Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from March 1999:
FIGURINES, TRINKETS MAKE GREAT BINGO PRIZES.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: HELOISE DEAR HELOISE: You can recycle small trinkets, figurines and other items by taking them to a nearby nursing home, where they can use them for prizes at their white-elephant bingo parties. The residents really enjoy getting a prize rather than dimes and ...
SEARCHERS LOCATE BODY OF MISSING 9-YEAR-OLD.(MAIN)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: DAVE HOWLAND Associated Press NORTON, Mass. -- The body of a 9-year-old boy who disappeared while looking for his dog in a snowstorm was found Sunday by a shallow stream about 300 yards from his family's home, in an area that had been searched several times before. ...
SENATE, PATAKI SPLIT ON REVENUE.(MAIN)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: JAMES M. ODATO Capitol bureau Albany Wall Street's voltage will dim during the next two years, nearly blacking out in 2000, Senate Republicans warn in a report to be released today. The slowdown supports Senate expectations of more modest personal income ...
FROM UNABOMBER'S PEN, 548 PAGES OF RAGE.(MAIN)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: WILLIAM GLABERSON New York Times From prison, Theodore Kaczynski, who pleaded guilty to the Unabomber killings, has a message for his brother, who turned him in to the government. In a book to be published this spring, Kaczynski says he could forgive what he ...
FURY RISES TO NEW LEVEL IN LEBANON.(MAIN)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: TRACY WILKINSON Los Angeles Times JERUSALEM -- Launching an offensive ``by air, land and sea,'' Israel sent warplanes pounding Islamic guerrilla targets inside Lebanon Sunday in furious retaliation for an ambush that killed a brigadier general and three other Israelis. ...
ISSUES SPLIT IN CHINA-U.S. TALKS.(MAIN)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: LAURA MYERS Associated Press BEIJING -- Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said today she deplores a Chinese crackdown on dissidents, but that the Clinton administration will not link progress on human rights to China's efforts to join the World Trade Organization. ...
PATH TO SAINTHOOD SHORTER FOR MOTHER TERESA.(MAIN)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: CHANDRA BANNERJEE Associated Press CALCUTTA, India -- Pope John Paul II has waived the mandatory wait of five years after death to begin the process of possible sainthood for Mother Teresa, the archbishop of Calcutta said Sunday. Archbishop Henry D'Souza told ...
SATIRIST TALKS UP VENTURA CANDIDACY.(MAIN)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Garrison Keillor likes Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura's chances for president in 2000. Plugging his satire loosely based on the former professional wrestler, Me: by Jimmy (Big Boy) Valente, as told to Garrison Keillor, the author acknowledges the splash Ventura made with his ...
HE'S NOT A JERK, HE JUST PLAYS ONE ON THE BIG SCREEN.(MAIN)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Rising Hollywood hunk Ryan Phillippe plays a manipulative jerk in his new movie ``Cruel Intentions,'' a role he calls role reversal. ``I have a really dark sense of humor, so I loved how we'd say such horrible things in such a flippant way,'' Phillippe says in Sunday's Daily ...
MAN AWARDED $75,000 IN CASE WITH THE CURE.(MAIN)
Mar 01, 1999 ... A man who claims a bodyguard for the Cure beat him up when he tried to get an autograph after a concert was awarded $75,000 after the band allegedly failed to respond to his lawsuit. The group's lawyer denied Mark Perry's claims and said the band never responded because it was ...
MARROW TRANSPLANT HELPS SUFFERERS OF BONE DISEASE.(MAIN)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA Associated Press Imagine crossing your fingers for good luck only to crush your knuckles. Or, shrinking from a mother's embrace because she could snap your ribs with a loving hug. For thousands of people with catastrophically brittle bones, ...
NEW JERSEY STATE POLICE BOSS FIRED OVER REMARK ABOUT RACE.(MAIN)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. -- Gov. Christie Whitman fired the head of the New Jersey State Police on Sunday after he said in a newspaper interview that minority groups were more likely to be involved in drug trafficking. The Black Ministers Council of New ...
DRAFT WON'T SOLVE RECRUITMENT DILEMMA.(MAIN)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: CHRIS LOMBARDI In the last few months, the Pentagon public-relations machine has sounded the alarm about its trouble in recruiting and retaining personnel. All four services missed their recruiting quotas last year, despite lavish budgets and ready access to ...
FASHION FORCES KIDS INTO AN INAPPROPRIATE LOOK.(MAIN)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: SUZANNE FIELDS Calvin Klein is at it again, sexualizing children. Remember Brooke Shields in 1980, a fetching 15-year-old looking into the camera lens with a come-hither smile, telling all the dirty old (and young) men, ``there's nothing between me and my Calvins''? ...
TAX CUT DEBATE MUST START WITH FACTS.(MAIN)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: WILLIAM G. GALE As President Clinton and congressional Republicans dicker about how to use the projected budget surpluses, a near constant drumbeat emanates from tax-cut advocates: Taxes are at record high levels and are imposing increasingly crushing burdens on American ...
TAX CUTS YOU COULD BANK ON.(MAIN)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: WILLIAM SAFIRE WASHINGTON -- A half-century ago, government at all levels controlled one-fourth of our economy. Today it's up to one-third; this is the wrong direction. This year's rough handling of tax relief was best analyzed by an economist-humorist: ...
MOM'S JOB DOESN'T HURT KIDS, STUDY FINDS.(MAIN)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: BARBARA VOBEJDA Washington Post A comprehensive, multiyear study released Sunday concludes that mothers who work outside the home are not harming their children. The research, published in the March issue of the journal Developmental Psychology, assessed the ...
NETANYAHU REMARK INFURIATES JORDANIANS.(MAIN)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: TRACY WILKINSON Los Angeles Times JERUSALEM -- When King Hussein of Jordan died three weeks ago, officials were quick to declare that relations between Israel and Jordan, Israel's best friend in the Arab world, would remain close and cordial. On Sunday, ...
STING THWARTS SMUGGLING SCHEME, OFFICIALS SAY.(MAIN)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: DAVID E. SANGER New York Times WASHINGTON -- Federal agents in California quietly arrested a Chinese citizen last week and charged him with trying to obtain a component vital to missile guidance systems. Officials said the arrest shed light on what many in Washington say ...
DISTRICT ENDS TRUST, COOPERATION IN CONTRACT TALKS.(MAIN)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: JACK MAYER Albany The writer is a social worker at Montessori Magnet School - On Feb. 5, Superintendent Lonnie Palmer issued a press release regarding contract negotiations. In it he states, ``The major unresolved issues continue to be salaries and health insurance.'' I ...
HILLARY CLINTON HARDLY A TRUE NEW YORKER.(MAIN)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: HARLAN C. SIEGEL Latham There is no doubt that Hillary Clinton is qualified, intelligent, polished, and hardy enough to become a senator from New York state. But these are not the only qualifications necessary for senator. She is truly not a New Yorker who ...
ART AT THE AIRPORT.(MAIN)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Many first-time visitors get theirfirst taste of Capital Region life when they arrive at Albany International Airport. And thanks to the new $72 million terminal, the impressions are likely to be favorable ones. But credit, too, John Egan, the airport's chief executive officer, ...
EDITORIAL ON U.S. SENATE RACE IS NOT ROOTED IN REALITY.(MAIN)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: JOSEPH LAUX Vice Chairperson Liberal Party of New York State New Baltimore - While I would love to agree with your Feb. 18 editorial, ``Mrs. Clinton and reality,'' wherein you question the apparent ``politics of anointment'' in all the talk about a potential Hillary ...
RESPONSIBLE METHODS CONTROL BEAVER PROBLEMS.(MAIN)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: KEVIN BRUCE Schenectady The writer is a certified wildlife biologist A recent letter touted a device called the beaver baffler as a nonlethal solution to control flooding caused by beaver and claimed that trapping was ineffective. From 1992 to 1998 I worked ...
THE FLAG AND MR. SWEENEY.(MAIN)
Mar 01, 1999 ... John Sweeney came to Congresswith this great asset -- his inexperience as a Washington legislator and thus his fresh perspective. Mr. Sweeney and the rest of the first-termers can point with some pride that they weren't there when Congress became entrenched in the destructive politics of a ...
STATE LAB INVESTIGATES BIRD DEATHS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: MIKE FRICANO Staff writer New Scotland New York State Department of Environmental Conservation pathologists have joined an investigation into why white pelicans are mysteriously dying off in Central Florida. In the last few months, hundreds of white pelicans ...
QUEST FOR AID PROVIDES BACKDROP TO MAYORS' MEETING.(CAPITAL REGION)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: CATHY WOODRUFF Staff writer Albany As they converge on the Capitol this week, New York's upstate mayors are cautiously noting signs that they may be getting some of the attention they have been craving for nearly a decade. The New York State Conference of ...
ICY ROADS WREAK HAVOC.(CAPITAL REGION)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: MIKE FRICANO Staff writer Clifton Park Freezing temperatures and freezing rain slickened roads Sunday, sending scores of cars off roads in parts of Saratoga and Washington counties. Slippery conditions were blamed in the death of 17-year-old Queensbury woman, ...
HOME RULE WOULD SOLVE PARKING MESS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: FRED LEBRUN Albany residential streets remain permit free, which means resolving the city's growing parking dilemma is right back to square one. It seems only Mayor Jerry Jennings was surprised that state Supreme Court Justice Harold Hughes threw out as ...
CAR THEFT ADDED TO RAMPAGE PROBE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: BRENDAN LYONS Staff writer MaltaIf the shoes fit, four teenagers charged with vandalizing 18 cars in Colonie may face additional charges that they stole a car and left it destroyed in a Saratoga County park, authorities said. Footprints left on a 1997 ...
SIGN MEANS PASCARELL IS IN AND INTENDS TO STAY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: TIM O'BRIEN Staff writer Troy Driving down Fourth Street, the giant red-and-blue letters scream from the window of No. 173. ``Headquarters. Fourth Council District. Bill Pascarell, Councilman,'' reads the huge sign taped to the office window. Inside is a ...
SCIENTIST SAYS 8 QUAKES RECORDED LAST YEAR.(CAPITAL REGION)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press POTSDAM -- Eight earthquakes shook the Empire State in 1998 with magnitudes measuring between 1.2 and 3.0, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Most of those quakes occurred in the North Country. Dr. Frank Revetta of the State ...
WESTCHESTER COUNTY BLACKS FEEL RACE GAP, SURVEY FINDS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press WHITE PLAINS -- Four out of five blacks in Westchester County feel they are treated less fairly than whites by the police, according to a poll published Sunday. A majority of blacks also complain that they are less likely than whites to find ...
MURDER-SUICIDE SUSPECTED IN DEATHS OF MOTHER, SON.(CAPITAL REGION)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press ROCHESTER -- Authorities suspect that the deaths of a mother and her son found Friday in their suburban home may have been the result of a murder-suicide. Vera Hibschweiler, 78, and Karl Hibschweiler, 44, were found by police after Karl ...
DEC GIVES JOB DECK A SHUFFLE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Mar 01, 1999 ... A series of top-level ousters at the Department of Environmental Conservation is leading to speculation that high-paid staffers are being weeded out to make room for aides swept away on the reverse coattails of Alfonse D'Amato and Dennis Vacco. In the last three weeks, three ...
BILL SETS STANDARDS FOR APPAREL FACTORIES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: MARCO LEAVITT Associated Press ALBANY -- Legislation before the state Senate seeks to keep apparel bearing the logos of New York's city and state universities from being produced under sweatshop conditions. The bill sponsored by Westchester County Republican ...
PTA GATHERING READIES MEMBERS FOR POLITICAL ACTION.(CAPITAL REGION)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: LINDA TRISCHITTA Staff writer Colonie The Parent-Teacher Association is becoming more politically savvy and needs more participants, said organizers and delegates at the 10th annual statewide conference on Sunday. The two-day event -- which continues today ...
FUND-RAISERS STILL EXPLOIT NOTCH SENIORS.(BUSINESS)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: JANE BRYANT QUINN ``I have been inundated with (notch victim) mailings over the past seven years, since I retired,'' writes Anne Somers, 74, of Bound Brook, N.J. ``My brother used to get them in the 1980s. I told him to ignore them because these people hit on seniors for ...
OLD JEEPS SOLDIER ON IN THIRD WORLD.(BUSINESS)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: JARED KOTLER Associated Press CALARCA, Colombia -- Parked under a mound of furniture and clothes pulled from his quake-racked home is Jorge Mosquera's most prized possession: a red Jeep built when Harry Truman was president of the United States. Mosquera's ...
ANOTHER FINANCIAL INFORMATION SERVICE TRIES IPO.(BUSINESS)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: JOHN REGA Bloomberg News WASHINGTON -- Yet another financial information service is seeking the warm embrace of Wall Streeet. TheStreet.com Inc. is the latest such information company to seek an initial public offering. It wants to raise $75 million to expand ...
GIANT SUV SAFE, FORD SAYS.(BUSINESS)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press DEARBORN, Mich. -- Ford Motor Co., defending itself from attacks by environmental groups, says its hulking, nine-passenger Excursion sport utility vehicle will be among the safest and cleanest-running SUVs on the market. The 2000 Excursion, ...
WINE LABEL PLAN SOURS.(BUSINESS)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: DAVID STOUT New York Times WASHINGTON -- When the federal government said on Feb. 5 that wine makers could put educational labels on their bottles, there was rejoicing in the vineyards. For too long, wine had been wrongly characterized as inherently dangerous ...
BOOTED `WEEK' HOST SAYS HE WAS QUITTING.(TV & RADIO)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: MELINDA HENNEBERGER New York Times WASHINGTON -- The irony, said Ken Bode, was that he had planned to give up his Washington gig anyway. Commuting to Washington from Evanston, Ill., where he is dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern ...
CBS COMPETES WITH `ANGEL'.(TV & RADIO)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: RICHARD HUFF New York Daily News To compete with ABC's exclusive interview with White House temptress Monica Lewinsky, CBS will turn to an angel named Monica. ABC has announced that it will air the much-publicized two-hour Barbara Walters interview with ...
FOX'S KEEPING ` '70S SHOW'.(TV & RADIO)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: Knight Ridder - Fox has ordered 25 episodes of ``That '70s Show,'' the lone survivor among its fall freshmen failures. The bad news: The hip sitcom will end its season March 14. After one repeat, it will disappear from the lineup until June, when the network ...
SUSPECT HELD AFTER MAN SLAIN IN FIGHT OVER GOODS, COPS SAY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: Cathy Woodruff - SEWARD -- A Schoharie County man was dead and his housemate was under arrest Sunday after an afternoon shooting at a Route 165 house shared by the two men and their families, police said. State Police and Schoharie County Sheriff's ...
PASTOR PLEASANT FOY DIES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: GINGER BRISTOW Staff writer Bethlehem The Rev. Pleasant J. Foy Sr., longtime pastor of Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church in Albany, died Thursday at 68. He was born Oct. 3, 1930, in Halifax, Va. After high school, he attended the Halifax Training School ...
3 ENTERED HOME WITH GUNS READY, POLICE SAY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: BRENDAN LYONS Staff writer Albany Three men charged with shooting a man in an Arcadia Avenue home during an apparent botched robbery Friday were not wearing masks and allegedly entered the residence with their guns ready, detectives said Sunday. Meanwhile, ...
COUNTY CASEWORKER ACCUSED OF WELFARE THEFT SCHEME.(CAPITAL REGION)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press SYRACUSE -- An Onondaga County caseworker was charged with making fake identification cards and using them to cash checks she issued to former welfare recipients. Lauraie Smith, 39, was charged Friday with theft, forgery and falsifying ...
CAPITAL REGION ALMANAC.(CAPITAL REGION)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: Glens Falls Hospital Glens FallsMANCUSO, Vincent Anthoney, son of Andrea J. and John J. Mancuso Sr., Gansevoort, 7 lbs. 14 oz., Nov. 5. - VELDMAN, Ryan Patrick, son of Andrea and Richard Veldman, Greenwich, 8 lbs. 15 oz., Nov. 18.POLICE BLOTTER ALBANY MONDAY 1:45 a.m. ASSAULT. A ...
ACTIVISM, RELIGION STRESSED AT NAACP CELEBRATION.(CAPITAL REGION)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: Cathy Woodruff ALBANY -- The Albany Branch of the NAACP celebrated its 64th birthday Sunday with songs, dance and oratory during an enthusiastic afternoon gathering at the Union Missionary Baptist Church. Between 150 and 200 people, including the 60-plus ...
SCHENECTADY MAN CHARGED IN DOUGHNUT SHOP ROBBERY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Mar 01, 1999 ... NISKAYUNA -- Police arrested a man for allegedly robbing a State Street Dunkin' Donuts last month. Wilson A. Colon, 22, of Swan Street, Schenectady was arrested Saturday and charged with one count of first-degree robbery, Niskayuna police said. Colon entered the shop at 3526 ...
BEST BETS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Mar 01, 1999 ... They changed the world TV ``Dateline NBC'' (9 tonight, WNYT, Ch. 13) takes a two-hour look at people from a variety of backgrounds who made significant impacts over the past quarter-century. Hosted by Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips. Green days MUSIC Old Songs ...
HEIR HUNTERS' SEARCHES PROFITABLE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: STEVE JOHNSON Knight Ridder Digging through probate files like a prospector after gold, Gary Waits unearthed a nugget in a Monterey County, Calif., courthouse that made his pulse pound. It was the case of Dante Forrest Roggero, a 58-year-old Salinas, Calif., ...
SIENA'S RADIO HAS AN URBAN CONTEMPORARY SOUND.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: MARK McGUIRE Staff writer It sure looks more than coincidental. WVCR (88.3-FM), Siena College's radio station, changed to an all urban contemporary format last month, just a week after 96.3-FM did the same and later became WAJZ. One of the faculty advisors to ...
DRAMATIC ENTANGLEMENTS NYSTI'S STUDENT INTERNS CONFRONT ROMANCE, THEIR FUTURES AND LIFE ACT TWO: THE SHOWS GO ON.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: STEVE BARNES Staff writer SCENE ONE At play: Dan Costello and Joy Lamberton got tangled up backstage. They stood looking at the audio cable that connected their respective headsets. Between them: snarl city, like a water-ski rope whirled by a ...
ON THIS DATE...(LIFE & LEISURE)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press Today is Monday, March 1, the 60th day of 1999. There are 305 days left in the year. In 1974, seven people, including former Nixon White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, former Attorney General John Mitchell and former ...
AMOUNT OF HOME INSURANCE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Homeowners insurance is often purchased in haste and needed only when a rare calamity strikes. It is easy to overpay if you insure for the full value of your home, even though it might not cost nearly that much to rebuild. It is also common to depend on an insurance agent to tell you the ...
MANSON'S ROCK AIMS TO SHOCK.(ARTS & ENTERTA)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: GENE STOUT Seattle Post-Intelligencer Marilyn Manson, with Hole and Monster Magnet in tow, kicked off a 1999 tour Sunday in Spokane, Wash. Manson is trying to scare -- as well as entertain -- the bejesus out of concertgoers. It's in his job description, right under the ...
HEADING SOCCER BALL ISN'T SAFE AT ANY AGE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: ELLEN CREAGER Knight Ridder Researchers reported last fall that professional soccer players who take a lot of headers risk long-term brain injuries that can affect their memory and mental skills. Now, there's reason to worry the same thing can happen to ...
ICE THERAPY GUIDELINES TO HELP TREAT SPORTS INJURIES.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: BARBARA J. CHUCK Los Angeles Times Just ice it. That's the recommendation of many sports medicine specialists for post-injury and post-surgery treatment. The application of ice or cold to an injury or area has been shown to decrease pain and to prevent swelling. But it ...
DAME JUDI DENCH IS FINDING ANOTHER ACTING CAREER ON SCREEN.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE New York Times Since she took over the role of the spymaster M in the James Bond movies, and came close to winning an Oscar for her portrayal of Queen Victoria in ``Mrs. Brown,'' Judi Dench's mailbag has vastly increased. She has become accustomed to ...
PEACOCKS NO SURPRISE TO SIENA.(SPORTS)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: TIM WILKIN Staff writer BUFFALO -- No one listened to Paul Hewitt in October at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference media day in New York. Hewitt told everyone who bothered to listen that St. Peter's could be a surprise team. The Peacocks? They were picked ...
MISERY FINDS COMPANY WITH SIENA WOMEN.(SPORTS)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: TIM WILKIN Staff writer St. Peter's64 Siena62 BUFFALO -- The feelings have been awful before for this Siena College women's basketball team. But nothing was as bad as what stepped up and kicked the Saints in the stomach Sunday night at Marine Midland Arena. ...
UCONN RALLY STUFFS SYRACUSE.(SPORTS)
Mar 01, 1999 ... Byline: TIM REYNOLDS Staff writer UConn70 Syracuse58 SYRACUSE -- It was the perfect microcosm of Syracuse's season: Great start, shaky finish. And when it was over, Connecticut flew out of town with yet another Big East championship in its pocket. ...