Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from September 1997:
CHARLES TAKES BODY HOME.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: DAN BALZ Washington Post LONDON -- The body of Diana, Princess of Wales, was returned to Britain Sunday night amid a worldwide outpouring of grief and devastating questions about the car crash that claimed her life at age 36 and those of her companion and chauffeur. ...
AN ARISTOCRAT WITH THE COMMON TOUCH.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: DEAN E. MURPHY and CARLA HALL Los Angeles Times LONDON -- ``A perfect woman, nobly planned, to warn, to comfort and command, and yet a spirit still, and bright, with something of an angelic light. Rest in peace, dear lady.'' So read the handwritten note -- quoting a ...
MINIMUM-WAGE WORKERS GETTING A PAY INCREASE.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: ALICE ANN LOVE Associated Press with staff reports Workers in the Capital Region and across the county have a little extra something to celebrate this Labor Day: a pay raise of 40 cents an hour. Today, the federal minimum wage increases to $5.15 an hour as ...
A HUNCH LEADS TO ARREST OF SUSPECT IN $22M HEIST.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: Associated Press BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- It wasn't a sophisticated sting that finally nailed the man accused of pulling the biggest heist in U.S. history.Instead, a chance encounter and a U.S. Customs inspector's hunch led to the arrest of Philip Noel ...
PHYSICISTS DETECT 1ST `EXOTIC MESON'.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- Physicists have found evididence for an unusual new kind of suatomic particle that may help them explain how the universe is stuck together. After a three-decade search, the world's first ``exotic meson'' has been detected in a particle ...
SOME THINGS TOO PERSONAL FOR `ELLEN'.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... She's out of the closet in life and on TV. But Ellen Degeneres may not be ready for prime-time smooching. The star of ABC's ``Ellen'' said in the Sept. 6 issue of TV Guide that she isn't as comfortable kissing a woman on screen as in real life. ``I'm more comfortable ...
NYUK, NYUK, NYUK: STOOGES ARE ONLINE.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Did you know the Three Stooges made 207 films? Or that Milton Berle once slapped Moe during a show with the Stooges and cracked his front tooth? Check out ``The Three Stooges Archive,'' on the Internet at http://www.dave83.simplenet.com/ stooges. Stooge fans, ...
GRACE AND SKILL HAS A BRILLIANT PRICE.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Never -- ever -- say anything clever. You could be threatened with a lawsuit by a man who claims to be ``the world's only full-time epigrammist.'' His name is Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant. He has copyrighted collections of 7,500 pithy sayings and aggressively protects his ...
THAT FIRST KISS IS FUN FOR NEW STAR NEVE CAMPBELL.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Kissing another woman wasn't something that came naturally for ``Scream'' star Neve Campbell. Her new film, ``Wild Things,'' has her making out with co-star Denise Richards. ``It was fun,'' Campbell said in the Sept. 2 issue of Rolling Stone. ``We just sorta went in ...
ISLAMIC LEADER SEEKS END TO ALGERIAN VIOLENCE.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: Associated Press ALGIERS, Algeria -- A leader in Algeria's Islamic insurgency urged Sunday that the United Nations open talks to end the deadly conflict between the regime and Muslims. The appeal from Abassi Madani of the Islamic Salvation Front follows the ...
ISRAEL NIXES WEST BANK WITHDRAWAL.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: Associated Press JERUSALEM -- Israel rejected a Palestinian demand that it surrender control of parts of the rural West Bank within days, saying Sunday that Yasir Arafat must first act vigorously against Islamic militants. But in a conciliatory gesture, Prime ...
EGYPT CONVICTS ISRAELI.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: Associated Press CAIRO, Egypt -- An Egyptian court convicted an Israeli Arab on Sunday of spying for Israel by providing women's underwear soaked in invisible ink, and sentenced him to 15 years in prison. The State Security Court also convicted two Israeli ...
PROSPECTS RISE FOR LASTING PEACE IN WEARY BOSNIA.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: THOMAS W. LIPPMAN Washington Post WASHINGTON -- Preparing for a briefing on events in Bosnia the other day, a senior State Department official pulled a sheet of ``talking points'' out of a desk drawer. At the top was the header ``Opportunity Not Crisis.'' ...
LOBBYISTS PREPARE TO WAGE BATTLE OVER TOBACCO DEAL.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Combatants in the tobacco wars spent the summer building lobbying arsenals for an intense fall legislative campaign that begins this week with Congress' return. Senate Republican Whip Don Nickles of Oklahoma already put together ...
18 DROWN IN PANIC AFTER GUNFIRE AT POOL.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: -- Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo -- Soldiers opened fire near a crowded public swimming pool Sunday in the Central Africa nation of Congo, setting off a panic in which at least 18 people drowned, Red Cross workers said. Ndombele Matunu, a Red Cross worker ...
MEXICAN LEADER URGES END TO INFIGHTING IN CONGRESS.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: -- Associated Press MEXICO CITY -- Facing a walkout by legislators from his own party that could cancel his state-of-the-union address, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo urged a badly divided Congress to work out its differences Sunday. All parties should ...
EVERYBODY WORKS IN WISCONSIN TEST.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: Associated Press MADISON, Wis. -- After leading the nation in welfare reform for a decade, Wisconsin is taking the final step. As of Labor Day, everybody works. The state's newest welfare program, called Wisconsin Works, requires all able-bodied adults to ...
LAND MINE TALKS SLATED IN OSLO.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: Congressional Quarterly WASHINGTON -- U.S. negotiators face some tough sledding today as they join representatives of more than 100 other countries for talks aimed at producing a global ban on land mines. Now that President Clinton has given up on United ...
IRAN BLAMED FOR SEEKING THE BOMB.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: London Observer Service LONDON -- British intelligence have uncovered a secret attempt by Iran to acquire sophisticated nuclear weapons technology from British companies. An Iranian-born businessman based in Glasgow, Scotland allegedly sought to buy equipment ...
NEW TV RULES REQUIRE SMART SHOWS FOR KIDS.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: DAVID BAUDER Associated Press NEW YORK -- In producing episodes of the popular ``Doug'' cartoon over the past few years, Jim Jinkins had one central worry: Will children laugh? Now his scripts must pass muster with a team of Harvard educators who have another ...
FAYED OFFERED DIANA AN ESCAPE.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: Los Angeles Times LONDON -- If there was a suitor who could offer Princess Diana some privacy and peace of mind in the style to which she was accustomed, it was Dodi Fayed. The son of the Egyptian self-made billionaire who owns the Harrods department store, ...
LOCALLY, A MOMENT OF SILENCE, A SOMBER TOAST.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: MIKE HUREWITZ and WINIFRED YU Staff writers At the Man of Kent Tavern & Cafe there was ample and varied British beer on tap Sunday as well as conversation about the death of Princess Di. The usual mix of good cheer was dominant, with football playing on the ...
NOW IT'S THE PAPARAZZI IN GLARE OF PUBLICITY.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: Associated Press LONDON -- Paparazzi lurked in the shrubbery, hovered outside her gym and trained telephoto lenses on her vacations. The market for intimate photographs of Princess Diana was endless and the money amazing. Photographers pursued Diana and her ...
NEWS CAUSES A WORLD OF GRIEF.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: Associated Press A world charmed and moved by Princess Diana grieved for her Sunday. ``I think we have lost our queen today,'' sobbed London engineer Jamie Wood, 22, one of hundreds who gathered outside Kensington Palace, Diana's principal home for 16 years ...
ROYAL FAMILY PALES BESIDE WOMAN THEY OUSTED.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: Associated Press LONDON -- Even after her ouster from the royal circle, Princess Diana still sparkled, undiminished, the brightest gem in the Windsors' crown. ``She was banished by the royal family, but she was the star member,'' royal biographer Anthony ...
A FAIRY-TALE BEGINNING, AN UNHAPPY ENDING.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: Washington Post Diana, Princess of Wales, was barely past adolescence when she shouldered the world's fairy-tale dreams, and by the time she died from a car wreck in Paris Sunday she had endured years in the media spotlight as the British monarchy eroded. The ...
MORE GAMBLING A BAD BET.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Isn't it already easy enough in New York to bet on horse racing? You can go right to the track, of course. You can go to OTB. You can even set up a telephone account and bet that way. The New York Racing Association, which operates the state's three major racetracks, has handled $81 ...
DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... T he images swirl before us, as they have since Saturday night. The eloquent woman standing at a bank of microphones, describing the horrors that land mines inflict on civilian populations in Bosnia, Angola and other war-torn countries. The elegant woman and jet-setter emerging from a ...
WHERE ARE ALL THE GOOD SAMARITANS?(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: JOANN COTTERELL Schenectady Where have all the good Samaritans gone? Are there any out there? I'm referring to the fact that my car broke down at the intersection of Washington Avenue and Fuller Road and not one person would stop to ask if they could do ...
THANK YOU EXTENDED TO DOG-CATCHING FRIENDS.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: G. REILLY Albany I am writing to ask your assistance in thanking two anonymous good Samaritans who stopped their car on Whitehall Road, near Matilda Street, on Sunday night to help catch a runaway dog crossing the busy intersection. This young couple clearly took time ...
REVITALIZATION OF ALBANY HAS TOTAL COMMITMENT.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: HERMES L. AMES ROBERT E. SMYTH The writers are co-chairs of the Capitalize Albany Executive Committee - The Aug. 21 editorial entitled ``Shallow Thinking in Albany'' grossly misrepresents the city's efforts to revitalize its urban core. Furthermore, it is a disservice to ...
ALBANY NEEDS MORE PARKING FACILITIES, NOT $500 FEES.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: CARMEN BAGNOLI CSEA Region President Albany While many residents of the downtown area are concerned over available parking for their vehicles, charging hard-working people $500 to park on a public street is not the answer. Clearly, the answer lies with providing ...
FOR PALESTINE'S SAKE, WHY NOT, MR. ARAFAT?(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: KATHARINE H. HERBER Ravena ``Why, Mr. Arafat?'' asks an Aug. 24 editorial. Why not, Mr. Arafat? He is taking the next strategic step in the plan to create a Palestine from Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea. The Palestine Authority's maps do not show Israel. Their charter ...
`G.I. JANE' DOES NOTHING FOR FEMININISM BY CHRIS NEY.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Midway through Ridley Scott's new film, ``G.I. Jane,'' a barroom acquaintance looks at the bruised and lacerated face of Navy SEAL-in-training Lt. Jordan O'Neil (Demi Moore) and urges her to leave the partner or lover who has beaten her. But O'Neil's assailant was her SEALs ...
A BIGOTED MS.-TAKE FROM THE PEOPLE AT NOW.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: SUZANNE FIELDS The National Organization for Women is looking for a fight, and they've picked it with God-fearing Christians. That's a bigoted mistake. First on their hit list is a group of Christian women who take their Bible lessons seriously. At a news ...
GINGRICH CAN'T BE SERIOUS ABOUT RACE FOR WHITE HOUSE.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: MARIANNE MEANS WASHINGTON -- In the politics of the absurd, the clown is king. What else explains House Speaker Newt Gingrich's road test of what looks like a campaign for the GOP presidential nomination in 2000? He's the most unpopular national ...
UGLY PATH TO RUBY RIDGE BY:THOMAS OLIPHANT.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1997 ... WASHINGTON -- What should have been a promising step in Idaho has taken a detour down an ugly path through the country's media culture. The path is called ``moral equivalence,'' an effort to place situations that are as different as night and day on a par with each other. In ...
2 SOUGHT IN PRICE CHOPPER STICKUP.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: BECHETTA JACKSON Staff writer Town police are looking for two men who robbed a Price Chopper supermarket in Colonie Plaza at gunpoint Sunday morning, fleeing with cash from a safe and the pocketbook of a store clerk. The men, one of whom was armed with a ...
LIABILITIES OF A LIAISON TO CITY HALL.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: FRED LeBRUN One of a pair of major negatives biting Albany Common Council President Bob Van Amburgh in the tail as he fights desperately to keep his job is that he's nothing more nor less than a toady to the mayor. Bob, I suspect, might demur and insist he's ...
FRISBEE DOG LEAPS AT CHANCE TO WIN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: WINIFRED YU Staff writer She charges across the grass, leaps through the air and snags a flying Frisbee in a single bound. In a flash, Spirit, a 4-year old Australian shepherd is on her way back to Johnny McGuire, eagerly awaiting her owner's next cue. ...
SUMMER FUN-SEEKERS SEIZE THE DAY BUSINESS BUSTLING AT BEACHES, PARKS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: BECHETTA JACKSON Staff writer It's Labor Day weekend and time to get outside. To a park. To a beach. To the fun and sun at a festival or fair. With school starting soon and the cold of winter not far off, Capital Region residents were out Sunday looking to ...
GUILDERLAND REPUBLICANS SPLIT IN PRIMARY RACES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: ELIZABETH BENJAMIN Staff writer Complaints about backroom politics and charges of a vendetta against the town police chief are fueling an unprecedented Republican primary for town offices. With just over a week before the Sept. 9 GOP showdown, veteran ...
PSC WANTS UTILITIES TO SELL THEIR NUCLEAR PLANTS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: -- Associated Press SYRACUSE -- A state regulatory agency wants to force New York's utility companies to put their nuclear plants up for sale. An analysis by the state Public Service Commission found that utilities should sell their plants in order to compete ...
WORKER'S REPORT LEADS TO SAFETY CITATIONS, FINES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: -- Associated Press AUBURN -- A telephone call from a concerned worker led federal safety inspectors to tour an air conditioning, heating and ventilation plant -- and fine the company more than $66,600. Inspectors for the federal Labor Department found 29 ...
POLICE HAVE NEW LEAD IN HORRIFIC SLAYING OF WOMAN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: -- Associated Press SYRACUSE -- It was sunrise a year ago as the 46-year-old fisherman headed for Jamesville Reservoir, planning to wade in and come out with a haul of walleye. The memory of what he discovered, he says, resurfaces every day without fail. He ...
TWO LOTTO WINNERS WILL SHARE $25 MILLION PRIZE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: -- Associated Press - SCHENECTADY -- There were two first-prize winning tickets sold for Saturday's $25 million Lotto jackpot. The winning tickets, worth $12.5 million each, were sold in Kings and New York counties. The winning Lotto numbers were ...
BILL AIMS TO REDUCE ACID RAIN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: RONALD POWERS Associated Press WASHINGTON -- In the battle against acid rain, victories are few and success is measured in small steps. ``It's not gone away,'' says environmental scientist Gene Likens. ``I think the press, the politicians and the public ...
OPTICS MAKERS SAY PRISON LAB COSTS JOBS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: JOEL STASHENKO Associated Press ALBANY -- Ed Krupp says the state is adding insult to economic injury by using his tax money to run an optics laboratory at a state prison. The facility at Wallkill state prison in Ulster County is producing glasses for state ...
JUDGES LAY DOWN LAW FOR ATTORNEYS' CONDUCT IN COURT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: JOEL STASHENKO Associated Press ALBANY -- Weary of seeing lawyers badgering witnesses, bickering with other counsels, grandstanding for jurors and giving judges guff, New York state court officials have drawn up a code of behavior for attorneys. Though ...
SPECULATION ON COUNSEL SHUFFLING.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Insiders are speculating that Jim McGuire, the first assistant counsel to Gov. Pataki, will replace chief counsel Michael Finnegan when he leaves the $105,805-a-year job on Oct. 1. McGuire worked for Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau before joining the Pataki ...
LABOR DAY FESTIVE WITH FAIRS, CRAFTS AND MUSIC.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1997 ... The Columbia County Fair and the Schaghticoke Fair are dishing up all kinds of county fair events: demolition derbies, draft horse shows, a midway, petting zoos, tractor pulls, refreshments, and country and rock 'n roll performers. 8 a.m.-11 p.m. today. The Columbia County ...
WOMAN TAKES HEROISM IN STRIDE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: WINIFRED YU Staff writer When it first happened, Laurie Burgess thought about it every day. But these days, she shrugs it off as no big deal. All she did was save a boy's life when he nearly drowned in the Erie Canal. On Sunday, Burgess, 36, was ...
THREE TEENAGERS CHARGED IN BURGLARIES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Colonie Town police Sunday arrested three teenagers who have allegedly burglarized four houses in the Vly Road area over the past month and taken thousands of dollars in cash as well as electronic equipment and personal property. The youths, a 14-year-old and two 15-year-olds, ...
GRANTS AVAILABLE FOR CLEANUP PROJECTS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Albany Grant applications are being accepted for the Clean Water/Clean Air Bond Act Program and the Greenway Small Grants Program for 1997. Projects eligible for the Greenway program are: Greenway Rail System, regional tourism strategy, agriculture, community partnerships for ...
MILDRED ALLARD.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1997 ... WATERFORD -- Mildred Wychowanec Zendran Allard, 63, of Woodlot Court, died suddendly Saturday, August 30, 1997 at St. Mary's Hospital, Troy. Born in Cohoes, she was the daughter of the late Daniel and Mary Weingren Wychowanec and the wife of Donald T. Allard of Waterford. A lifelong area ...
JOSEPHINE P. JUBAK.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1997 ... COHOES -- Josephine Przygoda Jubak, 91, of Kosciusko Avenue, Cohoes, died Friday, at St. Mary's Hospital, Troy, after a long illness. Born in Cohoes, NY, daughter of the late Joseph and Sally Przygoda and lived there all her life. She was educated in the Cohoes Schools and retired in 1970 ...
MARIE F. MCBREEN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1997 ... CLIFTON PARK -- Marie F. McBreen, 65, of Clifton Park, died Saturday, August 30, 1997, at Albany Medical Center Hospital after a long illness. She was born in Winfield, Long Island, daughter of the late James and Helen Brennan McBreen. As a young girl she moved to Albany, where she ...
MARION C. MCGUIRE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1997 ... AMSTERDAM -- Marion Connolly McGuire, 81, of South Country Ridge Drive, died Saturday afternoon at Mount Loretto Nursing Home. Born in Schenectady on June 5, 1916, she was the daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Cullen Connolly and resided in Amsterdam since childhood. She was a graduate of ...
RITA (ANNETTA) SINNOTT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1997 ... WEST SAND LAKE -- Rita (Annetta) Sinnott, 66, of Route 150, died suddenly Sunday at Samaritan Hospital, Troy. Born in Troy, she was the daughter of the late Harold and Anna Grace Bauer McLaughlin and step daughter of Mae McLaughlin of Wynantskill. She had resided in Wynantskill for 3 years ...
LATHAM MAN DIES IN ATV CRASH.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: MIKE HUREWITZ Staff writer A 22-year-old Latham man was killed Sunday when the all terrain vehicle he was driving became airborne as he was speeding from what he mistakenly thought was police pursuit, the Columbia County Sheriff's office said. The accident ...
STICKY NOTES CAN SERVE AS REMINDER IN BOOKS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Sep 01, 1997 ... DEAR HELOISE: Here's another use for all those address stickers you receive from charitable organizations. Put one in each of your books that you loan. Some people seem to forget to whom the books belong. So, at a glance they will know. Maybe, just maybe, you'll get ...
BUY GLASSES WITH YOUR EYES OPEN.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Don't be too grateful if a store offers you a great-sounding discount on eyeglasses. The going rate for frames is three times the wholesale cost or more. Those Ralph Lauren frames you may be ready to buy for $200 probably cost the store only $70. The markup on lenses is even higher. A pair ...
COMPUTER LIFE CAN MAKE INTIMACY DIFFICULT.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: WILLIAM R. MACKLIN Knight-Ridder PHILADELPHIA -- It's bedtime, and the young computer expert is ready to share a few intimate moments with his computer-expert girlfriend. He caresses her shoulder and asks her to call it a night, but finds that she's still occupied. ...
`DILBERT' CREATOR UNDERSTANDS WHY THEY CALL IT WORK.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Byline: PATRICIA BRENNAN The Washington Post At work, you're bored. You find yourself absently doodling pictures of your co-workers and supervisors, plotting revenge against people who somehow fail to recognize your true worth. Scott Adams understands. But he had the ...
JEWEL PART OF MTV AWARDS SHOW.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Marilyn Manson, Jewel, Prodigy, Lil' Kim and an all-girl hip-hop ensemble will be some of the performers at ``The 1997 MTV Music Video Awards.'' The annual show, airing live from Radio City Music Hall Thursday night, also will feature an appearance via satellite by The Rolling Stones from ...