Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from December 1995:
PATAKI TEAM KILLS TV AD ON PREGNANCYLINE IS OVERDRAWN.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: TOM PRECIOUS Capitol bureau Albany Under pressure from the governor's office, the state Health Department has killed an anti-pregnancy public service television ad aimed at teenagers. The ad, according to public health advocates, was seen as being ...
SHE'LL SHARE ONLY A FEW OF HER 9 LIVES WITH PATAKIS.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: PAUL GRONDAHL Staff writer Jenny came into the Patakis' lives on little cat feet. The four children of Gov. George Pataki fell in love with Jenny, a grayish tabby of uncertain breeding who wandered over to the Executive Mansion from Myrtle Avenue, a block ...
COPS ARREST A SELF-STYLED `CAPONE'.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: CAROL DEMARE Staff writer SCHENECTADY For months, Ronald ``Capone'' Smalls, described as polite, well dressed and self-assured, operated a sophisticated round-the-clock illegal drug empire in Hamilton Hill that netted an estimated $3 million last year, authorities ...
CLINTON'S PLEA FOR LASTING PEACE.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: STEWART M. POWELL Times Union Washington bureau BELFAST, Northern Ireland President Clinton consulted with the political leaders of rival Catholic and Protestant factions in Northern Ireland Thursday, urging them to turn a 15-month cease-fire into a permanent peace. ...
GOP BACKS CLINTON OVER BOSNIA.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: STANLEY MEISLER Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON Accepting the argument by Secretary of State Warren Christopher that the issue is ``an acid test of American leadership'' in the world, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., and other congressional Republicans on Thursday ...
ANN LANDERS APOLOGIZES FOR SLUR AGAINST POLES.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press CHICAGO It's 40 lashes with a wet noodle for Ann Landers for referring to the pope as a ``Polack.'' ``I should not have used a slang term for Polish,'' the advice columnist said in a statement Thursday. ``It was poor judgment, and I ...
GM TO PAY $45M TO SETTLE SUIT ON CADILLAC EMISSION CONTROLS.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON General Motors Corp. agreed Thursday to pay $45 million to settle a government suit alleging it deliberately installed devices to circumvent the emissions control systems in 470,000 Cadillac luxury cars. Under the terms of the ...
WHITEWATER PANEL ASKS QUESTIONS OF FIRST LADY.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was asked on Thursday by the Senate Whitewater investigating committee to help solve the mystery surrounding a telephone number that she apparently called on the night of July 20, 1993, shortly after police ...
CLINTON APPROVES BILL FOR DEFENSE SPENDING.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON President Clinton decided Thursday to sign a defense spending bill that he has said is too costly because it will provide the money to send troops and other support to Bosnia. ``This legislation is vital to fund our national ...
HUMAN ACTIVITY CITED IN CLIMATE CHANGES.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: New York Times NEW YORK After intensive review, a United Nations panel of experts on Thursday confirmed its conclusion that human activity is likely to be at least partly responsible for the changing climate. ``The balance of evidence suggests that there is a ...
AID TO PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS DRIES UP.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON For the first time, a cash shortage will keep the government from giving presidential candidates all the federal campaign dollars they are entitled to in January just as campaigns enter the most expensive portion of the primary season. ...
NYNEX SAYS IT TAPED CALLS WITH HONORABLE INTENT.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press BOSTON Nynex secretly recorded thousands of calls to and from its telephone customers in New England and New York without their knowledge, a practice legal experts said violates Massachusetts law. Nynex acknowledged the taping was conducted ...
GINGRICH REQUEST FOR ASBESTOS PROBE DETAILED.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: Washington Post WASHINGTON Rep. Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., asked the Environmental Protection Agency to review the asbestos litigation ``crisis'' after one of the largest contributors to GOPAC, the Republican political action committee Gingrich once headed, sent Gingrich a ...
APOLOGY MADE IN SEARCH OF CLINTON PASSPORT FILES.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON An independent prosecutor issued an extraordinary apology Thursday to Bush administration officials caught up in the probe of a 1992 search of then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton's passport files. While some of their actions ...
BREAST CANCER TEST IS REJECTED.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press GAITHERSBURG, Md. Government scientists Thursday rejected the first genetic test kit designed to predict which breast cancer patients could relapse after surgery and thus need tougher treatment. The test detects a gene believed to spur cancer ...
INSTITUTE ISSUES WARNING ON LONG TAMOXIFEN USE.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON The National Cancer Institute Thursday warned against prolonged use of the widely prescribed breast cancer drug tamoxifen, saying taking it provided little benefit after five years and could be harmful. New studies showed no ...
SHIFT CHANGES MAY PUT FEMALE HEART ON UNSAFE SCHEDULE.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press DALLAS Working rotating shifts may be hazardous to women's hearts, a study suggests. The study, in today's issue of the American Heart Association journal Circulation, says women nurses who worked irregular shifts for more than six years ...
OFFICE UNIT PLAN SHOULD INCLUDE NEW CITY MISSION.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: EDWARD J. KAMPF ALBANY I read with great interest the article in last Sunday's (Nov. 19) paper by Jay Jochnowitz about Albany's building dilemma. I don't believe it's merely a coincidence that the City Mission owns a parcel of land squarely in the middle ...
SOVIET SINS, BY THE NUMBERS.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... The crimes of the former communist countries have been so numerous and so well-documented that it hardly seems to serve a purpose to report, as the international press did this week, that a Russian government commission has found that about 200,000 clerics were slain during the Soviet era ....
IN HARM'S WAY.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: MARIANNE MEANS WASHINGTON The case for sending U.S. troops to monitor the peace pact in Bosnia is not as clear-cut as President Clinton tried to make it seem, but he is strategically and morally correct to commit our power and prestige to the mission. There ...
BUCHANAN DISRESPECTS HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: ISABEL SCHREIBER ALBANYA13306 (the number I received at Auschwitz and which is still on my arm.) Do you know how hurtful it is to me, a survivor of Auschwitz, to have Patrick Buchanan in this area, a man who claims that survivors of the Holocaust may be using ...
CLINTON SHOULDN'T USE BOSNIA FOR HIS OWN POLITICAL GAIN.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: LOUISE C. ALBERTSON WEST COXSACKIE Bill Clinton wants to further his career. He thinks he can increase his chances of re-election by sending our young men and women to Bosnia to be involved in a situation that is so similar to the one he ran from that it is eerie....
STATE MUSEUM DEPICTING THE SPREAD OF WASTELANDS.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: BILL LITHGOW The Ripon Society of New YorkNEW YORK While visiting family in the Capital Region for Thanksgiving, I visited the State Museum in Albany. The exhibit called ``The New American Ghetto'' by Camilo Jose Vergara, a photojournalist, is ...
HACKETT MIDDLE SCHOOL IS EXCELLENT FOR STUDENTS.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: DANIELLE UNSER JOHANNA NEWMAN ALBANYThe writers are eighth-graders at Hackett Middle School It's about time something good has been written about Albany's Hackett Middle School. We thought that it was really unfair how everyone automatically picture ...
AIRPORT PLANS HAVE A COSTLY FAMILIAR SOUND TO TAXPAYERS.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: JIM GINER VOORHEESVILLE This letter via e-mail After reading about the latest correction to the proposed/pending airport expansion, I can only see another you- know-what's coming. Since the key players have made the decision that the parking garage is ...
DON'T `BOOT' THE TRUTH.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... With so many serious matters facing the city, it is unfortunate that Mayor Jennings has to be distracted by something as petty as a brother's parking tickets. Getting parking tickets is hardly a matter of great urgency. Even getting many tickets, as Joseph Jennings, the mayor's ...
JAIL IS THE LAST STAGE OF THE DRUG CRISIS.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: WILLIAM RASPBERRY WASHINGTON A thoughtful Jesse Jackson was musing the other day that he might have taken hold of the wrong end of the drug-abuse stick. He still worries over the unfairness in the drug laws that prescribe 100 times stiffer sentences for possession of ...
DOCTORS ARE TAUGHT TO REGARD DEATH AS DEFEAT.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: ELLEN GOODMAN BOSTON The newspaper comes to my doorstep this morning bearing its daily quota of obituaries. A teacher has died at 65. A costume designer at 81. A civic leader at 79. A company executive at 69. The lives of these people are described as if the ...
THE RIGHT THING TO DO.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: ANDY ROONEY There is no more difficult question that the people of the United States will ever face than whether it is right for us to use our military and economic strength to try to prevent the slaughter of more innocent people in Bosnia. I know where I stand, but I'm ...
DAUGHTER'S DEATH ANOTHER 'HARD TRIAL' FOR ALBANY WOMAN.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: ALAN D. ABBEY Business editor ALBANY Leora Maye was in San Francisco visiting her daughter Linda when she got the news. Her 46-year-old daughter Margie, her neighbor and constant companion, had died. Maye cut short her visit, which was to have been for ...
SOCIAL SECURITY CEILING ON EARNINGS MAY GO UP.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON Republicans in Congress hope by Christmas to send President Clinton legislation to allow working Social Security recipients to earn more money without losing benefits. The House Ways and Means Committee approved the bill, 31-0, ...
TELL EUROPE: `BOSNIA IS YOUR PROBLEM'.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: PATRICK J. BUCHANAN His mentors at Georgetown and Oxford would be proud. For Bill Clinton Monday night emerged as the true heir of Woodrow Wilson. In the name of ``democracy'' and ``peace,'' he committed the U.S. Army to a blood-soaked Balkan peninsula where ...
SMOKE SIGNALS ANOTHER DRUG CASE AGAINST DUO.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: MARC CAREY Staff writer COLONIE Deja vu all over again. That's the situation facing two inmates from Albany County jail, lodged in a holding cell in the Colonie police station while awaiting arraignment Wednesday night on charges of having marijuana inside ...
A BOOK THAT'S BOUND TO PROVOKE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: RALPH MARTIN ``The mark of a man,'' Ralph Martin was saying last night, ``is to raise a child, to write a book and to build a house. I've raised a child. Now I've written the book. But I live in an apartment.'' Ralph Martin was standing at a podium in The ...
MAYOR VOWS CHURCH ARREST WON'T OCCUR AGAIN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: KATE GURNETT Staff writerALBANY Mayor Jerry Jennings made a promise to city residents Thursday: No more arrests in church. - Faced with concerned religious leaders, agitated politicians and an angry NAACP over the arrest of 18-year-old choir drummer Jhamel Clark at ...
ALBANY SUFFERS FISCAL SETBACKS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: JAY JOCHNOWITZ Staff writer ALBANY In just three weeks since Mayor Jerry Jennings proposed a $96.2 million budget and a tax hike in 1996, Albany has lost more than a million dollars in assessments and 20 feet atop its dump. Those hits mean money $1.3 million ...
SAFE-SEX ADVOCATES OFFER MESSAGE, MEANS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: RICK KARLIN Staff writer - ALBANY Plastic shopping bag in hand, Randy Viele is patrolling the front lines in the war against AIDS. His battlefield Thursday was along Lark Street and Central Avenue in Albany. The first pre-emptive strike is at ...
LAWMAKER SAYS HE'LL TRY TO OPEN CHILD ABUSE CASES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: RICHARD PYLE Associated Press NEW YORK A state lawmaker said Thursday he will try again to have child abuse cases opened to public scrutiny this time with a proposed ``Elisa's law,'' named for 6-year-old Elisa Izquierdo. At a Senate committee hearing, city ...
COURT LIMITS NEGLECT RULE ON ADDICTED NEWBORNS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: JOEL STASHENKO Associated Press ALBANY The presence of illicit drugs in newborns is, by itself, not enough to justify finding their mothers guilty of neglect, the state's top court ruled Thursday. While a positive drug test on the baby indicates the mother ...
LITTLE INTEREST IN REQUEST TO MOVE GENERAL'S BODY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: MARC CAREY Staff writer ALBANY The office of state Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Commissioner Bernadette Castro Thursday turned a cold shoulder to the effort of Delmar resident Richard ``Red'' Davis in his crusade to have the remains of Civil War hero Gen ....
COYNE MOVES FROM HALFWAY HOUSE TO CLIFTON PARK.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: SARAH METZGAR Staff writer ALBANY Former County Executive James J. Coyne Jr. is now living in Clifton Park, released last week from a halfway house to home confinement. Coyne, 52, is serving the final four months of his 46-month prison sentence for ...
FOOD MULTIPLEX PLAN AGAIN GOES DOWN TO ZONING DEFEAT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: JAY JOCHNOWITZ Staff writer ALBANY It's Pine Hills 3, Dunkin' Donuts 0. In his third attempt to persuade the city's Board of Zoning Appeals to allow him to build a multiplex fast-food restaurant at 1066 Madison Ave., businessman Thomas Burke was again ...
COUNCIL MEETS TO DISCUSS SLOWDOWN COMPLAINTS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: MARV CERMAK Staff writer SCHENECTADY There were so many firefighters called to a State Street fire this week that many had nothing to do, and that may have prompted complaints that emergency personnel were pulling a job slowdown, Councilman Brian U. Stratton said ...
DWI SWEEP SCHEDULED TONIGHT IN ALBANY COUNTY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: BOB GARDINIER Staff writer More than a dozen local police agencies will have officers on the streets and roads tonight in a holiday sweep for drunk drivers, the 19th such patrol coordinated by the Albany County Sheriff's Department since 1989. This year the ...
SALE OF HARMANUS BLEEKER BUILDING IN DOUBT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: JAY JOCHNOWITZ Staff writer ALBANY Albany's five-year struggle to sell the former Harmanus Bleeker library is in doubt this week, with city officials saying the deal may fall through but the developer insisting he hasn't given up. At stake are the $2 million ...
INJURY DEAL TOTALS $4.8M OVER LIFETIME.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: JOHN CAHER Staff writer TROY A 5-year-old Collar City boy who was hurt when he fell off a stairway is on his way to collecting millions, thanks to a settlement. Under the terms of an agreement reached after two weeks of trial, Christopher LaMountain will be ...
BRUNSWICK MAN FACES CHARGES IN ABUSE OF GIRL.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... TROY A Brunswick man is in jail on charges of repeatedly sexually abusing a 6-year-old. Rick B. Carey, 40, of 19 Lindsey Drive is accused of five counts of first-degree sexual abuse and one count of first-degree sodomy, both felonies, and one count of endangering the welfare of ...
TWO INCHES OR MORE DUE IN SNOWSTORM.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: BOB GARDINIER Staff writer December will begin today with a flourish that morning commuters won't cherish. When garage doors open, 2 to 4 inches of snow are expected to be in the driveway. One meteorologist even predicted upwards of 6 inches in some areas of ...
CHILD ABUSE HOT LINE AVAILABLE IN STATE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... TROY Citing a tragic child abuse case in New York City, Majority Leader Neil J. Kelleher of the Rensselaer County Legislature informed residents Thursday that a statewide hot line still remains available to refer all appropriate calls to local social services departments. ``If ...
TROY CASE SET FOR FEDERAL GRAND JURY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: TIM O'BRIENStaff writer TROY A two-year federal investigation into the Troy Housing Authority is now being taken to a grand jury, with the first two witnesses subpoenaed to testify next week. ``In the last month, a member of the FBI staff has been around ...
TROY COUNCIL SLASHES SALARIES OF NON-UNION EMPLOYEES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: TIM O'BRIEN Staff writer TROY Mayor-elect Mark Pattison will be paid 16 percent less than his predecessor as the city's chief executive officer, and 24 other non-union workers will receive the same across-the-board cut. Outgoing members of the City ...
REPUBLICAN SAYS DEMOCRATS WRONG TO REJECT HIM.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: MARV CERMAK Staff writer SCHENECTADY Republican Thomas P. Miceli, defeated in a City Council election bid earlier this month, says city Democratic Party leaders are being unfair to him and he is thinking about running again. Miceli submitted his resume to the ...
OLD NISKAYUNA TOWN HALL NOW A DAY-CARE CENTER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: CHRIS STURGIS Staff writerNISKAYUNA The old Town Hall sure has changed. There are preschoolers conferring in the Town Board room, babies snoozing in the tax office and 2-year-olds toddling in the police station. - You might even think Niskayuna is governed by a ...
REGION'S RESIDENTS GET DEGREES FAR AFIELD.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... The following Capital Region residents graduated from out-of-town colleges: Maureen Lambe, Greenville, master's in theology, St. Bernard's Institute. Takayo Minami, Hillsdale, associate's in nursing, Berkshire Community College. Helen Morone, ...
STUDENTS GET DEGREES FROM PLATTSBURGH.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... The following Capital Region residents graduated from the State University College at Plattsburgh: ALBANY Maria V. Karatzou, bachelor's in biology; Kenneth B. Marcus, bachelor's in medical technology. ALTAMONT Shannon McAllister, bachelor's in ...
BATTLE OVER VAN PATTEN WILL ENDS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: JOHN CAHER Staff writer ALBANY The lengthy and contentious battle over the $37 million estate of Clifton Park developer Robert Van Patten has apparently come to an end with a ruling Thursday by the state's top court. Without comment, the Court of Appeals ...
PATAKI DENIES MOVE TO LIFT LAW.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press ALBANY Gov. George Pataki denied Thursday that his administration was moving to repeal a state requirement that nursing homes set aside large numbers of beds for the poor. ``It is not the policy of this administration,'' Pataki said during ...
PATAKI BACKS PLAN TO REFORM SUNY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press ALBANY Gov. George Pataki said Thursday he supported the idea of giving greater autonomy to individual campuses in the State University of New York system, a key component of SUNY's reform plan. Leaders of the 64-campus system delivered a ...
SPOT STRIKES VOWED ON METRO-NORTH.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK The Metro-North labor talks broke down on Thursday, and union officials promised another spot strike today. The sides have been haggling over a vacation package. ``We'll strike selectively where we want, when we want, ...
STATE SAVES $700,000 WITH NEW CHECK PACT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press ALBANY Issuing checks to state employees, local governments and vendors will cost New York about $700,000 less a year under a new contract with Key Bank, state officials said Thursday. Key Bank, which has had the state's general checking ...
DESIGNER LEAVES $14M TO COLLEGE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press - ITHACA Hollywood designer James Pendleton has left Ithaca College a $14 million bequest, the largest gift ever donated to the 103-year-old school, officials announced Thursday. The funds will be geared toward the college's Roy H. Park ...
GOP REQUESTS A DELAY IN PRIMARY BALLOT REFORM.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK Lawyers for the state Republican Party asked a federal judge on Thursday to delay his order that the qualifying process for the GOP's March 7 presidential primary be overhauled to give candidates easier access to the ballot. ...
LAWMAKER IRKED BY CONDOM COMPLAINTS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... Byline: RICK KARLIN Staff writer ALBANY Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, a New York City Democrat, wants to launch a formal investigation into why the state Health Department didn't do more to publicize the fact that some of the 3 million condoms its AIDS Institute purchased may ...
ALBANY MAN FACES MULTIPLE DRUG COUNTS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... ALBANY A city man faces numerous drug charges after being found in possession of cocaine, crack cocaine and heroin. Steven M. White, 22, of Peyster Street, in the city's Pine Hills section, was arrested by city detectives at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday on a warrant charging him with ...
ALBANY MAN CHARGED WITH RAPING 3-YEAR-OLD.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 1995 ... ALBANY Police arrested a 32-year-old man Thursday and charged him with raping a 3-year-old girl. Willie McDaniels of Sheridan Avenue was arrested by police at about 6 p.m., said Officer Jeff Connery. The alleged sexual activity took place for about six months, police said ....