Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from July 1991:
KOSHER SAFEGUARDS.(Main)
Jul 01, 1991 ... We read with concern the feature on the reported failure of the chicken inspection system in the United States, published in The Times Union recently. We note that no mention was made of the kosher poultry industry. Thus, we'd like to point out that kosher standards followed by ...
SOUTH AFRICA RECORD ON APARTHEID IS FAR FROM REASSURING.(Main)
Jul 01, 1991 ... On June 11 a Times Union editorial called for positive gestures to be extended to South Africa President F.W. de Klerk because his commitment to reform in South Africa is "clear and convincing." While it is true that the government is removing significant legal barriers and ...
WMHX LOSS MAY BE A GAIN.(Main)
Jul 01, 1991 ... The bad news is that area viewers will soon have one less TV station to watch, public station WMHX, Channel 45. The good news is that the loss of that station may mean basic cable service in the area can be re-regulated. It was doubtful from the start whether this area really ...
N.Y. MUST FACE TAX REALITIES.(Main)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Long before New York's current budget problems, New York's business community was sounding the alarm over the anti-competitive effects of high state taxes. Now that the governor has listened - by steadfastly refusing to raise the personal income tax to close a $6.5 billion budget - what's ...
FEDERAL PANEL TARGETS MILITARY BASES.(Main)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: W. Dale Nelson Associated Press The federal base closing commission voted Sunday to shut down nearly a score of military bases, including major Army posts and the massive Philadelphia Navy Shipyard, in economically painful actions to shrink the post-Cold War defense ...
STATE LEADERS WORK ON BUDGET COMPROMISE.(Main)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Elizabeth Edwardsen Associated Press Top fiscal aides to Gov. Mario M. Cuomo and the legislative leaders continued to hammer out the details of a new budget compromise Sunday, while Cuomo said the debate leading to the agreement was "a very tough battle." ...
BILL WOULD TACK ON BACK INTEREST IN SUCCESSFUL PERSONAL-INJURY LAWSUITS.(Main)(Correction notice)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Tom Precious Capitol bureau In the days when Warren Anderson reigned over the Republican-controlled state Senate, lobbyists representing trial lawyers many times found doors closed to their causes. Instead, the lawyers courted the Assembly, whose New York ...
CROATIAN ELECTED YUGOSLAV LEADER FEDERAL TROOPS TO PULL BACK.(Main)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Tony Smith Associated Press A Croat was elected the head of Yugoslavia's collective presidency today, removing a major obstacle to fulfilling a fragile European-mediated peace in the disintegrating country. The election of Stipe Mesic provides a ...
OH, CANADA! TELL US WHAT YOU REALLY MEAN.(Main)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Cecilia Deck and John Tanasychuk Knight-Ridder So you thought the biggest difference between Canada and the United States was the colored money, eh? Well, take it from a couple of Canadian expatriates: The rift reaches far beyond currency and the rate of ...
IOWA HOPING TO SNUFF OUT TOBACCO USE BY MINORS.(Main)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Greg Smith Associated Press On a mild summer night, 15-year-old Sara Meeker and her friends like to sit around shooting the breeze and smoking cigarettes. This week, the conversation might not be as lighthearted as before, because they'll be breaking the law ...
CONTRACEPTION A LUXURY WHERE IT'S NEEDED MOST.(Main)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: David Briscoe Associated Press An average woman in Chad would have to pay nearly three-fourths of a year's income for an intrauterine device, and even condoms are priced out of reach for couples in 59 countries, says a study to be released today. High-priced ...
MANDATORY AIDS TESTING REJECTED BY NURSES GROUP.(Main)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Associated Press The American Nurses Association overwhelmingly approved a resolution Sunday opposing mandatory AIDS testing. "Compulsory universal testing isn't reliable and it is extremely expensive," ANA President Lucille Joel said. Delegates ...
AIDE SAYS BUSH HAS MADE HIS CHOICE FOR SUPREME COURT.(Main)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Tom Raum Associated Press President Bush has decided whom he intends to appoint to the Supreme Court, an administration source said, but Bush kept mum on the decision Sunday as his aides made arrangements for an announcement. Bush had been expected to announce ...
OPINIONS DIFFER ACROSS THE BORDER.(Main)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Knight-Ridder We don't just talk differently. U.S. citizens and Canadians have differing opinions on a lot of things. Here are some views from both sides of the border: *U.S. citizens who favor Canada and the United States becoming one country: 47 percent ....
CONDOS SELL FOR A SONG AUCTION BRINGS 40 BIG BARGAINS.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Tim Beidel Staff writer Forty condominiums in the Schuyler project sold for bargain-basement prices at auction Sunday, leading the developer to keep 21 units that were held in reserve before the auction. The sale raised over $1.4 million. Since specific units ...
WARM SPRING REALLY BUGS CAPITAL DISTRICT.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Jane Gottlieb Staff writer The season's last frost gripped and let go early this year, ushering a summerlike spring into the Capital District. That has found the box elder bug turning trees a distinctive shade of red, and fireflies turning thoughts to summer ...
TAKING A WIDER VIEW.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Fred LeBrun The latest turn in the events swirling around Inter-Power of New York's attempts at getting state approval for a coal-burning power plant in Halfmoon is fittingly bizarre. Events and circumstances in general seem to conspire against Inter-Power ....
VANDAL HITS CAT AGENCY 30 FELINES GET LOOSE AFTER SCREEN CUT.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Yancey Roy Staff writer An early morning vandal has an animal protection group wondering who let the cat out of the bag. Officials from the Whiskers Animal Benevolent League, a foster cat agency, said someone apparently sliced open a screen window, allowing ...
IT TAKES ALL KINDS TO MAKE A NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Michael Lopez Staff writer The silky sounds of a sax and a waft of tropical tanning oils worked magic on jazz fans who played dominos, crocheted baby blankets and plain old partied at Sunday's Newport Jazz Festival. The lawn at Saratoga Performing Arts Center ...
COYNE PUTS LOUDONVILLE HOME UP FOR SALE.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Tim Beidel Staff writer Albany County Executive James J. Coyne Jr. put his Loudonville home up for sale last week, and the price tag is $325,000, a real estate agent said Sunday. The four-bedroom home at 34 Crumitie Road was put on the market Thursday, said ...
SELKIRK MAN FACES RAPE-ATTEMPT COUNT.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Police arrested a 39-year-old Selkirk man Sunday on charges of attempted rape and first-degree burglary. The Albany County Sheriff's Department said Jerry L. Davis of Spawn Hollow Road broke into a home on Gifford Hollow Road and sexually assaulted a woman. Police say the woman ...
GOP COUNCILMEN ALLEGE CLERK SLIGHTED PANELS SAY DEMOCRAT FUND-RAISER CAME FIRST.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Marv Cermak Staff writer Two Republican councilmen are protesting the use of the Democrat-controlled city clerk's office staff to help stage a political fund-raiser earlier this week. GOP Councilmen Albert P. Jurczynski and Augustus Bessinger charged Friday ...
WOMAN CHARGES BOYFRIEND BEAT HER.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... An Albany woman turned in her boyfriend early Sunday morning, alleging that he beat her with a handgun, Albany police said. Following the alleged attack at 5:30 a.m., the woman phoned police after Norman McCall, 24, of 176 Lawn Ave. went to sleep, police said. When Officer ...
GE EXPECTED TO SUE OVER TOWN TAXES.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Michael Lopez Staff writer Today's final tax roll will include a $200 million assessment of the General Electric Research and Development Center, which most likely will sue to seek a lower tax bill, Town Supervisor Edwin D. Reilly Jr. said Sunday. ...
COHOES WOMAN, 70, DIES IN CAR ACCIDENT.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... A Cohoes woman was killed Saturday in a head-on auto collision after her husband blacked out while driving, according to Waterford police. Ann Gagnon, 70, of 20 Church St. died ...
BEST AND BRIGHTEST GO TO SUMMER SCHOOL.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Ken Thurman Staff writer Summer school fun? Has something gone awry at Skidmore College? While most students are just starting to work on their tans, about 340 youngsters are spending part of their vacation at Skidmore working on pre-calculus, advanced ...
LOCAL SUPPORT THE BIG QUESTION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES CHAPTER.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Jane Gottlieb Staff writer As the leadership of the New York Civil Liberties Union tries to solidify a presence in the Capital District, the question is how much support it can count on from the small group of volunteers who launched the local chapter. "The ...
ILLINOIS CLIMBER DIES AFTER 50-FOOT FALL.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Associated Press An Illinois man scaling a cliff in the Adirondacks fell about 50 feet and was killed Saturday, police said. Jason Chicione, 21, ...
LAW FOR PRICING GROCERY ITEMS DIES LAWMAKERS BATTLING OVER NEW VERSION.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Associated Press While New Yorkers slept Sunday night, a consumer protection that shoppers notice every time they enter a supermarket was wiped off the books. The state law requiring that individual grocery store items have prices stamped on them expired at ...
NO ARRESTS AT ANNUAL TOPLESS PICNIC.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Hilary Appelman Associated Press Mary Lamicela got involved in the Coalition for Topfree Equality movement because of her daughter, Casey. Before Casey's birth and her decision to breast-feed the child, Lamicela said she had never given any thought to the ...
65 CONFER ON KENNEDY ASSASSINATION.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: John F. Bonfatti Associated Press One thing those at a conference this weekend studying John F. Kennedy's assassination believe with virtual certainty is that Lee Harvey Oswald was not solely - if at all - responsible for the 35th president's death. "That's ...
GRAND JURY REFUSES TO INDICT STAFFERS IN DEATH OF CONVICT.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Mark J. McGuire Staff writer An Oneida County grand jury has refused to indict staffers at the Central New York Psychiatric Center in Marcy in the December choking death of a patient/inmate. Last month the state Commission of Correction issued a report that ...
MAN SLEEPING IN CAR IMPALED BY TIRE IRON; CONDITION CRITICAL.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Associated Press A man sleeping in his parked car on the side of a highway was impaled by a tire iron that was driven into his back when another car hit his vehicle, police said. Jose Del Valle, 25, of Paterson, N.J., was in critical condition Sunday at ...
EUROPEAN-STYLE FIREWORKS SET FOR JULY 4.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Ken Thurman Staff writer A colorful European-style fireworks display which emphasizes low level images, will highlight the city's second annual "Family Day" celebration Thursday at Congress Park, officials said. Alonzo Fireworks will design the ...
FUND-RAISER THEME IS BICENTENNIAL.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Not-for-profit groups in Rensselaer County are being asked to sell bicentennial gifts as a fund- raising activity. "The focus of our bicentennial is to give something back to the community," said Stephen Schechter, chairman of the county's bicentennial ...
YOUTH CLUBS CITE MEMBERS, STAFF.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Several people from local Boys and Girls clubs were honored at the recent annual meeting of the Northeastern New York Area Council of Boys & Girls Clubs of America at the Sunset Inn in Lansingburgh. Receiving youth of the year awards were Michelle Jones of Troy, Brian Gill of ...
COMMON COUNCIL HEARING MEASURE WOULD PROTECT NORMANSKILL.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Richard Wexler Staff writer Ordinances to protect spawning fish and old houses will be on the agenda when the Common Council meets tonight at City Hall. At 7:30 p.m., the council will hold a public hearing on an ordinance to regulate development along the ...
ROCK EXPECTED TO BE NAMED ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Edward Rock is expected to be appointed to the $77,067 position of assistant superintendent of elementary education at a meeting of the Board of Education Tuesday. He has been serving in that capacity on an interim basis since the job was created about a year ago. He also has ...
A 'BRIDGE' TO EMMA WILLARD PARKER OFFICIALS EXPECT FULL SCHOOLHOUSE AS OPENING NEARS.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Mark J. McGuire Staff writer What will be Rensselaer County's only private, secular middle school is close to filling its classrooms on the eve of its opening this fall. The Robert C. Parker School is expected to have 15 to 20 students when it opens its doors ...
MOHONASEN TEACHERS TO LEAD GROUPS.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Mohonasen Central School District teachers Mary Genier and Donna Brown have been named leaders of statewide associations of math and science educators, respectively. Genier, mathematics department coordinator at Mohonasen, has been elected president of the New York State ...
HADLEY GIRL DROWNS IN HUDSON RIVER.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... An 8-year- old Hadley girl apparently drowned while swimming in the Hudson River on Saturday. Holly Fitzgerald of Route 9N had been swimming with a small group of children near campsites along the shore of the river, according to the Warren County Sheriff's Department. She ...
FALLEN DOWN UNDER ECONOMIC HARD TIMES TAKE $12.8B TOLL ON AUSTRALIA'S HIGH FLIER S.(Business)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Paul Alexander Associated Press Australia gave birth to its share of corporate cowboys who flourished in the heady days of easy credit and little supervision. But many of the flamboyant high fliers have gone under Down Under. At least 15 of Australia's major ...
WORLD BANK LOANS $24.2B TO THIRD WORLD.(Business)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Associated Press New loans approved by the World Bank, the largest source of aid for the Third World, hit a record $24.2 billion in the past year. That was up from $22.7 billion the previous year, according to a review made public Sunday. Moeen A ....
GLITCHES IN HIGH-TECH SYSTEMS LEAVE SOCIETY VULNERABLE.(Business)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Jim Abrams Associated Press The phones are again ringing, but last week's computer problems that cut phone lines have left disquieting questions about how vulnerable the nation is to the new technology on which vital telecommunications systems so heavily depend. ...
COHOES PRINTING FIRM REALIGNS MANAGEMENT NUTRASWEET FACES COMPETITION NEW USES FOR CORN SKYROCKET KEDS WALK RIGHT TO THE BANK DOLLAR HIGHER AGAINST YEN.(Business)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Associated Press Associated Press Associated Press Associated Press Michael William Printery Inc., a midsized commercial printer employing 38 people, has restructured its management - replacing the recently retired Richard H. Brassard, 62, a 15-year company veteran, ...
DYNAMICS OF NEIGHBORHOOD PLAY MIX ALL AGES OF KIDS.(Living)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Barbara F. Meltz Boston Globe The screen door bangs, your child is off. On his bike or by foot, down the block, around the corner, over to the playground. Having kids in the neighborhood for our children to play with is a plus. In the summer especially, it's comforting ...
A REMARKABLE JOURNEY FROM RUSSIA, WITH DREAM.(Living)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Paul Grondahl Staff writer Mikhail Solomonovich Katzenbogen, 74, grew up in the Soviet Union with a single burning desire. "Since I was a little boy, I had a dream to go across the ocean on a ship to the United States," he said. "And I was afraid, as I grew ...
DRESSING CASUAL CONFUSING.(Living)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Mary George Beggs Scripps Howard News Service The invitation is for a 7 p.m. Saturday night supper, and in the bottom right-hand corner is the word "casual." Hmmm. Let's see, now. Is that the shorts-and-shirt-and-flats casual? Or could it be the ...
SHAKER SERIES TO GO 'BEHIND THE SCENES'.(Living)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Hancock Shaker Village has a new informal lecture series, "Behind the Scenes with Collections," that will be on the third Thursday of each month through October. * On July 18, Cheryl Anderson, a specialist on Shaker textiles, will offer a session on "Shaker Rugs and Textiles." ...
THEATRES IN TINY TOWNS PRESENT SUMMER FROTH.(Entertainment)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Jackie Demaline Executive entertainment editor Tricky stuff here. Just over an hour south of Albany, on either side of the Hudson River, are two theaters presenting delightful light summer entertainments. Both pieces - one's a monologue, the other a revue - ...
'MASTERS' FOCUSES ON CULTURAL GIANTS.(TV/Radio)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Steve Bornfeld Television/radio writer Traditionally on television, the attitude toward our home-grown cultural giants has been a variation of an old W.C. Fields crack: Never give an artist an even break. That changed five years ago, when the simply, yet aptly ...
STOCKADE WALKS SET.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Walking tours of the Historic Stockade area of Albany continue on Saturdays. Tours will be conducted on July 6, 13, 20, 27, Aug. 3, 10, 17, 24 ...
SHORTCAKE BREAKFAST SLATED ON JULY 4.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Independence Day, Thursday is being celebrated at the Shaker Museum and Library, Shaker Museum Road, with its Fourth Annual Strawberry Shortcake Breakfast and Flag-Making Festival from 8:30 a.m. to noon. The highlight of the morning's program is a group reading of ...
AUCTIONS TO SPEAK LOUDER AT BENNINGTON MUSEUM.(Local)
Jul 01, 1991 ... The Bennington Museum, West Main Street, will celebrate the 11th anniversary of the Antiques Show and Sale with a lecture, "Auctions Speak Louder Than Words," by Jay Cantor at 4:30 p.m on Thursday, July 11. ...
POMPEY OPPONENT A NO-SHOW.(Sports)
Jul 01, 1991 ... The last time Kevin Pompey fought, he lost his International Boxing Council world welterweight title to Santos Cardona at the Knickerbocker Arena. That was April 11 in a bout televised on ESPN. On Sunday night, the Troy native's bout ended in Pennsylvania without a punch being ...
MASSE HELPS A-C WIN BY THE BOOK.(Sports)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Pete Dougherty Staff writer A month ago the strategy would have been easy. Albany-Colonie Yankees manager Dan Radison, by following the yet- unpublished baseball "book," could put the game in the hands of a .357 hitter. But as June exhausted its final hours ...
TREE LIMB SHOT HELPS ROOST TEAM GAIN TIE.(Sports)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Ron Armstrong Staff writer Cobleskill Country Club pro Jim Hefti said he hauled out his "tree wedge" and made the shot of the day. "I hit the limb of the maple tree and it wound up two inches from the hole. I didn't play the break right," deadpanned Hefti ...
80-YEAR-OLD WINS 3RD GOLD.(Sports)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Associated Press An 80-year-old Pennsylvania man collected his third gold medal in swimming Sunday as the U.S. National Senior Sports Classic III reached its midway point. Frederick Hauff of Rovers Ford, Pa., took the 50-meter breaststroke race in the men's ...
PAY-FOR-VIEW CHUMPS KO TYSON-HOLYFIELD.(Sports)
Jul 01, 1991 ... Byline: Wallace Matthews Newsday In the wake of, hopefully, the last fight between Mike Tyson and Razor Ruddock, this much seems reasonably certain: George Foreman is going to have himself a nice Thanksgiving. That's because the two turkeys, Don King and Dan Duva, ...
YES, BOMB IRAQ.(Main)
Jul 02, 1991 ... Byline: Leslie Gelb Saddam Hussein has committed the one blunder that may unite the United States and the United Nations again behind the renewed use of force against Iraq. He tried to hide machinery to make nuclear weapons and got caught. If Saddam does not follow ...
BIAGGI'S GLAD TO BE BACK IN THE BRONX.(Local)
Jul 02, 1991 ... Byline: Associated Press Former Rep. Mario Biaggi, who has been released from a Texas prison, returned to his Bronx home ill and broke - but overjoyed to see his grandchildren. One of the reasons for his release was Biaggi's deteriorating health. Biaggi, ...
BUSH PICKS COURT NOMINEE THOMAS CALLED CONSERVATIVE.(Main)
Jul 02, 1991 ... Byline: Combined wire services President Bush announced Monday that he will nominate Clarence Thomas, 43, a conservative black judge with a controversial record on civil rights, to replace Thurgood Marshall, the Supreme Court's foremost advocate of civil rights for the past ...
THE PLAYERS ARE FAMILIAR FIGURES MOST COYNE CRONIES HAVE TIES TO DEMOCRATIC POLITICS.(Main)
Jul 02, 1991 ... Byline: Harvey Lipman Staff writer Many of those individuals and companies whose names crop up in the course of the indictment of Albany County Executive James J. Coyne Jr. have a long history of involvement with the county executive and county politics. Here are some of the key ...
FINAL BUDGET PACT ELUDES LAWMAKERS.(Main)
Jul 02, 1991 ... Byline: Tom Precious Capitol bureau For the third straight day, political leaders at the Capitol on Monday were talking of their agreement to agree to add more spending to the state budget. By day's end, though, there was still no agreement. As lawmakers itched to ...
LIMELIGHT WAS JUST TOO BRIGHT.(Main)
Jul 02, 1991 ... Byline: Carol DeMare Staff writer When a federal grand jury began probing Albany County Executive James J. Coyne's public and private business dealings last year, his fast-lane lifestyle had already become the focus of public attention. In August 1985, The Times ...