Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from January 1996:
FACE OF TROY POLITICS CHANGES WITH PATTISON NEW MAYOR SAYS HE'LL BE PRAGMATIC.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: TIM O'BRIEN Staff writer TROY With his rumpled clothes and ever-present cigarette as he walks down River Street, Mark Pattison does not look like your typical mayor. He's lost the beret he habitually wore, and his thin brown hair is shorter since his ...
OUT WITH THE AULD, IN WITH THE NEW.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press Across the United States and around the world, it was time to bid 1995 farewell Sunday and herald the start of a new year. Bells and whistles welcomed the Year of the Rat in Japan and nature-lovers saluted the end of 1995 in the nude on a ...
GOVERNOR PAYS TRIBUTE TO BRIZZELL'S NEW JOB.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: LARA JAKES Staff writer COLONIE It was a fitting welcome for the town's first female supervisor, as a slew of politicians from the governor on down turned out Sunday to watch Mary Brizzell take the reins of one of the most powerful communities in the Capital Region. ...
ALBANY'S FIRST NIGHT IS LAST WORD IN FESTIVE.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: YANCEY ROY Staff writer ALBANY Thousands of Capital Region revelers welcomed the new year by gathering Sunday night in downtown Albany for the 10th annual First Night celebration. Buoyed by the clear, dry weather compared to last year's ice storm, this ...
BUDGET DEADLOCK CARRIES INTO '96.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: LARRY MARGASAK Associated Press WASHINGTON Senate Republican and Democratic leaders assured more than a quarter-million federal workers of a dismal New Year's Eve on Sunday, as they rejected each other's proposals to send the employees back to their jobs. ...
U.S. SEES NEW LAW AS WELCOME FOR CRIMINALS.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: THOMAS W. LIPPMAN Washington Post WASHINGTON The list of countries that give the United States serious grief does not usually include Seychelles, a tiny nation of 73,000 people scattered on remote islands in the Indian Ocean. But the government there got ...
TRILLIN'S GOING BACK TO `TIME'.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Writer and humorist Calvin Trillin is returning to his journalistic roots: Time magazine. Trillin, who worked for Time before joining The New Yorker in 1963, will write a weekly column for the magazine starting in February, Time's managing editor Walter Isaacson announced ...
REBUILDING A LIVERPOOL JEWEL.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... For a rusting 100-year-old iron and glass house full of palm trees, here comes the sun. George Harrison has joined efforts to rescue the ``jewel in the crown'' of the Beatles' hometown. The Victorian Palm House in Sefton Park in Liverpool, England, topped by three tiers of glass ...
ROSE PARADE REALLY GETS RIBBET.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... It isn't easy being grand marshal. Kermit the Frog, the Muppet of ``Sesame Street'' and movie fame, will lead today's Rose Parade, but not without a little behind-the-scenes logistical help from Tournament of Roses organizers and Hollywood specialists. Putting a frog ...
TRADE HEAD TAKING OVER AS JAPAN'S PRIME MINISTER.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: SHIGEYOSHI KIMURA Associated Press TOKYO The prime minister will quit in April and hand his job over to Trade Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto in an effort to boost the governing coalition's chances of winning the next election, Japan's largest circulation newspaper reported ...
CANDIDATE ARAFAT VOWS FAIR ELECTION.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: SAID GHAZALI Associated Press QALQILIYA, West Bank Trying to show he is not hoarding power in self-rule areas, PLO chief Yassir Arafat urged Palestinians on Sunday to vote for the superior candidate in upcoming elections even if it's not him. ``I appeal to ...
BRIDGE TO BOSNIAN MISSION COMPLETE.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: JEFFREY ULBRICH Associated Press ORASJE, Bosnia-Herzegovina Lumbering along at 3 mph, U.S. tank platoons crossed a just-completed pontoon bridge into Bosnia on Sunday, the vanguard of what will be a flood of men and machines. Delayed on the Croatia side by ...
WOUNDED GI GETS PURPLE HEART.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press ZUPANJA, Croatia The commander of U.S. Army forces in Bosnia awarded a Purple Heart medal Sunday to the American soldier injured in a land mine explosion. Martin John Begosh, the first American casualty of the NATO peacekeeping effort, ...
MANY BOSNIANS ENTER NEW YEAR WITHOUT LOVED ONES LOST TO WAR.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: HILARY APPELMAN Associated Press TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina With New Year's firecrackers exploding in the distance, Zineta Hidanovic mourned Sunday for her only son, whose death robbed her of the joy of peace. ``It's wonderful that people have something to be ...
EXPERT: CULTISTS KILLED FOR SEEING TOO MUCH.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: WILLIAM J. KOLE Associated Press PARIS The doomsday cult disciples who died last week in a murder-suicide witnessed a similar, 1994 ritual killing, according to a cult expert who believes other witnesses are in serious danger. Jean-Luc Chaumeil, an expert on ...
STOVEPIPE HAT FOR LINCOLN EXHIBIT GETS A FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press CHICAGO This was not just any old hatbox: it was sealed, padded, braced and crated, then delivered with an armed escort. It contained Abraham Lincoln's stovepipe hat, brought to town for what the Chicago Historical Society calls the most ...
PRISON ESCAPEE CAUGHT BY CITIZENS.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press LAS VEGAS A convict who escaped from prison picked the wrong house to break into Sunday: He was tied up by the couple who lived there. ``Our people were chasing him the entire time and that's why he had to expose himself by breaking into the ...
GARY'S MURDER TALLY REACHES DEADLY PROPORTIONS.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press GARY, Ind. As the deadliest year in this city's history came to a close, the killing didn't let up. Three slayings over the weekend brought the total to 130 20 more than in 1993, when Gary held the title of America's ``murder ...
REPORT SAYS JUSTICE FAILS KIDS IN COURT.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON Too many youths in trouble are left without lawyers a particularly troubling prospect as juvenile courts are doling out tougher punishments, a new American Bar Association study concludes. The report, titled ``A Call for ...
REHNQUIST SAYS STUDY A THREAT TO FEDERAL JUDGES.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: RICHARD CARELLI Associated Press WASHINGTON A planned congressional study of how federal judges perform their duties may be an ``unwarranted and ill-considered'' threat to judicial independence, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist says. The nation's ...
MANY CHRISTIANS BELIEVE THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST IS NEAR.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: LARRY B. STAMMER Los Angeles Times PASADENA, Calif. It is Friday night at the Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Pasadena. The guest preacher, Pastor John Arnott of Toronto, is standing before an enthusiastic crowd in a Hawaiian shirt. ``Fear not, little ...
STUDY LINKS ESTROGEN PILLS, LOW DEATH RATE.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON A new study provides strong evidence that taking estrogen hormone pills significantly reduces the rate of death from all causes for postmenopausal women, and offers even greater protection against heart attacks and strokes. The ...
MARKET OPTIMISM RISING AMONG WALL STREET INVESTORS.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: SCOTT SCHNIPPER Bloomberg Business News NEW YORK The percentage of U.S. investment advisors who say they are optimistic about U.S. stocks has climbed to its highest point since Christmas 1992, according to a poll by Investors Intelligence newsletter. ...
NEW YEAR MEANS NEW LAWS, LIMITS.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: Gary L. Klott The new year is expected to bring a flood of changes in federal laws that will affect the pocketbooks of individuals. The most sweeping changes for 1996 are expected to result from budget negotiations between Congress and the White House. ...
PROPOSALS.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 1996 ... There are plenty of proposals on how to fix New York's energy-distribution system. Here are brief descriptions of a few: ENERGY ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK STATE: Allow utilities and independent power producers to contribute to a pool of electricity that could be bought at market ...
WHO WILL WIN NEW YORK'S POWER STRUGGLE?(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: MICHAEL HILL Associated Press GUILDERLAND The sun sets on a cold winter day, and New Yorkers arrive home from work. Millions of lights are flicked on, millions of thermostats are turned up, millions of TVs are tuned in. In an anonymous brick building outside ...
GOOD COPS, GOOD COLLAR.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Solid professional police work by the Saratoga Springs department has led to the arrest of five suspected burglars in a $11,000 heist. They are believed to be part of a Balkan gang whose members have committed crimes up and down the Eastern Seaboard since 1988. Although police ...
A TAX IS A TAX IS A LOTTERY.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... In an editorial several years ago, we lamented the existence of the state lottery and complained that the poor were especially being made to ``pay'' this ``invisible'' tax. The then-director of the lottery responded by letter to inform us that we were wrong. In fact, he said, ...
A MESSAGE TO STRIKERS.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: Mark Patinkin I am hoping it will end well for the strikers I have been reading about lately. You hope for that when you're a union member. But I know it won't. You rarely win wars with decades-old weapons, and I've grown convinced of something: In ...
COMMUNITY/POLICE BOARD SEEKS INPUT FROM RESIDENTS.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: RABBI MARTIN SILVERMAN Chairman Community/Police Relations Board ALBANY - Last month, members of Albany's community became outraged at an incident that appeared on the surface to be a callous disregard for the sanctity of a church in the City of Albany. ...
STORY LACKS THE LATITUDE TO LOCATE TOWN PROPERLY.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: ROBERT J. ULLERY LATHAM - An Associated Press article Dec. 26 details a concern in Antwerp about the use of a loudspeaker in a church for playing Christmas music. As is often done in reports concerning small communities, the story locates Antwerp in relation ...
DUE PROCESS FOR PRISONERS SHOWS SIGNS OF PROBLEMS.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: KARL H. GOHLKE SLINGERLANDS - I believe that Dan Lynch, in his Dec. 27 column, raised a legitimate concern regarding the cost for compensating pro bono lawyers who prevail for prisoners in cases against the state. However, I feel he may misunderstand why it has to cost ...
FEMINIST UPDATE FOR 1996.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: Suzanne Fields The New Year is catch-up time for feminism. Time to revel in the re-emergence of common sense with all the new opportunities. We needed the spur of radical theories and two decades of a sometimes-nutty debate to come to our senses, but finally ...
NOW THAT YOU'RE FREEZING, THINK GLOBAL WARMING.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: JESSICA MATHEWS Special to The Washington Post In a major event completely missed by the news media, global warming was officially declared under way last week. At a meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Rome, 120 governments agreed that while many ...
YOU MAKE PEACE; YOU EARN TRUST.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: William Safire WASHINGTON For two days last week, at the secluded Wye plantation in Maryland, Israeli negotiators told representatives of Syria's dictator, Hafez el-Assad, of the economic wonders that peace would bring to the Middle East. The Syrians listened, offering ...
CONNERS MUST KEEP HIS COOL.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: Fred LeBrun Albany County's newly sworn-in comptroller, Mike Conners, knows what he has to do to silence his critics, calm his nervous supporters and give himself a political future. The 46-year-old scion of a distinguished Albany political family must keep a ...
REGION'S WEATHER BROUGHT RECORDS, SURPRISES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: BOB GARDINIER Staff writer No snow to start, then a dry spring, a hot summer, drought, a wet autumn and toward the end a lot of snow. A year has come and gone, but its quirky and sometimes dangerous weather will be remembered. It started with worried skiers. ...
PATAKI HINTS HE'D LIKE TO HAVE FIELD WORKING.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: LARA JAKES Staff writer COLONIE Fred Field had planned to lead an easy life in retirement, but Gov. George Pataki may have some other plans for the former town supervisor. Although he would not name a specific job, the governor said Sunday he hopes to lure ...
SIGNORACCI EAGERLY LOOKS TO NEW TERM COHOES MAYOR SAYS FBI PROBE TAUGHT A LESSON.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: TRACEY TULLY Staff writer COHOES Mayor Robert Signoracci raised his right hand, vowed to serve the city into the 21st century and bid farewell Sunday to a year filled with controversy over an ongoing FBI investigation into Democratic Party finances. ``To say ...
CHARGES MAY MOUNT AFTER OFF-ROAD DEATH.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press STAMFORD A man charged with drunken driving after veering off a road and fatally injuring a snowmobile driver could face other charges, State Police said. Lloyd Demetsenare, 49, of Bloomville, Delaware County, drove onto the shoulder and hit ...
PATAKI GREEN-LIGHTS 10 APPELLATE JUSTICES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 1996 ... ALBANY Gov. George Pataki on Sunday designated or redesignated 10 justices within the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court. The justices, whose terms commence today, are: 1st Judicial Department Ernest Hey Rosenberger and Richard W. Wallach, redesignated as ...
PARENTS CHARGED IN CHILDREN'S NEGLECT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK Child welfare authorities took custody Sunday of three small children found filthy and starving when their father called police to complain that their mother had left them home alone for three days. Asked why he hadn't fed or cleaned ...
JOEY'S BARTENDING TROUBLE FOR OWNER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press MASSAPEQUA A bar owner has been arrested for letting convicted felon Joey Buttafuoco work as a guest bartender, Nassau County police said Saturday. Officer James Fullam, a police spokesman, said Frederick Rollo, 26, owner of the Flatliners ...
STATE'S QUALITY OF LIFE DECLINING, THINK TANK SAYS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: JOEL STASHENKO Associated Press ALBANY The quality of life has declined in New York state throughout much of the 1990s, a labor union-affiliated think tank has concluded through an analysis of selected social and economic indicators. The most striking ...
NEW EMISSION STANDARDS TO BEGIN MID-MONTH.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press ALBANY Beginning in mid-January, the state Department of Motor Vehicles will refuse to register 1996 model-year cars and light trucks that don't comply with emissions standards stricter than those set by the federal government. The ...
PROSECUTORS LEARNING TO SEEK DEATH PENALTY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: DONNA LIQUORI Associated Press ALBANY On Aug. 15, 1963, a man was strapped into an electric chair. A jolt of power ran through his body. And Eddie Lee Mays, who was convicted of killing a woman during a robbery, was pronounced dead at 10:04 p.m. He was the last criminal ...
PATTISON, ZWACK HAVE FISCAL CHALLENGES AHEAD IN THE NEW YEAR.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: Joe Picchi The holiday gifts are put away, the crisp winds blow sharply at your face, and the growing mounds of snow lie heavy on the ground. The feeling is all around: a time for rebirth, renewal; a new beginning. In Rensselaer County, and particularly in ...
EDUCATOR LEAVING CITY WITH HONORS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: MARV CERMAK Staff writer SCHENECTADY Walter LeClair, a principal at five different schools during the past 30 years, is stepping out of the education whirl. His diversified career as a headmaster includes steering Oneida Middle School to the distinction of ...
NEW YEAR'S HOLIDAY SCHEDULE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 1996 ... New Year's Day today, there will be some service schedule changes in the Capital Region. The following is a partial list: SHOPPING CENTERS: Shopping malls, except the Troy Atrium, and supermarkets will be open. LIQUOR: Liquor stores will be open from 10 a.m. to noon. BANKS: All ...
STATE'S TINIEST DAILY FOLDS AFTER SALE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press COBLESKILL The Daily Editor, the smallest circulated daily newspaper in New York, will no longer be published, according to a front-page announcement in Saturday's edition. American Publishing Corp. of Chicago bought the newspaper in ...
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE STATISTICS ERRATIC.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: LAURA MECKLER Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio Every month, police officers around the country meticulously compile bundles of domestic violence statistics and dutifully ship them off to their state capitals. You could call it a conscientious effort to comply ...
KENYA'S PROBLEMS WON'T HURT INCUMBENT PRESIDENT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: REID G. MILLER Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya The economy is stagnant. Garbage piles up in major cities. Hospitals run short of medicines, which are stolen by underpaid employees for sale on the black market. Power failures are frequent. Car hijackings, ...
HELEN E. BURKE, 93.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 1996 ... GUILDERLAND Helen E. Burke, 93, of Guilderland Center Nursing Home, formerly of Third Avenue, Watervliet, died Sunday at the nursing home. Miss Burke was born in Watervliet. She was a graduate of St. Brigid's Academy in Watervliet. She had lived in Watervliet until moving to ...
MONTEL WILLIAMS TRIES `90210' FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: Keith Marder Up to now, Montel Williams has been best known as the bald guy with the daytime talk show. After his new drama, ``Matt Waters'' debuts on CBS (WRGB, Channel 6), at 9 p.m. Wednesday, he still will be best known as the bald dude with the talk show ....
THIS TEAM IS MADE FOR BILL-IEVERS.(SPORTS)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: Steve Campbell ORCHARD PARK The visitors have slinked out of town, properly rebuked and ridiculed. Their names will be changed no, totally omitted in case there are any innocent to protect. Besides, any further insults would only deflect attention from where it ...
STONEHILL OUTLASTS UALBANY, 69-62.(SPORTS)
Jan 01, 1996 ... ALBANY Junior guard Kevin Gaskins scored a game-high 25 points and tournament MVP Darryl Taylor added 15 points and nine rebounds Sunday to lead Stonehill to a 69-62 victory over the University at Albany in the championship of the 12th annual Great Dane Classic at the Recreation & ...
CHRISTMAS TREES BETTER AS MULCH THAN LANDFILL.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: MICHAEL LOPEZ Staff writer It's hard to imagine your Christmas tree that symbol of eternal life carved into a duck decoy, or more likely, shredded into mulch and tucked around your spring daffodils, but such is the case. Environmentalists, tree growers and ...
HAPPY HALF-CENTURY, BABY BOOMERS!AS A GENERATION BEGINS TO TURN 50, LIFE HAS CHANGED AND IS CHANGING. AND THERE'S MORE TO COME.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: JANE GLENN HAAS Knight-Ridder America's oldest baby boomers officially jog over the half-century hill today, leading the charge in an 18-year surge of people reaching the big Five-Oh birthday. Nationally, 76 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964 will ...
NEW YEAR'S EVE? LOOK AHEAD TO MILLENNIA.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: JULIE HATFIELD Boston Globe While you may have had a fine New Year's Eve, don't get smug. Some of your friends and neighbors are already working on New Year's Eve 1999, the big one. At the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston, for instance, bookings are being taken ...
HOW CHRISTMAS TREES GET RECYCLED.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Here's a look at how Christmas tree disposal and recycling is being handled in the area: Albany: The city by early this week should begin curbside pick-up of trees, which can be left out on regular trash day. The trees are shredded to mulch and made available for free at the ...
LIFE AFTER THE DEAD, INDEED BUT DIFFERENT, SORT OF.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: STEVE MORSE Boston Globe There will be life after the Dead, after all. The Grateful Dead's name was just retired by surviving band members, but three of those members guitarist/singer Bob Weir, percussionist Mickey Hart and keyboardist Vince Welnick will carry on the ...
MARTIN'S MOVIES BECAME STAR-STUDDED SUCCESSES.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: SUSAN KING Los Angeles Times Dean Martin, who died Christmas morning at 78, had a long and diverse film career. Martin and his comedy partner Jerry Lewis took Hollywood by storm in the early 1950s, starring in several successful farces. After the duo broke up in 1956, ...
`EXHALE' DIRECTOR WHITAKER BREATHES AIR OF SUCCESS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Byline: JOYCE SAENZ HARRIS Dallas Morning News AUBURN, Calif. Forest Whitaker moves, smiling tranquilly, amid the smoke, beer and laughter of John Travolta's birthday party. It's not a real party, of course. It's a scene from ``Phenomenon,'' a Touchstone film in ...
LUGGAGE A GREAT PLACE FOR KEEPSAKES.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jan 01, 1996 ... DEAR HELOISE: I have a friend whose husband has an old piece of green luggage that he had in Vietnam. She wanted to throw it away and he didn't want to part with it. I asked her if he had any pictures or letters that he acquired while he was there. I told her to put all those ...
REUSING PACKING PEANUTS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jan 01, 1996 ... Elementary school students have been known to construct holiday wreaths from packing peanuts, those foam pellets used for mailing. But one business is suggesting a use that's probably more aesthetically pleasing: simply reuse them. Mail Boxes Etc., a Guilderland packaging and ...