Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from May 1998:
STATE FINDS EXTRA $500M.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: JOHN CAHER State editor Just two days after Gov. George Pataki announced plans to excise hundreds of items from the legislative budget, claiming the cuts were necessary to balance the books, the administration discovered about 25,000 new income tax returns, showing that ...
BUS STOPS, AND TROUBLE STARTS.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: MARK McGUIRE Staff writer An Albany Yellow Communications bus driver was arrested shortly after he was confronted by a group of angry parents who said he hurled epithets at elementary school students on his bus and pushed one girl to the floor. The bus ...
BUDGET POLITICS PUTS ALBANY PLAN FUNDS IN JEOPARDY.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: TRACEY TULLY Capitol bureau A massive development project known as the Albany Plan was put on ice Thursday by the Senate, an apparent victim of the anger growing among legislators who disagree with the scope of Gov. George Pataki's budget vetoes. Senate ...
TEEN BIRTHRATE DROPS FOR 6TH YEAR IN A ROW.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: Washington Post WASHINGTON -- The percentage of teenagers having babies declined for the sixth year in a row, falling in every state and the District of Columbia, and among every major racial and ethnic group for the first time, the federal government reported Thursday. ...
SENATE VOTES TO EXPAND NATO.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: ERIC SCHMITT New York Times WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday night to expand NATO, born in 1949 as a bulwark against communism in Europe, to include three of its former Warsaw Pact foes, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. The vote was 80-19. ...
VIAGRA STUDIED FOR WOMEN, TOO.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- For nearly a month, Viagra has helped hundreds of thousands of American men satisfy long-frustrated libidos. Now it may be women's turn. Already, a Boston University study is examining whether the new impotence pill for men might ...
FIGHTS TAKE A POWDER FROM `SPRINGER'.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... The producers of ``The Jerry Springer Show'' agreed Thursday to edit out the fistfights, the chair-throwing and all the other violence on the nation's top-rated daytime talk show. The agreement came after a meeting with community activists in Chicago who staged a Springer ...
`HUSTLER' PUBLISHER CHARGED WITH SALE OF EXPLICIT VIDEOS.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Hustler publisher Larry Flynt smiled and headed for his bookstore in Cincinnati after surrendering Thursday to face charges that he broke the law when the store sold sexually explicit videotapes. Flynt was released on his own recognizance and planned to visit his Hustler News & ...
LEGO LAUNCHES A LINE WITH NOD TO `STAR WARS'.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... For more than 65 years, Lego has relied on the popularity of its simple plastic bricks to encourage kids to build anything they could imagine. Now, the company is hitching its name to a star, a galaxy and the Millennium Falcon. Under an agreement announced in ...
HUBBELL SAYS TAX EVASION COUNTS ROOTED IN POLITICS.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: STEPHEN LABATON New York Times WASHINGTON -- Webster Hubbell, the longtime confidant of President Clinton and former law partner of Hillary Rodham Clinton, was indicted Thursday on charges that he failed to pay more than $850,000 in taxes and penalties over the last four ...
ISRAEL, NEW YORK INCREASE TIES.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: JOSH KRIST Associated Press JERUSALEM -- New York Gov. George Pataki and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took a break from Israel's 50th birthday celebrations Thursday to sign a cultural exchange agreement and announce the opening of a New York trade office in ...
CAPITAL REGION RESIDENTS REJOICE ON ISRAEL'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: BRUCE A. SCRUTON Staff writer ALBANY -- With singing and dancing, the United Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York celebrated Israel's 50th anniversary Thursday at the Empire State Plaza. The late afternoon program included the Ne'Imah Jewish Community ...
IN OTHER WORDS, STILL `NO COMMENT'.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: SUSAN PAGE USA Today WASHINGTON -- President Clinton briefly recalled the bonhomie of the White House Correspondents' Dinner the previous weekend as he began Thursday's news conference, jovially saying he would ``honor my pledge'' from that night and give UPI's Helen ...
REPORT CITES UNABOMBER'S WOMAN WOES.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- Theodore Kaczynski was lonely and frustrated over his failure to have a relationship with a woman and that may have set the confessed Unabomber on his killing spree, CBS News reported Thursday. The network reported that while ...
ISRAEL RECALLS ROOTS, OBSTACLES.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: Washington Post JERUSALEM -- With a nod to its biblical charter, Israel marked 50 years of modern statehood Thursday by celebrating its strength and vowing an eternal hold on Jerusalem. The anniversary of the founding of the Jewish state was honored with swooping jets, ...
FDA APPROVES NEW BREAST CANCER DRUG.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Women suffering advanced breast cancer gained a new medicine Thursday that might help slow the deadly disease. Hoffman-La Roche's Xeloda is not a cure or useful in all cases, the Food and Drug Administration cautioned in its ...
IRA SAYS NO TO DISARMAMENT PLAN IN NORTHERN IRELAND PEACE PACT.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- The Irish Republican Army refused to disarm Thursday as part of the Belfast peace accord, infuriating Protestant leaders who vowed to exclude its allied Sinn Fein party from any new Northern Ireland administration. ...
AFL-CIO CHIEF DEFENDS AIDE AMID PROBE.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Despite his deputy's refusal to explain a questionable transaction, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney defended the aide against allegations he participated in an illegal scheme to funnel money into Ron Carey's 1996 campaign for the Teamsters ...
CONGRESS PASSES EMERGENCY SPENDING BUT NOT FOR IMF.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- As President Clinton tiptoed away from a threatened veto, Republicans pushed an emergency bill through Congress Thursday with $6 billion for U.S. disaster victims and troops abroad but none of the money he had demanded for the International ...
CONDOM USE ORDERED IN STRAIGHT PORN TO FIGHT AIDS.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press LOS ANGELES -- Major producers of heterosexual porn videos now will require actors to wear condoms on camera. The move is prompted in part by reports that three adult movie actresses tested positive this year for the virus associated with ...
IRAN LEADS IN WORLD TERRORISM, SURVEY SAYS.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: Washington Post WASHINGTON -- Iran has remained a leading sponsor of international terrorism and assassinations, despite the country's election of a new president last August and a shift in some of its public rhetoric about terrorism, the Clinton administration said ...
STUDENTS' THREATS TAKEN SERIOUSLY.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: KRISTEN HAYS Associated Press The teacher had just broken up a gym class scuffle when one steaming 13-year-old blurted out a threat to kill any kid who came near him. Official reaction was swift. Topeka, Kan., school police and the school district psychologist ...
FIRM IGNORED SMOKING, PREGNANCY DANGER.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: The Guardian LONDON -- Britain's biggest tobacco company made a decision in 1974 not to try to stop pregnant women from smoking, even though it knew that unborn babies could be harmed. The revelations in internal documents belonging to British American ...
TOBACCO LINK TO ILLEGAL SALES ALLEGED.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: JUDY HOLLAND Times Union Washington bureau WASHINGTON -- A senior Treasury Department official accused the tobacco industry Thursday of participating in illegal cigarette sales and called for government action to stop the black-market trade. ``There is no way ...
COLLEAGUES DETAIL ROGUE IRS AGENT'S BOGUS PROBE OF POLITICIANS.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: Washington Post WASHINGTON -- A rogue Internal Revenue Service agent tried to frame former Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr., R-Tenn., on money-laundering and bribery charges in a bizarre attempt by the agent to advance his career, current and former IRS agents ...
CORNELL GRAD GIVES $100M TO ALMA MATER.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: -- Associated Press ITHACA -- Cornell University announced Thursday that the chairman of Travelers Group has donated $100 million to the Ivy League school, one of the largest pledges ever made to a college. Sanford I. Weill and his wife, Joan, have committed ...
MAN KILLS HIMSELF ON LOS ANGELES FREEWAY.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: -- Associated Press LOS ANGELES -- A man shot himself to death Thursday on live television after stopping his truck on a freeway overpass, aiming a shotgun at traffic and unfurling a banner criticizing health maintenance organizations. Television helicopters ...
U.S. READY TO GIVE INDONESIA MORE AID.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: -- New York Times WASHINGTON -- The United States is preparing to back a $1 billion payment in international emergency aid to Indonesia on Monday, despite evidence that President Suharto's family and friends are continuing to undermine efforts to break up the ...
FANS STOP MARCOS FROM QUITTING RACE.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press MANILA, Philippines -- Supporters of Imelda Marcos stopped her from formally withdrawing her candidacy Thursday in next month's presidential election. Marcos, 68, arrived at the Commission on Elections to withdraw from the upcoming race, but ...
HOUSE PASSES VOUCHER BILL FOR WASHINGTON, D.C., PUPILS.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Pushing a top item on the Republicans' election-year agenda, the House passed and sent to President Clinton a bill creating vouchers to allow poor children in the nation's capital to attend private schools or suburban public schools. ...
YELTSIN'S NEW TEAM YOUNG OUTSIDERS.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: New York Times MOSCOW -- It was a month in the making, but President Boris Yeltsin has assembled a new team that is strikingly young, that is pro-reform and that is from outside of Moscow. The Russian political establishment was stunned when Yeltsin selected ...
DALAI LAMA SEEKS A DIALOGUE WITH CHINA.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- The growing desperation of the Tibetan people could lead to violence, the Dalai Lama warned Thursday, urging China to enter into a dialogue over the autonomy of his Himalayan homeland. The Dalai Lama is the religious and spiritual ...
PROGRESS LIMITED ON AGENDA FOR CLINTON'S CHINA SUMMIT.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: New York Times BEIJING -- After two days of talks with Chinese leaders, U.S. officials said Thursday that there had been only limited progress on agreeing on key issues for President Clinton's summit meeting here in eight weeks. For Washington the main areas ...
DISPUTE ERUPTS OVER KENNEWICK MAN.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. -- A researcher said Thursday he wants to keep fragments from the 9,200-year-old skeleton known as Kennewick Man because the federal government is not doing a good job taking care of the bones. The Department of Justice has ...
PENTAGON MAKES REAGAN-ERA `STAR WARS' PLAN A REALITY.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- More than a dozen year after Ronald Reagan proposed a ``Star Wars'' space-based defense, the Pentagon awarded Boeing Co. a $1.6 billion, three-year contract Thursday to coordinate development of a more modest ground-based national shield ...
ISRAEL AT 50.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... In the lifespans of nations, 50 years is almost too young an existence to merit attention. Yet after a half century of struggle, tears and blood, the tiny country of Israel stands today as a model of how much a determined people can achieve in the face of adversity. The Israel ...
DOESN'T WORK, MR. CASTRO.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Last time Fidel Castro was in the news -- it was just as the Monica Lewinsky story was breaking, remember? -- he was receiving the Pope, wearing a suit and going to church. For a few days, he gave up the spotlight and appeared to behave himself. But, no, he hasn't changed. The ...
ALBANY'S FINANCES NEED SYSTEM OF CHECKS AND BALANCES.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: BETTY BARNETTE Albany City Treasurer Albany Editor's note: This letter was submitted before the city's charter review commission on Wednesday voted to remove all investment responsibility from the comptroller and change the office to that of chief city auditor. - The ...
CLARIFICATION NEEDED ON STORY ABOUT MCENENY.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: CYNTHIA GALIVAN Albany Lara Jakes' article ``Domalewicz likely to drop bid if he fails to get party nod'' (April 24) requires clarification, specifically the comment, ``In 1991, he (Assemblyman Jack McEneny) won a write-in campaign for county legislator by 61 votes ...
PROPOSED YOUNG-HUNTER LAW HAS SAFETY REQUIREMENTS.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: MICHAEL J. BRAGMAN Majority Leader New York State Assembly Albany I am writing in response to your April 14 editorial on legislation I sponsor regarding young hunters. In New York, those aged 12 and older already may hunt small game with adult supervision ....
THEORY OF EVOLUTION FAR FROM BEING A PROVEN FACT.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: STEPHEN L. BARTHOLOMEW JR. Clifton Park According to op-ed columnist Tom Teepen (April 20), the theory of evolution is a proven fact, and anyone who questions this is a fool. Ironically, one of the most powerful proofs of the falsity of Mr. Teepen's premise ...
PEACE IN IRELAND OFFERS HOPE FOR CHILDREN'S FUTURE.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: LARRY O'SULLIVAN Watervliet I should like to add my thanks to Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams, the Ulster Unionist Party's David Trimble, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Bill Clinton, and especially to former Sen. George Mitchell, the chief architect of the ...
AMERICANS SHOULD LISTEN TO JAPAN.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: TOM PLATE TOKYO -- As the clock ticks down on President Clinton's June trip to China -- the first for an American president since 1989 -- a melancholy story is emerging that Japanese officials are ambivalent about even seeing in print. Not one Japanese ...
LIVING LIVES BASED ON LIES.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: ELLEN GOODMAN BOSTON -- This is the scene that keeps playing in my imagination. The moment when Stephen Fagan turned to 2-year-old Wendy and 5-year-old Rachael and told them: Your mother is dead. He must have said it more than once. After all, young children ...
GENETIC GENIE WON'T GO BACK INTO THE LAMP.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: WILLIAM RASPBERRY WASHINGTON -- Maybe you were worried about Dolly, the cloned sheep that had us all jabbering about the brave new world of genetic engineering. But it is the Cornell potato that has rocked my world. Dolly was, after all, just a sheep, albeit a ...
MILITARY NOT BLAZING A TRAIL WITH GAY POLICIES.(MAIN)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: GARRY WILLS The armed services deserve credit for being the trailblazers in racial integration. No other part of American society has performed as well in training, promoting and respecting qualified blacks. The high demands of the profession indicate that blacks could ...
NO SHOO-IN FOR SUCCESSOR TO SOLOMON.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: DAN LYNCH From the start, I was wondering if Roy McDonald would be able to simply waltz into this thing. The answer now seems to be no. Shortly after Jerry Solomon's surprise announcement Monday that he won't run for re-election to Congress this year, McDonald ...
DEPUTY TELLS HIS SIDE OF STORY.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: EDWARD FITZPATRICK Staff writer He was cornered, feared for his life and had seconds to act. He twice identified himself as a cop. And he's confident he did the right thing by firing three times at the man who was swinging a baseball bat at him. Saratoga ...
SHIPMENT TO SARATOGA DISTRIBUTOR PART OF BEEF RECALL.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: CAROL DeMARE Staff writer A meat distributor in Saratoga Springs was among several outlets in the state that received beef possibly contaminated with E. coli bacteria, agricultural officials said Thursday. The beef, shipped on April 14 from the Illinois-based ...
SMARTER SIGNALS TO SPEED TRAVEL.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: PAUL ZIELBAUER Staff writer This autumn, the state will begin building a $5 million system to coordinate traffic signals along Route 5 between Albany and Schenectady. The project will alleviate traffic congestion and make the road faster for bus riders and more ...
ALBANY MAKES WAY FOR EDUCATION.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: RICK KARLIN Staff writer Albany Is Albany a college town? Lots of city boosters think such a moniker may not be far off the mark. Mayor Jerry Jennings on Thursday dedicated the opening of a 5-mile Educationway to highlight the fact that ...
BREAST CANCER AID VETO `STAFF ERROR'.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press ALBANY -- After Democratic women lambasted Gov. George Pataki on Thursday for having vetoed $1 million for local breast and ovarian cancer programs, the governor said it was all a mistake. Pataki spokesman Michael McKeon said that when the ...
JUDGE LIFTS GAG ORDER IN BRAWLEY TRIAL.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: MICHAEL GORMLEY Associated Press POUGHKEEPSIE -- The judge in a defamation suit against Tawana Brawley's former advisers lifted a gag order Thursday, adding that the volatile case should not be about race. An hour later, one of the defendants made use of the ...
CHIEF JUDGE TO PRAISE STUDENTS.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: JOHN CAHER State editor Not many lawyers, let alone high school students, get personal recognition from the chief judge. But today, Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye will honor several students -- including two from Albany High School -- who accepted her challenge ...
ETHICS FINE UPHELD BY STATE'S TOP COURT.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: JOEL STASHENKO Associated Press ALBANY -- ``Substantial evidence'' exists to support allegations that former New York City Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman violated ethics rules by securing a campaign loan from a bank seeking city bond business, the state's top court ruled ...
CASALE CONSIDERS RUN FOR SOLOMON'S SEAT.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: TRACEY TULLY Capitol bureau Assemblyman Pat Casale has tossed his hat into the ring of contenders interested in running for U.S. Rep. Gerald Solomon's seat when he leaves Congress.Solomon, 67, surprised Capitol Hill Monday by announcing he will resign from office, ...
DISABLED CENTER GIVES AWARDS TO SAFE DRIVERS.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1998 ... Albany The Center for the Disabled recently announced the winners of their 9th annual Driver Awards. Jeff Brown of Delmar, Cheryl Cade of Schenectady, Jay Campbell of Castleton, David Edick of Feura Bush, Carlos Maisonet of Albany, Jessee Pittman of Schenectady, Dave Rogers of ...
PROSECUTION CAUGHT OFF GUARD BY SILENCE OF KEY WITNESS.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: BOB GARDINIER Staff writer Prosecutors in the murder trial of James Spells were blindsided Thursday when their key witness refused to answer questions about the execution-style slaying. Romoan Narsha Walker, 18, of Fifth Avenue, who has already pleaded guilty ...
FAMILY REMEMBERS TEENAGER'S DETERMINATION.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: KENNETH C. CROWE II Staff writer Glenville Nineteen-year-old Kelly J. Doherty was like many young women. She enjoyed hanging out with friends, shopping at the mall and going to the movies. Unlike her friends, Doherty did it from a wheelchair, which she used ...
PROBATION CHIEF IS FOUND INCOMPETENT, GIVEN A DEMOTION.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: LARA JAKES Staff writer Albany County Probation Director Charlotte Gray was demoted this week in a decision that found her incompetent to keep the job she has held for two decades, officials said Thursday. The veteran probation chief, who once said she'd be ...
ATTORNEY CHALLENGES OPEN CONTAINER LAW.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1998 ... Byline: CAROL DeMARE Staff writer While drinking a diet soda out of a brown paper bag -- simulating the way street people drink their booze -- a defense lawyer argued Thursday the city's open container law is unconstitutional and should be thrown out. ``My attack is ...
PAROLEE ARRESTED IN NARCOTICS BUST.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1998 ... AlbanyFederal drug agents arrested an ex-convict from Albany described as a middle-level narcotics dealer after he showed up Thursday morning for a biweekly meeting with his state parole officer. Kevin Ragins, 28, of Delaware Avenue, was taken into custody without ...
DANIEL C. BRADY.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1998 ... ALBANY -- Daniel C. Brady, 53, of Albany died Thursday, April 30, 1998 at Albany Medical Center Hospital after a long illness. Born in Albany, he was the son of the late James and Anna Mae Johnson Brady. In 1983 Dan began his tenure with Albany Medical Center Hospital as a security ...
FRANCIS EARLEY.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1998 ... GREENPORT -- Francis Earley, 85, of James Street, Greenport, died Thursday at Columbia Memorial Hospital. Born on May 18, 1912 in Philadelphia, PA, he was the son of the late John and Mabel (Wilkin) Earley. He was employed as a postmaster in Hudson before his retirement. He was a member of ...
LILLIAN KESSLER GERTZBERG.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1998 ... GUILDERLAND -- Lillian Kessler Gertzberg, age 83 of Venezio Avenue, Guilderland died Wednesday evening at St. Peter's Hospital in Albany after being stricken at her residence. She was born in Brooklyn, NY and resided in Albany most of her life. She had been employed as a secretary for the ...