Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from November 1990:
FOR ASSEMBLY, 108TH DISTRICT.(Main)(Editorial)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Bobby D'Andrea, Republican, has been representing the 108th Assembly District well for 16 years. He deserves re- election. He is a hard worker, pays attention to his constituents and, perhaps of even more importance in this era of mammouth budget deficits, remains a strong voice ...
SPILL COULD LEAD TO SUIT.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Bill Schackner Staff writer The state Department of Transportation has turned over to the attorney general's office data on a chemical spill along the Thruway's Berkshire Spur. On Oct. 5, three toll workers were sent to the hospital and hundreds of fish in a nearby creek ...
NEW 4-H CLUB FOCUSES ON 9- TO 11-YEAR OLDS.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Steve Cheslow Staff writer Ken Yurkewecz no longer lives on a farm as he did growing up in Fonda, Montgomery County, though his parents still live and work on a farm in Fultonville. Yurkewecz, 40, now resides in Clifton Park and works as a program research ...
PLAN DANCE FOR TEENS FOR COUPLE, 'FUN YEARS' NEVER END.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Grace O'Connor Staff writer More than 40 years ago, a young Jewish couple danced for the first time at "a little dance " held every week at their synagogue. Eunie Sherer and her husband, Abe, grew up in Congregation Ohav Sholom in Albany. They ...
GROUNDBREAKING TODAY FOR SCHOOL LARGER FACILITY FOR WILDWOOD.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Art Markey Staff writer Wildwood School's race against the clock will pick up considerable momentum today when ground is broken for its building on Curry Road Extension. The $5 million building will be the largest facility in the Capital District ...
BIG-BAND GALA TO AID ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION.(Living)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Frances Ingraham FOUNDATION GALA: The Arthritis Foundation of Northeastern New York will sponsor a black-tie, big-band gala on Saturday, Nov. 17, at Peter D. Kiernan Plaza beginning at 7 p.m. Featured will be the "Anchor Sisters," TVnews anchors and honorary chairwomen ...
BUSH WARNS IRAQ ON HOSTAGES' FATE.(Main)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Combined wire services President Bush declared Wednesday that he has "had it" with the mistreatment of U.S. Embassy personnel in occupied Kuwait and warned Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein against interfering with efforts to resupply them with food and water. But ...
A TANGLED TALE OF THREE LAWSUITS *PARALYTIC GIRL GETS OVER $6M.(Main)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Carol DeMare Staff writer Three weeks into a jury trial, Albany Medical Center Hospital and its medical college agreed Wednesday to pay a paralyzed child more than $6 million in damages for failing to promptly diagnose and treat her for a rare form of meningitis. ...
A TANGLED TALE OF THREE LAWSUITS *NO AWARD IN BRIDGE DEATHS.(Main)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: John Caher Staff writer The widows of two men who died in the 1987 Thruway bridge collapse apparently won't get a cent from the state, which is paying millions of dollars to the heirs of other victims of New York's most notorious highway catastrophe. A state ...
RICH STILL FIND WAYS TO AVOID TAXES.(Main)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Jim Luther Associated Press Despite repeated government efforts to close loopholes, some wealthy Americans still are able to scrape together enough deductions to avoid paying any U.S. income tax, the Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday. Of 557,848 couples ...
SAT REVISIONS APPROVED.(Main)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Anthony DePalma New York Times Substantial revisions of the college admissions tests taken each year by more than 1 million pencil-chewing students were approved Wednesday. The changes will put more emphsis on reading skills, move the exam away from ...
STATE DEFICIT PRODUCES MORE FINGER-POINTING THAN ANSWERS.(Main)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Dan Janison Capitol bureau Gov. Mario M. Cuomo's sudden burst of bad budget news a week before Election Day left state leaders unable to predict how they will help close an $824 million spending gap. Leaders of the Senate and Assembly on Wednesday began ...
BOND ACT DEFEAT WOULD COST $70M, CUOMO AIDES SAY.(Main)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Dan Janison Capitol bureau Aides to Gov. Mario M. Cuomo have sharply cut their estimate of how badly this fiscal year's budget would suffer if voters reject the proposed $1.975 billion Environmental Quality Bond Act. Cuomo's revised budget forecast shows the ...
PROSECUTOR TIES WOMAN TO MURDER.(Main)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: United Press International Driven by greed, a drug dealer hired three reputed hit men to murder New York vaudeville producer Roy Radin after he cut her out of a deal involving financing of the movie "The Cotton Club," a prosecutor said Wednesday. Deputy ...
MIDEAST NOTEBOOK HALF TON OF COOKIES SENT TO SAILOR SON EMBASSY LOOTING REPORTED IN KUWAIT ITALY VOTES TO AID HOSTAGE RELATIVES.(Main)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Jay Jochnowitz Staff writer Associated Press New York Times More than a half-ton of cookies will soon be winging its way to the Middle East, bound for an Albany sailor who doesn't know they're coming. "I wanted it to be a surprise," said Madeline Seel, mother ...
WAR COULD FORCE OIL ABOVE $100.(Main)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press The price of oil could easily explode to $100 per barrel if war broke out in the Persian Gulf, a panel of experts told a Senate committee Wednesday. "There's no limit," said John Lichtblau of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation. "It ...
DEATHS HIGHLIGHT PEACETIME RISKS.(Main)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Stewart M. Powell Hearst News Service The latest accidental deaths of American troops in Saudi Arabia - 10 sailors aboard the USS Iwo Jima and a Marine in a nighttime jeep accident - highlight the peacetime risks facing the nation's 2.1 million armed forces. ...
HEALTH SECRETARY'S VIEW STIRS DEBATE.(Main)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Cox News Service Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan, expressing an opinion that some lawyers said contradicts regulations of his own department, said Wednesday that a doctor is obligated to inform a woman whose life is in danger because she is pregnant ...
THE DENOUEMENT: 'NO EVIDENCE THAT ANY SEXUAL ASSAULT OCCURRED'.(Main)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Editor's note: Events were transpiring at a fast pace. A final agreement between the Brawley advisers and Robert Abrams, the special prosecutor in the case, was never reached, so the family withheld its cooperation in the investigation. Glenda Brawley, Tawana's mother, had to seek ...
JFK JR. TAKES TWO BAR EXAMS.(Main)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Two days after John F. Kennedy Jr. took the New York bar exam for the third time, he covered himself by taking Connecticut's bar exam. Sadie Green of the Connecticut Board of Bar Examiners confirmed that Kennedy took the test, the New York Post reported Wednesday. ...
DEA DENIES LINK TO AIR BOMBING.(Main)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: New York Times The Drug Enforcement Administration said Wednesday that it would review persistent claims that an American who died in the terrorist bombing of Pan American Flight 103 in 1988 was an agency informant who smuggled the bomb onto the aircraft in the mistaken ...
ENCEPHALITIS THREATENS FLORIDA TOURISM.(Main)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press Florida's worst outbreak of mosquito-borne encephalitis in 13 years has the tourism industry dismissing the chances of people catching the virus but still worried visitors might change their travel plans. The outbreak has thrown a scare into ...
N.Y. HAS LOWEST HEALTH CARE HIKES SCHOOLS MAY SPOUT HIGH-LEAD WATER GIRL LOCKED IN CAR TO GO BACK HOME 2 FISHERMEN SAVED AFTER 25 DAYS ADRIFT.(Main)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: New York Times New York Times Associated Press United Press International New York state has health care costs among the highest in the nation, but the rate at which those costs are increasing is the lowest of all 50 states, according to new estimates of health care ...
SCHOOLS SPOUT LEADED WATER HEALTH CARE COSTS EXPECTED TO DOUBLE BILL GAINS TO LIMIT VIOLENCE ON TV 2 FISHERMEN SAVED AFTER 25 DAYS ADRIFT.(Main)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: New York Times Associated Press Associated Press United Press International Four years after the government imposed tough rules to limit the amount of lead in drinking water, federal auditors warn that hundreds of thousands of American children are continuing to drink ...
HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS WIN.(Main)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press The new budget carries a pledge from top Democratic lawmakers to try to spend billions of dollars more for black colleges and inner-city programs. It also makes it easier for Holocaust survivors to get Medicaid nursing home aid. Other ...
FEDERAL BUDGET TAKES AWAY, BUT ALSO GIVES VETERANS LOSE BENEFITS.(Main)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Knight-Ridder About 2.1 million veterans with service-connected disabilities will go without cost-of- living adjustments in their benefit checks starting in January, and all veterans lost some burial benefits in the federal budget approved by Congress last week. ...
NOT JUST FOR KIDS PROFESSIONALS SHED SERIOUS SIDE WHEN DONNING HALLOWEEN GEAR.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Patrick Kurp Staff writer Karen Meredith stood on the sidewalk in front of her store, wearing black and white pancake makeup, her husband's flannel shirt and a purple Three Stooges tie, debating the ethical ambiguities of her Halloween costume. She was ...
Y 'WOMYN,' CAN'T YOU BE WOMEN?(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Ralph Martin Men and womyn readers, I think a group finally has gone over the edge at SUNYA. The heck with the all the rowydism and flap over tuition, there's a real problem on campus. Wait a minute, Martin - step back. Womyn? Even if you type with two ...
TUNNEL, BRICKS OFFER GLIMPSE AT ALBANY'S PAST.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Jay Jochnowitz Staff writer Digging to prepare for a future planetarium, workers unearthed an unexplained tunnel from the past beneath the city's old Water Works. On Wednesday, archaeologists spent four hours studying the find, a 4-by-2- foot brick tunnel ...
ARREST COULD IMPERIL PROBES.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Joe Mahoney Staff writer Law enforcement officials are worried that the arrest of an undercover State Police drug squad detective could have a devastating effect on any narcotics investigations and prosecutions involving the Capital District Drug Enforcement Task Force. ...
BUILDING COMMISSIONER SUSPENDS DEPUTY FROM JOB IN ALBANY.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Catherine Clabby Staff writer A deputy building commissioner who is no stranger to controversy has been suspended from his job as part of a disciplinary action. Mayor Thomas M. Whalen III confirmed Wednesday that Michael Alvaro has been suspended by Building ...
HARD SELL FAILS ON ROAD.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... James Kirby, a trailblazer in the art of door-to- door vacuum cleaner sales, would be proud of David Saunders. It takes nerve to sell a $1,200 Kirby vacuum to the State Police trooper who just pulled you over. Nerve Saunders had. A living room he didn't. ...
UNDERCOVER OFFICER SLAIN AT DRUG DEAL.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press Backup units were unable to respond quickly enough to save an undercover police officer killed by drug dealers in a soured sting operation, police said Wednesday. Three people were charged with Officer Wallie Howard Jr.'s death Wednesday, ...
ARMY RECORDS CONTRADICT SHAWCROSS.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press U.S. Army records of murder suspect Arthur J. Shawcross appear to contradict stories he told of combat experience during the Vietnam War. Shawcross said he recorded 39 "confirmed kills" of enemy soldiers while serving in Vietnam, and said he ...
POLICE PROBE INFANT'S DEATH.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: United Press International Detectives Wednesday were investigating the mysterious death of an 8-month-old boy found in a Bronx hospital with his throat tube disconnected and heart monitor cut off, authorities said. Nigel Bostick was found lifeless in his crib ...
HEARTS, MINDS AND JOBS BOTH SIDES AT 'DAILY NEWS' TRY TO CLOSE RANKS.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe and William Bunch Newsday New York Daily News management and its nine striking labor unions waged a fierce battle Wednesday for the hearts and minds of wavering white-collar staff, with both sides claiming key defections in a week-old work stoppage. ...
3 STABBED IN NYC SUBWAYS.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: United Press International Three teens were stabbed in two incidents on city subway trains Wednesday, despite a beefed-up force of Transit Police assigned to protect young people from Halloween violence, officials said. Jerome Drayton, 14, of 10 Amboy St., ...
PARTIES SCRAP FOR FUNDING CLOSE SENATE RACES COST BIG BUCKS.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: United Press International Close contests in five of the 61 state Senate races this year are forcing the Democrats to borrow and the Republicans to tap hefty reserves, state Board of Elections filings revealed Wednesday. With Republicans controlling the Senate ...
PERENNIAL CANDIDATE HUSTLES FOR ATTENTION.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Dan Janison Capitol bureau Polls show Louis P. Wein is the favorite of only 2 percent of the people who expect to vote for governor next Tuesday, but the polls don't reveal the role the Right to Life Party candidate has played. Using lawsuits and public ...
DINKINS, UNIONS HEAD DOWNTOWN.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: United Press International Mayor David Dinkins will be on Wall Street Thursday at the same time that leaders of municipal unions will be at City Hall denouncing his administration for being too cozy with the financial community. But Dinkins' press secretary, ...
JURY ORDERED TO TRY AGAIN.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press A Westchester County judge Wednesday night ordered a jury that had just convicted two men of murder charges to resume deliberations after two jurors said they had not cast guilty votes. The strange turn of events came minutes after the jury ...
SLAIN BOY'S FAMILY ACCEPTS DONATION FOR MEMORIAL FUND.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: United Press International The family of a Utah tennis buff slain on a Manhattan subway platform accepted a $50,000 donation creating the Brian Watkins Memorial Fund at an awards luncheon Wednesday in midtown Manhattan. Tear-choked but managing to smile, ...
WOMAN SHOT DEAD IN BEACON.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press A woman found dead in a rooming house after fire gutted the building had been shot in the head, authorities said Wednesday. Margorie Snide, 59, was found after the Monday morning fire at the Guest House in the city of Beacon, Dutchess County ....
ALBANY VA HOSPITAL TO BE RENAMED AFTER STRATTON.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... President Bush signed legislation Wednesday renaming the Veterans Affairs Medical Center Hospital in Albany in honor of the late U.S. Rep. Samuel S. Stratton. The hospital, located at 311 Holland Ave., will be known as the Samuel S. Stratton Department of Veterans Affairs ...
FIRM KNEW OF RISKS, STATE SAYS CHEMICALS WENT TO LOVE CANAL DUMP.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Associated Press Memos and warning labels used by the company that created the Love Canal toxic-waste dump show it knew as early as the mid-1940s that its chemicals were dangerous, a state toxicologist testified Wednesday. Some employees of the Hooker ...
GIRL, 9, TESTIFIES SHE WAS RAPED 2 YEARS AGO.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... A 9-year-old girl testified Wednesday in Albany County Court that she was raped two years ago by a man whom she knew. The child, whose name is being withheld by The Times Union, answered questions about the attack from Assistant District Attorney Veronica G. Dumas. The girl, who ...
MEDIATOR BROUGHT INTO MENANDS-PBA DISPUTE.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Vincent Jackson Staff writer A state mediator has been brought in to try to settle the contract dispute between the village and the Police Benevolent Association. Kevin Flanigan, a full-time staff mediator for the state Public Employment Relations Board, has ...
FAMILY QUARREL LEADS TO FRACAS IN COURTHOUSE LOBBY.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Two sisters have been charged with assaulting their sister- in-law in a lobby at Albany County Family Court, authorities said Wednesday. Lasone D. Garland, 30, identified as the executive director of the Albany Girls' Club, and Benita E. Garland, 24, a teacher with the Albany ...
VOTERS TO DECIDE ON COMMUNITY CENTER REFERENDUM ON $6M BOND ISSUE IN BETHLEHEM.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Barbara Hayden Staff writer Bethlehem voters will decide Tuesday whether the town should build a $6 million community center in Elm Avenue Park. The Town Board last month approved holding a referendum on the bond issue providing funds for building construction ...
PERMIT REQUESTS DOWN AS BETHLEHEM'S BOOM SLOWS.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Barbara Hayden Staff writer The 54 building permits for single-family homes issued so far this year is down from the 93 granted by Nov. 1 last year. The 1989 total showed a decline from the previous year, Building Inspector John Flanigan said. From ...
LAWMAKERS CONTEND TAX HIKE UNACCEPTABLE.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Marv Cermak Staff writer The scheduled adoption of a 1991 operating budget was deferred Wednesday night when some members of the Schenectady County Legislature said a proposed 14.9 percent property tax increase was unacceptable. The legislature recessed budget ...
POSITIONS OF 5 CANDIDATES VYING FOR ALBANY'S SCHOOL BOARD.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Richard Wexler Staff writer In the past year, the workload of the Albany Board of Education has increased exponentially, but the pay for a school board member remains the same: zero. Though some might wonder why anyone would want the job, two challengers ...
SPECIAL STUDENT DAY CARE TO BEGIN.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Vincent Jackson Staff writer Shaker High School's first full-week, after-school day-care program for special education students should begin within the next two weeks, officials say. Living Resources, an Albany- based, non-profit organization, will run the ...
TEEN HELD IN SLASHING.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... A 17-year-old Milton youth is being held in Saratoga County Jail in lieu of $1,000 bail following his arrest in a tire- slashing spree, police said. Christopher Cook of 900 Rock City Falls Road was arrested late Tuesday night on eight counts of fourth-degree criminal mischief ....
LONGTIME SHERIFF FACES REMATCH WITH BARNES.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Marv Cermak Staff writer Republican Sheriff Bernard T. Waldron, seeking his seventh term on Tuesday, is in a rematch with Democrat William W. Barnes. "But we're going to end his career at 19 years because during my intense campaigning I've heard people say ...
STILLWATER TO DISMISS EARLY.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... The Stillwater Central School District will dismiss students 15 minutes early Nov. 20, so they can practice the "Go Home" drill established under the state-mandated emergency management plan. The state commissioner of education ...
LODGE PLANS BREAKFAST.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Franklin Lodge No. 90, F&AM, will hold its monthly breakfast from 8 a.m. until noon Sunday at the Masonic Temple, ...
TALK ON 'VASELINE GLASS' TONIGHT AT MUSEUM.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Steve Cheslow Staff writer Dr. Roger MacMillan, a physician in Cooperstown, will give a presentation on Vaseline glass at 7:30 tonight at the National Bottle Museum in Ballston Spa. Admission is $2, and proceeds will benefit the museum. MacMillan ...
BUONO TELLS CUOMO TO CUT PROGRAMS OR GO TO COURT.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Joe Picchi Staff writer Rensselaer County Executive John L. Buono called on Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Wednesday to match his hiring freeze and agency cutbacks with reductions in mandated programs or face court action. "If this is not the case, then this county will ...
CHAIRWOMAN BALKS AT 10% LEVY SAYS 3% HOTEL BED TAX WOULD BE MORE COMPETITIVE.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Joe Picchi Staff writer Legislature Chairwoman Marilyn K. Douglas said Wednesday that she favors a hotel bed tax to help offset Rensselaer County's budget woes, but not the 10 percent levy suggested by a Republican minority task force on finances. "No way I ...
TROY LIBRARY TO CUT STAFF HOURS SINCE TAX REJECTED.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Tim O'Brien Staff writer One full-time librarian will be laid off and three other workers will have their hours reduced by the Troy Public Library in the wake of voters' rejection of a proposed taxing district. Joanne Ginsburg, the library's executive ...
LONG LIST OF REPAIRS $15M PLAN SUGGESTED TO UPDATE HUDSON SCHOOLS.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II Staff writer A five-year, $15 million construction program has been proposed by the Hudson City School District's architect in order to upgrade the district's five school buildings. Board of Education members are reviewing the proposal ...
DMV SERVICES AVAILABLE IN STEPHENTOWN.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Rensselaer County's mobile Motor Vehicles Department will be at the Stephentown Town Hall on Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. "All motor vehicle services can be obtained at the mobile satellite office," according ...
ENVIRONMENT VS. BUSINESS EAST GREENBUSH MASTER PLAN RULES EASED.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Mark J. McGuire Staff writer In an apparent compromise between environmental and business concerns, open-space requirements contained in the proposed town master plan will be partially rolled back, town officials said Wednesday. The proposed plan, which would ...
FEW CONTESTED RACES ON MUNICIPAL FRONTS STOCKPORT VOTERS PICK HIGHWAY CHIEF.(Local)
Nov 01, 1990 ... Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II Staff writer Voters in Columbia County's towns and in the city of Hudson will find a scattering of local, mainly uncontested races for municipal office when they head to the polls Tuesday. The most closely watched race is in the town of ...