Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from March 1986:
GRAMM-RUDMAN TAKES ITS FIRST BITE OUT OF DEFICIT TODAY.(Main)
Mar 01, 1986 ... Byline: Charles Green and Paul Magnusson Beginning today, it will cost veterans more to buy a home or to be buried. Fewer diseased cattle will be destroyed, fewer abandoned houses will be sold to homesteaders and less meat will be inspected. Some beaches and campsites will be ...
SWEDISH PRIME MINISTER PALME ASSASSINATED.(Main)
Mar 01, 1986 ... Byline: Combined wire services Prime Minister Olof Palme was gunned down on a snowy sidewalkFriday night as he walked with his wife in downtown Stockholm. He was pronounced dead at a hospital soon afterward. Police sealed off the city and ordered thorough checks at ...
REAGAN PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR PLAN TO REFORM PENTAGON.(Main)
Mar 01, 1986 ... Byline: James Gerstenzang A commission Friday gave President Reagan a sharply critical report on the state of the nation's massive defense establishment and recommended streamlined operations, less regulation and "major institutional change" in the Pentagon's purchasing ...
"CAGERS' GOES BACK A LONG WAY.(Local)
Mar 01, 1986 ... Byline: Barney Fowler Reporter's Notebook: The word "cagers" has been applied to basketball players for many a year. Ever wonder how it came intobeing in a game featuring teams of vigorous gentlemen bouncing a ball hither and yon with the avowed intention of eventually lowering ...
UPBEAT ON TROY GARDEN FIRM PLANS TO GROW.(Local)
Mar 01, 1986 ... Byline: Joe Picchi Garden Way Inc., one of the nation's top manufacturers of garden tillers, is planning a $10 million expansion by the end of the decade after purchasing 45 acres of abandoned land in South Troy. Jairo Estrada, Garden Way's president, said when the ...
WOMAN HIT BY AUTO ON WESTERN AVENUE.(Local)
Mar 01, 1986 ... A 46-year-old Albany woman was struck by a car Friday eveningwhile attempting to cross Western Avenue, Guilderland police said. Olga Varvarchin, of Highland Drive, was in the center median near Stuyvesant Plaza when she was hit by a car ...
GE SPILL CLOSES TAP ON WATERFORD WATER.(Local)
Mar 01, 1986 ... An unknown amount of the chemical toluene spilled into the Hudson River from the General Electric Silicones plant in town of Waterford Friday evening, a city worker said. An operator at the Waterford Water Works said his facility was instructed to switch to an emergency water ...
POSTAL WORKER GETS FINAL DELIVERY AFTER 28 YEARS: RETIREMENT CAKE.(Local)
Mar 01, 1986 ... Byline: Grace O'Connor Ray Dillon, a familiar face the past seven years at the Pine Station of the U.S. Postal Service in Albany, closed his window for the last time Friday. For 28 years, he said, "the post office has been good to me. It let me put six kids through ...
RECITING THEIR POETRY FOR LEGISLATORS NASSAU GIRLS PROUD, HAPPY.(Local)
Mar 01, 1986 ... Byline: Grace O'Connor Sarah Hains isn't really nervous about reading her poetry before New York state legislators on March 4, but she is excited. The fourth grade student at the Donald P. Sutherland School in Nassau said, "I've done a lot of things in front of ...
HALFMOON EXTENDS INSURANCE BUT COVERAGE, PRICE UNKNOWN.(Local)
Mar 01, 1986 ... The town will continue to have insurance coverage, though it will not know until Tuesday just how much or at what price, Supervisor John Dudek said Friday. "I'm sure the price will be higher," Dudek said. "You don't mind paying if you're going to be covered." Dudek ...
RENSS. CO. ARRESTS ARSON SUSPECTS.(Local)
Mar 01, 1986 ... The new multiagency approach to arson has resulted in the arrest of three juveniles in connection with a Feb. 16 incident in Schaghticoke, Rensselaer County District Attorney James B. Canfield said Friday. Canfield said the incident involved the theft of gasoline andthe burning ...
SLAYING VICTIM SPOTTED AT TEMPLE AFTER "DEATH' SERVICE WAS LATER RE-ENACTED.(Local)
Mar 01, 1986 ... Byline: Jon Rabiroff Several people said Benjamin "Buddy" Friedman attended a service at Beth Tephilah Synagogue about 15 to 20 hours after he was allegedly killed, a Troy police officer testified Friday. Those investigating Friedman's August 1984 murder went so ...
WMHT TESTING ITS SIGNAL.(Local)
Mar 01, 1986 ... By early evening Friday, officials of WMHT, Channel 17 were testing a transmission of the station's signal from its own antenna and were expecting to stay on the air with it. The temporary antenna is expected to broadcast at 50 to 60 percent of the capacity of the original. In ...
STILLWATER WEARS CLASS CC CROWN.(Sports)
Mar 01, 1986 ... Byline: Al Hart Undefeated Stillwater, the team with the longest winning streak in New York State basketball, made it 23-0 Friday night by beating Watervliet, 92-69, in the Class CC championship game of the Section II Basketball Tournament. A crowd of 6,115 watched ...
PANEL DISCUSSES STATE OF EDUCATION IN ALBANY GROUP URGES SCHOOL REFORM.(Religion)
Mar 01, 1986 ... Byline: Jill Murman About 60 parents and educators at a public forum Friday nightdebated responsibility for motivating and disciplining Albanyschool children. The meeting at the Albany Public Library took the form of a panel discussion. It was organized by Parents ...
MAN GETS 2 1/2-5 FOR BAR BREAK-INS.(Religion)
Mar 01, 1986 ... A 21-year-old man was sentenced Friday by Rensselaer County Judge M. Andrew Dwyer Jr. to 2 1/2 to 5 years in prison in connection with two break-ins at the same East Greenbush tavern, court officials said. Victor Bryant, who had no known address, previously pleaded guilty to two ...
COMMISSIONER TO "UPDATE' CITY'S BUILDING DEPARTMENT.(Religion)
Mar 01, 1986 ... Byline: Nancy Connell The new Albany building commissioner will "update and streamline" the building department over the next several months, Mayor Thomas M. Whalen III said Friday. But Whalen said the changes will not jeopardize current jobs. The mayor made the ...
AUTO PASSENGER ARRAIGNED ON TWO HOMICIDE CHARGES.(Local)
Mar 01, 1986 ... Michael D. Oliver, 22, accused of second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in a fatal accident that authorities claim he caused while a passenger in a car, pleaded not guilty in Albany County Court Friday. Oliver, of 366 Magazine St., Albany, was arraigned ...
CHANNEL 6 SLATES BUREAU FOR DOWNTOWN ALBANY.(Local)
Mar 01, 1986 ... Byline: Debbi Snook Because "there's a tremendous amount of news there ... more than ever," the Schenectady-based television station WRGB, Channel 6 has decided to invest $1 million in a downtown Albany bureau. That's the word from Don Decker, the station's news ...
WASTE MEETS CONSCIENCE IN "BUSINESS".(Show)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: Debbi Snook The disease this week on television is chemical contamination, but the fact that two networks are each devoting an evening to the topic shouldn't keep you from seeing "A Deadly Business." It may not stop you from seeing "Acceptable Risks" (9 p.m ....
BLUE SHIELD TARGET OF CRIMINAL, CIVIL INVESTIGATIONS 2 INQUIRIES LAUNCHED STATE TARGETS BLUE SHIELD.(Main)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: Ronald Kermani The state Attorney General has launched criminal and civil investigations into the management of financially troubled Blue Shield of Northeastern New York. Former and current officials of the $45 million health plan will be under scrutiny by ...
AQUINO OUSTS GENERALS, FREES POLITICAL PRISONERS IN SHAKEUP 22 GENERALS OUT IN AQUINO PURGE.(Main)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: Combined wire services President Corazon Aquino forced 22 generals to retire Saturday and freed hundreds of political prisoners - including Communist Party leaders - jailed by Ferdinand Marcos and the military. Four days after she was swept to power by a ...
GRAMM-RUDMAN CUTS PUT ARMED FORCES ON DEFENSIVE.(Main)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: Norman Black The first round of spending cuts under the Gramm-Rudman balanced-budget law will force the Pentagon to discharge thousands from duty ahead of schedule, reduce flight time for pilots andpostpone for months some transfers to new duty stations. The ...
SWEDEN HUNTS FOR ASSASSIN.(Main)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: Combined wire services As the most intense manhunt in the nation's history continuedSaturday for the assassin of Prime Minister Olof Palme, mourners heaped flowers on the bloodstained cobblestone sidewalk where the socialist leader was shot late Friday night. ...
FRIENDSHIP PROVES IMMUNT TO AIDS.(Main)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: Paul Grondahl Frament were talking to their housemate the other day. He lies dying in an Albany hospital bed. "I told him we'd put up new curtains and make his room cheerier for when he came back," Debi Frament said. "We try not to say to him "if you come ...
LAWMAKERS CUT COSTS BY RAISING SALARIES.(Main)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: Jeannie H. Cross A move to tighten the state Legislature's $77 million payrollhas ended up giving at least 200 legislative employees raises. Among the beneficiaries, a Times Union study has found, areformer GOP Assemblyman Michael Hoblock of Colonie and state Republican ...
FIRST CHURCH DATES TO DAYS BEFORE REVOLUTIONARY WAR FIRST CHURCH USHERS IN ALBANY'S HISTORY CONGREGATION PREDATES CITY.(Local)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: Joe Picchi When the settlement of Albany became a city in 1686, the First Church was already 44 years old and its members were used toplaying a leading role in the tiny community. "Our money launched the city of Albany after the Dongan charter was signed in ...
CHEAP, SAFE VACCINE FRENCH JOIN HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO MARKET VACCINE.(Local)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: Kathleen Haddad A cheap, safe vaccine which works against multiple diseases in one shot could be on the market within four or five years following the contribution of $4 million in venture capital to state Health Department researchers who developed the vaccine. ...
ENOUGH DOUGH TO BLOW AWAY.(Local)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: Barney Fowler On the $$$ front: Here's a point to ponder. New York State's next budget is estimated at $41 billion clams, give or take a few shillings. An interesting figure, particularly when compared to the total cost to both the North and the South in the Civil War ....
GE TOXIC SPILL ANGERS GROUP THIRD GE TOXIC SPILL IN MONTH ALTERNATE WATER SOURCE SOUGHT.(Local)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II A spill into the Hudson River from the General Electric Silicone Products Division plant forced the town waterworks to switch to its emergency water supplies for 10 hours Saturday morning. Town conservationists and a village official said ...
PROJECT SAFE HELPING YOUTHS TO KICK DRUGS, PROSTITUTION BREAKING FREE OF A LIFE OF DRUGS AND PROSTITUTION PROJECT SAFE A WAY BACK FOR TROUBLED YOUTHS.(Local)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: Paul Grondahl Coke is it, cocaine that is, the drug that keeps these adolescent girls - a few as young as 11 or 12 - selling their hardlydeveloped bodies two dozen times a night to men their fathers' age who cruise by in cars. But a 7-month-old program here ...
AUTOPSY DUE TODAY IN WOMAN'S DEATH.(Local)
Mar 02, 1986 ... An Albany woman, apparently the victim of a drug overdose, was pronounced dead late Saturday afternoon at Albany Medical Center Hospital, Albany police said. Authorities withheld identification of the woman pending notification of relatives. Police were called by the woman's ...
BLAZE RUINS HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION.(Local)
Mar 02, 1986 ... A fire apparently sparked by a propane heater destroyed a house under construction early Saturday morning, Midway Fire Department Chief William Schmitt said. Firefighters were called at 5:21 a.m. to the home at 7 Amy Marie Court in a new subdivision - Debbie Meadows - off ...
HALFMOON MOBILE HOME FIRE BLAMED ON FAULTY OIL FURNACE.(Local)
Mar 02, 1986 ... A faulty oil furnace was identified as the cause of an early Saturday morning fire that heavily damaged a mobile home, Clifton ParkFire Department officials reported. "There's a lot of damage to the structure," Training Captain John Keyser said of the mobile home at 155 Anthony ...
MALL OFFICIAL CONFIRMS REPORT OF TYSON INCIDENT.(Local)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: Paul Grondahl Undefeated heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson has scored his first split decision. Crossgates Mall's security director said the 19-year-old boxer created a disturbance recently and was asked to leave both the Filene's department store and the mall's ...
CORONOR RULES WOMAN STRANGLED.(Local)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II Joan C. Bent died as a result of asphyxiation by strangulation, Albany County Coroner James Cavanaugh Jr. ruled after an autopsy performed Saturday at Albany Medical Center Hospital. The autopsy of the 47-year-old Watervliet woman confirmed ...
TAVERN OWNER NAMED MARSHAL OF ST. PATRICK'S PARADE.(Local)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: Robert Gardinier Every year you could always see Frank "Putzy" Casey wearing the green in Albany's St. Patrick's Day Parade. This year Casey will be in the parade again - right up front wearing the grand marshal's sash. "I'm sort of surprised. I'm ...
HORSE KILLED AS BARN ROOF COLLAPSES.(Local)
Mar 02, 1986 ... A horse was killed here Saturday morning when a barn roof collapsed under the weight of heavy snow, Saratoga Sheriff's Deputy Shawn Nolan said. The roof collapse was one of several which have occurred in the Capital District during past weeks due to heavy snow. ...
ALBANY COUNTY LOOKING AT CENTER PARKING PLANS.(Local)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: Ken Thurman It will take about a week to review the proposals submitted by developers interested in building and operating the planned civic center parking garage in Albany, according to an Albany County official. Friday was the deadline for submitting plans, ...
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA'S PERFORMANCE MIXED.(Local)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: Scott Cantrell Ned Rorem's recent (1984) "Violin Concerto" was among the offerings at Friday's concert by the Albany Symphony Orchestra, given in the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. A suite of six movements symmetically arrayed - "Twilight," "Toccata-Chaconne," "Romance ...
ALBANY POLICE REIN ON THE FARM.(Local)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Both officers and horses are being put through their paces astraining continues for the Albany Police Department's mountedpatrol. Five officers are learning how to manage their mounts in training sessions at a horse farm in New Scotland. Once the training is finished, the ...
DEFICIT REDUCTION WILL BENEFIT CAPITAL DISTRICT.(Perspective)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: John J. Faso Albany Mayor Thomas M. Whalen III has criticized President Reagan's recent budget proposal saying that it would have a "cruel and negative" effect upon the City of Albany and other local governments. He castigates the plan saying the "federal budget should ...
HI-TECH TUNE UP PUTS HIM OUT OF SYNCH.(Perspective)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: Paul Grondahl I'm considering going back to school for a degree in computerscience. And you should too if you want to be able to converse intelligently with your mechanic about the tune-up of your car. I went to a major automobile repair firm last week because ...
WOODY ALLEN ON EVERYTHING"HANNAH" WEAVES TALE OF LOVE, INSECURITY AND OPTIMISM.(Show)(Movie review)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: Martin Moynihan Woody Allen is feeling good about himself, and that's good news for the rest of us. When Allen was feeling humorous the rest of us laughed. When Allen was feeling depressed or alienated, the rest of us couldshare his grimness, shake it off, or ...
CONCERT SCENE GOING THROUGH LONG LULL; J.B.'S SCALING DOWN.(Show)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: Stephen Leon Ever since J.B. Scott's owners Vinnie Birbiglia and Doug Jacobs announced last year they would open a new rock club, J.B.'sTheater has been hailed as the savior of a Capital District concert scene that has seen more downs than ups since J.B. Scott's burned ...
WHAT'S SHAKIN'? WHY FLAMBOYANT LEONARD.(Show)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: Fred LeBrun R eligion," says the flamboyant, ever-quotable Leonard Kastle, "is the most interesting thing about mankind." It sounds like something a major French philosopher of the 18th century might have said. Kastle, like his heartfelt pronouncement, may be ...
"LA CAGE' OPENING TO BE AIDS COUNCIL BENEFIT.(Show)
Mar 02, 1986 ... The opening night of a touring production of "La Cage aux Folles" at Proctor's in Schenectady has been designated a benefitfor the AIDS Council of Northeastern New York, based in Albany. The touring musical comedy stars Peter Marshall, probably best-known as the longtime host ...
EASTER SEAL GETS DONATIONS.(Show)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Promotions by four area restaurants this month will help the Easter Seal Society fund its various programs in the Capital District. The proceeds from all the promotions will be presented on theannual "Easter Seal Telethon," to be telecast by Albany television station WXXA, Ch ....
SCHLOSSER HEADS MASS. THEATER COMPANIES.(Show)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Ira Schlosser, former managing director of the Virginia Museum Theatre, has been named managing director of western Massachusetts' Shakespeare & Company and the Boston Shakespeare Company. A native of New York, he has worked in professional theater management for 10 years. In ...
FICKLE NATURE MAY BEAT HOTEL OWNER.(Local)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: Paul Grondahl After three successive winters of scant snow, this year's snowy windfall may be a case of too much, too late for the ownersof Beresford Farms, an Albany County cross-country ski area and restaurant-hotel. D. Jonathan Beresford, who was born on ...
REPAIRS COST $200,000 WMHT RETURNS AT HALF POWER.(Local)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: Paul Grondahl Repairs to the damaged antenna of WMHT, Channel 17, are expected to cost about $200,000, the station's president and general manager said Saturday. While the station came back on the air at its regular channelFriday night, the signal was at just ...
GLORY DAZEWINTER OF DISCONTENT HAS PATROONS PINING, WHINING.(Sports)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: Tim Layden Some time bandits of the future will dig into the era that isnow and find a parcel in the heap labeled "1986." It will carry a mundane title like The History of Professional Basketballin Albany. Most probably it will be a video, because this was now ...
LATEST GERBER GLASS CASE REPORTED.(Main)
Mar 02, 1986 ... Byline: United Press International A woman feeding her 1-year-old son discovered glass in Gerberbaby food after the child spit the food out and she noticed the child's tongue was cut, police said Saturday. The incident was the latest in series of recent complaints ...
2ND ANNIVERSARY GUILDERLAND ASSESSES LIFE WITH CROSSGATES.(Main)
Mar 03, 1986 ... Byline: Mark S.R. Suchecki After a long, oft- times stormy courtship, Crossgates Mall and this suburban town of 29,000 have settled into a calmer state of matrimony. On the eve of the second anniversary of the mall's opening - an event greeted with more enthusiasm and ...
ASSASSIN STALKED PRIME MINISTER SWEDISH POLICE LACK LEADS IN KILLING.(Main)
Mar 03, 1986 ... Byline: Ray Moseley The killer of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme stalked him for most of the day Friday before shooting him down at a time and place that made escape easy, Stockholm Police Chief Hans Holmer said Sunday. But Holmer said that after two days, police ...
HE HITS A YELLOW BRICK ROAD TO DUTCH ARTIFACTS OF 1600S.(Main)
Mar 03, 1986 ... Byline: Marc Carey In this, Albany's Tricentennial year, it appears that an amateur archaeologist may have outdone the pros. "When I hit a yellow brick, I knew I hit something," said BobBrustle, an electrical technician for the Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. who in his ...
NYC FIRM FUELS BOOM.(Local)
Mar 03, 1986 ... Byline: Nancy Connell It was 10:30 in the morning, time for brunch, but not just any brunch. There was Brazilian coffee, Colombian coffee, decaffeinated coffee and two kinds of tea to go with the hot buffet,the freshly made crepes, the lox and bagels, the fresh pineapple, the ...
EAST MEETS WEST SOVIET, U.S. PROFESSORS HAVE A TEA AT SUNYA.(Local)
Mar 03, 1986 ... Byline: Timothy F. Schick East is east and West is west and the t'wain met Sunday during an international tea at the State University of New York at Albany. Two professors from Moscow University participating in an academic exchange program urged a continuation of ...
GOP LAWYER FINDS LOOPHOLE IN JUDGE LOTTERY SYSTEM "IT WASN'T UNETHICAL, BUT IT WAS A LITTLE TRICKY'.(Local)
Mar 03, 1986 ... Byline: Shirley Armstrong Where there's a loophole, there's a lawyer to find it. So it didn't take long for one area barrister to figure out a systemto beat the odds on what might be called the "judge lottery" under the state's new system for assigning cases in numerical ...
A SOCIAL NOTE FROM THE SLAMMER.(Local)
Mar 03, 1986 ... Byline: Joe Mahoney Two former residents of Elberon Place in Albany exchanged wedding vows the other day in a most unusual setting: the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. Barbara Curzi, the 28-year-old bride, and Jaan Karl Laaman, the 37-year-old groom, ...
ADDITION PLANNED AT SCHOOLS.(Local)
Mar 03, 1986 ... Byline: Timothy F. Schick Increased enrollment and the need for massive renovations is moving the Stillwater School District toward construction of an addition to its Hudson Avenue campus. Architects are working on preliminary plans for the addition to replace the ...
DEMOCRATS: BELAFONTE SENATE RUN UNLIKELY DECISION TO BE ANNOUNCED TODAY.(Local)
Mar 03, 1986 ... Byline: Marc Humbert Harry Belafonte likely will not seek the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination to challenge first-term Republican incumbent Alfonse D'Amato, top New York Democrats predicted Sunday. Belafonte, reached at his New York City home, said while he had made ...
NO NEW LEADS IN BENT CASE.(Local)
Mar 03, 1986 ... Police Chief Francis Landrigan said Sunday there were no new leads to the death of the 47-year-old woman whose body was found Thursday in the trunk of a car at the Holiday Inn in Menands. The body of Joan Bent of Sixth Avenue, Watervliet, was discovered in her gold-colored 1979 ...
"INTRAPRENEURS' BETTER IDEAS OFTEN DISCOVERED IN-HOUSE FOR CORPORATE U.S.(Business)
Mar 03, 1986 ... Byline: Donald W. Gallagher Corporate America is learning that the entrepreneurial spiritis not confined to basements and garages occupied by visionaries intolerant of authority and unable to work within the dictates of upper management. The in-house entrepreneurs - ...
SPACE VET "ANGRY' AT NASA DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT SHUTTLE PROBLEMS.(Main)
Mar 04, 1986 ... Byline: David Maraniss Veteran astronaut Henry Hartsfield Jr., said Monday that he was "surprised and angry" to learn after the space shuttle Challenger accident that there had been problems with the spacecraft's solid-fuel booster rocket seals on previous flights, including ...