Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from August 1989:
CLIFTON PARK'S SECURITY.(Main)(Editorial)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Should Clifton Park arm its town constables? Supervisor Kevin Dailey wants to do just that, provided the constables receive required training and the town can obtain the necessary liability coverage. Yet the question is best answered with another question: Should Clifton Park ...
CAPITAL GAINS SENSE.(Main)(Editorial)
Aug 01, 1989 ... It now appears certain that Congress will act on the capital gains tax before breaking for the summer. That will be good news only if the tax is tailored to meet two standards - equity and economic stimulus. Those who oppose tinkering with the tax base their arguments on the ...
ISRAEL OFFERS PRISONERS FOR SWAP.(Main)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Combined wire services Minutes after the announced deadline for the killing of Lt. Col. William R. Higgins on Monday afternoon, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin offered to trade Israel's Lebanese Shiite Muslim prisoners for all the hostages, Israeli and Western, being held ...
FAMILY'S FINANCES PROBED VICTIM'S FUND TOPS $11,306.(Main)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Joe Mahoney Staff writer As a funeral fund for sex- murder victim Mei-Ling White bulges with contributions from generous donors, the 8-year-old girl's parents face questions about their eligibility for remaining in a rent-subsidized apartment. Meanwhile, a ...
WALL STREET FINANCIERS GUILTY OF RACKETEERING.(Main)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Vera Haller Associated Press Five former officials of Princeton-Newport Partners LP and a former Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. trader were convicted Monday in the first use of tough federal racketeering laws against Wall Street professionals. The convictions in ...
U.S. WEAPONS SALES TO THIRD WORLD SOAR 66 PERCENT IN '88 SOVIET ARMS DEALS DOWN 47%.(Main)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Robert Pear New York Times American arms sales to the Third World increased sharply last year and nearly matched Soviet sales, which declined from the previous year, the Congressional Research Service reported Monday. American sales of weapons in 1988 rose by ...
TERRORISTS CLAIM TO KILL U.S. HOSTAGE.(Main)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: New York Times A terrorist group in Lebanon said on Monday that it had hanged a hostage U.S. Marine colonel, and distributed a grisly videotape that showed a figure identified as the American twisting at the end of a rope. A second group, one of many Shiite ...
BUSH WANTS SUMMIT WITH GOVERNORS SEEKS A CONSENSUS ON SOLVING EDUCATION PROBLEMS.(Main)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Owen Ullmann Knight-Ridder President Bush announced Monday that he would convene a rare summit of the nation's governors in September to explore ways to reverse "the decline of our educational system." Bush's proposed summit on education would mark only the ...
'RAPTURE' PROPHECY ONLY A YEAR OFF.(Main)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Elaine Witt Scripps Howard There were those who stopped and listened, but the world kept right on spinning last year on the date when Edgar Whisenant had predicted that everything would change. But Whisenant, a retired space engineer in Little Rock, Ark., ...
BOYCOTT ENDS AS WHALING HALTS.(Main)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: United Press International The international environmental group Greenpeace has called off a worldwide boycott of Icelandic fish products following the government's decision to halt its scientific whaling program, a foreign ministry spokesman said Tuesday. ...
YONKERS BAILED OUT AGAIN.(Main)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press The city of Yonkers, saved from bankruptcy twice in the past 15 years, has been bailed out of another fiscal crisis by the federal judge who almost caused its financial ruin last year. Less than one day before the city would have been in ...
CRIME INSURANCE PLAN PUSHED.(Main)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press Officials from the city and state say they'll publicize a faltering federal crime insurance program because it's the only way some people in high-crime areas can get insurance. "We can sell this program ... because it does provide meaningful ...
SOVIETS MOVING TO AVERT RAIL STRIKE.(Main)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press Railroad and union officials averted a threatened strike by rail workers with promises of improved wages and living conditions, the head of the country's trade unions said today. The possibility of a strike on the Moscow-Leningrad line was ...
TERRORISTS TARGET 2 THREATEN TO KILL AMERICAN, BRITON WAITE.(Main)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Farouk Nassar Associated Press Pro-Iranian extremists said they would kill another American hostage today - a day after kidnappers said they hanged a U.S. Marine - unless Israel frees a Shiite Moslem cleric it abducted. And another caller today claiming to ...
HOSTAGE LEADER OF U.N. FORCE.(Main)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: United Press International Marine Lt. Col. William R. Higgins was head of a U.N. truce- monitoring force in Lebanon when he was taken hostage on Feb. 17, 1988. The decorated Vietnam veteran was snatched from one of two U.N. vehicles on a coastal road near the ...
RADICAL MUSLIMS CLAIM EXECUTION GROUP KILLED NAVY DIVER IN 1985 TWA JET HIJACKING.(Main)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: United Press International The Organization of the Oppressed on Earth, which said it hanged Marine Lt. Col. William R. Higgins Monday, is regarded as the most radical of all the militant Muslim groups operating in the political vacuum created by years of civil war in ...
BUSH FINDS FEW CHOICES TO HIT BACK.(Main)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: George Gedda Associated Press Finding appropriate ways to punish international terrorists has bedeviled successive administrations, a frustration President Bush faces after the reported hanging of Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins, a variety of experts say. ...
ISRAELIS INDICATING TALKS ON HOSTAGES.(Main)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Nicolas B. Tatro Associated Press Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir today suggested Israel was conducting negotiations with pro- Iranian Shiite Moslem groups in Lebanon to obtain the release of Israeli prisoners and Western hostages. Asked whether Israeli was ...
BUSH HAS FEW OPTIONS AGAINST HEZBOLLAH.(Main)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: George C. Wilson Washington Post Pentagon officials acknowledged Monday that the United States has practiced, but never executed, bombing raids against the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, the organization which controls the group that kidnapped Marine Lt. Col. William R ....
DEVELOPERS AGREE TO BUY COUNTY'S DOUBLE-DECK BUSES.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II Staff writer The Albany County Industrial Development Agency has sold its four double-deck buses to a development partnership that has a lease-purchase contract with the agency for the former Tobin Meat Packing Co. plant in Colonie. ...
REGENTS' BILINGUAL BONER.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Ralph Martin If anyone asked you whether English should be our official language, you might think he had gone bonkers. Isn't it already? We write it, speak it, mangle it and twist it at every chance. How official can you get? But it's not so cut and dried ....
MODERN PROBLEM, ANCIENT ANSWER NUCLEAR WASTE PANEL SEEKS SECRET OF ROMAN RUINS.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Mary Chris Kuhr Staff writer A state group charged with seeking a way to store radioactive waste for centuries into the future is looking to the past - all the way back to ancient Rome. The Low-Level Radioactive Waste Siting Commission is pondering the ...
32 PETITIONS INVALID IN DEMOCRATIC CONTEST.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Catherine Clabby Staff writer The petitions of 32 people seeking seats on Columbia County's fractured Democratic Committee have been ruled invalid, a move that could strip party Chairman Francis Keeler's most vocal critics of their seats. Among those barred ...
ROUNDUP IN COURT DRUG POSSE DEALINGS PART OF PENDING TRIAL.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: John Caher Staff writer The internal workings of a Saratoga County-based drug gang - or posse - are expected to be revealed in U.S. District Court in Albany over the next several weeks as eight men alleged to be part of the organization stand trial before Judge Con G ....
MARKERS AIDING ROAD WORK DRIVERS GIVEN EXTRA WARNING.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Paul C. Webster Staff Writer Motorists along parts of Central Avenue now under reconstruction may notice a rumbling sound as they change lanes. But they shouldn't head toward a service station, because the noise is caused by new roadway markers used during the work ....
NEW SCOTLAND TREATS CHILDREN TO SPECIAL SUMMER.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Barbara Hayden Staff writer It isn't every town recreational program for children that finds the confidential secretary to the supervisor running home to pop a hugebatch of popcorn, the program director carting watermelons and parents bakingcookies and delivering them to ...
DEFENDANT DENIES MURDER CLAIMS HE TRIED TO HELP VICTIM.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Joe Picchi Staff writer Murder defendant Floyd H. Rehm claimed Monday in Albany County Court that he left Asbury Booker drunk and sitting on a sidewalk early Easter morning in 1988, the night he is accused of stabbing Booker to death. Rehm took the stand in ...
PORT OF ALBANY TO HIRE TORONTO FIRM TO DRUM UP SHIPPING BUSINE SS.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Jay Jochnowitz Staff writer The Port of Albany is poised to hire a second firm to help draw shipping business here, this one from Canada. The Albany Port District Commission on Monday confirmed that it intends to hire Project Transport and Trading Ltd. of ...
DRIVER FOUND DEAD ON TACONIC PARKWAY.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... A Dutchess County man was found dead Monday morning after he apparently fell asleep while driving alone south on the Taconic Parkway, struck an earth embankment and was thrown from his car. Charles Hebrechter, 56, of Poughquag, was found about 7 a.m. just south of Route 8 by ...
ALBANY MAN HELD IN LIBRARY BREAK-IN.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... A city man faces several charges after he was arrested by police, who charged that he had a television and videocassette recorder stolen from an Albany Public Library branch. Wilfredo Falu, 43, of 17 Batcher St. was ordered held in Albany County Jail in lieu of $7,500 bail ...
5 SEEK ALBANY SEATS SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER TO STEP ASIDE.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Brad Kelly Staff writer Robert Callahan on Monday became the second Board of Education member in less than a week to announce that he will not seek re- election to the board this year. A board member for 18 years, Callahan said it is time to step down from ...
3-WAY SCHODACK RACE POSSIBLE SUPERVISOR TO SEEK RE-ELECTION.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Timothy F. Schick Staff writer Town Supervisor Beth Knauf Morgan announced Monday that she will seek re-election to a third term, in what is developing into a bitter campaign. Morgan, 36, is a political independent, whose previous victories have been with ...
GE WORKER KILLED AT WATERFORD PLANT.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... A employee of the General Electric plant was killed Monday evening during a "routine maintenance" operation, according to town police and company officials. A man identified as Gary Thrane died of "multiple trauma," according to a spokeswoman at Albany Medical Center Hospital. ...
BARGE CAPTAIN PLEADS NOT GUILTY.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Tim O'Brien Staff writer The captain of a barge that released jet fuel into the Hudson River on Saturday could face up to $15,000 in fines and five years in jail, a Coast Guard official said Monday. Jacobo Shabelev, 38, of Bayonne, N.J., pleaded not guilty in ...
QUEENSBURY WOMAN DIES IN PLANE CRASH.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Staff and wire reports Authorities released the identities Monday of a New York woman who died and four people who were seriously injured in the crash of a single-engine commuter plane during the weekend. Rose Orleman, 71, of Queensbury, Warren County, died in ...
BELLEVUE EXPECTING RECORD 2,000 BIRTHS.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Ken Thurman Staff writer The baby boom is booming at Bellevue Hospital. Hospital officials said Monday that 1989 is shaping up to be a record-setting year with more then 2,000 babies expected for delivery this year - nearly a 12 percent increase over 1988's ...
SUMMATIONS DUE TODAY IN RAPE TRIAL.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Ken Thurman Staff writer Closing arguments and jury deliberations are expected today in Schenectady County Court, where a 27-year-old man is being tried on 10 charges, including the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl last August. A jury of seven ...
TWIST OF HISTORY UNION COLLEGE ADDS WOMEN'S STUDIES MAJOR.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Tim Spofford Staff writer Once a male bastion, Union college will offer a major in women's studies in the fall. Union is among the last of the nation's campuses to start such a program because of it's long history as a men's school, said Donileen Loseke, ...
COLONIE GROUP FIGHTS PLAN TO PUT ASH IN LANDFILL.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Vincent Jackson Staff writer A newly formed group begins its effort this week to keep hundreds of tons of incinerator ash from being buried in the town landfill. Colonie Work on Waste, which was formed in late June, will hold a community meeting at 7 p.m ....
PLANNING BOARD MEMBER RENAMED.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Richard A. Pearce has been reappointed to the town Planning Board despite efforts by a representative of a local developer to block the action. The Town Board voted unanimously last week to reappoint Pearce to a new seven-year term on the panel. The seven-member ...
GROUP PITCHES CONDOMS HERITAGE PARK SITE OF ANTI-AIDS EFFORT.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Tim Beidel Staff writer The fans filed into Heritage Park, home of one of professional baseball's winningest teams, their minds on peanuts and crackerjack, and probably not on brightly colored condoms. But there at the main gate stood Beth Ruland, handing out ...
STATE EDUCATION OFFICIAL APPOINTED.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... A Feura Bush man has been tapped to run the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation in the state Education Department. The office, the department's largest unit, has been plagued by such problems as low morale, poor leadership and gaps in services to disabled clients, according to a ...
REILLY TO RUN AGAIN IN NEW SCOTLAND.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Supervisor Herbert W. Reilly, the town's first Democratic supervisor in 50 years, was picked Monday night by town Democrats to run for re-election in November. Reilly, who was elected in January 1988, was among four candidates selected during Monday's Democratic caucus, said ...
THREE INDICTED IN CARWASH BURGLARY BOARD TO HEAR BAR EXPANSION APPEAL BETHLEHEM MARIJUANA PATCH DESTROYED SARATOGA COUNTY BRANCH SITE REOPENS SPA POLICE WARN OF BURGLARY SPREE AQUIFERS TOPIC AT GLENVILLE MEETING SCH'DY WOMAN ACCUSED OF PROSTITUTION.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Three men were indicted by a Saratoga County grand jury Monday on charges stemming from a June 4 break-in at a Clifton Park carwash. Steven M. Brown, 20, of East Concord, N.H.; Michael A. Harris, 18, of 8 Spring St., Hoosick Falls; and Sean B. O'Donovan, 18, of 55 River St., ...
DRIVER KILLED IN 1-CAR CRASH.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... A Rensselaer man was killed when his car went off Route 43 late Sunday, town police said Monday. The victim was identified Monday as Jeffrey W. Bailey, 31, of Elm Court. A passenger in his car, Joseph Keefe Jr., 28, of 27 Elmhurst Ave., Rensselaer, was injured. ...
5 INDICTED AGAIN IN BRIBE CASE.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... A Rensselaer County grand jury re-indicted five people, including two attorneys, in a bribery and conspiracy case dismissed earlier this year by the state Court of Appeals. The indictment, unsealed Monday in Rensselaer County Surrogate Court, charged that Troy attorney Michael ...
THREE FACE ALBANY NARCOTICS CHARGES.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Three people charged with narcotics possession were arrested by police on North Swan Street Monday. Arthur Clow of 106 Ida Yarbrough was charged with fourth-degree possession of marijuana and first-degree loitering for the purpose of using drugs. Police said they found him with ...
SCHENECTADY MAN IS SHOT IN ELBOW.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... An Emmett Street man was admitted to Ellis Hospital overnight after he was shot in an elbow Monday night, police said. Leffon L. Bobbitt, 24, of 946 Emmett St. was reported in fair condition thismorning. Polioce reported Bobbitt said he was walking in front of 1110 ...
KOCH CALLS HELMSLEY A CHINTZY WICKED WITCH.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: United Press International Mayor Edward Koch called Leona Helmsley, whose federal tax evasion trial entered its fifth week Monday, a "chintzy" hotel queen who looms over New York City like "the Wicked Witch of the West." His denouncement of Helmsley at an ...
11-HOUR BUDGET APPROVAL SPARES YONKERS DEFAULT.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press Last-minute negotiations with a federal judge produced an agreement Monday on a Yonkers budget, apparently saving the beleaguered city from default. The budget earmarks $24 million for the court-ordered construction of two schools, overcoming ...
WORLD IS HIS MUSHROOM STATE MYCOLOGIST STUDIES FUNGI.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Kyle Hughes Capitol bureau If you have to talk fungus, talk to John Haines, the State Museum's resident expert on the subject. Eat a poisonous mushroom, and Haines will likely be the first person the doctor calls. Eat a supermarket mushroom, and he can show ...
FASO BILL TO DEFINE FAMILY.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: United Press International State Assemblyman John Faso, R-Kinderhook, said Monday that he plans to introduce legislation that would prevent homosexual couples from receiving the same rights to rent-controlled housing as traditional husbands and wives. Faso's ...
SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSED DEATH-PENALTY BLOC ISSUED CHALLENGE.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press Gov. Mario M. Cuomo said Monday that he would call the state Legislature back for a special session to attempt an override of his death-penalty veto if legislative leaders didn't choose to come back on their own. "They said they were eager to ...
CHILDREN TOP PRIORITY OF STATE'S MENTAL HEALTH COMMISSIONER.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Deborah Gesensway Capitol bureau On his last visit to a downstate psychiatric center, Richard C. Surles met a patient he described as a homicidal maniac. That patient was 7 years old. It shocked the otherwise experienced commissioner of the Office of Mental ...
PROGRESS REPORTED IN MOHAWK TALKS.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: United Press International Mohawk leaders, aides to Gov. Mario M. Cuomo and State Police made "some progress" Monday toward ending a tense standoff at the St. Regis Indian Reservation, leading to the partial lifting of a controversial roadblock. Traffic began ...
SITUATION FLUID CLIFTON PARK APPROVES $7,500 FOR WATER PLAN.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Marc Carey Staff writer The Town Board Monday night appropriated $7,500 for an informational campaign on a $16.75 million proposal to establish a municipal water district. The board also designated itself as the lead agency for the state environmental quality ...
NEW SCOTLAND SEEKS HELP TO STOP VANDALISM PROBLEM.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Barbara Hayden Staff writer Supervisor Herbert W. Reilly is seeking help to solve rampant vandalism problems in the town's parks. The acts of vandalism include stealing concrete blocks and damaging park buildings. Reilly has written letters to the ...
GUILDERLAND RECYCLING SUCCESS LAUDED.(Local)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Michael McKeon Staff writer Town residents responded in "excellent" fashion to the town's recycling program during the first year of operation, Supervisor KevinMoss said Monday. "Nothing could be more successful," Moss said of the program, which has diverted ...
CARELESS ATTITUDE ABOUT ASTHMA CAN LEAD TO DEATH.(Living Today)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Ena Naunton Knight-Ridder Newspapers More people are dying of asthma. "There's controversy over why that is," says Dr. Eben Rubin, a lung-disease specialist and co- director of the intensive-care unit at University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center. ...
STILL LEARNING FROM TEACHER.(Living Today)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Patrick Kurp Staff writer I haven't sat in her classroom in 19 years, and haven't seen her in 10 or 12, but she remains, in so many ways, my teacher. Though she became Mrs. Sweeney in 1970, I still think of her as Miss Murphy and bridle at "Suzanne." So familiar! So ...
RESEARCH SHOWS TOXICITY LEVELS LOW.(Living Today)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Robert Whitaker Staff writer Research into how brain cells communicate and why they die is leading scientists to the disturbing conclusion that the level of lead commonly found in humans causes brain damage in children. "It is quite clear that if a child is ...
SCIENCE MAKES A SPLASH.(Living Today)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: Patrick Kurp Staff writer Don Herbert, better known as "Mr. Wizard," taught me that mixing baking soda with vinegar creates interesting pyrotechnics. And that litmus paper turns red when you dab it in that same vinegar, and blue in the baking soda. To Herbert, ...
MARS MIGHT HOLD CLUE TO METEORITE MYSTERY.(Living Today)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: William M. Dowd Managing editor/features President Bush recently began a push to get American astronauts to go to Mars. It would be nice to return the visit. A meteorite found in Antarctica about a decade ago now is believed to have come from the red planet, a ...
RESUSCITATING AGED IS FUTILE, STUDY FINDS.(Living Today)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: United Press International BOSTON - Efforts to resuscitate elderly patients whose hearts stop are often futile, suggesting many should be allowed to die instead of trying everything to save them, researchers said Monday. In the largest study of its kind, the ...
METHANOL NOT EXPECTED TO CUT AUTO EMISSIONS.(Living Today)
Aug 01, 1989 ... Byline: New York Times As Congress considers clean-air legislation that would require millions of new cars to run on fuel other than gasoline, many government analysts and environmentalists are questioning whether methanol, the most likely alternative, will significantly reduce ...