Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from July 1999:
REWARD OFFERED IN HIT-AND-RUN.(CAPITAL REGION)(Correction notice)
Jul 01, 1999 ... ALBANY -- The city firefighters union is offering a $2,500 reward for information that helps police solve a hit-and-run case last month that involved a bicyclist who suffered serious head injuries. Christine Volpe, 21, a local college student from White Plains, was riding her ...
NEW LEADER TO PURSUE GLOBAL EXPOSURE FOR RPI.(CAPITAL REGION)(Correction notice)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: ANDREW BROWNSTEIN Staff writer Shirley Ann Jackson, who assumes the presidency of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today, sums up her plans for the school in one sentence: ``I want RPI to be a first-rate technological institution with global reach and global ...
LAKE GEORGE-AREA FAVORITES ARE BACK.(PREVIEW)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Two shuttered Lake George-area restaurants are reopening -- with slightly changed names -- in time for the summer crunch. The former Grist Mill is, after an 18-month hiatus, now the Grist Mill on the Schroon Limited (100 River St., Warrensburg). The father-son team of Harvey E ....
RUSSIAN MEZZO SINGS SWEET NOTES OF SUCCESS IN THE U.S. BY MARK STRYKER KNIGHT RIDDER.(PREVIEW)
Jul 01, 1999 ... DETROIT -- The first night was the scariest. Russian-born Irina Mishura, was alone in a borrowed New York apartment. The next morning she would complete her journey to Detroit and begin her new life. All she wanted was to sing. This was 1992 and she was a stranger in a strange ...
WORDS, MUSIC HELP IAN SURVIVE A TURBULENT LIFE BY ARLENE LEVINSON ASSOCIATED PRESS.(PREVIEW)
Jul 01, 1999 ... NEW YORK -- Cradling the huge guitar, she looked prim in her blue turtleneck, white A-line jumper that brushed the tops of her knees, black tights and low-heel, pointy-toe black pumps with buckles. Her long, dark curly hair was parted and tied back, as if to tame it. Then she let loose her ...
NOVEMBER TRIBUTE TO OCHS TO BENEFIT `CLEARWATER'.(PREVIEW)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: DAVID YONKE Toledo Blade - ``For I marched to the battles of the German trench / In a war that was bound to end all wars / Oh I must have killed a million men / And now they want me back again / But I ain't marchin' anymore.'' -- Phil Ochs, ``I Ain't Marching Anymore'' ...
IT'S BEEN A LONG, LONG ROAD FOR MUSICIAN ROBERT CRAY BY ED MASLEY PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE.(PREVIEW)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Robert Cray had no intention of making a record as soulful as ``Take Your Shoes Off.'' He could feel it headed down that road, though, the day he began the recording by cutting a song by Al Green's legendary writing partner, Willie Mitchell. It wasn't the song itself ...
DUELING DIVAS.(PREVIEW)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Whitney Houston CONCERT INFO: With 112 When: 8:15 p.m. Friday Where: Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Route 9, Saratoga Springs Tickets: $75, $50; lawn $25 Info: 587-3330 BIRTHDATE: Aug. 9, 1963 BIRTHPLACE: ...
MORISSETTE TO RETURN.(PREVIEW)
Jul 01, 1999 ... The Saratoga Performing Arts Center will wrap up its 1999 summer calendar with a concert by Tori Amos and ``a special co-headliner to be announced'' at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 29. The other headliner? Alanis Morissette, although SPAC can't announce it yet because Morissette also is slated ...
USS `SLATER'.(PREVIEW)
Jul 01, 1999 ... The USS Slater, docked at the south end of Corning Preserve, offers a rare glimpse into life aboard a ship that hunted German U-boats in World War II. The decommissioned 306-foot destroyer escort ship saw service between 1942 and 1946. Of the 565 built, it is one of just three ...
WHAT ANIMAL ACTOR IS THE BIGGEST STAR IN THE HISTORY OF MOVIES?(PREVIEW)
Jul 01, 1999 ... ``Lassie is the animal actor I think of first. Lassie is pretty and smart. I'd like to attract a lady like that. Lassie resembles Faith Hill. They're both talented and beautiful.'' -- John Gulick, SchenectadyFEEDBACKLassie 49Jaws 13Old Yeller 6Rin Tin Tin 5Black Beauty 3Trigger 1Wanda ...
BETTER DISCRETION.(PREVIEW)
Jul 01, 1999 ... As a former area newsman, I'm certainly NOT on the censorship bandwagon in general. However, it was difficult to believe the entertainment section of the Times Union this morning. There, before the wondering eyes of the Capitol Region's paper-reading populace,was not one but TWO ...
POLICE BLOTTER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1999 ... EAST GREENBUSH Monday, June 21 10:30 a.m. LARCENY. At an area department store, someone removed a cassette player from the dashboard of a car. 5:52 p.m. HARASSMENT. On Main Avenue, a 14-year-old female reportedly called a residence and threatened a victim. Officer: E. M. ...
LITTLETON MAYOR THANKS LEGISLATURE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1999 ... TROY -- The mayor of Littleton, Colo., has written a letter of thanks to Rensselaer County Legislature Chairman Neil J. Kelleher, expressing appreciation for a resolution adjourning the legislature's May meeting in memory of the victims of the Columbine High School shooting. ...
FIRST LADY'S AGENDA EXPANDS ALBANY VISIT.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: LARA JAKES Capitol bureau With upstate looming as the ``battleground'' in next year's all-but-declared race for U.S. Senate, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will embark on a four-day swing north of the Tappan Zee Bridge next week, capping it off with two days in ...
NEGOTIATIONS FAIL AS LAWMAKERS RECESS.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: JAMES M. ODATO Capitol bureau Budget talks collapsed Wednesday and legislators fled the Capitol for 12 summer days, expressing pessimism, frustration and anger. Local governments and the state braced for millions of dollars in unplanned Medicaid costs. The ...
FED HIKES INTEREST RATE.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: JOHN M. BERRY Washington Post WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve, as widely expected, raised short-term interest rates by a quarter-percentage point Wednesday but startled financial markets with an announcement indicating that further rate increases aren't necessarily on ...
STATE TEST STUMPS PRIVATE SCHOOLS, TOO.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: RICK KARLIN Staff writer Five weeks after the state reported low scores for public schools on a tough new fourth-grade English exam, results released Wednesday showed private schools fared only slightly better. Statewide, 47 percent of private school students ...
INMATE'S HANDLING SCRUTINIZED.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: BRENDAN LYONS Staff writer Albany County jail guards may have violated procedures when they left an inmate unattended after he was strapped into his bed and injected with a powerful tranquilizer on the night he died, Sheriff James L. Campbell said Wednesday. ...
GRANDPARENTS A SAFETY NET IN CHILD-REARING, STUDY FINDS.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON -- More than one in 20 children in the United States lived in homes headed by their grandparents in 1997, the Census Bureau says, putting increased pressure on older Americans to take care of the young even though some can barely afford it. ...
STUDY FINDS HEART DEFECT LESS SERIOUS THAN FEARED.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: LINDA A. JOHNSON Associated Press The millions of Americans who have been told they have a serious, sometimes fatal heart defect called mitral valve prolapse probably have nothing to fear, researchers say. The condition, long considered a ``hidden epidemic'' ...
DEADLINE TO SAVE PEACE ACCORD PASSES.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: SHAWN POGATCHNIK Associated Press BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- With two key parties sticking to incompatible positions, Northern Ireland's rival politicians failed Wednesday to meet a midnight deadline for saving the 1998 Good Friday peace accord. British ...
MILOSEVIC URGES REBUILDING COUNTRY.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- President Slobodan Milosevic's government called on selected parties Wednesday to join forces to rebuild Yugoslavia -- an apparent bid to exploit divisions within opposition ranks and sideline those seeking his resignation. ...
BARAK COBBLES TOGETHER FIVE-PARTY COALITION.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: RON KAMPEAS Associated Press JERUSALEM -- A coalition of rabbis and radicals, settlers and city folk, puritans and pragmatists assembled Wednesday by Israel's prime minister-elect is agreeing to disagree on just about everything but this: The peace process is back on ...
CHILE PAPERS RELEASED.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: PHILIP SHENON New York Times WASHINGTON -- The CIA and other government agencies had detailed reports of widespread human rights abuses by the Chilean military, including the killings and torture of leftist dissidents, almost immediately after a 1973 right-wing coup that ...
TIMOTHY LEARY HELPED FBI.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: KAREN GULLO Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Timothy Leary, the counterculture guru whose ``turn on, tune in, drop out'' preachings made him an anti-establishment icon in the 1960s, quietly cooperated with the FBI in 1974 and informed on a radical leftist group in hopes of ...
MARINES PICK NEW LEADER IN JONES.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The Marine Corps ushered in a new era Wednesday, installing Gen. James L. Jones Jr. as its commandant to succeed Gen. Charles C. Krulak. In an emotional change-of-command ceremony at the historic Marine Barracks -- the oldest ...
STARR ACCEPTS HUBBELL'S GUILTY PLEAS.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- On the day the independent counsel law expired, Kenneth Starr wrapped up the Whitewater phase of his investigation Wednesday with guilty pleas from presidential friend Webster Hubbell and declared he's seeking an ``orderly conclusion'' to ...
NORTH KOREA PREPARING MISSILE TEST.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- North Korea appears to be preparing a missile test launch that would have ``very real consequences'' for its relations with the United States and U.S. allies in Asia, a senior Pentagon official said Wednesday. ``It's fair to say ...
SENATE PANEL OKS HOLBROOKE.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: TOM RAUM Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Richard Holbrooke's effort to be U.N. ambassador won the unanimous backing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but new obstacles emerged late Wednesday. More senators were planning delaying tactics, following the ...
RUSSIA CLEARS HURDLE FOR IMF LOAN.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press MOSCOW -- The International Monetary Fund expressed satisfaction on Wednesday with the Russian government's efforts to revive its economy, indicating it might release an emergency loan. A formal outline of the government's economic policy -- ...
JURY AWARDS $5M TO BEE STING VICTIM.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press SEATTLE -- A man left severely brain damaged in July 1997 by a yellow-jacket sting has won a $5 million malpractice verdict against a doctor who had told him he was not allergic to bee stings. Daniel Topham and his wife, Cynthia, contended Dr ....
$36.2M RAISED FOR BUSH RUN.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: R.G. RATCLIFFE Houston Chronicle SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Texas Gov. George W. Bush has raised an unprecedented $36.2 million for his Republican presidential campaign, making him the undisputed winner in both parties of the White House money race. Bush's four ...
AGENCY TRIMS CLINTON'S FORECAST ON SURPLUS.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON -- In a surprise to some, the Congressional Budget Office plans to predict today that budget surpluses over the next decade will grow only half as much as President Clinton has estimated. CBO will say that excluding Social ...
RECOGNIZE THE DEEDS, NOT CONNECTIONS.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: VERNON HUSEK Rensselaerville In reply to Dan Lynch's recent column on the race for U.S. Senate: Name recognition can be purchased with the money of connected influential friends (Rick Lazio), or acquired by close association in the public eye with a notorious ...
PATAKI'S ACTIONS LOUDER THAN WORDS.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: ANDREW MASON Conservation Chair Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society Oneonta In Fred LeBrun's recent column regarding New York state's purchase of Bearpen Mountain, one of the Catskill high peaks in Delaware and Greene counties, it was noted that Gov. George Pataki had ...
LICENSED GUN DEALERS MUST DO BACKGROUND CHECKS.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: DANIEL ZABRISKIE Albany In recent days, the citizen-disarmament proponents in this country have been talking about the ``NRA-sponsored gun law that would weaken current law by allowing flea markets or gun shows consisting of 10 or less sellers to forgo the background ...
JUDGE'S TICKET REASONING CAUSES FUNDS TO FALL SHORT.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: DANIEL HAVILLAND Troy Once again, Judge Henry Bauer is shooting from the hip and rejecting proposals from the City of Troy without fully understanding, or appreciating, the intent behind the proposals. The creation of a parking violations bureau to adjudicate parking ...
LATE STATE BUDGET HURTS WORKING RESIDENTS.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: MICHELLE STAFFORD New York Assistant State Director National Federation of IndependentBusiness Albany - Late budgets have become the norm for the Legislature. But that norm causes extreme hardship for hundreds of small businesses working under contract with the state. ...
MR. STARR FADES.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Kenneth Starr's tenure as special prosecutor is about to expire, quite fittingly, with a whimper. So, too, has the very law that permitted his five-year, $40 million investigation of President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Rarely has prosecutorial power been so abused. ...
HIDING BEHIND THE FLAG.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... The latest House vote in favorof a constitutional amendment to outlaw burning of the U.S. flag was predictable. But the margin of the vote -- 305 to 124, or 19 more than the two-thirds required for passage -- is instructive. It indicates that these House members have found a new issue to ...
BILL GRINS AS 2 MORE WALK FREE.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: WILLIAM SAFIRE WASHINGTON -- Two men who admitted corrupting our politics during the Clinton years have copped their guilty pleas and are cheerfully walking free -- without having to implicate any higher-ups. In Webster Hubbell's case, the crony and serial ...
VEGAS ACQUIRES A REAL THIRST FOR FAMILY VALUES.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: GEORGE WILL LAS VEGAS -- In a city not known for nuances, former Mayor Jan Jones called a visitor's attention to a portentous one. A hotel going up on the Strip will, she says, have minibars in the rooms. If your reaction is ``so what?'' you are not in a Las Vegas frame ...
LET HEALTH CARE CONSUMERS BEWARE.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: ELLEN GOODMAN BOSTON -- There's a doctor who likes to say that every time a patient is referred to as a health care consumer, another angel dies. He's a bit melodramatic, of course, but he makes the point. Today, health care is routinely spoken of as an ...
PAIR FACE FINES FOR TRAVELERS' PARKING.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: KIMBERLY MARTINEAU Staff writer A park-and-ride company near the Albany airport and a property owner each face up to $57,250 in fines after more than 200 cars were improperly parked in two vacant lots during a busy week in April. This is the third time the ...
DEA CHIEF TO TEACH AT UALBANY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: ANDREW BROWNSTEIN Staff writer Thomas Constantine, the retiring chief of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, will become a professor at the University at Albany this fall, where he will set up a program to train law enforcement officers. Constantine will ...
JURY CONVICTS MAN FOR MURDERING STRANGER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: MELISSA GRACE Staff writer A 30-year-old Bronx man was convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday for the brutal 1996 beating and stabbing death of a stranger he encountered while looking for the victim's roommate. A county jury took just three hours to find ...
TRAIPSING THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: ALAN WECHSLER Staff writer The 2,160-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches up the East Coast from Georgia to Maine, has been completed by a runner in 52 days. Leo Kellogg, a 63-year-old retired state worker, took a more leisurely pace: 23 years. ...
MENTAL HEALTH MEDICATION BILL PASSES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: LARA JAKES Capitol bureau Three hours before the expiration deadline, the Assembly approved a measure Wednesday night to allow a psychiatric hospital to continue to extend court orders to mentally ill people who are reluctant to take their medication. The ...
RENTAL CAR BILL CLEARS ASSEMBLY CODES COMMITTEE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: JAMES M. ODATO Capitol bureau A bill that could drive up car insurance rates has cleared the Assembly Codes Committee and could become law after with a vote of the full chamber. The bill, already passed in the Senate, would do away with the current $100 cap ...
BLACK FIREFIGHTERS CHARGE RACIAL BIAS IN DEPARTMENTAL PROMOTIONS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: TIMOTHY WILLIAMS Associated Press NEW YORK -- Three high-ranking black firefighters charged the city Fire Department with racial discrimination Wednesday, saying they have been passed over for promotions in favor of whites with less stellar records and fewer years on the ...
CITY CLOSES LOOPHOLE, OUTLAWS 3-CARD MONTE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- Penn Jillette, professional sleight-of-hand genius, says it is possible to make money playing three-card monte -- if the dealer is struck by an asteroid. The New York City Council agrees, and moved this week to close a legal ...
HONDURAN BOY TO STAY IN NEW YORK.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: DONNA DE LA CRUZ Associated Press NEW YORK -- The 13-year-old Honduran boy who fooled New Yorkers with his tale of losing his mother in a mudslide and journeying thousands of miles to find a dad he'd never seen will remain in the city until authorities figure out where ...
PROSECUTOR FACES MURDER CHARGE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press GOSHEN -- An assistant district attorney for Orange County was charged Wednesday with murder for mowing down a man who was in-line skating on a path that was supposed to be free of cars. Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro, who ...
MECHANICVILLE VOTES FOR A NEW SCHOOL.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: DENNIS YUSKO Staff writer Mechanicville Voters overwhelming approved a $21.5 million bond issue Wednesday to replace the 82-year old Main Street elementary school with a state-of-the-art, 96,000-square-foot facility off Pruyn Hill Road. The vote's outcome ...
GOP LEGISLATORS MOVE TO SCRAP 911 CONTRACT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: CATHY WOODRUFF Staff writer Six Republican majority members of the Rensselaer County Legislature are threatening to cancel Troy's contract for emergency police and fire dispatching through the county 911 center. In a letter to Mayor Mark Pattison, the ...
DEMOLITION SLATED FOR DOT PROJECT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: MARV CERMAK Staff writer Demolition of State Street and Broadway buildings to make way for a new state Department of Transportation headquarters will begin Oct. 1, according to George Robertson, city Industrial Development Agency executive director. During a ...
LEGISLATORS BALK AT DWI SEIZURE LAW.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: CATHY WOODRUFF Staff writer Rensselaer County legislators, already expressing some discomfort with a local forfeiture law they passed in October, are showing no enthusiasm for District Attorney Kenneth Bruno's proposal to expand it to allow seizure of cars during ...
COP FOUND GUILTY OF CONTEMPT COUNTS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1999 ... Byline: CATHY WOODRUFF Staff writer A North Greenbush police sergeant, one of fewer than a handful of town police employees whose Civil Service certification is not currently in question, was found guilty Wednesday on two misdemeanor charges stemming from arguments with his ...
NESTA W. ASQUITH.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1999 ... ALBANY -- Nesta W. Asquith, 75, died Wednesday, June 30, 1999 at Albany Medical Center. Mrs. Asquith was originally from Kingston, Jamaica, a resident of Albany for the past 30 years. She was employed at the Convent of the Sacred Heart until her retirement. She was also a member of the ...
KENNETH R. BALLARD.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1999 ... CUERNAVACA, MEXICO -- Kenneth R. Ballard, 74, formerly of Latham, died suddenly June 8, 1999 in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Born in Carmel, NY, he was the husband of Carmen Benitez Ballard and former husband of the late Anna Mac Lebentritt. Mr. Ballard retired from G. A. F. in Rensselaer and Huyck ...
JOHN E. BURKE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1999 ... DELMAR -- John E. Burke, 87, died Wednesday, June 30, 1999 at St. Peter's Hospital. Born in the Bronx, Mr. Burke lived most of his life in Albany. He was a graduate of Fordham Prep School and Siena College. Mr. Burke was chief budget examiner for the NYS Budget Dept. for 40 years, retiring ...
ROSE DONELIAN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1999 ... JUPITER, FL -- Rose Donelian, 75, passed away Monday, June 28, 1999 after a brief illness. Mrs. Donelian was born in Watervliet, NY, October 2, 1923. She was the daughter of the late Jack and Sased Balikian Ohanesian. She had been a resident of the Palm Beaches for the past 20 years, ...
MARION EMERICK.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1999 ... ALBANY -- Marion Fonda Emerick, age 83, of Krumkill Road, died Tuesday, June 29, 1999 at the Community Hospice Inn at St. Peter's Hospital. Born in Albany, she had lived on Brodford St. in Albany before moving to Krumkill Rd. in 1995. She was a communicant of Blessed Sacrament Church and ...
KATHERINE E. KEEFE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 1999 ... ALBANY -- Katherine E. Patti Keefe, age 90, died Tuesday, June 29, 1999 at the Teresian House after a short illness. Born in New York City, she formerly lived on Picotte Dr. and has been an Albany area resident for the past 71 years. She was employed by the N.Y.S. Dept. of Labor as a key ...