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By William Corey, Standard-Times staff writer
NEW BEDFORD -- John P. "Joli" Gonsalves, an accomplished musician and proud Cape Verdean-American who worked to preserve and celebrate his culture, died yesterday after a long illness. He was 73.
A New Bedford native, Mr. Gonsalves toured with Harry Belafonte, appeared on the Ed Sullivan television program, and was knighted in Liberia for composing that country's national anthem.
Yesterday, a chorus of friends remembered Mr. Gonsalves fondly.
By Jack Stewardson, Standard-Times staff writer
NEW BEDFORD -- When state officials made a swing through the SouthCoast yesterday to highlight area aquaculture development, Trio Algarvio Seafood's summer flounder project wasn't on the list.
Company president Kathy Downey said it was her choice that her South Terminal fish plant wasn't one of the stops made by officials from the state Department of Food and Agriculture.
She's got a beef with the state and with the more than three years it has taken to get a permit for her aquaculture facility to operate.
By Patricia O'Connor, Standard-Times staff writer
DARTMOUTH -- Five years ago, Jimmy Campo started feeling ill. Some days, he felt so crummy the 32-year-old called in sick to his job at Boston's Pine Street Inn.
During the next two years, he visited his primary care physician a number of times. At one point, he was diagnosed with vertigo and given antihistamines to clear his head.
The medication didn't help. His health problems gradually got worse. He returned to his health maintenance organization again and again.
A new report issued by the Catholic Church puts more perspective on the story a 23-year-old New Bedford resident told about the atrocities in Guatemala that made him flee the country.
Along with 12 other Guatemalans -- all Maya Indians -- the man was arrested Monday night at Mar-Lees Seafood, where the group allegedly worked without proper documentation.
By David Rising, and Jack Stewardson
Standard-Times staff writers
NEW BEDFORD -- The Coast Guard briefly restricted boat traffic in the harbor for about 45 minutes yesterday after 700 to 900 gallons of diesel fuel leaked overnight from a city fishing boat.
The Coast Guard asked boats to temporarily stay at the dock to prevent further stirring up the spill, which came from the scalloper Georges Bank at Homers Wharf, when a closed valve resulted in a fuel backup that overflowed into the harbor.
WASHINGTON -- The tobacco industry is arguing in a hard-sell ad campaign that passage of anti-smoking legislation would lead to a cigarette black market and a huge new federal bureaucracy to monitor tobacco sales.
Rebuffed even by their allies in Congress, the tobacco companies have turned for support outside the Capital Beltway.
MOSCOW -- After a month of confrontation, Russian lawmakers caved in to Boris Yeltsin yesterday, approving his nominee for prime minister and reluctantly handing the reins of government to a relatively untested 35-year-old banker.
Sergei Kiriyenko, who arrived in Moscow less than a year ago to take his first government job, is now the second-most powerful politician in Russia. If anything happens to Yeltsin, Kiriyenko would run the country until new elections could be held.
By Jovana Gec, Associated Press writer
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- Mired in clashes with ethnic Albanians in restive Kosovo province, the Yugoslav army warned of war yesterday unless the West pressures the separatists to "give up."
The warning came as officials claimed a victory for President Slobodan Milosevic's defiant policy. Final figures from a referendum Thursday showed 95 percent of Serb voters rejected foreign mediation over Kosovo, where ethnic Albanians outnumber Serbs 9-to-1.
Despite few signs of a campaign, Wareham Republican Samuel Corbitt says he will seek a rematch in November with freshman state Rep. Ruth Provost of Sandwich.
"Ruth is very vulnerable," the former state representative said yesterday. "She has voted against her constituents on a number of big headline issues." He cited votes for the Cape Cod land bank, against the death penalty and for a capital-gains tax increase.
BOSTON -- When Stephen Fagan stole his two small daughters and slipped out of Massachusetts nearly 20 years ago, authorities say he assumed the name and Social Security number of a dead child named William Martin.
Now federal investigators want to know how the Palm Beach socialite used the identity and at least two other Social Security numbers without reporting income in the past 19 years.
BOSTON -- Rebuffed by local officials, Nextel Communications is asking a federal judge for the right to build a controversial cellular-phone communications tower in Lakeville.
In a suit filed in U.S. District Court in Boston, the company charges that the town violated the Federal Telecommunications Act when it twice denied the firm's request for permission to build a tower.
NEW BEDFORD -- Aquaculture can add another arrow to the SouthCoast region's economic quiver, the head of the state Department of Food and Agriculture suggested yesterday.
"I think it offers real growth opportunities for both the consumer and for business," said Jay Healy, commissioner of the Food and Agriculture Department, during a swing through the New Bedford-Fall River area to visit several local fish farming operations.
By Ric Oliveira, Standard-Times staff writer
FALL RIVER -- Al Mac's Diner is going national. But the chourico and chips, a daily feature attraction, may not.
Next month, the Franklin Mint will release a new collectible, a silver spork (combination spoon and fork) and knife featuring Al Mac's Diner, as the first piece in a new collection.
Beginning in May, each collectible sells for $37.50. The folks at Al Mac's hope the Fall River landmark becomes a nationally recognized eatery.
I am not a terrific cook. I wish I could say it was some kind of genetic defect, but both of my sisters are very good cooks. So, it's just me. I stink, pretty much.
My problem is one of never having mastered the basics. No, it runs deeper than that. I have never mastered the concept of cooking. That boiling results in one kind of product and roasting or frying quite another -- but don't ask me which. There's a science at work here, I gather, and if one follows a recipe and observes the rules of physics, beef Wellington results.
By The Associated Press
After spending his frail life in the shadows, 6-year-old James "Mikey" Walker had his first moment in the sun.
Thanks to some space-age technology, the Virginia Beach, Va., youngster emerged earlier this week from the shuttered confines of his school classroom to experience the simple joy of morning recess.
Shortly after birth, Mikey was diagnosed with congenital erythropoietic porphyria, or Gunther's disease, a rare condition that leaves the body defenseless against harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun.
By Holly Ramer, Associated Press writer
A quarter century after the 1973 oil crisis created a wood-heat boom across northern New England, the lessons learned have drifted away like a wisp of smoke.
In New Hampshire, less than 9 percent of those surveyed by the state energy office during the winter of 1996-97 said they still heat their homes with wood, continuing a steady drop from the winter of 1983-84, when 30 percent of the households surveyed used wood as their primary heat source.
By Bob Hanna, Standard-Times staff writer
The Bristol Stars will try to double their pleasure today when they play the Bay State Magic of Braintree for the state AAU 15-and-under championship.
The Stars, who are made up mostly of area high school players, will have to beat the Magic twice as they lost to the Braintree team the first time they met.
"If we can get by the first game, I think we have enough depth to carry us through the second game," said coach Gary Trahan, who is also the program director for the Bristol Stars organization.
By The Associated Press
FOXBORO -- The New England Patriots' draft choices and free-agent rookies got their first taste of NFL football yesterday at the team's rookie orientation minicamp.
The Patriots' 10 draftees and 11 nondrafted rookies were joined by several veterans who voluntarily showed up -- including quarterbacks Drew Bledsoe and Scott Zolak and wide receiver Terry Glenn -- as coach Pete Carroll began the task of acclimating the newcomers into his system.
By Buddy Thomas, Standard-Times Senior Sports Editor
WAREHAM -- Ryan Racicot pitched one of his better games as a member of the Wareham varsity, but the buzz word around Spillane Field following yesterday's 3-2 victory over Fairhaven centered around two -- as in double.
Peter Latham's second double of the game drove in Stephen Spiro from second base, snapping a 2-2 tie in the bottom of the sixth inning, and Racicot doubled his season total for wins with his second victory of the season, a complete-game, five-hitter.
CLEVELAND -- Three runs had already scored and another member of the Cleveland Indians was in scoring position in the first inning when Red Sox pitching coach Joe Kerrigan decided to make a routine stop of Tim Wakefield.
It seems Wakefield had been guilty of exceeding the speed limit with his knuckleball.
"I checked the charts," said Kerrigan, "and I noticed that most of them were 68-69 mph. I told him to slow it down a little bit."
By Joseph White, Associated Press writer
WASHINGTON -- Darren Van Impe scored his second goal of the game 54 seconds into the second overtime last night, to give the Bruins a 4-3 victory over Capitals, tying the opening-round playoff series at one game apiece.
Van Impe, unchecked in front of the net, put the puck between goaltender Olaf Kolzig's legs after taking a pass from a diving Jason Allison.
It was jobs, said the press release from the Immigration and Naturalization Service. It was jobs that attracted Maya Indians from Guatemala to the United States, to New Bedford, and arresting a dozen of them at a local seafood processing plant was nothing more than routine police work.
That's what the INS said as it began the procedures that could well result in those Maya Indians being returned to Guatemala.
NEW BEDFORD When I recently wrote a letter to this page, I wrote the word "Capeverdean" several times as one word, yet the spelling of the word was edited to be two words, "Cape Verdeans."
The prevailing form of writing the word around here is two words, and possibly the editors decided to go with the most used format of writing the word. But I believe that at the end of this letter the public might be inclined to agree that Capeverdean should be written as one word.
LAKEVILLE There have been several articles published about the proposed $2.7 million library that will cost the town $1.5 million with a tax increase of 83 cents per $1,000 property valuation.
Originally we purchased the McGuire property adjacent to the library for approximately $140,000. This was to be the site of a new 13,500-square-foot library to be located on this 38,800-square-foot lot. This has cost in the neighborhood of $1,000 per month in payments since 1990. This house is currently being used by the assessors. So much for that plan and your money.
By Caryn James, The New York Times
The Lady of the Lake, played by Miranda Richardson and looking as if she were spun out of light, rises from the water and tells her wizard of a nephew, "It's human to make mistakes, Merlin, and part of you is human, the best part."
Sam Neill, who plays Merlin from idealistic young manhood to white-bearded age, is then in his middle years, berating himself for having misjudged Sir Lancelot. Throughout this fanciful, enchanted miniseries, Neill's Merlin, half human and half wizard, provides the strong human heart around which all the magic of Camelot swirls.
By David Bauder, Associated Press television writer
Bravo wasn't looking for a cheap excuse to film a travelogue when it filled its profile of the singer Bjork with breathtaking pictures of the primordial Icelandic terrain.
Understanding Bjork's native Iceland is an important prerequisite for understanding her.
When she returned home at the beginning of last year, Bjork went for a nighttime walk where ice was thawing in the lava fields. The crackle of the ice and the Northern Lights above her filled her senses and inspired the striking sounds on her "Homogenic" album, an intriguing combination of strings and electronic beats.
It's one of television's best brand names. But so is Barney, and that didn't help his movie career.
Launching a Hollywood unit, MTV is now making no fewer than five feature films. Following the popular 1996 animated release "Beavis and Butt-head Do America," MTV's movie division will introduce its first live-action film this summer.
"Dead Man on Campus" is a sometimes raunchy black comedy about suicide and college capers starring Tom Everett Scott and Mark-Paul Gosselaar, two relative unknowns. The film will test MTV's ability to move from television to cinema, where stakes are higher and customers far more unpredictable.
By Frazier Moore, Associated Press television writer
It hasn't been so long since warnings were received from across the sea: A group of quirky English performers was poised to invade America with its frolicsome act, otherworldly appearance and bewitching effect on fans.
All too soon, the dread forecast proved true. The Spice Girls were here.
Now another invasion is taking place. But you have nothing to dread from "Teletubbies," the wildly popular British children's TV series that premieres on PBS this week (check local listings for daily airtime).
BOSTON -- Scudder announced the launch of Scudder Real Estate Investment Fund, a non-diversified no-load mutual fund that invests primarily in equity real estate investment trusts (REITs).
"More and more investors are seeking to invest in this asset class as a way to enhance diversification across their financial holdings and take advantage of positive trends in U.S. real estate securities," said Mark S. Casady, Director of Scudder Kemper Investments' Mutual Funds Group. Scudder Real Estate Investment Fund offers a convenient way for investors to gain exposure to U.S. real estate. "When combined with other investments, this Fund can offer valuable diversification to a personal portfolio."
When Andy and Sharon Filler of San Francisco decided six months ago to buy their first home, they knew they faced a tight market. What they didn't realize was that there was almost nothing to buy.
The couple wanted a three-bedroom house in the $400,000 range. But each time they found a house, it vanished. Four times the Fillers made an offer, staking their claim within hours after the property appeared on the market, and four times they were outbid by $60,000 or more.
LAKEVILLE -- Clergy and leaders of 16 churches in Middleboro and Lakeville have issued a "position paper" expressing concern over the scheduling of sporting events when worship services and religious education classes normally take place.
The statement, titled "Events in Conflict With Religious Practice," was issued by the Middleboro-Lakeville Clergy Association.
NEW BEDFORD -- His Eminence Metropolitan Methodios of Aneon, the presiding hierarch of the Greek Orthodox Diocese of Boston, will join the congregation of St. George Greek Orthodox Church in New Bedford in celebrating its nameday on Sunday.
The metropolitan will officiate at the matins service at 9 a.m. and preside at the hierarchical divine liturgy at 10, following which there will be a dinner in the parish hall in honor of the nameday of the parish's patron saint.
FAIRHAVEN -- The Unitarian Memorial Church at Green and Center Streets will provide the setting for the May Fellowship meeting of Church Women United at 7:30 p.m. May 1.
"Widening the Circle of Hospitality" will be the theme for this year's meeting, which will feature as guest speaker Mary Beth Racine, assistant emergency coordinator for the Red Cross in New Bedford who volunteered earlier this year to go to Georgia to assist victims of devastating floods in the Flint River area of the state.
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