Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from April 1998:
LIBRARY PATRONS ARE PAYING A PRICE TO BORROW.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: ELIZABETH BENJAMIN Staff writer Forget the image of ladies with beehive hairdos and horn-rimmed glasses who patrol the shelves enforcing quiet. This is the library of the '90s: Think cappuccino bars and children playing in a room while today's ``resource ...
2 VIE OVER FROZEN EGGS.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: JOHN CAHER State editor The right of a woman to conceive a child through the use of her own fertilized, frozen eggs -- and the right of a man to forgo fatherhood -- clashed Tuesday in New York's highest court. Attorneys and judges engaged in a profound debate ...
GET YOUR HANKIE OUT, ALLERGY SEASON IS HERE EARLY.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: MIKE HUREWITZ Staff writer The war of the noses has broken out early this year. A record warm spell following the mild winter has trees budding several weeks ahead of schedule. The result is one of the earliest and nastiest opening salvos in the allergy ...
STATE BUDGET LATE AGAIN.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: JAMES M. ODATO and TRACEY TULLY Capitol bureau Yes, the state's budget is now late for the 14th year running. But the prospect of a missed deadline was marked Tuesday not by typical indifference but by a series of meetings involving dozens of rank-and-file ...
STAMP BUYING ENTERS HOME COMPUTER AGE.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: Times Union Washington bureau WASHINGTON -- The days licking and sticking began to give way Tuesday to the age of pointing and clicking as the U.S. Postal Service unveiled a new system to allow customers to buy stamps over the Internet. At a news conference ...
ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS BLAMED FOR SLIGHT DROP IN MALE BIRTHS.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press CHICAGO -- The ratio of boys to girls born in the United States and Canada dipped ever so slightly between 1970 and 1990, and a study suggests environmental factors -- such as prenatal exposure to pesticides -- may be why. The declines began ...
TAPES ROLLING BACK TO NIXON ESTATE.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Score one for Richard Nixon. In a legal battle that has been running almost since Watergate, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the National Archives must turn over about 820 hours of Nixon's White House tapes to the former president's estate. These tapes have never been ...
SO YOU WANT TO BE A POET? APRIL INVITES YOU TO SHOW IT.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Poet T.S. Eliot called April ``the cruelest month'' but the Academy of American Poets has made it National Poetry Month and President Clinton has promised to join in by reading his favorite poem in a video to be preserved for posterity. The White House won't yet say what the President ...
NASA HELPS LAUNCH CONTEST TO NAME NEW SATELLITE.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... High school students are being invited to name the first Earth Observing System satellite. The winner gets a trip to California to watch it being launched. To be sent up later this year, the satellite will have a polar orbit, collecting data intended to help scientists better ...
CBS LOOKS TO STERN CHALLENGE FOR `SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE'.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Ribald radio personality Howard Stern will star in a late night show on CBS that will challenge NBC's ``Saturday Night Live,'' the Daily News reported Tuesday. The show will begin this summer to get a jump on "SNL," which usually doesn't begin its season until October. Because ...
COURTS CAN STILL BAR POLYGRAPH TESTS, SUPREME COURT RULES.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: Knight Ridder WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Tuesday that lie-detector tests remain untrustworthy and that courts can continue to bar them. ``There is simply no consensus that polygraph evidence is reliable,'' Justice Clarence Thomas wrote, adding, ...
LIMITED USE OF DIET PILL NOT HARMFUL, STUDY SAYS.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press ATLANTA -- A large study released Tuesday found no sign that brief use of the diet pill Redux caused dangerously leaky heart valves, as many feared when the medicine was withdrawn from the market last September. The study, conducted on 1,072 ...
PRIVILEGE COVERS AIDES, FIRST LADY, LAWYERS SAY.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: New York Times WASHINGTON -- Taking an expansive view of executive privilege in the Monica Lewinsky investigation, White House lawyers have argued in secret federal court proceedings that it can be invoked by officials other than President Clinton and that it protects ...
GIRL DISPUTES VALIDITY OF THERAPEUTIC TOUCH.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: Los Angeles Times LOVELAND, Colo. -- Using little more than a towel and a piece of cardboard, a 9-year-old girl conducted a study questioning the validity of therapeutic touch, an increasingly popular alternative treatment practiced by thousands of nurses and caregivers ...
CLINTON AIMING TO CURB SPREAD OF DESERTS.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press GABORONE, Botswana -- Stirred by his journey through Africa, President Clinton promised to seek Senate approval of a treaty -- largely ignored by the United States -- to slow the spread of deserts. He said mankind has ``a sacred obligation to protect our ...
COMMUNISTS LEAD IN ELECTION FOR UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: --Associated Press KIEV, Ukraine -- A strengthened Communist Party will lead the way in a new Ukrainian parliament crowded with foes of President Leonid Kuchma, preliminary election results indicated Tuesday. The Communists tapped into widespread economic ...
BLAIR PRESSES FOR PROGRESS IN NORTHERN IRELAND TALKS.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: -- Associated Press BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair played a more direct role Tuesday in Northern Ireland's peace talks, pressing both Catholic and Protestant politicians to resolve their differences ahead of the April 9 deadline for ...
SENATORS RECONSIDER MEDICARE CHANGES.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Senators said Tuesday they may have gone too far in trying to save money and inadvertently cut off some Medicare beneficiaries from needed home health care. ``We perhaps went overboard and our efforts here now are to try to ...
A GRIEVING JONESBORO COMMEMORATES ITS LOSS.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press JONESBORO, Ark. -- Diner patrons paused, radio stations broadcast dead air and mall shoppers stopped in their tracks as Jonesboro observed a minute of silence at 12:40 p.m. Tuesday -- exactly one week after five people were slain in a schoolyard ambush. ...
A PEEK AT THE SPA CITY'S PAST.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... The Saratoga Springs Public Library has an eclectic collection of old books that formerly belonged to local author Frank Sullivan, often referred to as the ``Sage of Saratoga.'' Sullivan wrote for The New Yorker in the 1930s and '40s and was friendly with many prominent authors ...
LIBRARIES REACH FOR PRIVATE DOLLARS.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: KATE GURNETT Staff writer Schools do it. Hospitals do it. Now libraries are creating foundations to help raise money. The cash-strapped Albany Public Library incorporates its new not-for-profit foundation this month. ``There are people that want to ...
GOP LEADERS DROP BANKING REFORM BILL.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- House Republican leaders overcome by GOP defections and resistance from Democrats, abruptly withdrew an effort Tuesday to dissolve half-century-old legal barriers between banks, stock brokers and insurance companies. The move ...
U.N. IMPOSES ARMS EMBARGO ON DEFIANT YUGOSLAVIA.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: -- Associated Press UNITED NATIONS -- The Security Council imposed an arms embargo Tuesday on Yugoslavia, aiming to press President Slobodan Milosevic to make concessions to ethnic Albanians in his country's restive Kosovo province. China abstained from the ...
CLINTON ADMINISTRATION SEEKS TO RESTRUCTURE INS.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: -- Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Eager to blunt sentiment on Capitol Hill to abolish the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Clinton administration proposed a reorganization Tuesday that would dramatically change the way the troubled agency performs its work. ...
GOP SEEKS CUTS TO OFFSET CLINTON'S SPENDING PLAN.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: -- Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The Republican-led House insisted Tuesday on offsetting President Clinton's request for money for military deployments and storm relief with nearly $3 billion in domestic spending cuts. The vote was a narrow 212-208 in favor ...
NETANYAHU SAYS ISRAEL WILL STAND FIRM ON WEST BANK.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: -- Associated Press MAALE ADUMIM, West Bank -- Rebuffing U.S. efforts to win an Israeli troop withdrawal from the West Bank, a defiant Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Jewish settlers Tuesday that Israel would achieve its aims only by standing firm. "In this ...
JURY CONVICTS MILITANTS IN TELEVISION-CREW HOLDUP.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: -- Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. -- A federal court jury on Tuesday found five Montana Freemen guilty of criminal charges in the first trial resulting from the 81-day standoff between the anti-government militants and the FBI in 1996. However, the jury ...
NOT SO EASY ON TOBACCO.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... The landmark tobacco settlement goes to the Senate for debate this week, and already the howls of protest can be heard from the tobacco lobby. ``It is punitive. It is totally unworkable,'' tobacco industry lawyer J. Phil Carlton said in his denouncement of a draft of the bill before the ...
A LATE, BUT DIFFERENT, BUDGET.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Don't be misled by the sense of giddiness brought on by a blast of unseasonably warm weather. It's still just the first day of April. There's no surer sign of what time of year it is in Albany than the fact that the state has begun another fiscal year without a budget in place. That's 14 ...
PRESENT BOTH SIDES OF SITUATION IN IRAQ.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: DAVE MAENDEL Elka Park Does America know what is going on in Iraq? After reading your lead editorial in Monday's paper, ``Saddam as war criminal,'' I am convinced that Americans know as much about what has gone on outside our country (in this case Iraq), as they do about ...
CRITICAL THINKING MIGHT HAVE HELPED LETTER WRITER.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: KEN STERN Professor of Philosophy SUNY Albany I am a member of United University Professions at the State University of New York at Albany campus and I want to disassociate myself from both the style and the substance of the letter written by William Scheurman, (March ...
STATE SHOULD SPEND TO IMPROVE RAIL SERVICE.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: GARY PROPHET Saugerties New York state was built along the Erie Canal. In the 1950s, New York state had the vision to build the Thruway before the federal government began spending hundreds of billions of dollars on the interstate highway system. With recent articles on ...
CRANE STUDENTS READY FOR ODYSSEY TO FLORIDA.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: ELLEN SULLIVAN Kinderhook The Ichabod Crane School community is proud and excited that one of the third/fourth/fifth grade teams won first place in the state finals of the Odyssey of the Mind. The team, coached by teacher Donna Beaudry and Janice Fingar, has ...
CHEAPER TO REHABILITATE NONVIOLENT OFFENDERS.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: SUSAN V. JOHN Member of Assembly, Monroe County The writer is chair of the Assembly Committee on Alcohol and Drug Abuse - It is refreshing to see your March 26 editorial (``Punishment and Treatment'') conclude with a common sense statement: ``More effective enforcement ...
SMOKERS SHOULDN'T BE TREATED AS CRIMINALS.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: ANDREW W. LIUZZI Albany This letter is in response to Ray Harris' letter of March 23. Give smokers a break and start going after the ``real'' problems in this country. Go after problems such as teenage alcoholism and teen pregnancy; gang warfare; ...
U.S. SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO PROP. 13 LEGACY.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: MATTHEW MILLER In the 1960s, California schools, parks, highways and public universities were the envy of the nation, a symbol of American possibilities. Today, they're underfunded, overcrowded, crumbling or failed. If author Peter Schrag is right, this decline is more ...
STEPS FOR U.S.-AFRICA PARTNERSHIP.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: ADONIS HOFFMAN President Clinton's historic visit to six sub-Saharan countries to highlight a new U.S. partnership with Africa comes at a time when Washington is experiencing something of an ``Africa craze.'' The level of attention and activity focused on Africa policy, ...
NRA IS THE REAL CRIMINAL IN JONESBORO CASE.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: GARRY WILLS There are angry demands that the alleged mass murderers in Arkansas be tried as adults. They killed like men, though they looked -- and one of them cried -- like boys. But the real criminals are the adults who thought it was cute to take pictures of boys with ...
THIS JUNGLE CLINTON ENJOYS.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: MAUREEN DOWD GABORONE, Botswana -- At first, I missed Monica a lot. I wondered what steakhouses she was going to. I wondered what hair salon she was making famous. I wondered if she had browsed through the spring line at Brooks Brothers. But ...
A LESSON IN PATRONAGE AT HVCC.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: DAN LYNCH Some rousing political news from Hudson Valley Community College. The institution that Eddie McDonough politicized shamelessly when he ran the Rensselaer County Democratic party is being politicized all over again. Only this time the politicizing is ...
RPI FACULTY TO VOTE ON PIPES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: RICK KARLIN Staff writer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Faculty Senate agreed Tuesday to hold a facultywide vote on whether to issue a statement of ``no confidence'' against President R. Byron Pipes. The vote will be scheduled in the next two weeks. The ...
IMMIGRATION AGENTS ORDER BRITISH WORKERS BACK HOME.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: PAUL ZIELBAUER Staff writer Eight British laborers at Albany International Airport's new terminal were abruptly rounded up by a squad of U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service agents Tuesday and ordered to catch the next plane home, INS and airport officials said. ...
TEEN INJURED WHEN HIS BIKE COLLIDES WITH POLICE CHIEF'S CAR.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: BRUCE A. SCRUTON Staff writer A 13-year-old boy was in serious condition after he rode his bicycle into the front of the Albany police chief's car on Route 158 late Tuesday afternoon, town police said. Paul Nolan of 4459 Western Turnpike was taken to Albany ...
GUN BILL MAKES OWNERS LIABLE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: JOHN CAHER State editor The Assembly is expected today to pass legislation that would make gun owners responsible for keeping their arms under lock and key, and away from children. Assemblyman David Koon, a Rochester Democrat whose daughter was murdered with ...
HOT LINE PROVIDES DATA ON SEX OFFENDERS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: CAROL DeMARE Staff writer Using a backdrop of some 450 middle-school children, Gov. George Pataki announced Tuesday the start-up of a special 900-number hot line that provides information on convicted sex offenders. ``This is a new tool to make sure you grow ...
EX-BRAWLEY ADVISERS LIED ABOUT RAPE CASE, PAGONES SAYS IN COURT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press POUGHKEEPSIE -- Steven Pagones on Tuesday defiantly responded to blistering attacks on his defamation lawsuit against Tawana Brawley's advisers, maintaining from the stand that his accusers were liars. It was the first day of what is expected ...
MAN GETS PRISON FOR ROLE IN KILLING.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- Lemrick Nelson Jr. was sentenced to 19 1/2 years in prison Tuesday for his part in the fatal stabbing of Jewish scholar Yankel Rosenbaum during the 1991 racial rioting in Crown Heights. Nelson, 22, was given the maximum possible ...
CITY TO LEVEL 38 EYESORES AT A COST OF $650,000.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: MARV CERMAK Staff writer Thirty-eight dilapidated houses owned by the city because of property tax foreclosure have been targeted for demolition this year at a cost of $650,000. Carl Olsen, commissioner of Neighborhood Revitalization, told the City Council ...
AIDS EFFORT MUST NOT WANE, RESEARCHER SAYS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: TIM O'BRIEN Staff writer Dr. Robert Gallo, a discoverer of the AIDS virus, gave an impassioned defense of the money spent on AIDS research Tuesday and warned against complacency because fewer Americans are dying from the disease. Gallo spoke Tuesday to ...
VOTE ON METROPLEX DELAYED.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... SCHENECTADY -- A County Legislature vote on the Metroplex issue has been delayed until Thursday, April 9. Legislature Chairman Frank Potter had originally said that if County Manager Robert McEvoy could complete an alternative proposal, he would bring the matter to the floor ...
TOP COURT UPHOLDS KILLER'S CONVICTION.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: JOHN CAHER State editor The state's highest court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of a Troy man found guilty of strangling a prostitute in Riverfront Park. Despite finding a ``blatant violation'' of an evidentiary rule by former Rensselaer County District ...
NEW PET ON THE WAY FOR OWNER OF SLAIN POODLE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... Byline: BRENDAN LYONS Staff writer MenandsThe Mohawk & Hudson River Humane Society is giving a new poodle to a Halfmoon woman whose dog was shot and killed with a pellet gun on Monday morning. Melba D. Cribbs of Manchester Drive said that her apricot-colored ...
DELINA BENARDO CASTRACANI.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... WATERFORD -- Delina Benardo Castracani, 89, of 4th Street, died Tuesday at St. Mary's Hospital after a brief illness. A life long Waterford resident, she was daughter of the late Alfonzo and Mary Rose Parissi Benardo and the wife of the late Ettor Castracani. Mrs. Castracani had been ...
AGNES FUTTER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... BOYNTON BEACH, FL -- Agnes Futter died March 30, 1998 at her residence in Florida. Mrs. Futter was born in Troy, NY and lived in Albany for over 40 years before moving to Florida in the mid 1970's. She was a graduate of Troy High School and a member of the Eastern Star. Mrs. Futter is ...
HOLLIS W. (PAT) GEORGE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... DELMAR -- Hollis W. (Pat) George, 71 of Delmar, died Tuesday at his home, after a long illness. Mr. George was an Albany native and graduated from the Milne School. He also graduated from Paul Smith College. Mr. George was a Navy veteran. He was employed by Armory Garage for many years ...
GRACE L. HALL.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... ALBANY -- Grace Strawbridge Hall, of Kenosha St., died Tuesday, March 31, 1998. Mother of William F. Miller of Albany; mother-in-law of Beverley A. Miller; sister of Tillie Loudis and Thomas Strawbridge, both of Albany; dear friend of Ike Weidenbaum. Also survived by several nieces and ...
JOHN F. HENDRICKS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... COLONIE -- John F. Hendricks of Central Ave., Colonie, died March 31, 1998. He was the husband of the late Priscilla Hendricks; Father of Mrs. Peter (Georgia) Mertins of Voorheesville; brother of Michael and Leslie Hendricks of Lost ...
SR. THOMASINE KAKALEC D.C.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... MENANDS -- SR. Thomasine Kakalec, DC (nee Mary), 73, died Tuesday, March 31, 1998 at St. Louise House. She was born in McAdoo, PA, daughter of the late Peter and Mary Kakalec. She entered the Daughters of Charity on September 27, 1944. Sister earned her nursing degree from Catholic ...
JEANETTE H. KNAPP.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... WILLSBORO, NY -- Jeanette H. Knapp, 70, of Willsboro and Stuart, FL, died Monday, March 30, 1998, while in Syracuse, NY, undergoing extended medical care. She was born in Castleton-on-Hudson, NY, the daughter of Carl J. and Amelia D. Heeder. She attended Castleton Central School where she ...
VEDA COHEN LABAER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... BERKELEY, CA -- Veda Cohen LaBaer, age 63, of Berkeley, CA, died Monday, March 30, 1998 at home, after a valiant battle against cancer.She was educated in Schenectady and graduated from Nott Terrace High School where she was elected the first female president of the student council. She ...
PAUL C. LAWSON.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... DELMAR -- Paul C. Lawson, 84, died Monday, March 30, 1998 at the Good Samaritan Nursing Home in Delmar. Mr. Lawson was born in Chrisfield, MD and moved to this area in 1945. He was a graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and worked as a chemical engineer. He retired as assistant to ...
MARY R. MALONEY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... ALBANY -- Mary Rose Cacchione Maloney, 89, of Albany, died Monday, March 30, 1998 at Albany Medical Center Hospital. Mrs. Maloney was the wife of the late James J. Maloney. She is survived by her nephews Edward J. Jesco, Jr.; Valentino Michela, Jr. and Miron Michela of Albany; her grand ...
JOHN L. MANICE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... ALBANY -- John Manice, 71 years of Albany, formerly of Medusa, died Monday, March 23, 1998 at the Albany Medical Center Hospital. Born November 3, 1926, son of the late Walter & Phyllis Manice. Calling hours tonight, 6-8 p.m. at the ...
PAUL J. MCGRAW, JR.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... ALBANY -- Paul John McGraw, Jr., age 67, died Tuesday, March 31, 1998. Born in Albany, he was a life-long resident. For 23 years he had been employed by Capital City Container and later, for more than 15 years, he had been employed by the Roberts Realty Co. He served in the U.S. Army ...
ELIZABETH POLANSKY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1998 ... GUILDERLAND -- Elizabeth Polansky, 88, of Guilderland, died Monday at St. Peter's Hospital after a brief illness. Born and educated in Albany, she has resided in Guilderland for many years. Mrs. Polansky had worked as a clerk for Albany County Family Court for over 15 years, retiring ...