Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from May 1999:
COPS STIR ASHES OF OLD ALBANY MURDER CASE.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: CAROL DeMARE Staff writer Eight months after emigrating here in 1981 from Russia, Elena Zhilinskaya was strangled inside her Robin Street apartment. Police had a suspect, but despite interviewing dozens of witnesses and chasing down numerous leads, they were ...
JACKSON MEETS GIS IN SERBIA.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: RICHARD BOUDREAUX Los Angeles Times BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- With air-raid sirens wailing on a day of intense NATO bombing, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson embraced three U.S. war prisoners in a Serbian military judge's chambers Friday evening and led a prayer for their ...
DEPUTY WARNED ABOUT THREATS.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: CHERYL W. THOMPSON and ROBERTO SURO Washington Post LITTLETON, Colo. -- The sheriff's deputy assigned to Columbine High School was warned a year before last week's shootings that Eric Harris had made and detonated pipe bombs and had threatened to carry out mass killings, ...
CLINTON MOVES TO CUT POLLUTION.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON -- President Clinton will propose a new generation of clean air rules today, closing a loophole that allows sport-utility vehicles to pollute more than cars and mandating national use of cleaner gasoline similar to the ...
NATO SAYS NO TO BELGRADE'S OFFER.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: DANIEL WILLIAMS Washington Post BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- Yugoslavia proposed a new peace plan Friday after its capital was pounded overnight in the heaviest NATO bombardment yet. But the Western-led alliance immediately rejected the proposal because it would not permit an ...
HEART DISEASE DRUGS AID WOMEN.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: KATHLEEN KERR Newsday Postmenopausal women and their doctors should consider fighting high cholesterol and heart disease with a class of drugs known as statins instead of the more traditional hormone replacement therapy, the American Heart Association said Friday. ...
CLINTON: TRADE BARRIERS CRIPPLE AMERICAN EXPORTS.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: MARTIN CRUTSINGER Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The Clinton administration, responding to growing political pressures caused by a soaring U.S. trade deficit, accused Europe and other nations Friday of discriminating against American products. The ...
NO GREAT SHAKES AT CLINTON FETE.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Reporters for Newsweek and The Washington Post won journalism prizes for writing about President Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky affair, but they won't receive a handshake from their commander in chief tonight. The awards will be presented at the 85th annual dinner of the White ...
VENTURA PLANS TO RETURN TO TALK SHOW AIRWAVES.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura is heading back to the airwaves. At least that's the plan. Ventura was the host of a radio talk show until he filed his candidacy for governor last July. KFAN-AM management then pulled the show, fearing the station would have to give equal time to ...
2 DEAD, 70 INJURED IN BOMBING AT PUB.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: AUDREY WOODS Associated Press LONDON -- A bomb shattered a pub in the heart of London's restaurant district Friday, killing two people, injuring more than 70 and fueling fears that right-wing extremists are waging a murderous campaign against the capital's minorities. ...
GOP WANTS FBI TO OVERSEE LAB SECURITY IN WAKE OF CHINA INCIDENT.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: WALTER PINCUS and VERNON LOEB Washington Post WASHINGTON -- Alarmed by suspected Chinese espionage, Senate Republican leaders have prepared legislation to transfer counterintelligence responsibilities at Los Alamos National Laboratory and two other nuclear weapons ...
TOLL OF TERRORISTS REACHED A RECORD IN '98.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: -- Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Terrorism took a record toll last year, with 741 people killed and 5,952 injured. Most of the casualties were the result of bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. The attacks in Kenya and Tanzania and then the indictment of ...
THIRD FAILED LAUNCH CONFOUNDS AIR FORCE.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: -- Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A military communication satellite worth $800 million ended up in the wrong orbit Friday, the third failure in a row for the Air Force's most powerful rocket. The three strikes for the Air Force's Titan IV rocket ...
TURKEY PLANS TRIAL OF KURD REBEL ON MAY 31.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: -- Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey set a date Friday for the treason trial of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, saying its case would begin May 31. Judge Turgut Okyay ruled during a pretrial hearing that only 90 people, including lawyers, ...
FLORIDA SCHOOL VOUCHER PLAN WINS FINAL APPROVAL.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: -- Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The Legislature gave final approval Friday to the establishment of the nation's only statewide program to allow students to attend private schools at taxpayer expense. All students in the worst public schools, ...
CLINTON'S APPROVAL RATINGS DROP.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: EDWIN CHEN Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON -- Growing public doubts about his handling of the Kosovo crisis have erased President Clinton's lofty job approval ratings, which soared during the impeachment crisis, according to public opinion surveys and analysts. ...
DEFINING BRIBERY DOWN?(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... The question is straightforward enough. It goes to the heart of just how politics works in this country. Just why do people give gifts to public officials? For the longest time, there was the presumption that such gifts might well be motivated by a desire to win a favor in ...
THE INNOCENT OLD DAYS.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: ANDY ROONEY It's a mistake to think of the massacre at the high school in Littleton, Colo., as unique or to attach any broad significance or theory of evil to it. There have been dozens of incidents similar to this one in the past 35 years and some of them took place ...
MAKE INSURANCE FIRMS ALLIES IN FIGHTING INFERTILITY.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: SHELDON SILVER Speaker New York State Assembly Albany Virtually every person in this state has either experienced the emotional distress and personal anxiety associated with infertility or knows someone suffering from the effects of this disease. In fact, infertility ...
AlbanyLEGISLATURE NEEDS TO MAKE SENSE OF STATE TAX LAWS.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: MARTIN CONNOR Democratic Leader New York State Senate I read with interest your April 14 story explaining the arcane and often nonsensical nature of New York's tax laws. But I take issue with Sen. Roy Goodman's contention that a great deal of our tax mess ...
MUST ADDRESS FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: ROGER STUMP Chair University Senate University at Albany I would like to expand on my comments quoted recently in the Times Union concerning the board of trustees' efforts to repair relations with SUNY faculty, following the recent votes of no confidence passed on many ...
CONSIDER ALL OPTIONS REGARDING KOSOVO.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: DAN SMYTH Albany On July 27, 1953, I was in the mountains above Kangnung on the east coast of South Korea. The war ended that day. Today there are still more than 30,000 Americans serving there. Today, the war hawks in Washington advocate sending ...
TEACHER EDUCATION IS TOO REGULATED.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: RICHARD A. DETWEILER At a time when New York faces a teacher shortage of crisis proportions, the state Education Department wants to throw up obstacles to colleges trying to prepare qualified teachers. The obstacles come in the form of proposed regulations from a report, ...
GUN BILLS DIE AND KIDS ARE MASSACRED.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: MARIE COCCO This is how it works. On March 12, 1997, then-Rep. and now-Sen. Charles Schumer, D-Brooklyn, introduced the Child Safety Lock Act of 1997. It would require gun dealers to sell a child-safety device with every gun, so young fingers can't fire by ...
A SINKING SENSATION AS BOMBS FALL.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: GARRY WILLS For those of us who watched the way we deluded ourselves into Vietnam, the current news causes a sinking sensation. Zombie-like, we are walking the old lanes of a bad dream. We have heard it all before: ``It may have been a mistake to get in, but once in we ...
FIREARMS CAN SAVE LIVES AND TAKE LIVES.(MAIN)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: THOMAS SOWELL The shocking killings of school children in Littleton, Colo., have once more illustrated Hegel's view that tragedy is often followed by farce. Immediately after the shootings, loudmouth talk-show hosts and demagogic politicians have leaped front and center, ...
PAVAROTTI'S VOICE SPEAKS TO THEM.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: CHRIS STURGIS Staff writer Amid the limousines and throngs of people walking to the Pepsi Arena before the Luciano Pavarotti concert Friday night were families escorting elderly relatives to the event. Ginny Ryan of Cohoes brought her mother and her aunt to ...
MAN ADMITS FATAL BEATING.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: KENNETH C. CROWE II Staff writer A Mechanicville man pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree murder, admitting he beat a 92-year-old woman and left her to die in her bathtub. Jason M. Calkins, 19, made the plea in exchange for an 18-years-to-life prison term ....
IRISH NORTHERN AID: `WE'LL GO WHERE WE'RE WANTED'.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: KIMBERLY MARTINEAU Staff writer Amid criticism that a public park shouldn't be used for a political fund-raiser, members of Irish Northern Aid (NORAID) have withdrawn their application to hold their annual Field Day in Tawasentha Park. The event, scheduled ...
SOFT WORDS FAIL WITHOUT A BIG STICK.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: FRED LeBRUN Fourteen months ago, when Colonie's Fred Field agreed to fill George Scaringe's ample booties as Albany County Republican chairman, professional pols from both sides of the aisle raised eyebrows, murmured skeptically. Fred Field for nice guy, of ...
CELEBRATING DEMOCRACY FOR THE PRICE OF A STAMP.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: KIMBERLY MARTINEAU Staff writer Frustrated with being shut out of the political process, Barbara Quint did what she frequently does after Town Board meetings. She reached for her pen. Dashing off letters to the editor of local newspapers, Quint, a ...
TENOR'S TALENT STILL RINGS TRUE.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: AMY BIANCOLLI Staff writer Review Luciano Pavarotti, tenor, icon, superstar, knows how to work a crowd. Not a gesture was wasted at the Pepsi Arena Friday night: No crack of the grin, no flip of the handkerchief, occurred without mesmerizing his listeners ....
AFTER BIG LOSS, COUNCIL 82 WILL STEP UP ORGANIZING.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: JAMES M. ODATO Capitol bureau While Council 82 attempted to put a positive spin on being decertified as the union for state corrections officers, four of its executives planned for a return to jobs as prison guards. President Richard Abrahamson, Vice President ...
BUFFALO-AREA SCHOOL CLOSED AFTER THREAT REVEALED.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press CHEEKTOWAGA -- A letter threatening that the violence in Littleton, Colo. was ``just the tip of the iceberg'' kept most students away from John F. Kennedy High School on Friday and forced the school to close early. Students at the suburban ...
4 COPS IN FATAL SHOOTING BACK ON JOB.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: DONNA DE LA CRUZ Associated Press NEW YORK -- The four officers who fired 41 shots at Amadou Diallo went back to work Friday and were showered with applause and support from their comrades after they appeared at a brief pre-trial hearing. A tentative trial ...
LANDOWNER CONVOY PROTESTS ONEIDA CLAIMS.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press SYRACUSE -- As upset residents ready themselves for a protest convoy to Albany, a court-appointed mediator says a settlement could be reached in the Oneida Indian Nation's longstanding land claim by the end of the year. Seton Hall Law School ...
LAW DAY SEES PUSH FOR COURT CAMERAS.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: JOHN CAHER State editor New York's chief judge heralded the state's historic contributions to free speech rights Friday, in her annual address on Law Day. At just about the same time, an attorney in Albany urged the courts to extend that commitment to the ...
WEEKEND HAPPENINGS.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... CAPITAL CHAMBER ARTISTS. 8 p.m. today. Works by Beethoven, Rossini, Mozart and Haydn. First Congregational Church, 405 Quail St., Albany. 458-9231. $16; $8 student. ``CIVIL WAR DAY.'' 10 a.m.-3 p.m. today. With the 125th New York Regimental Association. Pruyn House, 207 Old Niskayuna ...
MCGEE PICKED UP BY GEORGIA AUTHORITIES.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: -- Carol DeMare - Jeffrey V. McGee of Schenectady was picked up in Buffalo Friday by Georgia authorities to face murder charges in the shooting death of a Georgia highway officer. McGee's fight to avoid extradition from New York to Georgia failed earlier this ...
STATE TO DROP CHARGES AGAINST COPS.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: MELISSA GRACE Staff writer Albany Special Prosecutor John E. Dorfman moved Friday to dismiss perjury indictments lodged against two city police officers. The officers were acquitted in March of charges that they beat a handcuffed college student in their ...
D'AMATO QUITS TOP LAW FIRM, CITING CONFLICTS.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: -- Associated Press - NEW YORK -- Former Sen. Alfonse M. D'Amato has quit his job as a lawyer with a Manhattan law firm -- a little more than a week after accepting it. In a short statement released Friday, D'Amato said he quit as senior counsel with Nixon, ...
UNION PROBES OFFICIALS' SPENDING.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- Union officials governing 23,000 clerical workers are being accused by their parent organization of taking more than $2 million in undocumented personal expenses. On Friday, the judicial panel of the American Federation of State, ...
SHIRLEY W. GARHARTT.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... WESTERLO -- Shirley Wilcox Garhartt, 69, died Thursday at St. Peter's Hospital, Albany, following a long illness. Born in Chester, MA, Mrs. Garhartt lived in the Albany area most of her life. She was the daughter of Vergie Turner Wilcox of Rensselaer and the late William Wilcox. She was ...
GLORIA B . HANDELMAN.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... SCHENECTADY -- Gloria B. Handelman, 86 of Hollandale Apts., Clifton Park, NY, died April 30, 1999 at Ellis Hospital. Mrs. Handelman was born in Brooklyn, NY, lived most of her life in the New York area and came to the Capital District 11 years ago. She was a member of Congregation Beth ...
IRVING D. HEALD.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... VALATIE -- Irving Day Heald, 92, of Skyview Lane, Valatie, NY, died Thursday at Albany Memorial Hospital. Born in Schenectady, NY, he was the son of the late Charles and Jennie (Bennett) Heald. He was employed by American Oil Co., Rensselaer, NY, for 25 years, retiring in 1965. He was a ...
FRANCES L. HICKOK.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... SCHENECTADY -- Frances L. Hickok, 93, formerly of Colonie, died Thursday at Hallmark Nursing Centre, Rotterdam. Born in Schenectady, she had been the owner and operator of the Tick-Tock Tavern in Colonie for 25 years. She was the wife of the late Stanley Hickok who died in December of ...
JERRY J. MARCHESE.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... TROY -- Jerry J. Marchese, of Madison Avenue, died suddenly at Samaritan Hospital, Friday, April 30, 1999. Born and educated in Troy, he was the son of the late Luigi and Addolarata (Ragosta) Marchese. He was a veteran of World War II, where he served as an Army Military Policeman. He was ...
ESTHER A. OGDEN.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... ALBANY -- Esther A. Mariani Ogden, 84, died Thursday, April 29, 1999 at Memorial Hospital. Born in Albany, she was the daughter of the late Daniel and Mary Donato Mariani. She retired in 1978 from the New York State Department of Civil Service and was a communicant of Blessed Sacrament ...
EVALYN A. SIMPSON.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... GREENVILLE -- Evalyn A. Simpson, 81 years of Greenville, NY passed away at St. Peter's Hospital on April 30, 1999. She was born in Greenville, NY on November 10, 1917 daughter of the late Homer and Clara (Burgess) Adriance. Evy was a graduate of the Greenville Free Academy and in the 40's ...
HENRY SLEZAK.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... ALBANY -- Henry A. Slezak, 81, of Morris, New York, died April 27 at the Stratton VA Medical Center. Mr. Slezak was born in Poland and came to the United States in the late 1930's. He worked for the Schlitz Brewing Co., retiring in the early 1970's. Mr. Slezak ...
AURELIA G. SULLIVAN.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... RENSSELAER -- Aurelia G. Sullivan, age 78 years, died Friday at Rosewood Gardens Nursing Home in East Greenbush after a short illness. She was born in Lawrence, MA and has been a resident of Rensselaer for most of her life. She graduated from Van Rensselaer High School, the College of St ....
HARRY VETOICH.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... MAPLEWOOD -- Harry Vetoich, 86 of Maplewood, died unexpectedly Friday at Samaritan Hospital in Troy after being stricken at his home. Mr. Vetoich was born on March 13, 1912 in Maplewood and was a son of the late John and Anna Demianczyk Vetoich. He was a lifelong resident of Maplewood and ...
SETH WHEELER.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... FT. MYERS, FL -- Seth Wheeler, 79, formerly of Castleton, NY, died Thursday, April 29, 1999 in Ft. Myers. He was born March 27, 1920, in Plainfield, NJ, the son of Archibald Birch and Katharine Corson Wilcox Wheeler. He was a veteran of World War II and was awarded the Silver Star Medal ....
FLORENCE WILKES.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... COLONIE -- Florence Forrester Wilkes, age 96, of the Albany County Nursing Home died Thursday, April 29, 1999. Born in Albany, Mrs. Wilkes had lived for many years on Hawley Ave. in Colonie. She was a homemaker and a member of the First Congregational Church of Albany. The wife of the ...
JAMES H. WILLIAMS.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... RAVENA -- James H. Williams, 52, of Ravena died Thursday, April 29, 1999 at the Veteran's Administration Hospital after a long illness. Born in Albany, Mr. Williams was a resident of the Capital District for all of his life. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army serving his country during the ...
RAYMOND E. WILSON.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... CLIFTON PARK -- Raymond E. Wilson, 75, of Old Route 146 in Clifton Park died Friday, April 30, 1999 at the Samaritan Hospital in Troy after a brief illness. He was born in Melrose, MA on October 25, 1923, the son of the late Charles and Elizabeth Pratt Wilson. He was an Army veteran of ...
VOTE ON SCHOOL BUDGET FAILS.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... Troy The Board of Education on Friday night failed to approve a $56 million budget. Although the budget called for no tax increase, it failed 4-2, with Board President Robert Armet and member Robert O'Keefe opposing it. The measure needed five votes to pass. With the ...
NAVY MECHANICS SWORN IN AS U.S. CITIZENS.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: MICHELE MORGAN BOLTON Staff writer Three Navy aviation mechanics supporting the NATO effort in Kosovo from a base in Sicily became American citizens Friday along with 68 others from 27 countries at a naturalization ceremony at the James T. Foley Federal Courthouse. ...
AFTERSHOCKS CONTINUE AT SCHOOLS.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: CHRIS STURGIS Staff writer In the wake of the Littleton, Colo., school massacre, students throughout the region found that school officials and police apparently were taking no chances with rumors and threats of violence. In Saratoga Springs, a 16-year-old ...
SOCCER STUDENTS FROM BRITAIN WIN FREE ROOM, BOARD.(CAPITAL REGION)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: CHRIS STURGIS Staff writer ALBANY -- The British soccer students who found no room at the inn at the University of Albany will be staying in style thanks to the Omni hotel and the Big House Brewing Co. George Mahoney of Big House and Carrie Hillenbrandt, ...
U.S. ECONOMY POURS IT ON.(BUSINESS)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: ALICE ANN LOVE Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The economy keeps surging, defying expectations with a brisk 4.5 percent growth rate for the first three months of the year. Economists marveled at the ``wondrous'' performance and President Clinton said: ...
CAPOCCIA TO DISCLOSE FEES IN BANKRUPTCY CASES.(BUSINESS)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: CLAIRE HUGHES Business writer The law and debt-reduction firm of Colonie attorney Andrew F. Capoccia agreed Friday to disclose fees it charged clients before they filed for bankruptcy protection. The Andrew F. Capoccia Law Center had previously fought to ...
FEDERAL PROBE EYES FEES FOR STOCK SALES.(BUSINESS)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: MARCY GORDON Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The government is investigating whether Wall Street securities firms conspired to dictate the highly lucrative fees they charge companies to arrange for the sale of their stock to the public. The Justice Department ...
GAS BOYCOTT CUTS INTO SALES AT SOME PUMPS IN NATION.(BUSINESS)
May 01, 1999 ... Byline: JORDAN LITE Associated Press A nationwide gas boycott that began as an e-mail campaign among disgruntled motorists kept plenty of drivers away from the pump Friday as they protested high prices. But around the nation, many drivers continued filling their vehicles out of ...
INSURANCE AGENTS DISCIPLINED.(BUSINESS)
May 01, 1999 ... The state Insurance Department has taken disciplinary action against seven Capital Region licensed insurance agents or firms. Department hearings are subject to judicial review and possible stay of enforcement, the agency said. The following are cases handled by the ...