Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from September 1999:
CANDIDATE TO RUN A DIRECT CAMPAIGN.(CAPITAL REGION)(Correction notice)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: MICHELE MORGAN BOLTON Staff writer East Greenbush Independence Party candidate Susan Garrigan-Piela said she will run a direct campaign for a Town Board seat that is based on her record of getting things done. ``This is a small town,'' Garrigan-Piela said ....
YOUR PASSWORD COULD BE RIGHT BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES.(LIFE & LEISURE)(Correction notice)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Anyone who has had his or her password cracked might wonder if there is a better way to provide security. There is: biometrics. In this field, devices can use such things as fingerprints, voices, eyes and other bodily characteristics to ID users. Saflink ...
EASTERN STATES CALL FOR FARM RELIEF.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: CARL WEISER Gannett News Service WASHINGTON -- Governors throughout the Northeast and mid-Atlantic want Congress to provide cash grants for that region's drought-stricken farmers -- not just to help the farmers but to keep suburban sprawl from eating up more land. ...
CHILD CAR SEATS SAFER, SIMPLER.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: GLEN JOHNSON Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Child car seats take on a new look starting today, when stricter head protection standards take effect. That means most seats will come equipped with a tether strap that anchors the top of the seat more securely so children ...
FARMERS HESITANTLY OK MILK-PRICING REFORMS.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: ROBERT IMRIE and WILSON RING Associated Press WAUSAU, Wis. -- With reluctance and concern over costs, dairy farmers have approved a plan to overhaul the way milk is priced around the country. The Agriculture Department proposal would be expected to lower ...
FRUSTRATION RISES AS SAT SCORES LEVEL OFF.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: RICK KARLIN Staff writer Average high school SAT scores in New York remained essentially unchanged compared with the year before, prompting criticism from state Commissioner Richard Mills, who termed the results ``unacceptably low.'' New York students who ...
STATE PROBES WASTE HAULERS.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: DINA CAPPIELLO Staff writer The state attorney general is investigating waste haulers amid reports that some companies are putting recyclables into dumps. Meanwhile, officials at the attorney general's office said Tuesday they plan to assist local governments ...
JUDGE JUDY ON MISS AMERICA BENCH.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Judge Judy will be handing down a verdict on a group of beauty queens instead of, say, two squabbling neighbors. Judy Sheindlin, star of television's ``Judge Judy,'' will serve as a judge at the 79th annual Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, N.J., which airs Sept ....
FILMMAKER STONE GETS PROBATION, REHAB ORDER.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Oliver Stone was ordered into a rehabilitation program after pleading guilty to drug possession and no contest to driving under the influence. The filmmaker appeared in court in Beverly Hills, Calif., Friday after reaching a plea bargain that kept him out of jail. ...
NEW BOWIE ALBUM COMING TO A PC NEAR YOU.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Fans won't need to push their way into the store to be first in line for David Bowie's new album -- but they will need a computer. For a fee, fans can download ``hours ...'' from the Web sites of about 50 music retailers beginning Sept. 21. CDs of the recording will not hit ...
HELLO, VOLLEY: ARMSTRONG STADIUM REDEDICATED.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... The Louis Armstrong Stadium was rededicated on the first day of the U.S. Open tennis tournament. Stanley Crouch, board member of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, said during the ceremony Monday that the musician had ``profound'' originality. ``He was ...
FALLEN COUNTRY STAR REFLECTS ON LIFE'S PAIN.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Former country star Johnny Rodriguez, awaiting trial on charges of murdering a friend, says his life would make a great song, but ``I don't think anyone would believe it, not even if Hank Williams Sr. himself was here to sing it.'' Rodriguez, 47, goes on trial in October on ...
STUDY LINKS AIDS DRUGS TO HIGHER-RISK BEHAVIOR.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: RUSS BYNUM Associated Press ATLANTA -- The drug cocktails that have revolutionized AIDS treatment in the United States have made some gay men more willing to engage in risky sex, researchers said Tuesday. A study presented at the National HIV Prevention ...
FEDERAL AGENCIES PROPOSE INDEPENDENT PROBE OF WACO.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: DAVID STOUT New York Times WASHINGTON -- Hoping to head off any impression of a conflict of interest, Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI Director Louis J. Freeh are strongly leaning toward an outside investigation into their agencies' failure to disclose the use of ...
INVESTING IN TRIANA ONLY HELPS EARTH.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: A. THOMAS YOUNG BETHESDA, Md. -- Having worked closely with the space program as mission director of the 1976 Viking mission to Mars, it is disturbing to me that Congress is considering massive cuts to several of NASA's important space and science projects. ...
MILLENNIAL FEARS ARE FAR FROM SECULAR.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: GARRY WILLS National Public Radio educates me as I drive. Until last week, I did not know that there is a thing called ``sundowning.'' This is a feeling of disorientation or dismay that strikes people in nursing homes as night comes on. It is as if they feel their life ...
RENOWN SAME AS NOTORIETY.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: MAUREEN DOWD HOLLYWOOD -- I ran into Kato Kaelin the other night. He was at the premiere of the Showtime movie about Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill. So, Kato blithely asked a friend, did Clarence Thomas ever get confirmed? The shaggy blond pool ...
WORLD TRAVELER VICTIMIZED BY ALBANY.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: JANE GOTTLIEB Leigh Bavin left his home in Perth, Australia, last year for what people in his part of the world call holiday. By the time I met him earlier this summer, his travels had taken him to see his family in central England, to Ireland, Asia and, ...
DETROIT TEACHERS STRIKE.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: JIM IRWIN Associated Press DETROIT -- Detroit's teachers went on strike Tuesday, wiping out the first day of class for 172,000 students and thwarting one of the nation's most ambitious attempts to overhaul a troubled urban school system. The 7,200 teachers ...
MR. GINGRICH'S DELUSIONS.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... When the history of the 1990s iswritten -- long after the scandals of the day, large and small, are forgotten -- Newt Gingrich will be remembered as a leader, and Bill Clinton as a tragedy. Who makes such a prediction? Why, Mr. Gingrich himself. In a wide-ranging interview ...
LYNCH COLUMN PERPETUATES STEREOTYPES.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: HAROLD WAGNER Albany I have read Dan Lynch for years and have found him to be generally informative, interesting and rational. I can only hope that his Aug. 24 diatribe was intended as humor, but the tone of the column suggests otherwise. First, he berates ...
SEEKING MORE SECURITY AT BUS AND TRAIN STATIONS.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: SHERYL LO FRISCO Latham I would like to know why there aren't better security measures taken at the bus stations and train stations. On Aug. 27, a man stabbed many people because the food cart on an Amtrak train was not open. ...
VETERANS SHOULD JOIN EFFORT TO SAVE ARSENAL.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: HAROLD B. SHUGAR Loudonville I recently toured the Watervliet Arsenal with the Jewish War Veterans, Albany Post 105. The magnitude of this facility boggles the imagination. It is probably the oldest operating military arsenal in the country and known for building ...
CONCERN WITH COLUMN ON CLIMATE CHANGE.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: RON BLIDAR, M.Ed. Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio I read with concern the recent column by Dan Lynch, ``A warmth to ponder on a cosmic scale.'' Lynch asserts a few hot summers and mild winters do not constitute global climate change nor does he believe ``puny humanity'' ...
RENO IS INTERESTED IN THE WACO TRUTH?(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: TIMOTHY P. MURPHY Ballston Lake Attorney General Janet Reno is going to get to the truth? Now? Give me a break. If she was interested in the truth, she would've sought it out long ago. Instead, bare-faced and straight-faced she stands before the media and the ...
TROY'S BALANCING ACT.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... ``Quality of life'' has become oneof those phrases that has all but lost its meaning. In Troy, the pursuit of this notion, worthwhile perhaps but hopelessly vague nonetheless, means vigorous enforcement of a previously obscure city law requiring bells and lights on bicycles. ...
FIRST LADY URGED TO ASSIST SPY.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: CHARLES BABINGTON Washington Post A New York group is pressing Hillary Rodham Clinton to lobby her husband on behalf of imprisoned spy Jonathan Jay Pollard, an indication that the First Lady's anticipated Senate race could create awkward moments for the President. ...
EXPLOSION ROCKS MALL ADJACENT TO KREMLIN.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: DAVID HOFFMAN Washington Post MOSCOW -- An explosion that was apparently caused by a small bomb rocked an underground shopping mall adjacent to the Kremlin Tuesday night, spraying glass shards and injuring 29 people, five of them seriously. Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov ...
MONEY LAUNDERING INQUIRY BROADENS.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: ROBERT O'HARROW Jr. Washington Post NEW YORK -- Dozens of banks around the globe, more than previously disclosed, were involved in transfers of money through Bank of New York accounts that appear to have served in part as a money laundering operation for Russian ...
DEAL YIELDS DATA ON HOLOCAUST-ERA BANKS.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: DINA KRAFT Associated Press JERUSALEM -- A $40 million settlement between Holocaust survivors and Austrian banks has yielded World War II era documents that will help survivors and their heirs collect money from German banks, a lawyer for the claimants said Tuesday. ...
ENVOYS AIM FOR MIDEAST PEACE.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press JERUSALEM -- In a last- minute rush before Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's arrival, Israel and Palestinian negotiators met in a secret location Tuesday to try to resolve disagreements blocking the way to peace in the region. Israeli ...
AUDITORS PROBE DISCREPANCY IN PARKING-FINE RECEIPTS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: LINDA TRISCHITTA Staff writer Ballston Spa Three auditors from the state comptroller's office began an examination Tuesday of the village's court and police department. The investigation involves police collections of parking-violation ticket fines. ...
ALTAMONT FAIR'S MANAGER RESIGNS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: KIMBERLY MARTINEAU Staff writer Altamont The head of the Altamont Fair has resigned, a week after the fair reported its lowest turnout in at least five years. Secretary and manager Reid Northrup, who has run the fair for the past 19 years, announced Monday ...
CITY PLANS TO INSTALL CAMERAS IN PARK.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: KENNETH C. CROWE II Staff writer Saratoga Springs The city plans to install eight surveillance cameras throughout Congress Park to protect its art treasures from vandalism such as the attack that damaged the popular ``Spit and Spat'' marble fountain statues Sunday. ...
TRIAL BEGINS IN $60M INJURY LAWSUIT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: MELISSA GRACE Staff writer Albany In March 1996, a Saratoga County Sheriff's Department car sped around a sharp curve while responding to an emergency call and crashed head-on into an oncoming vehicle. The accident left Douglas H. McEachron with massive ...
MVP EXPECTED TO BUILD NEW DOWNTOWN FACILITY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: MARV CERMAK Staff writer Schenectady MVP Health Plan is expected to announce today plans for construction of a new downtown headquarters, ending months of concern that the company might relocate to the suburbs. Sources said a 150,000-square-foot building ...
REACTION TO COPS DIVIDED AFTER SLAYING OF YOUTH.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- Several Orthodox Jewish community leaders in Brooklyn rallied behind police Tuesday, a day after four officers fatally shot a man who refused to drop an 11-inch claw hammer that he was using to beat a sergeant. But a small group ...
CARDINAL UNDERGOES TESTS FOR NAUSEA, WEAKNESS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- Cardinal John O'Connor remained hospitalized at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Tuesday as doctors completed tests they hope will find the cause of his nausea and weakness. ``He's undergoing more tests, and they should be completed ...
LAWYER EXPECTS RESOLUTION OF ONEIDA LAND CLAIM.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press WAMPSVILLE -- The man in charge of hammering out a settlement of the Oneida Indian land claim reiterated Tuesday that he was hopeful of a settlement by year's end. Attorney Ronald Riccio also said that although eviction is one of the possible ...
HUMANIST MANIFESTO URGES PLANETARY VIEW FOR FUTURE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press AMHERST -- The new millennium presents an opportunity for the world to embrace a planetary outlook for the future, one that de-emphasizes national and ethnic boundaries, according to a manifesto. ``Humanist Manifesto 2000'' was conceived and ...
JUDGE PERMITS RALLY IN HARLEM.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK -- The Million Youth March will be permitted in Harlem this weekend because the First Amendment protects even speech that is hateful, violent and frightening, a judge said Tuesday. ``The right to free speech ... ...
JUROR GIULIANI ATTRACTS AUDIENCE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: TIMOTHY WILLIAMS Associated Press NEW YORK -- With Mayor Rudolph Giuliani sitting in the jury box, a security guard Tuesday described injuries he suffered 3 years ago when the water in his shower turned scaldingly hot. On the opening day of a $7 million civil ...
CRITICS ATTACK CLINTON'S CLEMENCY OFFER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: SHANNON McCAFFREY Associated Press Police officers maimed by bombs of the Puerto Rican group FALN again criticized President Clinton on Tuesday for offering clemency to 16 members of the militant nationalist organization. And some joined with Republicans at a ...
DESPITE VOW TO DEFY EDICT, STATE PAYS FOR VIAGRA.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: JESSE J. HOLLAND Associated Press ALBANY -- New York has been paying for Viagra with state Medicaid funds, even after vowing to defy federal edicts to fill prescriptions for the male impotency drug. The state Department of Health has been filling orders for ...
MAN, 91, KILLED WHEN CAR COLLIDES WITH TRUCK.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1999 ... RENSSELAERVILLE -- A 91-year-old man was killed Tuesday when he drove his car onto Albany County Route 352 and into the path of another vehicle, State Police said. Troopers identified the dead man as Jean Alain of Preston Hollow. Albany County Coroner William Loetterle ordered ...
5 PLEAD GUILTY TO RAIL TRESPASS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: LINDA TRISCHITTA Staff writer Milton The five men who accompanied Victoria E. Nesbitt to the 72-foot-high trestle from which she fell to her death while avoiding a freight train last week each pleaded guilty to trespass during their arraignments Tuesday night before ...
ROAD-WIDENING PLAN WINS BACKERS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: KERI P. MATTOX Staff writer Colonie After major endorsements, one of the two remaining plans to widen and reroute Watervliet Shaker and Albany Shaker roads became the design front-runner Tuesday, despite residents' concerns about noise, speeding and safety. ...
LITTLE FEAT STILL KICKING VIBRANTLY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: GREG HAYMES Staff writer Listening to Little Feat crank out their unique funk-rock in front of a massive crowd at the Empire State Plaza on Tuesday night, it was hard to imagine that the band was celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. This was definitely ...
CAPITAL REGION ALMANAC.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 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 ...
VARIED FARE CALLS FOR FAIR WEATHER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: MIKE FRICANO Staff writer SchaghticokeBlaze is back today at the Schaghticoke Fair. Blaze is a balloon-blowing goat and a featured entertainer at the Schaghticoke Fair, which opens its gates today for the 180th year. The fair, located at the ...
2 MEN CHARGED WITH ASSAULT IN STABBING INCIDENT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: Carol DeMare - ALBANY -- Two men were arrested and one of them hospitalized after a stabbing incident Monday night, police said. In fair condition at Albany Medical Center Hospital with a stab wound to the back is Methuselah Lawson, 16, of 12 Bogart Terrace. ...
WORK WON'T DELAY START OF SCHOOL.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: BOB GARDINIER Staff writer Rotterdam Mohonasen Central School District Superintendent Audrey N. Farnsworth said students will return to schools Wednesday, Sept. 8, even though renovation and expansion work continues at many schools. ``People have been talking ...
POLICE BRUTALITY COMPLAINTS MOUNT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: MARV CERMAK and EDWARD FITZPATRICK Staff writers Schenectady A notice of claim has been filed with the city by a man accusing police of brutality and a violation of civil rights in the wake of ongoing allegations against the Schenectady Police Department. ...
`HIS SOUL IS AND WILL ALWAYS BE IN ALBANY'.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: ELIZABETH BENJAMIN Staff writer Albany Since his death last week, Judge John E. Holt-Harris Jr. has frequently been recalled as one of the few remaining members of Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd's inner circle and for the clout he wielded behind the scenes in Albany's ...
TROY SUSPECT INDICTED ON ASSAULT CHARGES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: Cathy Woodruff TROY -- A 26-year-old city man has been arrested and indicted on charges that he beat and seriously injured another local man in March 1998. Michael J. Anderson of 405 Second St. was charged with two counts of first-degree assault and one count ...
AIRPORT REMAINS ON PACE FOR ITS BUSIEST YEAR EVER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: Keri P. Mattox COLONIE -- As summer vacationers took to the skies in July, the number of passengers at Albany International Airport jumped again, keeping the airport on pace to make 1999 its busiest year ever. In July, 109,460 people boarded flights taking off ...
A'S CLIP YANKEES IN 11.(SPORTS)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: JOSH DUBOW Associated Press Athletics3 Yankees2 NEW YORK -- The Oakland Athletics stranded 17 runners, struck out 15 times and couldn't generate much offense off a rested David Cone. That's not exactly the formula for success. It didn't matter when ...
DOGS MAKE PLAYOFFS.(SPORTS)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: Staff reports Diamond Dogs 3 Mad Dogs 0The Albany-Colonie Diamond Dogs clinched a spot in the Northern League playoffs Tuesday night with a 3-0 victory over the Massachusetts Mad Dogs at Fraser Field in Lynn, Mass. The Diamond Dogs (23-19), in their first ...
AN ALL-TOO-FAMILIAR PAIN IS BACK.(SPORTS)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: BUD COLLINS - NEW YORK -- Was it a totally meaningless shot heard by nobody that is echoing around the world? Did the wound caused by that scrimmage shot scramble tennis history yet to be written, and jam the guy who intended to write it? The ...
UMPS PUT ON HOLD.(SPORTS)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: RONALD BLUM Associated Press PHILADELPHIA -- The court fight by baseball umpires to save 22 jobs will go down to the final day. After seven hours of conferences in federal court, the hearing on the ...
HISTORY IN SPA'S NUMBERS.(SPORTS)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: MATT GRAVES SARATOGA SPRINGS -- If you were a member of the muddled masses who were shoved around, stepped on and pushed aside at the beer line at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday, look at the bright side: you were part of history. That's right, you were a ...
CAMINITI SLAMS METS.(SPORTS)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press Astros 6 Mets 2HOUSTON -- Ken Caminiti wanted to hide in the top of the eighth inning, but he atoned for his mistake moments later and couldn't get away from his teammates. The third baseman's throwing error allowed the New York Mets to ...
SPORTS TRIVIA.(SPORTS)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Today's question: Name the running back who, in one game, destroyed Notre Dame with a six-touchdown performance that included kickoff returns of 97 and 96 yards and runs of 1, 5, 4 and 8 yards. Answer ...
OLYMPIC PANEL RECOMMENDS REPORT CARD ON DRUG USE.(SPORTS)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press GENEVA -- A drug-use report card for Olympic athletes was among the recommendations offered Tuesday by an IOC reform panel. The ``health passport'' would contain the athletes' drug-test records. The panel also said the IOC itself ...
BOXERS PROMISE RIGHT FIGHT.(SPORTS)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Byline: TIM DAHLBERG Associated Press LAS VEGAS -- Lennox Lewis still believes something was wrong at ringside in his first fight with Evander Holyfield. So does Holyfield, although in his case it had nothing to do with funny judging. ``I was cramping ...