Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from June 1995:
THE ABS ADVANTAGE: HOW TO USE ANTILOCK BRAKE SYSTEMS WISELY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Avaluable safety option now included in most new vehicles is antilock brakes. This braking system can give you a performance advantage over older systems because of the improved vehicle steering control that it can provide. Antilock brakes can prevent wheel lock and ...
CARAVAN OF LOCAL CLUB MEMBERS TO HEAD FOR FIRST FORD NATIONALS BY: CRISSE R. LINCOLN SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTIONS WRITER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1995 ... A week from tomorrow, an unusual caravan will head south from the Albany area. Two automobile clubs will travel together bound for the Carlisle Fairgrounds in Carlisle, Pa. What will make this sight even more unusual is that all of the vehicles will be Fords or Ford-powered. ...
VIDEO `GAME' REALLY TESTS DRIVERS FOR HOW ALERT THEY ARE BY: CHRIS ISIDORE JOURNAL OF COMERCE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Imagine having to prove you're wide awake at 5 a.m. every day. Drivers at R.F. White Co., a gasoline tank carrier in California, have to do just that. They also have to prove they're not drunk, high or even upset, using Factor 1000, a video-game-like computer that ...
FORD, VW ENDING JOINT VENTURE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: From the Associated Press Early last December, Ford Motor Co. and Germany's Volkswagen AG agreed to dissolve their joint venture in Brazil and Argentina within a year. Ford said that the joint venture called ``Autolatina'' was formed in 1987. It involves ...
IS A USED CAR ON YOUR LIST FOR A GIFT TO A GRADUATE? BY: JIM MATEJA CHICAGO TRIBUE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1995 ... When it comes to a used car, the soon-to-be graduate is fixated on performance and size meaning speed in a small package. The reason for fast is self-explanatory. The reason for small is because young people equate small size with high fuel efficiency so they won't have to ...
A DIRECTOR FOR ALL SEASONS.(ACCENT)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: GARY HAHN Staff writer Director Fred Zimmerman was known for his professionalism and skill in telling a story. How much do you know of his career? 1. Zimmerman's first film in 1948 starred Montgomery Clift. What was it?2. ``A Man for All Seasons'' (1966) ...
FOR GIBSON, DIRECTING NEVER LOSES ITS APPEAL.(ACCENT)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: DOUGLAS J. ROWE Associated Press NEW YORK Mel Gibson, a guy who's known to be a master of pranks and jokes, offers a straight answer when it's suggested his new movie, ``Braveheart,'' answers the age-old question: What do Scotsmen wear under those kilts, anyway? ...
REALITY BLURS WHEN IT COMES TO THE MOVIES.(ACCENT)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: CALVIN WILSON Kansas City Star In the new movie ``Panther,'' members of the Black Panther Party march past Ronald Reagan on their way to the California Statehouse. In black and white footage, we see Reagan (then governor of California) speaking to a small ...
SPOTLIGHT ON `SUNSET'.(ACCENT)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: JAY BOBBIN Tribune Media Services However it fares in the actual honors, a certain ``Sunset'' will figure prominently into this year's salute to Broadway's best. The set of the hit musical version of the classic film ``Sunset Boulevard'' at New York City's ...
THE ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION GIVES WHITNEY COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD.(ACCENT)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: BARBARA DELANEY Staff Writer Commitment and unselfish volunteerism. These are the adjectives which Nedwin Emerson used to describe Mrs. Cornelius (MaryLou) Whitney, the recipient of the sixth annual ``Accolade For Community Service Award'' from the Arthritis ...
VINCE BELL TO MAKE REGION DEBUT AT CAFFE.(PREVIEW)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: GREG HAYMES Staff writer ``Survivor'' is an overused word in the music biz, but it certainly does apply to Texas singer-songwriter Vince Bell. Back in December 1982, Bell was leaving an Austin studio where he had been recording some demo tapes with local ...
BLUEGRASS ROUNDUP MEANS LOTS OF PICKIN'.(PREVIEW)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: GREG HAYMES Staff writer There's a hot weekend of pickin' and singin' on tap as the 10th annual Bluegrass Roundup comes to the Frosty Acres Campground (Skyline Drive, Duanesburg) on Saturday and Sunday. A benefit for and sponsored by the Adirondack Bluegrass ...
BETTER THAN EZRA IS READY TO BE ON TOP.(PREVIEW)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: REBECCA THOMAS Orlando Sentinel Tom Drummond was taking bets on how long ``Good,'' Better Than Ezra's debut single from its album ``Deluxe,'' would remain No. 1 on the modern-rock-tracks chart. ``I said four,'' said the bassist of the latest addition to ...
TOP ACTS TO HEADLINE THE NEW FEST ON HUDSON.(PREVIEW)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: GREG HAYMES Staff writer Last year, it was called Riverfest. This year, its name is Albany's Festival On the Hudson. Last year, it was sponsored by the city of Albany. This year, radio statio K-LITE has taken over the operation. ...
PETER FRAMPTON'S RETURN REVIVES '70S CAREER.(PREVIEW)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: BRUCE BRITT Scripps Howard Peter Frampton has come full circle. Weary of the calculated vibes that permeate most formal recording sessions, the British singer-guitarist recently announced he will record a live disc this summer at the Fillmore in San ...
ACTION FILMS KEEP AUDIENCES ON A ROLLER COASTER.(PREVIEW)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: RENE RODRIGUEZ Knight-Ridder It has been almost a century since ``The Great Train Robbery'' dazzled audiences with its rapid-moving storyline, the derring-do of its actors, the vicarious thrill of a wild chase after the bad guys. But even as Hollywood pursues ...
THE TRAPPINGS OF CELEBRITY ARE NOT PART OF STOLTZ'S LIFE ECLECTIC FILMS HELP ACTOR HIT HIS STRIDE.(PREVIEW)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: RIC LEYVA Associated Press NEW YORK Eric Stoltz has priorities: washing machine yes, TV no. The mellow actor has gotten along ``just fine, thank you'' without a television since 1979. ``It doesn't take much will power when there's no set to turn ...
ACTING LETS ROLLINS BACK OFF FRONTMAN ROLE.(PREVIEW)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: BETSY PICKLE Scripps Howard NEW YORK Just because Rollins Band frontman Henry Rollins shows up in the new film ``Johnny Mnemonic,'' don't think he's giving up his music career for acting. ``I'm not, like, Mr. Actor,'' says Rollins. ``I do some films. If ...
NEW TECHNOLOGIES CUTTING VIDEOCASSETTES' SHELF SPACE.(PREVIEW)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: MIKE PEARSON Scripps Howard DALLAS Despite an 11 percent growth in 1994 to record sales of $20billion, the home video industry is bracing for stiff competition from an alphabet soup of new technologies. Talk of real and perceived threats to the status quo ...
R E V I E W S.(PREVIEW)
Jun 01, 1995 ... SOUNDTRACKS `` `Friday': Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.'' Various artists. (Priority) : There's funk in the old school, and there's funk in the new school. What producer Ice Cube who also stars in the movie strives to do is integrate the two generations with ...
`VAMPIRE,' `DUMBER' LEAD PARADE OF VIDEOS.(PREVIEW)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: JOHN HARTL Seattle Times The video hit parade this month includes a couple of $100 million-plus grossers: Neil Jordan's visually elegant version of Anne Rice's best seller, ``Interview With the Vampire,'' with Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst as a most ...
LAID-OFF GE WORKERS WIN EXTENDED BENEFITS.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: JAMES DENN Business writer On the day General Electric Co. replaced David C. Genever-Watling as president of its Schenectady-based Power Systems division, workers whose jobs he cut in the past two years were notified by the U.S. Labor Department that they're eligible for up to ...
CHRISTOPHER REEVE PARALYZED AFTER FALL FROM HORSE.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: LOIS ROMANO Washington Post Actor Christopher Reeve, best known for his role as Superman, is paralyzed from the neck down and cannot breathe without the help of a respirator after breaking his neck in a riding accident in Culpeper, Va., on Saturday. Reeve ...
BYNG ARRESTED AGAIN AFTER MOTORCYCLE CHASE.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: BRUCE A. SCRUTON Staff Writer ALBANY Less than a week after he allegedly led police on a high-speed motorcycle chase, former public works chief Kevin Byng's ``personal hell'' surfaced again Wednesday. Once more, the 35-year-old man with an admitted cocaine problem ...
ITO RULES JURY WILL SEE BLOODY AUTOPSY PHOTOS.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: SHIRLEY E. PERLMAN Newsday LOS ANGELES The judge in the O.J. Simpson case ruled Wednesday that the jury will see a series of ``horrible'' and ``disturbing'' autopsy photographs of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman because they provide important evidence in the ...
CLINTON VOWS TO AID BOSNIA PEACEKEEPERS.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: JOHN F. HARRIS Washington Post COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. PresidentClinton vowed Wednesday that he would not leave U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia ``in the lurch,'' even if that means sending U.S. ground troops to help the embattled international force to move to more defensible ...
MELANCHOLY MICHAEL JACKSON MOURNS FOR HIS LOST CHILDHOOD MICHAEL JACKSON'S.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... new single comes with a disturbing self-portrait of him as a sad-eyed child, huddled in a corner with a microphone. Jackson appears about 6 or 7 years old in the sketch. He is sitting with his legs drawn up to his chest, arms folded. The picture is included in a ...
HER LITIGANT IMPERSONATION IS PRETTY CONVINCING, TOO.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Nadine Hart, who works as a face and body double for Madonna, says she is suing Geraldo Rivera for $20 million because she was injured by a Joey Buttafuoco lookalike while taping a promotion for Rivera's talk show on April 15, 1994. Hart, 33, said in papers filed in ...
POLICE SAY MADONNA INTRUDER OFFERED MARRIAGE OR MURDER.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... The intruder who was shot at Madonna's mansion had gone to her home weeks earlier and warned that he was either going to marry her or ``slit her throat from ear to ear,'' Los Angeles police said Wednesday.Robert Dewey Hoskins, 37, was wounded in the arm and hip Monday ...
INVENTOR GIVES SMITHSONIAN ITS LARGEST DONATION EVER JEROME LEMELSON.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... , a prolific American inventor of high-tech components, gave the Smithsonian Institution its largest-ever cash donation Wednesday $10.4 million, to support programs designed to boost appreciation of the nation's innovators. The gift, to be delivered in installments over ...
GERULAITIS' MOTHER SUES 8 LINKED TO HIS FATAL POISONING.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... A week after criminal charges were announced in the death of Vitas Gerulaitis, his mother filed suit Wednesday against eight defendants, including the owner of the Long Island estate where Gerulaitis died of carbon monoxide poisoning last fall. Prosecutors have charged that a ...
DOLE CONDEMNS HOLLYWOOD'S `NIGHTMARE'.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: JOHN M. BRODER Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, appearing in Los Angeles to raise money for his presidential bid, Wednesday condemned Hollywood for debasing U.S. culture with movies, music and television programs that have produced ...
NATO, RUSSIA BEGIN NEW ERA OF DIALOGUE.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: Washington Post NOORDWIJK, Netherlands NATO launched a formal dialogue with Russia pn Wednesday in an attempt to put an end to decades of Russian isolation from the West and develop a stable security relationship between former Cold War enemies. ...
QUAKE TOLL LINKED TO SHODDY BUILDINGS.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: Washington Post OKHA, Russia As relatives of the victims of Sunday's devastating earthquake in the Russian Far East prepared to bury their dead, officials acknowledged that shoddy construction standards and a severe cash crunch have made this region uniquely ...
PENTAGON FEARS RISK OF SERB RETALIATION.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON U.S. participation in allied military operations in Bosnia, as President Clinton is considering, would require thousands of American troops and expose U.S. forces to serious casualties and possible capture by the Bosnian Serbs, military ...
AS U.S. INVOLVEMENT WIDENS IN BOSNIA, MANY WONDER WHY.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: BOB DEANS Cox News Service WASHINGTON There's no oil to defend in Bosnia, no immigrant wave to fear, and no serious threat that rebel Serbs mean to export terror and evil beyond the boundaries of the former Yugoslavia. Why, then, should American lives be ...
MAYAS' DECLINE LINKED TO DROUGHT.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: New York Times New evidence from a Mexican lake bed has revealed that an unusually severe drought about 1,200 years ago may well have contributed to the abrupt decline of classic Maya civilization. Scientists from the University of Florida at Gainesville ...
CLINTON TO PROLONG REVIEW OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: ANN DEVROY Washington Post WASHINGTON With the GOP easing the political pressure, President Clinton will now take weeks and perhaps months to complete his review of government affirmative action programs, senior administration officials said Wednesday. The ...
COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST ARMEY.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON A watchdog group filed an ethics complaint Wednesday against House Majority Leader Dick Armey, charging that he violated a House rule banning outside groups from using congressional stationery. The Congressional Accountability ...
TEENS TOP ELDERLY AS VICTIMS OF CRIME.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON Teens are much more likely to be victims of violent crime than senior citizens, a Justice Department survey shows. The survey, released Wednesday by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, found that youths from 12 to 15 years old had ...
VIETNAM RELEASES DATA ON AMERICAN MIAS.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam Eager to meet U.S. conditions for diplomatic recognition, Vietnam turned over about 100 pages of information Wednesday on American servicemen killed or captured during the war. Vice Foreign Minister Le Mai gave the documents ...
IRS FORMS ARE INDEED HEADED FOR THE TOILET.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press COVINGTON, Ky. Irate taxpayers who feel dumped on by the IRS can now respond in kind. The Internal Revenue Service center in northern Kentucky has been selling unused income tax forms and other waste paper to be recycled into toilet ...
FDA OKS TEST TO REVEAL PACE OF OSTEOPOROSIS.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration has approved a quick urine test that will tell osteoporosis patients how fast their bodies are losing bone. The Osteomark urine test, unveiled Wednesday, is not supposed to diagnose ...
REVIEW DEET THE RIGHT WAY.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... The Pataki administration came into office with a promise, which we support, to review and, where appropriate, rescind the burdensome regulations that have for so long strangled business in this state. But the administration's handling of the DEET controversy is an example of how not to ...
TAKE THE CHANCE OUT OF RAFFLES.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... The recent controversy over an Albany church raffle should prod state officials to change the way such games of chance are authorized. At the least, it should result in a uniform standard that will replace the current system of local, and often arbitrary, enforcement. At issue ...
ON BECOMING A BETTER PERSON.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: Andy Rooney One of the questions that has arisen from time to time in my life is this: Is it possible to improve myself by trying? I never end up with a real answer, but in practical terms my conclusion is this: No, it isn't possible but we should all live ...
ORDINARY CITIZENS DEPRIVED OF OPEN, FREE ELECTIONS.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: CHARLES G. ESTEY DELMAR In the news this morning May 23, Gov. Pataki was identified at a ``fund-raising'' event. It was there that he made some statement aboutfinalizing the budget. The news item did not say why he was there, but the clear inference was ...
LIABILITY REFORMS WON'T HELP CONSUMERS, PATIENTS.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: ABRAHAM FUCHSBERG President New York State Trial Lawyers Association ALBANY Your May 13 editorial, ``Right step on liability reform,' endorsing the federal tort revision scheme is a step forward for immunizing big business and corporate wrongdoers, but two giant steps ...
IF JOYCE CAN'T TAKE HEAT LET HIM QUIT POLITICS.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: STEVE AZARIAN ALBANY In response to Harold Joyce's May 21 letter, it looks like Mr. Joyce is crying foul again. He is always stating how he and his family are offended by any write-up about him. He is using the crying towel the same way as when he wrote to the Times ...
HELP LEVEL KILLING FIELD IN BOSNIA.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: William Safire LONDON By taking hundreds of peacekeepers hostage, using them as human shields and calling them ``prisoners of war,'' the Bosnian Serbs have declared war on the world. Will the world fight back? Not likely; it prefers to disengage in high ...
CONSIDER THE HEAT A WARM-UP FOR SUMMER.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: BOB GARDINIER Staff writer COLONIE The jazz quartet Windspeed played as the sun set and partyers packed the deck at a Wolf Road restaurant Wednesday, enjoying a warm evening on the last day of May. The temperature at the Albany County Airport was a balmy 74 ...
HERE'S ONE ENTITLEMENT THAT STAYS.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: George Will WASHINGTON The widespread impression that Congress' cruelly indiscriminate parsimony is menacing even entitlements was refuted last week when a Senate majority prevented the proposed elimination of an entitlement program. The moral sheen of this action may ...
PAINTING LARK STREET BLUELAST YEAR'S SURPRISE SUCCESS HAS BLUES FEST ORGANIZERS BANKING ON A HIT.(PREVIEW)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: RAY MARK RINALDI Staff writer On the surface, last year's first-ever Lark Street Blues Festival didn't seem like anything special. The fest had a decent lineup, but nothing extraordinary: A dozen local bands that might all have been playing anyway that Saturday ...
OBESITY GENE TRIES TO TELL BRAIN TO STOP EATING, NEW STUDY CLAIMS.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: Washington Post The first study of how a recently discovered ``obesity gene'' functions in overweight people indicates that the gene, far from being defective, is working overtime to signal the brain that the body has plenty of fat. The findings suggest ...
COUPLE KILLED AS AIR FORCE JET CRASHES INTO TEXAS BUILDING.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press WICHITA FALLS, Texas An Air Force training jet billowing black smoke crashed into an apartment complex Wednesday, engulfing one building and several cars in flames. At least two people were killed and 20 injured. The T-38's two pilots ...
REMAINS OF 2 VICTIMS OF OKLAHOMA BOMB GO TO FUNERAL HOMES.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY The remains of two of the last three victims pulled out of the federal building were turned over to funeral homes Wednesday and relatives prepared for their funerals. The bodies of federal credit union employees Christy Rosas, ...
CALIFORNIA TO GET NUCLEAR WASTE SITE.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: New york Times WASHINGTON The Clinton administration Wednesday agreed to transfer a long-contested tract of desert to California as a place to bury radioactive waste, despite repeated promises to environmentalists that it would not act until lawsuits were settled and ...
JURORS VIEW VIDEO IN TRIAL OF SLAY SUSPECT.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press TORONTO Jurors in one of Canada's most sensational murder trials watched a home video Wednesday that prosecutors said depicted defendant Paul Bernardo and his ex-wife performing sex acts on her unconscious sister. Bernardo's ex-wife, Karla ...
D.C. GETS FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: New York Times WASHINGTON President Clinton on Wednesday named a former governor of the Federal Reserve Board to head a new financial control board that will have final authority over every aspect of the District of Columbia's finances until the city's fiscal crisis ...
PRINCE CHARLES VISITS IRELAND.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press DUBLIN, Ireland Welcomed by many and condemned by a few, Prince Charles set foot in Ireland on Wednesday, the most senior British royal to make an official visit to Dublin since 1911. ``I've always looked forward to coming to Ireland,'' ...
DEAF TEEN WANTS TO LEAVE HER PARENTS.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press WILMINGTON, N.C. A deaf teenager who says her parents refuse to learn sign language pleaded with a judge Wednesday to let her live permanently with her interpreter. Her father said he could ``stomp my foot and point'' to communicate, or write letters ....
A BRAND-NEW FORUM FOR CHAVIS' AGENDA.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON Benjamin Chavis returned to the national civil rights scene Wednesday as head of a new organization. It seeks to carry out the quasi-nationalist agenda he espoused but couldn't make stick at the NAACP. This new entity, the ...
WOODPECKERS MAY POKE HOLES IN SHUTTLE PLANS.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Pesky woodpeckers could delay space shuttle Discovery's launch next week. For the past several days, yellow-shafted flicker woodpeckers have been chipping away at the insulating foam on Discovery's big external fuel ...
POWER'S ON AS TORNADO-TORN TOWNS RECONNECT TO NORMALCY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: JOE MAHONEY Staff writer Utility service was restored to all but a few dozen residents in the tornado-torn Massachusetts towns of the Berkshires on Wednesday, as a sense of normalcy began to return despite the scars left on the landscape. ``The major lines ...
HOUSE INTRUDER MOVED TO MENTAL HOSPITAL.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON The man who climbed the White House fence last week and was shot by a Secret Service agent has been moved to a mental hospital. Prosecutor Eric Dubelier told a federal magistrate Wednesday that Leland William Modjeski was ...