Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from January 1991:
BIRTH DEFECT STUDY TURNS TO FATHERS.(Main)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Sandra Blakeslee New York Times After three decades of efforts to discover how a pregnant woman's environment can affect the health of her fetus, researchers are turning their attention to fathers. The new research, much of it in early stages, suggests that ...
ECONOMICS, ETHICS LIMIT TRANSPLANTATIONS.(Main)
Jan 01, 1991 ... The heart transplant is among modern medicine's flashiest life-rescuing achievements. But because the operation is so expensive and donated hearts are in such short supply, some experts see it as an area of medicine fraught with economic and ethical dilemmas. "The ...
A TOP DAY TO SHOP TOP SHELF.(Main)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Mark S.R. Suchecki Staff writer It was a little more like Christmas Eve than New Year's Eve with last-minute shoppers keeping salespeople hopping. But the objects of desire weren't toaster ovens or ties. Rather, customers Monday flowed into fancy showrooms like Keeler ...
IRAQ ORDERS DRAFT OF 17-YEAR-OLDS.(Main)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Combined wire services While European leaders advocated diplomatic solutions to the Persian Gulf crisis, Iraq on Monday ordered 17-year-olds to report for military duty, the youngest yet to be called for possible combat in the Persian Gulf. Iraq's order for ...
TECHNOLOGICAL MARVELS LIE AROUND THE CORNER IN COMING DECADE.(Main)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: New York Times Trains that float above their tracks for a smooth, fast ride. Enormously powerful computers that will understand speech and help design new drugs. Motors the size of a dust speck, battery-powered cars, genetically engineered supercrops. The ...
BRYAN CROUNSE MOTHER QUESTIONS HIS TREATMENT.(Main)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Bright, charming and seemingly irrepressible, Bryan Crounse was the Capital District's most famous heart-transplant recipient. Now, 2 1/2 years after his transplant and more than a year after a rare form of heart cancer killed the 14-year-old Schenectady boy, his mother believes ...
DISCUSSION KEY TO DONATION.(Main)
Jan 01, 1991 ... The first step New Yorkers can take to help the hundreds of people on heart transplant waiting lists is turning over their driver's license, and signing on the line that indicates they are willing to donate their organs. The real key, however, is talking over donation with ...
PATIENTS DIE IN WAIT FOR DONATED HEARTS.(Main)
Jan 01, 1991 ... With more takers than givers, people on the waiting list for a heart transplant live on hope that they will be winners in a kind of ultimate lottery. But there are losers. Of the 6,488 people put on a waiting list for a heart between October 1987 and December 1989, 1,077 - or ...
MOST TRANSPLANTS REPLACE WEAK MUSCLES.(Main)
Jan 01, 1991 ... The majority of people who receive heart transplants suffer from cardiomyopathy, the term for a diseased or weakened heart muscle. In some cases, there may be no symptoms, yet in severe cases, the heart becomes so weak that it can no longer pump properly and must be replaced. ...
NEW YEAR BRINGS NEW HOPE FOR PEACE.(Main)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Combined wire services Millions of people around the globe bade farewell to a tumultuous 1990 and embraced the new year with fireworks and gala celebrations, while they appealed for a peaceful solution to the Persian Gulf crisis. Paris celebrated the 12th ...
PATIENCE IN SHORT SUPPLY, QUAYLE TELLS TROOPS.(Main)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Rita Beamish Associated Press Vice President Dan Quayle told U.S. troops Monday he shares their frustration with Saddam Hussein's refusal to budge from Kuwait, saying the time for patience is about up. Touring Saudi desert outposts nearly five months after ...
U.N. COUNCIL CAN'T AGREE ON ISRAEL CONDEMNATION.(Main)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Associated Press The U.N. Security Council held urgent consultations Monday about violence in the Israeli-occupied territories but reached no agreement on a statement proposed by the PLO to condemn recent killings of Palestinians by Israeli security forces. ...
ISRAELI JETS ATTACK PLO BASE IN LEBANON, KILL 12.(Main)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Associated Press Israel unleashed its deadliest air attack of the year on Lebanon on Monday, killing 12 PLO guerrillas in a predawn strike near Sidon. Police and the Palestine Liberation Organization confirmed in separate statements that there were no ...
TROOPS POP OPEN NEAR-BEER, EAT SOME STEAKS AND WAIT FOR JAN. 1 5.(Main)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Neil MacFarquhar Associated Press The Scots dined on haggis, the French had foie gras and the Americans enjoyed steak and a radio special by comedian Robin Williams. But New Year's Eve celebrations for the gulf troops were generally low-key. The important ...
RESPONSE DEBATED ISRAEL MILITARY READIES FOR IRAQ MISSILE ATTACK.(Main)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Youssef M. Ibrahim New York Times Israeli military experts are virtually unanimous that in the event of war, Iraq would launch against Israel at least 20 missiles armed with conventional or chemical warheads, and that some of those missiles would be certain to penetrate ...
WHAT'S OPEN...WHAT'S CLOSED.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... With the New Year's Day holiday today, there will be some schedule changes in the Capital District. The following is a partial list of today's changes: *OFFICES: All federal, state, county, city, town and village offices will be closed. There will be no ...
NEW OWNER CLOSES VENERABLE PAPER WEEKLY, SAID TO BE AMONG NATION'S OLDEST, FOLDS.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Alan D. Abbey Business writer The weekly Washington County Post, which celebrated its 200th anniversary two years ago, and a sister paper in Hoosick Falls, have ceased publication. The Post, which billed itself as the nation's oldest weekly paper, was closed ...
IN MEMORY OF BERYL AND TIP.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Fred LeBrun Connections, leading us in and out of the next world and back to the beginning. In a twinkling four years have past since the horrible death of Beryl Spector, one of 97 to perish in the spectacular arson fire at the DuPont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, ...
NEW YEAR ARRIVES WITH COFFERS EMPTY.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Phil Brown Staff writer with staff reports If the new year merrymaking seemed a trifle desperate as 1990 drew to a close, there's a reason: We've got money troubles. With the nation in a recession and the state wrestling with mammoth deficits, Capital District ...
BLUE MOON BRIGHTENS ALBANY'S FIRST NIGHT THOUSANDS OF REVELERS CHEER 1991.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Tim Beidel Staff writer Beneath a brilliant blue moon, the city shined for thousands of revelers who brought in the new year during the 5th annual First Night celebration. Bundled in dark wool, bright down coats and an occasional fur, the First Night ...
GLOBAL STUDY LISTS VARIED FOOD CROPS.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: William K. Stevens New York Times Conventional agricultural wisdom holds that only a handful of crop species - as few as seven and no more than 30, depending on different assessments - account for most of the plant food consumed by humans. But a new study says ...
WEST MILTON NUCLEAR REACTOR A SAFETY CONCERN.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Matthew L. Wald New York Times People who have worked for the Navy's nuclear reactor program, based here for four decades, have accused the program of serious safety lapses and say they were disciplined for raising safety concerns. Their allegations, denied by ...
JAIL GUARDS CALL OFF PROTEST AFTER PAY SUSPENSIONS RECINDED.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Yancey Roy Staff writer A scheduled protest by about 30 corrections officers at the Albany County Jail on Monday was called off when management rescinded pay suspensions levied against guards who had refused mandatory overtime shifts. The sheriff's department ...
SOURCES SAY NOLAN OUT OF COUNTY RACE BACKS CANESTRARI FOR EXECUTIVE POST.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Michael McKeon Staff writer State Sen. Howard Nolan has ruled out a bid for Albany County executive and is pushing Assemblyman Ronald Canestrari as an alternative to County Executive James J. Coyne Jr., party sources said Monday. Nolan has told several people ...
COAT CRIMES CHILLING URBAN STREETS.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Joe Mahoney Staff writer The lure of fashionable garments and a winter cold snap are fueling the latest crime trend on urban streets: robbery of winter jackets right off the backs of startled victims. While no one in the Capital District has been killed for a ...
MAN BAILED OUT AFTER CHARGE OF CHOKING WOMAN.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Charged with choking a young woman into unconsciousness, a 20-year-old city man was released from Albany County Jail Monday after posting $7,500 bail, officials said. Jamal A. Hammett of 180 Washington Ave., was arrested Saturday night on charges of first-degree assault and ...
RETIRING COP HEARS THE CHEERS ALBANY VETERAN SERVED 42 YEARS.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Joe Mahoney Staff writer When veteran police officer Joe Pickett went on patrol with a rookie named Joe Sokol back in 1962, Pickett reportedly leaned over and said, "Let's stop and get a bottle." Pickett proceeded to buy his bottle. It contained a ...
BARNES READY TO BEGIN SHERIFF'S DUTIES.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Marv Cermak Staff writer William W. Barnes took over as county sheriff today after a 19-year run by outgoing Sheriff Bernard "Barney" Waldron. Barnes said he was going to check into the Sheriff's Department at midnight to start his four-year term of office. ...
NOVENA A CALL FOR MIDEAST PEACE.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Bruce A. Scruton Staff writer While novenas for divine intervention may have fallen out of style, a group of lay Roman Catholics is pushing the idea of a "Novena for Peace" over the nine days between Epiphany and the Jan. 15 U.N. deadline allowing the use of force ...
BRONX PAIR HELD ON DRUG CHARGES GIRL REPORTED MISSING FOUND IN TROY TROY RESIDENT CHARGED IN ASSAULT BOARD TO HOLD ORGANIZATIONAL SESSION.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... A pair of New York City men were ordered held in Albany County Jail on Monday after they were arraigned on charges of possessing cocaine and drug paraphernalia. Vincent Jackson, 23, and Willie Lee Terry, 27, both of the Bronx, were arrested Sunday by city police at Sheridan ...
ALWAYS WILLING TO LEND AN EAR NO IDEA'S TOO SMALL TO GET HER ATTENTION.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Barbara Hayden Staff writer When she walks into a supermarket or just down the street in this town, chances are she doesn't get very far. People come up to her and want to talk about things like street cleanup or school programs. Marty Cornelius, volunteer ...
STATE REFUSES MORE TIME FOR VALLEY FALLS GRANT.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Ray Rinaldi Staff writer Village officials, still reeling from the fire that destroyed their Community Center on Saturday, are angry that the state has refused to extend the deadline on an application for money to improve the building. Because the Charles ...
RENSSELAER COUNTY BILLS TO BREAK OUT STATE TAXES.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Rensselaer County property tax bills being mailed over the next few days will show for the first time what portion of the levy is devoted to some state mandates. Philip Wood, the county's chief fiscal officer, said state Comptroller Edward V. Regan has been encouraging all ...
RIGHT-TO-LIFE MEMBER SUES STATE OVER CLINIC.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Tim O'Brien Staff writer In an effort to block an abortion clinic from opening in the city, a Troy resident and State Right to Life Party committee member is suing the state Health Department. The lawsuit is scheduled to be heard Wednesday before state Supreme ...
LONG DAY PRECEDES BUSY FIRST NIGHT.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Catherine Clabby Staff writer By shortly after noon Monday, Dottie Dack, director of the mayor's office of special events, was clearly running on adrenalin. Her First Night tuxedo was pressed and hanging behind her office door on the second floor of the city ...
RENSSELAER BUDGETERS SCRAMBLING.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Ray Rinaldi Staff writer City officials will begin meeting later this week to develop a plan for combating a $59,000 budget shortfall caused by a reduction in state funds. Mayor Joseph Harrigan said Monday that city officials, who figured the state funds into ...
CITIES COME ALIVE TO WELCOME NEW YEAR.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Associated Press Cities were the center of the action as New Yorkers rang in the new year with a series of First Night celebrations and events aimed at reducing the drunken driving toll. In Buffalo, more than 20,000 people were expected to attend the city's ...
3 HURT IN HEAD-ON CRASH OF TWO CARS.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Three Philmont residents were injured late Monday afternoon in a head-on crash on Fish and Game Road, according to State Police at the Claverack station. Taken to the Hudson center of the Columbia-Greene Medical Center after the 4:20 p.m. crash were Michael P. Forschner, 28, of ...
COLUMBIA COUNTY TO CHANGE MANDATORY TRASH BAGS COLOR.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Kenenth C. Crowe II Staff writer Yielding to complaints that clear plastic bags created some embarrassing moments, Columbia County officials agreed last week to switch to gray plastic bags that keep residents' trash hidden from view. Ever since Dec. 1, when ...
DOLANS' COUNSEL ASKS FOR REVIEW.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II Staff writer The attorney representing suspended Chief James J. Dolan Jr. and his younger brother, Officer David Dolan, has filed a request for a Civil Service hearing on departmental charges pending against the two city police officers. ...
10 WORKERS HURT IN SCAFFOLD COLLAPSE PROBE OF SUBWAY FIRE FAULTS AUTHORITY TRUCK KILLS GOOD-SAMARITAN TEENAGER CUOMO DISSATIFIED WITH PARK POLICE BILL.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Associated Press Associated Press Associated Press Associated Press ALBANY - Gov. Mario M. Cuomo announced Monday that he had veto ed legislation that would have designated Suffolk County park rangers as police officers. Rescue crews pulled 10 workers, several of them ...
WITH NO-FRILLS OATH, CUOMO STARTS TERM.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Robert Borsellino State editor Mario Matthew Cuomo - the often dour introspective workaholic who serves as this state's chief executive - began his third term by allowing himself a rare moment of personal privilege Monday. After taking the oath of office in a ...
CAR-BATTERY RECYCLING LAW IN EFFECT TODAY IN STATE.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: United Press International The state Department of Environmental Conservation said Monday that a law requiring the recycling of lead-acid car batteries takes effect today, New Year's Day. "In line with proper solid waste management and with our statewide ...
POLICE SAY SHOOTING JUSTIFIED.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Henry G. Logeman United Press International Nassau County police Monday defended the shooting of an unarmed Queens man who was trying to escape arrest for his alleged role in a fatal shootout at a Christmas showing of "The Godfather Part III." Norman ...
GOVERNOR GIVES CLEMENCY TO IMPRISONED AIDS VICTIM.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Elizabeth Edwardsen Associated Press Gov. Mario M. Cuomo on Monday granted clemency, his first in two years, to a state prison inmate suffering from AIDS. Cuomo rejected an application for clemency from Jean Harris, the former girls' school headmistress ...
NEW YORK CITY HOMICIDES ON RECORD- BREAKING ROLL.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Virginia Byrne Associated Press Police officials believe the city's already record-high homicide tally may top 2,200 before today. Fourteen people died violently in the city in the 24 hours ending Monday alone. The number of homicides committed in ...
SARATOGA SPRINGS OFFICIALS WANT MORE DATA ON DUMP PROPOSAL.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Christopher Ringwald Staff writer After signing off on it himself, the public works commissioner asked other City Council members Monday to approve a plan to consolidate landfill operations with Clifton Park and other towns Monday. The move is part of the ...
CONTROLLING GROWTH WILTON'S 1991 ISSUE WASTE, WATER, SEWERS IN THE SPOTLIGHT.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Ken Thurman Staff writer Growth and development were the big issues locally in 1990. But management of the resources needed to control that growth is expected to be the key concern this new year, Town Supervisor Roy J. McDonald said Monday. The past year, for ...
5TH AVENUE TO OLANA, SARATOGA.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Ken Thurman Staff writer Lord & Taylor, the Manhattan department store known for its dazzling holiday window displays, is giving the gift of Christmas past to a couple of local organizations. The 1990 displays in the store's Fifth Avenue branch, titled "Train ...
VFW POST SEEKS HOME FOR 42 TO CALL THEIR OWN NISKAYUNA REAL ESTATE SITE ELUSIVE.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Michael Lopez Staff writer By Jim Wilson's account, the local two-year-old VFW post has all the makings for success - about 42 members, some with the community spirit that is the hallmark of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The one thing the Niskayuna chapter ...
BALLSTON LAKE VOTERS MAY DECIDE WATER ISSUE.(Local)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Marc Carey Staff writer Ballston Lake residents could be facing a vote later this year on solving their longtime water problems - with cost the major factor in the equation, town Councilwoman Nancy Bellamy said Monday. The town's recently created water ...
LINK OF DIET TO COLON CANCER OVERSHADOWS KEY TO CURE SCREENING FOR POLYPS OFFERS HOPE OF EARLY DETECTION.(Living)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Robert Whitaker Staff Writer In the past decade, the debate over diet and its relation to colorectal cancer has gone on and on ... and on. What has been lost in this confusion is another message: The threat from this killer cancer can be greatly reduced by ...
BREAKING POINT BATTLE SCARS NOT ALWAYS APPARENT.(Living)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Colin Nickerson Boston Globe If war breaks out in the Persian Gulf, 25 to 40 percent of the casualties will be psychiatric - soldiers intact of flesh but mentally battered by extreme fatigue, the pressure of functioning under fire or the horror of seeing buddies blown ...
FOR YOUNG BLACK MEN, DEATH COMES WITH A GUN.(Living)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Don Colburn Washington Post When a young black man dies in this country, the most likely cause is not cancer or cardiac arrest or a car wreck. He is shot to death. The homicide rate among black men ages 15 to 24 rose by two-thirds during the five years ended ...
CONTROVERSIAL EDITOR OF DEAD SEA SCROLLS DISMISSED.(Living)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Eileen Alt Powell Associated Press Israel's Antiquities Authority on Monday dismissed a Harvard scholar as chief editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls, citing health problems. The professor recently created an uproar by making anti- Jewish statements. The editor, ...
VISILOX PLANS TECH PARK OPERATIONS.(Business)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Ray Rinaldi Staff writer Visilox Systems Inc., the Poestenkill silicone products maker purchased in 1989 by Connecticut-based Loctite Corp., plans to move a portion of its operations into the Rensselaer Technology Park. Loctite spokesman Steve Merkel said ...
COMING HOME ROSTROPOVICHES' TRIUMPH DESERVES A HIGHER PROFILE.(TV/Radio)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: ron Belt Newhouse News Service Parades, football, even "New Year's Eve in Vienna" are traditional public television features that fit the festive mood of Jan. 1. This year has an added dramatic and even inspiring dimension by way of a 90-minute film ...
YOUNG DOCTORS IN FEAR OF AIDS.(Living)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Newsday In significant numbers, young doctors in specialties most likely to treat AIDS patients say that they have been exposed to blood containing the AIDS virus, are afraid they may contract the disease, and would prefer never to treat people with AIDS, drug users or ...
TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT REGAINING IN POPULARITY.(Living)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Gina Kolata New York Times Today is the day after the biggest drinking holiday of the year. Although many Americans presumably overindulged, more and more are looking with disdain on the rite of getting drunk. At the same time, the nation's tolerance for ...
SOVIET SPACE STATION TUMBLING TOWARD EARTH.(Living)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: New York Times With rescue plans in tatters and all control apparently lost, an abandoned 40-ton Soviet space station will plunge to Earth in a rain of fiery debris in the next few weeks, experts on the Soviet space program said Monday. "Some of its flaming ...
FITNESS CLASSES SET.(Living)
Jan 01, 1991 ... The YWCA of Albany, 28 Colvin Ave., is taking registrations for its winter fitness classes and workshops for adults, teens and children. The program will include: *Numerous aerobics classes on the newly installed suspended wood floor at Albany YWCA. But "Modern Motion," a total ...
'MONEY' HEADLINE SHORTCHANGED PLAY.(Entertainment)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: Martin Kelly Staff writer What happens when a copy reader is faced with a few words to digest a review of a complicated comedy? The result can be what happened to Capital Repertory Company's "Other People's Money" when my review in Monday's Times Union was ...
'MISS SAIGON' STAR 'SHIRLEY TEMPLE OF PHILIPPINES' HOPING SHE'LL PLAY BROADWAY.(Entertainment)
Jan 01, 1991 ... Byline: William Branigin The Washington Post As she saunters into her hotel suite, Lea Salonga seems even younger than her 19 years - small and vulnerable, no one you'd expect to be the focus of what threatens to be a vitriolic international casting battle. It is ...
SYMPHONY CONSIDERING 4 FINALISTS FOR DIRECTOR.(Entertainment)
Jan 01, 1991 ... If all goes as planned, the Albany Symphony Orchestra will have a new music director in place by early 1992. In a press statement issued Monday, the orchestra announced that it has narrowed its search for a music director to four finalists, each of whom will serve as guest ...
CRAWFORD RETURNS TO 'PHANTOM OF THE OPERA' CRAWFORD BACK IN 'PHANTOM' MCFERRIN LEADS SERVICE.(Entertainment)
Jan 01, 1991 ... The Grateful Dead are scheduled to return to the Knickerbocker Arena on March 23, 24 and 25 - with mail order tickets set to go on sale Thursday - according to an announcement on the band's California telephone hotline. Sales at Ticketmaster outlets are set to begin on Feb. 22. ...