Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from February 1993:
SMALL-BUSINESS STOCKS EXPERIENCE RAPID RISE SINCE FALL.(Business)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: Money magazine Individual investors are putting billions of dollars into the shares of fast-growing small companies, which have risen a spectacular 23 percent since early October, according to data gathered for Money magazine's Small Investor Index. Although ...
FEW ILLEGAL ALIENS HERE.(Life & Leisure)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: CRAIG BRANDON Staff writer Unlike large cities around the country, there are very few, if any, illegal aliens working as domestic workers in the Capital Region, according to federal and private experts. The situation that led to Zoe Baird's withdrawal as a ...
MOYNIHAN, DOLE SPAR OVER SOCIAL SECURITY.(Main)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: STEVEN MUFSON Washington Post As President Clinton and his Cabinet met at Camp David Sunday to work on his economic plan, two leading senators took opposing views on how the nation's 41 million Social Security recipients should be asked to contribute to deficit ...
PLAN WOULD GUARANTEE VACCINES FOR ALL KIDS.(Main)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: ROBERT PEAR New York Times The Clinton administration is considering a plan under which the federal government and the states would buy up all childhood vaccines, then distribute them free to public clinics and private doctors' offices to make sure that all children are ...
INTELLIGENT HIGHWAYS TRANSPORTATION TAKES FUTURISTIC TURN.(Main)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: JULIE CARR Staff writer They may be as dumb as dirt now, but New York's roads are getting smart. So are its tollbooths, cars, buses and road signs. Their brains will be computers and their eyes and ears will be a network of sophisticated surveillance and ...
SHULTZ MEMOIRS FAULT BUSH ON IRAN ARMS DEAL.(Main)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: WALTER PINCUS Washington Post Former President George Bush misrepresented his role and knowledge of the arms-for-hostages dealings with Iran in 1985 and 1986, according to memoirs by former Secretary of State George P. Shultz. In an excerpt from the memoirs ...
LOSSES COME IN THREES FOR BILLS.(Main)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press The Dallas Cowboys won the National Football League championship Sunday, beating the Buffalo Bills 52-17 in the Super Bowl. Dallas took the lead in the first quarter and held it throughout the game to win its first NFL title since 1977. It was ...
DEAD SEA SCROLLS TRANSLATOR SUES TO COPYRIGHT WORK.(Main)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press Lawyers for a Dead Sea scrolls expert who wants to copyright a passage he reconstructed begin arguments in an Israeli court on Monday in a case in which scholarship and capitalism collided. Elisha Qimron also is seeking $250,000 ...
CORRECTION.(Main)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Because of an editor's error, a photograph identified as JoAnne Ziarno was incorrect in Sunday's Times Union. JoAnne Ziarno was Robert Jenks' girlfriend who is due ...
SIGNS OF THAW IN IRAN-U.S. RELATIONS.(Main)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: Los Angeles Times On the eve of the celebrations marking the 14th anniversary of Iran's revolution, President Hashemi Rafsanjani Sunday indicated a softening in Tehran's position on relations with the United States. While blasting Washington on a host of ...
SCHOOL DEDICATED TO SLAIN MARINE.(Main)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press Somalis have dedicated a new primary school in Mogadishu to a U.S. Marine killed nearby. The Anthony Botello Elementary School was named in honor of the 21-year-old lance corporal from Wilburton, Okla., in a ceremony on Friday. ...
SOMALIA PULLOUT SENDS MORE AMERICANS HOME.(Main)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press Nearly 3,000 American soldiers and Marines are returning home this week in the biggest pullout since U.S. forces landed in Somalia, a military spokesman said Sunday. Marine Col. Fred Peck said 2,700 servicemen and women were being sent back to the United ...
LEADER SAYS RUSHDIE PARDON IMPOSSIBLE.(Main)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press President Hashemi Rafsanjani said Sunday that the death of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has sealed the fate of novelist Salman Rushdie. In a wide-ranging news conference, Rafsanjani was asked about the "death sentence" issued against ...
GOVERNORS STUDY PLAN FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE.(Main)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press The nation's governors, saying universal health care is a "moral imperative," began formal consideration Sunday for their proposal to extend coverage to all Americans. The proposal adopted by a committee of the National Governors Association ...
SPIRITUAL LEADER, 90, APPEARS.(Main)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press The 90-year-old spiritual leader of the Brooklyn- based Lubavitcher sect of Hasidic Jews appeared before his followers Sunday without revealing the news that some had awaited - that he is the Messiah. Grand Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, ...
BACKSTAGE DEALING WITH CONGRESS MEANS BAILOUT FOR STEINBRENNE R.(Main)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: JIM DRINKARD Associated Press Baseball team owner George Steinbrenner failed in the first round of a contract dispute with the government. But his second try was a sweet success - a $58 million bailout for his family shipbuilding business provided quietly by Congress. ...
EXTEND OUR CONCERN FOR LEAD POISONING TO ANIMALS OUT ON RANGE.(Capital Region)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: Fred LeBrun As a public health issue, getting the lead out of our lives is nothing new. Leaded gas, a major source of air contamination for most of this century, has been legislated away. So has lead in paints, although the stuff on older walls and related ...
ANSWERS' COSTLY ANSWER.(Capital Region)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: JAY JOCHNOWITZ Staff writer New York state will agree to spend more and pollute more to help the city unload the ANSWERS solid waste system on a private buyer. Although the deal would provide a needed source of cash to help fill the city's deficit, the state ...
INTERVIEWS START TODAY FOR SOL WACHTLER'S REPLACEMENT.(Capital Region)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: JOHN CAHER Staff writer Three judges of the state's highest court and an appellate jurist from Schenectady are among candidates who will be interviewed today by a panel screening applicants for New York's highest judicial position. Acting Chief ...
SUPER FANS GO UP AND DOWN WITH THEIR TEAM.(Capital Region)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: YANCEY ROY Staff writer Pity the Buffalo Bills fan who can't CORF. Three straight Super Bowl failures for the Bills have sent fans reeling, especially those who live and die with the team. For them, psychologists say, the ability to CORF, which is short for ...
OGS SHIFTS FUNDS TO BUY RADIOS AFTER GUARD ASSAULTED.(Capital Region)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: DAN JANISON Capitol bureau Just call it one of those little coincidences. At about 2 a.m. on Jan. 16, a state security employee found an intruder on the Alfred E. Smith Building's fourth floor, where the state comptroller's office keeps some nice expensive ...
ASSEMBLY TO VOTE ON GAY RIGHTS BILL CUOMO CUTS SEATS ON PSC TO FIVE.(Capital Region)
Feb 01, 1993 ... A change in strategy by homosexual leaders and a rapprochement with Republicans on health care has given a gay civil rights bill its best chance of passing New York's Legislature in 23 years. The state Assembly is expected to pass the legislation, first proposed in 1971, today. ...
SMOKING TAKES A HEAVY TOLL.(Capital Region)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: DAVID BAUDER Associated Press A total of $2.6 billion was spent on health-care costs related to cigarette smoking in New York state last year, the state Health Department said Sunday. Coupled with indirect costs such as losses of wages and productivity, ...
PROGRAM AIMS TO PROVIDE BETTER HEALTH CARE TO POOR.(Capital Region)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: MARY B.W. TABOR New York Times On an icy winter morning at the Livingston Income Support Center in Brooklyn, a handful of men and women sat in a back corner of the office listening quietly as city workers explained a new requirement for those seeking public assistance. ...
FAITH IS MISSIONARY'S MEDICINE.(Capital Region)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: MICHAEL LOPEZ Staff writer Embraced by the comfort of their church - with its stained glass of pastel squares, royal purple draperies and a choir singing the lullaby-like "Worthy is the Lamb" - the members of Peoples Baptist Church Sunday listened to Dr. John Dreisbach ...
SUSPECT CHARGED WITH IMPRISONMENT COPS SAY TEENS STOLE CARS TO MAKE TRIP SNOWPLOW TRUCK CRASHES THROUGH ICE.(Capital Region)
Feb 01, 1993 ... A Schenectady man was detained without bail after being charged Sunday with unlawful imprisonment and assault of an Albany woman police said is his girlfriend. David Vogl, 22, of 3054 Edgewood Ave. also was charged with first- degree burglary, accused of breaking ...
TAXPAYERS' GROUP LEADER TO SPEAK.(Capital Region)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Robert L. Schulz, a well-known advocate for a change in government spending, will be making two presentations in the Capital Region. He will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Price Chopper Community Room, Eastern Parkway. At 7 p.m. Wednesday he will speak at the Cahill ...
EARTHLY UPHEAVAL BLAMED ON PLANETS.(Capital Region)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: CRAIG BRANDON Staff writer A new generation in the White House, gays and lesbians in the military, the end of communism, women and minority groups in the Cabinet - there's no doubt that a lot of changes are going on these days. While there is no shortage of ...
CONGRESSIONAL BILL THREATENS HEAVY PENALTIES ON PENSION WITHDR AWALS.(Business)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn To improve its money flow, Congress has passed a new tax- collection law that will be unfair to a lot of people. It touches everyone who might withdraw money from an employer- sponsored, tax-deferred retirement plan. Don't get me wrong; I'm ...
BEAUTY SELLS BUSINESS THRIVES IN HARD TIMES.(Business)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: DIANNE HENK Associated Press A posh, pink salon offering European skin care treatments might seem out of place between a video store and discount clothing and office supply outlets. But the suburban strip mall is exactly where Barbara Dennis wants her shop to ...
BRITISH RAIL TEST WORRIES UNION.(Business)
Feb 01, 1993 ... British Rail wants to tie some of its workers to posts near high-speed trains, a proposal that excites some thrill seekers but worries a rail union. The experiment, scheduled for March, is intended to determine how close workers can stand to new trains operating at up to 140 ...
VERMONT BANK'S FILES SCRUTINIZED.(Business)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Federal bank regulators were examining records of the First National Bank of Vermont after it was seized in the state's biggest bank failure since the Great Depression. The bank, which has total assets of $293.5 million, will reopen today as the New First National Bank of ...
BENEFITS RULES STUNNING BUSINESS.(Business)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: JOHN PICKERING Bloomberg Business News The biggest charges for adopting a new accounting standard for post-retirement benefits may be yet to come. The $19.85 billion in new liabilities that appeared recently on the balance sheets of 22 of the nation's ...
AMERICAN EXPRESS REGROUPS AFTER BOARDROOM BATTLES.(Business)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: STEFAN FATSIS Associated Press The resignation of James D. Robinson III as chairman of American Express Co. sent a compliant message to disgruntled investors - and reflected the turbulent times in boardrooms across corporate America. Robinson just one week ago ...
GROUND BROKEN FOR MEDICAL OFFICE.(Business)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Saratoga Springs physician Dr. Charles Schwartz has broken ground on the construction of his medical office building at 19 West Ave. in Saratoga Springs. Schwartz's real estate company, West Ave Medical Realty Inc., borrowed $1.35 million from Adirondack Trust Co. to ...
TWO MEN ARRESTED IN DRIVE-BY SHOOTING ARMED MEN FIRE SHOTS IN HOME 10 CHARGED IN THEFT OF SKIS FROM JIMINY ANTI-DRUG, EDUCATION FOCUS IN COHOES.(Capital Region)
Feb 01, 1993 ... The front of a North Swan Street bar was struck by shotgun fire early Sunday night in what police described as a drive-by attack. No one was injured, but a police officer on patrol near the New World Lounge heard the gun blast, and police took two men into custody within minutes ...
BRUCE DERN RETURNS WHERE HIS CAREER STARTED - TV.(Life & Leisure)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: STEVE BORNFELD Television/radio writer Arise, television. Wear the taint of inadequacy no more. "I absolutely have no qualms about doing television now," says longtime movie star Bruce Dern, who proves it by co-starring with Amanda Donohoe in ...
NATURE'S ICE SCULPTURE ICICLES CAN KILL, AND BE POLLUTED, BUT THEY'RE STILL SCENC WO NDERS.(Life & Leisure)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: PAUL GRONDAHL Staff writer Find me a child who has not been awed by icicles. Who has not thrilled to the sound they make when snapped from their roofline anchorage, the shimmering clatter of broken glass. Who has not delighted to the taste of ...
CORN WITH A MESSAGE.(Entertainment)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: BOB STRAUSS Los Angeles Daily News 'It is written - a leader shall come from the corn" - intones one of the surly kids you just want to slap in "Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice." He ain't talkin' Orville Redenbacher, neither. It's He ...
OSBORNE STEAM HEAT ON A FREEZING NIGHT.(Entertainment)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: GREG HAYMES Staff writer On Saturday night, the outside temperature plummeted below zero, but there was enough heat being generated onstage at the Metro to melt even the iciest hearts. "Is everyone out there warmed up yet?" asked singer Joan Osborne during ...
MALCOLM X, KING MEET IN A PLAY.(Entertainment)
Feb 01, 1993 ... "The Meeting," Jeff Stetson's play based on a fictional meeting between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, will be performed 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Page Hall, 135 Western Ave. Stetson's work dramatizes what a clandestine meeting between the two men might have been ...
ADULT ALLEGORY AT STEAMER NO. 10.(Entertainment)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Irish actor Sydney Bernard Smith will perform his one- man philosophical and political allegory show "How to Roast a Strousberg Goose" at 8 p.m. tonight at Steamer No. 10 Theatre. The performance is being sponsored by the Irish-American Cultural Society as part of ...
NEW DRAWINGS DOUBLE KNOWN MODIGLIANIS - OR DO THEY?(Entertainment)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: RAF CASERT Associated Press The discovery of hundreds of previously unknown drawings by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani is being hailed as one the big art finds of the century. But it also serves as another illustration that controversy has become almost as ...
BARYSHNIKOV/THARP TOUR SOLID BALLET GOLD.(Entertainment)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: DIANE HAITHMAN Los Angeles Times Since their tour began in November, their 40-seat private jet has been hip-hopping the continent on a whirlwind performance schedule of more than 22 cities. A physical therapist stands at the ready on board to administer soothing massages ...
'BOYS TO (SUPER) MEN! BILLS SHREDDED, 52-17.(Sports)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: LAURA VECSEY Staff writer America's Team is back. And just to be perfectly clear, after a week of super hoopla and confusion about just who that is, America's Team is the Dallas Cowboys. Four years after being the laughingstock of the National ...
SUPER HOMECOMING FOR MVP AIKMAN.(Sports)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: HAL BOCK Associated Press For Troy Aikman, the setup was almost too perfect, too storybook even for nearby Hollywood. Here was the golden boy quarterback returning to the place where he played his college football, leading the Dallas Cowboys, America's team, ...
FOR IRVIN, AN ACQUIRED TASTE FOR CHAMPIONSHIPS.(Sports)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: TIM BROWN Los Angeles Daily News If you think that Super Bowls and national championships come so easily for Michael Irvin, who at 26 already has one of each, that he does not have a true appreciation for either, then you've never really listened to Michael Irvin. ...
JONES PICKED RIGHT TIME.(Sports)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press Jimmie Jones imagined he would make a big play in the Super Bowl. And when the time came, he jumped at the chance. Jones, a backup defensive lineman, plucked a deflected fumble out of the air and high-stepped 2 yards into the end zone for the ...
CLINTON NOT MAKING ANY FOOTBALL ENEMIES STARS COLLIDE AT A SUPER BASH L.A. LETS ITS HAIR DOWN MORE THAN JUST A FOOTBALL GAME.(Sports)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: Combined wire services With New York Gov. Mario Cuomo to his left and Texas Gov. Ann Richards to his right, President Clinton held fast to the middle Sunday, refusing to side with either Buffalo or Dallas while watching the Super Bowl. "With them on either ...
NBC'S PERFORMANCE WAS, WELL, JUST LIKE THE BILLS'.(Sports)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: Pete Dougherty Three networks now have had the task of televising a Buffalo Bills' Super Bowl loss. Much like the Bills, the TV performances seem to slip a little each year. NBC, in its first Super telecast since 1989, had some high moments Sunday night ....
HOT ENGINEERS EARN TOP 10 SPOT.(Sports)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Three games ago, it seemed as if RPI's hockey team was going to struggle just to maintain its presence as one of the best teams in the Eastern College Athletic Conference. But all of sudden, the Engineers are again being considered one of the best teams in the nation. ...
U.S. COURTS GENERALLY REFUSE TO ALTER MILITARY GAY POLICY.(Main)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: DAN FREEDMAN Times Union Washington bureau Despite a federal judge's ruling last week that the Pentagon's anti-gay policy is unconstitutional, American courts in general have been loath to overturn military law and the Supreme Court in particular remains ...
A CIGARETTE TAX MAKES SENSE THE ISSUE THE TOBACCO LOBBY IS FIG HTING HARD AGAINST A HIGHER STATELEVY ON SMOKERS. OUR OPINION THE PROPOSAL IS WARRANTED FOR BOTH SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL REASO NS.(Main)
Feb 01, 1993 ... T he lines are being drawn and the opponents are taking their positions. The issue is Governor Cuomo's proposed state tax increase on cigarettes. There is a great deal at stake, both for state residents and the tobacco industry. It's not surprising then, that the major tobacco ...
ITEM PRICING: IT'S THE LAW THE ISSUE RENSSELAER COUNTY JOINS T HE TREND IN MANDATING INDIVIDUALPRICES ON GROCERIES. OUR OPINI ON ITS FLEXIBLE APPROACH WILL BEST SERVE CONSUMERS AND RETAILE RS.(Main)
Feb 01, 1993 ... C ongratulations to the county of Rensselaer, which has joined other counties in adopting a mandatory item-pricing law. In view of the failure of the state Legislature to act, it was the sensible thing to do - assuming the local governments wanted to make it easy for consumers ...
KELLY'S NOT LAUGHING OVER BUFFALO SLAUGHTER.(Sports)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: Laura Vecsey In a flash, Thurman Thomas would gladly endure another year of lost-helmet jokes. "Bring 'em on," he'd say. "This won't bother me." But it's going to be a lot worse for Thomas this year. It's going to be a lot worse for defensive end Bruce Smith ...
HISTORICAL SOCIETY VIEWS THE FUTURE WITH EXCITEMENT.(Capital Region)
Feb 01, 1993 ... Byline: KATHLEEN DOOLEY Staff writer Anne T. Rose, first woman supervisor of the town of Guilderland, installed officers of the Guilderland Historical Society in a ceremony held at the Historic Mynderse Frederick House on Route 146. New historical society president ...
NO RISE IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.(Capital Region)
Feb 02, 1993 ... Byline: CAILIN BROWN Staff writer Contrary to a report last week that domestic violence escalateson Super Bowl Sunday, local police agencies and batteredwomen's shelters remained unaffected by the biggest sportingevent of the year. It's not so much the big football ...
UNBEATEN HVCC MEN'S HOOP SQUAD ON A PACE TO REWRITE SCHOOL REC ORDS.(Sports)
Feb 02, 1993 ... Byline: CHRIS CONNORS Staff writer In three seasons at Hudson Valley Community College, men's basketball coach Bob Catherwood has compiled a 60-19 record and has twice led the Vikings to the NJCAA RegionIII Final Four. But never before has Hudson Valley been off to a ...
MARINE MIDLAND POSTS PROFIT IN '92.(Business)
Feb 02, 1993 ... Marine Midland Banks Inc., the Buffalo-based subsidiary of HSBC Holdings Plc. of London, said it earned $35.7 million in the fourth quarter of 1992, a turnaround from the $23.8 million loss it suffered a year ago. For all of 1992, the bank reported net profits of $109.2 million, ...
SPORTSMAN HAVE SAVED SPECIES, ALSO.(Sports)
Feb 02, 1993 ... Byline: Dick Nelson In recent years there's been a lot written about "endangered species." So much, that many people think that all wildlife is nearly extinct. It isn't so. Today, there are many species of American wildlife that are "unendangered," restored to healthy and ...
DO YOU HATE CLINTON YET?(Main)
Feb 02, 1993 ... Byline: Marianne Means W ASHINGTON - Harry Thomason, the president's friend and inaugural impresario, told a National Press Club crowd last week that real people like corny things, unlike the Washington press corps which "sometimes confuses cynicism and sophistication." Maybe ...
WHY SO MANY OPPOSE THE BAN ON GAYS.(Main)
Feb 02, 1993 ... Byline: William Raspberry W ASHINGTON - The caller was unaccountably certain that I'd be able to tell her why so many important people - including much of the top military brass - are opposed to lifting the ban against homosexuals in the service. "I just don't get it," she said ....
LIFTING GAY BAN CLINTON'S BIGGEST MISTAKE.(Main)
Feb 02, 1993 ... Byline: Cal Thomas B ill Clinton's insistence on going ahead with his plan to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military is a colossal mistake that could severely weaken the recently refurbished armed forces and irreparably harm public confidence in the new President. It might ...
THEOLOGIANS DEBATE 2,000-YEAR-OLD VIEW OF VIRGIN MARY.(Main)
Feb 02, 1993 ... Byline: LARRY B. STAMMER Los Angeles Times For nearly two millennia the Virgin Mary has been venerated as the exemplar of feminine perfection. The holy enigma was both mother and virgin. She spoke with angels. She was the consort of God. Though meek and lowly, she was ...
TOBACCO GIANT FUNDS GROUP OPPOSED TO TAX.(Main)
Feb 02, 1993 ... Byline: TOM PRECIOUS Capitol bureau Since the Cuomo administration last month proposed a steep hike in the cigarette tax, New York Citizens for a Sound Economy has been one of hike's sharpest critics. But the non-profit group has failed to mention the nearly $100,000 ...