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By Jack Spillane, Standard-Times staff writer
NEW BEDFORD -- A majority of the candidates running for the 12 public offices being contested in the 1999 election in the city showed up to air their views at a forum yesterday.
In the mayoral contest between incumbent Mayor Frederick M. Kalisz Jr. and Eddie L. Johnson there were some spirited exchanges, but the debate among the seven out of 10 councilor-at-large candidates who attended was often, though not always, a chorus of agreement.
Southeastern Massachusetts was hit harder than any other area of the state by air pollutants from power plants during the first six months of 1999, according to a study released yesterday by a coalition of environmental groups.
Although emissions have declined slightly at three of the five fossil-fuel-fired electric plants in the state, they have risen at Brayton Point Station in Somerset and Canal Electric Power station in Sandwich.
DARTMOUTH -- Dr. David Miller, a local allergy and asthma specialist, is one of many local doctors frustrated with HMOs.
He says insurance companies are trying to put doctors in a business, instead of a profession, and view patients as a number, instead of a person.
By Jack Stewardson, Standard-Times staff writer
MATTAPOISETT -- Theodore D. Tetreault likes to call it the seventh wonder of Massachusetts.
He might be a little prejudiced, but again, he has cause to be.
The 86-year-old sign maker and muralist built the Route 6 sea horse that has greeted motorists in Mattapoisett for more than half a century.
Dick White
Four American Lock padlocks secure the doors to the metal-sided Normandin Junior High School portable classrooms. They were fastened there the day before Hurricane Floyd failed to shake the world.
But since then, inside the school, there's been a whole lot of shakin' going on. Since then, they've been doin' the Normandin Shuffle.
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YEREVAN, Armenia -- Gunmen seized Armenia's parliament in a torrent of automatic weapons fire yesterday, killing the prime minister and at least six other people before holing up in the building with dozens of hostages.
With the bodies of Prime Minister Vazgen Sarkisian and Parliament Speaker Karen Demirchian still on the podium where they fell, the attackers demanded to see the president.
By Ron Fournier, Associated Press writer
HANOVER, N.H. -- Pressed in campaign debate about President Clinton's personal behavior, Vice President Al Gore said yesterday night he shared the public's disappointment and anger during the Monica Lewinsky controversy and sought to provide "as much continuity and stability" as possible.
"He's my friend," Gore said of the president, fielding the first question from a voter in the first debate with presidential campaign rival Bill Bradley.
WASHINGTON -- In the first bipartisan effort to fully restore food stamp benefits to legal immigrants, Sens. Edward Kennedy and Arlen Specter yesterday proposed repealing key provisions of the 1996 welfare reform law.
It's doubtful the bill -- which also relaxes other eligibility standards for food stamps -- will be passed into law in the few weeks remaining in the first half of the 106th Congress.
BOSTON -- As negotiations on the state's $20.8 billion budget continue to drag out on Beacon Hill, Sen. Mark C.W. Montigny is taking -- and giving -- some heat.
The House passed an interim state budget for November yesterday; it now appears that Sen. Montigny's first state budget as chairman of Senate Ways and Means will end up being the latest state budget in history. The prior record was set in 1975 when Gov. Michael S. Dukakis signed the annual spending plan on Nov. 8.
BOSTON -- After years of blaming its acid rain and smog problems on dirty Midwestern power plants, the Northeast is finally beginning to clean up its own back yard.
A New England-wide coalition of environmental groups released a study yesterday suggesting it's about time.
BOSTON -- The pressure continues to build on legislative leaders who are falling behind a self-imposed target date to get a $20.8 billion budget passed.
Administration and Finance Secretary Andrew Natsios said Tuesday that he believed further delay could pose serious problems for senior citizens, businesses and taxpayers in general.
By Jay Lindsay, Associated Press writer
BOSTON -- Nine women golfers who claimed they were given terrible tee times and denied other benefits were awarded nearly $2 million yesterday in their gender discrimination suit against Haverhill Country Club.
A Suffolk Superior Court jury of seven men and seven women deliberated three days before returning with damages larger than attorneys for the plaintiffs expected.
WASHINGTON -- After decades of deficit gloom, the United States posted a record $123 billion federal budget surplus last year, marking the first back-to-back surpluses since Dwight Eisenhower was president.
The good news announcement -- exceeding all estimates -- sparked a battle for bragging rights yesterday between the White House and the Republican-led Congress, with both sides hoping to reap political dividends in next year's elections.
By Lorraine Lucciola, Standard-Times correspondent
Goblins, ghouls and ghosts need not apply for Saturday's "Historical Cemetery Tour" sponsored by the Preservation Society of New Bedford. This unusual contrast to the typical Halloween high jinks aims only to scare up a reverence for the illustrious souls buried in New Bedford's Rural Cemetery.
Jim Barton, who describes himself as "just a member" of 25 years' standing with the Preservation Society, is co-chairing the event with Louis St. Aubin, proprietor of Brookside Antiques.
Buddy Thomas
All-Whatever teams are fun as long as you don't take them too seriously.
Unfortunately, high school Hall of Fame inductions are either taken too seriously or not seriously enough, which can and has resulted in bitterness and dismay.
The intention is noble enough. It's a school's way of offering a curtain call to the former student who once brought honor to his or her school through athletic achievement.
It's also a way to keep memories alive.
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By Ben Walker, Associated Press writer
NEW YORK -- The Rocket can rest now. The ring is his.
Roger Clemens pitched the New York Yankees to their second straight World Series sweep, shutting down the Atlanta Braves 4-1 last night and ending his quest for the one and only prize that eluded him.
With raucous fans waving yellow, plastic brooms all over the ballpark and Clemens bouncing around on the mound, the Yankees won their record 25th championship. Game 4 marked New York's 12th Series victory a row, matching the mark set by its Murderers' Row teams.
By Howard Ulman, Associated Press writer
FOXBORO -- Jeff Kopp was cut by the Baltimore Ravens, failed a tryout with the lowly Atlanta Falcons and was unemployed for three weeks.
On Sunday, he could be starting at linebacker for the New England Patriots, whose 5-2 record is one of the NFL's best.
"It's a great country, isn't it?" Kopp said yesterday before going through his first practice with his new team.
It sure is, especially when a team is as desperate for linebackers as the Patriots.
The biggest thing you'll notice about the Boston Bruins as they return to the FleetCenter tonight for a 7 p.m. faceoff against the improved Tampa Bay Lightning isn't how confident and relaxed they are after finally winning a couple of hockey games.
It's Ray Bourque's back. You can see it now because at the tail end of a 21-year career, the soon-to-be 39-year-old no longer carries the entire organization on it.
Bourque's been saying right along that "this is their team,'' referring to the younger nucleus of the Bruins.
He's finally right.
The food and beverage industry would like nothing better than to take the Massachusetts bottle law, wrap that baby in a nice blanket, and leave it on the doorstep of the cities and towns to deal with through recycling programs.
It's too bad voluntary recycling hasn't really gripped the imagination of most Bay Staters, because if it had, a far stronger argument could be made that the bottle law is obsolete and redundant.
WASHINGTON
Ironically, Rhode Island Sen. John Chafee died just hours before conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan bade farewell to the Republican Party with a verbal blast at the enlightened mainstream Republicans that Chafee personified.
No two Republicans could have been further apart in philosophy and approach to government than Chafee, who was ending his fifth term in the Senate, and Buchanan, who ended his fourth unsuccessful bid for the GOP presidential nomination.
Fright week continues across the dial.
TLC serves up an entry-level course in spooks and spook-ology with the diverting documentary "Movie Monsters Revealed" (9 p.m.). Using a wealth of strange, obscure (and presumably cheap and/ or public-domain) clips from movies ranging from the classic German silent "Nosferatu" to 1950s Mexican vampire flicks, "Monsters" looks at the historical and psychological reasons behind out favorite creatures, including vampires, mummies, witches, ghosts and zombies.
Joanna McQuillan Weeks
What camp do you fall into when it comes to the "real" millennium: the '00s or the '01s?
Erik Kanin says, "I'm neither -- I don't care," adding, with a chuckle, "I'm just amazed that it's come so fast."
That's the diplomatic answer that you might expect from a publisher of specialty calendars.
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By Donna Anuszczyk, Standard-Times correspondent
In the late 1830s, Charles Dickens created the character of an orphan boy named Oliver Twist. Today, the classic musical, "Oliver!" based on Oliver Twist, written by Lionel Bart, is performed onstage, capturing the hearts of its audience.
The Little Theatre of Fall River presents "Oliver!" tonight through Sunday at Bristol Community College. Bringing "Oliver!" to life is an extremely large cast of 134, including 80 children.
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