Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from July 1997:
BARRINGTON HITS RIGHT NOTES WITH `CABARET'.(CAPITAL REGION)(Correction notice)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: MICHAEL ECK Special to the Times Union SHEFFIELD, Mass. -- Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome . . . - Few musicals need as little introduction as the Kander and Ebb classic ``Cabaret.'' Those three little words pop out of the Master of Ceremonies' mouth and you know right ...
ALBANY BANK ROBBER STEALS AWAY INTO LUNCHTIME CROWD.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: LARA JAKES Staff writer ALBANY -- A middle-aged man in business clothes walks in the Hudson City Savings bank downtown Monday and asks tellers to open an account. Moments later, he displays a silver-handled pistol stashed in a black canvas bag and demands cash. ...
HAND-OVER MEANS NEW DUTIES FOR U.S.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: WENDY KOCH Times Union Washington bureau HONG KONG -- Hong Kong's reversion to China has opened a new chapter for U.S.-China relations. With the British gone after ruling Hong Kong for 156 years, the United States is expected to play a heightened role in ...
SILVER REJECTS PATAKI CRIME BILL.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: SARAH METZGAR AND JOHN CAHER Capitol bureau ALBANY -- Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver refused Monday to pass a Republican ``truth-in-sentencing'' crime bill, and said the state already complies with federal guidelines. The Republicans -- Gov. George Pataki and ...
BENEDICT ARNOLD'S SHIP FOUND ON LAKE BOTTOM.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: DAVID GRAM Associated Press - Associated Press/TOBY TALBOT ART COHN of Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and Vt. Sen. Patrick Leahy stand by a gunboat model. FERRISBURGH, Vt. -- A Revolutionary War gunboat that was part of a fleet commanded by Benedict Arnold ...
SUN SETS ON BRITISH HONG KONG.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: BOB DEANS Cox News Service HONG KONG -- Amid pageantry and ceremony symbolizing the ascendance of a growing world power and the effective end of an empire, Britain returned Hong Kong to China on Tuesday, ending a century and a half of colonial rule. Vowing ...
OVERLOADING SUSPECTED IN SPACE STATION COLLISION.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: Associated Press The three men aboard Mir may have caused last week's collision by accidentally stuffing too much garbage into the cargo ship that slammed into the space station. Russian flight controllers are testing the still-orbiting cargo ship to see if ...
GRAND JURY SEATED IN PROBE OF OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY -- A grand jury was chosen Monday to investigate allegations that the Oklahoma City bombing was the work of a larger conspiracy and that federal authorities had prior knowledge of the plot. The county grand jury was empaneled ...
PRINCE CHARLES WATCHES AS RED FLAG REPLACES UNION JACK.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: TED ANTHONY Associated Press HONG KONG -- Britain's prince sailed off. Chinese troops, silent and somber in floodlit buses, crossed the border. A red flag replaced a blue one. And when the sun finally set on the British colony, it rained. Snapshots for Hong ...
CLINTON EDGES CLOSER TO REPUBLICANS ON TAX RELIEF.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Laying down markers in the tax debate, President Clinton offered overtures to Republicans on capital gains cuts and other key issues on Monday but vowed to resist GOP proposals he said provide ``too little relief to the middle class.'' ...
2 IN CLIMBING CLASS DIE AFTER ROCKY TUMBLE.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: -- Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Members of a mountain-climbing class for beginners slipped in the snow, tumbled into their fellow students and dragged all of them 1,000 feet down a mountainside strewn with rocks. Two people were killed and 12 injured. ...
SERGEANT'S ACCUSER WON'T TESTIFY AT HEARING.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: -- Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON -- Retired Army Sgt. Major Brenda L. Hoster, who embarrassed the Army by publicly accusing its top enlisted man of sexual harassment, is declining to testify in a pretrial hearing on the charges for fear of attacks on her reputation, ...
ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER WEIGHS QUITTING.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: Associated Press JERUSALEM -- Israel's foreign minister said Monday that he is considering resigning over the government's sloppy decision-making and its failure to get peace talks with the Palestinians back on track. David Levy's public criticism further ...
LEADER OF ALBANIA SUGGESTS HE WILL RESIGN.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: -- Associated Press TIRANA, Albania -- Bowing to voters' wishes and international pressure, President Sali Berisha conceded Monday that his party had lost the confidence of the Albanian people and suggested he would step down. Gunfire broke out as news of ...
U.N. LOOKS TO BROADEN WAR CRIMES ARRESTS.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: -- Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- In a new strategy to bring war crimes suspects into custody, U.N. prosecutors will give secret indictments to any authority ``willing and able to execute them,'' the chief prosecutor said Monday. Louise Arbour ...
VILLAGERS IN MEXICO ATTACK ARCHAEOLOGISTS.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: -- Associated Press MEXICO CITY -- Dozens of Indian villagers attacked an archaeological expedition trying to remove an ancient Mayan altar from a remote jungle region, reportedly taking three men hostage, officials said Monday. Two other men were missing. ...
GET TOUGH WITH CHINA.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... The argument has become so predictable. The best way to deal with China and to prod it toward an acceptable record on human rights is to continue business, and especially trade, as usual. Engagement it's called, in the often stilted language of congressional debate. Imposing trade ...
BITE OF THE CENTURY.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... The life of Mike Tyson has now gone something like this. From youthful thug to aspiring boxer to championship boxer to convicted rapist to adult thug and boxing has-been. The further unraveling of this deeply troubled man came the other night in the ring in Las Vegas, captured ...
HOLD NORTHERN IRELAND GROUPS TO SAME STANDARD.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: ALLISON NOEL Selkirk A few weeks ago, a young man, Robert Hamill, was walking home through Belfast from an evening with friends, when he found himself suddenly confronted by a gang. This gang, angry that Mr. Hamill mistakenly walked down a street in their neighborhood, ...
EDITORIAL MISREPRESENTS CONCERN FOR HEALTH-CARE COSTS.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: CHARLES LEVEN AARP New York State President New York Your editorial today (June 23) ignored some key aspects about the Senate Finance Committee's reconciliation bill that the American Association of Retired Persons has been pointing out. In addition, it seriously ...
STATE FUNDING NEEDED TO HELP PROBLEM GAMBLERS.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: ELIZABETH A. CONNELLY Member of the Assembly, 59th District Staten Island I was dismayed to read Brian Vats' June 18 letter expressing opposition to state-funded treatment for problem gamblers, citing it was a waste of tax dollars. As a state assemblywoman who has long ...
TEENS NEED HELP MAKING FAMILY-PLANNING CHOICES.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: CRAIG RICHARD JENNIFER CLUNIE Albany The writers are on the steering committee of New Voices, an Albany-based organization for education on reproductive rights for young adults - We are writing in regard to George Will's June 12 commentary concerning the student who gave ...
RESTAURANT HAS OUTDOOR DINING AT THE NINTH HOLE.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: E. WALSH Albany Doug Blackburn's list of places to eat out missed the prettiest one in town, Martel's at the Albany Golf Course. He says very few restaurants that serve breakfast also offer outdoor seating. But at Martel's, you have it: a large patio ...
RACISM IS STILL A PROBLEM IN U.S. TODAY.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: TORI WESTON A Gallup Poll on race relations, released last month, showed great pessimism among young college-educated blacks over whether race relations will ever stop being a problem for this country. Being one of those young college-educated blacks, this ...
LAUDING HEROES ISN'T ENOUGH.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: WILLIAM RASPBERRY WASHINGTON -- It was a conversation guaranteed to frustrate. I wanted to talk about what might reasonably be done to save the schools -- and the school systems -- that are failing so many poor, minority children. Sandra Feldman wanted to talk about ...
THE CASE FOR A MERCIFUL WAY OF DYING IS NOT CLOSED.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: ELLEN GOODMAN BOSTON -- So there is no last right for the dying. No right to doctor-assisted suicide. Not in the Constitution. Not in the Supreme Court's view. Not yet. In a ruling as sober as its subject, all nine justices refused to accept the notion that ...
HUNDREDS GATHER IN PARIS TO MOURN JACQUES COUSTEAU.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: Associated Press PARIS -- In one of France's largest memorial services in decades, nearly a thousand people gathered Monday to honor Jacques Cousteau as a man who led the curious on a voyage of discovery through the world's oceans. President Jacques Chirac ...
NORTH KOREA AGREES TO TALKS WITH SOUTH KOREA, U.S., CHINA.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: STEVEN LEE MYERS New York Times NEW YORK -- Forty-four years after the Korean War ended with a bitter, tenuous cease-fire, North Korea agreed Monday to hold talks with South Korea, the United States and China in an effort to negotiate a lasting peace. The two ...
SCHENECTADY COPS AGREE TO ONE-YEAR PAY FREEZE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: JANE GOTTLIEB Staff writer SCHENECTADY -- City police have agreed to forgo pay raises this year as the result of a new contract the City Council and Police Benevolent Association approved Monday. By a 3-to-1 ratio, about 80 members of the Police Benevolent ...
FACULTY FACE SWIFTER JUSTICE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: RICK KARLIN Staff writer ALBANY -- Thanks to a series of 1994 reforms, the time it takes to bring disciplinary charges against teachers has been cut by 60 percent, according to a survey by the New York State United Teachers, the state's largest teachers union. ...
THIS TIME, TYSON'S TRULY ON THE ROPES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: Dan Lynch I was out of town for the weekend, in a place with no television. So, early Sunday morning I opened my laptop, dialed my newspaper's computer system and began wading through the news. Tyson-Holyfield II. How had that come out, I wondered. Then I ...
ALBANY OFFICIAL KILLED IN CAR CRASH.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: JAY JOCHNOWITZ Staff writer ALBANY -- Human Resources Commissioner Charles Shoudy, an ``ex-hippie'' who for 23 years guided job programs that touched thousands of disadvantaged youths, died Monday in an automobile crash. Shoudy, 50, of 1342 Thatcher Park Road ...
RPI SKEPTIC TAKES ON TIDE OF CHANGE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: MIKE HUREWITZ Staff writer Troy He's a guru in the Neo-Luddite movement, a leading skeptic of technology, and from his bully pulpit at RPI, in the belly of the beast, Professor Langdon Winner is about to growl again. The 52-year-old professor, who teaches ...
DEADLINE PASSES WITH NO THREAT TO STATE'S WELFARE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: JOHN CAHER State editor ALBANY -- With today's so-called ``deadline'' for welfare reform apparently meaningless, New York officials intend to take their time in revamping the complicated, often convoluted and almost always misunderstood system. Federal ...
JUDGE OKS SANCTIONS AGAINST VACCO IN CASE INVOLVING STAFFERS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: JOHN CAHER State editor SYRACUSE -- A federal judge has upheld sanctions against Attorney General Dennis C. Vacco for his conduct in a case involving two former staffers who claim they were forced out for political reasons. U.S. District Judge Rosemary S ....
NO DEAL YET ON CAMERAS-IN-COURT LAW.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: JOEL STASHENKO Associated Press BOLTON LANDING -- A law that has permitted cameras in New York state courtrooms was set to expire for the first time in five years at midnight Monday. Gov. George Pataki and the Legislature were unable to extend the state's ...
EX-ART DEALER FACES CHARGES OF SWINDLING.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: -- Associated Press NEW YORK -- A former Manhattan art dealer was charged Monday with swindling wealthy Hollywood clients by selling valuable works by the likes of Salvador Dali for them, then keeping the money. FBI agents arrested the suspect, Todd Michael ...
FIRST MOB TURNCOAT TAKES STAND AT TRIAL.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: -- Associated Press NEW YORK -- Peter ``Big Pete'' Chiodo, a hulking mobster who was hit by 12 bullets and lived to tell the FBI about it, became the first of several mob turncoats to testify in the murder-racketeering trial of reputed Mafia king Vincent ``Chin'' Gigante ...
LONG ISLAND SOUND BEACHES STAY CLOSED.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: -- Associated Press NEW ROCHELLE -- The surf was still off-limits Monday -- and at least until this afternoon -- at the 26 beaches on Westchester County's eastern shoreline after a Bronx sewage spill. Laboratory tests revealed elevated bacteria levels at ...
2 DOT ENGINEERS FACE ETHICS INQUIRY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: MARC HUMBERT Associated Press ALBANY -- Two veteran state Department of Transportation engineers solicited work for their private pavement striping businesses on Long Island from companies seeking DOT permits, the state Ethics Commission said Monday. Maureen ...
ALBANY RESIDENTS LOBBY FOR PARKING.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: JANE GOTTLIEB Staff writer ALBANY -- City residents fighting for residential parking permits assembled at the Capitol on Monday evening to try to counteract the lobbying power of state workers unions opposed to the plan. ``I'm a union worker, but my loyalty is ...
MAN, 70, DIES IN BOAT COLLISION.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: Associated Press KIRBY POINT -- A 70-year-old man died when the personal watercraft he was operating collided with a pleasure boat on Lake Champlain. The accident that killed Ralph Postone of Ballston Spa occurred just north of Kirby ...
MOTHER WANTS KILLER TO RECALL HER SON.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: BECHETTA JACKSON Staff writer SCHENECTADY -- Elizabeth Aiken, the mother of a Brooklyn man gunned down last November in Hamilton Hill, chose not to address his killer Monday in County Court. Instead, she asked Prosecutor Philip W. Mueller to give convicted ...
COP: SUSPECT SAID FUN TURNED FATAL.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: KENNETH C. CROWE II Staff writer BALLSTON SPA -- Michael D. Reynolds was just having fun when he set a shirt on fire in the early morning hours of Jan. 10 and started a blaze that left three children dead, according to testimony in Saratoga County Court on Monday. ...
SCALPING LAW EXPIRATION DOESN'T WORRY VENUES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: MARK MCGUIRE Staff writer and wire reports Scalpers may have relative free rein now that the state's ticket reselling regulations have at least temporarily expired, but local venues don't seem too concerned. New York's rules regulating the scalping of tickets ...
LAKE GEORGE TEEN SENTENCED FOR ROBBERY AT GAS STATION.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... BALLSTON SPA -- A Lake George teen was sentenced Monday in Saratoga County Court in connection with the knifepoint robbery of a town of Wilton gas station clerk late last year. Tristen M. Bombard, 17, of Route 9, was sentenced by Judge Jerry J. Scarano Jr. to 3 to 9 years in a ...
ALBANY COPS WEIGH MORE PATROLS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: LARA JAKES Staff writer ALBANY -- Three armed robber ies this weekend around Washington Park are prompting city police to look at stepping up area patrols, officials said Monday. In each of the late-night incidents, two men approached State Street ...
VIRGINIA CODERRE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... SCHODACK LANDING -- Virginia Morrissette Coderre, 86, of River Road, died Sunday, June 29, 1997 at St. Peter's Hospital in Albany. Born in St. Gertrude, Quebec, she had lived in Massena, NY before moving to the Capital District, 12 years ago. She was the wife of the late Theodore Coderre ....
ZOFIA DOLINSKA.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... ALBANY -- Zofia Dolinska, age 93, of Willett Street in Albany, died on Wednesday, June 25th at Albany Medical Center Hospital, following a short illness. Pre-deceased by her sister Leontyna Naider, and her beloved brother-in-law, The Rev. Konstanty Naider, first Polish general ...
GEORGE H. GAUTHIER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... CLIFTON PARK -- George H. Gauthier, 82, of Clifton Park Center Road, died Sunday at his residence, after a long illness. Born and educated in Canada, he was the son of the late Henri and Adelena LaPointe Gauthier. He came to this country in 1945 and settled in the Northside section of ...
ALFRED KNICKERBOCKER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... MECHANICVILLE -- Alfred C. Knickerbocker, 78, of South Main St., died suddenly, Sunday, at his residence, after being stricken. Born Feburary 13, 1919 in Troy, he was the son of the late Leroy and Ethel Wilson Knickerbocker, and husband of the late Julia Wills Knickerbocker, who died ...
LOUISE F. LANDRY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... MENANDS -- Louise F. Landry, 70, of Center Manor, Menands, formerly of Sixth Avenue, Watervliet, died Monday, June 30, 1997, at Samaritan Hospital, Troy, after a long illness. Mrs. Landry was born in Albany, daughter of the late Peter and Giovanna Sartori Gaston. She was a resident of ...
WILLIAM MCCANDLESS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... COLONIE -- William G. McCandless, 83, of Mordella Rd., died Sunday at the Albany Memorial Hospital. Mr. McCandless was born in Springfield, Missouri and had lived in Colonie for the past five years. He was a veteran of the United States Navy, serving in both World War II and the Korean ...
ZEPURE SEVADJIAN OVIGIAN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... TROY -- Zepure Sevadjian Ovigian, 97, of Leisure Arms, 15th Street, died Sunday at the home after a long illness. Born in Istanbul, Turkey, she was the daughter of the late Theopileh and Mendoohi Sevadjian and wife of the late Nishan Ovigian. She came to the United States in l92l to ...
JAMES M. PIGOTT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... COXSACKIE -- James M. Pigott, age 75 years, of Terry Lane, Coxsackie, died June 29, 1997 at Bristol CT, after a long illness. He was born in Dundee Scotland, May 13, 1922 and was the son of the late James and Isabelle (McCabe) Pigott. Mr. Pigott served with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine ...
KIM TOOLEY STANNARD.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... EAST GREENBUSH -- Kim Tooley Stannard, 39, of East Greenbush, died Sunday after a long illness. Kim was a member of the community for ten years. Born in Schenectady, April 11, l958, Kim was a l976 graduate of Scotia-Glenville High School. She worked for the New York State Department of ...
JONATHON C. STATES, SR.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... TROY -- Jonathon C. States, Sr., age 67, died Friday, June 27, 1997 at home. Born in Albany, he was a life long Capital Region resident. He hade been employed by CDTA as a bus driver for more than 10 years. Father of J. Christopher States, Royal Oak, MI, Jonathon C. States, Jr., Mesa, AZ, ...
JONATHAN E. TRELA.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... SCHENECTADY -- The Most Reverend Jonathan E. Trela, 53, of Pearl St., Schenectady, Pastor of the Holy Name of Jesus, Polish National Catholic Church, died Saturday evening at home after a long illness. He was born in Passaic, NJ, Feburary 20, 1945, the son of Stanley and Bertha Stollar ...
RUTH VAN WIE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... GUILDERLAND -- Ruth Wagner Van Wie, 88, of Guilderland, died Sunday, June 29, 1997 at St. Peter's Hospital, after a brief illness. Born and educated in Albany, she had resided in Guilderland for over 40 years. Mrs. Van Wie had worked as a bookkeeper for F.W. Woolworth Co. in Stuyvestant ...
ALBANY MAN CONVICTED IN BURGLARY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: TRACEY TULLY Staff writer ALBANY -- A jury convicted a 38-year-old city man Monday of breaking into a young woman's Sprague Place apartment in the middle of the night and beating her when she awoke and confronted him. Michael Kindred of 3 Albion Ave. was found ...
MAN PLEA-BARGAINS ASSAULT CHARGE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... SCHENECTADY -- A city man who allegedly knocked his former girlfriend unconscious and left a permanent scar on the left side of her face pleaded guilty Monday to attempted second-degree assault. Richard Fullerton, 24, formerly of 206 Union St., had been charged with ...
NEIL BRESLIN LEAVES SMALL PRACTICE FOR LARGER FIRM.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: KATE GURNETT Staff writer ALBANY -- Following in the steps of other elected officials, state Sen. Neil Breslin has abandoned his practice to join a larger law firm. Breslin recently joined Carter Conboy Case Blackmore Napierski & Maloney PC of Albany. ...
NIGHTCLUB TO PRESENT ITS ACCOUNT OF BRAWL.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: BECHETTA JACKSON Staff writer ALBANY -- An attorney for Marcell's nightclub is expected to present witnesses this morning at a state Liquor Authority hearing that will determine the future of the Schenectady business. The state agency presented its witnesses ...
DEMOCRAT'S RADIO AD HITS ALLEGED NO-SHOW JOB.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: JOE PICCHI Staff writer TROY -- A relentless political foe of Rensselaer County Executive Henry F. Zwack put together a radio commercial that began running Monday to keep alive the controversy over alleged ``no-show'' employee Dirk VanOrt. The ad, paid for by ...
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE CASELOAD SHOWS DOUBLE-DIGIT DECLINE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1997 ... Byline: JOE PICCHI Staff writer TROY -- Rensselaer County's public assistance rolls have been reduced considerably in the past year -- a trend that may save taxpayers more than $2 million in 1997, County Executive Henry F. Zwack said Monday. Zwack said 4,199 ...