Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from March 1993:
GET RID OF THOSE PCBS THE ISSUE THE STATE AND GENERAL ELECTRIC ARE STILL DEBATING THE BEST WAY TO REMOVE HUDSON RIVER CONTAM INATION. OUR OPINION THE TIME FOR TALKING IS OVER.(Main)
Mar 01, 1993 ... O nly more mysterious than the appearance of high levels of PCBs in the Hudson River is the lack of urgency with which this potentially dangerous development has been treated. Studies of fish taken from the river below the General Electric plant in Hudson Falls show that the ...
THINK TWICE ON RENT CONTROL THE ISSUE THE STATE LEGISLATURE SE EMS READY TO MAKE RENT CONTROL LAWS PERMANENT. OUR OPINION HI STORY SHOWS THE FREE MARKET IS THE BEST STABLIZER.(Main)(Editorial)
Mar 01, 1993 ... N ew York's rent control law, which now must be reviewed - and renewed - every two years, seems on its way to receiving permanent status. The Assembly has already approved the bill, and the Senate is lining up its supporters. One proponent of the change has argued that swift ...
DRAMA, PRIDE, THRILLS ALL PART OF SECTIONAL FRENZY.(Sports)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: Laura Vecsey 'Tis the season to be delirious, a delirium caused by a constant ringing in the ear. Can anyone else hear that? That sound of basketballs slapping down onto wood floors, echoing from gymnasiums all over the Capital District out into the wintry night? ...
TROY TEENAGER KILLED IN CAR CRASH.(Capital Region)
Mar 01, 1993 ... An 18-year-old from Troy died early Saturday morning when he was thrown from his car during a crash and struck by a second vehicle. Two companions also were injured, one critically, in the accident in which their car bounced off three snowbanks and became airborne before ...
DYNAMITE LIKELY CAUSE OF WORLD TRADE BLAST.(Main)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: ROBERT D. MCFADDEN New York Times The bomb that devastated the garage under the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan apparently was made of conventional dynamite, available at many construction sites, and not a tightly controlled military material like the plastic ...
FBI CONFIRMS BOMB AS CAUSE OF EXPLOSION.(Main)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: ROBERT DVORCHAK Associated Press The FBI confirmed Sunday that a bomb caused the explosion at the World Trade Center, and speculation on possible suspects ranged from militants from the former Yugoslavia to foreign drug dealers. Also Sunday, a Port Authority ...
CULTISTS KILL 4 FEDERAL AGENTS.(Main)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: J. MICHAEL KENNEDY and CATHLEEN DECKER Los Angeles Times Federal agents attempting to serve search warrants on a heavily armed religious camp near here early Sunday were ambushed by raging gunfire that left four of them dead and 14 others injured, several critically. ...
3 U.S. PLANES SAFELY DELIVER AID TO BOSNIA.(Main)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: STEPHEN KINZER New York Times Three C-130 transport planes took off from an American military base here Sunday night to drop relief supplies to besieged towns in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Associated Press reported U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of ...
STUDY LINKS GENE TO ALZHEIMER'S.(Main)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press Duke University researchers have discovered that a gene associated with one type of heart disease also is linked to the most common form of Alzheimer's disease. In a study to be published today in the Proceedings of the National ...
SENATE LEADER EYES PACKAGE ON HEALTH CARE AND ECONOMY.(Main)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, said Sunday he would like to combine health care legislation with President Clinton's economic package because "that's the best way" to assure both proposals get passed. And Mitchell, appearing ...
DEFICIT PLAN LEAVES OUT S&L BAILOUT.(Main)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: JAMES RISEN Los Angeles Times President Clinton and his advisers made the federal deficit look smaller in their new economic plan by leaving out the costs of the savings and loan bailout, senior administration officials have acknowledged. They said the ...
THE EVANGELICAL ZEAL OF THE BRANCH DAVIDIANS.(Main)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: GUSTAV NIEBUHR Washington Post The history of the Branch Davidians, the religious sect whose members shot it out with federal agents in Waco, Texas, Sunday, is marked by end-of-the-world predictions, frequent schisms and a long war of words with one of America's most ...
BLAME MASS MEDIA FOR BIAS ATTITUDE AGAINST BIG-GAME HUNTING.(Capital Region)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: Fred LeBrun Last year, 1992, was the safest year for hunters frolicking about in New York's woods since nasty statistics were first kept in 1965. Surprised? I was. Statewide there were seven fatalities, six of them during the big- game season, among just 64 ...
NAACP SALUTES MARSHALL LEGACY.(Capital Region)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: YANCEY ROY Staff writer Though he's sure that an heir to Thurgood Marshall exists, former Marshall colleague Ralph E. Powe has not seen anyone who can "Howardize" and not just "Harvardize" the law. That includes Clarence Thomas. "So far, I'm not ...
FLOATING AN IDEA MAN HOPES BALLOON CARDS REALLY TAKE OFF FOR HIM.(Capital Region)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: WINIFRED YU Staff writer Craig Richardson bursts into the room, carrying his latest product, a greeting card with a self-inflating balloon inside. Like his conversation, his handshake is fast and furious. No time to be wasted here. He wants to talk about Ka- Bloon. ...
MEMORIES OF CRASH MAY HAUNT ACCIDENT VICTIMS.(Capital Region)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: JULIE CARR Staff writer The memory can still reach across the years and grab Nancy in the night. She wakes in a cold sweat, imagining that she still hears the sounds of her young son's cries for help. She is transported back to the scene: a city street in New ...
CUOMO CONSIDERS CUT IN HOTEL TAX INNIS JOINS RUN FOR NYC MAYOR AUTOPSY AWAITED IN SYRACUSE DEATH NO BIG WINNERS FOR LOTTO DRAWING.(Capital Region)
Mar 01, 1993 ... The state will have more money to spend than when Gov. Mario M. Cuomo unveiled his $59.1 billion budget proposal in January, he said Sunday. Cuomo said some of the money might be used to reduce the state's tax on hotel rooms. But Cuomo urged the state Legislature to ...
TAX DEPARTMENT REINS IN OVERLY ZEALOUS AGENTS.(Capital Region)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: STEVEN PROKESCH New York Times New York has long had a reputation as one of the nation's most aggressive states in trying to get people to pay the taxes it thinks they owe. Now, even state Taxation and Finance Commissioner James W. Wetzler concedes that ...
REPORT TARGETS COSTS TO BUSINESSES OF WORKER COMPENSATION.(Capital Region)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press Workers' compensation costs have jumped sharply in the last few years, creating a "budgeting nightmare" for New York state businesses, according to a report released Sunday. The New York State Business Council said increased medical costs, a ...
PENSION FUND INVESTS MILLIONS IN FOREIGN STOCKS.(Capital Region)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: DAN JANISON Capitol bureau The state's pension system made its debut in the international stock market nearly four years ago. Today, the $55 billion common retirement fund - run by the state comptroller as sole trustee - has about $800 million in such ...
SCHEDULE TO EASE JACKHAMMER BLUES.(Capital Region)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: JAY JOCHNOWITZ Staff writer New York state has begun laying down the barriers for a construction project that neighbors worry could mean two years of jackhammer lullabies. The Office of General Services plans to fully rebuild South Swan Street along Empire ...
MINISTER SAYS MEDIA HELP SHAPE SEXUALITY.(Capital Region)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: JAY JOCHNOWITZ Staff writer The mass media have joined family, education and religion as a fourth great shaper of people's views, a minister and religious consultant said Sunday in the opening of a two-day conference at Siena College. And among the areas in ...
TAXI DRIVER ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF DWI, SPEEDING.(Capital Region)
Mar 01, 1993 ... A taxicab driver was charged early Sunday with drunken driving and speeding into a parking lot where people were walking. Nelson G. Little, 30, of Yardboro Avenue, Albany, was charged with second-degree reckless endangerment, driving while intoxicated and speeding. ...
MAN CHARGED WITH GROWING MARIJUANA MAN CHARGED WITH SEX ABUSE AT PLAZA.(Capital Region)
Mar 01, 1993 ... A Colonie man was being held in the Albany County jail on Sunday, charged with illegally growing scores of marijuana plants. Police on Saturday afternoon raided an upstairs apartment at 28 Exchange St. and later charged Bryan M. Sancomb, 24, of that address with first-degree ...
MANY BATTERING VICTIMS PREGNANT, EXPERT SAYS.(Capital Region)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: JOE MAHONEY Staff writer Kicked in the stomach and beaten on the head by her boyfriend, a young Albany woman told police the other night that she did not wish to press any charges. Officers noted on the crime report that the woman was pregnant. Family ...
LOCAL WOMEN HELP ESTABLISH CHURCH SCHOOLS IN JAMAICA.(Capital Region)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: MARC CAREY Staff writer For Sharon Carlson, absence makes the heart grow fonder. Carlson, 28, a Glenville resident, is one of the members of the International Accelerated Mission, an evangelical movement based in Our Saviors Lutheran Church on Mountain Avenue ....
COUNTY POLICE AGENCIES SEEK ROOM TO ESCAPE FROM CRAMPED STATIO NS.(Capital Region)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: BRUCE A. SCRUTON Staff writer In medieval times, prisoners would be taken to the dungeon. It's not quite the same in Mechanicville, but the city's police station is damp, dark and in the basement. Its one of several in Saratoga County that need ...
MORRELL WON'T SEEK GOP ENDORSEMENTS.(Capital Region)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: YANCEY ROY Staff writer Former Chief Deputy Christopher Morrell said Sunday that he will not seek Republican Town Committee endorsements in his run for Saratoga County sheriff because of "potential divisiveness." "There's a fair number of sheriff's employees ...
DUCI TAILORS CRITERIA TO EXCLUDE MILLS.(Capital Region)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: MARV CERMAK Staff writer Mayor Frank J. Duci has tailored qualifications for a proposed public safety commissioner that would put Police Commissioner Charles M. Mills out of the running. Duci, chastised publicly by the City Council last year for refusing to ...
HERE'S A QUIZ TO TEST YOUR POLITICAL APTITUDE.(Capital Region)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: Joe Picchi Every so often, it's a good idea to check with Rensselaer County residents to see if they are really up on their politics. This is a so-called watershed political year, so here comes another little quiz to test your aptitude. 1. The political ...
SMALL CELLULAR DEALER SUES CELLULAR ONE FOR $30M.(Business)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: JAMES DENN Business writer In a battle between a communications industry David and a Goliath, a small cellular dealer in Clifton Park is suing one of the area's largest cellular telephone companies for allegedly violating the state's antitrust laws. Capricorn ...
HOTEL OWNER SEEKING BUYER ORDERS DROP FOR MACHINE TOOLS SAVINGS BONDS RATE PLUMMETS.(Business)
Mar 01, 1993 ... The Bank of America, owner of the 217-room Quality Inn on Interstate 90 and Everett Road, is seeking a buyer for the property. It is asking $2.9 million to $3.2 million for the property - about half its estimated value. "There have been a lot of people looking at the hotel, and ...
CLINTON PLAN FORCES HIGH EARNERS TO RE-EXAMINE INVESTMENT OPTI ONS.(Business)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn President Clinton has asked for sacrifice. Much of it comes in taxes, especially on high earners. But some pain may also be exacted from Americans who are out of work. If the Clinton plan passes, the growth in new jobs will slow down a bit ....
CASH FLOWS FROM HEALTH STOCKS.(Business)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: Money magazine Individual investors' steady retreat from health-care stocks turned into a near rout last week as biotechnology shares plunged, according to data gathered for Money magazine's Small Investor Index. During the past month, investors have yanked a ...
3 GE STAFFERS INVENT THEIR WAY INTO '100+ PATENT CLUB'.(Business)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: NEKESA MUMBI MOODY Associated Press The fields of science and technology breed few superstars: Einstein, Edison and a few other giants are the only names that usually come to mind. More often, scientists remain out of the limelight, toiling loyally for ...
TRADE CENTER TENANTS CLEAR THEIR OFFICES.(Business)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: ROB WELLS Associated Press The World Trade Center blast's economic impact widened Sunday as hundreds of tenants ranging from foreign banks to shippers scrambled to function despite the indefinite shutdown of the complex. New York's commodity exchanges planned ...
'DR. DAD' SAYS PARENTS SHOULDN'T BE PERFECT.(Life & Leisure)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: STEPHANIE SHAPIRO Baltimore Sun Being perfect is one mistake parents should not try to make, Dr. Lawrence Kutner says. "One sign of a successful parent is that he or she makes many mistakes - but they are new and improved mistakes instead of repetitions of the old ones," ...
NO BUSINESS LIKE SNOW BUSINESS.(Life & Leisure)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: RICK KARLIN Staff writer In the ski business, the only constant is that economic conditions can change as quickly as the Northeast's fickle weather. For instance, take the special ski credit promotion devised last year by the operators of Brodie Mountain in ...
MAKING A SPLASH.(Life & Leisure)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: T.J. HOWARD Chicago Tribune Few spring rites are more traumatic for women than the search for a new swimsuit. For under that stark dressing room light, your skin tone suddenly takes on the pallor of a corpse, you discover cellulite in places you never thought ...
PLUGGED IN GUIDE GETS NEW LOOK BOB'S MOVING 'TRIBECA' TAKING OVER 'DAY ONE' TO BEGIN GOODBYE 'SHIRLEY'.(TV/Radio)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Following the introduction of a new program guide on Troy NewChannels, Capital Cablevision's "Prevue Guide" on Channel 19 will take on a new look starting today. The bottom half of the screen will now feature a "scrid," or scrolling grid format. There will be a 90- ...
BLACK 47 IN FRENZY.(Entertainment)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: GREG HAYMES Staff writer When punk-rock fans began to pogo in the '70s and hardcore music fans started moshing in the '80s, they could have never imagined the wild scene at Bogie's on Friday night when the New York City band Black 47 took the stage. The mosh ...
LILLIAN GISH DIES; LEGEND OF SILENT FILM.(Entertainment)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: PENELOPE MCMILLAN Los Angeles Times Lillian Gish, whose portrayals of fragile innocence graced the golden age of silent films and eventually extended into an eight decade screen career, a testament to perpetuity that could last forever, is dead. Her longtime ...
RUBY KEELER DIES; STAR OF RAGS-TO-RICHES MUSICALS.(Entertainment)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: KAREN WADA Los Angeles Times Ruby Keeler, the cherub-faced starlet who tap-danced her way to fame in the '20s and then five decades later managed it again, died Sunday. She died of cancer at her home in Rancho Mirage near Palm Springs, Calif., said her son, ...
SWIMWEAR OFFERS ESCAPE TO ANOTHER PLACE, TIME.(Life & Leisure)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: TRACY ACHOR HAYES Dallas Morning News With echoes of the great seaside resorts and bathhouses of the 1930s and '40s, designers have infused spring '93 swimwear with a dreamy dose of nostalgia. And for the first time in many years, the main idea in swimwear ...
RPI NOW LOOKING FOR YALE.(Sports)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: BOB CROCE Staff writer The shift in focus began sometime Saturday night. Long before the game against Colgate was over, RPI's hockey players suddenly started thinking about the Whale, aka Ingalls Rink in New Haven, Conn., where Yale plays its home hockey ...
SIENA LOOKING TO BUILD ON ITS MOMENTUM.(Sports)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: PETE DOUGHERTY Staff writer No further comebacks are necessary. Siena's course for this weekend's Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Basketball Tournament has been charted. The Saints, whose 17-point comeback victory Saturday against Canisius clinched their ...
STICKY SITUATION HURTS HARVARD.(Sports)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Maine continued to march toward its second straight No.1 finish in the Times Union College Hockey Top 10, RPI finally moved up a spot, and Harvard took a gigantic fall in this, the second-to-last week of our survey of media and coaches from across the nation. Harvard's fall from ...
STEINBRENNER'S HOT - BUT SCHOTT IS NOT.(Sports)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press Hello George, goodbye Marge. George Steinbrenner's 30-month suspension from baseball elapsed Sunday night and he was expected to show up at the Yankees camp at Fort Lauderdale, Fla. sometime this morning. Schott, meanwhile, began a ...
EWEN BRIGHTENS CD'S DAY.(Sports)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: BUZZ GRAY Staff writer Feb.28 has always been a special day for Dean Ewen. Twenty-four years ago on that date, the Capital District Islanders' left winger took his first breath. On Sunday, he scored his first goal of the American Hockey League season. The ...
WHO'S WATCHING EMPIRE?(Main)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: GREG B. SMITH Times Union New York bureau In February 1989, state insurance regulators advised Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield to dump its outside accounting firm because of "possible appearances of a lack of independence." The regulators expressed concern ...
STATE EYES CHANGES IN LONG-TERM CARE.(Main)
Mar 01, 1993 ... Byline: HARVY LIPMAN State editor Shelia Connelly doesn't recall precisely when she realized her mother's Alzheimer's disease had progressed to the point where she would have to move into a nursing home. It might have been when neighbors told her that ...
STATE COMPTROLLER AUDITS ARE THOROUGH AND AGGRESSIVE.(Main)
Mar 02, 1993 ... We were pleased with your Feb. 19 editorial recognizing the achievements of State Comptroller Ned Regan. However, we are concerned with your criticism that some audits of state agency spending and performance were completed with "less than admirable thoroughness." Not only is this ...
CANADA'S NO ANSWER.(Main)
Mar 02, 1993 ... A recent issue of the Times Union featured an article about residents of the Capital District inundating Washington with post cards requesting that the federal government institute a Canadian type of national health care. I wonder how many people sending those requests really had learned ...
FUNDAMENTALISM ISN'T ALL BAD.(Main)
Mar 02, 1993 ... Byline: Molly Ivins A USTIN - Religion is on my mind. In particular, what appears to be an increasingly respectable form of bigotry these days - anti-fundamentalism. William Martin of Rice University, a sociologist of religion and biographer of Billy Graham, points ...
YOUNG PEOPLE NEED TO BELIEVE IN THE FUTURE.(Main)
Mar 02, 1993 ... Byline: William Raspberry W ASHINGTON - Two ideas die hard: That you can manipulate people into self- sufficiency, and that you can punish them into good citizenship. The first manifests itself in our tireless search for the magical level at which welfare grants are ...
AGENTS NEGOTIATE WITH CULT IN TEXAS.(Main)
Mar 02, 1993 ... Byline: SAM HOWE VERHOVEK New York Times Nearly 400 federal agents and local police officers were massed near the compound of a religious cult on Monday evening where a shootout left six people dead the day before, while inside a man who says he is Jesus Christ remained in ...
CLINTON PUSHES PUBLIC SERVICE TO HELP STUDENTS REPAY TUITION.(Main)
Mar 02, 1993 ... Byline: ANN DEVROY Washington Post President Clinton Monday challenged the nation's young people to sign up "to help make America new again" through a proposed national service program he described as the 1990s equivalent of the Peace Corps. Clinton called his ...
AIRDROP SKIRTS MUSLIMS, FALLS TO SERB MILITIAS.(Main)
Mar 02, 1993 ... Byline: PETER MAASS Washington Post Nearly two-thirds of the first U.S. airdrop of aid to Bosnia-Herzegovina failed to reach Muslims trapped in Cerska Monday and apparently fell into the lap of attacking Serb militia forces. Using satellite photographs, U.S. officials ...
STATES REALIZE LIMITATIONS ON TAXES.(Main)
Mar 02, 1993 ... Byline: JERRY GRAY New York Times To the dismay of lawmakers who have religiously depended on revenue from "sin taxes" on tobacco and alcoholic beverages to help balance state budgets, people are sinning less. Across the Northeast and much of the nation, revenue from ...
WHALEN TO END MAYORAL CAREER.(Main)
Mar 02, 1993 ... Byline: JAY JOCHNOWITZ Staff writer Ending weeks of speculation, Mayor Thomas M. Whalen III announced Monday he will not seek another term of office, opening the way for what could be one of the hottest races for the city's top job in recent memory. Whalen, in a ...
DAVIDIANS CULT A MYSTERY EVEN TO WACO NEIGHBORS.(Main)
Mar 02, 1993 ... Byline: PETER APPLEBOME New York Times Like a vein of ore in solid rock, religion runs through the heart of this city, which is sometimes known as Jerusalem on the Brazos River. But in this city of 100,000 people, where almost everyone belongs to one of some 200 ...
IRAQ KILLS SHIITES IN 'DEATH CAMPS,' U.N. SAYS.(Main)
Mar 02, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press Iraq apparently has executed hundreds of people from its southern marshes in "death camps" in recent months, a U.N. investigator said Monday. The marshes are the refuge of Shiite Muslim rebels who tried to overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime at ...
NORTH PONDERS POLITICAL RUN TYSON LAWYER CITES STORY.(Main)
Mar 02, 1993 ... Oliver L. North is reconnoitering the front lines of Virginia politics, probing to see if there might be an opening for him in the state's 1994 Senate race. He is earnestly chatting up the Republican rank-and-file and hawking his special chest-full-of-ribbons brand of red, white ...
SPIKE LEE SAYS MAKING FILMS ENOUGH OF A JOB FOR HIM.(Main)
Mar 02, 1993 ... Spike Lee credited prison inmate and ex- heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson for getting the filmmaker to show his movie "Malcolm X" in prisons - but said he's getting tired of taking up causes. "I'm a filmmaker, not Jesse Jackson, not Jesus, not the Savior," Lee said Sunday ...
GOVERNOR SAYS BLAST SHOWS CITY CAN COPE.(Main)
Mar 02, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press When it comes to attracting business to New York, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo said Monday that the World Trade Center bombing shouldn't be an albatross and could be a benefit. "I think this has been good for New York," said Cuomo of the exposure New ...