Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from July 1988:
CAR BOMB ROCKS BEIRUT.(Main)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Associated Press An auto rigged with 22 pounds of explosives blew up today on west Beirut's busiest street, killing one person and wounding 32, police said. A police spokesman said the bomb went off on Hamra Street about 11:50 a.m. (4:50 a.m. EDT) near the ...
KIDNAP SITE CONVENT SPLIT WITH LEFEBVRE.(Main)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Mary D'Ambrosio Staff writer The convent from which a 22-year-old nun was abducted by her family June 26 is operated by a tiny group of priests who split from the traditionalist Roman Catholic movement of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre about four years ago. St ....
CITY HALL DECRIES ANTI-PARKING PERMIT RULING.(Main)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Deborah Gesensway A Court of Appeals ruling that struck down Albany's parking-permit system could depress property values, make city streets more dangerous and create financial problems for publicly funded downtown parking garages, several city officials and community ...
UNION CLAIMS WARNINGS IGNORED ON OVERLOADED BUILDING PEF SAYS STATE KNEW 5 MONTHS BEFORE MOVING FILE CABINETS.(Main)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Richard Wexler Capitol bureau The state comptroller's office was warned it was dangerously overloading its office space with file cabinets five months before any action was taken, the Public Employees Federation charged Thursday. The warning was one of more ...
PARTY CONFERENCE REVOLUTIONARY.(Main)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: David Remnick Washington Post The new Russian revolution, it turns out, is being televised. And Soviet viewers from Minsk to Magadan were able to watch two hours of Thursday's bizarre and fractious session of the Communist Party conference. Soviet leader ...
REAGAN VEXED BY DRUG USE.(Main)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Combined wire services A planned promotional campaign against drugs turned into a political embarrassment for the Reagan administration Thursday with the disclosure of an investigation into cocaine use by White House employees. On the same day that a ...
CALL FOR TOP OFFICIALS' OUSTER SHOCKS SOVIET CONFERENCE PRESIDENT GROMYKO ONE TARGET.(Main)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Bill Keller New York Times A delegate to a national Communist Party conference stunned the session Thursday by calling for the dismissal of four senior party officials, including President Andrei A. Gromyko and the editor of the party newspaper Pravda. The ...
CATHOLIC SCHISM TOUCHED OFF REBEL PRELATE CONSECRATES FOUR BISHOPS.(Main)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Loren Jenkins Washington Post Conservative Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre Thursday triggered the first major schism in the Roman Catholic Church in more than a century by consecrating four traditionalist bishops in open defiance of Pope John Paul II. The Vatican, ...
REAGAN'S STAFF DRUG TESTS SET.(Main)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Associated Press Presidential employees will get letters next week telling them they face random drug tests in about 60 days, a step announced as an embarrassed White House grappled with revelations of staff drug abuse. Both President Reagan and his wife, ...
IRAQ ADMITS CHEMICAL USE.(Main)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Associated Press Iraq's foreign minister today acknowledged his country had used chemical weapons in its war with Iran. Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz was asked at a news conference about Iranian allegations that Iraq had used the deadly weapons against Iran. ...
U.S. CONSTRUCTION REBOUNDS.(Main)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: United Press International Spending on new construction rose 1.1 percent in May, but the bulk of the increase came in commercial building as spending for private housing slumped for the third month, the Commerce Department said today. Spending for new ...
ALBANY MAN KILLED BEATEN TO DEATH OUTSIDE CITY BAR.(Main)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Michael McKeon and Alan Llavore Staff writers A 40-year-old city man was beaten to death early today outside the State Lounge Inn at 1122 Broadway, police say. Roland Maye of 39 Brady Ave. died in Albany Medical Center Hospital at 12:58 a.m., about 30 minutes ...
PANEL ASKS OUSTER OF TOWN JUSTICE.(Main)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Richard Wexler Capitol Bureau The state Commission on Judicial Conduct has called for the removal of Leroy VonderHeide, a town justice in Northampton, Fulton County. Charges against VonderHeide include "intemperate behavior, failure to disqualify in a case in ...
CANADA RETURNS REMAINS OF WAR OF 1812 SOLDIERS.(Main)
Jul 01, 1988 ... While bagpipers played "Amazing Grace," 28 flag-draped caskets containing the remains of American fighting men killed and buried in Canada in the War of 1812 were returned Thursday to U.S. soil. Dark clouds loomed as Canadian, American and British flags flew at half-staff over ...
FERRARO'S SON IN PRISON TODAY.(Main)
Jul 01, 1988 ... John Zaccaro Jr., sentenced to jail for selling one-quarter gram of cocaine to an undercover officer in Middlebury, Vt., will begin his four-month term today, a court clerk in Montpelier said. The son of former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro was sentenced two ...
2 OTSEGO CO. MEN GET HERO AWARDS.(Main)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Two Otsego County men who rescued another man from his flaming tractor-trailer were among 20 people honored Thursday by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission in Pittsburgh for risking their lives to save or attempt to save others. James Potter, 31, of Oneonta and David Beecher ...
REGIONAL CREDIT-UNION OFFICE TO OPEN.(Main)
Jul 01, 1988 ... The National Credit Union Administration next week will celebrate the opening of its new regional office at 9 Washington Ave. Extension. Thursday, the new office will hold an open house from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., according to officials of NCUA, the federal agency that charters, ...
SAGAMORE SWITCH HONG KONG INVESTORS TO BUY OMNI HOTELS.(Main)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Mark S.R. Suchecki Business writer An agreement has been reached to sell the Omni Hotels Group, the 14th largest hotel chain in the United States and manager of the Sagamore, to a Hong Kong-based investment group, the resort's general manager said Thursday. ...
A DARK NINE MILE 1 NUCLEAR PLANT EXPECTED TO RESTART IN MID-AU GUST.(Main)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Mike Virtanen Business Writer Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.'s Nine Mile Point 1 nuclear power plant, out of commercial operation since Dec. 19, should start up again in mid-August, according to the utility. The company had been saying as recently as a few weeks ...
GE BLITZES MEDIA TO TOUT PROPOSED UNION CONTRACT.(Main)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Mike Virtanen Business writer The General Electric Co. conducted a minor media blitz Thursday in the Capital District in support of a proposed contract for union workers, who will vote on it next week. GE bought full-page advertisements in Thursday's editions ...
FLOODING, DROUGHT COMPETE IN PARCHED CENTRAL PLAINS.(Main)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Associated Press Heavy rain soaked the central Plains today, bringing new life to wilting crops and flooding parts of Kansas, but some farmers complained the wet weather was too little, too late. "It's too late for this corn even if it does rain," Oklahoma ...
JULY FOURTH WEEKEND HOLIDAY SCHEDULE CHANGES DRIVERS URGED TO SLOW DOWN.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: United Press International The following is a partial list of schedule changes occurring as a result of the July Fourth weekend. *Offices: All federal, state, county, city, town and village offices will be closed Monday. Any with Saturday hours also will be ...
STATE RISKS LOSING ON LAND DEAL.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Fred LeBrun The Adirondack Park is big. How big, you ask? Very big. It makes up one-fifth of the entire state, an area roughly the size of Vermont. That's big enough. So when a big block of acreage goes up for sale in the Adirondack Park, suffice ...
ACCUSED OF FAKING INJURIES 4 ARRESTED IN INSURANCE SCAM.(Local)(Correction notice)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Carol DeMare Staff writer Four Capital District residents were arrested Thursday by state authorities for allegedly bilking insurance companies of nearly $80,000 over two years by faking accidents and claiming phony injuries in discount stores and supermarkets. ...
CABLE PROBE NETS 51 FELONY COUNTS 4 ACCUSED OF SELLING UNSCRAMBLERS.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: John Caher Staff writer In what federal prosecutors called one of the biggest such operations ever uncovered in the country, four Capital District men were charged Thursday with selling illegal cable unscrambling devices from six corporations in downtown Troy. ...
BOY UNDERGOES HEART TRANSPLANT.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Alan Llavore Staff writer Bryan Crounse, the 12-year-old Schenectady boy who is suffering from a rare cancer of the heart, was in surgery Thursday night to receive a new heart, said a spokeswoman for Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh. Surgery began at 4:15 ...
TWO GIRLS KILLED IN SCHODACK CAR COLLISION.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Two girls were fatally injured and the mother of one of the girls was injured in a two-car crash on Route 9 Thursday morning, town police said. Both girls - 10-year-old Trisha Merchant of Hudson and 8-year-old Amy Barber of Old Post Road, Schodack - were wearing seat ...
WHALEN CHIDES SCHOOL BOARD, CLAIMING FLAWED LEADERSHIP.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Brad Kelly Staff writer Mayor Thomas M. Whalen III on Thursday continued his attack on the city school system, saying he thought the Board of Education should become more progressive in dealing with educational issues. "There has been a tendency over the years ...
U.S. CHIPS IN FOR CENTER WALKWAY TRANSIT AUTHORITY OKS $4.6M.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II Staff writer Plans to build a $5.81 million pedestrian walkway to link the Albany County civic center and downtown Albany to the Empire State Plaza will become a reality when construction starts this fall. The federal Urban Mass Transit ...
COLD AIR MASS CAUSES NEW LOW.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... A cold upper atmosphere air mass Thursday helped the Capital District establish a record temperature - 64 - the lowest high temperature on the last day of June since 1885, according to the National Weather Service at the Albany County Airport. The previous record was 65, said ...
ALBANY POLICE PROBE MURDER VICTIM'S 'HIGH-ROLLING' LIFESTYLE HOMOSEXUAL LEADERS AIDING INVESTIGATION.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Joe Mahoney and Jay Jochnowitz Staff writer City police detectives said Thursday that they are attempting to determine how murder victim Archibald "Archie" Boyd led the life of a "high roller" while earning only a modest amount of money as a department store salesman. ...
WIFE SHOT IN 1986 EX-MINISTER SENTENCED FOR MURDER.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Carol DeMare Staff writer Despite his repeated declarations of innocence while addressing the court for nearly one hour Thursday, the Rev. Willie Lee Maye was sentenced to the maximum 25 years to life in state prison for the 1986 fatal shooting of his wife. ...
ALBANY INTERNATIONAL GETS $10M FOR PROJECT.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II Staff writer The Albany International Corp. will use up to $10 million in Albany County Industrial Development Agency revenue bonds to renovate and equip its Menands factory, creating 150 to 200 new jobs. The county IDA unanimously approved ...
ON THE JOB - AND STREETS - 38 YEARS PUBLIC WORKS CHIEF RETIRING IN MENANDS.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Peter Wehrwein Staff writer If it weren't for those trips to the supermarket in Latham, it might be several weeks before Clyde Henderson finds a reason to leave the boundaries of this 3.75-square-mile village on the west side of the Hudson and in the shadow of the town ...
JUDGE TOLD TO REVIEW BURIAL FIGHT.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: John Caher Staff writer State Supreme Court Justice Edward S. Conway has been ordered to ponder a question which perhaps only a man dead since 1986 could answer: Where would William Conroy want to be laid to rest? The peculiar question arose from the case of a ...
APPELLATE COURT RULES JUDGE ERRED BY RELEASING PAROLE VIOLATOR.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... An intermediate level appeals court has ruled that Rensselaer County Judge M. Andrew Dwyer Jr. was wrong to release from jail a convicted robber who landed behind bars when he violated the terms of his parole. Nelson Zakrzewski of Troy was released on parole in June 1984 after ...
TEACHERS' STARTING PAY AT $21,500.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Starting pay for teachers in the Hudson City School District will be $21,500 next year - about $6,000 more than this year - under a new contract between the teachers' union and the district. The three-year agreement between the Hudson Teachers' Association and the district was ...
POLICE SEARCHING FOR PURSE SNATCHER.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Town police are searching for a young man who stole a purse with nearly $1,000 in cash and checks wednesday night. Lt. Fred Holligan said the pocketbook "was snatched from a shopping cart outside the Grand Union in the Delaware Plaza at 9:40 while the woman ...
GROWTH TAKING ITS TOLL NORTH GREENBUSH SEEKS ACCESS TO WATER LINE.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Laurie Anderson Staff writer The town is once again trying to persuade East Greenbush and Rensselaer to sell it water, the town supervisor said Thursday. Supervisor Daniel Borden said he would like to "sit down and negotiate" with officials from the two ...
NOLAN RIVAL AVERTS FIGHT IN PRIMARY.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Albany County Republicans have averted a primary for the 42nd District State Senate seat because Joseph Laux has decided to drop his bid to challenge Scott Morgan, who has received party endorsement. The two said they will work together to defeat Democratic incumbent Howard C ....
SITE CONTAMINATED BY PAINT MINE OWNER CLAIMS IGNORANCE OF DUMPING.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Tim O'Brien Staff writer The operator of a Halfmoon sand and gravel mine where contaminated soil has been found said Thursday that any paint dumped on the site was done without the landowner's knowledge or permission. Ward Stone, wildlife pathologist for the ...
WATERFORD TO AWARD BIDS FOR NEW GARAGE.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Tim O'Brien Staff writer Town Board members are hoping to have their new highway garage built this fall. At Tuesday's regular meeting, the Town Board is to award bids for the construction of the new garage, to be built on the former Eddy Valve Co. property ...
STRATEGIC COMMITTEE REVIEWS 1985 PLAN SPEAKERS COMPLAIN OF SHORTFALLS.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Jay Jochnowitz Staff writer Mayor Thomas M. Whalen III's strategists got an earful Thursday night of how the city has failed to help minority businesses and artists, revive its business district, bring its assessment practices up to date and do something about the poor ...
HUDSON DEPUTY CITY CLERK TO RESIGN FOR SCHOOL POST TRUCKER DIES IN SLEEPING BERTH ALBANY TEEN JAILED ON COCAINE CHARGE EAST GREENBUSH CONSIDERS 3 PROJECTS WATERVLIET TEACHER-CONTRACT TALKS ON AUTO SHOP'S INSPECTION LICENSE REVOKED.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Bonita Colwell said Thursday she will be sworn in July 11 as a member of the Hudson City School District Board of Education. Colwell, 34, of Hudson, also said she was submitting her resignation Thursday as deputy city clerk to Hudson Mayor Michael Yusko Jr. but she will continue ...
MAN FACES SEX ABUSE CHARGE.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... A city man accused of abusing and threatening to kill his girlfriend after police said she rejected his sexual advances was to be arraigned in Police Court today. Felice A. Bredice, 52, of 208 Western Ave. was charged with sexual abuse, fourth-degree possession of a weapon, ...
CYCLE RIDER CHARGED AFTER CHASE.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... A 23-year-old city man was charged with driving while ability impaired and first-degree reckless endangerment Thursday after he allegedly raced a motorcycle down Central Avenue at speeds topping 100 mph, police say. Charles Finch of 106 Quail St. was arrested at 11:24 p.m ....
PHYSICIAN LOSES FIGHT TO GET LICENSE RETURNED.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... A Saratoga Springs physician whose license was revoked after he was accused of sexually molesting four female patients, has had his appeal dismissed by the state's highest court. The Court of Appeals said Thursday that there were no direct constitutional questions involved in ...
SAND LAKE AUDIT DA PROBES PURCHASES, ADVANCES.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Toni Toczylowski Staff writer Rensselaer County District Attorney James B. Canfield will request records regarding questions raised in a 1986 audit of Sand Lake's finances from the former town supervisor. "I've got a feeling there's an explanation for the ...
PHILMONT DUMP OWNER WINS ROUND IN SUPREME COURT.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Gary Sheffer Staff writer Louis Moran won the first round Thursday in his bid to keep his construction and demolition landfill operating on Highland Avenue. State Supreme Court Justice George Cobb of Catskill issued a temporary restraining order preventing the ...
ROUTE 197 BRIDGE CLOSED IN FORT EDWARD.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... The bridge carrying Route 197 over the Champlain Canal in Fort Edward will be closed to traffic between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. today and Saturday. The bridge is one of ...
BAIL CHARGE DENIED BY EX-OFFICER.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Carol DeMare Staff writer A former Colonie police officer was returned to the Albany County Jail Thursday after pleading not guilty to violating the conditions of his bail by visiting the home of the girl whom he has admitted raping. Judge John G. Turner Jr ....
SARATOGA SPRINGS MAN CHARGED WITH FREEING 2 DOGS AT SHELTER.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... A Saratoga Springs man was arrested and charged with third-degree criminal trespass Thursday after he allegedly released his two dogs from the county animal shelter, a spokesman for the Saratoga County Sheriff's Department said. Philip K. Gallagher, 29, of 61 Curt Blvd., ...
COUNTY KEEPS DUMP-TAKEOVER PLAN DESPITE CLAVERACK'S MOVE.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Gary Sheffer Staff writer Columbia County officials still plan to take over landfills in the county despite a proposal to turn the only active dump into a wildlife sanctuary. Claverack town officials believe that declaring the dump a sanctuary will block the ...
BUILDERS RULED RESPONSIBLE FOR HOUSE DEFECTS.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Associated Press Home builders are responsible for any defects in their work even if there's no written contract or warranty that makes that clear, New York state's highest court unanimously ruled Thursday. The state Court of Appeals, in a 6-0 decision, ruled ...
*ASSEMBLY OKS MALPRACTICE BILL.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Associated Press The state Assembly gave final legislative approval Thursday to a bill extending the state's ability to set limits on medical malpractice insurance premium increases for another three years. Gov. Mario M. Cuomo's signature was all that was ...
*STATE TO LICENSE NURSE PRACTITIONERS.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: United Press International In a move to expand affordable health care, the state Assembly on Thursday gave final legislative approval to a bill allowing specially trained nurses to diagnose patients and prescribe drugs. Those rights had previously been the ...
LAWMAKERS BALK AT BORROWING $3B FOR ROADS *AUTOMOBILE GROUP FIGHTS PROPOSED BILL.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: United Press International A proposal to borrow an additional $3 billion to repair New York's highways may be derailed by public concern that taking out loans is too expensive, officials said Thursday. "I tell you, there certainly is a big school of thought ...
MAN WHO SAID HE TAPED BRAWLEY ADVISERS FREED.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Associated Press Samuel McClease, the man who says he taped the conversations of Tawana Brawley's advisers but then couldn't produce the tapes for a grand jury, was released on bond Thursday after agreeing to undergo psychiatric evaluation. McClease also ...
ADIRONDACK PARK CHIEF'S PROMOTION RECEIVED WARMLY.(Local)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Phil Brown Staff writer Environmentalists this week hailed the appointment of Robert C. Glennon to head the Adirondack Park Agency, saying it comes at a crucial time in the park's history. "He's totally and absolutely committed to the Adirondacks," said ...
7-SONG 'GLAD' A MIRACLE HIT.(Weekend)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Maggie Ziomek Critics keep writing about the emotional content of Miracle Legion's music, so it makes sense the New Hartford, Conn., band would name its recordings "Surprise, Surprise, Surprise" and "Glad." Although the first sounds like Gomer Pyle taunting ...
BONE-CHILLING GHOST TALES ECHOED IN MOUNT PLAYS.(Weekend)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Irene Gardner Keeney Staff writer Dennis Krausnick won't come right out and say The Mount is haunted. He will say that Edith Wharton, one of America's great literary figures, has left a very strong impression on the mansion she built in 1900. But many of the ...
ALL THAT JAZZ THE LEGENDS ARE AT SPAC.(Weekend)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Patrick Kurp Staff writer When his trumpet player took ill some years ago in New Orleans, a friend suggested Lionel Hampton hire a young substitute named Wynton Marsalis. The vibraphonist agreed, but first had to talk with Marsalis' mother and get permission ...
BEACH BOYS, YOUNG SET AT TANGLEWOOD.(Weekend)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Folk-rock artist Neil Young and the musical group Chicago have been added to the popular artist roster at Tanglewood this summer. Neil Young and the Blue Notes will appear at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 29, and Chicago will perform at 7 p.m. Aug. 30. Both concerts will take place in the ...
"COMING TO AMERICA": MURPHY, BUT NO EDDIE.(Weekend)(Movie review)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Martin Moynihan Staff writer "I am a man who has never tied his own shoes before," says Eddie Murphy's character, Akeem, a wealthy African prince. In "Coming to America," he's passing for a poor student, working in a fast food joint and looking for a woman who ...
STATE MUSEUM PUTS THE OUTDOORS INSIDE.(Weekend)
Jul 01, 1988 ... Byline: Maggie Ziomek Staff writer The State Museum is bringing the outdoors inside this month with an exhibit of photographs by Joel Meyerowitz, another of rustic furniture crafted by Clarence O. Nichols, and a two-day Native American festival. On Sunday and Monday, ...