Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from November 1996:
ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS POSE NO HEALTH RISK, SCIENTISTS SAY.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: CURT SUPLEE Washington Post WASHINGTON -- Electromagnetic fields generated in and around the average American home by power lines and household appliances pose no discernible hazard to human health, a blue-ribbon scientific panel announced Thursday after three years of ...
FIREFIGHTERS UNION FUMES OVER VOLUNTEER BACKUP.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: TRACEY TULLY Staff writer ALBANY -- A mutual aid program that allows municipalities to share resources in a pinch has tempers raging -- again. The city firefighters union has requested tapes of all radio communications during Monday's fire on State Street to ...
CLINTON SET TO TAKE STATE, POLL FINDS.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: HARVY LIPMAN State editor ALBANY -- President Clinton remains on the road to an overwhelming victory in New York, according to a poll conducted this week for the Times Union and Syracuse Newspapers. The survey of likely voters, conducted by the John Zogby ...
BRITISH RESEARCH BACKS UP U.S. EVIDENCE OF LIFE ON MARS.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: Washington Post British scientists Thursday announced they had found strong new evidence that primitive life once existed on ancient Mars, along with tantalizing hints that similar organisms may even survive today. The team of planetary geochemists analyzed ...
SAUDIS HOLDING BOMBING SUSPECTS.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: R. JEFFREY SMITH Washington Post WASHINGTON -- Saudi Arabian security officials are holding about 40 Saudi citizens alleged to have been involved in the truck bombing of a U.S. military housing complex in Dhahran in June, and have traced the attack to a broad conspiracy ...
SIMPSON AND GOLDMAN CLASH IN THE COURTROOM.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: ANNE BURKE Los Angeles Daily News LOS ANGELES -- A yelling match erupted between O.J. Simpson and Fred Goldman after the father of slaying victim Ronald Goldman accused Simpson of staring at him after court. ``Don't give me any of your goddamn dirty looks,'' ...
TALK HOST TESTIFIES IN HOMICIDE TRIAL.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: BILL CARTER New York Times Jenny Jones, the talk-show host, testified Thursday in the murder trial of a onetime guest on her show, saying that she had almost no involvement in the planning of the show, considered the topic, ``same-sex crushes,'' to be ``light-hearted'' ...
KEVORKIAN FACES 19 CHARGES.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: JOHN HUGHES Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. -- Dr. Jack Kevorkian was charged Thursday with assisting three suicides since June -- a last effort by a defeated prosecutor to put the retired pathologist in prison. Kevorkian, ever defiant, surrendered to police ...
WITH VOTE ON HORIZON, CASINOS FACE TOUGH FIGHT.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: SARAH METZGAR Capitol bureau ALBANY -- New Yorkers don't support expansion of casino gambling to other areas of the state, according to a poll commissioned this week by the Times Union and Syracuse Newspapers. ``Casino gambling has a constituency, but it would ...
FEEL-GOOD VOTERS STILL COOL TO PATAKI.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: SARAH METZGAR Capitol bureau ALBANY -- New Yorkers have become more optimistic about the Empire State in the past six weeks, a new poll shows. But their optimism hasn't translated into an improved job rating for Gov. George Pataki. In a survey of likely New ...
ADS HAVEN'T HELPED D'AMATO.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: HARVY LIPMAN State editor ALBANY -- U.S. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato has raised a couple of million dollars over the past few months to push Gov. George Pataki's proposed environmental bond act -- and spent most of it on commercials that critics have noted seem designed more to ...
CAMPAIGN ROUNDUP.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... 104-year-old is voting for that Thurmond kid SALUDA, S.C. -- When Lois Crouch Addy first voted for president, Bill Clinton and Bob Dole hadn't even been born. The 104-year-old woman can remember shaking Woodrow Wilson's hand at his presidential inauguration, voting in ...
PEROT STEPS UP CAMPAIGN WITH TV ADS.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: KATIE FAIRBANK Associated Press DALLAS -- Ross Perot has money to burn in the waning days of the presidential campaign, and he's using it to blitz TV viewers and pop up at rallies around the country. Perot saved about 75 percent of his more than $29 million in ...
DOLE VOWS TO CAMPAIGN NONSTOP FOR 96 HOURS.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: JILL ZUCKMAN AND CURTIS WILKIEBoston Globe MIAMI -- In a final show of determination, Bob Dole vowed Thursday to campaign nonstop for 96 hours through 14 states to win the '96 presidential race, beginning at noon today in Ohio. ``I will not rest until we have ...
GOP WANTS PROBE OF FUND RAISING.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: LANCE GAY Scripps Howard WASHINGTON -- With the clock ticking down to Tuesday's election, charges and countercharges are flying over Democratic fund-raising activities in Asia. As Republicans goaded President Clinton with charges of stonewalling, Attorney ...
D'AMATO PAC FUNDS DRAW FIRE.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: MARC HUMBERT Associated Press ALBANY -- A political action committee controlled by Sen. Alfonse D'Amato has received a $25,000 contribution from a former finance minister of Iran, the state Democratic Party said Thursday. The D'Amato PAC is being used to ...
HEALTH EXPERT QUESTIONS COUNCIL'S CONCLUSIONS.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: JANE GOTTLIEB Staff writer The dean of the Albany School of Public Health sharply criticized a report issued Thursday that downplays the risk of electromagnetic fields. Dr. David Carpenter likened the National Research Council's report to studies that say ...
VOTERS SHOULD CONSIDER PERFORMANCE, NOT PERSONALITIES.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: PATRICK P. ELLIS ALBANY It's hard not to like Mike Hoblock and Joe Bruno. Both men enjoy well-deserved reputations as decent, honest, likeable men. On the basis of their careers as a whole it would be very easy to cast a vote for either man and not apologize for it. But ...
ASSEMBLY CHOICES.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... OUR OPINION It's a chance for voters to have an impact. While many of the local Assembly races this year feature popular incumbents facing weak or token opposition, there are welcome exceptions. In these races, voters have a real choice between viable candidates who hold sharply ...
PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES HAVE A RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: WALLACE D. MILLER NEWTONVILLE In John Caher's article (Oct. 23) regarding the wrongful-death lawsuit against Albany Police Officer David Armento, Melissa Smallacombe, an Albany attorney representing Armento, stated that the victim ``probably should not have been allowed ...
HOW DOES SATIRE BECOME A CALL FOR ARMS?(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: MARK PATINKIN Among the many articles I've seen on ``The First Wives Club,'' I've yet to find one giving the male point of view. The female view is clear: Most love this movie. They love its message, which seems to be this: If jilted, recovery lies in ...
SOLOMON'S VOTING RECORD WORTH ANOTHER LOOK.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: MARK A. MASLYN Deputy Executive Director American Farm Bureau Federation, WASHINGTON, - D.C. - This letter is in response to numerous statements by Steve James that have unfairly attacked the environmental voting record of Rep. Gerald Solomon. If Mr. James ...
SOLOMON HAS BEEN IN WASHINGTON TOO LONG.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: ROBERT L. BULLOCK SARATOGA SPRINGS Congressman Jerry Solomon is a perfect example of what power and longevity do to a public servant. The former mayor of Glens Falls, now the powerful chairman of the Rules Committee in the House, shows how arrogance comes over a longtime ...
WALKWAY BETWEEN PLAZA, ALBANY DOWNTOWN NEEDS WORK.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: PAULA MERTIK KAREN A. KRAUSS ALBANY As state employees who work for an agency that is located in downtown Albany, we frequently walk to meetings and conferences at the Empire State Plaza. The walkway that was built next to the Knickerbocker Arena was designed ...
THESE KIND OF `RULES' AREN'T WORTH FOLLOWING.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: ELlEN GOODMAN BOSTON -- From time to time in the history of relationships, a creature re-emerges out of the primeval muck and into the limelight proclaiming that she has the secret that will lead women into the happily-married-ever-after. In the 1970s, she ...
WE SHOULD VOTE WITH THE LONG RUN IN MIND.(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: THOMAS SOWELL One of the keys to Bill Clinton's election victory in 1992 was his focus on what he made a central issue of the campaign. ``It's the economy, stupid!'' was the phrase that summed up what his people were told to keep hammering away at. Ironically, the ...
WHAT REDRESS IS THERE FOR AMERICAN TORTURE VICTIMS?(MAIN)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: LEONARD GARMENT WASHINGTON -- Almost 10 years ago, after working on the torture issue as U.S. representative to the U.N. Human Rights Commission, I acquired two American clients who had been tortured by a foreign regime. One, Scott Nelson, had worked as an ...
A LETTER TO A CERTAIN COACH.(SPORTS)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: STEVE CAMPBELL Alex Mancini Head football coach Fonda-Fultonville Braves Dear coach: Congratulations on your latest victory. What a comeback. The way you showed what you were made of has set an example the community will not ...
CROKE PARK A PROUD SITE FOR THE IRISH.(SPORTS)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: SHAWN POGATCHNIK Associated Press DUBLIN, Ireland -- To Notre Dame and Navy, Croke Park is just another place to play a football game. To the Irish people, it's hallowed ground. The north Dublin stadium where the Fighting Irish and Navy will play Saturday is ...
TANUI IS USED TO WINNING.(SPORTS)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: BERT ROSENTHAL Associated Press NEW YORK -- Moses Tanui spent his childhood chasing antelope -- and winning. He is spending his adulthood chasing distance runners -- and still winning. Tanui, a 31-year-old Kenyan, is such a fierce competitor that his Italian ...
CIGAR'S RACING DAYS ARE OVER.(SPORTS)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: JOSEPH DURSO New York Times Any lingering doubts about Cigar's racing career were ended Thursday when his owners confirmed that the 6-year-old bay horse who had captivated the public for two years would race no more. Cigar, who ran third by a neck last ...
NBA REGRESSES TO CELEBRATE.(SPORTS)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: CHRIS SHERIDAN Associated Press When millions of Americans and Canadians sit down in their easy chairs tonight for the first televised NBA game of the season, the newest thing they'll see will look like something from 50 years ago. The New York Knicks and ...
EARLY PLAUDITS FOR ST. ROSE.(SPORTS)
Nov 01, 1996 ... The College of Saint Rose women's basketball team was ranked among the top five teams in Division II by two preseason publications. Meanwhile, Krista Kandere and Ilza Auzina were named preseason All-Americans for the Golden Knights. St. Rose was ranked fourth by Division II ...
ESPN, CNN LAUNCHING SPORTS NEWS ENTERPRISES.(SPORTS)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: SKIP WOLLENBERG Associated Press NEW YORK -- Television's growing news-all-day chorus is getting two more voices and both are talking sports. ESPN and CNN, two of the most famous names in cable programming, are both launching 24-hour sports news networks over ...
UNION FANS, NEW COACH GET ACQUAINTED TONIGHT.(SPORTS)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: MARK SINGELAIS Staff writer SCHENECTADY -- It is Stan Moore's team now, and local fans can judge for themselves how the new Union College hockey coach is doing when he makes his Achilles Rink debut against Providence in a non-league contest at 7:30 tonight. ...
CABLEVISION PACKS A DIFFERENT PUNCH.(SPORTS)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: Combined wire services WOODBURY -- Mike Tyson scares opponents with his punching power. Cablevision Systems Corp. is trying to keep his talent from scaring pay-per-view customers away. Cablevision is selling Tyson's Nov. 9 bout against Evander Holyfield for ...
GUILDERLAND'S FOOTBALL TEAM HOPES THE DREAM CONTINUES.(SPORTS)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: BILL ARSENAULT Staff writer The team wears cleats instead of slippers, but there's no denying that the only way to describe the Guilderland High football team is ``Cinderella.'' The Dutchmen were awarded a berth in the Class AA playoffs despite a 1-5-1 ...
SARATOGA GIRLS ARE RIGHT AT HOME.(SPORTS)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: BILL ARSENAULT Staff writer SARATOGA SPRINGS -- The Saratoga Springs High School girls' cross-country team is the one to beat in the Section II Class A championship meet on the Saratoga Spa State Park course today. The Blue Streaks are not only ranked first in ...
RODRIGUEZ IS AP'S TOP PLAYER.(SPORTS)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- Alex Rodriguez, who began the season batting ninth for Seattle and became the top hitter in the majors at age 21, was voted The Associated Press major league Player of the Year Thursday. Rodriguez hit .358 with 36 home runs and 123 ...
CLASS D FOES SET.(SPORTS)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Northville and Waterford will battle for the Section II Class D boys' soccer title after both teams shut out their opponents Thursday. Northville defeated Fort Ann 2-0, and Waterford beat St. Johnsville, 2-0. The title will be determined Tuesday at Bleecker Stadium at 6 p.m. ...
BEST BETS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Baby, it's the blues Luther ``Guitar Junior'' Johnson and his band the Magic Rockers are sure to give you a memorable case of the blues at Park West at 10 tonight at North Country Commons, Route 146 West, Clifton Park. 371-2100. A chance to dance The ethereal, ...
HELPING, INVADING ARE DIFFERENT.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: JUDITH MARTIN MISS MANNERS: Afew years ago, I was involved in a citywide ministry that matched people who had problems with people who had been through the same problem. After I gave birth to a child with Down's syndrome, I was helped immeasurably by a woman who called ...
SCHOHARIE STUDENT EARNS EAGLE AWARD.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: KATHLEEN DOOLEY Scott Patterson, 16, of Schoharie Central School has joined the ranks of area Eagle Scouts. The Troop 42 member received the award in September. For the past two years, he has been creating a television newscast for the school for his Eagle ...
`DEAR GOD' ANYTHING BUT HEAVENLY.(ENTERTAINMENT)(Movie review)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: LAWRENCE TOPPMAN Knight-Ridder ``Dear God'' is what the road to hell is paved with. It has as many good intentions as a new puppy on the morning after Christmas, and it leaves behind just as large a mess. What are we to make of a movie where Greg Kinnear, a ...
THERE'S SO MUCH TO EXPLORE IN LEIGH'S `SECRETS AND LIES'.(ENTERTAINMENT)(Movie review)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: JANET MASLIN New York Times The secrets that bring such immediacy to Mike Leigh's tender and wrenching new film are not confined to the screen. Leigh, celebrated for his patient, Olympian methods with actors, deliberately keeps those players in the dark as a ...
TV IS GEARING UP FOR ELECTION COVERAGE.(TELEVISION & R)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: Washington Post and wire reports Getting people to tune in may be sort of a problem next Tuesday night, but the networks have released early Election Night lineups. ABC, CBS and NBC will all break for a half-hour of local news at 11 that night. ABC's coverage ...
WRGB WEATHERCASTERS EXPAND RADIO BROADCASTS.(TELEVISION & R)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: JULIE CARR SMYTH Business writer LATHAM -- WRGB-NewsCenter 6 weathercasters began offering forecasts on the last of four Albany Broadcasting Co. radio stations this week. Over the past month, WRGB's Steve LaPoint, Dave Rexroth and Kelly Boland have replaced ...
GUITAR LEGEND'S STYLE A MELODIOUS MYSTERY.(ENTERTAINMENT)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: WAYNE BLEDSOE Scripps Howard Leo Kottke is probably the least imitated guitar legend in America. ``I hear people imitating it,'' says Kottke in a telephone call from the lobby of a Maine airport, ``but they leave out the little things, and those are the things ...
IF IT'S FUNNY, YOU KNOW IT'S FREBERG.(ENTERTAINMENT)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: BILL VIRGIN Seattle Post-Intelligencer Thirty-five years ago Stan Freberg modestly presented ``The United States of America,'' a recorded review of American history from Columbus to Yorktown that became a cult classic. That album was billed as ``Volume 1: The ...
WMHT EXEC MOVES TO YOUTH ORCHESTRA.(ENTERTAINMENT)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: STEVE BARNES Staff writer A longtime public-radio executive recently took over as executive director of the Empire State Youth Orchestra. Karen M. Perretta, who spent nearly 17 years at WMHT-TV and Radio -- including the past six years as the radio station's ...
HOLLYWOOD-ON-AVON.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: STEVE BARNES Staff writer - Cinema offers its own versions of the Bard's works The films ``Looking for Richard'' and ``Romeo & Juliet,'' both opening today, are as different as the Shakespeare plays from which they've been adapted. But the pair share a ...
A CREATED WORLD IS THE BACKDROP FOR THIS `ROMEO'.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: MARTHA ROZETT Special to the Times Union On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's ``Romeo and Juliet,'' Australian director Baz Luhrmann (``Strictly Ballroom'') has given us a pair of star-crossed lovers for the '90s. Luhrmann has chosen two popular young ...
`LOOKING FOR RICHARD' FINDS SHAKESPEARE ACCESSIBLE.(LIFE & LEISURE)(Movie review)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: AMY BIANCOLLI Staff writer ``Looking for Richard,'' Al Pacino's loud and loving exegesis of Shakespeare's ``Richard III,'' is not unlike crossing paths with a street preacher on a noisy corner in Manhattan. The sheer evangelical force of it all is enough to frizz your ...
COUNTDOWN BEGINS FOR 'SPACE JAM' BLASTOFF MERCHANDISING ART HAS BECOME THE ART OF MERCHANDISING.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: DOUG BLACKBURN Staff writer "Space Jam" opens two weeks from today, in case you haven't been counting the days. My 8-year-old son, Max, and his friends are keenly aware of the movie's Nov. 15 premiere, as, I suspect, are many pre-adolescent boys across the ...
FLOMATIC SET TO MOVE TO GLENS FALLS.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: JAMES DENN Business writer GLENS FALLS -- Industrial valve manufacturer Flomatic Corp. said Thursday it plans to move here from Hoosick Falls, bringing 70 jobs immediately and as many as 300 jobs within 10 years. Flomatic plans to buy a 33,600-square-foot ...
SCHWAB ACQUIRES RESEARCH FIRM.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: Bloomberg Business News SAN FRANCISCO Charles Schwab & Co. said it has acquired Washington Research Group, a Washington D.C.-based political and economic research firm, in an effort to boost trading business from institutional investors. The largest U.S ....
COORS EARNINGS RISE DURING 3RD QUARTER.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press GOLDEN, Colo. -- Adolph Coors Co. said Thursday its third-quarter earnings climbed 13 percent as a gain from a royalty dispute with Molson Breweries offset sliding sales. The third-largest U.S. brewer earned $18.7 million, or 49 cents a ...
WENDY'S SERVES UP AN INCOME INCREASE.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: Bloomberg Business News DUBLIN, Ohio -- Wendy's International Inc. said its third-quarter net income rose 30 percent, less than analysts expected, on sales boosted by new menu items and additional restaurants. Wendy's net income climbed to a third-quarter ...
CONSUMER SPENDING INCREASES BY ONLY 0.1 PERCENT.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: JOHN D. MCCLAIN Associated Press WASHINGTON -- More signs of a moderating economy appeared Thursday. A Commerce Department report showed consumer spending -- two-thirds of the nation's economic activity -- increased 0.1 percent in September. Labor ...
WMHT SEEKS ANOTHER SPOT ON TV DIAL, AND MORE OPTIONS.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: JULIE CARR SMYTH Business writer ROTTERDAM -- WMHT Educational Telecommunications is vying for another spot on the TV dial with the possible goal of putting government on television and offering professional training courses. In a recent application to the ...
COMMSOFT SALES SURGE AS DOORS OPEN.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: DAVID ORENSTEIN Business writer EAST GREENBUSH -- With new multimillion dollar accounts with TCI and Cox Communications, telecommunications software-maker Commsoft expects to top $10 million in annual sales next year, president Larry Davis said Thursday. The ...
DOW SURGES BACK ABOVE 6,000 MARK.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- Stocks advanced broadly Thursday as a big drop in oil and other commodity prices bolstered a tame inflation outlook on the bond market, where interest rates sank to their lowest level since April. The Dow Jones industrial average ...
JAPAN SEEKS PERSONAL COMPUTER NICHE.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO -- The Japanese proved they can deliver Walkmans and Hondas with pizzazz. But what are their chances in the fiercely competitive U.S. personal computer market? Up until now, Japanese computer makers, with the exception of ...
INSURERS SETTLE ON EXXON SPILL CLAIM.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: Bloomberg Business News IRVING, Texas -- Exxon Corp. said it has settled litigation with the Lloyd's of London syndicate and other insurers over the Exxon Valdez oil spill for $480 million. The settlement ends years of litigation between Exxon and its ...
CIRCULATION UP AT TOP NEWSPAPERS.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1996 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- Circulation at seven of the nation's 10 biggest daily newspapers improved during the latest six-month period, suggesting that a period of rising newsstand prices and retrenchment may be ending. Newspapers are largely driven by ...