Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from July 1989:
LEGALIZING DRUGS WOULD BRING DISASTROUS RESULTS.(Main)
Jul 01, 1989 ... My Senate colleague, Sen. Joseph Galiber, is Albany's leading advocate of legalizing drugs like cocaine, crack, heroin, etc. I suppose its OK to open a dialogue when a college professor or TV personality decides to say this. But, when a lawmaker says it, it is apt to have a ...
'BAN THE CAN' BILL IS BAD LEGISLATION.(Main)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Mickey Trachtenberg In the pre-adjournment frenzy, some Albany lawmakers are turning their guns on an unassuming target: small cans of automotive refrigerant (CFC-12) used in car and truck air conditioners. The "ban the can" bill is a textbook case of how not to make ...
DEDRICK RUNS AGAIN FOR COUNTY POST.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Rensselaer County Legislator William L. Dedrick, a Democrat, will seek re- election in what is likely to be the most hotly contested legislative district. Dedrick, whose district includes North Greenbush, East Greenbush and Rensselaer, said he "enjoys the challenge of getting ...
WHAT ARE WE PAYING FOR?(Main)(Editorial)
Jul 01, 1989 ... How much is the state government spending and what is it spending it on? It might seem that answers to those simple, straightforward questions would be readily available. All one would have to do, after all, is take a look at the state budget for the current fiscal year, right? ...
JUSTICE, PORN AND REASON.(Main)(Editorial)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Because of the subject matter, few are ready to applaud the Supreme Court's recent decision upholding so-called "dial- a-porn" for adults. Yet the court made important distinctions that should not go unnoticed. On the surface, the ruling was a victory for no one. Not the court, ...
HOW DEMISE WAS REPORTED.(Main)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Peter Copeland Scripps Howard Capt. First Rank Yevgeniy Vanin was on his first combat patrol in the top-secret Soviet submarine, the only one of its kind ever built. The nuclear sub, called the Komsomolets and dubbed a Mike-class sub in the West, was 112 miles ...
MORE LOSSES FEARED IN HOUSING PROGRAM COSTLY MISMANAGEMENT PROBED.(Main)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Philip Shenon New York Times The inspector general of the Department of Housing and Urban Development estimated Friday that the government would lose hundreds of millions of dollars from mismanagement and possible fraud in yet another federal housing program to draw ...
U.S. TO PAY $73M IN OHIO NUCLEAR SUIT.(Main)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Combined wire services The Energy Department on Friday agreed to pay at least $73 million to Ohio residents who claimed they were hurt by contamination from the Fernald nuclear weapons plant, a senior official said. Henson Moore, deputy secretary, said terms ...
DANGER BELOW FLAWS DETAILED IN SOVIET SUBS.(Main)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Andrew Katell Associated Press Soviet nuclear submarines are poorly built and the navy is covering up the problems, a veteran officer said in an attack published Friday, after two recent sub accidents. Capt. Ilya B. Kolton, who served aboard Soviet submarines ...
BUSH ACCLAIMS FLAG BILL CRITICS FEAR THREAT TO RIGHTS.(Main)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Combined wire services President Bush said Friday that a Republican-drafted constitutional amendment to outlaw flag burning is "stark ... simple and to the point," but constitutional law experts differed on whether the language would accomplish its intended purpose. ...
DUCKING 'ROUND THE FLAG.(Main)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Thomas Collins Newsday Watching President Bush's press conference this week, in which he called for a constitutional amendment to nullify the Supreme Court's flag-burning decision, it was obvious that White House reporters were skeptical about his motives. ...
JUDGE UPHOLDS NORTH'S CONVICTION.(Main)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Combined wire services A federal judge Friday rejected Oliver L. North's demand for a new trial, despite a juror's failure to disclose her oldest brother's criminal record. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell clears the way for North's ...
LEGION FLAG BURNING RESPECTS ETIQUETTE.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Timothy F. Schick Staff writer With pomp and ceremony, members of the Melvin Roads American Legion Post 1231 burned the American flag Friday evening. In fact, they burned about 150. The event was not a political protest. It was not related to last week's U.S ....
DOG REWARDED FOR LIFE-SAVING BARK.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Grace O'Connor Staff writer In the Delmar home of Mary Spargo, on walls already hung with autographed pictures of U.S. presidents and their wives, there is a new citation. It names Susie, Spargo's dog, as the 1989 Pet of the Year of the Animal Protective ...
REGENTS MISSING THE MARK.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Fred LeBrun On Thursday, the principal of Benjamin Cardozo High School in Queens threw out the Math II Regents results in his school. Erratic grades indicated rampant cheating. This is the first, but the state Education Department predicts not the last, ...
2ND JURY CONVICTS MAN IN AX MURDER '84 RULING IN KILLING OVERTURNED.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Joe Picchi Richard Wexler and Ilaina Jonas Staff writers Eugene Mullins was found guilty Friday night of the 1982 slaying of a Troy woman, making it the second time in five years the former Schenectady man was convicted of the ax murder. After three full days ...
SHARPTON LAUNCHES NEW CLASH WITH STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL RELEASED ON BAIL AFTER STATE TAX-FRAUD INDICTMENT.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: John Caher Staff writer The Rev. Al Sharpton, saying black people do not owe this country anything and that his indictment on state tax charges qualifies him for induction into the "activist hall of fame," was released on $20,000 bail Friday less than two hours after his ...
$5.7 MILLION ASSESSMENT LOSS TO BOOST SCHENECTADY TAX.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Marv Cermak Staff writer City Assessor M. Jack Burke said Friday that the 1990 property tax roll will be $5.7 million lower than the present roll. "What that means is a loss of $513,939 of property tax revenue next year," Mayor Karen B. Johnson said Friday. ...
HERO NOT FORGOTTEN SAUGERTIES HOSTING DONLON DAY 25 YEARS LATER.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Bruce A. Scruton Staff writer SAUGERTIES - Roger Donlon considers himself lucky. A product of a small Hudson Valley town with a sense of history, Donlon said the only cold shoulder he received when he returned from Vietnam was the weather. "The ...
ALBANY COUNTY LIKELY TO PAY FOR ARENA POLICE.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Gary Sheffer Staff writer ALBANY - Albany County will more than likely pick up the tab for any work done by city police officers at events at the Knickerbocker Arena. The Common Council is expected to approve an agreement Monday night with the county that any ...
BUTTERFLY AT RISK, BIOLOGIST TESTIFIES BIGGER LANDFILL COULD BE LAST STRAW.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Gary Sheffer Staff writer A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist has filed testimony with the state saying the city's proposed landfill expansion in the Pine Bush will further endanger the Karner Blue Butterfly. The testimony was filed Friday with ...
CODE-DATA DEADLINE EXTENDED.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Bill Schackner Staff writer Albany County asked for and was granted 12 additional days to produce evidence for state examiners that the 15,000-seat Knickerbocker Arena and all other county construction for the past four years meets the state building code. ...
TROY POLICE GET NEW WEAPONS FIREWORKS HERALD LATEST PURCHASE.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... City police officers set off a fireworks display Friday, showing off the new semiautomatic weapons being bought to match the weaponry now available to law- breakers. The city is buying 135 new guns - enough for each officer on the police force - for $39,065 from Standard Law ...
TROY, RENSSELEAR FIND TAX ACCORD.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Tim O'Brien Staff writer City officials in Troy and Rensselaer reached four-year agreements Friday on their share of RensselearCounty sales tax. Both the Troy City Council and Rensselaer Common Council granted their city leader authority to sign the agreements ...
NISKAYUNA TRASH RULE IN EFFECT NEWSPAPER MUST BE SEPARATED.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Ken Thurman Staff writer A town law requiring that newspapers be separated from all household and commercial solid waste officially takes effect today. . Under the new law, newspapers will no longer be placed into the town landfill. That means that ...
ASSEMBLY BACKS YOUTH THEATER MOVE MAN FACES 40 U.S. CURRENCY CHARGES MAN CHARGED WITH HARASSING POLICE THEFT OF RIFLE FROM STORE INVESTIGATED.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... The state Assembly approved legislation Friday night that would move the Empire State Youth Theater Institute from the Egg at the Empire State Plaza to the State University at Albany. After the 116-21 vote, the legislation was sent to the Sentae where it was expected to be voted ...
EX-TOWN JUSTICE ADMITS STEALING, LYING PLEADS GUILTY TO 8 CHARGES IN COLUMBIA COUNTY.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Catherine Clabby Staff writer A former Columbia County town justice admitted Friday that while in office he stole fines and other money, altered court records to hide the thefts and lied to a state commission. Albert Montaneli, a one-time Ancram justice, ...
EAST GREENBUSH TO UPDATE MASTER PLAN MAN CHARGED WITH RAPE, ENDANGERING WOMAN HELD IN ASSAULT AGAINST SON ALBANY MAN FACES SODOMY CHARGES PLANNED PARENTHOOD CHAPTERS MERGE DRIVER DIES, PASSENGER INJURED IN CRASH NEW PARKING LOT OPENS AT AIRPORT REWARD URGED FOR VANDAL INFORMATION SHOP REOPENS AFTER CAR-RAMMING.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... The Town Board, rejecting the recommendation of the Planning Board, has selected Clough Harbour & Associates to update the municipal master plan. Supervisor Michael Van Voris said the Colonie firm was selected because it is a local company, has worked on other town projects and ...
LAWMAKERS DEFEAT 'NO-FAULT' DIVORCE BILL LAST-MINUTE VOTE SURPRISES SPONSORS.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press A rare coalition of state Assembly Republicans and some members of the house's Democratic majority beat back an attempt Friday night to have New York join 38 other states in providing "no-fault" divorces. The divorce measure came as the state ...
SENATE APPROVES PARKING-AUTHORITY SALARY MEASURE REMAINS STALLED IN ASSEMBLY.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Dan Janison Capitol bureau Buried away in this state's voluminous laws is language that over the years has created 36 parking authorities statewide, from Amsterdam to Yonkers. For each one, the law creates a board of directors picked by local elected ...
JUDICIAL-SYSTEM CHANGE AWAITS CUOMO ACTION.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: John Caher Staff writer After a 10-year effort to revamp New York's system of administrative adjudication, Assemblyman Joseph R. Lentol finally smells victory. A compromise bill to create an independent office of administrative hearing officers was passed in ...
ANSWERS WASTE AUTHORITY WINS ASSEMBLY VOTE.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Gary Sheffer Staff writer A bill to create a solid- waste authority for the members of the ANSWERS project was approved by the Assembly Friday in the final hours of the state Legislature's session. The bill, introduced by Assemblyman Richard Conners, D-Albany, ...
COMPROMISE PRENATAL-CARE BILL SPLITS WOMEN'S, YOUTH GROUPS PROPOSAL OMITS ABORTION FROM PREGNANCY-RELATED SERVICES.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Deborah Gesensway Capitol bureau Debate over a plan to expand free medical care to poor pregnant women and their newborns has pitted advocates for women against those working on behalf of children. The rare public rift among traditional allies centers around ...
FCC CLEARS WAY FOR AT&T PRICING.(Business)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press The Federal Communications Commission has cleared the way for a historic change in the way prices are established by the nation's largest long-distance provider, American Telephone & Telegraph Co. The commission Friday denied challenges by ...
MODERN HOME TECHNOLOGY LAYS OFF 29.(Business)
Jul 01, 1989 ... A Greene County company, Modern Home Technology Inc., laid off 29 workers Friday, according to company officials. The employees given notice the manufacturer of prefabricated homes and other buildings represent about half its payroll, according to Anthony Stodolski, a ...
TIME OFFICIALS DEFEND THEIR REJECTION OF BUYOUT.(Business)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press Time Inc. officials stuck to their guns at the company's annual meeting Friday, explaining to disgruntled shareholders why they rejected a $12.2 billion hostile bid from Paramount Communications Corp. and are pursuing their own $14 billion offer for ...
GIAMATTI: DECISION IS MINE.(Sports)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Joe Kay Associated Press Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti will not allow anyone else to decide whether Pete Rose bet on his own team, a baseball official said Friday. And, contrary to published reports, there have been no settlement discussions between the ...
GODDARD HONORED.(Sports)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Cheri Goddard, who graduated last week from Saratoga High, has been selected as the 1989 Gatorade Circle of Champions High School Track and Field Athlete of the Year for the Middle Atlantic region. Goddard, who will attend Villanova University this fall, set numerous SectionII ...
PUNCHLESS CAPITALS RUNNING OUT OF TIME.(Sports)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Ron Armstrong Staff writer It is not exactly do-or-die time for the Albany Capitals, but it's close. The American Soccer League team has lost two of the past three games and fallen from first place to third in the Northern Division behind Boston and the ...
RPI STILL LOOKING - FOR RECRUITS.(Sports)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Bob Croce Staff writer The process of finding prospects that have "fallen through the cracks" has begun for RPI hockey coach Buddy Powers and assistant Bill Cahill. "We may sign one more before our camp opens," said Cahill, RPI's chief recruiter, who has thus ...
'PEOPLE'S HORSE' WINS.(Sports)
Jul 01, 1989 ... He's Impossible roared by the front-running Black Roots in mid-stretch and went on to score a 2 1/4-length victory Friday night at Saratoga Raceway. He's Impossible is owned by a group of 2,000 track and Capital OTB patrons who participated in a promotion June16 in which they ...
STROLL LANSINGBURGH'S STREETS FOR TOUR OF HISTORY.(Home)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Irene Gardner Keeney Staff writer The Dutch called it "Stone Arabia." To the Indians it was "Tascamcateck." Today, it is known as Lansingburgh, named for the man who planned it. Although part of the City of Troy since 1900, Lansingburgh maintains its own sense of ...
SAGE RESTORES VAIL HOUSE.(Home)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Frances Ingraham Staff writer After more than a year and $225,000 worth of restoration work, Vail House in Troy has been returned to its natural beauty. It is the residence of Sara Chapman, seventh president of Russell Sage College. "I decided to live here ...
STARTING A NEW LIFE CHURCH GROUP HELPS VIETNAMESE FAMILY TO REUNITE.(Religion)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Craig Brandon Staff writer With the help of a church group, a Vietnamese family that has been separated for three years will be reunited this afternoon in an old Victorian house on Third Street. Tuan Nguyen, 24, the son of an unknown American ...
SCHOLARS DEPLORE DELAY IN RELEASING SCROLLS' SECRETS.(Religion)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: George W. Cornell Associated Press In 1972, Bible scholar Delbert Hillers completed what was intended as the most thorough, comprehensive volume on the Old Testament Book of Lamentations. Now he has to revise it because he and scholars generally were unaware ...
WEAK SCRIPT SUBTRACTS FROM 'SUM OF US'.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Jackie Demaline Executive entertainment editor "The Sum of Us" doesn't add up to much. Now playing on the Williamstown Theatre Festival's Other Stage, the domestic tragi-comedy by Australian director David Stevens (best known here for the miniseries "A Town ...
CLIFTON PARK PANEL WANTS ETHICS LAW SOONER.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Marc Carey Staff writer The three- member town Ethics Committee has recommended changing the proposed effective date for a town ethics law from Jan. 1, 1990 to this Sept. 1. In a June 22 memo to the Town Board, Town Attorney Kevin Luibrand, one of the three ...
VILLAGE TO RETURN POOL MONEY TO HUD.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Michael Winerip New York Times Officials of the village of Island Park in Nassau County, who have come under fire for their plan to use $1 million in Department of Housing and Urban and Development funds for a swimming pool, have decided to kill the project and return ...
GENDER GAP CLOSING, STUDY FINDS DIFFERENCES IN SCHOLASTIC TEST GRADES NARROW.(Main)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Gina Kolata New York Times The gap between male and female performance on standardized tests has disappeared on verbal tests and is narrowing on mathematics tests, researchers who have analyzed a wide range of examination data assert. The findings contrast ...
BALLSTON, CHARLTON JOIN IN RECYCLING EFFORT.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... The towns of Ballston and Charlton are now sharing the cost of the recycling station located at the Ballston Town Garage behind the Ballston Town Hall on Charlton Road. In a joint announcement, Ballston Solid Waste Committee Chairman Chester Carson and Marvin Schorr, Charlton's ...
CORRECTIONS UNION SUPPORT CRUCIAL IN SHERIFF RACE.(Local)
Jul 01, 1989 ... Byline: Joe Mahoney Staff writer An important endorsement in the Albany County sheriff's race will be issued in September when unionized corrections officers at the Albany County Jail are expected to announce who they want to lead the sheriff's department into the 1990s. "We'll ...
NORM CROSBY WENT FROM ADVERTISING TO MAKING A NAME IN COMEDY.(TV Magazine)
Jul 02, 1989 ... Byline: Janet Trinkaus Television editor N orm Crosby used to be the advertising manager for a big shoe company in Boston. "It was a national chain with 35 to 40 stores all across the country," the comedian said recently by phone from his Los Angeles dressing room, ...
CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS GO TO SCHOOL.(Living Today)
Jul 02, 1989 ... Byline: Judy Shepard Staff writer Beneath the lofty ceiling of the auditorium of School 23 on Whitehall Road, the sweet piping children's voices rise in "Amazing Grace" as parents watch, cameras ready. Forgotten for the moment are the stiff stock ties, the awkward ...
TEACHER WALKS INTO NEW JOB BARBARA MCMARTIN THE LEADER IN ADIRONDACK HIKING GUIDES.(Living Today)
Jul 02, 1989 ... Byline: Paul Grondahl Staff writer Before it peters out into thick forest, Garnet Hill Road in North Creek becomes an ornery, snaking, dirt mining path once used to haul "Adirondack rubies" down off the side of Gore and neighboring mountains. Torrential late-spring ...
FAMILY WRITES BOOK ON FAMILIES.(Living Today)
Jul 02, 1989 ... Byline: Vinod Chhabra Staff writer So it happened again yesterday. A trivial disagreement turned into an argument. Possibly the kids or the mother-in-law were dragged into this one. Perhaps not. All that was certain was it was another cloud in your day, and you know there will ...
PRESS CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS.(Living Today)
Jul 02, 1989 ... The Women's Press Club of New York State has elected its officers for 1989-90. The club was started in 1966 to serve professionals in journalism and communications. Margaret A. Levine, president, is a publications consultant providing writing and editing services to government ...
CLEANING PETS DOESN'T HAVE TO GIVE ONE PAWS.(Living Today)
Jul 02, 1989 ... Byline: Deborah Lawson Knight-Ridder Newspapers Only show dogs need to be bathed more than once or twice a year, unless the dog gets into some kind of mess. House cats almost never need a bath and show cats only occasionally - which is just as well, since they abhor them. ...
THEME PARTIES CAN BE FUN IF THE SPOILSPORTS ARE LEFT AT HOME.(Living Today)
Jul 02, 1989 ... Byline: Wayne Bledsoe Scripps Howard News Service Whoa, wearing that same old lamp shade again? What we need is something different. A theme. Something that forces people to do more than stand around, drink and eventually fall down. There are, of course, ...
HOW TO INVEST MONEY WISELY IN CDS.(Living Today)
Jul 02, 1989 ... Bank certificates of deposit, or CDs, are savings accounts that tie up your deposits, usually in amounts of $100 or more, for anywhere from seven days to 10 years. Diligent shoppers during the first few weeks of spring could find six- month CDs offering yields as high as 10.47 percent. ...
TRAVELERS DISCOVER GLASGOW IS A WORTHY SITE FOR STOPPING.(Living Today)
Jul 02, 1989 ... Byline: Susan E. Tomer Staff writer What's this? People actually going to Glasgow as they do to Edinburgh and London? People not visiting relatives or traveling on business? People there to see the sights? Tourists? Indeed. Glasgow, Scotland's largest city (population ...
FRENCH GROUP UPDATES COURT DANCES AT PILLOW.(Show)
Jul 02, 1989 ... Byline: Brin Quell Staff writer Dance, as an expression of the human spirit, however tenuous or determined, is meant to move people. Even in its most abstract form, where pattern and technique hold more weight than visible emotion, the moving art is a reminder to us ...
'ANNIE' FINDS FOOTING IN TIME FOR OPENER.(Show)
Jul 02, 1989 ... Byline: Martin P. Kelly Staff writer What has 10 orphans, a friendly dog and several truckloads of scenery and costumes? The one and only "Annie" - as if we didn't know. The Park Playhouse will debut its summer of free theater at the Washington Park ...
ARTS LEADERS SPEAK OUT AGAINST PUSH TOWARD CENSORSHIP PILLOW TALK SING, SENATOR, SING BIG BREAK? UNDER THE STARS HAIL, COLUMBIA.(Show)
Jul 02, 1989 ... It's made the New York Times and Newsweek. The arts are under fire with thousands of letters besieging the National Endowment for the Arts voicing opposition to the federal program that gives operating monies and other assistance to numerous arts organizations and individuals across the ...
THE CHARLES FLOATS ALONG ON TIME-WORN MENU, WITH RICE.(Show)
Jul 02, 1989 ... Byline: Vinod Chhabra Restaurant critic The Charles shook things up around here when it opened for business in the old Coachman's Motor Inn on Broadway. Sparkling with a California pop flair, the basement bistro set the trend with a brief but carefully crafted menu, ...
A LOT'S NEW AT PLIMOTH PLANTATION.(Living Today)
Jul 02, 1989 ... Byline: Jerry Morris Boston Globe It's been 368 years since the Pilgrims stepped ashore at what is now Plymouth, Mass. You'd think that after all these years, there would be nothing new to say or learn about the Pilgrims and America's hometown. Step inside Plimoth ...