Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from April 1989:
MR. HENDRICK STEPS DOWN.(Main)(Editorial)
Apr 01, 1989 ... When J. Robert Hendrick ran for his first term as Bethlehem supervisor in 1985, he was already an incumbent by virtue of a Republican Party appointment - an advantage that his Democratic opponent claimed was all too typical of politics, Bethlehem style. Four years later, the ...
THE POISON GAS LOOPHOLE.(Main)(Editorial)
Apr 01, 1989 ... When a new chemical plant in Libya appeared capable of producing poison gas, Washington correctly laid part of the blame at Bonn's doorstep. The reason? Weak export laws that permitted the sale of West German components to Libya. Now it turns out that U.S. export regulations ...
ALIEN-SMUGGLING CASE SNAGS FOUR IN ALBANY.(Local)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Bruce A. Scruton Staff writer Three Chinese nationals and a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in China have been arrested by federal agents in a scheme to smuggle aliens into this country. The arrests came Thursday evening at the Greyhound bus terminal ...
CLOCKS TO SPRING FORWARD NIGHT SHIFT CUT SHORT.(Main)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Clocks will spring an hour ahead Sunday morning, marking the beginning of daylight-saving time. This is the third year that daylight-saving time has begun on the first Sunday in April. A federal law passed in 1986 moved it from the last Sunday in April, the date established in ...
SOVIET VOTE, FOOD SHORTAGE LINKED GORBACHEV EXPLAINS LOSSES.(Main)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Michael Parks Los Angeles Times President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, analyzing the Communist Party's widespread and unexpected losses in this week's parliamentary elections, linked the setback to deepening anger over severe food shortages. "The food problem is the ...
REAGAN NEED NOT TESTIFY.(Main)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Combined wire services In a double blow to Oliver North's defense against coverup charges, a federal judge refused Friday to order former President Reagan to testify for North and then declined to dismiss any of the 12 felony charges against the former White House aide. ...
LEGISLATORS AGREE ON TAXES; CUOMO STANDOFFISH.(Main)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Jeannie H. Cross United Press International State legislative leaders Friday agreed to raise state taxes and spending by at least $925 million, but Gov. Mario M. Cuomo said that is not enough to cover projected needs plus a deepening deficit. It also is $354 ...
TRUMP AGREES TO ACQUIRE EASTERN SHUTTLE FOR $365M.(Main)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Combined wire services Billionaire developer Donald Trump finally agreed to acquire Eastern Airlines' shuttle Friday for the original $365 million purchase price, but only after he extracted four more airplanes from the crippled carrier. The sale, nearly ...
100 POTENTIAL VIOLATIONS REPORTED IN WRIGHT PROBE.(Main)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Fort Worth Star-Telegram A report written by the special counsel in the ethics investigation of House Speaker Jim Wright cites an estimated 100 potential violations of congressional rules, a source close to the inquiry said. The report by Richard Phelan, ...
PRICES OF SEAFOOD NOW TAKING A DIVE.(Business)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Alan Cooperman Associated Press Steve Gallup and his four-man crew pulled up nets brimming with cod and filled the hold of the 78-foot Determination in a week of grueling but exuberant days. But when they returned to Point Judith, R.I., last month, their mood ...
PAY PHONES TO START CHANGING TODAY.(Business)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press Starting today, making a call from certain pay phones without coins will be a lot more expensive because of deregulation that opens the phones to competitors of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Some little-known long-distance companies ...
ACCUSED TURNS TABLES IN COLONIE SAYS OFFICIALS GUILTY OF SAME CRIME.(Local)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Mike Gormley Staff writer A town businessman is fighting a zoning violation charge by accusing top town officials of covering up the same crime when perpetrated by themselves, their families and friends. Defendant George Bashor of 43 Briarwood Road faces a ...
SNOW EXPECTED ON APRIL FOOLS' DAY.(Local)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Ilaina Jonas Staff writer with wire reports Today's weather is expected to follow the traditional path of April Fools' Day pranks and nonsense if the 1 to 2 inches of snow predicted falls on the first day of the first full month of spring. Rain ...
GAS EXPLOSION DESTROYS HOME 2 INJURED IN SOUTH TROY; WATER HEATER SUSPECTED.(Local)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Timothy F. Schick Staff writer A newly installed gas water heater is suspected of causing an explosion that rocked South Troy Friday, sparked a two-alarm fire when it destroyed a duplex apartment building and left two people with minor injuries. "It looks ...
SARATOGA CO. RECYCLING OFF TO ENERGETIC START.(Local)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Alan Llavore Staff writer Larry Bascom knows Saratoga County's mandatory recycling program is working. Leafing through a report, Bascom, the county recycling coordinator, sees the proof in numbers: 800 tons of bulk metal and 340 tons of newsprint have been ...
WOMEN OF FAME ACADEMY OF HOLY NAMES PUPILS ENACT ROLE MODELS.(Local)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Grace O'Connor Staff writer One day she was Natasha Winegar, second-grade pupil at the Academy of the Holy Names. Next day she was Eleanor Roosevelt, someone she didn't know about until she and 24 other girls in her class began to study 20th-century women of courage ...
INTERPRETER HANDLES GUILTY PLEA FOR COURT MAN AMONG 57 CAUGHT IN DRUG SWEEP.(Local)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Ken Thurman Staff writer A 27-year-old native of the Dominican Republic pleaded guilty to drug charges in Schenectady County Court Friday in a case in which an interpreter had to be used in order to conduct court proceedings. Miguel Medina, who gave a Bronx ...
LAWYERLESS PLANTE SAYS HE WON'T ATTEND DISCIPLINE HEARING PLANS TO SEEK TRANSCRIPTS, MAKE HIS DEFENSE IN WRITING.(Local)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Ken Thurman Staff writer In an effort to cut legal costs and continue his defense against disciplinary charges, Rensselaer County's embattled environmental health director wants to be excused from future proceedings and be allowed to put his testimony in writing. ...
SCH'DY YOUNGSTERS CHARGED IN CAR THEFT.(Local)
Apr 01, 1989 ... A city teenager was arraigned Friday on charges of having a stolen Lincoln automobile in his possession and breaking into the auto dealership where it was stolen. Clifford Jackson, 16, of 30 Robinson St. and a juvenile whose name was not released were charged late Thursday with ...
4 SENTENCED FOR SALE, POSSESSION OF DRUGS.(Local)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Joe Picchi Staff writer Four people were sentenced Friday in Albany County Court on convictions for possession or sale of illegal drugs. Brenda Lee Hooks, 31, of 339 Orange St., Albany, received a 2- to 6-year prison term from state Supreme Court Justice ...
STATE PANEL QUESTIONS NEWLAND EX-ALBANY AIDE ANSWERS SUBPOENA.(Local)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Brad Kelly Staff writer Former city Economic Development Commissioner Charles Newland testified for approximately four hours Friday before the governor's Commission on Government Integrity, according to Corporation Counsel Vincent J. McArdle Jr. Newland is ...
COLAVITA DECIDING WHETHER TO LEAVE AS GOP CHAIRMAN RELEASE OF DRUNKEN DRIVER BLOCKED STATE TO PROBE BLACK MAN'S DEATH IMPASSE MAY KILL STATE SUPERFUND.(Local)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press Associated Press Associated Press United Press International State Republican Chairman Anthony Colavita said Friday he would decide within "a week to 10 days" whether to step down as head of the New York party. Several top party leaders, ...
DETECTIVES' STAKEOUT ENDS IN MAN'S ARREST.(Local)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Bruce A. Scruton Staff writer A Scotia man was sent to the Albany County Jail after he reportedly was followed to a Schenectady home by two Albany detectives who had seen him burglarize an Albany business. Inside the house, according to Schenectady and Albany ...
LAWYER LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN CRITICIZES SCH'DY SCHOOL PROPOSAL.(Local)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Marv Cermak Staff writer Mario A. Pacelli formally launched his campaign for a seat on the City School District Board of Education by labeling a new reorganization plan misguided and offensive. Pacelli blasted the plan Friday, charging the estimated $9 million ...
FRENCH RESEARCH DELAYS REVIEW OF WAR HERO.(Local)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II Staff writer The Defense Department's review of World War I hero Sgt. Henry Johnson's war record has been delayed while the French government searches its archives for details on his receipt of France's highest military decoration. ...
POET CONTINUES FAST AGAINST DEATH PENALTY.(Local)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: United Press International A poet who has taught prison inmates and communicates regularly with a convicted cop killer entered the 38th day of a fast Friday in protest of the death penalty. Max Schwartz, 48, whose diet has consisted of only one gallon of ...
CANADIAN BROTHERS GUILTY OF PERJURY GAS SPILL CAUSES GREENVILLE EVACUATIONS OBSCENE PHONE CALLS LEAD TO ARREST MAN HURT ALLEGEDLY TRYING TO ESCAPE 2 MEN HELD IN QUEENSBURY DRUG CASE WOMAN FACES DRUG CHARGE HEARING 2 COHOES BUSINESSES BEING REBUILT FLORIDA STATE WINS ALBANY COURT CONTEST PIVACEK GETS SCH'DY HOUSING POST.(Local)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Two Canadian brothers have been found guilty of lying to a federal grand jury investigating the smuggling of $243,532 into the United States, allegedly for use in purchasing illicit drugs. The brothers, Robert Pelletier, 42, of Winnipeg and Remi Pelletier, about 38, who is now ...
LEGISLATORS PRESSED TO RESTORE CITY AID.(Local)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Marv Cermak Staff writer Human Service Agency officials have sent huge greeting cards to three federal legislators calling for continuing funding of the Community Development Block Grant program. Mayor Karen B. Johnson said the officials wrote messages on ...
CANADIAN BROTHERS GUILTY OF PERJURY OBSCENE PHONE CALLS LEAD TO ARREST MAN HURT ALLEGEDLY TRYING TO ESCAPE 2 MEN HELD IN QUEENSBURY DRUG CASE WOMAN FACES DRUG CHARGE HEARING 2 COHOES BUSINESSES BEING REBUILT FLORIDA STATE WINS ALBANY COURT CONTEST PIVACEK GETS SCH'DY HOUSING POST.(Local)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Two Canadian brothers have been found guilty of lying to a federal grand jury investigating the smuggling of $243,532 into the United States, allegedly for use in purchasing illicit drugs. The brothers, Robert Pelletier, 42, of Winnipeg and Remi Pelletier, about 38, who is now ...
DIVINE DIFFERENCES STUDY FINDS CHRISTIANS ARE A POLITICAL MIXED BAG.(Religion)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: George W. Cornell Associated Press The "elite" of American Christianity, those in the upper echelons of power and influence, are found in a new study to be sharply divided in their social-political views. They also assume different priorities for their common ...
B'NAI B'RITH LEAGUE TO HONOR HUBBARD TO GET AMERICANISM AWARD JUNE 4.(Religion)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Grace O'Connor Staff writer Bishop Howard Hubbard of the Albany Roman Catholic Diocese will receive the fourth annual Americanism Award of the Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith on June 4. "Bishop Hubbard does a tremendous amount of good making bridges ...
CORRECTIONS.(Local)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Due to a reporting error, the "After Dark" column in Friday's editions said the WAMC-FM radio show "Great Acoustics" is now called "The Hudson River Sampler." The two shows are separate entities. "Sampler" began broadcasting before "Great Acoustics," ...
ARTS AND CRAFTS RISE IN POPULARITY AND PRICE.(Local)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Martin Moynihan Staff writer People today "are looking for ways to make their lives less anonymous," says Wendy Kaplan, and that helps explain at least two things. One is the continuing demand for handmade crafts in today's market. Another is the surge of ...
SEVENTH-GRADERS RESPOND TO CAT.(Local)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Brin Quell Staff writer Seventh- and eighth- grade students often make great theater audiences. It's not that they appreciate everything they see. It's because they make their opinions known, loud and clear. They cheer, hoot and holler as the mood strikes. ...
KRAMER AMONG FORMER STARS IN SPOTLIGHT.(Sports)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Schenectady lawyer Barry Kramer, an All-American at New York University, and Georgetown coach John Thompson are among five college basketball stars of yesteryear who will receive National Association of Basketball Coaches' silver anniversary awards Sunday night. The awards are ...
EX-RPI DEFENSEMAN MAKING IMPRESSION ON WINGS.(Sports)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Buzz Gray Staff writer When Rob Schena signed a contract with the Adirondack Red Wings after ending his college career at RPI in early March, it didn't look like he was going to get much of a chance to play. After all, Adirondack was well stocked with veteran ...
CAPS LAND 3 U.S. STARS ON LOAN.(Sports)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Ron Armstrong Staff writer Albany Capitals soccer coach John Bramley figures half a loaf is better than none. Bramley has added three U.S. National Team players - midfieldersBrian Bliss and Mike Windischmann and defender John Harkes - to the Capitals. The ...
PLAYER RECOGNITON IS A 'CAPITAL' IDEA.(Sports)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Keith Marder Staff writer The four coaches of the Capital District college lacrosse teams have expanded on a good idea for this season. The Capital Cup has been awarded to the team which has won the Union-Albany State-RPI-Siena series since 1986. But now, ...
PLACID ENDS '98 INTEREST.(Sports)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press The Lake Placid Bid Committee has unanimously decided not to make this Adirondack Mountain resort a candidate for the 1998 Olympic Winter Games, officials announced Friday. A statement issued by Lake Placid Mayor Robert Peacock and Ned ...
A-C YANKS' SEPANEK MAKING A COMEBACK.(Sports)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Bob Croce Staff writer Rob Sepanek now knows what it's like to be a hostage, confined in limbo while life around you continues. The Albany-Colonie Yankees first baseman feels he was a captive most of last season - bound and gagged by doctors' orders. ...
DEADLINE MISSED FOR A 5TH YEAR.(Main)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: United Press International This is the fifth year in a row that the state has begun its fiscal year on April 1 without an approved budget. The longest the state has gone without spending authorization was 1981, when Gov. Hugh Carey was ...
NEW YORKERS FEEL OVERTAXED.(Main)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press Guess what? New Yorkers think state taxes are too high. That was the finding of a new poll commissioned by the state's major business lobbying group and released Friday. The poll, paid for by the Public Policy Institute of the ...
INMATE TELLS OF ALEXANDER CACHE SAYS EX-SYRACUSE MAYOR HAS $2 MILLION HIDDEN OVERSEAS.(Local)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: United Press International A man who befriended former Mayor Lee Alexander in prison has told the FBI that the once prominent Democrat has more than $2 million stashed in a foreign country, a published report said Friday. The former inmate, Lawrence Sollanek, ...
WRIGHT'S INFLUENCE REACHED THE TOP ECHELONS OF GOVERNMENT.(Main)
Apr 01, 1989 ... Byline: Vic Ostrowidzki Times Union Washington Bureau When House Speaker Jim Wright uses his clout, powerful people listen. In 1979, for example, when Wright spoke as a Texas congressman - and House majority leader - to President Jimmy Carter, Secretary of State ...
RICHARD CRENNA LIKES PLAYING MODERN HEROES IN FILM, TV.(TV Magazine)
Apr 02, 1989 ... Byline: Janet Trinkaus Television editor R ichard Crenna thinks "The Case of the Hillside Stranglers" (9 p.m. Sunday on WNYT, Channel 13) is a terrific movie. "Because it's a story about a man - Bob Grogan - and it is not violent or sensationalized at all. The ...
AFTER THIS YEAR, BASEBALL ON TV WILL NEVER BE SAME.(PLAY BALL)
Apr 02, 1989 ... Byline: Pete Dougherty Beginning with Ruben Amaro, a shortstop whose career was never the same after a collision with Tom Tresh during a 1966 Yankees-Orioles telecast, NBC's Game of the Week has brought numerous ballplayers into living rooms across America each Saturday. But no ...
SAX CAN'T AFFORD TO LOOK BACK.(PLAY BALL)
Apr 02, 1989 ... Byline: Joe Layden Staff writer Not everyone understood the decision Steve Sax made last fall. Why, they wondered, would he leave his native Southern California? Why, after eight years in Los Angeles, playing for everybody's favorite manager, Tommy Lasorda, and one of baseball's ...
REPEAT OF '88 IS SHOWALTER'S GOAL FOR A-C YANKEES.(PLAY BALL)
Apr 02, 1989 ... Byline: Bob Croce Staff writer Buck Showalter says the plan for the 1989 Albany-Colonie Yankees is to follow in the footsteps of last year's team. "That would be the goal. Stump (Merrill) did a good job managing that club last year. Not only did he win a championship, ...
RED SOX LOADED WITH TALENT AND TURMOIL.(PLAY BALL)
Apr 02, 1989 ... Byline: Al Vieira Executive Sports Editor Lou Gorman, the general manager of Team Turmoil, says his third baseman can hit while falling out of bed. And apparently he has for the past four years. Team Turmoil possesses the world's best pitcher - when he's ...
ONLY ONE TEAM CAN BEAT THE METS - THE METS.(PLAY BALL)
Apr 02, 1989 ... Byline: Joe Layden Staff writer What can stop the New York Mets from repeating as National League East champs and winning their third divisional title in the last four years? Nothing, except perhaps the New York Mets themselves. The Mets are without ...
LEITER LEARNING THERE'S MORE TO PITCHING THAN FASTBALL.(PLAY BALL)
Apr 02, 1989 ... Byline: Bob Croce Staff writer Al Leiter continues to search for a true identity. Leiter would like to be Al Leiter the flame-thrower, whipping the baseball like a deadly white-hot blur. New York Yankees manager Dallas Green would prefer that he be Al ...
HARD WORKERS CARRY ON SWYER'S LEGACY OF GIVING.(Show)(Correction notice)
Apr 02, 1989 ... Byline: Brin Quell Staff writer Lew Swyer could speak French while discussing Marcel Proust and then sit down, in an office decorated with modern art, to formulate the plans for a subsidized housing project. Although his associations were many, his dedication never ...
THEATRE BARN'S PRODUCER SAYS IT'S NOT SO ROUGH IN THE DIAMOND.(Show)
Apr 02, 1989 ... Byline: Martin P. Kelly, Will Hughes, Brin Quell, and Jackie Demaline What does a producer do while she's putting a summer season together for a June opening and overseeing construction of a theater? Why, she coaches a high school boys baseball team. Joan Phelps of ...
BLUE MOON'S FOOD, SERVICE MAKE FOR LESS THAN STELLAR PERFORMAN CE.(Show)
Apr 02, 1989 ... Byline: Vinod Chhabra Restaurant critic Bruce Goodspeed likens it to a juggling act on a tightrope: this is pasta country, so a new restaurateur can neither afford to ignore it nor become a part of the glut. And then there are prices: They've got to be kept low - no ...
DESIGNER PUTS HIS ENERGY IN LIGHTING.(Show)
Apr 02, 1989 ... Byline: Brin Quell Staff writer Two of Bob Koch's favorite activities are designing stage lighting and talking. Tall and sandy-haired, Koch sits in the wallpapered kitchen of his country cottage, and the stories pour forth. "I retired from the straight ...
PINCHING THE SHOPLIFTERS WEALTHIER, OLDER SHOPLIFTERS STEALING FOR A THRILL STORE DETECTIVES MEET MORE THAN ARTFUL DODGERS.(Living Today)
Apr 02, 1989 ... Byline: Paul Grondahl Staff writer The man came into the Price Chopper supermarket on Central Avenue in Colonie at about 10:30 one night a couple weeks ago, wearing a plaid wool jacket and scruffy hunting cap pulled down low. Bernie Struys and Chris Hollister, in- ...
LAX RULES FOR ELECTROLOGISTS UNDER SCRUTINY.(Living Today)
Apr 02, 1989 ... Byline: Irene Gardner Keeney B arbers and beauticians are licensed in New York state, but electrologists are not, although not for the want of trying. Electrolysis, the removal of body hair by use of an electric probe which destroys hair roots, is a commonly accepted ...
HOME SWEET TREE SWISS BUSINESSMAN RETREATS FOR LIFE IN ARBOREAL PARADISE IN INDIA'S KIPLING COUNTRY.(Living Today)
Apr 02, 1989 ... Byline: Vinod Chhabra Staff writer The dirt road curled between the cluster of mud igloos baking in the midday heat and struggled up a barren slope near Khajuraho, India. All around were the rocky plains, interrupted here and there by crimson explosions of flame-of-the-forest ...
RETIN-A WON'T ERASE ALL OF YOUR WRINKLES.(Living Today)
Apr 02, 1989 ... Byline: From Consumer Reports According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, any product that claims to affect the structure and function of the skin is a drug rather than a cosmetic. And, unlike cosmetics, drugs must be proven both safe and effective before they can be ...
MEDICAL STATUS OF ELECTROLYSIS STILL UNCERTAIN.(Living Today)
Apr 02, 1989 ... Byline: Julie Hatfield Boston Globe Ever since electrolysis, or permanent hair removal, was developed in the late 1800s, the procedure has remained in a categorical limbo between the beauty business and the medical profession. "Electrolysis was developed by doctors in ...
TAKING SHOPLIFTERS TO COURT OFTEN DOESN'T PAY FOR STORES.(Living Today)
Apr 02, 1989 ... Byline: Paul Grondahl Staff writer Police are swamped with violent felonies in this age of crack and Uzis. The courts are backlogged. The prisons are overcrowded. Guess where that leaves the shoplifter? Store managers talk tough ...
COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE APRIL 12.(Living Today)
Apr 02, 1989 ... Six communications professionals will speak at the Women's Press Club's fifth annual Careers in Communications Conference April 12 from 8:30 a.m. to noon at Junior College of Albany, 140 New Scotland Ave. The program will feature two panel discussions with the first, titled "In ...
DAKOTA'S HISTORY AS INTERESTING AS THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE.(Living Today)
Apr 02, 1989 ... Byline: Anita Dennis Columbia News Service To most people, the Dakota, on Central Park West, is simply the building where John Lennon lived before his murder. But the building, declared a city landmark in 1969, has a much more extensive history. Indeed, it ...
'OZ' ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATED IN BAUM'S BIRTHPLACE.(Living Today)
Apr 02, 1989 ... Byline: Carl Korn United Press International The Yellow Brick Road may end in the Land of Oz, but a proud central New York farming village is where Dorothy and Toto began their journey to the Emerald City, in the imagination of author L. Frank Baum. The 4,205 ...
PRAGUE ONE ANCIENT EUROPEAN CITY THAT'S FINALLY LIFTING ITS VE IL.(Living Today)
Apr 02, 1989 ... Byline: Jane Amari Los Angeles Daily News This city has been a secret among Europeans for years. They know of its beauty and have flocked to it in ever- increasing numbers. Americans are just beginning to catch on. It is not to be missed. It is called the City of 100 ...