Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from June 1986:
ORIGINAL FOOTAGE, ACTORS TO CREATE PORTRAIT OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT.(TV Magazine)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Bart Mills W here are all the heroes today?" read the Newsweek coverline in 1979 while the Embassy hostages languished in Iran. Independent TV documentarian Harrison Engle thought he had an answer to the question. Engle had just been screening some stray ...
CYCLIST, 10, STRUCK BY PICKUP TRUCK.(Local)
Jun 01, 1986 ... A 10-year-old cyclist almost caused several accidents before being struck by a truck at the busy 19th Street and Second Avenue intersection Friday afternoon, Watervliet police said. John H. Christian of 372 Fourth St., Troy, rode his bike down the Troy-Watervliet Bridge and into ...
SOVIETS TO DEFY ACCORDS 'NOT BOUND' ON WEAPONS.(Main)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Combined wire services The Soviet Union announced Saturday it no longer would feel bound by arms limitation agreements reached with the United States in the 1970s if Washington exceeds weapons limits set by the SALT II accords. "As soon as the U.S.A. goes ...
SOOTHING WOUNDS OF SALT II SHULTZ TRIES TO HEAL RIFT.(Main)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: George Gedda Achieving unity has never been easy for the 16 NATO allies, and now there is fresh evidence of a new split between what NATO Secretary General Lord Carrington calls the "Eurowimps" and the "American cowboys." The Europeans have been shaken by ...
FIGHTING NATURE AND THE ODDS.(Main)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: John Koten The black-and-white videotape is one that fighter pilots are required to watch. It shows the cockpit of a two- man training jet as its pilot throws it through evasive maneuvers. He banks hard and over through a screaming turn. But as the F-16 ...
HOW MUCH IS HE WORTH? STUDY CLAIMS WHALEN UNDERPAID AT $50.6G A YEAR.(Local)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II Albany Mayor Thomas M. Whalen III should receive a $14,400 raise to bring his salary in line with his job's responsibilities, a special study commission appointed by the mayor recommended. After reviewing mayors' salaries in five other ...
VERMONT PINS 'FEVER' ON NYS.(Local)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Barney Fowler Note on Another NYS Export: The state Commerce Department should hike its hackles over this one - Vermont is now blaming the state we all adore for an intestinal disease. Specifically, a Vermont health department spokesman says giardiasis, or ...
AUCTION OFFERS BITS OF HISTORY.(Local)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Grace O'Connor Without regret, Charles Pope III of Little Falls said he will let family heirlooms go to the highest bidders at a Columbia County auction on June 7. Pope, who looks down his ancestral line to soldiers, inventors and fortune makers, will soon go ...
MALTA PROJECT IN LIMBO TOWN AWAITS REPLY ON WATER.(Local)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Deborah Gesensway Before making what could be the biggest decision of their careers concerning town development, town officials said last week they want a one-word answer from state health and environmental conservation officials. "Yes" means the drinking ...
ALBANY LAW GRADUATES URGED TO AVOID CYNICISM.(Local)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Kathleen Haddad The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York said Saturday that all elementary and high school students should take a course in law and ethics and that the clergy should teach children to uphold the law. "American respect for the ...
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS SEEK 'BIOREGION' COALITION.(Local)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Deborah Gesensway Some people who attended a conference Saturday at the Albany Public Library work to fight the acid rain problem. Others oppose nuclear power plant construction. Still others devote their time to cleaning up the Hudson River and keeping private ...
MUSICIAN, 19, EARNS DISNEY JOB ORCHESTRA PLAYS FOR TOURISTS.(Local)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Grace O'Connor Matthew Johnson of Colonie is leaving today for Walt Disney World and Epcot Center in Florida. The 19- year-old accomplished musician goes not to be entertained but to entertain. After a January audition at Carnegie Hall, Johnson ...
BALLSTON SPA MAN DIES IN CAR CRASH.(Local)
Jun 01, 1986 ... SARATOGA An 18-year-old Ballston Spa man was killed early Saturday morning when his car struck a tree off Route 9P near the intersection of Cedar Bluff Road, Saratoga County sheriff's deputies said. Lynn E. Dumas of 4 Meadow Lane, Ballston Spa, was pronounced dead at the scene ...
2 FACULTY MEMBERS PROMOTED BY SUNY.(Local)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Two State University at Albany faculty members have been promoted to the rank of distinguished professor by the university board of trustees. English professor M.E. Grenander of East Berne and biologist Stephen C. Brown of Altamont were two of seven faculty members in the ...
CANCER IN CHILDREN ALBANY MED CHANGES TO FIGHT DISEASE.(Local)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Kathleen Haddad Albany Medical Center Hospital has announced three changes it says will help treat children who have cancer. *The hospital has been accepted in a prestigious national consortium of hospitals that develop and share new cancer treatments. ...
GOP GOVERNORS HEADED FOR HISTORY 'THE PENDULUM IS SWINGING BACK TO US FOR UNEXPLAINED REASONS'.(Perspective)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Thomas Oliphant Barring a calamity beyond anyone's imagination, the Republican Party is virtually certain to make modern political history this fall. For the first time since World War II, the party in the White House, it appears, will not lose ground in the ...
WHEN DADDY JUST ISN'T AROUND.(Perspective)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Lionel C. Bascom There is an eerie quiet between my little girl and me sometimes, a noisy silence caused by a noticeable absence in her daily life - a father who never comes home, a daddy who visits but never stays the night. This silence, interminable between visits, ...
CIA BLIND TO SIGNS OF A ROTTEN AGENT.(Perspective)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Walter Pincus Two Americans were identified as traitors last year by Vitaly Yurchenko, the mysterious Soviet intelligence officer who defected to the West and later returned to the Soviet Union. The more notorious of the two, Ronald W. Pelton, a former technician at the ...
ROSE-COLORED GLASSES MAKE IT HARD TO SEE REAL BRITAIN.(Perspective)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Michael J. Cummings The editor's report on Anglo-American ...
SOFT ON COMMUNISM - AND IN THE HEAD.(Perspective)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: William Randolph Hearst Jr. There were some encouraging signs this week that President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev are now moving toward another summit meeting later this year. The superpower leaders took actions obviously intended to create a ...
GRUMMAN TAPS NEW MARKET TO DESIGN CUSTOM COMPUTER SYSTEMS.(Business)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: David Perilstein Grumman Corp. has brought its computer savvy to the Capital Region to tap what it perceives to be a growth market. Grumman Data Systems - with a new satellite office in the Rensselaer Technology Park - is the seventh largest independent ...
NETWORKS OLD HAT FOR BUSINESS YUPPIES BEHIND TIMES IN DISTRICT.(Business)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Beth Wright Networking may be one of the latest buzzwords among the yuppie set, but it has been in practice among Capital Region business people for three decades. Touting the slogan "Business Is Our Business," the Albany Executive Association (AXA) is a ...
REAPING THE REWARDS FOR FINDING CURE FOR CANCER.(Business)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Andrea Knox Cancer. No other illness is so dreaded. It offers the terrible prospect of a long and painful death, a death whose awfulness is compounded by the severe nausea and baldness that can result from the attempts of medical science to stave it off with chemical and ...
FROM MIDSCALE GYM. . . PUMPING IRON OR PUSHING PLATINUM CAPITAL DISTRICT FITNESS CLUBS SCRATCH FOR SURVIVAL.(Business)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Nancy Hass Five years years ago, Joe Rozs thought the Nautilus dream he introduced to the Capital District would go on pumping iron forever. Now he says he is fighting against "enormous and sometimes unfair competition" to survive. As more Capital ...
RICHTOL NAMED RPI UNDERGRADUATE DEAN S.S. BROWN PROMOTED TO PARTNERSHIP MCCORMACK NAMED SKIDMORE DEAN JOHN FIGNAR HEADS WNYT SALES EFFORT MACCORMACK NAMED NEXT WAVE VP NORSTAR BANCORP PROMOTES R.H. SLOAN.(Business)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has chosen Herbert H. Richtol dean of the undergraduate college. Richtol, a member of the chemistry department faculty for 25 years, has been acting dean since last August. As dean, Richtol will spearhead RPI's announced efforts to maintain and ...
JOHN J. JABBOUR TAKES GM'S POST IN BUFFALO KSI BUILDING OF COBLESKILL NAMES E.C. LYNK.(Business)
Jun 01, 1986 ... John J. Jabbour of Albany will relocate to Buffalo in June when he assumes his new position as general manager of the ComDoc office there. With the office systems supplier since 1983, Jabbour was promoted to Albany branch manager in 1985. He will be assisted in the Buffalo ...
EX-ALBANY PLAYERS MAKING MAJOR(S) IMPACT.(Sports)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Paul Schwartz To followers of major league baseball teams, minor league affiliates are often strange sounding teams in far-off outposts. Occassionally, names of youngsters crop up who sound promising and may some day make valuable additions to the parent club. ...
KEEP LARGEMOUTH BASS HONEST.(Sports)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: 'Fishy' Fullum The first two largemouth of the warm July evening were rather small but even so, both were fun on the light fly rod. It had been necessary to work a little harder to cast the large deer-hair creation but the experience of catching any bass on a ...
CHILDREN AND ABORTION.(Perspective)
Jun 01, 1986 ... The Parent Consent/Notification Bill of Abortion on Minors (Senate Bill 1406 and Assembly Bill 6585) is before the New York Legislature this session. This important legislation needs to be approved this year. This bill is necessary to protect our youth - the minors referred to in this bill ...
INCOMPETENT PHYSICIANS.(Perspective)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Ideally, physicians in New York state would police themselves. They would watch after their own members, encourage the learning of new developments in the medical field, punish those who violate ethical standards and expell those from the profession who are incompetent. Ideally, ...
PROGRAMS FOR YOUTH ABOUND IN REGION.(Living Today)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Laurie Anderson Parents should not be at a loss when it comes to conjuring up summer fun for children in the Capital District, which boasts swim instructors that make house calls, storytellers in its parks and a workshop that takes kids spelunking. All kinds ...
PUTTING SUNSHINE INTO KIDS' SUMMERAUTHORS TELL HOW PARENTS CAN TURN THE DRUDGERY OF VACATIONS INTO FUN.(Living Today)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Laurie Anderson Summer vacation: A time children dream of during the school-year; a time many parents dread. And it's not far away. Summer melts down daily schedules, leaving most parents to struggle with serious conflicts. Who will watch the children all day? ...
THE FIX-IT-ALL SPECIALISTTODAY'S PLUMBER SENDS STEREOTYPES DOWN DRAIN.(Living Today)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Helen S. Edelman It's a dirty job - but somebody's got to do it. "The days of the stereotype of the plumber as a dumbell with wrenches hanging out of his pocket are over," notes Tom LaDuke, a plumber and heating specialist for the past two decades. ...
COTTAGE CHEESE COMES OUT SWINGING.(Living Today)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Vinod Chhabra Scientists and researchers warned of the growing problem for years. But what it took to get the message across, they say, is a TV commercial: On a musty old commuter train somewhere, a middle-aged woman silently steals a teary glance at her kindly-looking ...
CHORUS NO LONGER A VOICE IN THE SHOWS AT SARATOGA.(Show)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Scott Cantrell What do you do when you've scheduled Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Philadelphia Orchestra and only 59 singers show up for the chorus? That's precisely the problem facing the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, which has suddenly found its ...
MATTHEW BRODERICKTIMING IS EVERYTHING FOR MATURE 'EVERYKID'.(Show)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Bart Mills Like the title character in his new movie, "Ferris Bueller's Day off," Matthew Broderick seems to be a lucky guy. John Hughes, the movie's writer-director- producer, says he cast Broderick because he seems to be the kid everybody always wanted to be. ...
TEXAS BAD BOYS ROAR INTO SPAC WITH 'ELIMINATOR'.(Show)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Michael Eck There is no other group quite like Z.Z. Top. On "Z.Z. Top's First Album," beneath a watercolor of three scruffy individuals, the liner notes state, "In this day of homogenized rock, synthesized music, retakes, overdubbing, multi-, multitracking, an honest ...
REBELLION IN THE RANKS LETTERS TO CAPTAIN DINNER DATE.(Show)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Fred Lebrun, captain of the good ship Dinner Date, is resting has palate, preparing for another round of gustatory adventures. Dear Sir: After reading Mr. Fred LeBrun's scathing comments on the new Japanese restaurant in Latham called "Ginsa" we very nearly decided ...
LATE UPSTATE SCULPTOR SHOWS METTLE ON PAPER.(Show)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Bill Marvel David Smith was one of the greatest American sculptors of this century. His works of stacked stainless-steel boxes are a familiar sight to almost every museum visitor. What is not generally known is that Smith drew constantly and prolifically. He ...
RISING STAR TAKES THE BATON OF YOUTH ORCHESTRA.(Show)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Scott Cantrell The piano lessons started as a way to keep a hyperkinetic 4-year-old settled in the house for more than a few minutes at a time. A few years later, when the boy was watching von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic on television, there was a bit of ...
CANDID, POIGNANT - CUS D'AMATO REVISITED.(Show)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Debbi Snook Mike Tyson fans eager for another view of the formidable boxer need only to switch on public television Monday night. Yes, public television. At 10 p.m. that evening, WMHT, Channel 17 will offer a repeat airing of "Watch Me Now," a 1973 ...
SOLOMON IS COMING BACK TO OTB OPEN.(Sports)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Buzz Gray Harold Solomon, a finalist in last summer's OTB Open in Schenectady and still one of the best known players in the world, will be coming back to the Capital District again this year. "I'll definitely be there," said Solomon in a phone interview from ...
BEST WAY TO SEE HAWAII'S ISLANDS IS BY COMBINATION OF SEA/LAND/AIR.(Travel)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Kit Snedaker The best way to experience the 50th state is to tackle its islands by sea, land and air. One week of this three-way approach provides more than a sampling of the four biggest islands - the Big Island, or Hawaii, for which the state is named, and Kauai, Maui ...
CONVENTION DELEGATES FROM CAPITAL DISTRICT.(Main)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Albany County Kenelm R. Thacher, Jr., Delmar Betty Momrow, Albany Reuben S. Gersowitz, Albany Frances Joyce, Albany Amos E. Hallenbeck, Westerlo Michael R. McNulty, Green Island Columbia County ...
LEASE NEAR FOR GRANT'S COTTAGE.(Local)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II Grant's Cottage on Mount McGregor would be operated by the Saratoga County Historical Society under terms of a five-year lease the society is negotiating with the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. "We're at the ...
GRIFFIN'S SWITCH SHOULDN'T COME AS A SHOCK.(Sports)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Paul Schwartz John Griffin is not the first 29-year-old man to opt for a career change. He is not the first person to go from a background in athletics to one in business. He did not originate the script which calls for a life evaluation upon ...
HAGEN CRUSADE ON THURSDAY.(Sports)
Jun 01, 1986 ... The 16th annual Walter Hagan Cancer Golf Crusade will be held Thursday at Colonie CC with a shotgun start at 1:30 p.m. A full field of 140 players will take part in the event with groups split into foursomes. The league foursome will be made up of Albany Mayor Thomas ...
FERRIS UNANIMOUS WINNER; TILLERY BEATS SMITH ON TKO.(Sports)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Tim Wilkin When he climbed into the ring Saturday night, Danny Ferris was greeted with a resounding chorus of boos from the crowd at JB's Theater. Catcalls for Danny Ferris? For years the welterweight boxer has been the darling of Capital District fight fans ...
BERNARDO GRABS HONORS, BUT BEARS BOW.(Sports)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Friday was a great day for former Albany Academy baseball sensation Rick Bernardo. Right up to the bottom of the ninth inning of his team's College World Series opener against the University of Arizona. Bernardo, the starting first baseman at the University of Maine, had been ...
DULA TIES RECORD; COLONIE CHAMPIONS.(Sports)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Gene Levy Burnt Hills senior Kim Dula may have run the last 200-meter race of her career Saturday in the Section II Class A girls track championships. If so, she went out in a blaze of glory. Dula cut a full nine-tenths of a second from her previous best time ...
NO MAGICAL CURE: ATHLETES HAVE TOUGHEST ROAD BACK FROM COCAINE.(Sports)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Tim LaydenStaff writer The athlete's name could be Steve Howe. Or Walter Davis. It could be Micheal Ray Richardson or Rod Scurry or Dave Parker. The place could be Los Angeles and it could be summer. Or New Jersey in the winter. The drug could only be ...
CUOMO SIGNS N. IRELAND DIVESTITURE BILL.(Local)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Jeff Donn Gov. Mario M. Cuomo signed a bill into law Saturday that could prompt the sale of up to $740 million in stock the state pension fund owns in 12 American companies linked to Northern Ireland. "The bill springs from the basic principle that investment ...
ALBANY BASKS IN SPOTLIGHT.(Main)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Bennett Roth Albany, a city known for its kindness to Democrats, will play host beginning today to the state party's convention, a three-day affair that, above all, will give participants an opportunity to bask in the glory of their rising star, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo. ...
RUBINS' GENEROSITY MAKES CENTER SPARKLE.(Local)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Frances Ingraham Model Center: The dedication celebration of the Hortense and Louis Rubin Dialysis Center in Troy Friday evening was attended by more than 250 guests. The state-of-the-art treatment center, which will serve as a model for dialysis centers ...
SPA RUNNER UPSETS SALAZAR.(Sports)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Former Syracuse University runner Jim O'Connell of Saratoga outdueled Alberto Salazar Saturday to win the Sagamore 10 kilometer race. Connell, 24, pulled away from Salazar in the final few hundred yards to win in a time of 30 minutes, 11 seconds. Salazar, the former Boston and ...
CASHING IN ON THE POLITICIANS.(Main)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Paul Grondahl Thursday's modest lunch crowd had already melted back into air-conditioned downtown offices when John Mardigian motioned across the empty expanse of his Barnaby's Restaurant and said, "See all these empty tables? Every one will be taken for lunch and dinner ...
A CONFIDENT CONCLAVE OF DEMOCRATS CUOMO COMPLEX TO ALLIES, ERRATIC TO FOES SUCCESS REACHED DOWN A HARD ROAD.(Main)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Jeannie H. Cross On his first day in law school, Mario M. Cuomo strode to a front row seat, right in front of the teacher, his classmate Pat Rohan recalls. "Anytime the teacher would look down, he would see Mario there. The rest of us had the smarts to sit in ...
BLACK FLIGHT TO SUBURBS A SIGN OF PROGRESS BUT CITY DWELLERS LEFT WITH SENSE OF LOSS, ENVY.(Main)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Gary Blonston Roughly one of every four black Americans lives in the suburbs. If the goal of the civil rights movement was access - access to jobs, houses, schools, ballots, choices, the front of the bus - then no single statistic could bespeak the results of ...
SARATOGA CO. DEMOCRATS ENDORSE 4 CANDIDATES.(Local)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II The Saratoga County Democratic Committee endorsed its candidates for county treasurer and three other offices Saturday, counting on public anger over the Lion Capital Group bankruptcy to end 50 years of Republican dominance. Roy White of ...
ACTOR ROBERTSON GETS ARTS AWARD.(Local)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Oscar winner Cliff Robertson was presented the Kennedy Center distinguished leadership in arts in education artists award Saturday night in a ceremony at the State Museum auditorium in Albany. Robertson headlined a group of awards given as part of the final weekend of the 1986 ...
DYSON KICKS OFF U.S. SENATE RACE.(Local)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Ken Thurman Even before his plane touched down at the Albany County Airport Saturday afternoon, John S. Dyson's campaign for the U.S. Senate was off to a flying start. Dyson, a former state commerce commissioner and architect of the "I New York" campaign, ...
LIBERALS' NOV. TICKET MIMICS DEMOCRATS'.(Local)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: United Press International New York's Liberal Party, wracked by a bitter internal struggle for control of the organization, united Saturday to back a slate of candidates for statewide office that is identical to the one expected to be chosen by Democrats next week. ...
D'AMATO URGES DOSE OF 'REAGANOMICS'.(Local)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: United Press International Republican Sen. Alfonse D'Amato accepted the nomination of the Conservative Party Saturday, vowing a crackdown on drugs, saying the "Reagan revolution" is working and New York needs a good dose of Reaganomics. D'Amato is at the top ...
LAROUCHE BACKERS OPEN MEETING.(Local)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: Associated Press A group of about 20 men, women and children gathered at a local motel Saturday as the statewide convention for New York's supporters of political extremist Lyndon LaRouche began. Philip Rubenstein, the group's candidate for governor, said the ...
RIGHT-TO-LIFE PARTY PICKS CANDIDATES.(Local)
Jun 01, 1986 ... Byline: United Press International The state Right- to-Life Party unanimously nominated Nassau County District Attorney Denis Dillon Saturday as its candidate for governor and cross- endorsed two Republicans in the fall elections. The party's 60 delegates chose Dillon ...