Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from August 1996:
CHECK IT OUT! SPORT UTILITIES ARE NOW POPULAR VEHICLE CHOICES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1996 ... One of the most popular current choices in the automotive world is the sport-utility vehicle. Because they have become so popular, it seems as if just about every manufacturer now makes at least one of them. In fact, several local dealers estimate that at least 40 percent of ...
AUGUST IS UPON US WITH A SELECTION OF SEVERAL MORE CAR SHOWS TO ENJOY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: Peg Shiro Automotive Weekly Editor Today's the day to flip the calendar page over to a new month. While we're at it, let's grab a pen or pencil to fill up some of those August dates with car shows. As is our custom, these shows won't be repeated in future ...
A READER WRITES US AN ARTICLE ON VALKYRIES RAISED SOME QUESTIONS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Richard Truett's article about Honda's Valkyrie motorcycles in your Automotive Weekly edition of July 11 needs some clarification. The shaft-drive he described as ``modern'' has been used by BMW and Moto-Guzzi for more than half a century. Harley-Davidson tried it in a military ...
AUTOMOBILES ALSO SPAWNED A BIG FASHION INDUSTRY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: Genevieve Buck Chicago Tribune On occasion, when the temperatures reached the upper 80s or low 90s, the fellow who owned a motorcar in the early 1900s might suggest that his passengers leave their heavier coats and gloves at home before heading out for a summer drive. ...
EVEN BACK THEN IN THE LATE 1930S, SOME CARS WERE DESIGNED FOR SAFETY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: North America Syndicate, Inc. Here's a car with special sentimental appeal to this writer! I bought one for $125 from a used-car lot when I was a junior in high school. It was a tan 1937 Plymouth P-4 Deluxe touring sedan -- the type with an extended trunk and ...
IN THE AUTO INDUSTRY'S 100 YEARS, SOME MODELS MADE BIG IMPACTS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: Jim Mateja Chicago Tribune One hundred years. Despite some bumps and bruises along the way, there isn't an age line or liver spot showing. The U.S. auto industry has survived its first century and is going strong. At least it's going a lot ...
CHARGING IN THE RAIN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1996 ... CAPTION(S): ALL PLUGGED IN -- Ten-year-old Alison Willuweit of Detroit charges General Motors' new EV1 electric car using the new Magne Charge inductive charging technology. ``We chose inductive charging because it is safe, efficient and convenient for our customers to use,'' ...
FOR PATTI LABELLE FANS, IT'S TIME TO PARTY AGAIN.(PREVIEW)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: GREG HAYMES Staff writer More than just a soul singer, Patti LaBelle is a bona fide force of nature, a vocal volcano who whips up a hurricane-like performance eliciting a tidal wave of applause. She creates a unique one-to-one love fest with her fans at ...
PARK JAM EXPANDING TO 2-DAY MUSIC FESTIVAL.(PREVIEW)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: GREG HAYMES Staff writer Park Jam began as part of the annual Tuesday in the Park celebration in Central Park (Duck Pond Road, Schenectady), but it has grown so popular that this year Park Jam will expand to a two-day fest, taking place on Monday and Tuesday. ...
TOWER OF POWER'S SOUND CHALLENGES NEW LINEUP.(PREVIEW)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: SALVATORE CAPUTO The Arizona Republic It's good to audition to sing in a band your spouse loves. ``My wife is a big Tower of Power fan,'' Brent Carter said from his home in Decatur, Ga. ``I said to my wife, `Should I audition for Tower of Power?' and she said, ...
LAKE GEORGE OPERA HAS WIDE REPERTOIRE.(PREVIEW)(Opera review)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: RON EMERY Special to the Times Union QUEENSBURY -- When Joseph Illick took on his job as artistic director and conductor at the Lake George Opera Festival three years ago, he promised a summer repertory that would include a popular favorite, a bill of one-acts, and a ...
PERLMAN FOCUSES ON KLEZMER TRADITION.(PREVIEW)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: MARTIN STEINBERG Associated Press The ground-floor door of the century-old brownstone swings open, and staring up from a motorized wheelchair is a beaming Itzhak Perlman, the master of Mozart and Mendelssohn and now, born-again Jewish klezmer musician. ...
MUSIC KEEPS TOUSSAINT IN SPOTLIGHT.(PREVIEW)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: FRED SHUSTER Los Angeles Daily News LOS ANGELES -- It's not every day you pick up the telephone and hear the funky Crescent City piano stylings of R&B great Allen Toussaint live on the other end of the line. But during a recent interview from his famous ...
AS ROCK CHANGES, MEAT LOAF STAYS THE SAME.(PREVIEW)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: BRIAN MCTAVISH Kansas City Star A lot has changed in the rock world in the 18 years since Meat Loaf vaulted to stardom with the hit album ``Bat Out of Hell.'' At least one thing hasn't: Meat Loaf. The hefty rock-'n'-roller hasn't lost his work ...
THINGS WILL BE HOPPING IN MALTA.(PREVIEW)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Parade Ground Village in Malta will sponsor a frog jumping contest today from 5 to 7 p.m. All activities are scheduled to go rain or shine (the frogs prefer rain). Loaner frogs will be available from a frog stable at the event, or contestants may bring their own amphibians ....
HEROIN'S TERRIBLE TOLL.(PREVIEW)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Here's a partial roll call of victims who died directly or indirectly of heroin-induced complications, according to ``The New Book of Rock Lists,'' by Dave Marsh: PEOPLE WHO DIED: The New York Dolls/Heartbreakers' Johnny Thunders. The New York Dolls' Billy Murcia. Sid Vicious ....
`ALADDIN' SEQUEL AMONG RELEASES.(PREVIEW)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: JOHN HARTL Seattle Times The straight-to-video market this month is Sequel City, dominated by Disney's heavily ballyhooed second follow-up cartoon to one of its biggest theatrical hits. ``Aladdin and the King of Thieves,'' which bows Aug. 13 for $25 per tape, ...
RECORDINGS.(PREVIEW)
Aug 01, 1996 ... JAZZ/SWING ``Hot.'' Squirrel Nut Zippers. (Mammoth): 8048 Ever feel as if you were born in the wrong era? Well, so do North Carolina's Squirrel Nut Zippers. Playing what they call ``hot music'' (based on jazz and swing from the '20s through the '40s), the ...
WILBUR'S `LEARNED' EFFORTS RETURN TO WILLIAMSTOWN.(PREVIEW)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: MICHAEL ECK Special to the Times Union Richard Wilbur can write poems, oh can he write poems. He can write stories, articles songs and sonnets. He can't write plays though. At least not to hear him tell it. Wilbur can do just about anything with his pen except ...
A `LOST' WORK OF SHAW A BERKSHIRE FIND.(PREVIEW)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: MICHAEL ECK Special to the Times Union This summer's theater season has been rich in remounts of classics (Arthur Miller's ``All My Sons,'' August Strindberg's ``Miss Julie'' and Tennessee Williams' ``The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore,'' all at Williamstown ...
WAYLON JENNINGS CONCERT TO BENEFIT D.A.R.E.(PREVIEW)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: GREG HAYMES Staff writer It seems as though the recent Lollapalooza bash headlined by Metallica won't be the only concert at the nearby Green Mountain Park in Vermont this summer. The Pownal track -- formerly known as the Green Mountain Race Track -- will be ...
CONGRESS COMPROMISES ON INSURANCE.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: DAVID HESS AND R.A. ZALDIVAR Knight-Ridder WASHINGTON -- House and Senate negotiators agreed Wednesday night on a hard-fought health insurance reform bill that will enable workers to keep their coverage if they lose or change their jobs. The measure, which ...
CLINTON ENDORSES WELFARE REFORM PLAN.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: ROBERT PEAR New York Times WASHINGTON -- After hours of suspense and soul-searching, President Clinton said Wednesday that he would sign a bill that reverses six decades of social welfare policy and touches the lives of tens of millions of people. The bill ...
GIRL BATTLES BACK FROM DEATH'S BRINK.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: HOLLY TAYLOR Staff writer SCHENECTADY -- When Ellis Hospital doctors rushed Cindy Waters into emergency surgery May 25, they found killer bacteria raging through the muscle tissue inside her chest. Plastic surgeon Bruce Barach removed dead tissue from the left ...
NEW WHOOPING COUGH VACCINE OK'D.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Parents afraid to vaccinate their babies against whooping cough because of side effects got their first alternative Wednesday: a vaccine that promises millions of infants safer shots. The Food and Drug Administration approved ...
AGENTS SEARCH GUARD'S HOME.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: HELEN KENNEDY, DARIN KLAHR AND RICHARD SISK New York Daily News ATLANTA -- A small army of federal agents and a bomb-sniffing dog swooped down on Olympics bombing suspect Richard Jewell's apartment Wednesday, scouring his home for evidence that could link him to ...
PLAYSKOOL RECALLS BABY CARRIERS.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Playskool Baby Inc. is recalling 38,000 ``Fold N' Travel'' lightweight plastic carriers for infants because babies may fall out of them, the government said Wednesday. The company has received 10 reports of children falling from ...
IMMIGRATION BILL AWAITS AGREEMENT FROM SPECTER.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Republicans at odds over an immigration bill are waiting to hear whether a key colleague -- Sen. Arlen Specter -- will agree to a compromise that would allow states to charge tuition to undocumented immigrant children in public schools. ...
UNIDENTIFIED VALUJET VICTIMS IN COMMON GRAVE.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press MIAMI -- More than two months after the ValuJet crash, the remains of still-unidentified victims were laid to rest in a common grave Wednesday, a single red rose on each of the black caskets placed side-by-side in a cemetery plot. Some of the ...
CATHOLIC LEADER BACKS EMBRYO DEMISE.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press LONDON -- Breaking ranks with the Vatican, the leader of England's Catholics backed the imminent destruction of some 3,000 abandoned human embryos Wednesday despite calling them ``frozen human life.'' Today, fertility clinics are scheduled to ...
COMPROMISE NEAR ON MINIMUM WAGE, BUSINESS TAX CUT.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: DAVE SKIDMORE Associated Press WASHINGTON -- House and Senate negotiators struck a tentative agreement Wednesday clearing the way for final congressional approval of legislation raising the minimum wage and cutting taxes on businesses. The deal, which House ...
CARGO BIN EYED IN TWA CRASH.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: PAT MILTON Associated Press EAST MORICHES -- Investigators think that if a bomb destroyed TWA Flight 800, it most likely exploded in a front cargo bin that held passenger luggage, a source close to the investigation said Wednesday. That could narrow the search ...
SETTING TERMS FOR ENDORSEMENT, BUCHANAN PUTS IDEALS AHEAD OF PARTY.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: VIC OSTROWIDZKI Times Union Washington bureau WASHINGTON -- Pat Buchanan laid down three conditions Wednesday before he would endorse Bob Dole for president: The Republican party platform, Dole's vice presidential running mate and the tone of the convention orators must ...
AFRICAN LEADERS ACT ON BURUNDI.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press ARUSHA, Tanzania -- African leaders agreed Wednesday to impose sanctions on Burundi for a military coup last week that ousted the country's fragile coalition government and heightened ethnic tensions. The leaders provided no details on how ...
ACCORD REACHED ON TERRORISM BILL.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Key lawmakers reached agreement with the White House on a package of anti-terrorism measures Wednesday that would expand wiretapping authority, aim to tighten airport security and allow prosecution of suspected terrorists under federal ...
PATAKI SAYS REFORM BILL WILL COST STATE MILLIONS.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press ALBANY -- Gov. George Pataki said Wednesday that the federal welfare reform bill could cost New York hundreds of millions of dollars. Pataki said he is most concerned about a provision in the legislation allowing the federal government to deny ...
FBI COUNSEL REGRETS TIPPING OFF WHITE HOUSE.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: Washington Post WASHINGTON -- FBI general counsel Howard Shapiro has acknowledged he was wrong to alert the White House July 15 to politically damaging information concerning the former White House security chief. Shapiro told Senate staffers in an interview ...
ISRAEL PLAN ON PEACE OUTLINED.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press JERUSALEM -- A Palestinian state with its capital in a West Bank suburb of Jerusalem, a land swap and compensation for refugees -- that was the blueprint for a peace accord reached by Israel's former Labor Party government and Palestinian negotiators. ...
SAUDI ARABIA TO SHARE COST OF RELOCATING TROOPS.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The United States and Saudi Arabia will split the $200 million cost of relocating 4,000 U.S. troops to prevent further terrorist attacks, the Pentagon announced on Wednesday. The agreement came during meetings between Defense ...
RUSSIA, REBELS CLASH IN CHECHNYA.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press MOSCOW -- Russian aircraft raided southwestern Chechen villages for a third day Wednesday -- killing and wounding civilians -- and rebels attacked federal troops around the capital Grozny. In their hunt for separatist fighters hiding in the ...
DAY CARE OWNER CHARGED WITH DEADLY PLOT.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press FEDERALSBURG, Md. -- Inside the clapboard farmhouse where she ran a day care center, Carolann Pollard spent a year trying to poison her husband by sprinkling lead powder on his food, police allege. The poison made James Pollard sick enough to ...
CONGRESS KILLS HIV MEASURE.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: Scripps Howard WASHINGTON -- Congress has quietly killed a controversial measure that would have ordered the military discharge of all GIs who test positive for the human immunodeficiency virus. Negotiators from the House and Senate agreed Tuesday to erase ...
DON'T GIVE TERRORISTS A HAVEN.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... President Clinton is much too optimistic in his assessment that `'eventually'' our key allies will come around to his way of thinking on state-sponsored terrorism. The grim fact is that other nations are no closer to supporting U.S. efforts at punishing such outlaw states as Syria, Sudan, ...
HOW TO FIGHT TERROR.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... In what may prove to be a final effort to get an anti-terrorism bill through Congress, President Clinton has reportedly agreed to drop his earlier insistence that chemical markers known as taggants be required in explosives and gunpowder. Such markers would make it easier for law officials ...
GOODBY, `PRAVDA;' HELLO, TRUTH.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Pravda, the Soviet organ of communist thought since Lenin, is dead. Its owners, two Greek millionaires, have pulled the plug on a newspaper that is losing money and has long been losing circulation. One of the owners explained that ``the editors and reporters drink too much ....
`HUNCHBACK' DOESN'T COMPARE TO OTHER ANIMATED FILMS.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: PETER W. GUERIN HUDSON FALLS I have to disagree with Pamela Constable's article about Walt Disney's watered-down version of ``The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' that appeared in the Perspective section July 21. Disney's been trying to peddle this travesty of Victor ...
CALL FOR COUNTYWIDE REVALUATIONS BASED ON FALSE PREMISE.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: DONALD F. GRUPE Town of Milton Assessor's Office BALLSTON SPA I am one of those self-serving assessors who disagree with you about countywide assessing. Having been an assessor for 30 years, both elected and appointed, been through a countywide revaluation, and having ...
SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING TEACHES SPIRIT OF TEAMWORK.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: VALERIE AND STANLEY ZALEN ALBANY PeachMZ@worldnet.att.net Thank you for ``Grace Under Water'' (Sunday, July 28), which gives positive exposure to synchronized swimming. As parents who feel that children's participation in team sports enhances self-esteem, self-confidence ...
KATIE HERRICK A GOOD EXAMPLE FOR TODAY'S TEENS.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: ROBERT D. RAGSDALE VALATIE The future of our country is in good hands if Katie Herrick (Times Union, July 19) is an example of our young people. Her ...
NEIGHBOR OUTRAGED AT TIME IT TOOK TO REHAB BUILDINGS.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: REZSIN ADAMS ALBANY Now that work has finally begun on the Lemme's buildings, corner of State and Lark streets, in downtown Albany, I can finally vent my anger. I hold former Mayor Whalen responsible for permitting this eyesore, with which we who live in the neighborhood ...
SUDDENLY, NOTHING IS THE SAME.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: Suzanne Fields TODI, Italy -- My husband and I were aboard Delta Flight 148 to Rome -- we were 35 minutes ahead of TWA Flight 800 on the runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport. But for a whim, we would have been on the later plane. A TWA flight to ...
A GIANT SHELL GAME SNARES TAXPAYERS.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: MICHAEL R. LISSACK ``Have I got a deal for you!'' For many municipalities throughout the United States -- not just California's Orange County -- they are the words of Wall Street. The Orange County investment pool disaster is but one in a long history for ...
TIBETANS SHOULD BE ON A PATH TO INDEPENDENCE.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: TSOLTIM N. SHAKABPA The issue of Tibet's future appears to be a topic the world would rather not deal with. But like the San Andreas Fault, it is a phenomenon that exists and no ostrich formula can avoid the worldwide impact its eruption will produce. Prior ...
BOB DOLE: HE'S NO CLARK GABLE.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: Maureen Dowd HOLLYWOOD -- That's entertainment. Still, enjoyable as it was to see Bob Dole wag his finger at the overexposed Demi Moore, he wasted his time coming out here to preach about Hollywood values. Hollywood will always follow the money, ...
POLICE CHARGE 2 IN ALBANY STABBING DEATH.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: CAROL DEMARE Staff writer ALBANY -- An Albany teen and a Bronx man were charged late Wednesday night with the stabbing death of a 33-year-old man in an Elberon Place apartment, police said. Police charged Allen Johnson, 26, of Undercliff Street, the Bronx, ...
RUSSIAN ADVENTURERS SEE THE WORLD.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: WINIFRED YU Staff writer CASTLETON -- Nearly four months ago, Vladimir Koretsky and his son Rusian left their home in Volgograd, Russia, for Cleveland, Ohio, by way of the Volga River, the Black Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. On Wednesday, father and son, along ...
SARATOGA RACING SEASON OFF TO A ROARING START.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: KENNETH C. CROWE II Staff writer SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Attendance at Saratoga Race Course climbed 41.7 percent for the first week of racing, leaving local businesses betting that a successful summer season will be a sure thing. Good weather, early promotional ...
STRUGGLE OVER ARBOR HILL.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: JAY JOCHNOWITZ Staff writer ALBANY -- The Arbor Hill Development Corporation erupted this week with charges of financial mismanagement and covert agendas as two neighborhood leaders struggle for control of the non-profit group. An Arbor Hill board ...
HALFMOON HOUSING PLANS DRAW FIRE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: BOB GARDINIER Staff writer HALFMOON -- Plans for a 400-unit apartment complex at routes 9 and 236 are drawing strong criticism from residents, who fear the development will add to growing suburban sprawl and traffic congestion. Developer Victor Gush of ...
DELMAR MAN SAYS HE'S READY FOR BENCH.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: DAN FREEDMAN Times Union Washington bureau WASHINGTON -- Clarence J. Sundram, a nominee for a federal judgeship in Albany, told a Senate panel on Wednesday that he is ``well prepared'' for a spot on the bench even though he has never litigated a case. ``I'm ...
PUPIL'S HARASSMENT LAWSUIT TO PROCEED.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: JOHN CAHER Staff writer ``A female student should not be required to run a gauntlet of sexual abuse in return for the privilege of being allowed to obtain an education.'' So said Chief U.S. District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy in a decision this week in which he ...
PATAKI SIGNS LAW GRANTING TUITION ASSISTANCE TO GUARD.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: RICK KARLIN Staff writer ALBANY -- Gov. George Pataki on Wednesday signed into law a program to help members of the National Guard pay their college tuition. Envisioned as a way to attract more people to the Guard, the tuition incentive award program can ...
ELISA'S MOTHER GETS 15 YEARS TO LIFE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- The mother whose murder of her young daughter forced an overhaul of the city's child-welfare system sobbed and said she was sorry Wednesday as a judge sentenced her to 15 years to life in prison. Justice Alvin Schlesinger of ...
MOTHER REGRETS DESERTING HER SON.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press AIKEN, S.C. -- When times got too tough for her to bear, teenage mom Tamekka Adams took her then 4-year-old son to New York and abandoned him in a toy store. Now she says wants him back -- the same day New York officials said they want her to face ...
BLUE CROSS SUED ON CHIROPRACTIC CARE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1996 ... Byline: -- Associated Press ALBANY -- A trade group representing chiropractors said Wednesday it has sued Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield for not reimbursing customers for chiropractic care. The class-action lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan ...