Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from October 1993:
THE CLINTON GAME PLAN: FAKE RIGHT, GO LEFT.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: Cal Thomas On opening night of ABC's "Monday Night Football" this month, President Clinton led off the show with a cameo appearance. "Are you ready for some football?" the President asked with a smile. The incident serves as a metaphor for a man who has ...
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE AN AMERICAN?(MAIN)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: William Raspberry The immigration applications, the legal and illegal dodges for getting into this country, the longings you hear in virtually every other part of the world all attest to two astounding facts. The first, widely accepted though not always with good grace, ...
U.N. FACES TEST IN DEALING WITH PAN AM BOMBING AND TERRORISM.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Today's deadline for the turnovers of the two Libyan suspects in the Pan Am 103 bombing, previously established by the U.S., U.K., and France, will test U.N. resolve against terrorism in the post-Cold War world. It will also determine whether the world community of nations is ready to ...
NO CONFLICT.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Your story of Sept. 26 was loaded with innuendo but short on facts. To clarify things, let me make these points. As commisioner of health, I had absolutely nothing to do with deciding on the drug contract for state employees. That decision was made by the Department of Civil ...
AT 87, STILL-ACTIVE STOCKBROKER KEEPS HIS BUSINESS TICKING.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: PAUL GRONDAHL - Staff writer Charlie Baehr couldn't have chosen a worse time to become a stockbroker. It was October 1933. The stock market had crashed four years earlier and the United States was mired in the Great Depression. Baehr had been laid off from ...
YOU GAVE BIRTH TO AN AD TARGET.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: ANTHONY GIORGIANNI - Hartford Courant Congratulations. You are now the proud parents of an 8-pound bouncing baby consumer. And those phone calls and letters won't be from just relatives and friends. Scores of businesses know that you and your baby represent ...
OLDER FOLKS GETTING SHORT SHRIFT ON TV.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: LYNN ELBER - Associated Press Television seems hopelessly stuck on youth. Most TV programs favor a callow look and attitude, disregarding older viewers even as the baby boom bulge in the population grays. When older characters do appear, their depictions tend ...
NEW YORK NEEDS ETHICS RX.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 1993 ... New York's health commissioner, Dr. Mark Chassin, maintains a financial arrangement with his former employer, Value Health Sciences, and is a partner with that company's president in a consulting business. Since that same partner also is a vice president and major shareholder of Value ...
O, CANADA!(MAIN)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: Molly Ivins The Canadians are having an election with all the flair that usually accompanies matters Canadian. I'm so sorry to do this; I know national stereotypes are not fair, but let's face it: This is a whole nation of calm, sensible, staid people. We have the ...
FAST-FOOD CHOICES FOR FAT-WATCHERS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: Consumer Reports Lunch in the fast-food line used to offer few choices for nutrition-conscious people. Then salads began to appear on fast-food menus, and in 1991 McDonald's introduced the reduced-fat McLean Deluxe. Would oil-free fries be next? They ...
'FOR LOVE' IS FORGETTABLE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: CARRIE RICKEY - Knight-Ridder The Manhattan of the new Michael J. Fox comedy "For Love or Money" is a relic of 1980s buy-now, pay-later excess. So is the movie, despite the fact that its moral is about the pleasures of delayed, rather than instant, grat. ...
ELSIE K. PETERS, 90.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... A service will be held today for Elsie Kruse Peters, 90, formerly of Puritan Drive, who died Wednesday in Ellis Hospital, Schenectady, after a short illness. She was born in Schenectady and was a lifelong Capital Region resident. Mrs. Peters was a member of the ...
JOHN 'PETE' KANE, 60.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Services were held for John "Pete" Kane, 60, formerly of Forest Avenue, Albany, who died July 5 in his home. Mr. Kane was born in Albany. He was a 1951 graduate of Christian Brothers Academy in Albany and attended Manhattan College. ...
UNHAPPY CAMPERS WHEN A TIME-SHARE CAMPSITE CLOSES, IT SERVES AS A WARNING TO WOULD-BE BUYERS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: RICK KARLIN - Staff writer For several weeks now, unhappy campers have been trooping through small claims court in this Warren County town, seeking refunds from a motor-home camping resort and time-share company that suddenly closed its campground here in April. ...
ROCK HUDSON'S PARADOX.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: DESMOND RYAN - Knight-Ridder When Rock Hudson and Doris Day teamed up for "Pillow Talk" in 1959, part of the comedy hinged on a hunk winning a woman's heart by pretending to be gay. Through hindsight, we now know the multiple paradox that lurked beneath the joke: a gay ...
REVIEW.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Oct 01, 1993 ... "ROCK HUDSON'S HOME MOVIES ." Directed by Mark Rappaport. ...
'GERALDO' SEEN AS SPRINGBOARD.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Oct 01, 1993 ... East Greenbush native and Columbia High School grad Mark Anthony DiBello stopped in the other day, sporting gold chains and a serious tan. These days a resident of Miami, he's just wrapped a "Geraldo" episode about "God's Gift to Women" and he's hoping to hustle the appearance to get ...
EQUITY PROBLEMS SNARL REFINANCING.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn Thousands of homeowners are missing out on the refinancing boom -- not because they don't want to refinance but because they can't. Some houses and condominiums have negative equity, meaning they're worth less than the mortgage against ...
KENNETH LLOYD, 83.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Kenneth W. Lloyd, 83, of Berne died Wednesday in St. Peter's Hospital in Albany after a short illness. He was born in Carbondale, Pa., and lived in the Capital Region most of his life. Mr. Lloyd was employed by the Delaware & Hudson Railroad and later the New York ...
VINCENT FIORILLO JR.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Vincent Michael Fiorillo Jr., 16, died Tuesday at his DeGraff Street home of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A lifelong Amsterdam resident, he was a junior at Amsterdam High School where he played on the varsity football team. Last spring, he was a member of the junior ...
WANDA A. CONTI, 41.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Wanda A. Borowski Conti, 41, of Cemetery Road died Thursday in St. Peter's Hospital in Albany after a long illness. She was born in Cohoes and lived in Clifton Park for the past 15 years. She also lived in Round Lake. Mrs. Conti was a homemaker and Girl Scout troop ...
STATE IS TAKING STEPS TO KEEP YANKS IN N.Y.(SPORTS)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press The state has launched a pre-emptive strike against New Jersey's effort to lure the New York Yankees out of the Bronx, drawing up plans for a $550 million complex on Manhattan's West Side, officials said Thursday. "Nobody desires the ...
LEFT ALONE, DADS RUN THE FAMILY BY OTHER RULES.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: SUSAN REIMER - Baltimore Sun Have you ever noticed that no matter how late you call home or return home, when you have left the children in the care of their father, they are still not in bed? As you might guess, I was not surprised to call home from work one ...
PERSONAL INCOME JUMPS 1.3 PERCENT IN AUGUST.(BUSINESS)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: DAVE SKIDMORE - Associated Press Americans' personal income rose strongly in August and joblessness edged down last week, two indications the economy, while not in great shape, is at least doing better than during the first half of the year. However, in a ...
FIELD PROPOSES $50.5M BUDGET FOR COLONIE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: MARC CAREY - Staff writer Town Supervisor Fred Field on Thursday proposed a $50.5 million 1994 budget that would raise spending by 4.2 percent but not increase taxes for the second consecutive year. The line will be held on taxes at the current rate of ...
3 DIET COMPANIES SETTLE CHARGES OF DECEPTIVE ADS.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press Three diet programs settled government charges of deceptive advertising Thursday, but the two giants of the weight loss industry said they will fight the allegations. In its campaign against false weight loss claims, the Federal Trade ...
SHENENDEHOWA, TEACHERS REACH TENTATIVE PACT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: CHRISTOPHER RINGWALD - Staff writer Negotiators have agreed on a tentative contract for teachers at Shenendehowa Central Schools that will hike total compensation about 10percent over three years, Superintendent John Yagielski said Thursday. If approved by the ...
SANDE'S PLAYING WALKS A MUSICAL TIGHTROPE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: GREG HAYMES - Staff writer Albany composer-guitarist Jim Sande has had a bit of a time coming up with a catch phrase that aptly describes the sound of the ensemble that bears his name. Is it high-energy, avant-classical music? Is it alternative ...
MARY KLOBERDANZ.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Private services will be held for Mary L. Kloberdanz, 89, of Groveside Road, who died Wednesday in Mary McClellan Hospital in Cambridge. She was born and educated in New York City and worked as a secretary at various advertising agencies before retiring in ...
SARATOGA COUNTY TO HOLD JOB FAIR FOR VETERANS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: KEN THURMAN - Staff writer Saratoga County officials Thursday unveiled plans for a job fair aimed at helping local veterans get employment, educational, health and housing benefits they are entitled to. An estimated 21,000 veterans live in Saratoga County ...
DAVID HALVORSEN; EX-NEWSPAPER EDITOR.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: ERIC BRAZIL - San Francisco Examiner David E. Halvorsen, former editor in chief of the Alameda Newspaper Group and editor of the San Francisco Examiner, died Wednesday morning at his home here. He was 60 and had been ill since May, when he was diagnosed with ...
AL TECH STEEL CUTS SALARIED WORK FORCE.(BUSINESS)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: ALAN D. ABBEY - Business writer AL Tech Specialty Steel Corp. announced Thursday a "sizable reduction" in the salaried work force at its Watervliet and Buffalo-area plants, blaming the move on foreign competition and poor business conditions. The layoffs at ...
MOUNTAINS PEAKING FOR COLORFUL FALL FOLIAGE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Peak and near-peak color conditions for foliage are being reported for the first time this season, according to the state Department of Economic Development. The Saranac Lake area and north to Malone will be in peak color this weekend. Near-peak conditions can be found in the ...
LEROY MALLOY, 57.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... LeRoy Malloy, 57, of Second Street died Wednesday at his residence. Mr. Malloy was born in Sanford, N.C. He was educated in the Sanford school system. He moved from Sanford about 30 years ago to live in the Capital Region. He had been a precision machinist in the ...
RINK LOOKS LIKE IT'S SLIDING INTO BANK'S HANDS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: MICHAEL MC KEON - Staff writer County Executive Michael J. Hoblock Jr. said Thursday that it appears virtually certain the county-run ice rink will end up in the hands of Fleet Bank. Hoblock met with Job Development Authority President Audrey Bynoe on ...
JOYCE FREES $65,000 OF CAMPAIGN FUNDS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... ALBANY -- Harold Joyce on Thursday finally did what many have been urging him to do for months: He gave up the money he raised as Democratic chairman. Joyce turned over $65,000 raised by the Friends of Harold Joyce to County Chairman Robert Signoracci, who said he was relieved ...
COUNTY LAWMAKERS PROMOTE PRINZO.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... ALBANY -- The County Legislature on Thursday voted unanimously to appoint Ross Prinzo as the commissioner of the Department of Social Services. Prinzo, 46, of Glenmont, was nominated to a five-year term in the $61,553 post by County Executive Michael J. Hoblock Jr. He has been ...
ST. PETER'S HOSPICE SEEKS VOLUNTEERS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... ALBANY -- St. Peter's Hospice is seeking people interested in volunteer training positions in both Albany and Rensselaer counties. Pre-training information sessions will be held Monday through Oct. 15.Potential volunteers who meet eligiblity requiremenmts will be accepted into ...
'THE WIZ' FEATURES ALBANY STUDENTS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... ALBANY -- The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Committee and the Whole Village Theatre, an educational project of the Albany Civic Theater, will present a performance of "The Wiz" at 3 p.m. Sunday at Albany High School. The play's cast include many children from the Albany ...
STRESS LINKED TO BLACKS' HIGHER BLOOD PRESSURE.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: Medical Tribune News Service African-Americans appear to have a more intense "fight-or-flight" response to stress than whites, according to Alabama researchers who say that this new clue may help explain why high blood pressure is so much more common -- and deadly -- ...
TROOPS SUFFER SECOND ROUND OF MALARIA.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 1993 ... A quarter of the Fort Drum soldiers who contracted malaria in Somalia have been stricken with the disease a second time, an Army physician said Thursday. Despite undergoing a special drug treatment when symptoms of the vivax strain of malaria first developed in May and June, ...
CORRECTION.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Because of a reporter's error, the names of two visitors from Germany to the Burnt Hills Ballston Lake School District were transposed in Thursday's ...
CAROL WHITE BRAIM.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Carol White Braim, 61, of Lincoln Avenue died Thursday at her residence. Mrs. Braim was born in Saratoga Springs. She attended Saratoga Springs High School. She had resided in Temple City, Calif., for 15 years. She was employed in the health care profession most of ...
EMPIRE WON'T UP RATES IN EARLY '94.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: JAMES DENN - Business writer Backing away from a potential court battle with the state's top insurance regulator, Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield on Thursday retreated from its plan to increase the insurance rates of more than 400,000 subscribers, including 53,825 ...
ALLEGED ABUSES AT JAIL PROBED.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... SYRACUSE -- A county jail where a diabetic died after being denied insulin and other incidents of abuse have been alleged is under investigation, a newspaper reported Thursday. "There have been a series of incidents there that raise serious questions in terms of conditions ...
COP STANDS BY SHOOTING ACCOUNT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... LOCKPORT -- A police officer suspected in his own shooting said he did not shoot himself and that he was not involved in crimes that might have led to the incident. Lockport policeman Steven Biles, who said he was shot three times July 22 while checking out what he thought ...
RIFKIN ACCUSED OF 2 MORE KILLINGS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... RIVERHEAD -- Confessed serial killer Joel Rifkin pleaded not guiltyThursday to murdering two women whose bodies were found less than three miles from the Suffolk County Courthouse where Rifkin appeared. Rifkin, 34, of East Meadow, now stands formally accused of killing three ...
STATE: ANNUAL GAS TAX BITE TO BE $50.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... ALBANY -- The extra 5 cents you will begin paying at the gas pump today will take about $50 out of your household budget annually, the state Energy Office said. A 4.3 cent-per-gallon federal tax increase on gasoline begins today. The tax hike, which will translate into about ...
MERCEDES MAKES IT OFFICIAL.(BUSINESS)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: Washington Post Mercedes-Benz said Thursday it will build a $300 million assembly plant in Vance, Ala., ending six months of intense regional bidding for the German automaker's first U.S. passenger vehicle plant. The competition began with 300 communities ...
EDITH HAGADORN, 87.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Edith E. Hagadorn, 87, of Gronczniak Road, died Wednesday in Saratoga Hospital in Saratoga Springs after a long illness. Mrs. Hagadorn was born in Jamaica, Vt. She had lived in Stillwater for more than 50 years. She was a homemaker. Mrs. Hagadorn was a ...
2 COPS WIN COURT ROUND.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: JOHN CAHER - Staff writer A U.S. judge, finding no evidence of racial bias or conspiracy by Albany police involved in the 1984 shooting death of black mental patient Jessie L. Davis, has dismissed several claims lodged against two of the officers named in a $40 ...
FRANCIS T. FORT, 83.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Francis T. Fort, 83, of Van Buren Road died Wednesday in Ellis Hospital. He was born in Schenectady and lived in Scotia for five years and in St. Petersburg, Fla., for a time. He was a graduate of Bentley College in Boston, Mass. Mr. Fort was employed in the large ...
NEIGHBORS COMPLAIN OF DUMPING.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: MARV CERMAK - Staff writer Repeated illegal dumping at the spacious rear of the vacant Polish National Alliance Home property on Crane Street has prompted complaints from neighbors. Councilman David P. Nowak said he has received numerous complaints from ...
FIRST LADY SUPPORTS TAXING GUNS FOR HEALTH.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: DANA PRIEST - Washington Post Hillary Rodham Clinton told Congress Thursday that, "speaking personally," she would support a tax on guns and ammunition to raise money for health-care reform and to highlight the link between violence and health costs. "I'm ...
IF THERE'S ACHES AND FEVER -- IT'S THE FLU.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press Is it a cold or the flu? Here's how to read the symptoms, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Fever: rare in colds, characteristic of the flu. High (102-104<o F), sudden onset, lasts three to four days. ...
BRACING FOR A WICKED FLU SEASON.(MAIN)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: JANE E. BRODY - New York Times Warning that a severe flu season is at hand, federal public health officials Thursday urged older Americans and others at risk to get flu shots right away. "This year's flu, the Beijing strain, is expected to hit very hard," ...
'TICONDEROGA' TO SAIL FINAL VOYAGE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: MARV CERMAK - Staff writer A popular tour boat that cruised this lake for 40 years will soon be converted into scrap. The Ticonderoga will make its final trip in mid-October to the Lake George Steamboat Co. dry dock at Baldwin, at the northern end of the ...
AIRPORT WORKERS ORGANIZE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: JULIE CARR - Staff writer Two groups of Lockheed Air Terminal employees have begun steps to unionize, hoping to secure their jobs amid questions of who will manage Albany County Airport when an authority takes over. Fifteen heavy-equipment operators have ...
STATE FORMS ALLEGEDLY ALTERED.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: JOE PICCHI - Staff writer A Sand Lake landfill scam apparently involved altering state-required waste tracking forms so oil spill contractors could avoid paying a $25 a cubic yard fee on thousands of tons of waste soil, it was disclosed Thursday. A source ...
MELROSE MAN INDICTED IN CHILD SEX ABUSE CASE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: JOE PICCHI - Staff writer A 49-year-old Melrose man has been indicted by a Rensselaer County grand jury on 37 counts of rape, sodomy, using a child in a sexual performance and other deviant acts. William Chamberlin is accused of photographing naked children ...
BAD COPS SPEAK IN CODE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: TOM HAYS - Associated Press The corrupt police officers "did doors." They kept "throwaway guns." They made "collars for dollars." And, as their testimony before a city panel investigating police corruption shows, they also spoke a language of their own. ...
STANDOFF AT BANK.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Police in protective gear assemble outside a Chase Manhattan branch Thursday in Brooklyn in which four robbers holed up inside the bank with three hostages ....
STATE MAILROOM CLERK CHARGED WITH STEALING CHECKS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: JOE MAHONEY - Staff writer A mailroom clerk for the state Office of General Services has been charged with intercepting checks in the mail while on the job and pocketing the proceeds, Capital Police said Thursday. Earl Jones, 46, of 46 Maguire Ave. is ...
MET LIFE AGENT ADMITS BILKING CLIENTS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: CAROL DE MARE - Staff writer A Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. agent admitted in court Thursday that he stole $357,000 from clients. Theodore W. Bayer, 44, of 13 Christina Court, Saratoga Springs, faces a term of 3 to 9 years in state prison for grand ...
GREENBERG DISPUTES CRIME STATS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Oct 01, 1993 ... Byline: CAROL DE MARE - Staff writer Albany County District Attorney Sol Greenberg said Thursday that a state commissioner has labeled claims made by his opponent "false and misleading." A letter from Commissioner Richard H. Girgenti of the Division of Criminal ...