Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from December 1989:
THE VOLUNTEER SPIRIT.(Main)(Editorial)
Dec 01, 1989 ... With America deep in the red, where can needy people turn to find the services government can longer provide? President Bush's sees the answer in a "thousand points of light" that keep the flame of America's volunteer spirit alive. Now some state lawmakers are considering a ...
U.S. CONSCIENCE ON SALVADOR.(Main)(Editorial)
Dec 01, 1989 ... War is a brutal fact of life in tiny El Salvador, but so is another reality. Despite the carnage and weapons caches, everything is not always what it seems. Outsiders are forced to weigh each development cautiously, to see which side has the most to gain in winning over world opinion to ...
NO SPECIAL TREATMENT IN ARENA RENTAL, PATROON OWNERS SAY.(Main)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Joseph J. O'Hara and Glenn Mazula A series of recent articles in The Times Union seems to imply that the owners of the Albany Patroons basketball team may have received preferential treatment in their negotiations regarding the rental of the Knickerbocker Arena for the ...
WHERE'S THE MEAT? 3 ARRESTED WITH CAR FULL OF GROCERIES.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Vincent Jackson Staff writer There was a good reason Rotterdam's Great American Supermarket seemed a little short on meat Thursday morning. Three Schenectady residents were arrested at 2:15 a.m. Thursday on Mumford Street for allegedly having about $335 worth of meat and ...
PROPOSAL'S KEY POINTS.(Main)
Dec 01, 1989 ... The Statewide Anti-Drug Abuse Council's goals include: *Random drug testing and pre-employment screening for state employees involved in security, law enforcement and public safety. *Targeting of casual users by mandating community service, revocation of drivers' ...
REBELS BOMB PRESIDENTIAL PALACE IN ATTEMPT TO OVERTHROW AQUINO.(Main)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press Rebel pilots bombed the presidential palace compound today morning after mutineers seized the air force headquarters and two broadcast stations in a bid to overthrow President Corazon Aquino. Aquino vowed to smash the "shameless and naked ...
LUNDINE OUTLINES DRUG WAR STRATEGY TREATMENT, TOUGHER LAWS, TESTING.(Main)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Tom Precious Capitol bureau Declaring drug abuse a plague on society, a Cuomo administration task force Thursday proposed adding about 15,000 residential treatment beds for addicts in the next five years, bolstering law-enforcement powers to target casual users and ...
*U.S. SENDS PEOPLE HOME.(Main)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Combined wire services The U.S. Embassy evacuated 282 employees and their dependents on two chartered flights Thursday after as many as nine U.S. officials and their families spent a harrowing night pinned in their homes by cross fire and rebel raids. ...
CHURCH AGENCY BLAMES MILITARY *MASSACRE IN SALVADOR.(Main)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Mark Fazlollah Knight-Ridder A respected Roman Catholic human rights agency unequivocally blamed the Salvadoran military Thursday for the massacre of six Jesuit priests on Nov. 16. Tutela Legal, the human rights agency of the San Salvador Archdiocese, ...
PRISON GUARD HELD IN STABBING.(Main)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press Police said two brothers, one of whom is a state prison guard, stabbed a man repeatedly during a fight in a topless bar. The brothers, Richard E. Romaine, 28, and his brother Matthew, 26, both of the same Gardiner address, were each charged ...
U.S. PLANES ROAR TO AID AQUINO AFTER MUTINEERS BOMB PALACE.(Main)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press U.S. warplanes roared over Manila today in a battle to save President Corazon Aquino's government after mutinous soldiers bombed her palace and seized two air bases in the strongest bid yet to topple her. Manila radio stations broadcast a ...
ECONOMIC SIGNALS DROP IN OCTOBER.(Main)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press The government's chief economic forecasting gauge fell 0.4 percent in October, the sixth month of declines or no gain this year, the government said today. The drop in the Index of Leading Economic Indicators, which is designed to forecast ...
CARTER'S SISTER HAS CANCER.(Main)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press Gloria Carter Spann, the last surviving sibling of former President Jimmy Carter, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the same disease that killed their father, sister and brother and contributed to the death of their mother. Spann, ...
COMANECI SAID BOUND FOR U.S.(Main)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci, who fled her homeland for Hungary earlier this week, has been granted a request to come to the United States and was on her way to New York today ...
MOTHER TERESA TO GET PACEMAKER.(Main)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: United Press International Doctors prepared today to implant an internal pacemaker next to the heart of Nobel Laureate Mother Teresa, who for the second time in three months has been hospitalized with problems linked to her long-standing cardiac condition. ...
3 TERRORISTS TIED TO FLIGHT 103 BOMB.(Main)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press Three terrorists jailed for nine years in Israel for a failed 1976 rocket attack on a jetliner built the bomb that destroyed Pan AM Flight 103, ABC-TV reported Thursday. The three were recruited by Ahmed Jibril, leader of the Popular Front ...
MAN KILLED IN ERROR, MARTYRED BY ARABS TERROR SUSPECT TIED TO LOCKERBIE BOMB INDIAN OPPOSITION TO SELECT PREMIER NAGORNO-KARABAKH PROTESTS RE-START NICARAGUA WEIGHS CANDIDATE CHARGES.(Main)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press United Press International Associated Press United Press International Associated Press Masked Palestinians Thursday axed a fellow Arab to death as an alleged collaborator, then discovered they killed the wrong man and declared him a "martyr" of their ...
MITCHELL BESEIGED ON TAX PLAN.(Main)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Vic Ostrowidzki Times Union Washington bureau Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, said Thursday that the Tax Reform Act of 1986 is "unraveling" and that he is under siege by lobbyists seeking more tax breaks. Mitchell, in an interview with the ...
MIAMI OFFICER TELLS OF SHOOTING BLACK SOLE POLICE SUSPECT CLEARED IN KILLINGS LIKELY U.S. NOMINEE QUITS MEN-ONLY CLUB CONGRESS FORGIVES AID-PROGRAM FINES FURTHERMORE ...(Main)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press Associated Press Associated Press Associated Press Associated Press A police officer who shot a black motorcyclist testified in his own defense Thursday, telling jurors he fired only because he thought he was about to die. "He just came ...
GORBACHEV VISION APPEALS FOR EUROPEAN STATES BASED ON TOLERANCE, PLURALISM.(Main)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: William D. Montalbano Los Angeles Times Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev appealed Thursday for East-West cooperation to build "a commonwealth of sovereign democratic states" in Europe based on ethnic and political tolerance, religious freedom and pluralism. ...
BUSH'S PERSONAL DIPLOMACY UNNERVES AIDES, CHARMS ALLIES.(Main)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Gerald F. Seib Wall Street Journal With this weekend's summit with Mikhail Gorbachev fast approaching and momentous changes unfolding almost hourly in Eastern Europe, George Bush decided a few days ago to do a little Dialing for Diplomacy. From his Oval ...
GORBACHEV VOWS TO FREE ALL RELIGIONS SAYS HE, POPE DISCUSSED A PAPAL VISIT TO SOVIETS.(Main)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press Mikhail S. Gorbachev pledged in a historic meeting with Pope John Paul II today that the Soviet Union soon will guarantee freedom of religion at home and establish diplomatic ties with the Vatican. Departing from his prepared text, Gorbachev ...
BUSH AT SUMMIT HOPEFUL FOR PEACE.(Main)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press President Bush praised Mikhail S. Gorbachev today as "a dynamic new Soviet leader" and hailed their shipboard summit's promise of advancing world peace. Bush arrived at the cold, rain-swept summit site after ordering American warplanes to ...
E. GERMANY ENDS PARTY'S MONOPOLY.(Main)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press The East German Parliament today voted overwhelmingly to change the constitution and eliminate the Communist Party's guaranteed monopoly on power, a major reform demanded by the mass movement for democratic change. While at least five ...
NEW BICYCLE WOULD FULFILL MRS. F.C.'S WISH.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Grace O'Connor Staff writer "Where then is my hope?" Job 17:15 Remember when finding a shiny new bicycle by the holiday tree was the answer to a child's Christmas wish? It was a dream that never came true for Mrs. F.C. "I have wanted a new bike ...
VENISON CAN BE DONE RIGHT.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Fred LeBrun In my office, everybody cheers for Bambi. Nobody roots for the poor, drenched, freezing, unsuccessful deerhunter pursuing his perfectly legal, paid-for pleasures. We know what persecution is all about. Poor us. Deer hunting, and the so-called ...
LANDLORD'S ARREST ORDERED AFTER FINES IGNORED.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Catherine Clabby Staff writer City officials hope the arrest of Michael Rickman will accomplish what $29,300 in fines has not. Rickman owns two vacant buildings in a residential neighborhood of the Hudson Park historic district which building officials say ...
NO NAMES STATE TAPES SEX AT DOT, PAPER SAYS.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Staff and wire reports State investigators have captured maintenance workers on videotape engaging in sexual acts on the desk of a Department of Transportation official, according to the Buffalo News. On Thursday, the paper, quoting unidentified sources, said a hidden ...
HINCHEY OPPOSES INCINERATOR LAWMAKER AT ODDS WITH FORMER AIDE.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Phil Brown Staff writer The Capital District doesn't need a garbage incinerator that American Ref-Fuel Co. wants to build near the Port of Albany, according to a state assemblyman who focuses on environmental issues. Maurice Hinchey said Thursday that most ...
PLANT'S LONE FOE SPARKS A CRUSADE.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Christopher Ringwald Staff writer In a windowless state hearing room one gray morning, two teams of doctors, scientists and consultants traded technical information regarding a proposed 228- megawatt power plant. Their talk - of toxics and emissions, in ...
RUSH-HOUR SNOW SENDS CARS OUT OF CONTROL DUSTING TURNS TO SHEER ICE.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Bruce A. Scruton and Michael Lopez Staff writers At any other time of day, it would have been just a case of flurries - pretty to look at and a sign of winter to come. But the four-tenths of an inch of snow that fell Thursday came just before rush hour, and ...
WHALEN'S BUDGET PASSES COMMITTEE.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Jay Jochnowitz Staff writer Mayor Thomas M. Whalen III's $92.8 million 1990 budget is headed for likely approval Monday after the Common Council's finance committee Thursday night voted to recommend it without change. Despite pleas by 11th Ward Alderman Gerald ...
NON-POLITICAL GROUP GIVES CHINA FRIENDLY WARNING AS NEW PRESIDENT, MENANDS MAN SENDS MESSAGE TO AMBASSASDOR.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Tim Beidel Staff writer The Chinese government's crackdown on pro-democracy students in Tiananmen Square this summer created a controversy within the United States-China Peoples Friendship Association: Should the non-political organization keep silent, or should it relay ...
SCHENECTADY MAY APPEAL FALSE ARREST $300G AWARD.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... The city most likely will appeal a state Supreme Court jury's $300,000 award to a man police wrongly arrested for a 1984 rape. Jurors on Tuesday agreed police did not have sufficient grounds to arrest Andrew R. Titus for the Feb. 11, 1984 rape of a woman who recanted her ...
2ND TOP ADMINISTRATOR RESIGNS AT ALBANY MED.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Peter Wehrwein Staff writer In the second departure of a top administrator this year, Dr. Robert Friedlander is has resigned as the top academic official of the finanically beleagured Albany Medical Center. He will become vice chancellor of Union University. ...
ACTIVIST URGES ALBANY SCHOOL BOARD TO DELAY FILLING VACANCY CHICORELLI REPLACEMENT ON TUESDAY AGENDA.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Richard Wexler Staff writer If the current Albany school board fills the vacancy created by the resignation of its president, "it will be perceived as a dirty, rotten political deal," said a former teacher active in the campaign for three newly elected board members. ...
PTA BOARD MEETS SCHOOL BOARD.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Three newly elected members of the Albany Board of Education met Thursday with the executive committee of the Albany Public School Teachers Association to discuss issues facing the school system. The meeting is one of several that the new members, Barbara Allen, Paul Murray and ...
CARLISLE MAN KILLED IN FARM ACCIDENT ALBANY POLICE ARREST AN INFORMANT CLAIM OF ANTI-WHITE BIAS DISMISSED HOMEOWNERS REQUIRED TO CLEAR WALKS SISTER OF TEENAGE CAR DRIVER CHARGED LARCENY SUSPECT GETS OUT ON BAIL LEAF PICKUP STRAINS SCHENECTADY RENSSELAER FIRE LEAVES 3 HOMELESS SCHENECTADY TEEN FACES DRUG CHARGE.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... A 43-year-old farmer was killed when he was caught in a silo unloader he was trying to unclog, State Police said. Reuben Wayman Jr., who leases the McCann Farm on Brown Road in this Schoharie County town, was pronounced dead on arrival at Cobleskill Hospital. An ...
CARLISLE MAN KILLED IN FARM ACCIDENT MEETING CALLED TO CUT HUDSON BUDGET KINDERHOOK TO SHOW WIRE SUBSTITUTES ALBANY POLICE ARREST AN INFORMANT SISTER OF TEENAGE CAR DRIVER CHARGED LARCENY SUSPECT GETS OUT ON BAIL RENSSELAER FIRE LEAVES 3 HOMELESS STATE APPROVES KINGSTON AIDS CLINIC SCHENECTADY TEEN FACES DRUG CHARGE.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... A 43-year-old farmer was killed when he was caught in a silo unloader he was trying to unclog, State Police said. Reuben Wayman Jr., who leases the McCann Farm on Brown Road in this Schoharie County town, was pronounced dead on arrival at Cobleskill Hospital. An ...
SPEAKERS SAY SANITARY CODES NEED TEETH OR REVISION.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Joe Picchi Staff writer Whether the current Rensselaer County sanitary codes should be better enforced or revised to bring the county's realty development into the 21st century was the crux of a hearing Thursday night. Paul Plante, the county's controversial ...
PAGE AVJET UNVEILS NEW ALBANY AIRPORT TERMINAL.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Bill Schackner Staff writer If first impressions stick, what corporate types used to see when they entered the aging and cramped general aviation terminal at Albany County Airport was hardly good for business. "I'll put it right on the line," said Page Avjet ...
JOYCE, CDTA PITCH AIRPORT PLAN IN WASHINGTON FEDERAL OFFICIALS DON'T MAKE DECISION OR PROMISE TIMETABLE.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Bill Schackner Staff writer Accompanied by the Albany County Legislature's majority leader, Capital District Transportation Authority officials made a pitch in Washington, D.C., Thursday for their airport takeover plan but came away still locked in competition with the ...
MAN ADMITS ROBBERY TRY.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... A 22-year-old city man who attempted to commit a robbery over the summer in Washington Park is being held in the Albany County Jail in Colonie pending sentencing Jan. 2. Charles Willis of 86 Maguire Ave. pleaded guilty Thursday before City Court Judge Thomas W. Keegan to ...
MECHANICVILLE POLICE ARREST 2 FOR DRUGS.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... City police arrested two men after they allegedly sold more than a half-ounce of cocaine to an undercover officer Thursday night. Scott M. Patterson, 19, 2432 Fifth Ave. Troy, and Tyrone Crenshaw, 19, no address available, were both charged with second-degree criminal sale of a ...
2 DRIVERS HURT IN QUEENSBURY CRASHES.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Two drivers were injured in separate auto collisions within 15 minutes on Quaker Road Thursday, the Warren County Sheriff's deputies said. A 1988 Nissan operated by Linda Husted of Fort Edward and a 1988 Plymount operated by Michelle Herrick of Hudson Falls collided at 1:05 ...
JOHNSTOWN MAN CHARGED IN BURGLARY.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... A Johnstown man accused of breaking into a house andattacking a resident early today has been charged with first-degree assault and burglary. The victim, whose name was not released, was being treated in Ellis Hospital in Schenectady with a severe face injury after being struck ...
TROY SETS PRIORITIES FOR COMMUNITY GRANTS PLANNERS FACE TOUGH CHOICES.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Tim O'Brien Staff writer Eighty-one community projects are seeking $4.2 million in Community Block Development Grant funding, but the city only expects to have $1.1 million to give away. "We are funding one in four or 25 percent of everything, so that makes ...
ALBANY COUNTY PUSHING 'QUIT AND WIN' PLANNING BOARD RULES OUT TRAFFIC LIGHT FRATERNITY RAISING FUNDS FOR MS.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Smokers who are thinking about stopping will have addedincentive come Jan. 1 when the Albany County Health Department launches its "Quit and Win" contest. Dr. James Crucetti, deputy director of the county Health Department told the county Board of Health Thursday that the ...
RESEARCHER GETS GRANT FOR OPIATE STUDY.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press An Albany Medical Center researcher has been awarded a $1 million grant to continue a study on how opiates such as morphine relieve pain. The new five-year grant to Lindsay Hough, vice chairman and professor of pharmocology and toxicology, was ...
VICTIM'S LAWYERS PRESSURE GOETZ ON COURT APPEARANCE YOUTH SEEKS $50 MILLION FROM GUNMAN.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Ken Brown United Press International Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz should be ordered to pay $50 million to a youth he shot in the back if Goetz fails to show up for a court date this week, lawyers for the victim said Thursday. Goetz, 41, who recently completed ...
TUXEDO WAR CROSS-FIRE SARATOGA SPRINGS CLAIMS JACKET'S ORIGIN.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Wayne Hall Middletown Times Herald-Record The latest social flash from Saratoga Springs is the nervy boast that the tuxedo debuted there. And that's turned up noses in exclusive Tuxedo Park, which has claimed the tux as its own since the 1880s. Ed ...
KESSELRING REACTOR IS RESTARTED.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Associated Press One of two nuclear reactors shut down at a U.S. Navy training site has resumed operation, a spokesman said. The S8-G Trident submarine reactor at the Kenneth A. Kesselring site of the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory was restarted Tuesday night, ...
SCHENECTADY COUNCIL OKS 15% TAX HIKE $42.8 MILLION BUDGET ELIMINATES MAYOR'S PLAN FOR GARBAGE FEE.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Marv Cermak Staff writer A $42.8 million 1990 operating budget that includes a 15 percent property tax increase was adopted Thursday night by a 5-2 vote of the City Council. While council members said they weren't happy with the increase, they noted they were ...
WILLEY MARKS 20 YEARS IN OFFICE SCHENECTADY COUNTY CLERK HONORED.(Local)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Marv Cermak Staff writer County Clerk Merritt C. Willey will be honored today for his 20 years of government service. About 150 of the veteran Republican's friends are expected at a reception to be held from 7 to 9 p.m. at the downtown Imperial ...
HERE COMES SINTERKLAAS DUTCH TRADITION HONORS ST. NICK.(Weekend)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Winifred Yu Staff writer Yes Virginia, there was a Sinterklaas. And on Sunday, downtown Albany will celebrate his spirit with its first annual Sinterklaas Day. The event, which will last from 12:30 to 5 p.m., commemorates a Dutch holiday tradition that honors ...
FAIR MAIDS TURN TABLES ON ROBIN'S MERRY MEN.(Weekend)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Martin P. Kelly Staff writer The famous tale of Robin Hood and his merry men of Sherwood Forest who robbed the rich and gave to the poor was a classic case of male-bonding in merry old England. Imagine, if you will, a couple of women attempting to join the fun ...
LAMPOON'S 'CHRISTMAS' JUST A SHOPPING LIST OF JOKES.(Weekend)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Jim Emerson Orange County Register The Holiday Spirit is such an ephemeral thing. Every year, millions of us go about decking our halls - buying the tree, stringing the lights, hanging the ornaments, tacking up the mistletoe, and so on. ... And we do it whether we really ...
MUSIC DRIVES 'RESTLESS' STAR MICHAEL DAMIAN.(Weekend)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Jon Pine Scripps Howard News Service As rock musician Danny Romalotti on "The Young and the Restless," he is in his eighth year of dating Cricket. Theirs is a platonic relationship, a rarity in the steamy world of daytime soaps. As rock musician Michael ...
SPRAINED TOE IDLES SIENA STAR.(Sports)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Pete Dougherty Staff writer Jeff Robinson, captain and last year's top scorer on the Siena College basketball team, is sidelined with a sprained right toe. Robinson, who has struggled (5-for-24 shooting) in Siena's first two games, did not practice Thursday ...
UNION'S A 'SPECIAL' KIND OF TEAM - IN MANY WAYS.(Sports)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Bill Arsenault Staff writer There's something special about Union College's football team, and it isn't only the fact that the Dutchmen (12-0) are playing in the NCAA DivisionIII semifinals against Ferrum College Saturday in Ferrum, Va. While Union's offense ...
ALBANY GROUP MAKING PITCH TO IHL - AGAIN.(Sports)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Buzz Gray Staff writer The Committee to Bring Pro Hockey to the Capital District launches it's latest push this weekend when chairman Mike Addesa leads a small contingent of supporters to Michican. They'll be meeting with several team owners, lawyers and ...
CUT BLOCKS: CHEAP, LEGAL AND EFFECTIVE.(Sports)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Dave Goldberg Associated Press As the Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys have been exchanging barbs about Buddy Ryan's alleged bounties, now comes a new controversy - the use by the San Francisco 49ers of below-the-knee "cut blocks" by offensive linemen. ...
ST. ROSE: HOME SWEET HOME.(Sports)
Dec 01, 1989 ... There's no place like home for the College of Saint Rose men's basketball team. Coach Brian Beaury's Golden Knights have won 17 consecutive games on their Activity Center home court over a two-year period, including the last 13 a year ago and four to start this year. St. Rose ...
THIS VISIT TO DOME MEANINGFUL TO LEWIS.(Sports)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Gene Levy Staff writer Elander Lewis' first two visits to Syracuse's Carrier Dome were ones he'd rather forget. "I played no more than five minutes in both games," Lewis said of his freshman and sophomore years at St. John's when he was buried deep on Lou ...
RESTED KINGHORN BACK IN UNION GOAL.(Sports)
Dec 01, 1989 ... Byline: Ron Armstrong Staff writer The vacation is over for Ron Kinghorn, goalie of Union College's hockey team. The senior will be back in the nets when the Dutchmen meet Kent State at 8 tonight in the semifinals of the Achilles Invitational at Achilles Rink. Elmira ...