Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from June 1999:
YOUNG HELP TO KEEP PARADE TRADITION STRONG.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: CATHY WOODRUFF Staff writer AlbanyHarry Perkins isn't up to marching anymore, but he still considers a Memorial Day parade one of the best possible ways to honor U.S. veterans. The Marine Corps veteran of World War II came from his home in Loudonville on ...
SUSPECT CHARGED IN ALBANY SLAYING.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: CATHY WOODRUFF Staff writer Albany A 23-year-old Albany man who police say was engaged in a yearlong feud with shooting victim Karim Maye was arrested Monday morning and charged with Maye's murder. Police found Tony Simmons of 43 Watervliet Ave. hiding under ...
TEACHING VALUES NOT AS EASY AS ABC.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: ETHAN BRONNER New York Times The nation's public schools are under growing pressure to offer ethics instruction to provide safe learning free of harassment. While the pressure on schools has been building through the 1990s because of the increase in the ...
BOMBS HIT CIVILIANS, SERBS SAY.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: CANDICE HUGHES Associated Press BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- NATO missiles killed at least 16 people when they smashed into a hospital and a retirement home Monday in Yugoslavia, said Serb officials, amid growing concern about civilian casualties from the alliance's bombing ...
`PHANTOM MENACE' BIG AT BOX OFFICE.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... The new ``Star Wars'' film topped the $200 million mark in a record 13 days while ``Notting Hill'' took in $27.8 million with its mix of Julia Roberts and romance, according to industry estimates Monday. ``Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace'' topped the four-day ...
HEAT EXHAUSTION BLAMED FOR KRAVITZ'S COLLAPSE.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Lenny Kravitz collapsed backstage during a concert in Holmdel, N.J., allegedly from heat exhaustion. Kravitz played four songs Sunday night, then walked offstage and collapsed while the band continued to play at the PNC Bank Arts Center. The show was cut short, and an ...
ELTON JOHN TO PLAY BENEFIT FOR SLAIN COLLEGE STUDENT.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Elton John is scheduled to go to Laramie, Wyo., tonight in tribute to slain gay college student Matthew Shepard. Members of Shepard's family and his friends are expected to be among 15,000 people crowding the University of Wyoming's Arena-Auditorium for a concert, likely to ...
TEAMSTERS, CAR HAULERS EXTEND PACT, SLATE TALKS.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: LARRY MARGASAK Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. -- The Teamsters Union extended its contract with 17 companies that haul new cars early today, averting for the time being a strike that could have caused long delays in delivery of new cars to dealer showrooms. ...
IN DEATH, A QUIET MAN SPEAKS VOLUMES WITH HIS GENEROSITY.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press CHILTON, Wis. -- An 80- year-old man who kept to himself left a surprise behind when he died -- $377,000 in donations to a church he never joined, fairgrounds he rarely visited and a hospital where nobody remembered him. Neighbors and ...
SUFFER THE NEEDY STUDENTS CHEATED BY THE RICH.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: WILLIAM RASPBERRY WASHINGTON -- For too many of us, getting there is the only thing that matters. How we get there is just a minor detail. A House committee is looking into allegations that several states raised their scores on recent National Assessment of ...
WINDOWS MONOPOLY NEEDS RULES.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: DAVID IGNATIUS WASHINGTON -- If ever there was a case screaming for a settlement, it's the Justice Department's antitrust suit against Microsoft. The basic outlines of a settlement are obvious enough. It would require each side to concede that the other is ...
PAID GIFT ALTRUISTIC OXYMORON.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: ELLEN GOODMAN BOSTON -- It would be nice to think of this as a simple problem of supply and demand. A test case for Economics 101. A problem for the marketplace. Over here we have 66,000 potential customers on a waiting list. Over there we have 5,500 ...
AT ARLINGTON, CLINTON TURNS FOCUS TO KOSOVO.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: SANDRA SOBIERAJ Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. -- On the century's final Memorial Day, President Clinton ventured among tows of tombstones at Arlington National Cemetery and asked Americans to reconsider their ambivalence about Kosovo. Clinton urged them to remember the ...
500 MOURN FAMILY KILLED BY TRAIN.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press TRUMBULL, Conn. -- Mourners filed into a Mormon church Monday for the funeral of a woman and her four sons who died in a train accident, with the boys remembered for the way they lived, rather than their tragic deaths. ``I never ...
PAKISTAN, INDIA OK TALKS OVER KASHMIR.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: HEMA SHUKLA Associated Press KARGIL, India -- India agreed Monday to hold talks with Pakistan over Kashmir, after six days of Indian airstrikes on the hideouts of Islamic militants in the disputed frontier region. VAJPAYEE There was no letup in the Indian ...
FIRST LADY GETS CAMPAIGN TIPS FROM A PRO.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: EDWIN CHEN Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON -- Figure out why you want the job and then condense your sales pitch into sound bites. Develop a 30-second version and a five-minute one. But be ready to talk for an hour as well. That was among the free advice Hillary ...
HACKERS DEFACE 2 MORE GOVERNMENT WEB SITES.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: TED BRIDIS Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Computer hackers vandalized two more government sites on the Internet on Monday and left a taunting note promising to attack more federal computers because of a related FBI investigation. Hackers from different ...
RELATIVES OF TIANANMEN SQUARE VICTIMS SEEK LEGAL RETRIBUTION.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: ERIK ECKHOLM New York Times BEIJING -- Ten years after army troops and tanks were used to smash pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, more than a hundred relatives of the dead have petitioned the government to open a criminal investigation of the responsible ...
SURVIVORS RECOUNT STAMPEDE.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: RICHARD C. PADDOCK Los Angeles Times MOSCOW -- Tanya Shelabina, 15, wanted to have some fun at a ``beer concert,'' an outdoor festival in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. It nearly cost her her life. When rain and hail began to fall Sunday evening, 2,000 ...
TWO-PARENT HOUSEHOLD BEST FOR RAISING KIDS.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: RAYMOND N. DANSEREAU Albany The search for safe, affordable day care (Times Union, May 24), is a non sequitur. The behavioral problems, sometimes criminal, seen in many of today's children are principally a result of the failure of parents to raise, with all its ...
WHO SUPPLIED WEAPONS TO MILOSEVIC FOR PROFIT?(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: THOMAS A. WHALEN Cohoes George Berkeley (1685-1753), an Irish philosopher published ``The Querist,'' which attempted to focus attention on broad aspects of social problems by asking questions. ...
LEGISLATORS SHOULD SUPPORT TAXI RESOLUTION.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: BRETT M. MECUM Off-Campus Representative UAlbany Student Association I am writing in support of Resolution 154, which is currently in the Mass Transit Committee of the Albany County Legislature. Resolution 154, sponsored by Legislator Peter Crummey, addresses an issue of ...
BUDGET IMPASSE TAKES ITS TOLL ON TRADES.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: GEORGE BRADWELL Teamster East Greenbush The state Legislature is preparing to go on vacation again. (Seems like it's always either on break or vacation while accomplishing nothing except the midnight pay raise). As one of the thousands of seasonal construction workers in ...
DESPITE DIP AT THE WELL, GAS PRICES STILL TOO HIGH.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: JOE GALU Albany The price of petroleum at the well head has been dripping for nearly a month. The price has dropped approximately 20 percent. Yet, for some reason, this is difficult to detect at gas stations. ...
SHORTCUT MEANS OF WAR WON'T LEAD TO PEACE.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: PETER LOOKER Ballston Lake Ellen Goodman, in her May 21 column, notes the obvious connection between war and violence, as well as the disconnected reporting of violence at Littleton, Colo., and bombing of Kosovo. Why do most media discussions ignore this obvious ...
TOP COURT RULING VICTORY FOR DISABLED.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: MICHAEL VOLKMAN Albany The U.S. Supreme Court made a decision which will help millions of Americans. Seventy percent of working-age people with disabilities are unemployed, although nearly two thirds of us say we want to work. The Americans with Disabilities ...
BOONDOCKS COMIC IS HARDLY UPLIFTING.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: LINDA KINGSBURY Ballston Spa I have much concern about the recent addition to your comic section -- The Boondocks. The downside of life and secret thoughts of rebellion and destruction are presented as the ...
UPSTATE'S TWO FACES.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... The Federal Reserve Bank ofNew York has added new perspective to the prior enthusiasm over a resurgent upstate economy. The Fed is far less upbeat than the Pataki administration claims of jump-starting an economy that has lagged far behind the revivals of downstate and throughout much of ...
SUPERFUND SENSE.(MAIN)
Jun 01, 1999 ... After eight months of discussions, a 17-member advisory committee appointed by Governor Pataki has agreed on key issues involving environmental cleanup programs, including the state Superfund. That's an encouraging outcome, given the number of competing interests before the panel, from ...
ROAD CAN'T TAKE HEAT, BUT PARK CROWDS CAN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: MIKE FRICANO Staff writer A picture-perfect Memorial Day weekend concluded Monday with near-record temperatures that packed area parks but cracked concrete, snarling afternoon traffic on a major highway. The temperature peaked at 88, the highest this year but ...
NO EASY CURES FOR THIS CRISIS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: DAN LYNCH The restaurant is a tourist trap in midtown Manhattan. We'd eaten there when we'd begun dating, when we were 18 years old. That had been a memorable evening. At the end of the meal, they'd brought me the wrong check. I'd sat there at the table, ...
A DAY TO RECALL FREEDOM'S COST.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: JAY JOCHNOWITZ Staff writer Watervliet This city whose fortunes have long been linked to national defense gathered in the quiet of a new park Monday to honor the dead and the survivors of the nation's wars. Standing before an arc of black stone monuments ...
UALBANY STUDENTS SAVOR AN INSIDE SCOOP OF D.C. POLITICS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: ANDREW BROWNSTEIN Staff writer In the beginning, they had box seats in the U.S. Senate for the impeachment trial of the President. In the end, even as much of the country tried to forget the episode, they watched as a Washington comedy troupe, the Capitol ...
SUSPECT DETAILS ROLE IN SLAYING.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: SYLVIA WOOD Staff writer Schenectady A Schenectady man being held in connection with the savage slaying of a teenager admitted his role in the crime and gave his account Monday of Francisco Rosa's grisly death in Central Park. Antonio Powell, in a jailhouse ...
MAN KILLED BY MINIVAN AFTER ATTACK ON WIFE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press BATAVIA -- A man suspected of attacking his estranged wife then stabbing her brother to death was hit and killed by a minivan less than an hour later, police said. Police believe Hamid Ouhda, 23, a native of Morocco, broke into the apartment ...
WOMAN, BOY HURT WHEN CAR JUMPS CURB IN MANHATTAN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- A 21-year-old woman and a toddler walking on a Manhattan sidewalk were injured Monday when a car jumped the sidewalk and hit them, police said. The incident occurred when a car apparently stalled at the corner of 136th Street and ...
ACTIVIST'S HOME TO BECOME ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY HUB.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press SCHENECTADY -- An environmental group plans to purchase a noted activist's home this week to establish an extensive research center to study the Adirondack and Catskill mountains. The Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks based in ...
PARACHUTIST DIES IN JUMP IN ORANGE COUNTY TOWN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press MONTGOMERY -- A New Jersey parachutist died in a jump in rural Orange County Monday, state police said. Alan Williams, 34, of Bernardsville, ...
LEGISLATURE RACES AGAINST HIGH-TECH PACE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY -- The New York Legislature can appear adamantly old fashioned. Lawmakers ponder issues on overstuffed chairs, behind antique-style desks, where printed bills sit for days to ``age.'' It can be quaint. It can ...
GROCERY CHAIN'S ON ITS FEET, BUT SHAREHOLDERS STAGGER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press SYRACUSE -- The Penn Traffic Co. will emerge from bankruptcy some time next month a new, free of debt, with money for growth, ready to regain its supremacy as a regional grocery chain. Under normal circumstances, such a healthy outlook would ...
ERRANT BULLET TAKES AWAY A YOUNG LIFE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: BETH GARDINER Associated Press NEW YORK -- A 3-year-old girl was struck in the head and killed on a Bronx street corner early Monday by a bullet that may have been meant for her father, police said. Iris Turull was with her father, Ruben Turull, about a half a ...
SCHOOL REUNIONS SEEKING ALUMNI.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Here is a list of area high school alumni groups that have scheduled reunions. Albany High School Class of 1944: October. Call Sue Cooke Deegan at 432-8538. Albany High School Class of 1949: Oct. 15-17, Best Western Inn, Wolf Road, Albany. Call Joan Busch House at ...
FIRE RIPS THROUGH NISKAYUNA HOME.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1999 ... NISKAYUNA -- Four Stanford Heights firefighters were treated for smoke inhalation and heat exhaustion as a Monday afternoon fire ripped through a Buckingham Drive home. Two family pets died in the blaze. Edith Simpson of 4335 Buckingham Drive discovered the fire after ...
MAN, SON HURT IN DIRT BIKE CRASH.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1999 ... PITTSTOWN -- A man had to be airlifted to Albany Medical Center Hospital Monday evening after crashing a dirt bike in his yard. Joseph Breen, 31, was riding around his Nortonville Road property with his son, also named Joseph Breen, 8, when the accident occurred, said Matthew ...
CAPITAL REGION ALMANAC.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1999 ... This almanac of community news provides coverage of local governments, local courts and police calls from selected communities in our region. Government listings focus on communities in Albany County, and police calls are taken from the actual police blotters from larger communities ...
VERDOY FIRE VOLUNTEERS COMPLETE STATE COURSES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1999 ... COLONIE -- The Verdoy Volunteer Fire Department recently announced the completion of their New York state courses by their members. The following members completed the state Incident Command course: Robert R. Napier, chief; Gregory V. Serio and Russ Santore, assistant chiefs; ...
LIBRARIAN, GRAD STUDENT SHARE IN UALBANY PRIZES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1999 ... ALBANY -- Carol Anne German and Laura Horn were recently named recipients of the University Libraries' Pritchard Award. German, a networked resources education librarian at the University at Albany Libraries, and Horn, a graduate student in the University School of Information ...
KIDS WHO REMAIN DRUG-FREE QUALIFY FOR MALL DISCOUNTS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: Ginger Bristow Young people who pledge to stay drug-free this summer will receive discounts at three area malls. In the past three years, thousands of young people have taken the public stand to ``Stonewall Drugs'' through participation with a nationwide ...
MILITARY PERSONNEL RECOGNIZED.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1999 ... The following local members of the military have been promoted or recognized for outstanding performance: John Tillman, Albany, promoted to Air Force major, Ramstein Air Base, Kaiserslauten, Germany. Sean C. Kielty, Schenectady, promoted to second lieutenant in the ...
SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAM OPENINGS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jun 01, 1999 ... The following organizations have openings in their summer youth programs: Burnt Hills Rowing Association 1999 Summer Rowing Camp for seventh to 12th graders. Returning and college-age rowers can attend a summer clinic with coaching appropriate to their skill level. Adult ...
SABRES CUP BOUND.(SPORTS)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: JOHN MACENKA Associated Press Sabres 4 Leafs 2TORONTO -- The Buffalo Sabres are back in the Stanley Cup finals, and they didn't even need a brilliant performance by Dominik Hasek to do it. Erik Rasmussen scored midway through the third period Monday night ...
INDIANS PUMMEL YANKEES.(SPORTS)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: BEN WALKER Associated Press Indians 7 Yankees 1NEW YORK -- A few months from now, this matchup might mean a lot more. On a Monday in May, the Cleveland Indians were only willing to count it as one win. Jim Thome hit a grand slam, Manny Ramirez homered and ...
SECOND BEST NOT ENOUGH.(SPORTS)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: TIM REYNOLDS Staff writer ALBANY -- Cheri Goddard-Kenah stood near the finish line moments after the 1998 Freihofer's Run for Women, drenched with sweat and displaying a smile even though she had just lost by a second to Lynn Jennings. Jennings had outkicked ...
PACERS SAY EWING IS MILKING INJURY.(SPORTS)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: DARREN EVERSON New York Daily News INDIANAPOLIS -- What Patrick Ewing is doing for the New York Knicks, playing on one leg, you could call miraculous, tremendous, inspiring. Many have. Mark Jackson, however, offered a different take Monday after seeing Ewing hobble his ...
PROUD OF HIS PAST.(SPORTS)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: TIM REYNOLDS Staff writer East Rutherford, N.J. It's been nearly a decade since Miles Joseph went off to college, but not a day goes by that he doesn't let his mind wander back to his time at Shenendehowa High, where he was part of three state Class A and two national ...
BIG WEEK SET FOR SECTION II SPORTS.(SPORTS)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: BILL ARSENAULT Staff writer Section II will crown champions in four sports this week, with the winners representing the Capital Region in state competition. Sectional semifinals and finals are scheduled in baseball, softball and boys' and girls' lacrosse, with ...
SPORTS TRIVIA.(SPORTS)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Today's question: In 1973, the Buffalo Bills' O.J. Simpson became the first player in NFL history to run for 2,000 yards in a season. Who became the second playerto do it, ...
UHL TEAM COMING TO GLENS FALLS?(SPORTS)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press GLENS FALLS -- The commissioner of the United Hockey League plans to make an announcement in the next few days about a new team possibly being headed for the area. Commissioner Richard Brosal stopped short of saying that a team was earmarked ...
TV CREW FILMS LIVE ER ACTION.(TV & RADIO)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: ROB OWEN Pittsburgh Post-Gazette There's been an accident. A 10-month-old boy has fallen down a flight of stairs, putting a 7-centimeter gash in his forehead. Doctors in the trauma unit at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh hover as little Nicholas Matthews ...
MCGWIRE INFECTION WAS `SCARY'.(SPORTS)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: Combined wire reports CHICAGO -- Mark McGwire's infected corn was potentially more serious than the St. Louis Cardinals let on. The Cardinals had said McGwire spent Saturday at the team hotel, taking antibiotics for his ailing right foot. But actually he spent ...
SPACECRAFT WOULD LAUNCH SHUTTLE INTO OBLIVION.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: V. DION HAYNES Chicago Tribune In a hangar that in previous incarnations served as an assembly site for the B-1 bomber and a sound stage for the movie ``Hard Rain,'' the future of space travel is being defined. Engineers at NASA and an alliance of companies, ...
FETES OF FILM CINEMA TAKES CENTER STAGE AT FESTIVALS IN HUDSON AND POUGHKEEPSIE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: AMY BIANCOLLI STAFF WRITER ``Star Wars''? Old news. ``Notting Hill''? Not even close. For truly riveting cinema, try Sedat Pakay's pristine documentary on photographer Walker Evans, set to music by David Amram. Or a startling film about Le Petomane, the ...
BEST BETS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Best Serling imitation TV ``Combat's'' Vic Morrow died while making the war-related segment of ``Twilight Zone: The Movie.'' John Lithgow re-created the role of a frightened air traveler, and Steven Spielberg and John Landis were among the directors of the 1983 film ...
CELLASENE CAUSING A RIPPLE AS A CELLULITE REMOVER.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: SYLVIA WOOD Staff writer Cottage-cheese thighs, orange-peel skin: By any name, women hate cellulite. ``They're always saying, `I want to get rid of this stuff under my butt,' said Robyn Mangiardi, a fitness trainer in Saratoga County. A ...
DIGNIFIED RESPONSE PERFECT FOR ANY SITUATION.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jun 01, 1999 ... Byline: JUDITH MARTIN DEAR MISS MANNERS: Today I approached the line leading to a gas-station attendant's window and observed that the man in front of me did not seem to be in line. He was not in back of the woman who was at the head of the queue, and I thought he might simply ...