Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from August 1988:
SETTING OUR SIGHTS.(Main)(Editorial)
Aug 01, 1988 ... A recent poll shows that a plurality of Americans believe the United States has lost its edge in space exploration. They favor more initiatives, such as the construction of a space station and manned flights to Mars. There is little wonder why many Americans feel that way. Since ...
THE LIBYAN CONNECTION.(Main)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Has Libya's Col. Moammar Khadafy learned his lesson about sponsoring terrorism? That seemed to be the case after America's 1986 retaliatory attack on Tripoli. Now, however, there are signs Col. Khadafy may be brokering terror as usual. For one thing, Greek authorities say they ...
FARM RESEARCH WORKS TO HELP A DRY WORLD.(Main)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Keith Schneider New York Times Agricultural universities and private farm research centers are working with a new urgency on hundreds of projects to help American farmers sustain harvests in droughts. American agriculture, relying on a small number of ...
JORDAN CUTS LINKS WITH WEST BANK.(Main)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Loren Jenkins Washington Post Citing the right of the Palestinians "to secede" from Jordan, King Hussein said Sunday night that his Hashemite kingdom would sever administrative and legal ties with the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where Palestinians have been in revolt for ...
SOVIETS DEBATE SECURITY.(Main)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post When Secretary of Defense Frank C. Carlucci arrives here today for a week of consultations with his Soviet counterpart, Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov, he will find the Soviet leadership engaged in its broadest debate on ...
REAGAN WAFFLES ON AIDS.(Main)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Marlene Cimons Los Angeles Times President Reagan is expected to defer acting upon the two most important recommendations of his own AIDS commission - that he endorse expanded federal anti-discrimination and confidentiality legislation to protect the ill and the infected ...
ISRAEL DEPORTS 8 PALESTINIANS.(Main)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Associated Press Israel deported eight Palestinians today, the military said, as Arabs in the occupied territories held a two-day strike to protest the Israeli policy of expulsions. Also today, Palestinians denounced King Hussein of Jordan as a traitor, and ...
ROWAN PLEADS INNOCENT.(Main)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: United Press International Liberal columnist Carl Rowan pleaded not guilty today to charges of possessing an unregistered gun and ammunition stemming from when he shot a young man who was among a group of people having a pool party behind his home. Rowan, who ...
JORDAN SEVERS TIES WITH WEST BANK.(Main)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Associated Press In relinquishing any claim to the West Bank, King Hussein has also decided to abandon responsibility for all government services in the Israeli-occupied territory, a senior government official said today. "It is a complete divorce of this ...
HOUSING MARKET SAGS AGAIN.(Main)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: United Press International U.S. builders managed only a 0.1 percent increase in construction projects in June than in May as the residential housing market sagged for the fourth straight month, the Commerce Department said Monday. Builders started new ...
BLAST RIPS BRITISH BARRACKS IRA CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY.(Main)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Associated Press An explosion and fire ripped through a two-story army barracks in north London early today, killing a soldier and injuring nine people, authorities said. The IRA claimed reponsibility. In a message to the Northern Ireland bureau of the British ...
CRASH KILLS SARATOGA GIRL.(Main)
Aug 01, 1988 ... A 16-year-old Saratoga Springs girl was killed when the car in which she was riding was struck head-on on East Line Road, Saratoga County sheriff's deputies say. Paula Mott of Pyramid Pines Trailer Park died at Saratoga Hospital, Saratoga Springs, about an hour after the 7 p.m ....
WOMAN DROWNS IN CLIFTON PARK POOL.(Main)
Aug 01, 1988 ... An autopsy was scheduled today on the body of an elderly Long Island woman who was found face down in a swimming pool at a relative's home. State Police identified the woman as Elizabeth S. Evans, 76, of Bethpage. The case is being investigated as an accidental ...
CARLUCCI IN MOSCOW FOR MILITARY REVIEW.(Main)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci began a visit today that will give him a close-up view of secret military hardware and bases, a privilege the Soviet chief of staff received in the United States last month. "It's a unique experience for a U.S. defense secretary," Carlucci said ...
YOUTHS CAUCUS AT REPUBLICAN SCHOOL OF POLITICS STATE PARTY ON LOOKOUT FOR FUTURE LEADERS.(Local)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Tim O'Brien Staff writer While the casual dress and friendly banter evoke echoes of summer camp, the 106 teenagers who gathered at Siena College in Loudonville on Sunday are focusing their attention this week on campaigns instead of campfires. The youths have ...
PRO-ENGLISH SIGN ELICITS ANGER IN HUDSON.(Local)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Gary Sheffer Staff writer Delbert Brown likes his ice cream soft and his language English. Brown runs a fast-food and ice cream business called City Cone on Green Street here, drives a truck in the family business and, in his spare time, likes to sell English ...
BASEBALL A VICTIM OF MODERNISM.(Local)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Ralph Martin In a couple of days, we can put reality aside and dream the impossible dream while emptying our wallets: Saratoga opens. But before plunging into the world of racing - and there will be enough stories written in August to give a plump mare ...
FAIR VENDORS FIND GOOD BUSINESS SARATOGA COUNTY JUST ANOTHER STOP ON THE ROAD.(Local)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Peter Wehrwein Staff writer For six months of the year, Rod and Red Latta lead the leisured life of a king and queen. Never far from a beach on Sugarloaf Key, one of the islands in the Florida Keys, Latta and his wife spend the winter months fishing, reading ...
ORDINARY PEOPLE SAMPLE CLUBHOUSE AT SARATOGA TRACK.(Local)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Jill Murman Staff writer Sunday's open house at the Saratoga Race Course announced the start of the August racing season the way a herald horn marks the beginning of a thoroughbred competition. "It's almost like saying, 'They're off!'" said Steve Schwartz, ...
NEWSPAPER RECYCLING STARTS TODAY IN GUILDERLAND.(Local)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Mandatory newspaper recycling for residents of Guilderland is scheduled to begin today. The town has been separating newspapers from other trash at the town's construction and demolition landfill in Guilderland Center since July 1. As of today, when residents who use ...
BETHLEHEM SCHOOL CEILING COLLAPSE RELEASES ASBESTOS FINDING OF SAFETY HAZARD POSSIBLE TO SPEED REPAIRS.(Local)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Barbara Hayden Staff writer The Bethlehem Central School District Board of Education will be dealing with an unanticipated problem - asbestos in an art room at Clarksville Elementary School - when it meets at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Adams Place educational center. An ...
STUDENTS GIVE SCHOOL SOME COLOR MURALS OF OLYMPIAN SPORTS BEGUN DECADE AGO.(Local)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Liz Walsh Staff writer As in many other public schools, hallways in the Farnsworth Middle School are painted institutional beige. But 10 years of students' work has transformed the corridor and two walls of the gymnasium into an art gallery celebrating the thrill of ...
KINDERHOOK REVIVES CONSTIL RATIFICATION DEBATE PLAYERS RE-CREATE ARGUMENTS USED BY NEW YORK DELEGATES.(Local)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Catherine Clabby Staff writer The value of debate was commemorated ...
SCHENECTADY MAN CHARGED WITH DWI SCHODACK GROUP PROTESTS PROJECT TWO-CAR COLLISION LEAVES 5 INJURED NUCLEAR DISCUSSION TONIGHT AT SKIDMORE FURTHERMORE ...(Local)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Associated Press A Schenectady man whose driver's license had been revoked because of two drunken-driving convictions was charged Saturday with driving while intoxicated after causing a two-car accident, police said. Police said a vehicle operated by Artis L ....
TROY MAN CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING POLICEMAN.(Local)
Aug 01, 1988 ... A city man is scheduled to appear in Police Court today to answer charges that he assaulted a police officer who stopped him on a traffic violation. Anthony Repp, 23, of 36 114th St., was arrested at 1:10 a.m. Saturday and charged with second-degree assault, resisting arrest and ...
RESCUE SQUAD ENDS HALFMOON SERVICE MECHANICVILLE UNIT WON'T CROSS BORDER.(Local)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Tim O'Brien Staff writer For the first time in 30 years, Pruyn Hill residents today have only one choice when calling for an ambulance. After decades of voluntarily crossing the Mechanicville border into Halfmoon, the John Ahearn Rescue Squad ceased that ...
SHOREHAM POLITICAL BATTLE TURNS BLOODY CUOMO COULD WIN THE WAR AND LOSE LONG ISLAND.(Local)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Jeffrey Schmalz New York Times During his monthly statewide radio program last week, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo of New York defended his plan to close the Shoreham nuclear power plant, making a rare direct emotional plea to the public: "All you people on Long Island, listen to ...
SENATE HEADS BACK, BUT SESSION STILL LAGS.(Local)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Jeannie H. Cross United Press International In what bids to become the oddest legislative session ever, the Senate is returning to Albany without the Assembly for a one-day stab at some - but not all - unfinished business, including state worker pay raises. ...
ALBANY COUNTY AIRPORT BLACKED OUT.(Local)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Jay Jochnowitz Staff writer Several hundred passengers and airline workers found themselves in a dim Albany County Airport without electricity to move baggage or run ticket computers after Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. unexpectedly shut off power to repair storm-damaged ...
SURROGATE CLERKS WANTED.(Local)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: From staff reports The state Department of Civil Service is looking for a few good surrogate clerks. Surrogate clerks represent the Department of Taxation and Finance in county surrogate offices throughout the state in connection with the administration of ...
MIX OF AUTHORS TOP WOMEN'S WORKSHOPS.(Local)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Paul Grondahl Staff writer The 11th annual summer conference of the International Women's Writing Guild (IWWG) returns to Skidmore College once again this month, bringing with it a unique blend of New Age philosophy and strategies for marketing commercial fiction. ...
'OTHER' MUSEUM TRIBUTE TO SHAKERS.(Local)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Irene Gardner Keeney Staff writer It's been said to be a good place for the novice antiques collector to start, as well as being the perfect place for the serious buyer to add to a collection. It's the annual Antiques Festival, now in its 33rd year at the ...
AGASSI WINS TITLE WITH NO PROBLEM.(Sports)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Buzz Gray Staff writer Andre Agassi, the United States' top tennis player, also became king of the mountain Sunday. It took him only 65 minutes to dispose of Paul Annacone 6- 2, 6-4 to win the Volvo International tournament championship. It was the fifth ...
'UNPREPARED' EVERS BLASTED BY READING, THEN MERRILL.(Sports)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Paul Schwartz Staff writer Albany-Colonie manager Stump Merrill couldn't hide his anger Sunday night, although his club's 9-2 loss to the Reading Phillies was not what infuriated him. "Some guys show up 15 minutes before they're supposed to pitch and expect ...
OURTOWN TV DEBUTS SPA GUIDE WEDNESDAY.(Sports)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: John Dieffenbach Staff writer By now, everybody knows the words "August" and "Saratoga" are inseparable in the Capital District. So it should be no suprise that OurTown Television's "Marylou Whitney's Guide to August" deals entirely with what happens in the city. ...
THREE ALTERNATIVES TO BLOOD TRANFUSIONS AVAILABLE.(Main)
Aug 01, 1988 ... I am writing in reference to the Knight- Ridder Newspapers article on bloodless surgery that appeared in The Times Union July 20. The article correctly reports on the partiality of Jehovah's Witnesses toward such surgery and continues to report that "now that the spread of AIDS ...
GENE PITNEY FANS STILL ROAR FOR 'THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALA NCE'.(Local)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Martin P. Kelly Times Union Critic Gene Pitney is a man who admits many of his fans from the '60s thought he was dead. Actually, he gave up the heavy touring to play father to his young sons. Later, he contented himself with restricted tours of Europe and ...
FIRE DESTROYS HOUSE IN GLENVILLE.(Local)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Fire destroyed a house owned by Peter Looker of 328 Amsterdam Road on Saturday night, dispatchers said. Firefighters from Rector's Fire Department battled the blaze, with help from the Scotia and Beukendaal fire departments, ...
2ND 'SUSPICIOUS' FIRE HITS TROY BUILDING.(Local)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Fire officials were labeling as suspicious the second fire to strike a vacant building in a month. Fire broke out at 8:57 p.m. Sunday night in the two-story building at 630 River St., apparently starting on the first floor, according to Fire Chief Michael Harrison. The blaze ...
COHOES RESIDENTS IRKED ABOUT CROSSING NO PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE OVER 787.(Local)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: Sharon Gazin Staff writer Residents are dissatisfied with the state Department of Transportation's response to their concerns about Route 787, according to a spokeswoman for the Van Schaick School PTA. Sharon Bowen said Mayor Ronald Canestrari and DOT Regional Director ...
REAL ESTATE ROUNDUP.(Business)
Aug 01, 1988 ... ALBANY COUNTY ALBANY 11 Fairlawn Ave., sold for $68,500 by L. Lee Helsby, 6 Avon Place, to Frank J. Rispoli and Faye F. Rispoli, 14 Knollwood Dr., Scotia. 27 Lois Court, sold for $38,000 by Susan A. Stalker, 27 Lois Court, to Dane L. Sorensen and Carol E. Sorensen, ...
PASSING THE BAR GRUELING TEST BECOMES RITE OF PASSAGE FOR ALBANY LAW SCHOOL ST UDENTS.(Main)
Aug 01, 1988 ... Byline: John Caher Staff writer After spending three years toiling at Albany Law School, six weeks cramming for the state bar exam and two days wrestling with the test's 250 multiple-choice and six essay questions, Karen Morris now faces a final but agonizing trial in her quest ...
WOMAN DIES OF ACCIDENTAL DROWNING.(Local)
Aug 02, 1988 ... An elderly Long Island woman who was found face down in a swimming pool at a relative's home on Sunday died of accidental drowning, State Police said. Troopers identified the woman as Elizabeth S. Evans, 76, of Bethpage, Nassau County. An autopsy was performed Monday ...
SARATOGA SPRINGS TEEN DIES IN HEAD-ON COLLISION.(Local)
Aug 02, 1988 ... A 16-year-old Saratoga Springs girl was killed Sunday when the car in which she was riding was struck head-on, Saratoga County sheriff's deputies said. Paula Mott of Pyramid Pines Trailer Park died at Saratoga Hospital, Saratoga Springs, about an hour after the 7 p.m ....
WMHT SAYS IT DIDN'T CUT OFF MOVIE.(Main)
Aug 02, 1988 ... The Times Union headline, "Viewers dismayed as WMHT cuts off end of 'Key Largo,'" has misled many of our viewers and your readers. WMHT did not cut off the end of this or any other programs recently ended abruptly in homes served by Capital Cablevision of Albany. The cable ...
BRAWLEY JURY TO HEAR DA AIDE.(Main)
Aug 02, 1988 ... Byline: Associated Press A Dutchess County assistant prosecutor will testify voluntarily without immunity before a grand jury investigating the Tawana Brawley case. Steven Pagones planned to refute in his testimony today charges made against him by the Wappingers ...
COXSACKIE GUARDS BEATEN.(Main)
Aug 02, 1988 ... Byline: Joe Mahoney Staff writer All five prison guards taken hostage for 14 hours by rioting inmates at the maximum- security Coxsackie Correctional Facility were beaten and kicked by their captors and stripped of their jewelry before being released early this morning, a guards ...
CONCERN DOMINATES SMALL TOWN.(Main)
Aug 02, 1988 ... Byline: Gary Sheffer Staff writer From Mansion Street to Stewart's to Augie's, residents here were holding their breath Monday. In the Greene County town where most of the inhabitants have a friend or relative working behind the walls of the Coxsackie Correctional ...
COXSACKIE INMATES SEIZE GUARDS 4 HOSTAGES LEFT AFTER ONE FREED.(Main)
Aug 02, 1988 ... Byline: Joe Mahoney and Greg B. Smith Staff writers Rioting inmates took five prison guards hostage Monday at the Coxsackie Correctional Facility in an uprising that broke out shortly after an exercise period concluded. They released one hostage about 10 hours later. ...
HUSSEIN MOVE BLASTED, PRAISED.(Main)
Aug 02, 1988 ... Byline: Combined wire services Palestinian reaction to the proposal by Jordan's King Hussein to sever ties with the occupied West Bank ranged from cries of "traitor" to praise Monday while Israeli analysts tried to sort out ramifications for the upcoming elections there. ...
EPA TAKES STEPS TO SLOW DEPLETION OF OZONE LAYER.(Main)
Aug 02, 1988 ... Byline: Robert Engelman Scripps Howard The Environmental Protection Agency announced new manufacturing quotas on chlorofluorocarbons Monday, to slow future depletion of the upper-atmosphere ozone layer. The EPA also said it is leaning toward a "windfall profits" fee ...
ALBANY TO PAY $47G IN CIVIL RIGHTS SUIT.(Main)
Aug 02, 1988 ... Byline: Jay Jochnowitz Staff writer The city of Albany has agreed to pay $47,000 to settle a $9 million civil rights lawsuit brought by two would-be protesters arrested before the controversial 1981 Springboks rugby game. According to an order filed with U.S. District ...
ANGLICANS TO PERMIT FEMALE BISHOPS.(Main)
Aug 02, 1988 ... Byline: Gilbert A. Lewthwaite Baltimore Sun An overwhelming majority of the world's Anglican bishops voted Monday to permit individual church provinces to ordain female bishops. That clears the way for the U.S. Episcopalian Church to elect its first female bishop as ...
CARLUCCI SEEKS PROOF OF SOVIET SHIFT.(Main)
Aug 02, 1988 ... Byline: Combined wire services U.S. Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, at the start of an official visit to the Soviet Union on Monday, challenged the Kremlin to prove that Soviet military doctrine was shifting from an offensive to a defensive footing. Carlucci, who ...
JORDAN MOVE SPURS SPECIAL PLO COUNCIL SESSION.(Main)
Aug 02, 1988 ... Byline: Associated Press The PLO said today it is calling a special session of its parliament to discuss Jordan's administrative divorce from the West Bank and other events that have reshaped the Arab-Israeli dispute. The director of the PLO's Baghdad office, Azzam ...
COXSACKIE INMATES FREE GUARDS PEACEFUL ENDING TO STANDOFF.(Main)
Aug 02, 1988 ... Byline: Joe Mahoney and Greg B. Smith Staff writers Rioting inmates at Coxsackie Correctional Facility surrendered early today and released the remaining four prison guards taken hostage in an uprising that lasted more than 14 hours. The fifth guard had been released ...
ECONOMIC INDEX TAKES BIG JUMP.(Main)
Aug 02, 1988 ... Byline: Associated Press The government said today that its chief forecasting gauge of future economic activity shot up 1.4 percent in June, the biggest increase in 18 months. The big advance in the Commerce Department's Index of Leading Indicators provided fresh ...
FUND-RAISER REPORT NAMES BRUNO.(Main)
Aug 02, 1988 ... Special-interest campaign contributions to state lawmakers are "poisoning" elections in New York, says a report released today that identifies Sen. Joseph Bruno, R-Brunswick, as one of the Legislature's top fund-raisers. The report by New York's anti- corruption commission says ...
PLANT-CLOSING VETO UNLIKELY.(Main)
Aug 02, 1988 ... Byline: Associated Press President Reagan likely will allow a plant-closing worker notification bill to become law without his signature, Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole said today. Dole told reporters that in a meeting with Reagan, the President told Republican ...
CHRONOLOGY OF COXSACKIE UNREST.(Main)(Chronology)
Aug 02, 1988 ... The Coxsackie facility, which opened in 1935 as a working farm for juvenile delinquents and became a maximum-security prisonin 1978, has been the scene of a number of hostage takings and disturbances in the past 16 years. The incidents include: April 1972 - 40 ...
'ORANGE CRUSH' BACKS STATE PRISON HOSTAGE NEGOTIATORS.(Main)
Aug 02, 1988 ... Byline: Timothy F. Schick Staff writer The scene: Ossining, January 1983. Inside the state prison there, 17 corrections officers were being held hostage by about 600 inmates. Outside, along the walls of the prison, large groups of heavily armed corrections officers ...
PROBLEMS GROW AS TOWNS DO.(Local)
Aug 02, 1988 ... Byline: Fred LeBrun When Tom first called, he was incensed. I get a lot of those sorts of calls, the incensed kind. Tom was put out, to say the least, with a couple of his North Greenbush neighbors. North Greenbush is the classic crossroads community in a crunch ...
JURY STILL OUT ON CAUSE OF DRY, HOT WEATHER.(Local)
Aug 02, 1988 ... Byline: Phil Brown Staff writer This summer, the Capital District has seen the temperature rise to 90 on 17 days before August. In an average year, it gets that hot only eight times in the warm months. This summer, the temperature has hit 95 four times. It had been ...
RPI ENTRY FORMS GO ELECTRONIC GENIE TAKES RUB OUT OF APPLYING.(Local)
Aug 02, 1988 ... Byline: Tim Spofford Staff writer Now there's a way for high school seniors to cut through all the paper work involved in applying to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. They can summon a GEnie. GEnie is the name of a General Electric computer service that will beam an ...
SARATOGA SPRINGS SEES SEASON STRETCHING OUT.(Local)
Aug 02, 1988 ... Byline: Jill Murman Staff writer When the crowds arrive for Wednesday's opening of the thoroughbred track, they won't be coming to a quiet city in the country. Saratoga, as residents and tourists call it, is becoming a year-round tourist attraction, with local ...