Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from April 1992:
WORK FORCE NOT BLOATED.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Over the course of the past several months, most recently in your editorial of Feb. 24 entitled "Why our taxes are so high," you assert that local governments have bloated work forces. I would like to answer your statement on behalf of the City of Albany. From our latest payroll ...
A BIT OF '92 WILL APPEAR IN 'INNOCENCE'.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Although set directors worked overtime to make sure every last bit of 1992 was removed from the set of "The Age of Innocence," there was one tiny bit left, although few will notice it. The newspapers that were tossed in front of the wind machines were copies of Sunday's New York Times. *** ...
RPI ROLLICKED ITS WAY TO A TITLE IN 1985.(Sports)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Bob Croce Staff writer (Thursday and Saturday at Albany's Knickerbocker Arena, Michigan State, Lake Superior St., Michigan and Wisconsin will play for the NCAA Ice Hockey Championship. But seven years ago, a team from Troy won it all. This is their story:) By ...
JERRY BROWN HAS CHANGED MIND ON SOME ISSUES.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: David Broder California Gov. Pete Wilson, who beat Jerry Brown in a big election ten years ago, has some good news and some bad news for Bill Clinton, who's trying to accomplish that feat now. True, the circumstances are very different. Wilson was the ...
COURT RELAXES CONTROL OVER DESEGREGATION.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Linda Greenhouse New York Times The Supreme Court, ruling in a major school desegregation case, Tuesday gave hundreds of formerly segregated school districts a potential new legal tool for returning to local control after decades of operating under federal court ...
ECONOMIC INDICATORS HINT OF HAPPIER DAYS.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: John D. McClain Associated Press The needle on the government's main economic barometer rose 0.8 percent in February, pointing toward a revival, but one that analysts agree will be weaker than normal. Analysts said the second straight increase in the Commerce ...
U.N. VOTES TO IMPOSE SANCTIONS ON LIBYA.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Paul Lewis New York Times The Security Council voted Tuesday to impose a ban on air travel and arms sales against Libya in two weeks unless it surrenders agents implicated in the bombings of a Pan Am flight over Scotland in 1988 and a French airliner over West Africa the ...
ODDS HEAVY AGAINST SHEDDING FAT.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Richard L. Vernaci Associated Press Here's depressing, if not exactly shocking, news from a federal government survey: Fat people tend to stay that way, diets or no. Roughly one-third of the women and one-fifth of the men in this country are trying to shed ...
ONCE AGAIN, BUDGET MISSES APRIL 1 DEADLINE.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Dan Janison Capitol bureau State lawmakers Tuesday failed for the eighth consecutive year to enact an annual budget within the legal deadline, but worked around the clock trying to come close. Haggling over the final details of the fiscal plan continued for ...
COURT ALLOWS RELIGIONS VOICE ON AIDS PANELS.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: John Caher Staff writer The judges on New York's highest court engaged in a spirited debate over the separation of church and state in a divided opinion Tuesday that gives religious representatives a voice in setting public school AIDS policy. In a 5-2 ...
SERIOUS CRIME PORTRAIT OUTLINED FOR PANEL.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: R.A. Zaldivar Knight-Ridder Taxpayers spend $1.7 billion a year to lock up increasingly ruthless young criminals, yet the federal government invests only $24 million in programs aimed at preventing youth violence, a Senate panel was told Tuesday. Adding to an ...
BUSINESSES OPPOSE ENERGY LEGISLATION.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: W. Dale Nelson Associated Press Officials from a broad range of energy industries and other business groups Tuesday joined in opposing congressional proposals that they said would cripple offshore oil and gas and nuclear power development. "It should not be ...
COURT DENIES BAIL DURING TYSON'S APPEAL.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Associated Press The Indiana Court of Appeals on Tuesday denied Mike Tyson's request to be freed from prison while he appeals his convictions for rape and criminal deviate conduct. A three-judge panel rejected the former heavyweight boxing champion's request ...
SUED PSYCHIATRIST NOT SUSPENDED.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Stephanie Schorow Associated Press A psychiatrist is continuing her work under the watchful eye of the state while authorities investigate claims she drove a patient to suicide through a sexual affair and by making him pretend to be her child. The ...
BROWN TAKES VERMONT VOTE FROM CLINTON.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Associated Press Jerry Brown beat Bill Clinton in Vermont's Democratic presidential caucuses Tuesday night, saddling him with a second straight setback and gaining headway for their high-stakes primary battle in New York. This time it was a runaway for Brown, ...
JOKES ON CLINTON BROWN CAMPAIGN USES RIDICULE AS STRATEGY.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Tom Precious Capitol bureau Jerry Brown's local supporters have been complaining that New York's primary campaign is void of issues and too full of character assassination. So, what are they doing about it? Sponsoring a debate? Organizing a forum to discuss ...
CUOMO CANCELS CALIFORNIA TRIP IN BID TO HALT POLITICAL SPECULA TION.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Tom Precious Capitol bureau Gov. Mario M. Cuomo on Tuesday canceled next week's scheduled political trip to California, which had been seen by some Democrats as a journey to keep White House ambitions alive. Cuomo had been scheduled to go to Los Angeles on ...
LITTLE MUD SPATTERED IN 2 DEBATES.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Combined wire services Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton and former California Gov. Jerry Brown labored through two debates on the problems of urban America Tuesday with scarcely a spark of friction. However, two other presidential candidates who were denied a ...
POLL FINDS VOTERS COOL TO CANDIDATES.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Robin Toner New York Times With only one Democratic opponent remaining on the field, Gov. Bill Clinton has gained the support of a bare majority of Democrats nationwide and his campaign continues to confront a cloud of doubts and reservations, according to the latest New ...
MRAZEK TELLS ETHICS PANEL HE WAS HOUSE BANK VICTIM.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Associated Press New York Rep. Bob Mrazek appeared before a House ethics subcommittee Tuesday to rebut allegations that he was the second-worst abuser of the House bank, saying he was a victim of the bank's own policies. "There wasn't any specific ...
PROSECUTOR WINDS UP NORIEGA CASE CIA DROPS $1.4B CONSOLIDATION EFFORT HIGHWAY HOOKER ADMITS 3 MURDERS RETIRED GENERAL NAMED FAA CHIEF 5 BODIES FOUND IN TENNESSEE CABIN.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Associated Press Associated Press Associated Press Associated Press Associated Press Manuel Noriega was a greedy dictator who sold out his country "to a murderous criminal gang" of cocaine barons, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday in closing arguments of the ousted ...
PROSECUTOR WINDS UP NORIEGA CASE CIA DROPS $1.4B CONSOLIDATION EFFORT HIGHWAY HOOKER ADMITS 3 MURDERS 5 BODIES FOUND IN TENNESSEE CABIN BODY OF 4-YEAR-OLD FOUND UNDER PORCH.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Associated Press Associated Press Associated Press Associated Press Associated Press Manuel Noriega was a greedy dictator who sold out his country "to a murderous criminal gang" of cocaine barons, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday in closing arguments of the ousted ...
MONTANA LOSES ITS BATTLE TO KEEP 2ND HOUSE SEAT.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Associated Press The Supreme Court unanimously upheld the system Congress uses to distribute House seats among the states Tuesday. The ruling will cost Montana one of its two seats. The decision is good news for Washington state. Had Montana prevailed, ...
SURPRISE AUDIT BY GAO NAILS HOUSE POST OFFICE.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Associated Press A surprise audit of the troubled House post office last week found an unlocked vault stacked with $100 money orders, personal and public money mixed together and employees ill-equipped to handle stamps and cash. The preliminary findings of ...
LIBYA NO. 1 SUSPECT.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: New York Times United States investigators insist that the evidence in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 points so far to Libya, and only Libya. But they strongly deny that Iran or Syria have been excluded from their inquiry for political or diplomatic reasons ....
EXCERPTS FROM OPINIONS.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... "We conclude that it is not sufficiently likely that religious adherents or nonadherents would perceive from the inclusion of representatives from religious organizations on AIDS advisory councils that the state is endorsing or disavowing religion or nonbelievers." - Judge Joseph W ....
ONE BUDGET COMPLAINT ENDS UP AS A LAWSUIT.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Associated Press As state lawmakers hustled to try and approve a state budget on time Tuesday, a private citizen asked the state's highest court to stop the budget from taking effect. Robert Schulz, a Warren County resident who has sued the state several ...
SPAIN, JEWS RECONCILE ON ANNIVERSARY OF EXPULSION.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: William D. Montalbano Los Angeles Times In a remarkable gesture of reconciliation, King Juan Carlos I donned a white yarmulke in Madrid's only synagogue Tuesday and prayed with Israeli President Chaim Herzog for peace and brotherhood on the 500th anniversary of Spain's ...
TAKE A DEEP BREATH, GET THE REAL INSIDE DOPE.(Main)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Anna Quindlen Here's a suggested response for elected officials of a certain age when asked whether they smoked marijuana: "Of course." When political handlers are putting together position papers in the years to come, they should include an ...
TEENAGER ACCUSED OF MURDER.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Donna Liquori Staff writer A 15-year-old was charged with shooting to death a city man Tuesday afternoon in Hamilton Hill. Jason Thompson of 150 Brandywine Ave. was in Schenectady County Jail facing charges of second- degree murder following the 3:08 p.m. ...
OSCAR AWARD PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON KESSELRING SITE.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Michael Lopez Staff writer Producer Debra Chasnoff hefted her Oscar high in the air and shouted to millions of television viewers, "Boycott GE!" Her award-winning documentary, "Deadly Deception," links General Electric Co.'s nuclear weapons production with ...
KRUPSAK ALLEGEDLY SHIRKING JDA LOAN.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Cailin Brown Staff writer A former lieutenant governor is accused of transferring property to her sister-in-law, evading securities laws to finance her unsuccessful state Senate campaign and buying a new Subaru, all after the state Job Development Authority tried to ...
BACK TO THE 20TH CENTURY ON RIVER STREET IN TROY.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Craig Brandon Staff writer While filming for "The Age of Innocence" moved to "The Castle," an RPI fraternity house on Second Street, River Street businesses spent Tuesday returning to the 20th century. As Troy public works trucks sprayed the streets and ...
OUTRAGE BEGINS AT HOME.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Ralph Martin People may be hopping mad over what's been going on in Washington, but it's minor-league stuff when compared to Albany. I kid you not, even though it's April Fools' Day. In D.C., it's bad checks, hanky- panky at a post office, cheap haircuts and ...
INTER-POWER IN DANGER IF NIMO PACT EXPIRES.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Marc Carey Staff writer The same economic pressures that forced the state to cancel its $13 billion contract to purchase electricity from Hydro- Quebec last week could scuttle the proposed Inter-Power power plant in Halfmoon, a state official said. Niagara ...
OUTLET VILLAGE TO GET 4 NEW STORES ALBANK BEGINS PUBLIC TRADING CANADA TO OPEN BEER MARKETS CHAMBER TO SHARE IN $1M AID MCDONNELL DEAL IN DOUBT.(Business)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Christopher Ringwald Business writer Staff report Associated Press Staff report Associated Press In an effort to cope with changes in consumer spending and capitalize on a potential economic recovery, Saratoga Outlet Village will open four new stores this weekend, the ...
BANKRUPT PETITIONS A RECORD.(Business)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: James Denn Business writer Petitions filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the first quarter of 1992 have reached an all-time high in the Capital District, but the rate of increase has slowed from last year. Bankruptcy petitions for the first quarter were up almost 10 ...
SEARS TO LAY OFF 2,000 BY EARLY '93.(Business)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: David Dishneau Associated Press Sears, Roebuck and Co. sliced further into its payroll Tuesday, announcing it will eliminate 2,000 salaried and clerical jobs by early 1993. The cuts, evenly split between Sears' Chicago headquarters and the field, are aimed at ...
NIMO EXECUTIVES GET A CHARGE FROM RAISES.(Business)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Associated Press Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.'s top managers shared in the utility's return to prosperity last year, according to documents filed with the state. As Niagara Mohawk's profits soared by 400 percent in 1991, the salaries of its top executives also ...
WALL STREET EXECUTIVES GET HEFTY PAY HIKES.(Business)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Stefan Fatsis Associated Press Wall Street's brokerage barons ignored complaints over executive compensation and gave themselves multimillion-dollar pay packages in 1991. But the firms that buy and sell stocks and bonds defend the payouts as a just reward for ...
FLEET/NORSTAR TO UNITE ALBANY, BUFFALO BANKS.(Business)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Alan D. Abbey Business writer Fleet/Norstar Financial Group's Albany and Buffalo banks will merge in September into a single $10.3 billion institution likely to be known as Fleet Bank of New York, company officials said Tuesday. The bank will have about 6,000 ...
AMERICAN EXPRESS TO FUND MORE BUSINESS TRAVEL.(Business)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Rob Wells Associated Press American Express Co., limping from huge losses in its credit card business, said Tuesday that it plans to expand its business of managing travel expenses for major corporations. Roger Ballou, president of American Express' travel ...
ST. ANNE WORKER ADMITS HAVING SEX WITH TEEN IN HIS CHARGE.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Carol DeMare Staff writer A child-care worker pleaded guilty Tuesday to having sex with a teenager he was supervising at St. Anne Institute. Hassan A. James, 24, of 400 Central Ave., Albany, waived indictment by a grand jury and pleaded guilty before County Judge John G ....
T.J. MAXX AMONG FIRMS CONTRIBUTING TO ARBOR HILL CENTER.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Jay Jochnowitz Staff writer A clothing chain facing millions of dollars in civil rights lawsuits over its Latham outlet quietly donated $1,700 to a struggling community center in a minority neighborhood two weeks ago. The Rev. Clarence Newton, who runs the ...
EMPLOYEE HURT IN MALL INCIDENT.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Winifred Yu Staff writer Town police have arrested two suspects in a shoplifting incident Monday that left a Crossgates Mall maintenance man injured. Robert J. Sterling, 19, of Westerlo was arrested Tuesday and charged with obstructing governmental ...
FLIER ON JUSTICE SEMINAR IRKS POLICE.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Joe Mahoney Staff writer A pamphlet on an upcoming criminal justice conference had Albany police bristling Tuesday after they learned that it mentioned that "stereotypes and police misconduct" played a role in the deaths of Raymond Stallings and Corey Sheldon, two men ...
GRAVEDIGGERS RESUME PICKETING AT CEMETERY.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Marc Carey Staff writer A labor dispute between gravediggers at Memory's Garden and the cemetery president got new life Tuesday, as fresh labor charges were filed and a picket line was re-established with police refusing to order it down. The four ...
WOMAN, 35, GETS JAIL FOR LARCENY.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Yancey Roy Staff writer Two men were ordered to pay restitution and a woman was sentenced to jail in City Court on Tuesday. City Court Judge Douglas Mills sentenced Kathyrn M. Duell, 35, of 23 Bonheim St. in Albany, to 90 days in the Saratoga County Jail for ...
LONGTIME SELLERS LOSE SARATOGA GATE LOTTERY.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Yancey Roy Staff writer Forty- three peddlers, hoping to make thousands of dollars selling souvenirs at Saratoga Race Course this summer, took their chances in the city's Back Gate lottery on Tuesday. Table tennis balls, numbered 1 through 10, were dumped into ...
FIRE, EMS OPERATIONS CRITICIZED.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Marv Cermak Staff writer A state Department of Health investigation of a James Street fatal fire produced a report critical of the operations of the city Fire Department and its emergency medical services. The report also said state investigators could not ...
COUNCILMAN STARTS IN GREEN ISLAND.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Michael Brannigan starts today as the town's new councilman. Brannigan fills the vacancy that was created when Alan DeConno resigned in December. Brannigan was appointed a councilman at the monthly meeting of the Town Board on March 18. DeConno resigned from the ...
WORK STARTS TODAY ON SAND CREEK.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Construction will begin today along a quarter-mile stretch of Sand Creek Road, according to a state Department of Transportation official. The $950,000 project by Green Island Construction Co. will be completed by summer, said DOT Regional Director John Taylor. The ...
DRIVER ADMITS DWI, VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... A Rensselaer County man faces 2 to 6 years in state prison as a result of his guilty plea Tuesday to vehicular manslaughter in connection with a fatal car accident. Peter A. Brown, 38, of 400 McChesney Ave., Brunswick, pleaded guilty before state Supreme Court Justice Thomas W ....
JUDGE FINDS NO EVIDENCE POLICE ASSAULTED ROCKERS.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Joe Mahoney Staff writer Two members of the Clay People rock band fought the law and on Monday the law won. City Court Judge E. David Duncan ruled that there was no reasonable cause to support assault allegations against three city police officers involved in ...
AFTER 63 YEARS, A WOLF ROAD GAS STATION'S FOR SALE.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Marc Carey Staff writer On the day it hits its 63rd birthday, J.J. Naughter's Inc., a gas station and landmark that saw Wolf Road go from the boonies to boom town, is up for sale. "April Fools Day 1928, that's the day he opened," current co-owner Dick Hoefer ...
COMPANY PLANNING TO RESTART BUILDING IN PEACOCK GLEN TRACT.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Bill Eager Staff writer Long the point of financial and legal battles, and an eyesore to its few residents, the Peacock Glen development might be revived soon. Despite the recession and an FBI investigation of former town officials' roles in the project, ...
BETHLEHEM SCHOOL BOARD APPROVES $31.6M BUDGET.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Ilaina Jonas Staff writer The Bethlehem Central School District Board of Education Tuesday unanimously approved a $31.66 million budget for the 1992-93 school year. The new budget, up 6 percent over this year's spending plan, will be explained to the public ...
FIREFIGHTERS WANT CHIEF TO RESIGN.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Jay Jochnowitz Staff writer In a protest that sharply underscored the morale problems in the Albany Fire Department, firefighters on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted to call for the resignation of the chief and his deputy. Union members voted 134 to 36 against ...
KNICK REVENUES DOWN FROM 1991.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... The Knickerbocker Arena generated about $121,000 for Albany County in the first two months of the year, about $50,000 short of revenue for the same period last year. At a meeting Tuesday of the County Legislature's Civic Center Committee, Knick General Manager Patrick Lynch said ...
COUNTY BEGINS TALKS ON LEGISLATIVE MAP.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Michael McKeon Staff writer With time winding down, Republican and Democratic leaders have begun preliminary talks that could end the stalemate on redrawing the Albany County Legislature's 39 districts. County Republican Chairman George Scaringe said Tuesday ...
SCHOOL BOARD DELAYS VOTE ON BUDGET PLAN COUNTY DISTRIBUTES DELINQUENT SCHOOL TAXES.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Bruce A. Scruton Staff writer By Ken Thurman Staff writer The Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake school board has taken a wait-and-see attitude about its budget because of possible action by the state Legislature on its own spending plan. The board had been scheduled ...
MAYOR HOPES TO RAISE COHOES TAX BASE BY $80 MILLION.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Vincent Jackson Staff writer Mayor Robert Signoracci is looking to expand the city's tax base by $80 million by the end of the century. Signoracci unveiled further details of the city's finished master plan Tuesday morning during a City Hall news conference. ...
PELLET GUN USED TO ROB CABDRIVER.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... A cabdriver was robbed by a fare brandishing a pellet gun Tuesday night, city police said. Detective William Potenza said the D&A Taxi cabdriver picked up a fare at about 9:30 p.m. at Proctor's Theatre. When the cabdriver stopped the cab at Mumford and Strong streets, ...
MALTA TO DISCUSS PLAZA PLANS TONIGHT.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Chris Sturgis Staff writer The developers are coming back to the Town Board bargaining table tonight to haggle over building the Shops of Malta in one shot, rather than two phases. The centerpiece of the shopping plaza, a Grand Union supermarket, ...
SURPLUS ON THE WANE FOR SARATOGA HOSPITAL.(Local)
Apr 01, 1992 ... Byline: Ken Thurman Staff writer Saratoga Hospital and Nursing Home ended 1991 fiscally in the black, but for the third straight year its surplus decreased, according to the annual report released Tuesday. An increasing demand for social services, inadequate insurance ...