Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from October 1988:
SERGEANT TO BE DEPUTY CHIEF.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Ken Thurman Staff writer Detective Sgt. Mark Sollohub, a 15-year police department veteran, is expected to be recomended as the town's new deputy police chief when the Town Board meets Tuesday. A source close to the selection process said Thursday Sollohub, ...
MR. JORLING'S ROLE.(Main)(Editorial)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Is state Environmental Commissioner Thomas Jorling intolerant of criticism? Some critics think so, and urge Governor Cuomo to dismiss him. Only recently, the commissioner walked out of a meeting with 20 members of the Toxics in Your Community Coalition. The commissioner's ...
CHINA AIMS TO REASSERT CONTROL OVER ECONOMY.(Main)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Edward A. Gargan New York Times After moving steadily away from traditional socialism for the last decade, China will strengthen centralized control of the country's economy, Premier Li Peng declared on Friday. Li's comments were made at a gathering of ...
STILL NO FEMALE PRIESTS POPE REPEATS LONG-HELD VIEW.(Main)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Marjorie Hyer Washington Post The Vatican Friday released Pope John Paul II's apostolic letter "On the Dignity and Vocation of Women," which extols women's spirit of self-sacrifice and love but reasserts, on scriptural grounds, historic Catholic teaching against women as ...
GORBACHEV SWINGS THE AX GROMYKO, 4 OTHERS RETIRED IN SHAKE-UP.(Main)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Combined wire services Soviet President Andrei A. Gromyko and four other senior officials were retired and the conservative ideologist Yegor K. Ligachev demoted Friday in the biggest shake- up of the Soviet Politburo in three decades. The Kremlin drama showed ...
STUDY BLAMES DOCTORS FOR MANY DEATHS.(Main)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Janny Scott Los Angeles Times Nine common medical errors - ranging from prescribing the wrong drugs to misdiagnosis of stroke - appear to have caused as many as 27 percent of all deaths from heart attack, stroke and pneumonia among patients in 12 hospitals, says a study ...
COMMANDOS CLEARED IN IRA DEATHS.(Main)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Combined wire services A jury decided on Friday that British commandos acted within the law when they shot and killed three unarmed IRA guerrillas in this British colony last March. Jury foreman Daniel Gabay said the 11-member panel voted 9-2 for lawful ...
FBI UNDER CLOUD *RULING HITS BIAS ON LATINO AGENTS.(Main)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: J. Michael Kennedy and William Overend Los Angeles Times The Federal Bureau of Investigation suffered a major embarrassment Friday when a U.S. district judge ruled that hundreds of Latino agents have been discriminated against and regularly assigned to demeaning duties ...
*FAILED DRAGNET REVEALED ERRORS.(Main)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Matthew Purdy and Alfonso Chardy Knight-Ridder When Steve Schaeffer criticized President Reagan's Central American policies on a Mobile, Ala., radio talk show in November 1983, agents in the local FBI office were monitoring the show and began collecting information on ...
CLEMENCY SOUGHT FOR JEAN HARRIS.(Main)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Supporters of clemency for Jean Harris delivered petitions to the state Capitol in Albany Friday that they said had been signed by thousands of people who shared their view. Harris, 65, is serving 15 years to life for the 1980 shooting of her lover, "Scarsdale Diet" developer ...
DAIRY ORGANIZATIONS PLAN TO CONOLIDATE.(Business)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Steve Schaefer United Press International Three of the Northeast's leading dairy organizations announced Friday they intend to consolidate ownership of a major segment of the region's milk business. Dairylea Cooperative Inc. plans to sell all of its plants, ...
DOBRYNIN FALLS AT KREMLIN.(Main)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Don Oberdorfer Washington Post Anatoliy Dobrynin, who was retired from active service Friday in a Moscow shakeup, mastered Washington diplomacy as few others have in his 24 years as Soviet ambassador here. But he seemed to be less successful in establishing himself as a ...
PUBLIC LIFE ENDS FOR DOUR DIPLOMAT GROMYKO.(Main)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Felicity Barringer New York Times Public life ends for Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko this weekend, 49 years after it began. At a meeting of the Soviet Communist Party's ruling Politburo Friday, the dour and enigmatic diplomat who helped engineer the cyclical ...
A POLITICAL BLUEPRINT OF SOVIET UNION.(Main)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Associated Press Here is how political power is apportioned in Soviet society: THE POLITBURO - This 12-member group of top Communist Party members is in fact the ruling body of the Soviet Union. Among its members are Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the party's general ...
DRUG SALE COSTS SARATOGA MAN 4 MONTHS.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Saratoga County Judge Frank B. Williams Friday sentenced a Saratoga Springs man to four months in the county jail and five years on probation for fifth-degree sale of a controlled substance, a felony. Edward O'Donnell, 29, of 104 Caroline St. admitted selling cocaine in Saratoga ...
EX-AIDE TO MEESE SAYS CORRUPTION RUINS CONFIDENCE.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: John Caher Staff writer A former deputy U.S. attorney general, who resigned this spring while his boss, Edwin Meese III, was under investigation, said "corruption by public officials is the worse kind of crime" because it undermines confidence in government. ...
A VISIT WITH SOME 'NATURISTS'.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Art Markey I get few surprises in the mail. The exception came on a recent morning when I received a brochure from the Phoenix resort near tiny North Easton, a short drive from Cambridge in scenic Washington County. It was so unusual, I immediately phoned ...
SHIP TAKES SHAPE 'HALF MOON' WORK UNDER COVER AT ALBANY DOCK.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Grace O'Connor Staff writer The skeletal hull of the new Half Moon, on view while under construction at the Snow Dock at Quay and Broadway since summer, vanished from sight this week as a protective building went up around it. But inside, the work goes on. ...
CRIME BEATS ON IN HAMILTON HILL VIOLENCE PERSISTS DESPITE BIG DRUG RAID.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Joe Mahoney Staff writer Small children played tag and threw footballs in the twilight Friday outside a Delamont Avenue apartment house where a shooting erupted Thursday afternoon. Down at the corner of Schenectady and Albany streets, one man reached into his ...
'REASONABLE DOUBT' QUESTION IN MURDER CASE CONFLICTING TESTIMONY CITED AFTER ACQUITTAL.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Carol DeMare Staff writer Day after day over two weeks the slightly built defendant stood in the courtroom, often with his hands in his pockets or using his right hand to gesture as he softly questioned witnesses and made comments to the judge. John Willis ...
BUILDING BOND VOTE MONDAY POLICE UNIT, LIBRARY RELOCATION PLANNED.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Brad Kelly Staff writer The Common Council Monday will vote on financing the conversion of a New York Telephone Co. building to house the Pine Hills branch of the Albany Public Library and the Division 1 police station. Alderman Robert Van Amburgh of the 13th ...
ALBANY TO RECYCLE PLASTIC BAGS USED IN NEWSPAPER DRIVE PROGRAM TO BEGIN MONDAY; ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP RAPS PLAN.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Brad Kelly Staff writer Answering criticism from an environmental group, the city said it will recycle any plastic bags that are used as part of its newspaper recycling program. Beginning Monday, all city residents will be asked to separate newspapers from ...
COHOES STUDENTS URGED TO USE DELAY TO RESIST TEMPTATION.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Sharon Gazin Staff writer Students should decide whether to speak for themselves or be somebody else's dummy, according to former high school principal Dale Hawley, who used ventriloquism to deliver his message Friday. Hawley, now director of student ...
FEDERAL JURIES REJECT 2 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUITS.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Federal court juries this week found no cause of action against Albany and Schenectady officials in separate civil-rights lawsuits. On Friday afternoon, a jury seated before U.S. District Judge Con. G. Cholakis ruled against Michael E. and Suki K. Packard in their lawsuit naming ...
PROPOSED SARATOGA COUNTY ETHICS CODE COMPLETED.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Mary Chris Kuhr Staff writer Beginning in January, Saratoga County's elected officials and department heads would be asked to disclose any debts, money owed them, business interests and property ownership that is tied to county business, under a proposed county ethics ...
VOTING DRIVE PLANNED.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Two days of voter registration are planned this month for town residents, according to Town Clerk Doreen M. Connolly. Registration will take place from 5 to 9 p.m. Oct. 14 at ...
SUSPECT SOUGHT IN SHOOTING OF MAN.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... As 23-year-old Kenneth Crippen lay paralyzed in EllisHospital from a bullet pumped into his back, police searched Friday for a suspect in the attack. Detective Sgt. Joseph Pollock late Friday released a description and name of a man being sought in the case. Pollock said police ...
PAPAL LETTER CALLED A CHURCH LANDMARK.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Craig Brandon Staff writer The Pope's letter on the status of women will influence church teachings "for many years to come," said the Rev. Howard Hubbard, bishop of the Albany Roman Catholic Diocese. It is "a profound reflection on the fundamental equality of ...
INDICTMENTS DISTURBING TO STATE SENATE 7 MEMBERS UNDER CLOUD OF CRIMINAL CHARGES THIS YEAR.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Gary Spencer Staff writer There were some awkward personal moments when the state Senate convened here Tuesday. Two more senators had been indicted on criminal charges since the Senate was last in town Aug. 2, and their colleagues faced the problem of what to say at ...
ST. PATRICK'S KILLER BURIED BY CHURCH.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: United Press International The emotionally disturbed man who killed an usher and bludgeoned a policeman in St. Patrick's Cathedral was given a funeral and burial by the Catholic Church Friday as a "sign of forgiveness." "It's the right thing to do," Monsignor ...
TAX AIDE GETS NO. 2 BUDGET DIVISION POST.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Associated Press Patrick Bulgaro, the No. 2 man in the state Department of Taxation and Finance, was named Friday to a similar post in Gov. Mario M. Cuomo's Budget Division. Bulgaro takes over as first deputy budget director and, with Budget Director Dall ...
CAMERAS TO RECORD ALBANY MURDER TRIAL OF 6.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Carol DeMare Staff writer Albany County Judge Joseph Harris ruled Friday that newspaper and television cameras be allowed to cover the trial of six New York City defendants accused of the March murder of two men in Arbor Hill. All six defense lawyers argued in ...
SPENDING UP, TAXES SAME IN GLENVILLE BUDGET PLAN.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Laura Vecsey Staff writer The tentative town budget for 1989 calls for no tax increase over last year despite more spending, according to Supervisor Clarence Neumann, who as required by law submitted the draft document to the town clerk Friday. The tentative ...
COHOES DRUNKEN DRIVER GETS 6 MONTHS NATURE CONSERVANCY TO HONOR LEHMAN 16-INCH WATER MAIN BREAKS IN COHOES SCHENECTADY'S OKTOBERFEST TODAY OCTOBER IS CRIME PREVENTION MONTH.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Associated Press Albany County Judge John G. Turner Jr. Friday sentenced aCohoes man to six months in the Albany County Jail for felony drunken driving. Joseph Valcik, 29, of 41 Whitehall St. also was sentenced to five years on probation and fined $500 for his ...
$25-PER-$1,000 TAX HIKE EXPECTED IN SCH'DY.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Marv Cermak Staff writer Mayor Karen B. Johnson is expected to recommend a property tax increase of about $25 on $1,000 of assessed value when she releases the city's 1989 proposed operating budget today. While she kept the lid on the spending plan Friday, ...
'NAZI' CHARGE OUTRAGES HEALTH WORKERS THEY DEMAND APOLOGY IN RENSSELAER COUNTY PETITION.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Alan Llavore Staff writer Rensselaer County Health Department workers are angry over remarks made by county Legislature Majority Leader Marilyn Douglas in a radio interview that they said compared their work to "Nazi Reign of Terror" tactics. In a letter to ...
BETHLEHEM GRAD IS 'MUSIC MAN' FOR THE OLYMPICS.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Grace O'Connor Staff writer Not every American making his mark at the summer Olympics in Seoul is doing it as an athlete. Mark Netter, a 1978 graduate of Bethlehem Central High School, has been the man behind the music throughout the summer games. ...
TENTATIVE '89 NISKAYUNA TAX RATE UP $4.35.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Ken Thurman Staff writer A tentative general and highway town budget for 1989 was unveiled Friday showing a projected tax rate increase of about 9.7 percent next year. The tentative $5,133,536 budget includes a projected tax rate of $48.91 on $1,000 of ...
ESIPA CUTS BUDGET $400,000.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Maggie Ziomek Staff writer The state's youth theater has cut more than $400,000 from its operating expenses, and canceled plans to present a series of music concerts and dance performances in the spring. The decision to revise the budget, from $2.2 million to ...
SNYDER WON'T REAPPLY FOR TOP POST.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Maggie Ziomek Staff writer A newly appointed search committee, which will interview candidates for the highest position in the state's youth theater, will not receive an application from the current executive director. Patricia B. Snyder said Friday she does ...
STIEB STOPPED SHORT, BUT NOT RED SOX DESPITE LOSS, BOSTON CHAMP.(Sports)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Al Vieira Executive Sports Editor The Boston Red Sox tried the front door Friday night, but the Cleveland Indians slammed it shut. So they sneaked in the back. The Boston Red Sox are the American League East champions today because the Oakland ...
JOE'S SECRET TO SUCCESS: GOOD PLAYERS.(Sports)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Al Vieira Executive Sports Editor A caravan of reporters streamed by and turned right, jamming themselves into an office the size of a freight elevator. Every one of them walked past Joe Morgan without saying a word. In his present state, no one would have understood ...
QB NOISETTE QUITS MALLERS, GRANDINETTI PLAYOFF STARTER.(Sports)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Tim Wilkin Staff writer Just when the Albany Metro Mallers needed veteran leadership the most, it left them. When the Empire Football League playoffs begin tonight, the Mallers will face the Watertown Red & Black at Mont Pleasant without quarterback Len ...
WINGS WIN EXHIBITION, FACE CUTS.(Sports)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Buzz Gray Staff writer A 5-3 victory in their first home exhibition game of the season was pleasing for the Adirondack Red Wings Friday night. But they are playing perhaps a more important game of musical chairs behind the scenes. Twenty-two skaters are ...
ALBANY COUNTS ON TURMAN.(Sports)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Al Hart Staff writer Jeff Turman has emerged as a key offensive weapon in Albany High's fast start this high school football season. The halfback has scored two touchdowns in each of his team's last two games, one of which was a 25-0 upset of two-time ...
GOOD NEWS FOR UNION: SMITH MAY PLAY TONIGHT.(Sports)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Paul Schwartz Staff writer Matt Smith was thought to be lost for the season, but Union's fastest and most dangerous receiver may play tonight when the Dutchmen face Albany State. Smith was injured Sept.10 in Union's 17-6 season-opening loss to Franklin & ...
HUDSON VALLEY LINE COACH EASY TO NOTICE.(Sports)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Keith Marder Peter Hume has held many different jobs from the time he grew up in Canada. Currently, he's a social studies teacher at Troy High and an assistant football coach at Hudson Valley Community College. At HVCC, he coaches offensive linemen. He says his size has ...
MINISTERS, MENTAL HYGIENISTS TO JOIN FORCES WITH SEMINAR.(Religion)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Grace O'Connor Staff writer When a woman tells her priest she is talking with God, does he have the expertise to separate prayerful communication from delusion? What ethical decision can a pastor make when a couple wants him to marry them and he knows one of ...
BANK OFFICIAL REBUTS EDITORIAL ON MORTGAGES AND TAXES.(Main)(Editorial)
Oct 01, 1988 ... The Times Union editorial of Sept. 17 relating to late payment of real estate taxes caused me deep concern. I write this letter because the editorial is personally painful to me as the chief executive officer of this 129-year-old institution and the proud successor of Mechanics ...
MINORITY HIRING.(Main)(Editorial)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Despite an affirmative action plan that was adopted in 1985, there has still been little success in the hiring of minority contractors for work on the civic center project. Albany County had hoped that 10 percent of the civic center's contracts would go to minority-owned firms ....
JONES INTERCABLE DROPPING USA FOR TNT.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Janet Trinkaus Television editor Jones Intercable, which has 21,000 customers in the Saratoga Springs-Glenville area, will drop the USA Network in order to carry the new Turner Network Television as of Monday. Glenn R. Jones, chairman and CEO, made the ...
ALBANY LAW COMPLEX OPENS.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Students at Albany Law School have a new, $2.4 million Moot Courtroom Complex in which to hone their trial skills. The new facility, part of a $14.5 million renovation effort at the school, was unveiled Friday at a dedication ceremony. The complex includes a moot courtroom, ...
NEW YORK BAR EDUCATION PROJECT CITED.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... The New York State Bar Association was recognized at a White House ceremony Thursday when it received a presidential citation for private sector initiatives for its efforts to encourage law-related education. The association was cited for its Law, Youth and Citizenship Program - ...
OPEN HOUSE AT APARTMENT BUILDING.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... The Albany Council of Churches Development Corporation Inc. and Somaltow Housing Company Inc. will both host an open house on the first two Sundays in October, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the South ...
ALBANY STATE VS. UNION: A KEY GAME FOR BOTH SCHOOLS.(Sports)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Paul Schwartz Staff writer Two teams wondering "How good are we?" will get some answers, not to mention a chunk of area supremacy, tonight at 7 when Union faces Albany State in a DivisionIII football game at Albany's University Field. The proper question for ...
HALFMOON BUDGET PLAN CALLS FOR 18.7% INCREASE.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Art Markey Staff writer Supervisor John Dudek was smiling Friday afternoon as he announced his 1989 tentative town budget at Town Hall and proclaimed, "Halfmoon is in excellent financial condition." The proposed budget of $3,201,721 is an 18.7 percent increase over the ...
'HEARTBREAK' WILL LEAVE FANS ALL SHOOK UP.(Local)
Oct 01, 1988 ... Byline: Martin Moynihan Staff writer A fabulous individual shows up in the living room of a family with the usual run of problems, and helps solve them. "E.T", of course. And now it's E.P., too, Elvis Presley, that is. The movie is "Heartbreak Hotel" a film that ...
ELECTION YEAR DREAM FOR A BLACK GIRL CHILD.(Perspective)
Oct 02, 1988 ... Byline: Frank Harris III T hroughout this presidential year, I, as a black American, have dreamed the daring dream. It is a dream rooted in the life-seed of my daughter, born earlier this year. It is the dream that Aisha, my first-born and the sixth generation in my family to ...
HIROHITO: A DIVINE BEING TOO WEAK TO GAIN TRUE IMMORTALITY.(Perspective)
Oct 02, 1988 ... Byline: Howard Kleinberg F irst impressions are indelible. Hirohito on that white horse. The symbol of Imperial Japan. Pearl Harbor burning. The passage of years alters little of the emotion. Yet scholarly and literary research shows ...
NEWS MEDIA RESTRAINT MUST BEGIN TO MATCH JUDICIAL VIGILANCE.(Perspective)
Oct 02, 1988 ... Byline: Sol Wachtler The concept of "judicial privilege" gives me the automatic right to claim that my words have been taken out of context and misinterpreted by the press. But there is little danger in misinterpreting the press's view of the courts. In a recent ...
YOUR JOURNEY MIGHT REQUIRE AN EXTRA DAY.(Living Today)
Oct 02, 1988 ... Byline: Judy Shepard Staff writer Bright fall color is stealing down from the Adirondacks; this week and next will see it intensify in the Capital District. Vermont's serene New England landscape or the Adirondacks' stunning vistas lure thousands of people during the ...
GORBACHEV NEEDS STRONGER U$$R TO SELL PERESTROIKA.(Perspective)
Oct 02, 1988 ... Byline: Douglas Stanglin C apitalists, Lenin reputedly sneered, will one day sell the rope that hangs them. Today, the West stands poised not only to peddle its merchandise but also to finance the sale with low-interest loans. The arrangement seems to suit both sides just fine. ...
'FREAKS' RESENT ADVOCATES MEDDLING IN WAGE-EARNING.(Living Today)
Oct 02, 1988 ... Byline: Patrick Kurp Staff writer On the stage of the Sutton Sideshow, at the New York State Fair in 1984, Otis Jordan - known professionally as "The Frog Man" - rolled, lighted and smoked a cigarette solely with his lips. From birth, Jordan's limbs had been ...
THE VISITORS AND THE WRITER.(Perspective)
Oct 02, 1988 ... Byline: Dan Lynch Whitley Streiber's story is this: About three years ago, while he was staying at his secluded mountain cabin south of Albany, a bunch of strange creatures pranced into his bedroom, abducted him, took him off in what seemed to be a spaceship and ...
AUDIENCE APPEAL, PERFORMERS' NEEDS SHAPE ARTS OFFERINGS.(Show)
Oct 02, 1988 ... Byline: Maggie Ziomek Staff writer Describing the Capital District's performing arts audience is a little like playing Twenty Questions. Who is upscale, professional, an experienced theatergoer, mostly over 35 and living in Albany County? Who's between the ...