Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from April 1991:
DANGER IN FAT.(Main)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Regarding the March 21 article about the celebration of the Great American Meatout: Just like the Great American Smokeout the concept behind this day is to refrain from participating in an activity that is harmful to your health and the environment. It is also a day dedicated to education, ...
LANGUAGE LINKS.(Main)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Your article, "Irish-Americans learning Gaelic, for culture and fun," (March 17) unfortunately contained some incorrect information about this language. According to one person quoted, "English is derived from the Latin, so (Gaelic) has no connection to any of the European ...
DPW ACCOUNTABILITY: AT LAST.(Main)(Editorial)
Apr 01, 1991 ... It's good to see that in Albany County even alleged wrongdoers who are Democratic Party stalwarts can be brought before the bar of justice. On Thursday, Albany County Judge John Turner opened indictments that accused two former county Public Works Department employees of ...
STATE'S SPACE LEASING PLANS ADJUSTED IN BUDGET CRISIS.(Main)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Your editorial March 16 assailed the state for allegedly not recognizing the state's fiscal problems through adjustments in its space leasing policies. Unfortunately, the editorial, and the article which appeared earlier in the week, did not reflect reality. The fact is that new leasing ...
OPPOSITION CONCEDES IN ALBANIA.(Main)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Blaine Harden Washington Post The leader of Albania's main opposition party conceded early today that the ruling Communist Party would win Sunday's election, the first free election here in 45 years. "We are losing in the countryside. ... I don't think we ...
'TURKEY SHOOT' OF IRAQ IN QUESTION.(Main)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Knut Royce and Timothy M. Phelps Newsday Some Americans called the rout of Iraq's soldiers a "turkey shoot," as an army that had put up virtually no opposition in the first two days of the 100-hour ground war tried to scramble to safety. They were bombed ...
GRATITUDE IS EASTER MESSAGE AFTER FIRE *MINISTER GIVES THANKS FOR AID.(Main)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Ray Rinaldi Staff writer The Bibles were borrowed, the pews no more than metal folding chairs and the stale smell of smoke filled the room, but the First Baptist Church members - who lost their 167-year-old church building to fire last week - insisted Easter Sunday their ...
*TIME TO WEAR ONE'S FINEST.(Main)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Jay Jochnowitz Staff writer Alan Bellamy grinned as he stopped on Clinton Avenue Sunday afternoon to answer the stranger who wanted to know if he was wearing his Easter clothes. "I would think so," he said, opening his overcoat to reveal a suit and ...
ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH A HIGH-STAKES FIELD.(Main)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Peter Wehrwein Staff writer Unsmiling and with an anxious look on his face, Dr. Richard Holub looked across his desk the other day and said this about Alzheimer's disease patients: "It is the only disease that I can do nothing for - I haven't got one single ...
OPPOSITION CLAIMS LEAD IN ALBANIA VOTE.(Main)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Tony Smith Associated Press Excited Albanians crowded polls Sunday for their first multiparty elections after 46 years of hard-line Stalinist rule and isolation. Opposition groups claimed early successes in voting in the capital and other cities. The ...
TREATMENT CALLED A PLACEBO.(Main)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Peter Wehrwein Hydergine, once used as a treatment for Alzheimer's, has fizzled,and its fate should serve as an antidote to overly high hopes for quick discovery of an effective Alzheimer's drug. The drug, made by Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, was originally ...
COMMANDER REFLECTS ON ARMY'S PROBLEMS ISRAELI ENDS TOUR TODAY.(Main)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Allyn Fisher Associated Press During Dan Shomron's four years in command of the Israeli army, his highly trained soldiers spent most of their time fighting stone-throwing teenagers in the occupied territories. "I don't feel any great sorrow," Lt. Gen. Shomron ...
BOOK SAYS LBJ PREFERRED NIXON AS HIS SUCCESSOR.(Main)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Associated Press Lyndon Johnson, irked that his own vice president was inching away from his Vietnam policy, at times expressed a preference for the election of Richard Nixon in 1968, according to the memoirs of a confidant. Johnson felt "beleaguered and ...
CRITICS CHALLENGE ASSET-FORFEITURE LAWS.(Main)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Michael Isikoff Washington Post When federal agents made a drug raid on the University of Virginia campus last month they confiscated a few hundred dollars worth of drugs. By far the more lucrative part of the raid was the seizure of three fraternity houses with an ...
REPORTERS TOUR SCENE OF DEATH IN IRAQ CITY.(Main)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Wafa Amr Associated Press Iraqi officials showed Western reporters scenes of death and devastation Sunday in the northern oil center of Kirkuk, which the government wrested from Kurdish rebels last week. Three bodies burned beyond recognition, one apparently ...
WISHFUL THINKING ON APRIL 1.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Ralph Martin Ah, it's nice to see they passed the state budget on time. I just knew they would. I had confidence in those hard-working devils down at the Capitol. They said they wouldn't have fulfilled the obligations of their office if they'd missed today's ...
SUPERINTENDENT DUELS CRITIC IN $1.5M BOND REFERENDUM.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Yancey Roy Staff writer It resembles a schoolyard fray more than a heavyweight bout. Ward Patton and Ralph Bennett say they respect each other's opinions. They agree there's no good guy or bad guy. They disagree on just about everything else. But ...
SECOND SUSPECT HELD IN MURDER.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Yancey Roy Staff writer Police have arrested an Albany woman in New York City, charging her with participating in the murder of reputed cocaine dealer Eric Hendrix. Marcina Dean, 19, of 63 Plum St. was arrested Saturday night and charged with two counts of ...
RESULTS OF ALBANY SCHOOL BOARD REVOLUTION GET MIXED REVIEWS.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Richard Wexler Staff writer In the beginning there was euphoria. The events of late 1989 were viewed as a peaceful revolution. To many, it seemed that decades of one-party rule had been overthrown, and that a new order committed to openness and democracy was taking ...
IT'S BEEN A BUSY YEAR.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Mark your calendars! Here are some of the official designations from the state Proclamations Office issued in the past year: January - Financial Aid Awareness Month; Opticians Month. February - Children's Dental Health Month; Meat and Potatoes Month. March - Eye ...
EVERY DAY'S A HOLIDAY FOR THE DESIGNATED PROCLAIMERS.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Craig Brandon Staff writer It probably isn't marked on your calendar, but today is the first day of School Attendance Month. It's also the second day of Auctioneers Week, the beginning of School Library Media Month and the first day of AFS Host ...
EXODUS FROM BIG APPLE GOODBYE, GOODBYE TO NEW YORK, NEW YORK.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Richard Levine New York Times With a job at an advertising agency and a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Matthew Luba settled into the life he had looked forward to. He was a New Yorker. Now, just four years later, he and his wife Alison, ...
MOYNIHAN TO HELP SAVE WRIGHT HOUSE.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Associated Press A building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright has deteriorated into a "slum," said a U.S. senator who plans to seek federal funds for its restoration. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan toured Buffalo's Darwin Martin House recently. He said last week ...
RIVER DAMS KILLING THE PACIFIC SALMON.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Timothy Egan New York Times A shout away from the point on the Continental Divide where Lewis and Clark crested the Rockies in 1805, another of the American West's wonder creatures is about to become extinct. Like the bison, wolf and grizzly bear before it, ...
WILDWOOD FACES BUDGET AX MENTALLY DISABLED LOSING SERVICES.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Karen Nelis Staff writer About 500 mentally disabled people and their families in the Capital District will be cut off from all support services starting today under budget cuts proposed by Gov. Mario M. Cuomo. The services - including recreational ...
WOMAN, 21, KILLED IN CYCLE ACCIDENT.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... A 21-year-old woman trying out her new motorcycle was killed Sunday afternoon when she swerved off the road into a ditch, Fulton County Sheriff's deputies said. Eugenia H. Clemons of St. Johnsonville was riding her motorcycle south on County Route 114 at 1:15 p.m. Sunday when ...
TRAVELING TRASH DUMP CLOSURE PLAN DRAWING COMPLAINTS.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: E.J. Conzola II Staff writer A plan to consolidate landfill operations has given Saratoga County officials a two-week reprieve from today's scheduled closure of their dumps, but the proposal has not met with universal acclaim from county supervisors. ...
TRAFFIC STOP BRINGS NARCOTICS ARRESTS GEOLOGIST PLANS LECTURE AT SKIDMORE ROUTE 158 BRIDGE REBUILDING BEGINS POLICE SAY ARREST SPARKED VIOLENCE BUSINESSES PUSH FIGHT ON CANCER VALATIE 4TH-GRADER IN SPELLING CONTEST.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... State Police arrested two Vermont men and a North Carolina man on charges of possessing cocaine and crack after a routine traffic stop Saturday. Jeffrey S. Blair, 24, of Colchester, Vt., was charged along with his passengers, Kenneth Sherman, 23, of Burlington, Vt., and Lorenzoe ...
AFTER 30 YEARS, THE DOCTOR IS OUT.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Grace O'Connor Staff writer Until he retired earlier this year Dr. Jesse T. Henderson Jr. was still making house calls. "That was the hardest part of stopping," said Henderson who began practicing in the city in 1959 when, depending on the time and distance ...
ENCON PROPERTY FOUND STAFFERS HAD ITEMS WORTH $105,000.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Associated Press Investigators say they have recovered more than $105,000 in missing state-owned property from the homes of two Department of Environmental Conservation employees and their friends. Search warrants were issued by a Cattaraugus County judge ...
LATE, AGAIN FISCAL YEAR STARTS TODAY WITHOUT BUDGET AGREEMENT.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Associated Press New York state ended its fiscal year Sunday, as it had the past seven, without Gov. Mario M. Cuomo and the state Legislature in agreement on a new state budget. That meant New York's state government was without the legal authority to spend ...
HELICOPTER DOWNED, 5 PEOPLE RESCUED.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Associated Press Five people were rescued from a sightseeing helicopter that landed in the East River Sunday after its engine failed, officials said. The helicopter went in the water about 1:50 p.m. near the 59th Street Bridge, ...
MECHANICVILLE MAN DIES OF ACCIDENT INJURIES.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... A 79-year- old man hit by a car in late March died Saturday from his injuries. Salvadore Cimino of the J.S. Moore Homes was struck March 23 by a car driven by Joan La Brake, 62, of 34 Round Lake Ave. No charges were brought against La Brake, Mechanicville police said. ...
IDA FUNDING LOOPHOLE COSTS STATE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, TAX OFFI CIAL SAYS.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Dan Janison Capitol bureau The state loses millions of dollars in potential income each year because of a loophole enjoyed by some private companies, according to New York's top tax official. Local industrial development agencies are routinely giving ...
MOUNTAIN BIKE MAKES INDUSTRY SHIFT GEARS POPULARITY PUTS AMERICA AHEAD.(Business)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Lawrence M. Fisher New York Times The easy-riding mountain bike - a fat- wheeled bicycle devised for the dirt trails of California - is sweeping the world in popularity and propelling American manufacturers to the front of the pack. When many other American ...
DRESSED FOR SUCCESS MACY'S OUTLOOK BRIGHTENS.(Business)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Floyd Norris with Isadore Barmash New York Times Success is a relative thing, and nowhere is that clearer than at retailer R.H. Macy & Co., where the financial picture is finally starting to look brighter after more than two years of severe problems. Once Macy ...
AFTER YEARS OF BEEFING, JAPAN CONFIDENT AGAINST MEAT IMPORTS.(Business)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Paul Blustein Washington Post The beef in a downtown Tokyo store, so streaked with fat it iscalled shimofuri (frost), sells for $81.48 for a half-pound steak.Sukiyaki slices go for $67 a pound. The people who sell this stuff ought to be worried - or so it ...
SOARING STOCKS FUEL 6.5% QUARTERLY GAIN IN PORTFOLIO.(Business)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Money magazine The average individual investor's portfolio rose $2,682, or 6.5 percent, to a record $44,277 in the first quarter of 1991, according to Money magazine's Small Investor Index. That's the equivalent of a hefty 28 percent annual return - nearly triple the ...
MANAGEMENT CONCESSIONS DULL USE OF PROXY FIGHTS.(Business)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Joyce M. Rosenberg Associated Press A month ago, the 1991 annual meeting season was shaping up like a Las Vegas boxing card, with AT&T's proxy fight for control of NCR Corp. the main event. AT&T went the distance, but some other big proxy battles fell by the ...
CITIBANK TO GUARANTEE CARD USERS LOWEST PRICES MINIMUM WAGE TO RISE TO $4.25 DOLLAR OPENS HIGHER AGAINST YEN.(Business)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: New York Times Associated Press Associated Press Citibank plans to announce as early as today that it will guarantee people who shop with its card that they will pay the lowest available price. Citibank, the world's largest issuer of credit cards, said the ...
TROY TO RAISE FEES FOR RECREATION USERS.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Tim O'Brien Staff writer Residents will pay more to ice skate and golf next year if the City Council approves proposed fee hikes. The council will vote on the fee changes and other municipal matters at their meeting starting at 7 p.m. Thursday in City Hall. ...
PARKING LOT SPACES ALLOCATION UP IN AIR.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Christopher Ringwald Staff writer At a contentious meeting two weeks ago, the City Council unanimously approved leasing to private parties 30 spots in a new 100-car public parking lot. But last week, as a tractor raced back and forth leveling the freshly laid ...
REGISTRATION SET FOR DAY CAMP, CHILD CARE TROY TO DESIGN RIVERSIDE DOWNTOWN TRAIL SHERIFF TO ADDRESS VILLAGE BOARD IN MAY FIVE POINTS TO EXHIBIT TWO ARTISTS' WORKS CLERMONT SLATES ANNUAL SPRING LECTURES PROGRAM TO PUSH KINDERGARTEN READINESS.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Registration for summer day camp and for a new school-age child-care program starting in September will be held from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday at the Hoosic Valley Elementary School, where both programs will be held. To register for day camp, parents must make a ...
NEW RULES ON TAXIS LEAD COUNCIL AGENDA.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Richard Wexler Staff writer New rules governing city taxis will be on the agenda when the Albany Common Council meets tonight, but the city isn't waiting for council action to put one of the changes into effect. The proposal is up for a vote at the council's ...
COMMUNITY BETHLEHEM SETS SECOND ANNUAL DAY.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Barbara Hayden Staff writer In an all-out campaign to reach out to the community, hundreds of area groups have been invited to become part of the second Community Bethlehem day May 18, chairman Gary Swan said. The day will be a series of townwide events to ...
ZONING OK LINKED TO $250,000 DONATION.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Two of the town's leading Republicans have criticized a zoning approval for a developer who provided $250,000 for the town's new public safety building. The second-ranking member of the town's Democratic administration dismissed the criticism as politically motivated. ...
CLASSES IN CPR SET IN COLONIE.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Vincent Jackson Staff writer Capital District residents will have numerous opportunities until January to learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Colonie's Emergency Medical Services Department, in conjunction with the emergency services committee, has started ...
ANIMALS HELP THE DISABLED AT BITS.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Grace O'Connor Staff writer A barn is the centerpiece of the BITS program, where developmentally disabled youngsters experience new things and explore new feelings through contact with animals. Horses are the mainstay of the therapeutic program, but the barn ...
STUDENTS ON BREAK CHOOSE CHARITY OVER SUN AND SURF.(Living)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Kate McKenna States News Service While most of college- age America spent spring vacation sprawled in front of the TV screen or working toward the perfect tan, several dozen somewhat more determined students had another plan. Instead of heading for home or for ...
BOOKED SOLID VISITING AUTHOR SHARES INSIGHTS.(Living)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Kathleen Dooley Staff writer "Where do you get your ideas from? Are they from your own family? How much is made up?" young teens asked author Paula Danziger. Danziger, author of 11 books for teens, recently presented a writing workshop for students at ...
PLAYING WITH HISTORY VOORHEESVILLE STUDENTS RE-ENACT HILLTOWN ANTI-RENT WARS.(Living)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Judy Shepard Staff writer Stephen Van Rensselaer is quite clearly the villain of the piece, but Sarah Carr, 10, wanted to play him anyway. The Voorheesville fourth- grader liked the patroon's role in "Until Our Rightful Day," a play about the 19th-century Hill ...
MEMORIES LIKE LOVELY JEWELS.(Living)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Grace O'Connor Staff writer It was a beautiful afternoon for a drive. So we got in the car and went back in time. In a deliberate attempt to recapture our youth we headed for the neighborhood where we grew up. En route, we passed the spot on the ...
'CAREER' A MISSED OPPORTUNITY.(Entertainment)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Bob Strauss Los Angeles Daily News Attention all you octoplex shoppers. The John Hughes Movie Idea discount Emporium is now open for business. Yes, the writer-producer brand name who makes big bucks out of lame ideas is at it again with "Career Opportunities." ...
'TOSCA' MISSING INTENSITY.(Entertainment)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Daniel J. Wakin Associated Press It's hard not to feel a little ashamed at performances of "Tosca," including the season's first performance at the Metropolitan Opera Saturday night. We're reminded of how Puccini's publishers shamefully persuaded a minor ...
'RICKY BELL' TACKLES FOOTBALL UPS, DOWNS.(TV/Radio)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Michael E. Hill Washington Post There's a saying in show business, Mario Van Peebles recalled, that in the eyes of the Hollywood establishment your career goes through four stages. First, he said, the reaction to your name is, "'Mario who?' Then, after you've ...
DUKE, KANSAS ON CENTER COURT JAYHAWKS READY FOR SPOTLIGHT.(Sports)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Joe Layden Staff writer Two nights ago, when his Kansas basketball team met North Carolina in the semifinals of the NCAA basketball tournament, Roy Williams sensed something unusual. This was the Final Four, one of the most lavish sporting spectacles of our ...
DEVILS STILL HAVE WORK TO DO.(Sports)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Joe Layden There was this incident, midway through the second half, when it became clear that Duke was not such a soft-bellied basketball team after all. Bobby Hurley had nearly decapitated Nevada-Las Vegas guard Anderson Hunt on a breakaway layup; just went ...
LAST-SECOND GOAL GIVES WINGS A PRAYER.(Sports)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Buzz Gray Staff writer Is there no end to wacky scenarios? In what must be one of the most bizarre and unlikely finishes to any season, the Adirondack Red Wings slipped into the American Hockey League playoffs by the slimmest of margins and latest of deadlines Sunday ...
PATS PICKED BAD TIME TO HAVE AN OFF NIGHT.(Sports)
Apr 01, 1991 ... Byline: Tim Wilkin Staff writer For the first time during this Continental Basketball Association season, the Albany Patroons were horrible. The timing was just atrocious as the Pats picked the first game of the best-of-seven National Conference championship series to ...
BEWARE GERMAN MILITARY AIMS.(Main)(Editorial)
Apr 01, 1991 ... With the reunification an accomplished fact, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl appears to be feeling his oats. Last week he formally endorsed the idea of giving a wider role to the German military forces. Without giving away too many details, the chancellor said he wanted to explore ...
SAGE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN PASSES HALFWAY POINT.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... In little more than one year, The Sage Colleges have raised more than half of the projected goal of $12 million for "Students and Scholars: The Sage Campaign" with gifts and pledges at a total of more than $6 million. In September the colleges announced a $12 million capital ...
SCHOOL GROUNDBREAKING IS TUESDAY.(Local)
Apr 01, 1991 ... A groundbreaking ceremony has been scheduled by the Saratoga Springs City School District for the Maple Avenue School at 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 2 at the school site, Route 9, (Maple Avenue) in the town of Greenfield. The rain date is 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 3. Slated to open in ...
SPORT NETS AVID ANGLER EMPTY CREEL.(Local)
Apr 02, 1991 ... Byline: Fred LeBrun April Fools' Day and the opening of trout season in this state are one and the same, and I'm convinced it's no coincidence. Fishing, even my beloved, elitist- labeled fly-fishing, is becoming curiouser and curiouser, something the Queen of Hearts ...
COUNTY LISTS CLINIC, TESTING SCHEDULE.(Local)
Apr 02, 1991 ... A series of clinics and testing will be conducted for Rensselaer County residents by the county Health Department in April. Infants, pre-school children and college students can be immunized every Tuesday and Thursday during the month in the Pattison Office Building. ...
ENCON REPLACING EARLY-RETIRING TOP MANAGERS.(Main)
Apr 02, 1991 ... Byline: Tom Precious Capitol bureau The state Department of Environmental Conservation is replacing two high-level managers that it let retire on lucrative terms, even though the Legislature intended to sweeten pensions only for workers whose jobs would be eliminated. ...