Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from December 1992:
WHAT'S BEST WAY TO DESEGREGATE COLLEGES?(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: William Raspberry J ackson, Miss. - The air here is full of Ayers. Ayers, as no Mississippian needs to be told, is the case that was brought to end segregation in the state's system of higher education and may wind up ending its historically black colleges. ...
THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS ARE CONFUSED ON SEX.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: Garry Wills A t the National Book Awards ceremony last week I heard the winner, Paul Monette, read from his book "On Becoming a Man" (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich). The excerpt he read was witty and poignant. He described his relief at not getting a job at a boys school, at ...
HELP FOR SOMALIA.(Main)(Editorial)
Dec 01, 1992 ... T hough two warlords in Somalia welcomed the idea of the United States sending in as many as 30,000 G.I.s in an effort to end the starvation there, that hardly means it's a good idea. It's obvious to all that steps to end the famine which takes hundreds of lives each day must be ...
NASSAU FIVESOME EARNS 1ST IN STATE TOURNEY.(Sports)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: Bob Scaccia It may have been overshadowed by all the summer Olympic coverage and the professional basketball championship, but some local women accomplished a feat this past summer worth mentioning. The Nassau Women's1 bowling team took first place in the 57th annual New ...
SUPREME COURT REAFFIRMS RIGHT TO ABORTION.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: LINDA GREENHOUSE New York Times The Supreme Court made clear Monday that it meant what it said in June when it reaffirmed the constitutional right to abortion: that while states may regulate abortion, they may not outlaw it before a fetus becomes viable. ...
TRAINING HAS CUT SPINAL INJURIES.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: HAL BOCK Associated Press They watched the frightening, slow-motion replays over and over, one a former football player, confined to a wheelchair, the other a physician experienced in spinal injuries. And both ex-New England Patriot Darryl Stingley and Dr ....
IN HINDSIGHT, EDUCATORS FEAR KIDS CONFUSED BY MULTICULTURALISM.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: SHARON BERNSTEIN Los Angeles Times Multiculturalism - the idea that ethnic and cultural groups in the United States should preserve their identities instead of fusing them in a melting pot - has become a byword in education. But now, educators at the ...
WOMAN EMBROIDERS ITEMS TO GIVE AS GIFTS.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: CAILIN BROWN Staff writer The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all. Proverbs 22: 2. SCHENECTADY - Mildred Sordiff stays inside this time of year because the cold air makes it almost impossible for her to breathe. Her ...
WOMAN CLAIMS ABORTION DENIED.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: JOHN CAHER Staff writer A woman who claims that she was deprived of the right to abort a deformed fetus while serving time in the Schenectady County Jail is suing the state and the county over the birth of her severely handicapped daughter. Susan ...
GRAMM HOUSE ON SHAKY GROUND.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: Molly Ivins T he most curious part of the story about Phil Gramm and the savings and loan owner is not the cupidity but the stupidity. Whatever one may have thought of Senator Gramm previously, "dumb" was not a word that sprang to mind. But to be ...
CLASH OF THE METROPOLITAN TITANS.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: LIZ SPAYD Washington Post Sometime within the next few weeks, the federal government will announce plans to join Washington and Baltimore in one huge megalopolis for the purposes of official record-keeping. And, as with Dallas-Fort Worth and Minneapolis-St ....
HOW 'ROE' WORKED TO THE DISADVANTAGE OF WOMEN.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: GEORGE WEIGEL Special to the Los Angeles Times The sexual harassment charges swirling around Sen. Robert Packwood, R-Ore., have ignited a firestorm of questions about Olympic- class political hypocrisy. How could a U.S. senator famous for his advocacy of ...
CORRECTION.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Because of an editing error, the firearm Collin Bursey was holding in a photograph in ...
CROATIA TRIES TO IGNORE THE THOUSANDS OF WOMEN RAPED DURING WA R.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: CAROL J. WILLIAMS Los Angeles Times A dazed, 60- year-old woman spends most of her day staring at the windswept leaves around her refugee camp as she starves, waiting listlessly for the end of her life. She has neither the strength nor the will to recover from gang rape ...
U.N. READY TO EXCAVATE MASS GRAVE IN CROATIA.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: Associated Press At a desolate cornfield outside the blasted city of Vukovar, United Nations officials are preparing to excavate a mass grave in a probe that could lead to the first war-crimes trials of the Balkan conflict. The grave, said to hold the remains ...
U.N. CHIEF BACKS MILITARY OPERATION TO QUELL FAMINE, WARFARE I N SOMALIA.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: JOHN M. GOSHKO Washington Post An international military operation, probably led by the United States, must intervene forcefully in Somalia to disarm its warring factions and save it from further massive starvation and bloodshed, U.N. Secretary General Boutros ...
8 LIKELY TO FACE ACTION IN MISSILE FIRING.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: Associated Press Top Navy officials have recommended that the captain of the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga and seven other officers and sailors face disciplinary action for the missile firing in October that killed five Turkish sailors, military sources said Monday. ...
JUSTICE GETS PASSPORT INQUIRY DATA.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: WALTER PINCUS Washington Post The State Department's inspector general has found several "potentially criminal matters" to refer to the Justice Department involving the pre-election search of President-elect Bill Clinton's passport file, according to several informed ...
CLINTON SEEKS ALLIES AMONG 'FRESHMEN'.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: KAREN BALL Associated Press President-elect Bill Clinton may pay a call on House freshmen next week to help build congressional support for his proposals, aides said Monday as he wrapped up a four-day California vacation. "A new crowd is coming to town, both ...
GERMAN ARRESTED, LINKED TO FIREBOMBING.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: Knight-Ridder German police have taken into custody a 19-year-old right-wing extremist on suspicion of murder in the firebombing last week that took the lives of a 51-year-old Turkish woman and two girls. The suspect, who has not yet been formally charged, is ...
KIDNAPPER GET 95 YEARS IN PRISON.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: Associated Press A former security guard who killed an Exxon executive in a botched $18.5 million kidnapping plot to finance a lavish lifestyle was sentenced Monday to life in prison. Arthur Seale received a maximum 95-year sentence for federal charges ....
IMPRISONED NOBEL LAUREATE REFUSING FOOD.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: New York Times The husband of Daw Aung Saw Suu Kyi, the Burmese dissident who won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, said Monday that his wife's life was in growing peril because she is refusing even her own family's offers of food and material support as a way to protest her ...
BODIES OF 3 NUNS RECLAIMED IN LIBERIA.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: Associated Press Under guard from West African troops, two American diplomats and priests went into a battle-scarred area and recovered the bodies of three slain American nuns, the U.S. Embassy said Monday. The diplomats and priests wore bulletproof vests ...
FEDERAL EXECUTIONS TO BE BY INJECTION.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: Associated Press Inmates executed under federal law would die by lethal injection according to new rules proposed Monday. "The need for the rule has become imperative with the growing number" of potential capital punishment cases for drug-related crimes, the ...
BUSH REAFFIRMS FREE-MARKET REFORMS.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: Associated Press President Bush called on President Boris Yeltsin Monday to reaffirm U.S. support for Yeltsin's free-market economic reforms, which are expected to come under heavy attack at a parliamentary session that begins today. "The President made it ...
YELTSIN'S BAN OF COMMUNIST PARTY LARGELY UPHELD BY COURT.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: Washington Post Russia's highest court Monday largely upheld President Boris Yeltsin's ban of the Communist Party, while recognizing the right of rank-and-file communists to try to relaunch the party from the bottom up. The decision of the 13-member ...
TSONGAS CONFIRMS NEW CANCER.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: Associated Press Former Democratic presidential candidate Paul Tsongas, who has twice battled cancer, confirmed Monday a new growth in his abdomen is cancerous. "That's the bad news," Tsongas, 51, said at a news conference. "The good news is that it's ...
TSONGAS CONFIRMS MALIGNANCY.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: Associated Press Former Democratic presidential candidate Paul Tsongas, who has twice battled cancer, confirmed Monday that a new growth in his abdomen is cancerous. "That's the bad news," Tsongas, 51, said at a news conference. "The good news is that it's ...
PACKWOOD CHECKS INTO ALCOHOLISM CENTER.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: ERIC PIANIN Washington Post Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., under fire for alleged sexual harassment against female staffers and lobbyists, checked into a alcoholism diagnostic and treatment program and retained a lawyer to represent him before the Senate ethics committee. ...
HAITIAN REFUGEES LOSE BID TO PUT DISPUTE ON HOLD.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: Combined wire services The Supreme Court refused Monday to slow down its schedule for dealing with Haitian refugee policy to give President-elect Bill Clinton more time to ponder his approach. By a vote of 7-2, the court rejected a plea from lawyers for ...
LEGISLATIVE ACTION, CHALLENGES PENDING.(Main)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: Associated Press Legislative action likely in the coming year on abortion regulations: U.S. Congress: Both chambers expected to see bills that would create a freedom-of-choice act. The legislation got hung up last session in political maneuvering and risked ...
SOLOMON STILL WANTS TO SEE CLINTON'S PASSPORT FILES.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: YANCEY ROY Staff writer U.S. Rep. Gerald Solomon, a key figure in the search of President- elect Bill Clinton's passport records, said Monday that no one prodded him to get involved in what has become an embarrassing controversy. Back in his Washington office ...
SOME THINGS TO THINK ABOUT WHILE WAITING FOR THE SUN TO RETURN.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: Ralph Martin Getting a few thoughts off my chest as we put a dreary November behind us and plunge into a dreary December. Don't despair. There is a sun. I think. The Capital Cablevision people are at it again. This time the increase isn't so bad, about 5 ...
ANTI-GAY FLIERS NOT OURS, SAY ALDERMEN.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: JAY JOCHNOWITZ Staff writer As both sides stepped up their public campaign on a gay rights bill in the city, a handful of aldermen on Monday took the unusual step of issuing a disclaimer stating they had nothing to do with fliers attacking the legislation. ...
ANOTHER RENOVATED THRUWAY REST AREA OPENS FOR BUSINESS.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: JULIE CARR Staff writer If you've been wanting to see one of the lavish new travel plazas on the New York State Thruway but have no plans for a road trip, never fear. The newest souped-up rest area - the 10th of 26 being redesigned - opens today ...
ECONOMIC NEWS BUOYS STOCK PRICES.(Business)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: CHET CURRIER Associated Press Stock prices chalked up another solid gain Monday, extending their Thanksgiving-week rally amid increasing optimism over the progress of economic recovery. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials, up 54.84 points last week, rose ...
GOTTA GO GETS USER OFF THE HOOK.(Business)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press Got a nuisance phone caller, but too embarrassed to end the one-way conversation? You no longer have to roll your eyes and sigh. An electronic device is now available to simulate the clicking sound made by the phone company's ...
FDIC FORECLOSES ON MOREAU PARCEL.(Business)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: JAMES DENN Business writer The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is foreclosing on 40 acres of vacant land adjacent to the 111-unit English Village apartment complex on Fawn Road in Moreau. The property is owned by English Village II Realty Trust, the owners of the nearby ...
ENTREPRENEUR PUMPS CFCS FROM FRIDGES.(Business)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: ERICH SMITH Associated Press When it's time to junk the old refrigerator, it's no longer a matter of just taking the door off and hauling it away to the dump. New regulations of the Clean Air Act require people to take the refrigerant out of the appliance's ...
STUDENTS WHO PAY UP WIN LOAN DISCOUNT.(Business)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: Associated Press The nation's largest provider of college student loans unveiled a program Monday that will reduce interest payments for certain borrowers who pay their monthly installments on time. The program, called Great Rewards, "is a whole new concept in ...
FLEET FINANCE REPORTEDLY UNDERSTATED ROLE IN GOUGING HOMEOWNER S.(Business)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: Staff and wire reports A Fleet Financial Group Inc. subsidiary played a bigger role in lending money at high interest rates to poor and minority homeowners in Georgia than the company has indicated, a newspaper reported Monday. The Boston Globe said lending ...
CORPORATE LAYOFFS AMERICAN AIRLINES CUTS 576 MANAGERS PRATT & WHITNEY ISSUES 1,475 PINK SLIPS GM DEAL TO USE SPACE, LAID-OFF WORKERS.(Business)
Dec 01, 1992 ... American Airlines trimmed 576 management employees from its payroll Monday, a 6 percent cut that will yield a 10 percent annual savings in compensation, company officials said. The airline laid off 286 people and 290 resigned with severance incentives. In October, American said ...
TROOPERS RESUME TICKETING; SLOWDOWN HAS LITTLE EFFECT.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: Associated Press A ticket-writing slowdown by state troopers angry about working without a new contract has apparently ended under pressure from supervisors and doubts about its effectiveness. "I think we feel, and the troopers feel, that things are back to normal," Col ....
STATE SAYS PRIVATE HOSPITALS FARED BETTER IN '91.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: DAVID BAUDER Associated Press The financial picture for private hospitals in New York state brightened in 1991, with the state Health Department reporting Monday that these facilities showed a $51 million surplus. State Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Chassin ...
SHOOTING VICTIM PLANS A SURPRISE POLICE LIEUTENANT JAILED IN RAPE CASE BUILDINGS PUT ON HISTORIC REGISTER.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Mary Jo Buttafuoco will make a rare request when Amy Fisher is sentenced today for shooting her in the head, her husband's attorney said Monday. "This is the first time she has an opportunity to pay back Amy Fisher for what she did to her - and some say payback's a real ...
MEDICAID LAG PAY UPHELD BY COURT.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: LAURIE ASSEO Associated Press New York can continue a two-week lag in making Medicaid payments to health care providers as a budget-cutting tool, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday. Without comment, the court declined to hear an appeal that said the state ...
PLANE MOVES; AIRLINE CATERERS HURT.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: Associated Press Two airline caterers were hurt Monday when the USAir plane they were unloading food onto at La Guardia Airport began moving and overturned their truck, an airline spokesman said. Neither was seriously injured, said USAir spokesman Dave ...
CORNERS MAY HAVE BEEN CUT ON THRUWAY ROAD PROJECT.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: DAN JANISON Capitol bureau A criminal investigation is under way into a massive road rebuilding project near the Suffern exit of the state Thruway, with state and federal transportation agencies cooperating to catch and correct allegedly shoddy work by at least two ...
SUNYA FINDS SPOT ON ANOTHER BEST-BUY LIST.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: ILAINA JONAS Staff writer Editors of a newsletter that tracks trends in colleges and universities have named the State University at Albany one of the country's 101 best higher education values. With 10 New York institutions making the list, the state leads 38 ...
'SAMARITANS' TO TESTIFY AT ATTACK TRIAL.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: JOHN CAHER Staff writer Two "Good Samaritans" who came to the aid of a local college student as she fought with an apparent rapist are expected to testify this morning in the trial of a city man accused of the April 23 attack. Douglas Junco, 24, ...
COUNTY LEGISLATURE'S MINORITY LEADER JOB OPEN.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: MICHAEL MCKEON Staff writer Lawmaker James Ross of Bethlehem announced Monday that he will not seek a second year as the County Legislature's Republican minority leader. Ross' decision, which he said was based on time constraints, means that the Republicans ...
MAN TRAPPED, KILLED UNDER CORN HOPPER NASSAU MAN HELD IN HATCHET ROBBERY SCHENECTADY MAN ADMITS COCAINE SALE 2 WOMEN INJURED IN GALWAY CAR CRASH PHOTO LAB DAMAGED IN SCHENECTADY FIRE.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... A 52-year-old man died Monday afternoon after a large wooden container that stored corn burned for heat collapsed, pinning the man underneath, police said. Edmund J. Audette of 21 Oxford Circle was trapped under the corn hopper for 20 minutes before the Eagle Mills Fire ...
BALLSTON SPA TO CELEBRATE A 'VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS'.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: BRUCE A. SCRUTON Staff writer Santa listening to Christmas wishes, caroling on the village green and a live nativity scene are just parts of the village's "Victorian Christmas" celebration. The Friday activities begin at 6 p.m. with the annual Santa parade ...
BETHLEHEM SQUAD LOSING SERVICES OF 10 EMTS.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: ILAINA JONAS Staff writer The Bethlehem Volunteer Ambulance Squad is losing the services of at least 10 emergency medical technicians for the next two months because their state certifications expired. The all-volunteer staff couldn't schedule a review course ...
MAN TRAPPED, KILLED UNDER CORN HOPPER ALBANY MAN INJURED IN CRASH WITH TRUCK TAX EXEMPTIONS ON SCHOOL BOARD AGENDA 2 WOMEN INJURED IN GALWAY CAR CRASH ALBANY BUDGET CHIEF TO DISCUSS '93 PLAN.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... A 52-year-old man died Monday afternoon after a large wood container that stored corn burned for heat collapsed, pinning the man underneath, police said. Edmund J. Audette of 21 Oxford Circle was trapped under the corn hopper for 20 minutes before the Eagle Mills Fire Department ...
CAPITAL BUDGET TO BOOST SARATOGA TAXES 9.5%.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: YANCEY ROY Staff writer The City Council, as expected, approved a $527,800 capital budget Sunday that will boost property taxes another 1.5 percent. The spending plan, which deals strictly with long-range infrastructure projects, had been pared by ...
INTER-POWER CRITIC SAYS REVISIONS SHOULD INVALIDATE STATE PERM IT.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: PETER WEHRWEIN Staff writer Inter-Power has so drastically altered the design of its 210-megawatt, coal-fired power plant in Halfmoon that the state permit for the project should be rescinded, an ardent opponent of the project said Monday. "This plant is not ...
MAN TRAPPED, KILLED UNDER CORN HOPPER NASSAU MAN HELD IN HATCHET ROBBERY SOUTH COLONIE VIEWS TAX EXEMPTIONS SCHENECTADY MAN ADMITS COCAINE SALE.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... A 52-year-old man died Monday afternoon after a large wooden container that stored corn burned for heat collapsed, pinning the man underneath, police said. Edmund J. Audette of 21 Oxford Circle was trapped under the corn hopper for 20 minutes before the Eagle Mills Fire ...
DEMONSTRATORS PICKET EACH OTHER IN TROY.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: JOE PICCHI Staff writer The demonstrators Monday night marched in separate circles in front of City Hall, one group shouting "no more taxes" and the other yelling "no more Republicans." Republicans and other critics of the Dworsky administration showed up as ...
COUNCIL ADOPTS BUDGET WITH 24.7% TAX HIKE.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: MARV CERMAK Staff writer A 1993 budget that includes a 24.7 percent increase in the property tax levy was adopted Monday night by a 4-3 vote of the City Council. A public hearing was set for Dec. 14 to establish proposed tax rates of $8.50 per $1,000 of ...
MAN GETS 3-9 YEARS FOR SODOMIZING GIRLS.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... A 14-year-old victim stood before her attacker and courageously told him that he didn't have the right to mess up her life. After hearing those words from one of two victims, Rensselaer County Judge M. Andrew Dwyer Jr. sentenced Charles E. Francisco on Monday to 3 to 9 years in ...
CONNOLLY NOMINATED FOR COUNTY CLERK'S JOB.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: JOE PICCHI Staff writer The name of Rensselaer County Legislator Doreen Connolly has been submitted to the governor's office to succeed Pat Casale in the $55,000-a-year job as county clerk. Connolly, 56, a Democrat and Wynantskill funeral home operator, had ...
DWORSKY PLEASED 70% ARE RECYCLING SANTA CLAUS TO VISIT N. GREENBUSH AREA.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... About 70 percent of the city's residential units are participating in the mandatory recycling program, according to a three-month status report. City Manager Steven G. Dworsky said he was pleased with the level of participation by residents since the recycling program became ...
SPARRING CONTINUES OVER BUDGET.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: JOE PICCHI Staff writer Rensselaer County Executive John L. Buono and legislative leaders will meet today in an 11th-hour effort to resolve differences over the proposed $129.3 million budget for next year. The legislature has scheduled a Wednesday ...
COLONIE POLICE LOOK FOR A QUICK SOLUTION.(Capital Region)
Dec 01, 1992 ... Byline: MARC CAREY Staff writer With expiration the town police contract only a month away, a representative for the officers union said Monday either a new labor agreement will be reached with the town or the union will seek binding arbitration by the first week of the new ...