Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from January 1990:
'THE COMMUNIST PARTY IS DEAD' ROMANIA EMBRACES OPEN SYSTEM.(Main)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Terry Leonard Associated Press An official in the new government declared Sunday that the Communist Party is dead and will not be allowed to take control as the country moves toward democracy in the new year. Also Sunday, Romania's interim president, Ion ...
NEW YEAR WELCOMED BY NEW WORLD PEOPLE EXPECTING MORE GOOD THINGS.(Main)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Combined wire services Newly free Eastern Europeans greeted 1990 with resolutions for a better life during celebrations, including a joyous, floodlit frolic at the Berlin Wall. More than 2,000 people lit candles and rallied in the rain in Hong Kong in support ...
PANAMA READIES MURDER COUNTS AGAINST NORIEGA.(Main)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Combined wire services The Panamanian government is preparing murder charges against Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega and will ask the Vatican Embassy to hand over the deposed dictator for trial, the attorney general said Sunday. The charges stem from the deaths of ...
ISRAELI OFFICIAL OUSTED FOR TALKING TO THE PLO.(Main)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Jackson Diehl Washington Post Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir set the stage for a new crisis in his fragile coalition government Sunday by announcing the dismissal of Science Minister Ezer Weizman, a former war hero turned peace advocate, for Weizman's alleged ...
DRUG WAR NEEDS 75 RECRUITS FOR FEDERAL COURTS, CHIEF JUSTICE S AYS REHNQUIST CALLS FOR ACTION.(Main)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Richard Carelli Associated Press The government's war on drugs cannot be won if Congress does not create more federal judgeships, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist said Sunday. One of every four criminal cases handled by the nation's federal courts is ...
PREDICTIONS CARRY NO GUARANTEE.(Local)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Ralph Martin Bowing to public pressure (well, I have a distant relative who asked), I am again going to kick off a new year with a "No Guarantees" column. These are things that absolutely, positively will happen in 1990, but no guarantees. Ready, set (take ...
BIG CROWD WATCHES AS WHALEN SWORN IN.(Local)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Elizabeth Schwartz Staff writer With hundreds looking on, Thomas M. Whalen III was sworn into office Sunday evening for his second full term as the mayor of Albany. Whalen was sworn in at about 6:40 p.m., just after the city's First Night parade down ...
WASTE KEY ISSUE FOR NEW SUPERVISORS CRITICS OFF SARATOGA COUNTY BOARD.(Local)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Elizabeth S. Schwartz Staff writer When the new Saratoga County Board of Supervisors meets Jan. 5 to discuss important issues such as a county landfill and water system, it will be without four of the most outspoken members of the 1989 board. Controversy on ...
SCHENECTADY COUNCILMAN OFFERS PARTING ADVICE TARGETS POLICE OVERTIME.(Local)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Marv Cermak Staff writer Republican City Councilman Henry S. DeLegge left office suggesting what he feels would be the solution to police overtime payments that have hit the $1.2 million mark this year. He said Friday the new City Council should scrap minimum ...
MAN KILLED IN COLLISION AS ROADS TURN SLIPPERY COLD FRONT EXPECTED TONIGHT.(Local)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Jay Jochnowitz and Michael Lopez Staff writer A brief respite from sub-freezing temperatures that chilled the Capital District through much of December did little to improve road conditions as dozens of accidents and at least one traffic death occurred over the weekend. ...
WHAT'S OPEN...WHAT'S CLOSED.(Local)
Jan 01, 1990 ... The following is a partial list of schedule changes in effect New Year's Day. *Shopping: Major shopping malls and grocery stores will be open today. Liquor stores in Albany and Rensselaer counties legally may be openfrom 10 a.m. to noon today; 9 a.m. to noon in ...
CUOMO ALLY LINKED TO SUSPECT FIRM.(Local)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Dan Janison Capitol bureau ALBANY - Herman Badillo, a longtime ally of Gov. Mario Cuomo, played a key role in a corporation that got state drug treatment funds but served no addicts, documents show. Two weeks ago, the Commission on Government Integrity cited ...
DYNAMO OF DIVERSITY FIRST NIGHT RESOUNDS IN ALBANY.(Local)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Ilaina Jonas Staff writer There was Sassafras, a black, three-legged Newfoundland wearing red ribbons and green sparkle wreath earrings as she clipped-clopped down Madison Avenue. There was Barry Gold, the dog's tuxedo-clad master from Slingerlands and a ...
7 CARS DERAILED IN MECHANICVILLE POWER OUTAGE IN CLIFTON PARK ALBANY TEEN HELD ON WEAPON CHARGE MAN CHARGED WITH DRUNKEN DRIVING DWI SWEEP NETS SINGLE SUSPECT.(Local)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Seven cars from a freight train derailed Sunday afternoon at a rail crossing near Viall Avenue, police said. No one was injured in the 1:40 p.m. derailment, and police said nothing spilled from the compartments. Rail crews Sunday evening were working to move the cars back on to ...
SCHENECTADY FIREFIGHTERS REJECT CONTRACT.(Local)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Ilaina Jonas Staff writer City firefighters on Friday rejected a three-year contract the City Council had already approved last week. By a vote of 68 to 55, members of the International Association of Firefighters Local 28 turned down the tentative agreement ...
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS LISTED.(Local)
Jan 01, 1990 ... The following exams have been announced by civil service offices in the Capital District. For application forms and fees, residency requirements and additional information, contact the appropriate office.The Rensselaer County Civil Service Commission, County Office Building, 1600 Seventh ...
DINKINS PREPARES TO TAKE CHARGE OF BIG APPLE.(Local)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Clifford J. Levy United Press International David Dinkins prepared Sunday to take office as the city's first black mayor with a tribute to the values of diversity that he extolled throughout his election campaign. The ceremonies scheduled for today were ...
TOUGHER UNDER-AGE DRINKING LAW IN EFFECT OTHER STATUTES RING IN WITH '90.(Local)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press For New Yorkers under age 21, the penalty for a hard night of drinking could be more than a hangover. As of today, a new law takes effect allowing police to issue a summons to underage drinkers for mere possession, instead of ...
MURDERED FAMILY'S CARDS BUY SNEAKERS.(Local)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press Credit and bank cards belonging to a family of four found murdered last week were used to buy sneakers, underwear, electronic equipment and diamonds the day after the killings, State Police said Sunday. Over the weekend police circulated ...
HAMMOND'S LATE GOAL TOPPLES WINGS, 4-3.(Sports)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Ron Armstrong Staff writer Ken Hammond did his New Year's celebrating a little early Sunday night. The former RPI All-American defenseman scored the winning goal at 6:09 of the third period as the Newmarket Saints defeated the Adirondack Red Wings 4-3 in an ...
GRAVES A SOUND INVESTMENT IN '89.(Sports)
Jan 01, 1990 ... The Times Union's Matt Graves was the leading thoroughbred handicapper among full-time race writers covering the Aqueduct Fall Meet that concluded Sunday. Graves finished with 143 winners from 505 races, narrowly edging Russ Harris of the New York Daily News by ...
CAMPBELL SOUP BOILING AMID FAMILY RIFT, TAKEOVER RUMORS.(Business)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Janet Key Chicago Tribune The kettle is boiling furiously at Campbell Soup Co., where dissident family members have put 17 percent of the company up for sale, takeover talk abounds and a new chief executive is scheduled to be announced early this week. The ...
SARATOGA COUNTY.(Business)
Jan 01, 1990 ... The following information on deed transfers in the Capital District was obtained by The Times Union, generally during the past month, from transfers recorded in Saratoga County. BALLSTON On Middle Line Road, Mark and Deborah Kinderman, $126,500; to Peter and Brenda ...
IDEALISTIC SPIRIT OF 1968 REACHES MATURITY IN 1989.(Main)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Christopher Matthews Until now I had always counted 1968 as my favorite year. It was that magic winter that Eugene McCarthy challenged Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam policies in snowy New Hampshire. It was that wondrous "Prague spring" that Alexander Dubcek brought to captive ...
CAP REP'S 'SEA HORSE' AN UNCONVINCING LOVE STORY.(Main)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Martin P. Kelly Staff Writer Director Bruce Bouchard describes the two-character play "The Sea Horse" as "a universal and charged collision of two lonely souls in a ribald, painful and very tender illumination of love and constancy." The presentation of this ...
NEW LAW REQUIRES INSURANCE TO PAY FOR MAMMOGRAMS.(Living Today)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Susan E. Tomer Staff writer If you've been putting off a mammogram because your health insurance wouldn't cover the cost, your luck may be changing. Starting Tuesday a change in the state insurance law requires coverage of much breast cancer ...
PBS TO AIR DOCUMENTARY ON HUDSON.(Main)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Winifred Yu Staff writer A documentary about the Hudson River produced by WMHT was recently selected to air nationally on the Public Broadcasting Service. "Hudson Chronicle," an environmental study of the Hudson River, will air on Tuesday, March 20, from 10 to ...
WHAT MAKES ME THINK MARIO IS GOING FOR IT?(Main)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: William Safire "For myself, as a Democrat, respectfully," quietly begins the best public speaker in American politics today, "I think we have given an appropriate period of deference to the newly victorious president." First he thanks President Bush for ...
CIGARETTES ARE OUT, COMPLAINTS COME IN.(Main)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press New York's tough, statewide smoking law takes effect today, bringing good business for a Buffalo-area sign maker and maybe some troubles for restaurant owners in the nation's second most populous state. "I would call business booming," said ...
HOSPITALS BORROWING FOR FUTURE.(Main)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Peter Wehrwein Staff writer Most of the state's hospitals are foundering financially, losing money on their day-to-day operations. At the same time many of those same hospitals, including Albany Medical Center, are borrowing millions to pay for renovations and ...
R/X FOR A HEMORRHAGE.(Main)
Jan 01, 1990 ... When John Beach, chief executive officer and president of AlbanyMedical Center, announced two weeks ago that the hospital was imposing an austerity plan to close its budget deficit, he said the "financial difficulties will not impact" the center's $156 million building project. ...
DISCRETION ADVISED MUSEUM, ARTIST COMPROMISE ON RACY VIDEOS.(Local)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: David Bauder Associated Press The State Museum has quietly reached a compromise with an artist who accused the institution of homophobia and repression for putting a warning label on sexually explicit videos. The agreement with Buffalo artist Julie Zando, ...
NO SMOKING ALLOWED HERE.(Main)
Jan 01, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press Here's a glance at the new statewide smoking law that takes effect today The law restricts or prohibits smoking in most public places in New York: SMOKING PROHIBITED: *Auditoriums; elevators; gymnasiums; indoor arenas with ...
NEW YEAR, NEW ERA IN SOVIET UNION CATHEDRAL BELLS RING OVER RED SQUARE.(Main)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Anne Imse Associated Press The bells of St. Basil's Cathedral rang out over Red Square on Monday for the first time since 1922, when the atheist Soviets clamped down on the operations of the Russian Orthodox Church. More than 100,000 Muscovites poured into the ...
BALTICS SEIZE ECONOMIC HELM.(Main)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press The Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania started their much-debated economic independence programs Monday, taking control of factories and other elements of their economies from bureaucrats in Moscow. Estonia underscored the ...
SOLDIER'S SAD DUTY TO KNOCK ON A DOOR.(Main)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Mike Feinsilber Associated Press The Panama invasion wasn't an hour old before the telephone awakened Army Col. Mel Hoherz. It wasn't a day old before Hoherz had dispatched officers on those dreadful knock-on-the-door missions to inform families that a son or husband had ...
DOSE OF CAPITALISM BITTER AS PRICES SOAR IN POLAND.(Main)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press Bus fares and gasoline doubled and electricity quadrupled in price Monday under a radical plan by the non-Communist government to transform Poland's centrally planned economy to capitalism. Poles' fears of looming price increases were ...
A FEW U.S. TROOPS LEAVING PANAMA.(Main)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Douglas Tweedale United Press International A few U.S. troops began pulling out of Panama on Monday, the same day the United States turned over administration of the Panama Canal to a Panamanian under the terms of a 1977 treaty. White House spokesman Marlin ...
U.S. TROOPS HOME; CALL WAR SUCCESS.(Main)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press The first U.S. troops to pull out of Panama pronounced the invasion a success today, said they were mostly well received by the Panamanian people and expressed relief at making it back alive. "Now they have a democratic government - it's what ...
GIVE NORIEGA TO U.S., SAYS PANAMA CHIEF.(Main)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press As the first elements of the U.S. invasion force withdrew, Panama's new president said the Vatican should hand Manuel Antonio Noriega over to the United States because his government is not yet capable of trying the ousted general. A church ...
RURAL TOWNS LIVE STOICALLY WITH THE STATIC OF CABLE-FREE TV.(Main)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Brad Kelly Staff writer Three television sets stand at attention. A copy of TV Guide is within easy reach. If cable television ever comes to Medusa, a southern Albany County hamlet, the Johannesen family will be ready. For years, Robin and Tim ...
IRA CAR BOMB KILLS CAB DRIVER.(Main)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press A car bomb exploded today in east Belfast, killing a cabbie who was driving his daughter to school, police said. The outlawed Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility. The 16-year-old girl was wounded in the attack, the Royal Ulster ...
CHOLESTEROL TESTING FOR CHILDREN EXPERTS DIFFER OVER HOW MANY NEED IT.(Main)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Peter Wehrwein Staff writer Meet the American kindergartner of 1990s, and this could be what he tells you: "Hi, my name is Zachary. I'm 5, I live at 8 Crestwood Lane, and my cholesterol is 210." As this health-obsessed decade draws to a close, it ...
CONSTRUCTION SPENDING JUMPS.(Main)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press Construction spending jumped 1.5 percent in November, rebounding from a 0.1 percent decrease in October and reaching a 10-month high, the government said today. The Commerce Department said residential, non- residential and government ...
WEIZMAN FIRING CANCELED.(Main)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press Defusing a political crisis that threatened the coalition government, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir today canceled his decision to fire Science Minister Ezer Weizman for alleged contacts with the PLO. In a political compromise, Weizman had ...
HUGE SPILL HEADS FOR MOROCCO.(Main)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press A salvage firm today said it repaired an Iranian supertanker that spewed millions of gallons of crude oil into the Atlantic Ocean off the Moroccan coast, but a French official disputed the claim. Three tugs towed the supertanker farther out to ...
CUOMO TO SEEK VOTER INITIATIVE.(Main)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press Gov. Mario Cuomo will ask the Legislature this year to approve a measure that would allow New Yorkers to force their state legislators to vote on specific issues, a top adviser said today. The governor's call, for approval of "limited ...
REVELERS CELEBRATE 1990 IN DIVERSE WAYS.(Main)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press The '90s rolled in Monday to a welcome of parades, football games, sales, skiing and, in a few cases, hangovers from the wretched excesses of New Year's Eve. Zsa Zsa Gabor, on horseback, got booed, as did U.S. Sen. John Glenn. Philadelphia's ...
NEW YEAR'S WORLDWIDE POPE, DALAI LAMA HAIL CHANGE; JAPANESE GO TO WORSHIP.(Main)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Combined wire services Hailing 1989 as "so rich in profound changes," Pope John Paul II in Vatican City on Monday dedicated the first day of the new year to peace and the triumph of life over violence and revenge. The Roman Catholic leader, after a midmorning ...
SCIENTISTS 'LOSE' MALENESS GENE.(Main)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: New York Times Two years ago scientists thought they had found the gene that specifies that an embryo will develop into a male. But it now turns out to be a case of mistaken identity. Dr. M.S. Palmer at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London and his ...
FLAMES DESTROY TAGHKANIC HOUSE TWICE IN 22 YEARS.(Main)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Vincent Jackson Staff writer A Columbia County house that burned to the ground 22 years ago was destroyed again and a Stillwater highway truck was damaged in two fires late Monday and early today. Paul Drescher's house at Livingston and Taghkanic roads was ...
PANAMA NOTEBOOK SUSPECTED DRUG PILOT IN MIAMI AMERICAN DIPLOMAT PANAMA'S REAL RULER BUSINESSMEN ARE GOING LOOT HUNTING POOL REPORTERS ITCH UNDER RESTRAINTS 1ST TROOPS IN SPRUNG OPERATIVE FROM JAIL.(Main)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press Los Angeles Times Scripps Howard News Service Hearst News Service Washington Post A Panamanian who allegedly flew a plane carrying drug money for Gen. Manuel Noriega was brought to Miami just after the start of the new year early Monday to face U.S. drug ...
RECORD CROWD POSSIBLE FOR ALBANY'S FIRST NIGHT.(Local)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Staff and wire reports The First Night celebration in Albany may have drawn another record New Year's Eve crowd, but a party at a Colonie hotel had too many revelers. The First Night celebration, which included a parade, music, food, dancing, fireworks and ...
COLLEGE LOAN QUEST FRUSTRATING.(Local)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Fred LeBrun On New Year's Eve, one of our collegiate teenagers home on break couldn't quite connect with her event of choice and wound up doing the unspeakable of unspeakables, staying home with us oldsters. "I don't have a life," she announced glumly, ...
NEW DEMOCRATS TAKE THEIR SEATS IN ALBANY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT CHANGE.(Local)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Tim O'Brien Staff writer Four new Democrats assumed their seats on the Common Council Monday, stressing a spirit of cooperation while planning to work on the independent agenda that got them elected in November. The new members are Keith St. John, Susan Ward, ...
BUONO, DEMOCRATS DICKER OVER BUDGET.(Local)(Correction notice)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Tim O'Brien Staff writer Rensselaer County Executive John L. Buono said all members of his staff will report to work today while he and county Democrats continue bargaining over the 1990 budget, which eliminates some of their jobs. Marilyn Douglas, ...
DYING TRADITION KOSHER BUTCHER CLOSES UP SHOP.(Local)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Jay Jochnowitz Staff writer The for-sale sign on the small brick building on Delaware Avenue might seem like just another minor death of a mom-and-pop store, but the closing of Hagelu has been felt far beyond a neighborhood. The little kosher butcher shop was ...
COUNTY GETS NEW SHERIFF.(Local)
Jan 02, 1990 ... James E. Bertram was sworn in as Columbia County Sheriff Monday morning in the county courthouse, succeeding retiring Sheriff Paul Proper. Betram, 44, of Ghent was elected to the $38,955-per-year position for a four- year term in November after serving as undersheriff for 13 ...
SCHENECTADY COUNCIL BEGINS DIVIDED.(Local)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Democratic City Council President Thomas E. Isabella was re-elected to his fourth two-year term Monday, but he did it without the support of minority Republicans. Isabella cast the fourth and deciding vote for himself after three Republican councilmen abstained. GOP ...
MECHANICVILLE MAYOR ENDS ONE-PARTY RULE.(Local)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Christopher Ringwald Staff writer Supporters, relatives and interested citizens crowded into City Hall and lined the staircase to see Patrick Hildreth take office as the first Republican mayor since 1960. With his hand on a massive, leather-bound family Bible ...
STATE-ADMINISTERED COURSE HELPS SENIORS GET BACK IN BUSINESS 10-WEEK TRAINING PROGRAM HELPS ENTREPRENEURS, FOR FREE.(Local)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Grace O'Connor Staff writer With her two sons grown and already having become a grandmother, onetime chemical engineer Charlene Crenshaw decided it was time to return to the work force. The 56-year-old Rexford resident considered starting a consulting ...
TAKING THE OATH RILEY PROMISES 'A VISION'.(Local)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Christopher Ringwald Staff writer Joe Riley took over the supervisor's office Monday before 95 supporters, promising to "put forth a vision for Clifton Park in the coming months." The less cheerful part of that vision is Riley's expectation that sales tax ...
NEW SCHENECTADY COUNTY DA WANTS BIGGER BUDGET, MORE STAFF.(Local)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Laura Vecsey Staff writer Robert M. Carney goes for his first spin in the car provided to him by the Schenectady County Legislature and the rear tire is flat as a pancake. "If I was more superstitious," said Carney, the new Schenectady County district ...
LEAKY ROOF CLOSES MOHAWK MALL STORES.(Local)
Jan 02, 1990 ... A leaky roof forced the closing of several stores at Mohawk Mall Monday, but the shops are expected to reopen for business today, the mall's manager said. "We're in fine condition now," said Marie ...
PROPERTY OWNER STILL FREE 1 MONTH AFTER WARRANT ISSUED SCHENECTADY MAN ARRESTED IN KNIFING LEAKY ROOF CLOSES MOHAWK MALL STORES AUTOPSY PERFORMED ON 17-YEAR-OLD.(Local)
Jan 02, 1990 ... Byline: Richard Wexler Staff writer Associated Press One month after a city court judge ordered the arrest of an Albany property owner for building code violations, the long arm of the law has yet to catch up with Michael Rickman. Rickman had piled up $29,300 in fines and didn't ...