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By Jack Stewardson, Standard-Times staff writer
DARTMOUTH -- The skipper of the Cape Fear says the ocean quahogger probably took fewer than five minutes to sink off Buzzards Bay Light nearly two weeks ago.
"I would say it was five minutes, and I would swear it was less than that," Steven C. Novack.
The skipper of the ill-fated ocean quahogger told a Coast Guard hearing officer yesterday of the minutes before and after the sinking during an inquiry into the tragedy that cost the lives of two fishermen.
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NEW BEDFORD -- Residents say North Front Street is still a "vergonha" -- a place of shame.
Less than 24 hours after 27-year-old Ismael Martinez of Fall River was shot dead at 323 N. Front St., residents yesterday were quick to blame the police for a lack of patrols in the area.
FREETOWN -- The recurrent issue of where fifth graders will go to learn surfaced again this week, as the Freetown School Building Needs Committee met for the first time.
Convening beneath student artwork in the auditorium that read "whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right," committee members groped to find where the group's focus can or can't begin and end.
Dick White
Bill Clinton was about to give the last State of the Union speech of the 20th century and all was quiet inside the office of the mayor of New Bedford.
A tired, but alert, Mayor Fred Kalisz sat a few feet away from the modest 13-inch color TV within his sanctum sanctorum.
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WASHINGTON -- President Clinton bolstered his already robust standing in the polls with a State of the Union address that focused on problems facing Americans but didn't mention his own biggest problem -- the Senate impeachment trial.
Polls released yesterday by ABC, CBS and NBC suggested the public's approval of Clinton's job performance are near all-time highs even as the Senate is hearing evidence on whether the president should be removed from office.
SIPOLJE, Yugoslavia -- Serb forces battled ethnic Albanian rebels in northwestern Kosovo yesterday as both sides ignored NATO warnings to halt the fighting. At least two guerrillas were killed and a Serb mother and her two children were reported injured.
The deaths came in a gunbattle that broke out near Kosovska Mitrovica, 25 miles northwest of Pristina, the capital of the separatist province. There were no reports of Serb casualties.
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Riding a bump in the polls, President Clinton argued vigorously yesterday for his plan to save the budget surplus for protecting Social Security, saying it will give the nation stronger economic footing "long after I'm gone from the White House."
Joined by the vice president and both their wives, Clinton promoted the agenda he revealed in his State of the Union address at the first public rally since he was impeached Dec. 19.
WASHINGTON -- House-passed articles of impeachment are "flawed and unfair," President Clinton's legal team argued before the Senate yesterday in a finely detailed, sometimes emotional defense that challenged each claim of perjury and obstruction of justice.
The allegations "do not justify the nullification of a free election," said Special Counsel Gregory Craig.
BOSTON -- Two strikes and you're out of a teaching job if Gov. Paul Cellucci has his way.
Cellucci yesterday revived a proposal that calls for teachers to lose their certification if they fail a teacher test twice.
Stephen Gorrie, president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, immediately lambasted the proposal as "very simplistic, even Draconian, and insulting to the teachers in the classroom."
BOSTON -- Police can't order people out of cars during traffic stops unless they reasonably believe their safety or the public's is endangered, the state Appeals Court has ruled.
Defense lawyers say the rulings protect the public from police harassment.
However, prosecutors want the state Supreme Judicial Court to review the court's two decisions Tuesday, saying they will benefit criminals.
WASHINGTON -- A week after Wall Street shrugged off a new bout of global turbulence, this one coming from Brazil, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan issued a fresh warning to the high-flying stock market. But investors barely flinched.
Greenspan told lawmakers yesterday that he saw three primary threats to the U.S. economy -- a mushrooming trade deficit caused by spreading recessions overseas, a potentially inflationary shortage of workers and an unsustainably high stock market.
NEW BEDFORD -- As officials from AFC Cable Systems announced a new addition and projections for 35 new jobs, city officials beamed with pride.
AFC Cable Systems is building a 71,000-square-foot addition in the city's industrial park which will serve as their corporate headquarters in the city. AFC has been doing business here since 1927.
PROVIDENCE -- During his career as a playwright, Tom Grady often would get ideas for new works from his dad.
Some of those suggestions were a bit crazy, he recalled, but one of them sparked his interest and fired his imagination.
"He said, 'When I was a kid growing up in Dorchester, this murder happened in Onset and it really changed the way people vacationed, especially the lower-middle-class Irish,'" Mr. Grady recalled.
Relationships, no matter what the foundation. That is the key to the musical, "Falsettos," according to director Robbie Morgan Burke.
She is finally directing the work that has held a fascination for her in all its incarnations through the years. The Little Theatre of Fall River production opens Friday.
NEW BEDFORD -- With their top scorer and one of their captains riding the bench, the Bishop Stang Spartans unleashed their biggest scoring production of the season as they crushed Dartmouth, 11-3, last night at the Hetland Rink.
Bob Roy, the Spartans' the team's top scorer, and Jim Marr, a senior captain, were benched by coach Tim Drew for disciplinary reasons.
Buddy Thomas
It was inevitable.
The telephone call came late Tuesday morning from a women who said she was from Mattapoisett. She was calling to register her dissatisfaction with the new gymnasium at Fairhaven High School. The woman said she was appalled by the shortage of seating available for people attending Monday night's boys basketball game between Fairhaven and Old Rochester.
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NEW YORK -- After 204 days, hundreds of millions of dollars in losses and countless fits, starts, fights and snags, the NBA lockout finally came to an official end yesterday.
"It's a great feeling," commissioner David Stern said after he and union president Patrick Ewing affixed their signatures to the nearly 300-page collective bargaining agreement. " It was an incredible relief."
By Doug Chapman, New England Sports Service
FOXBORO -- The New England Revolution traded Raul Diaz Arce, Major League Soccer's all-time leading scorer, in a three-way deal that had as much to do with league economics as it did personnel.
Diaz Arce, an El Salvadoran international, was sent to the New York/New Jersey MetroStars for Venezuelan striker Giovanni Savarese, MLS's third all-time leading scorer, plus the MetroStars second pick in the 2000 college draft.
SAN FRANCISCO
President Clinton promised to take us into the 21st century, and he almost did before his speech ended Tuesday night.
After nearly 80 minutes of Clintonian visions for the future beyond the impeachment vote, I'm tired of the 21st century and want to move on to the 22nd.
Clinton said our generation has to live up to its historic responsibility to the 21st century. That made me a bit queasy. This was a guy who weaseled out of some of his historic responsibilities in the 20th century.
FAIRHAVEN
Jan. 22 marks the 26th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision recognizing a woman's right to abortion.
In January of 1995, I put an infuriating picture on my wall, a picture of then-Gov. William Weld and Cardinal Bernard Law. The headline boasted of a great abortion compromise, complete with negotiations and easing of tensions.
Even the Republicans, sitting on their hands, knew what they were witnessing Tuesday night in the House chamber. They sat at the feet of the single greatest politician of our era, defying political gravity as he electrified the nation for 77 minutes in his State of the Union speech.
This was the same Bill Clinton who earlier the same day was on trial just down the hall, in the Senate. But there was no hint of impeachment politics in his speech. Instead, Clinton, basking in the theatrics of the moment, reveled in the wonderful state of the economy, ticking off one proposal after another while simply ticking off his tormentors. His speech was directed at the vast television audience, certainly, and at the Democratic side of the aisle, which erupted in frequent applause.
NEW BEDFORD
Two weeks into the new year and I already feel overcome by all the negativism and despair around me. There is economic collapse in Brazil that threatens South America, economic crisis in Asia, raging civil wars in Africa, tension in the Mideast and with Iraq, Olympic scandal in Salt Lake City -- and, of course, impeachment.
What is a person to do? Actor Donald O'Connor said it well: "Be a clown," he sang in the film "Singin' in the Rain." But I think actress Goldie Hawn said it best on "Laugh-In," a 60's comedy variety show: "What we need is a bit more whimsy."
Joanna McQuillan Weeks
Music lovers have the opportunity to enjoy two terrific concerts dedicated to individuals this weekend.
Tabor Academy in Marion will inaugurate its William C. Maxwell Recital Series with a performance by acclaimed organist Walter Strony Friday evening.
On Sunday, the Greater New Bedford Choral Society's Winter Concert will be a memorial to longtime member Ella Sherberg, who died recently.
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What if they made a cop show and nobody cared? The past two seasons have been tough on the men-in-blue genre. Remember "Brooklyn South"? "Dellaventura"? "Michael Hayes"? Tonight, a new precinct house comes to your house in the guise of "Turks" (9 p.m., CBS, TV-PG, L, V), a father-and-sons-in-the-force drama starring William Devane ("Knots Landing").
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