Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from June 1990:
A CLARIFICATION.(Main)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Concerned Citizens for the Environment, Inc. (CCE) wishes to thank The Times Union for giving credit to our proposal for a gas-fired alternative, and our concerns about health risks from the Inter-Power project, in the May 24 editorial. However, we wish to correct the editorial regarding ...
ALBANY EXPEDITES TRAFFIC.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Jay Jochnowitz Staff writer Drivers on Washington and Western avenues last month may have noticed a little less wear and tear on their shoes - their brake shoes, that is. Under a state grant program, Albany has retimed the traffic signals on ...
ZOO SOCIETY BEGINS SEEKING MEMBERS.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Grace O'Connor Staff writer The Capital Region Zoological Society, which began in January trying to establish a zoo, is set to launch its first membership drive. Rachel Baum of Slingerlands, who initiated the drive for "a decent-sized zoo with a sampling of ...
TAX-HIKE FOES EXALT GREEN ISLAND VOTE.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Laura Vecsey Staff writer Village residents said they sent a message by rejecting the $2.5 million school budget but Board of Education members said they're not sure exactly what residents said. "I'm confused," Board Vice President John McNulty III said ...
STATE'S INACTION SLOWED LAND PROBE.(Main)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Elizabeth Lesly Business writer From 1985 to 1989, while the state Attorney General's office quietly was pursuing a middle-of-the-road tack in dealing with the hundreds of complaints it received about General Development Corp., the Florida land-sales giant sold more than ...
STANFORD CLOSES OUT A-C'S 4-GAME SWEEP; CHAPIN BACK WITH CLUB.(Sports)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Pete Dougherty Staff writer A night earlier Don Stanford did the gentlemanly thing, vacating his locker stall when reporters crowded around his neighbor, Royal Clayton. "You guys never want to talk to me," he said jokingly. Pitchers in Stanford's role don't ...
TYSON'S WHEELS SPINNING IN HUDSON.(Main)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Jane Gottlieb Staff writer Not since he auctioned off the '78 Lincoln Continental in mint condition for $100 has Sgt. Eugene Shetsky seen anything like it. "This one sticks out like a sore thumb," the officer in charge of the city's impound lot said Thursday, ...
TAKING STATE'S RETIREMENT OFFER MAY BE A COSTLY MOVE.(Main)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Tom Precious Capitol bureau When the Cuomo administration was pressing for an early retirement plan to reduce the state's soaring budget deficit, unions and lawmakers faulted the governor for not making the benefit available to all state workers. Instead, ...
A CAMPAIGN BASED UPON TAKING RISKS.(Main)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Robert Borsellino State editor This week, Pierre Rinfret became the Republican candidate for governor. An economic adviser to Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, Rinfret is making his first run for public office and is virtually certain to face Gov. Mario ...
STATE GOP OFFERS VOTERS AN ABORTION-RIGHTS TICKET 'IT IS A BELIEF,' RINFRET DECLARES.(Main)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Dan Janison Capitol bureau After three days of battling over abortion and frantically searching for candidates, state Republicans left their convention Thursday with a four-man ticket that supports abortion rights and a gesture aimed at mollifying angry anti-abortion ...
UPBEAT MOOD AT SUMMIT NEW IDEAS ON GERMANY.(Main)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: R.W. Apple Jr. New York Times President Bush and President Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened their second summit conference Thursday, and both leaders later said that new ideas had been discussed on the difficult question of Germany's military status. Bush said he ...
ALBANY BUS STRIKES PEDESTRIAN.(Main)
Jun 01, 1990 ... An elderly city man was reported in critical condition in Albany Medical Center Hospital this morning after he walked into the path of a bus less than a block from his home, authorities say. Dominick Nantista, 72, of the DeWitt Clinton Apartments, 142 State St., was crossing ...
TO OUR READERS.(Main)
Jun 01, 1990 ... The Times Union's Four-Star Final Afternoon Edition ends today. In the future, copies of The Times ...
N.Y. DOCTOR KILLED IN HARLEM.(Main)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press An elderly doctor was killed early today in Harlem when a stray bullet came through his window and struck him in the chest as he left the bathroom, police said. Dr. Jolaolu Mojola, 60, of 2186 5th Ave., and his wife, a nurse at Mount Sinai ...
GORBACHEV MEETS WITH CONGRESS.(Main)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press Mikhail Gorbachev met at the Soviet embassy today with some of his severest critics in Congress, including those who spearheaded the Senate's drive to squelch a superpower trade agreement until he lifts economic sanctions against Lithuania. ...
S. AFRICA TO BAN PUBLIC APARTHEID.(Main)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press The government introduced legislation today that would repeal the Separate Amenities Act, a pillar of apartheid that has allowed racial segregation of all public amenities for nearly 40 years. The legislation, which would take effect Oct. 15, ...
ANTI-ABORTION PROTESTERS MARCH AT ALBANY MED.(Main)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Brad Kelly Staff writer About 100 protesters marched peacefully outside Albany Medical Center this morning as part of a three-day anti-abortion gathering here. Carrying signs and banners, demonstrators from several groups including Operation Rescue, the ...
BART'S ADVICE: LIGHTEN UP.(Main)
Jun 01, 1990 ... B. Simpson Fox Television, producers of "The Simpsons," the animated show starring Bart Simpson, has chimed in on efforts like those at East Greenbush's Genet Middle School to stop kids from wearing T-shirts with the fictional 10-year-old delinquent's slogans, "I'm Bart Simpson. Who the ...
ONCE AGAIN, MARCOS COLLAPSES IN COURT.(Main)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Greg B. Smith Times Union New York bureau Imelda Marcos was hospitalized indefinitely Thursday after spitting up blood and collapsing in federal court, raising the likelihood of further delays in her two-month-long trial on racketeering charges. When Marcos, ...
GORBACHEV DELIGHTS RUSH-HOUR GAWKERS PRESENTS INCLUDE A LITTLE 'LIGHT READING' VISIT DRAWS POTPOURRI OF DEMONSTRATORS KEMP, CHENEY CAST CHILL AT CEREMONY IN MOSCOW, IT'S JUST WAITING AS USUAL.(Main)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Combined wire services Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev waded into a rush-hour crowd on a downtown Washington sidewalk Thursday, shaking hands with pedestrians and declaring, "I feel really at home." The bystanders cheered and applauded, and some ...
AMID SPEECHES, STARS AND FINERY, HOPES FOR A NEW TOGETHERNESS.(Main)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Combined wire services President Bush invited prominent actors, media moguls and political luminaries to join Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev for an evening of Maine lobster and opera arias at Thursday's glittering state dinner. The White House was decked out in ...
PRESSURE ON GORBACHEV PUSHES GERMANY TO TOP OF AGENDA.(Main)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: James McCartney Knight-Ridder A reunified German army is expected to number nearly 600,000 - the most powerful military force in Central Europe - at a time when Soviet forces are in strategic retreat. That stark fact explains powerfully why the issue of German ...
THE DISTAFF SUMMIT WHILE HUSBANDS MEET, FIRST LADIES RENEW OLD FRIENDSHIP.(Main)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Vic Ostrowidzki Times Union Washington bureau Barbara Bush and Raisa Gorbachev seemed to get along well when they met at the White House Thursday, putting an end to one aspect of the Cold War - a first-lady rivalry that had marked the chilly relationship between Mrs ....
PESSIMISM ABOUNDS IN U.S.S.R., POLL SAYS HALF SAY ODDS HIGH FOR PUBLIC REVOLT AGAINST GOVERNMENT.(Main)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Los Angeles Times The overwhelming majority of people in the Soviet Union are unhappy about consumer goods, services, health care and life in general, the Los Angeles Times poll has found. In fact, half believe the odds are high for "a public revolt against the ...
BIG BUCKS TO SHILL A WAR ZONE.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Ralph Martin Ready, class? Why, if a city is falling apart, battling charges of irresponsible spending and has an image factor akin to a war zone, would anyone want to spend $1.2 million to show it off? Stumped? So are most people. I'll ...
SCHENECTADY LAWMAKER QUITS PLANNING PANEL.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Marv Cermak Staff writer Paul E. Fabian resigned Thursday as a member of the Capital District Regional Planning Commission charging Albany County was not paying its share of the commission budget. Fabian, a Republican member of the Schenectady County Legislature, was ...
EX-SHERIFF'S CLERK ADMITS POCKETING $500,000.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: John Caher Staff writer A former $19,000-a-year bookkeeper with the Rensselaer County Sheriff's Department admitted Thursday that he swiped over $500,000 from the department, supporting what his attorney said was an addiction to gambling. Attorney E. Stewart ...
GRUESOME TALES HELP FIGHT DRIVING WHILE DRUNK.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Joe Mahoney Staff writer Sitting in his village of Nassau patrol car that night, Officer Bill Dikant heard a call crackling over the police radio summoning a medical examiner to the scene of a car crash on Route 9J. "It's a bad one," he said to himself. ...
3 YEARS IN HIDING IN VIRGINIA BAIL-JUMPING FUGITIVE BACK IN COUNTY COURT.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Carol DeMare Staff writer One of the Capital District's most wanted fugitives was returned to county court Thursday from his hideaway in Virginia, where for three years he dodged a 15- to 30-year prison term. George Walter Fudge, 42, formerly of Stephentown, ...
TRAINING TOWER DEDICATION SATURDAY HEARING DELAYED FOR ASSAULT SUSPECT INDIAN POWWOW SET FOR SCHAGHTICOKE ALBANY TULIP BULBS ON SALE SATURDAY.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... The dedication of a training tower and the first townwide inspection of fire equipment will take place at 9 a.m. Saturday. The first chiefs inspection of fire equipment is an opportunity to show the public what the town has to offer, and officials will be available to answer ...
CRIME-FIGHTING CANINE MACK IS MORE THAN A PARTNER ON COHOES FORCE.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Laura Vecsey Staff writer Dog day afternoon takes on a whole new meaning now that the Cohoes Police Department has a highly trained canine on duty 4 p.m. to midnight. Mack, a full-blooded German shepherd that has been trained to go in search of suspects and ...
MEASLES CASE RESTRICTS GUILDERLAND HIGH'S SENIOR BALL.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Brad Kelly Staff writer The senior prom is on. A case of measles diagnosed in a 17-year-old Guilderland High School student Wednesday will not postpone the Senior Ball scheduled for Saturday night, school officials said Thursday. However, the event will be ...
SCHOOL NEWSPAPER CAN COVER STUDENT GOVERNMENT.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Vincent Jackson Staff writer An agreement between teachers and Colonie Central High School student newspaper leaders will result in more student government coverage in the final issue for this academic year. After problems arose with student newspaper ...
2ND PRIVATE GROUP'S BID AIRPORT, TOWN PLANS WOULD BE ON COLLISION COURSE.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Bill Schackner Staff writer The latest proposal to acquire and expand Albany County Airport may be on a collision course with plans by the town to construct a $9 million operations center housing the highway, sewer, engineering and other departments. At least ...
GLENMONT TEEN FACES JAIL IN YULE BURGLARIES.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Carol DeMare Staff writer A Glenmont teen who admitting breaking into Guilderland homes last Christmas will be sentenced in July. Bruce St. Gelais, 17, has pleaded guilty before County Judge Thomas W. Keegan to two reduced counts of second-degree attempted ...
ALL-NIGHT LIGHTS READIED.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... City Hall may shut down after 5, but the city is planning to keep the lights burning into the night. In an effort to highlight the city's municipal building after dark, Albany is installing spotlights to illuminate the building's facade, City Engineer Allan Folk said Thursday. ...
DWI DEFENDANT LOSES BID TO GET TRAINING BOOK.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Carol DeMare Staff writer The State Police superintendent does not have to turn over to a defendant charged with drunken driving a copy of the training manual for administering a breath test, an appeals court said Thursday. The Appellate Division of state ...
300-CELL JAIL ADDITION READY TO BEGIN ALBANY COUNTY GOP LEGISLATORS SUPPORT PLAN.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Michael McKeon Staff writer The Republican members of the Albany County Legislature on Thursday got the briefing they demanded, paving the way for a 300- cell addition to the county jail. Five Republican legislators said they would support the $30.6 million ...
RINFRET ESCAPES UMBRAGE BISHOP WHO WARNED CUOMO ON ABORTION MUM ON GOP RIVAL.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Tim Beidel Staff writer The Catholic bishop who said that Gov. Mario M. Cuomo risks eternal damnation for his stand on abortion said Thursday that he could not issue the same warning to Pierre Rinfret, the abortion-rights Republican candidate. Rinfret, like ...
DEMOCRATS ENDORSE FALL SLATE.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II Staff writer The Columbia County Democratic Committee endorsed "a good, strong slate" of candidates for Congress, the state Senate and state Assembly, Chairman Francis E. Keeler said Thursday. Selected during a meeting Wednesday night to ...
COUNCILMEN NOT SWAYED BY TAPE.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II Staff writer Common Council members were not convinced by an FBI tape recording that Chief James J. Dolan Jr. attempted to bribe former Sheriff Paul Proper in a March 17, 1989, meeting. "I didn't hear anything on the tape that would lead me ...
COUGHLIN EYES MORE DOUBLE BUNKING MOTHER CHARGED WITH 4 MURDER COUNTS OTSEGO WELFARE COMMISSIONER QUITS 'WILDING' TEEN GETS 1 YEAR IN NYC ATTACK.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press Associated Press Associated Press Associated Press Corrections Commissioner Thomas Coughlin wants to increase the number of inmates sleeping in bunk beds in New York's crowded prisons by nearly 1,000, a spokesman said Thursday. Coughlin has ...
COURT SAYS ALTAMONT ANNEXATION PLAN IN PUBLIC INTEREST.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Carol DeMare Staff writer A mid-level appeals court agreed Thursday with a state Supreme Court panel that it would be in the "overall public interest" for the village of Altamont to annex 18 acres of Guilderland land for a residential subdivision. In its ...
INDICTMENTS CHARGE 13 IN COCAINE SCHEME.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: John Caher Staff writer A federal grand jury on Thursday handed up two indictments charging 13 area men with involvement in a cocaine conspiracy allegedly run by two state Assembly employees. The men indicted Thursday were among 16 who have been arrested on ...
PRESCRIPTION MIXED ON MEDICAL- WASTE ISSUE.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Bruce A. Scruton Staff writer From nearby neighborhoods and neighboring cities they came to Albany City Hall. There was even a man from Houston talking about how hospitals in the Capital District should be handling their medical waste. Where they differed was ...
SARATOGA LANDFILL PLAN RULING ON SITE INSPECTIONS EXPECTED WITHIN TWO WEEKS.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Elizabeth S. Schwartz Staff writer State Supreme Court Justice Loren Brown is expected to decide within two weeks whether a legal technicality will delay Saratoga County's efforts to inspect land owned by eight residents for the new landfill, according to Brown's clerk, ...
LEGISLATORS PUT OFF TALKS ON JAIL.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Marv Cermak Staff writer A presentation for a proposed $10 million, 144- cell addition to the county jail was scratched from a Thursday agenda of the county legislature's Rules, Judiciary and Public Safety Committee. Committee Chairman Raymond C. Zanta said ...
ARENA IN RED, OPPONENT SAYS MISGUIDED CRITICISM, RILEY CLAIMS.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Marc Carey Staff writer A current Republican committeeman, who two years ago unsucessfully went to court to block construction of a $23- million ice arena on the town-owned Clifton Common, on Thursday blasted the town for backing the project and cited recently released ...
SPA PANEL TURNS DOWN DEVELOPER'S MALL PLAN.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Ken Thurman Staff writer A developer's plans to purchase and convert the Jewish Community Center on Broadway into a shopping mall and banquet facility have run into a major roadblock imposed by the city. Concerns that traffic and pedestrian safety problems ...
SHEDDING LIGHT ON BLACK CONTRIBUTIONS IN SARATOGA SPRINGS.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Ken Thurman Staff writer The name George Crumm may not sound familiar, but chances are you've tried one of his best known dishes: the potato chip. Crumm, a local cook during the late 19th century and the reputed inventor of the snack chip, was black. While his ...
LANSINGBURGH SCHOOLS ADOPT AUSTERITY BUDGET.(Local)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Tim O'Brien Staff writer Lansingburgh school district voters, who rejected a $16.4 million school budget last week, will decide later this month on $218,787 in expenses for sports, transportation, field trips, library books and equipment. The Board of ...
HIGH-TECH SCHWARZENEGGER OFFERS SEASON'S BEST TO DATE.(Weekend)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Martin Moynihan Staff writer It's very violent. It's high tech, it's from the future, it has a sense of humor and a distinct visual style. But the main thing about it is its relentlessness. It keeps coming at you. No, not The Terminator or Robocop. But it is related to, ...
KEI TAKEI TO DANCE AT EMMA WILLARD.(Weekend)
Jun 01, 1990 ... For 21 years, dancer-choreographer Kei Takei has been fashioning a long, cross-cultural epic of dance titled "Light." Composed, thus far, of 27 parts, "Light" draws on the Western dance tradition, as well as Japanese dance, theater and martial arts. The parts, which are both autonomous and ...
STAGING CHILDREN'S PLAYS TAKES IMAGINATION FROM TECHNICIANS.(Weekend)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Winifred Yu Staff writer In the technical room behind the State Museum auditorium, the aliens were posing a concern. "We have to find a way to get the aliens off stage," said Joan White-Smith, project coordinator. The aliens were characters in "Judgement," a ...
PRESLEY REPORTER NOT DEAD YET.(Weekend)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Tom Bailey Jr. Scripps Howard The new book "E Is For Elvis" could receive an "F" for accuracy. An "A-to-Z" guide to the king of rock and roll, "E Is For Elvis" makes a lulu of an error in an entry on James Kingsley, a longtime reporter for The Commercial ...
SHAKER VILLAGE OPEN; CELEBRATING FOUNDING.(Living Today)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Judy Shepard Staff writer Hancock Shaker Village, now open for the season, will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the founding of Hancock by the Shakers, as well as the 30th anniversary of the village's restoration as a museum. The Shakers lived and worked at ...
GLOBAL TRENDS.(Sports)
Jun 01, 1990 ... WHO'S IN: Providence, R.I.; Birmingham, Ala.; Lyon, France; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Berlin; Prague; Milan, Italy. These cities were represented at the past meeting, reportedly have owners and facilities, and are expected to pay the balance of their franchise fees at the June7 league ...
THEY'RE B-A-A-A-CK...(WELL, MAYBE) ADMIRALS SAY THEY'LL REJOIN GLOBAL FLEET, BUT ONLY IF FOUNDERS LEAVE.(Sports)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Keith Marder Staff writer Add another twist to the soap- opera story line of the fledgling Global Hockey League. Albany is still in a trial separation from the would-be intercontinental league, but it now looks like the separation may end in reconciliation rather than ...
TROY DROPS BASSETT AS COACH.(Sports)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Gene Levy Staff writer Don Bassett, one of the most successful boys basketball coaches in SectionII, is out of a job at Troy High. Bassett, who reached the 300 mark in coaching victories last winter, learned Thursday his contract would not be renewed for the ...
POE-BARR DOUBLE TROUBLE TO FOES.(Sports)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Buzz Gray Even though they're both products of Shaker High School, Chuck Poe and Dave Barr didn't hook up until three years ago. Now they're the No.3-ranked doubles team in the East. It's an unexpected union in a way, considering Poe graduated from Shaker in ...
MOHAWKS' CHIEF SEES GOOD THINGS.(Sports)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Bill Arsenault Staff writer The Schenectady Mohawks open the Northeastern Collegiate Baseball League season against the Little Falls Diamonds at 7 tonight at Ewing Field in Central Park. The Mohawks just missed winning the league title last season, and ...
ABC TO USE NEW VIEWER MEASUREMENT.(Main)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: New York Times ABC announced Thursday that it would unilaterally impose a new system for measuring the television audiences that advertisers have paid to reach. The move surprised and angered many advertising executives, who said they would fight the ABC ...
CLARKE HOPES TO BECOME WHITE MAYOR OF D.C.(Main)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Byline: Christopher Matthews David Clarke is an odd case. He's a blunt-talking politician in a city too often dominated by its smoothies. He's a working stiff in a capital overstocked with yuppies. He's a genuine local in a city best-known for its presidents, ...
TAKING A SECOND LOOK.(Main)(Editorial)
Jun 01, 1990 ... It is not surprising that the Navy would re-open its investigation into the explosion on the Iowa battleship that occurred in April 1989. Few seem to have placed much confidence in the Navy's first report on the accident, an accident that resulted in 47 sailors being killed. It ...
THE GOP IN DISARRAY.(Main)(Editorial)
Jun 01, 1990 ... Despite a wealth of issues - state deficits, taxes, abortion, the death penalty - New York state Republicans have had to search far and wide for a gubernatorial candidate this year. They found one in Pierre Rinfret, an economist with no political credentials and a reluctance to discuss his ...