplorable during ... |
92862_1 | U.S. RECHARTING THE OCEAN OFF STATE | actually in the ocean, the pilots say, arises from the breaking up of ancient hulls, from the raising of ships for salvage, by multiple reports of the same wreck at different sites and by the shifting in position of wrecks during underwater storms. The Government's charts, sold by authorized map dealers and relied on b... |
92862_3 | U.S. RECHARTING THE OCEAN OFF STATE | Ambrose Lightship in December 1929 after colliding with the liner Algonquin. * The Ambrose Relief Lightship, rammed and buried in 1960. * The destroyer Turner, which sank in 1944 after an ammunition explosion that killed 138 sailors. * H.M.S. Pentland Firth, a British man-o-war that sank three miles from Ambrose Lights... |
92863_2 | NURSE WHO DIED IN VIETNAM REMEMBERED | photograph of someone's high school sweetheart. Kim Robinson, one of five people who looks after the objects, believes the central placing of the sweetheart is a takeoff on a motif ''used formally in religious icons denoting a passage from innocence to experience.'' But it is hard to say what most of the memorabilia me... |
93349_10 | MORE THAN A CATHEDRAL: ST. JOHN THE DIVINE By ARI L. GOLDMAN; Ari L. Goldman writes on religion for The Times. | and proudly showed it to a visitor. Complete with turrets and windows, it looked like a small magical castle. Miss Hazel seemed pleased that it would soon be hauled to the top of the tower, even though its finely wrought details would be noticed only by the pigeons. ''I find pride in my work,'' she said. ''I know my pa... |
93112_1 | IN EUROPE: The Bill's Due Next Century | nations face the same fundamental problems: a universal expectation of undiminished retirement benefits, a slowing of economic growth and a powerful political temptation to postpone sacrifice. The solutions are limited: Retirement age can be raised, benefits can be cut, taxes can be increased. The pension burden can al... |
92994_4 | WITH PREGNANCY, ONE WOMAN BECOMES MORE CONFIDENT | my obstetrician's office. ''We don't advise using any drugs during pregnancy, especially not in the first trimester,'' she said. ''Just try to hang in there.'' For nine months? Did she mean she was encouraging the kind of zombieism that lack of sleep brings out in the best of us? And what does ''hang in there'' signify... |
92969_3 | STREETSCAPES: The Coney Island Parachute Jump; For the Boardwalk's 'Eiffel Tower,' Restoration or Regulating a Ruin? | the land in 1969 for park purposes. At a public auction in 1971, the Parachute Jump failed to attract any bidders. Now, despite repeated proposals to demolish the rusting Parachute Jump, its owner, the New York City Parks Department, is supporting landmark designation and even restoration of the structure. But whether ... |
93126_3 | THE WORLD: Terrorism; With Latest Bomb, I.R.A. Injures Its Own Cause | outlining Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's plans to sustain the political advantage flowing from the Enniskillen bombing. She is pressing the Irish Prime Minister, Charles Haughey, to support ratification of a new treaty on extradition of terrorists between Ireland and Britain. Because of traditional Irish suspicions... |
97019_0 | Art: Works by Ana Mendieta in a Retrospective Exhibition | LEAD: TWO years after Ana Mendieta was found dead on the roof of a delicatessen below the 34th-floor Greenwich Village apartment in which she lived with her husband, the sculptor Carl Andre, and two months before Mr. Andre is scheduled to go on trial to face murder charges of which he has declared himself innocent, Ms.... |
97565_1 | Less Strain, More Gain | of movement is born out of an enlightened understanding of anatomy. and an ego-less approach to personal experience. Indeed, as a master avant-gardist in his own right, the choreographer claims that the first vision of modern dance has been betrayed. ''The dawn of modern dance was a time when the Western world threw of... |
97624_4 | On Language; Old and Novel | olden times. I doubt that any responsible novelist would use the word ''sophisticated'' to describe, say, Beau Brummell - though that character certainly was, in the sense of wordly, urbane, refined. However, ''sophisticated'' did not begin to be used in that sense until sometime late in the 19th century. In Brummell's... |
97730_0 | Luggage | LEAD: To the Editor: Isn't it time the airlines did something about the carry-on luggage situation? To the Editor: Isn't it time the airlines did something about the carry-on luggage situation? Some years ago I strained to carry a portable television set into a repair shop and joked with the technician about ''portable... |
97484_1 | WHAT WE KNOW: OUR INTERNAL UNIVERSE IS EXPANDING | tens of billions of cells called neurons, which communicate with one another in an electrochemical code. According to the textbooks, each of these neurons is like a computer. It receives signals from other neurons through an input called a dendrite. Then, depending on the nature of this information, it transmits its ow... |
91806_1 | Major Airlines Are Ranked On Delays and Other Woes | American Airlines had 84.5 percent of its flights arrive on time in September, which is calculated as no more than 15 minutes behind the published schedule, while USAir had 67.4 percent on time. The industry average was 77 percent. In the category of mishandled baggage, Northwest Airlines led the 14 airlines in the num... |
97763_0 | Trade Surplus Rises in Mexico | LEAD: Mexico had a trade surplus in the first 10 months of this year of $6.81 billion, well more than double the $2.83 billion surplus over the corresponding period in 1986, the Planning and Budget Ministry said Friday. Mexico had a trade surplus in the first 10 months of this year of $6.81 billion, well more than doub... |
97867_1 | LATIN CHIEFS URGE OVERHAUL OF DEBT AND OF O.A.S. TOO | Cuba's presence in the O.A.S. and other hemispheric forums was ''indispensable'' to their normal functioning. The Mexican President said he and his colleagues had decided to ''reflect and consult so that at the proper opportunity Cuba is re-integrated into the O.A.S.'' and other regional groups. But he said ''the fact ... |
90650_1 | Protecting Plants from the Inside Out | the laboratory in a matter of days or weeks, what once took years. Take lettuce, for instance. Researchers at Plant Genetics Inc., a Davis, Calif. agricultural biotechnology company, wanted to come up with a plant that resists corky root disease, which rots out the core of the plant. They isolated the active disease-ca... |
90649_1 | In Search of a Lightweight Tomato | have buttery tasting popcorn without the calories or the guilt. DNA Plant Technology, in Cinnaminson, N.J., is using a technique called somoclonal variation to select naturally occurring strains of popcorn that have their own butter-like flavor. The project involves cutting up portions of the whole corn plant and growi... |
90651_0 | WHAT'S NEW IN AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY | LEAD: THE first wave of products stemming from the biotechnology revolution focused mainly on human health care. But now agricultural biotechnology - the genetic manipulation of crop plants and farm animals - is blossoming as never before. True, only a few products of genetic engineering are on the market, including va... |
90804_1 | Jersey Agency Seeks New Laws to Deal With Incompetent Doctors | the 126-member New Jersey Hospital Association, denied those charges, saying, ''There has not been a widespread failure by hospitals to follow present law.'' The commission said it also had found that some medical malpractice settlements were purposely reduced by insurers to $24,999 so the physician involved would not ... |
90817_0 | Gentle Strength of Horses Heals Children's Spirits | LEAD: Sherry is an 8-year-old for whom it is an achievement to sit upright, strapped into her wheelchair. She has profound mental and physical disabilities. She cannot feed or dress herself. She cannot talk. She cannot walk. Sherry is an 8-year-old for whom it is an achievement to sit upright, strapped into her wheelch... |
90831_0 | WITH GIANT DAMS ALL BUILT, AGENCY SEEKS NEW WORK | LEAD: ''TOUCH water and you touch everything'' in the West, John Gunther wrote in ''Inside USA'' in 1947. And the engineers of the United States Bureau of Reclamation did not just touch the West's great rivers, they transformed them, turning dry and dusty wastelands into a modern-day Mesopotamia. ''TOUCH water and you ... |
90985_9 | America's New Brain Gain | In the last year at Iowa, he has had the help of more graduate assistants than he had in his entire 14 years at Lancaster. He now has his own computer and a secretary. At Lancaster, 14 faculty members shared three computers. ''They reward people here for doing their job,'' said Mr. Duck. ''In England, good researchers ... |
88932_3 | France Sees Threat To Share Offerings | of the markets.'' But several analysts have predicted that the Government would postpone privatizations out of fear that they would not attract enough subscribers in light of the Bourse's plunge. Analysts said the Government could be acutely embarrassed if an issue were undersubscribed, something the Government does no... |
89772_1 | Furor Growing in France on Iran Arms-Sale Case | resigned as Defense Minister in 1985 after it was disclosed that French agents had sunk a ship belonging to the environmentalist group Greenpeace in New Zealand as it prepared to protest French nuclear tests. Over the weekend, two magazines sketched the outlines of the illegal sales of artillery shells by the French ar... |
89757_1 | Ancient Boats Still Ply a Tense Gulf | the concerns of intruders. Even if they are disposed to communicate with warships, dhows rarely carry radios or crew members who speak English. The replacement of sails with motors over the last 30 years or so is one of the few concessions to modernity in the stout boats whose hulls are still treated with fish liver oi... |
89768_1 | Belfast Journal; Periwigs and Robes, but Not a Jury of Their Peers | There has always been controversy about what is known as the Diplock system, which was named after the lord who first recommended drastic procedures to deal with the terrorist threat. The system was introduced 14 years ago by the province's British rulers as an emergency measure in the face of heightened violence by th... |
93519_0 | A Mourning Ulster Abstains From Violence | LEAD: Solemn memorial services replaced demonstrations as the focus of attention here today as Northern Ireland marked the anniversary of a landmark treaty signed two years ago by Britain and Ireland in an effort to bring peace to this troubled province. Solemn memorial services replaced demonstrations as the focus of ... |
95855_3 | Officials See Harshness of Iran Panel's Finding as a Blow to Meese | Poindexter, then the national security adviser, ''and then did not ask him what the President knew.'' * Mr. Meese waited before sealing the office files of Lieut. Col. Oliver L. North, who has acknowledged that he shredded documents after learning of Mr. Meese's investigation. The report also notes that after the diver... |
95755_0 | Role Seen For Boron In Curbing Bone Loss | LEAD: BORON, a mineral long considered inessential to nutrition, apparently affects blood levels of certain hormones and may play a major role in preventing bone loss, Government scientists have reported. BORON, a mineral long considered inessential to nutrition, apparently affects blood levels of certain hormones and ... |
95756_0 | German Panel Urges Stimulus | LEAD: The nation's Council of Economic Advisers said today that the recent worldwide fall in stock prices would dampen economic growth in West Germany, and it called for measures to increase domestic output. The nation's Council of Economic Advisers said today that the recent worldwide fall in stock prices would dampen... |
95748_0 | Risks of 'Learning Disabled' Label | LEAD: CHILDREN, like adults, have individual ways of learning, and educators who do not recognize them can undermine their chance for success or even wrongly label them as learning disabled, according to a new book by Thomas Armstrong, a psychologist. ''We're shutting the door to millions more who possess untold inner ... |
92686_0 | U.N. Body Calls for Widening of Test Ban Treaty | LEAD: The United Nations moved today to expand a 1963 treaty into a complete ban on nuclear testing. The United Nations moved today to expand a 1963 treaty into a complete ban on nuclear testing. Only the United States, Britain and France voted against a resolution in the General Assembly's Disarmament Committee that c... |
96495_1 | A Way to Help Blacks Enter Higher Education | include poor elementary and secondary schools in predominantly black areas, failure of guidance counselors and parents to encourage blacks to pursue advanced degrees, and poor performance by blacks on standardized tests, including the Scholastic Aptitude Test. One way to offset these negative factors is to set up a sys... |
95016_0 | U.N. Passes Measures to Combat Apartheid | LEAD: The United Nations adopted a package of anti-apartheid resolutions today that call for an oil embargo against South Africa and criticize Israel for doing business with the Pretoria Government. The United Nations adopted a package of anti-apartheid resolutions today that call for an oil embargo against South Afric... |
95064_0 | New York Working and Learning | LEAD: Can big business help young people find jobs? Yes, if they're qualified. Can big business help young people qualify for jobs? Yes, with the cooperation of the schools. Those two aims describe an ambitious experiment just launched in New York by business leaders with state and foundation support: New York Working ... |
92478_2 | U.S. TO BACK GENE-ENGINEERED DRUG FOR CLOTTING | for treating the immediate cause of a heart attack.'' Quick Use Could Block Damage Dr. Braunwald estimated that from 60 percent to 70 percent of heart attacks involve blockage of arteries by blood clots and that the use of TPA in the early hours of a heart attack could often prevent irreversible damage to the heart. Ph... |
92465_0 | Coors Biotech | LEAD: The Coors Biotech Products Company, a division of the Adolph Coors Company of Golden, Colo., said it would form a venture with Meiji Seika Kaisha Ltd., a Tokyo confectionery company. The venture would market a food additive that the Japanese company had developed and sold in its country for more than three years.... |
93683_2 | Mitterrand Knew of Iran Arms Sales | were forced to resign in 1985 after it was disclosed that French agents sank a ship belonging to the Greenpeace environmentalist group in New Zealand as it prepared to protest French nuclear tests. The Defense Minister, Mr. Mitterrand said, ''knew of my desire not to sell arms to Iran.'' Indeed, he said several times t... |
93639_0 | Careers; Managers Found by Computer | LEAD: MOVE over, management recruiters. Stanford University is going to poach on your territory with a computerized system to help companies find managers. MOVE over, management recruiters. Stanford University is going to poach on your territory with a computerized system to help companies find managers. The system, wh... |
93641_5 | The New Mystery of the Female Heart | Castelli said he does not know why triglycerides should be so much more dangerous in women than in men. Dr. Castelli said the importance of triglyceride levels is usually overlooked in women. The Framingham data and data from the Rancho Bernardo study also point to the importance of diabetes as a risk factor for women.... |
96379_0 | Chains Instead of Sand | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: ''A Salt Substitute for America's Roads'' (editorial, Nov. 12), on the environmental damage from salting roads in winter, ignores the best solution of all: tire chains. After a major snowstorm in the mountains of California, all cars are required to put on chains. The Highway Patrol ... |
96382_2 | New Nuclear Follies? | imported from the United States under similar pledges. America admits that heavy water sent to Dimona was not inspected for the first 17 years after it was exported. Moreover, America has not asked for the kind of inspection that would show what the water was used for. France established and continues to build its ther... |
89497_4 | Vast Changes in Environment Seen | degree for the massive deforestation'' in the tropics. * There is now a ''new massive wave of habitat degradation and concomitant extinction'' of animal populations associated with rapid increase of human population and economic development, according to Robert L. Peters 2d and Thomas E. Lovejoy of the World Wildlife F... |
89348_0 | New Day Is Dawning in Tiny Pacific Palau | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Your Oct. 13 news article on challenges to the vote to end a nuclear-weapons ban in the tiny Pacific island group of Palau, in which I was quoted, contains inaccuracies and erroneous assumptions. In particular, it is implied that United States economic assistance to Palau under a Com... |
89439_1 | Wall Street Job Outlook Dims | and college relations manager at Paine Webber Inc. in New York. ''We can't give students definite answers until the market settles down.'' Salomon Brothers, which laid off about 800 employees last month, will hire ''slightly fewer'' entry-level professionals this year, said Terry R. Connelly, who oversees hiring in the... |
89088_7 | U.S. Designs Spy Satellites To Be More Secret Than Ever | Soviet radar scopes, he said, the selective use of stealth techniques could easily disguise the true mission of spy satellites. Perhaps the most exotic and powerful technique under development is the effort toward satellite sensors that can simultaneously monitor hundreds of distinct parts of the electromagnetic spectr... |
91197_0 | Palestinians Hijack Boat With 8 Aboard | LEAD: The Palestinian guerrilla group led by Abu Nidal announced here today that one of its units had seized a French-registered boat with eight people aboard off the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip. The Palestinian guerrilla group led by Abu Nidal announced here today that one of its units had seized a French-registered b... |
91216_1 | Ulster Ordeal: The Bad Years | Ambassador to Ireland, Christopher Ewart-Biggs is killed by a mine near his residence outside Dublin. Feb. 17, 1978 - Twelve people are killed when the I.R.A. bombs a restaurant south of Belfast. March 22, 1979 - Britain's Ambassador to the Netherlands, Richard Sykes, and a valet are slain at the envoy's home in The Ha... |
91290_2 | Our Next Step In Central America | Guatemala agreement does not provide for reductions in Soviet aid to Managua. The Nicaraguan President recognizes this. While attending a session of the United Nations General Assembly recently, Mr. Ortega said he was prepared to discuss with the United States withdrawal of all Soviet and Cuban military aid. The Reagan... |
91147_0 | Report Assails U.S. Helicopter | LEAD: Crashes of the Army's most modern troop-carrying helicopters have been caused by ordinary radio waves from microwave towers, radio attennas and radar, a published report says. But a military spokesman has vehemently denied the report. Crashes of the Army's most modern troop-carrying helicopters have been caused b... |
97211_0 | NEWS SUMMARY: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1987 | LEAD: International 3-6 The White House pressed for support in the Senate for the American-Soviet missile treaty by providing data to show that the pact contains tighter verification provisions than any previous accord. Page 1 President Reagan is prepared, ''very well briefed'' and ''confident in our positions'' in adv... |
95533_0 | St. Lucia's Gallic Flair | LEAD: EVERYONE on St. Lucia seems to be a charter member of the Chamber of Commerce, led by the cabdrivers. Rarely does one meet drivers so in love with their country, so knowledgeable - and yet so willing to charge the correct fare. They will tell you about the hiking trails that wind through the interior's rain fores... |
95358_0 | WHAT MAN HAS DONE TO A HOSPITABLE PLANET | LEAD: SCIENTISTS and scholars met recently at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., to report on what man has done to the planet. In dozens of papers, they described how the pressures of human population and industrial activity had not only changed the face of the earth but also altered its physical elements. SCIENTIST... |
95253_2 | Madison Avenue's Baby Boom | years.'' Talent agencies in Minneapolis, Los Angeles and San Francisco report similar upswings. And Wilhelmina, a major New York agency, started a children's division five weeks ago. For corporations, the baby-borne messages seem to be having the intended effect. In a print ad for the Sharp Corporation that began runni... |
95084_0 | Bradley Proposes Cut In U.S. Sugar Subsidies | LEAD: WHAT this country needs, says Senator Bill Bradley, is a good 5-cent candy bar, and to get one he has written legislation that would slash price supports for United States sugar production and allow more sugar to be imported. WHAT this country needs, says Senator Bill Bradley, is a good 5-cent candy bar, and to g... |
91459_0 | Towns Turn Pesky Leaves Into Food for Suburban Soil | LEAD: As they struggle to find places to bury or burn their trash, officials throughout the New York metropolitan region are beginning to see the lunacy of an autumn tradition - dumping leaves in landfills. As they struggle to find places to bury or burn their trash, officials throughout the New York metropolitan regio... |
73414_0 | Poll Shows Most Priests Want the Right to Marry | LEAD: A majority of America's Roman Catholics parish priests think they should be allowed to marry, a New York Times/CBS News Poll shows. The priests are evenly split on ordaining women as priests and on whether it is sometimes proper to counsel the use of artificial birth control. A majority of America's Roman Catholi... |
73467_2 | Excerpts From Address by Representative of Priests, and the Pope's Reply | because it has serious implications for the Church. We know, Holy Father, that you have been unequivocal in your support for the celibate commitment which thousands of priests in the United States have made and intend to keep. For your support we are grateful because it is not easy to strive to be warm, loving and affe... |
73455_3 | Rio Journal; Plain Hoods to Police, Robin Hoods to Slums | Zone are important distribution points for cocaine, but authority in almost all shantytowns is exercised by different forms of organized crime, including those who run the illegal numbers game. A Vacuum Is Filled ''For decades, the favelas have been ignored by the Government,'' said Licia Valladares, a sociologist with... |
73503_2 | U.S. Priest Asks the Pope to 'Explore' Celibacy and Its Role in Shortage of Clergy | it as an opening wedge. I don't think any other priest has talked to him about that.'' Statement on Women But the Rev. Jack Frerker, executive director of the National Federation of Priests' Councils, which asked several years ago that the issue of celibacy be reconsidered, said that the remarks sounded ''safe'' and th... |
73449_4 | Hispanic Population Growing 5 Times as Fast as Rest of U.S. | origin now living in the United States and the 1.6 million Hispanic people who, the bureau estimated, do not specify their origin. High Fertility Rate The fertility rate is more than 40 percent higher for Hispanic women than for non-Hispanic women, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Stephanie Ventu... |
73441_5 | Farming in a Corporate Age | complement that was very diverse in itself, that was unrelated to cotton, and that was free-market oriented,'' or not subject to Government controls and subsidies as cotton is. Growing and marketing lettuce, tomatoes and other fruit and vegetables as branded products is potentially one of the most profitable endeavors ... |
73507_1 | NEWS SUMMARY: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1987 | anticipated from the Soviet-backed government. A3 No money saved by disarmament will be set aside for development in poorer nations, as the Soviet Union and third world countries wanted, delegates to a United Nations conference on the issue said. A3 President Aquino asked for help in a televised appearance, requesting ... |
78537_0 | Milwaukee Journal; Earthy City Is Reaching for the Stars | LEAD: This hardworking city, famous mostly for making beer, and drinking it, has always been a bit bashful about speaking up for itself. This hardworking city, famous mostly for making beer, and drinking it, has always been a bit bashful about speaking up for itself. But now it has decided to build a grand civic monume... |
78500_0 | Global Bankers and Ecology: Amazon Rain Forest Tells the Story | LEAD: The latest attempt on the life of Francisco Mendes Filho, a rubber worker and president of a rural union in Brazil, was made only last month. The attempt, like the four others before it, failed. The latest attempt on the life of Francisco Mendes Filho, a rubber worker and president of a rural union in Brazil, was... |
78500_2 | Global Bankers and Ecology: Amazon Rain Forest Tells the Story | by a developing country to sustain economic growth. 'Turning Into a Desert' ''We are not opposed to a road,'' Mr. Mendes said through an interpreter. ''We just want a road that benefits the rubber workers and other people who live in the forest.'' He said that the people of Acre did not want to repeat the experience of... |
78651_0 | Clues on Estrogen and Bones | LEAD: BONE cells are more like cells that line the uterus than they are like other cells of the body, scientists at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., have discovered. The finding helps explain why the female sex hormone estrogen seems to protect women from osteoporosis, the bone-deteriorating disease. BONE cells are... |
76913_1 | Mobile Telephones For All Occasions | police. A growing number of Miami drug dealers now use the phones because they are more difficult to trace than ordinary phones and because, as with the taco cart, they help raise sales. Indeed, there are now 800,000 cellular phones in use in the United States, and they are changing the way Americans communicate and co... |
71164_0 | Transforming Animals Into Drug Makers | LEAD: SCIENTISTS are reporting their first successes in genetically transforming animals so that they can produce drugs and other useful substances in their milk. While the technique is still in the early stages of development, it could one day turn farm animals into living factories, producing pharmaceuticals, industr... |
72648_2 | LATIN CROPS SPUR A BOOM IN FLORIDA | that no more is available in South Dade. Brooks lists 20 tropical fruits in its catalogue. #10-Fold Rise in Shipments In the last three years, he said, not counting the sales of mangos, avocados or limes, the company's shipments of Latin produce increased from 2,500 cases a week to 25,000 cases that are being sent to s... |
72595_2 | The Search For Safety In Quakes | be accelerated at a rate half that of the earth's gravity and in a variety of wave patterns. Implications for Nuclear Plants A model of the piping system at a nuclear power plant was recently tested on the shake table, with attention focused on the system's most vulnerable parts, such as where it pierces the wall of th... |
78748_3 | Computers a Catalyst for Catalysts | recent study for a Department of Energy program on energy conservation and utilization technologies, the Battelle Memorial Institute, a reseach firm based in Columbus, Ohio, estimated that such molecular engineering has the potential to save American chemical companies and petroleum refining plants $100 billion over th... |
78772_2 | Italy Drops Plan on Public-School Religion Classes | the role of the church in modern Italian society. Although the Vatican and the local hierarchy are not as dominant as before, the church proved again today that it retains considerable influence. Continued conflict over religious instruction seemed assured tonight as Communist Party leaders announced plans to demand a ... |
71875_0 | Buy Bonds, Save Rain Forests | LEAD: Imagine that there was a way to preserve endangered environments like the Amazon rain forest, one that also eased the foreign debt burden blocking third world development. Environmentalists and development proponents, often at odds, would cheer. Thanks to the Frank Weeden Foundation of Connecticut, there's no nee... |
77069_1 | French Fall in Step Under a German | have French forces come under an American command in peacetime,'' said Francois Heisbourg, the new director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. ''This Gaullist heritage will remain. At the same time, when push comes to shove, the French will always be where you need them.'' After de Gaulle p... |
74860_0 | Bricks From Trash | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: Our throw-away society has reached a crisis in trying to find new ways to dispose of our garbage, a problem too long ignored. In Shanghai, China's largest city, they have an ingenious use for their 10,000 tons of daily garbage. After processing in a treatment plant, the material is c... |
74944_2 | Excerpts From Papal Address to Communications Executives | of great beauty, revealing what is noble and uplifting in humanity and promoting what is just and fair and true. On the other hand, communications can appeal to and promote what is debased in people: dehumanized sex through pornography or through a casual attitude toward sex and human life, greed through materialism an... |
75018_2 | OUSTER MOVE SEEN AT ATOMIC AGENCY | Western diplomats said they still hoped to defeat the expulsion move. But many are pessimistic. They point out that developing countries likely to vote against South Africa are expected to attend next week's meeting in force because it marks the agency's 30th anniversary. The Organization of African Unity has also aske... |
75398_1 | Lebanese Suspect in '85 Hijacking Arrested by the F.B.I. While at Sea | Younis ''voluntarily'' boarded a vessel manned by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents somewhere in the Mediterranean. They would not state what they meant by ''voluntarily.'' They also insisted that the United States Government's action was legal. A Promise of Drugs A senior Federal official said tonight that Mr. Yo... |
76049_0 | On the Trail of Great Indian Art | LEAD: Twenty years ago I sailed up the Northwest Coast in the unlikeliest of vessels - a 100-foot medical mission boat borrowed from the United Church of Canada. It was crewed by two Kwakiutl Indians who knew much more about the jagged, often fogbound Inner Passage than the charts did. Sometimes we held our breath as o... |
75909_3 | A Cautious Europe Cheers U.S.-Soviet Moves on Arms | elimination of medium-range missiles from Europe, largely because this would leave behind battlefield nuclear weapons stationed and targeted almost exclusively in and on West and East Germany. France Had Been Skeptical Mr. Kohl, however, was compelled by Washington and the preponderance of German public opinion to endo... |
76122_0 | SOCIAL SERVICES EVALUATED | LEAD: A 189-PAGE report that documents growing evidence of poverty, homelessness and child abuse in one of the nation's most affluent counties was the subject of a public hearing last week, following its release earlier this month by Westchester's Department of Social Services. A 189-PAGE report that documents growing ... |
75864_2 | VIEWS ON EDUCATING THE HANDICAPPED | December 1983, ''The Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments [ P.L. 98-199 ] '' became law. Included in this act is assessing of progress in the implementation of educating handicapped children and the learning of the effectiveness of state and local efforts to provide a free and appropriate public education to all... |
76101_2 | CRAB SHELLS SEEN AS INDUSTRY WASTE SOLUTION | in East Hartford. The cost of waste-water treatment for a metal plating shop is generally between 11 and 21 percent of gross revenues, said Mr. DeWitt. There is also the cost of the metals lost in the hydroxide sludge, and the possibility that waste dumps will close and platers will have no disposal sites. Chitosan (pr... |
75754_1 | A Sweet Deal for the United States . . . But Don't Tax the Farmers | or not they were already in surplus - to generate cash for interest payments. The developing countries had no choice but to cooperate. So they began subsidizing the production of commodities they could sell below cost quickly, taking away markets from American producers. Because developing nations are required to consu... |
76242_0 | COMPLIANCE OR RESISTANCE? | LEAD: THE JEWS OF PARIS AND THE FINAL SOLUTION Communal Response and Internal Conflicts, 1940-1944. By Jacques Adler. 310 pp. New York: Oxford University Press. $32.50. THE JEWS OF PARIS AND THE FINAL SOLUTION Communal Response and Internal Conflicts, 1940-1944. By Jacques Adler. 310 pp. New York: Oxford University Pre... |
76076_3 | A NATION IN DECLINE | itself. In the case of the Stark, no one was tried by court-martial to establish a clear verdict of responsibility. In 1756, in an analagous situation, the British Navy sent an inadequate and poorly manned fleet to fight off a French attack on Minorca. When the commander, Adm. John Byng, lost the island through a half-... |
76264_11 | THE HISTORIAN: 'A WRESTLER WITH THE ANGEL' | he would more often have used the telephone. Consequently, when historians find a memorandum from President Johnson to Secretary Rusk, they will wonder whether the record was made not to guide action but to convey a desired impression to future historians. President Nixon's notorious effort to use the new electronic te... |
76264_12 | THE HISTORIAN: 'A WRESTLER WITH THE ANGEL' | move away from the larger political community, might have become the leitmotif. Just as the Puritans came to America as seceders from Britain, so the westward movers in the 19th century were seceders from the heavily settled, increasingly urban Atlantic coastal nation. If the South had won the Civil War, if the Republi... |
75867_0 | VIEWS ON EDUCATING THE HANDICAPPED | LEAD: In reply to the letter ''Education and the Handicapped,'' I say ''bravo'' to Jane Goldblatt. In reply to the letter ''Education and the Handicapped,'' I say ''bravo'' to Jane Goldblatt. The special education system, at least the one we've had to deal with, is in my opinion nothing more than a disgrace. The system... |
76036_3 | FOOD TEAM PUTS TOGETHER NEW PRODUCT | he believed the development of the product was speeded up because there were no barriers set up between members of the group. ''All of us wore a lot of hats; we had to, we're a lean organization in which everyone has to play more than one role.'' According to Dr. El-Hag, Culinova products - fresh, nutritionally sound m... |
70712_0 | Those Sugar Tariff Rebates Would Save Jobs | LEAD: To the Editor: To the Editor: I could not let your editorial on the trade bill slip by (''The Senate Trashes Trade,'' July 24) without commenting on your unfair treatment of New York's Senators, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Alfonse M. D'Amato, for their support of tariff rebates to cane sugar refiners. The provisi... |
70829_1 | Architecture Rocks The Boat at Lloyd's | to survey the underwriters and brokers about their attitudes toward the building. The purpose of this independent study, according to Lloyd's, is to ''identify as wide a range of views as possible prior to any decision on major changes to the current arrangements.'' The snowballing list of complaints concern the techni... |
70777_2 | Not-So-Lonesome Pine Martens Beg With Panache on Trails | was.'' ''You are trying not to laugh. She said this thing was ferocious, and I thought she had an encounter with a bear,'' he continued. ''Then she said, 'It was little, but it growled and hissed and snarled and chewed a hole through our $200 pack.' '' The Ranger gave them a ride out of the woods so they could spend th... |
72221_2 | A Player's Courage On and Off the Field | was suggested by Lisa D'Addario, our sponsor,'' said Miss Rioux, who starred in softball, basketball and field hockey while attending Westhill High School in Stamford. During the surgery, known as a shunt, a tube was inserted from Miss Rioux's brain to the intestines to drain body fluids that had been trapped in the lo... |
72305_1 | IDEAS & TRENDS: How Genetics Works; From Mendel's Pea Plants To Montana's Disputed Elms | plants and carefully noting the results, Mendel provided the first evidence for the existence of the gene. It was by altering these hereditary agents that Dr. Gary Strobel, a plant pathologist at Montana State University, produced bacteria he hoped would be especially adept at fighting Dutch elm disease. But last week ... |
72342_0 | GOING FOR BROKE: WHEN A DECISION IS FINAL | LEAD: IN so many World War II movies, Jack Hawkins or another actor of his stripe brings in a young commando lieutenant and asks him what he knows about the drydock at Saint-Nazaire, France. Or the radar facility at Bruneval or the merchant ships at Bordeaux or the Norwegian heavy water facility. And then he sets that ... |
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