Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from August 1998:
DNA TESTS SHOW MOTHER HER BABY WAS SWITCHED AT BIRTH.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: -- Associated Press CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- The University of Virginia Medical Center assigns newborn babies and their mothers identical numbered bracelets immediately after birth. Something went seriously wrong three years ago, when two girls went home with ...
SENATE VOTES FILL 2 POSITIONS IN CLINTON ADMINISTRATION.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: -- Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Friday to fill vacancies in two top Clinton administration posts, confirming the nominations of Bill Richardson as energy secretary and Jack Lew as budget director. Both men were confirmed by voice vote amid a ...
CHILLING TALES OF APARTHEID END AFTER 2 YEARS OF HEARINGS.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: -- Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- South Africa on Friday ended its extraordinary public exploration of apartheid's horrors, shutting down two years of hearings that laid bare decades of massacres, beatings and torture. Testimony in the Truth and ...
BARNES COULD FACE A LIFETIME BAN.(SPORTS)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- Shot putter Randy Barnes' chances of avoiding a lifetime ban from track and field are running out. The latest chapter in Barnes' troubles came Friday when the International Amateur Athletic Federation said the B sample from his ...
WHEATLEY'S RETURN COULD COME MONDAY.(SPORTS)
Aug 01, 1998 ... ALBANY -- Friday brought better news on the injury front for the New York Giants. Running back Tyrone Wheatley, expected to miss one to two weeks after straining his hip flexor Wednesday, might return to practice Monday, according to coach Jim Fassel. Offensive ...
IN THE SPOTLIGHT.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Conductor Charles Dutoit leads mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade and the Philadelphia Orchestra tonight in a program of works by Debussy, Ravel, Mozart and Beethoven. Frederica von Stade is a noted bel canto specialist. She appears regularly in productions ...
HISTORY BITIN SARATOGA IN 1930:.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Aug 01, 1998 ... ``Sonny'' Whitney had grown up in luxury. But before he was 20, he had trained as one of America's earliest fighter pilots, and before he was 30 he had co-founded Pan American Airways ....
BEST BETSLAUGHING MATTERS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Aug 01, 1998 ... TV Sherilyn Fenn is a modern-day woman daily struggling with sobriety while coping with her eccentric friends and family in the new comedy series ``Rude Awakening.'' Premieres 11 tonight on Showtime. Day full of music CLASSICAL The works of Beethoven, Stravinsky and, of course, Bernstein ...
WATCH THIS SPACEBY STEVE BARNES STAFF WRITER IN MINIATURE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Mike DelPriore, a Kingston architect, has worked for Calvin Klein, building model mockups of the interiors of the designer's stores. DelPriore figures anyone else will be an easy customer in comparison, and he's expanding the types of architectural models he builds. Lately, businesses and ...
NEWSPAPER GETS NEW BOSS.(BUSINESS)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: -- Bloomberg News LOS ANGELES -- Times Mirror Co. said Kathryn Downing will become president and chief executive of its flagship Los Angeles Times newspaper today, replacing Donald Wright. Times Mirror in March said Downing, 45, would take the position after ...
FEDS LOOK AT ATM NETWORK.(BUSINESS)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: -- Bloomberg News WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government is investigating whether the operators of the nation's largest networks of automated teller machines are violating antitrust laws by preventing member banks from eliminating transaction surcharge fees. The ...
BELLSOUTH TARGET OF STRIKE VOTE.(BUSINESS)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: -- Associated Press ATLANTA -- The union representing more than half of BellSouth's employees was completing a strike authorization vote Friday, with barely a week left before the current three-year contract expires. The Communications Workers of America, ...
SMITH AT HOME IN SADDLE.(SPORTS)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: BILL ARSENAULT Staff writer SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Mike Smith slowly walked to a picnic table outside the jockey quarters at Saratoga Race Course. He waved to a couple of fans outside the fence and sat on the bench facing out, his elbows back and resting on the table. ...
WATCHING SPIELBERG FILM, VETS RELIVE HORROR OF WAR.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: ELIZABETH BENJAMIN Staff writer His gait was slow and measured as he left the theater at Crossgates Mall, but Harold Ripps' clenched fists and traces of moisture beneath his eyes revealed his true feelings about the movie ``Saving Private Ryan.'' The ...
ST. JOSEPH'S LOSES PIECES OF ITS PAST PRESERVATIONISTS CRITICIZE ALTAR'S REMOVAL.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: LARA JAKES Staff writer Albany This week, as a worker was taking apart the stone altar, two community leaders cautioned that removal of structures from St. Joseph's Church jeopardizes the goal of finding another use for the cathedral. ``The architectural ...
MERGER MANIA HITS LOCAL BANKS.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: CLAIRE HUGHES Business writer One day, two mergers, three Capital Region banks. The merger mania sweeping through the financial services industry has clearly found its way here. Friday morning, Evergreen Bancorp Inc. of Glens Falls said it was ...
TROOPER DIED HELPING ANOTHER.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: CAROL DeMARE Staff writer The state trooper who was killed this week in a race track accident lost his own father, also a trooper, in a car crash 30 years ago. Charlie Perkins was in his mother's womb when his father died while chasing a suspect in Saranac ...
CLINTON VISITS HAMPTONS TO AID PARTY.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: MERRILL HARTSON Associated Press EAST HAMPTON -- President Clinton, lending a hand to Democratic efforts to recapture Congress in the midterm elections, brought his fund-raising blitz to the resort villages of Long Island's East End on Friday. Following a ...
POWERBALL WINNERS STRIVE TO SHIELD THEIR IDENTITIES.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Talk about bad timing. Robert Kronk dropped out of the ``Lucky 13'' about three months before the group of Westerville factory workers who pooled money for lottery tickets hit Thursday's $295.7 million Powerball jackpot. But ...
VATICAN CRITICIZES HOSPITAL DEAL.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: Cox News Service AUSTIN, Texas -- The Vatican has twice instructed the Roman Catholic Bishop of Austin to end contraceptive programs and sterilizations at a church-managed city hospital, setting up a dispute among the church, the bishop and community members. ...
NEW ABC CHIEF A FEMALE PIONEER.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... ABC on Friday appointed Patricia Fili-Krushel as the first woman president to lead one of the major television networks and gave her far greater authority over what goes on the air than her predecessor. Fili-Krushel has been president of ABC's daytime TV division since 1993 and ...
CHINESE GYMNAST SPENDS HOUR WITH `TITANIC' STAR LEONARDO DICAPRIO.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... made one young woman's wish come true. The ``Titanic'' heartthrob paid a private visit Thursday to Sang Lan, the 17-year-old Chinese gymnast who was paralyzed at the Goodwill Games in New York City. Sang, who has been nearly immobile since she broke her neck last week during a ...
MCCARTNEY TO CONTINUE LATE WIFE'S ANIMAL RIGHTS WORK PAUL MCCARTNEY.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... wants people to know he's keeping up the animal rights work that he and his wife, Linda, began years ago. The former Beatle said some people have wondered about his own commitment to the cause, since Linda took a more visible role that included promoting animal rights and ...
FORMER CHILD STAR FACES CHARGES IN ASSAULT CASE GARY COLEMAN.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... , the former star of TV's ``Diff'rent Strokes,'' was booked Friday for investigation of assault and battery involving a woman who sought his autograph in Hawthorne, Calif. Coleman accompanied by attorney Adam London, surrendered at police headquarters shortly before 3 p.m. -- two hours ...
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS' SINGER IN DRUG THERAPY.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Stone Temple Pilots' lead singer Scott Weiland did not show up Friday for a court appearance on a drug charge because he was undergoing drug rehabilitation, the district attorney's office said in New York. Weiland, 30, of Pasadena, Calif., was carrying about $100 worth of ...
CAPITOL OFFICER BURIED IN ARLINGTON.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: CHERYL EATON Knight Ridder VALMEYER, Ill. -- Federal agents say Russell E. Weston Jr. may have videotaped his plans to attack the U.S. Capitol, according to a search-warrant application unsealed in federal court. Authorities also warned local FBI agents to be ...
IBM SUBSIDIARY FINED FOR EXPORTS TO RUSSIA.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: JEFF GERTH New York Times WASHINGTON -- An IBM subsidiary pleaded guilty Friday to illegally exporting 17 advanced computers to a Russian nuclear weapons laboratory and agreed to pay an $8.5 million fine in what is believed to be the first criminal conviction against the ...
U.S. HOSTAGE RECONCILES WITH IRAN ABDUCTOR.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG Los Angeles Times PARIS -- For Barry Rosen, the decision was the toughest in nearly 20 years. Should he come face to face with a man who held him and more than 50 other Americans hostage in Iran for 444 agonizing days as mobs chanted ``Death to ...
CAMPAIGN FINANCE BILL SURVIVES BATTLE.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: ALISON MITCHELL New York Times WASHINGTON -- A steady majority of the House voted repeatedly Friday to shield a bipartisan campaign finance bill from a final onslaught of amendments, making it all but certain that the measure will win final House passage next week. ...
SYDNEY FIGHTS TAINTED WATER.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press SYDNEY, Australia -- Its main water system infested with parasites, the city that will host the 2000 Olympics is having a tough time facing the international community. Even visiting Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has been warned: ``Don't drink ...
BANK ADMITS DEALING IN NAZI GOLD.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: ALAN COWELL New York Times Germany's biggest bank, Deutsche Bank AG, acknowledged on Friday that it had dealt in Nazi gold during World War II and said it ``regrets most deeply injustices that occurred.'' But it declined to say whether its wartime officials knew that ...
REFUGEES FLEE AS SERBS CONTINUE KOSOVO ATTACK.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: MIKE O'CONNOR New York Times SEDLARE, Yugoslavia -- Out of sight of the diplomats, foreign monitors and aid workers, there were thousands of new refugees in the Serbian province of Kosovo on Friday, fleeing attacks just one day after the government decreed that its ...
CLINTON VOWS TO TELL THE TRUTH.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: SANDRA SOBIERAJ Associated Press WASHINGTON -- President Clinton, commenting publicly for the first time about his Aug. 17 testimony, said he will ``completely and truthfully'' answer prosecutors' questions about Monica Lewinsky. ``I am anxious to do it,'' he said ...
DANCES IN A GATHERING.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Jerome Robbins, who died this week, was one of those rare creative talents who could move effortlessly from the classical to the popular idiom without ever once compromising his art. In the process, he enriched the American musical theater with choreography for works as diverse as ...
A TEST ON WAR CRIMES.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... In a sad development, the United States has sent a reinforced message that it will go only so far in bringing war criminals to justice. The world's leading democracy must do better. The two setbacks occurred, literally, within days of each other. First, the U.S. succeeded, along ...
ALBANY SHOULD TAKE PRIDE IN COMMIT TO KIDS PROGRAM.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: DR. WILLIAM MURABITO Chairman Commit to Kids: Albany Alliance for Youth Albany Albany has a lot to be proud of these days -- not the least of which is the national acclaim that the Commit to Kids: The Albany Alliance for Youth initiative has received. In fact, America's ...
COUNTY SHOULD RENEGOTIATE MANAGEMENT FEE AT PEPSI.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: PETER G. CRUMMEY Minority Leader Albany County Legislature I am writing in response to your July 19 editorial ``Good Times at the Pepsi,'' wherein you advocate ``selling the complex'' and ask `'whether county lawmakers can recognize opportunity when they see it.'' ...
STUDENTS KNOW WHAT ALBANY SCHOOLS NEED.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: JEREMY STOLLER Albany As I go into the eighth grade at Philip Livingston Magnet Academy, I am amazed at what is happening to schools now. First of all, there is Albany High School, where honors classes are being slashed. Heterogeneous classes, I think, are a ...
RESIDENCE SAYS THANKS FOR WORK ON TOURNAMENT.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: SISTER FRANCES MacKAY Little Sisters of the Poor Latham On Monday, July 20, the second Annual Golf Tournament to benefit Our Lady of Hope Residence was held at The Edison Club. We wish to take this opportunity to publicly thank the co-chairmen of this tournament, Michael ...
MEDICARE: A HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOR EVERYBODY?(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: ROBERT RENO If large numbers of brazen Americans used the excuse of this summer's beastly heat to parade down the street buck naked, who of us would be shocked if others were running around in jock straps and panties? Use this wisdom to understand the basic ...
KEEPING DISAPPEARANCES PUBLIC.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: DOUGLAS LYALL On the morning of March 3, my wife and I received a call from our daughter Suzanne's boyfriend notifying us of her disappearance. Suzy abruptly vanished from her life as a student at the University at Albany. Police have launched a full-scale ...
RACIAL RACKETS HURT US ALL.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: THOMAS SOWELL It was an interesting coincidence that Justice Clarence Thomas was applauded at the convention of the National Bar Association, a black lawyers group, on the same day that racial demagogue Al Sharpton and his cohorts were hit with $345,000 in damages for ...
U.S. ON VERGE OF REMORALIZED POLITICS.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: TUCKER CARLSON WASHINGTON -- After the pants-down presidency of Bill Clinton, the presidential election of 2000 may well become a referendum on the cultural legacy of the 1960s, of which Clinton is such an emphatically corporeal embodiment. Two of the ...
A MONSTROUS ACT AGAINST A PROBLEM BIRD.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: FRED LeBRUN There were dead and dying birds everywhere, in grotesque groupings, some half blown away, some still in agony when DEC fisheries biologists happened on the scene. A routine visit Wednesday to Little Gallo Island near the eastern shore of Lake ...
RACISM THREW BLACK JOCKEYS OFF THE TRACK.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: JANE GOTTLIEB Staff writer - From the first Kentucky Derby in 1875 through 1911, black jockeys dominated. Winning trainers were black and, like the riders, some learned the job as slaves. Today, there aren't more than a handful of African-American jockeys, ...
LANDLORDS CRITICIZE DELAYS IN EVICTIONS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: EDWARD FITZPATRICK Staff writer City landlords say it is taking two to four weeks longer than normal to evict tenants from apartments because of a change in the way eviction notices are handled. About 200 people, mostly landlords, have signed a petition ...
EPILEPTIC MAN SUES COLLEGE OVER FIRING.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: MELISSA GRACE Staff writer A former Skidmore musician filed a lawsuit in federal court Friday alleging he was fired by the college because he was diagnosed with epilepsy. Michael Limoli, who played piano for student dance rehearsals and is a well-known ...
TOWN, GE SQUARE OFF IN COURT FOR PROPERTY TAX FIGHT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: BOB GARDINIER Staff writer Squads of lawyers for the General Electric Co. and the town faced off this week in Town Court. They wheeled-in metal shelving units filled with thick three-ring binders and brown accordion files. They set up laptop computers and ...
VACCO'S OFFICE WINS NATIONAL PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: -- Capitol bureau ALBANY -- The state attorney general's office has won a national award, the American Bar Association's 1998 Hodson Award, for its commitment to public service law. The award is presented annually to a government law office that ...
STATE WORKING ON SOLVING PAYCHECK DEDUCTION ERRORS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: -- Mark S. Abele ALBANY -- Not all payroll deductions were subtracted from some state employees' paychecks Wednesday, leaving some state workers concerned that personal funds set aside for their retirement were not earning interest because of the error. The ...
EX-LOVE CANAL RESIDENTS URGE REBIRTH OF SUPERFUND LAW.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: -- Associated Press NIAGARA FALLS -- Twenty years after chemical contamination forced them from their homes, former Love Canal residents returned Friday to push for the reauthorization of the Superfund law the crisis inspired. ``We need less litigation and ...
AGENCY WANTS TO SELL SURPLUS STATE HOSPITALS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: PAM ALLEN MALOY Gannett News Service ALBANY -- The state is looking to sell 12 properties formerly used to provide long-term care for developmentally disabled New Yorkers, facilities that became obsolete as the state moved patients into group homes, state officials ...
UTILITY BOSS QUITS OVER $42M PAYOUT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- The man who ran the Long Island electric company that charged some of the highest rates in the country -- and then took a $42 million payout when the company disbanded -- resigned Friday as chairman of the newly formed utility. ...
OPPONENT SAYS VACCO TOOK UNETHICAL GIFT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: KYLE HUGHES Gannett News Service ALBANY -- State ethics watchdogs have improperly concluded they don't have the power to look into campaign cash given to Attorney General Dennis Vacco by companies and individuals he investigated, a Democratic opponent said Friday. ...
LAWMAKERS BATTLE OVER TRUMP HIGHWAY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- It's not unusual when a member of Congress lobbies for a local highway. But it is odd when that lawmaker represents another part of the state and the local congressman opposes the project and doesn't want the money. ``Frankly ...
PAGONES PRAISES BRAWLEY LAWSUIT JURORS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: VERENA DOBNIK Associated Press NEW YORK -- The former prosecutor who won a defamation suit against Tawana Brawley's advisers said Friday it was ``a miracle'' jurors reached a verdict in the angry, circus-like trial. Steven Pagones praised jurors for ``the ...
WEEKEND HAPPENINGS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1998 ... ANTIQUE PIPE ORGAN CONCERT. 8 p.m. Sunday. Richard Hill, organist. Program of forgotten classics. Round Lake Auditorium, 2 Wesley Ave., Round Lake. 899-7141. $5-$8. ASTON MAGNA FESTIVAL. 6 p.m. today. Sharon Baker, soprano; Judith Malafronte, mezzo-soprano; Jeffrey Gall, countertenor; ...
DRUG SALES PAID FOR COLLEGE, POLICE SAY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: ALAN WECHSLER Staff writer MenandsSome people put themselves through college selling magazine subscriptions or working in the school cafeteria. Student Katisha L. Burt sold crack, according to police. ``She had no job,'' said an Albany County ...
CAUSE OF ELEVATOR MISHAP DISPUTED.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: MIKE HUREWITZ Staff writer State officials are investigating an elevator accident at the troubled Building 8 on the State Office Campus that briefly trapped four state employees Thursday afternoon. The Albany Fire Department initially reported the elevator ...
ARMY VETERAN HONORED POSTHUMOUSLY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Albany County Executive Michael Breslin will posthumously honor lifelong Albany resident W. Ronan Campion as the ``Veteran of the Month'' of August at 8:30 a.m. on Monday. The ceremony will be in the first-floor Cahill Room of the County Office Building at 112 State St. ...
GARDEN WAY SALES, UNPAID TAXES RISING.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Byline: TIM O'BRIEN Staff writer Garden Way Inc. has seen its sales go up by double-digits, but its income has not increased enough to pay its city taxes despite a $3 million state-aid package, CEO William Redmond Jr. said. As he did when the issue was first raised a ...
DONATED DOLLHOUSE TO AID IN THERAPY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1998 ... Schenectady Tiny Treasures of Elnora, a group of Capital District miniature enthusiasts, recently donated a 50-year-old dollhouse to Northeast Parent & Child Society's Sexual Abuse Treatment Program. ...
MARSHALS ARREST SUSPECT WANTED IN VIRGINIA RAPE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1998 ... ColonieA former Pennsylvania man wanted for rape and assault charges was apprehended this week at a motel. Mark A. Glacken was initially wanted on a rape charge in Newport News, Va. On July 14, he was stopped by a police officer in nearby Richmond. When Glacken realized he ...
PAUL F. FINN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1998 ... LATHAM -- Paul F. Finn, 67, died peacefully Thursday at Albany Memorial Hospital, surrounded by loving family and friends after a 2 1/2 year courageous battle with cancer. Born in Watervliet, he was the son of the late John J. and M. Gertrude Matthew Finn. Mr. Finn was raised in ...
MARY FUNARO FUSCHINO.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1998 ... MECHANICVILLE -- Mary Funaro Fuschino, 86, of West Street, Riverside died Thursday at St. Mary's Hospital, Troy after being stricken at home. Born in Riverside February 28, 1912, she was the daughter of the late Frank and Florence Genovese Funaro, and she was a Riverside resident all her ...