Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from January 2000:
YOU KNOW THEIR NAMES; THEY WALKED YOUR STREETS.(MILLENNIUM)(Correction notice)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: KIMBERLY ...
IT'S Y2K AND ALL'S OKWORRIES EASE INTO CELEBRATIONS AND A SMOOTH TRANSITION TO A NEW CENTURY.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: ALAN WECHSLER Staff writer With fireworks and with fanfare, hour after hour across the world, humanity ushered in the dawn of a new era as we entered the Year 2000. When Friday turned to Saturday and Y2K cascaded across 24 time zones, the New Year to end all ...
YELTSIN QUITS AS RUSSIA'S LEADER.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: RICHARD C. PADDOCK Los Angeles Times MOSCOW -- Apologizing for his failure to lead Russia into a prosperous future, President Boris N. Yeltsin unexpectedly resigned Friday and handed power to Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin, who immediately took over as acting ...
A PARTY SPINNING AROUND THE WORLD.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press From East to West and North to South, the world welcomed the new century in a shimmering tapestry of song and light that rippled around the globe. The capitals of Europe, the continent that dominated the past millennium, put on dazzling ...
THE BIG Y2K SURPRISE? MONTHS OF FEAR, HYPE.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: THOMAS HARGROVE Scripps Howard The sun came up right on schedule this New Year's Day. The telephones still rang, the electricity was on and banking and stock market officials were confident that it will be business as usual come Monday. So what caused the ...
NEW YEAR BRINGS CONFIDENCE, FEW BUGS.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: TED BRIDIS Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Americans jubilantly greeted the dawn of the 21st century with fading concerns over a computer glitch that once threatened to disrupt everyday life. Computers controlling everything from airlines and electric power grids to ...
CROSSROADS OF WORLD FILLS TO CAPACITY.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: G.G. LaBELLE Associated Press NEW YORK -- Times Square celebrated New Year's Eve for the world Friday in a wild street party that exploded when the millennium arrived in America. At midnight, a flashing, glittering crystal ball dropped to a countdown from a cheering, ...
ELLIOT RICHARDSON DIES AT 79.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: BART BARNES Washington Post BOSTON -- Elliot L. Richardson, 79, who shocked the nation and stunned the Republican Party in 1973 by resigning as U.S. attorney general when directed by President Richard M. Nixon to fire the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate ...
EX-BEATLE HARRISON IMPROVES.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: KRISTIN GAZLAY Associated Press LONDON -- As George Harrison recovered from a knife wound to his chest, the man accused of stabbing the former Beatle was sent to a psychiatric unit Friday for immediate treatment. Michael Abram was charged with the attempted ...
HIJACKERS TRADE HOSTAGES FOR 3 MILITANTS.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: CELIA W. DUGGER New York Times NEW DELHI, India -- Haggard and exhausted, more than 150 people held hostage on a hijacked jet for eight days arrived in New Delhi Friday night from Afghanistan after India secured their freedom by agreeing to release three jailed ...
AMISH, MENNONITES FIND HUMOR IN Y2K BUG FEARS.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: -- Washington Post While the rest of the world sweated out the Y2K problem, the nation's estimated 200,000 Amish and Mennonites were ahead of the game. Members of the traditional groups forgo automobiles and most uses of electricity. They keep their homes ...
MAY THEIR HAPPINESS LAST BEYOND A MILLENNIUM.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: -- Associated Press PHILADELPHIA -- Austin Cushing and Laura Boechat met in classic late-20th century fashion -- on the Internet -- and greeted the 21st as newlyweds after tying the knot in a mass ceremony in Philadelphia, one of dozens of New Year's Eve weddings planned ...
AND SO BEGIN THE CLAIMS OF THE FIRST OF EVERYTHING.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: -- Associated Press AUCKLAND, New Zealand -- The islanders of the western Pacific took the world into the new year Saturday, then quickly got to work giving the young century some of its firsts: including babies and a bungee jump. The first baby in New ...
IT WAS A REAL SNOOZER FOR THOSE ON THE NEWS END.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: -- Associated Press WASHINGTON -- It hardly was the end of the world. In fact, there was so little news coming from the government's Y2K command center Friday that some television technicians popped in a video -- ``Apocalypse Now.'' After being ratted out in ...
STARS PLOT THEIR COURSE FOR 2000.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Rolling Stone magazine surveyed a number of celebrities and asked them that evergreen question at this time of year: What's your New Year's resolution?: ``My driver's license ran out in 1978, and I never got it renewed, because I never went anywhere alone. We got famous so fast, ...
DOMINGO HELPS WOMAN END YEAR ON A HIGH NOTE.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Part-time day care teacher Heather McPherson got a phone call at work in San Francisco from a man she'd met years ago -- and it was music to her ears. Italian tenor Placido Domingo, apparently impressed by a chance meeting with McPherson in 1994 during which she sang a couple of ...
SEINFELD INVOLVED IN MINOR CAR ACCIDENT IN CATSKILLS JERRY SEINFELD.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... was involved in a minor two-car crash in the Catskills. No one was injured in Thursday's crash near Cairo, Greene County, -- about 30 miles south of Albany -- and no tickets were issued. State troopers said the front of Seinfeld's 1997 silver Mercedes was hit by a Ford sedan ...
STATE SEES ONLY A MINOR GLITCH.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: BRENDAN LYONS Staff writer Watching more than 25 time zones strike midnight without a hitch put top state officials at ease Friday as Y2K arrived quietly after four years of preparation. ``It does great things for my confidence,'' said a weary-looking James ...
WARMER WELCOME TO 2000.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: KENNETH C. CROWE II Staff writer The words First Night 2000 burst forth in an explosion of fireworks as 1999 rolled into 2000 at midnight above the heads of a record crowd that packed the streets. Encouraged by mild temperatures, First Night Saratoga 2000's ...
THOUSANDS JAM ALBANY CELEBRATION.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: ELIZABETH BENJAMIN Staff writer It began with fireworks that burst into columns of sparks that twinkled and popped like champagne bubbles as a crowd stretching from Academy Park to State Street cheered in delight. Revelers then rocked, mamboed and swung the ...
EMPLOYEE CHARGED IN HOTEL SLAYINGS.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. -- A hotel housekeeper was charged Friday with killing four co-workers in a crowded hotel, then shooting a fifth person to death as he tried to escape. Silvio Izquierdo-Leyva, 36, faced five counts of first-degree murder and three ...
RUSSIANS ADVANCE SLOWLY IN GROZNY.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: MIGUEL GIL MORENO Associated Press GROZNY, Russia -- Russian tanks in hills on the edge of Chechnya's capital blasted rapid-fire barrages into the city Friday, working to drive out rebels as Russian ground forces gingerly tried to advance toward the city center. ...
WOMEN TAKE BANK IN STANDOFF.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press OLATHE, Kan. -- Two women, at least one of them armed, took several employees hostage at a suburban Kansas City bank Friday. They released one hostage about four hours after entering the bank. The woman was being interviewed by police. ...
ALGERIAN SUSPECT IS HELD WITHOUT BAIL.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: EMILIE LOUNSBERRY and ADAM CATALDO Knight Ridder NEW YORK -- As FBI agents questioned dozens of people in several states, an Algerian man arrested in Brooklyn was ordered held without bail Friday despite what his defense attorney said was a lack of evidence. ...
SARATOGA POLO GETS NEW OWNER, ROYAL PLANS.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: CLAIRE HUGHES Business writer The Saratoga Polo Association has a new owner who already is planning to draw bigger crowds to the grounds next August with new facilities, bigger promotions and perhaps even a visit from Prince Charles. ``There's just an awful ...
STOCK BUYBACK APPROVED AT COHOES SAVINGS BANK.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Cohoes The parent company of Cohoes Savings Bank announced Friday it has received approval from the state Banking Department to buy back up to 10 percent of the company's common stock. The stock will be purchased at prevailing market prices from time to time over a 12-month ...
WORLD MARKETS FOLLOW RALLY OF U.S. TECH STOCKS.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: BRUCE STANLEY Associated Press LONDON -- Wall Street's infatuation with high-tech stocks has spread overseas, where investors newly smitten by Internet and telecommunications shares have helped boost stock indexes to record heights. An accelerating economic ...
BURGER KING RECALLS POKEMON.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: -- Associated Press MILWAUKEE -- Burger King Corp. has told state consumer protection officials it has decided to expand its national recall to include all plastic balls holding Pokemon toys. William Oemichen, head of the Wisconsin Division of Trade and Consumer ...
CANADIAN DOLLAR REBOUNDS.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: -- Bloomberg News TORONTO -- The Canadian dollar enters the new year with a bang after rising 6.4 percent against its U.S. counterpart in 1999, its biggest annual gain since 1988. The dollar rose to 69.13 U.S. cents, or C$1.447, from 65.01 U.S cents, or C$1.538, a year ...
HSBC COMPLETES MERGER.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: -- Dow Jones News Service NEW YORK -- HSBC Holdings PLC announced Friday that it completed its acquisition of Republic New York Corp. and Safra Republic Holdings S.A. In executing the deal, it accepted for payment 36.3 million Safra common shares. Those shares -- ...
WALL STREET DEFIES EXPERTS.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: EILEEN GLANTON Associated Press NEW YORK -- Stocks ended a blockbuster year by setting a full slate of records Friday. A rally that capped an unprecedented fifth straight year of double-digit gains gathered momentum amid growing confidence that the Year 2000 will cause ...
UNPAVED ROAD TO A BETTER CAR.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: KEITH BRADSHER New York Times DETROIT -- With hundreds of millions of dollars of private and federal research work behind it, the Precept from General Motors, an experimental model to be introduced here Jan. 9, is probably the most expensive single car ever built. Yet it ...
BRIEFLY.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 2000 ... IT'S AN HONOR Joseph J. Bulmer, interim president of Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, and former president, Hudson Valley Community College, was named one of the top 25 business leaders by Capital District Business Review. Joseph Caverly of Petersburgh, lifetime member of New ...
EURO REVOLUTION SPEEDS PACE OF CORPORATE CHANGE.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: ANNE SWARDSON Washington Post PARIS -- Judged by its value against the U.S. dollar, Europe's new single currency has not fared very well in its first year of existence. Since its inception last Jan. 1 at a value of $1.17, the euro has fallen to virtual parity against the ...
RUSSIAN MARKETS RISE AS YELTSIN DEPARTS.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW -- The average Russian may not have known what to say when Boris N. Yeltsin announced his resignation Friday, but investors said ``Buy!'' Russian markets soared to a 15-month high and Western markets lifted slightly on the ...
A 2000 MILESTONE.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... In much of the world, today marks a dual milestone. In the view of many, it is the start of a new century and the beginning of a new millennium, although purists insist that neither will begin until 12 months from now. Regardless of how one counts time, it is unlikely that humankind will ...
SHAME ON LAWMAKERS FOR NOT BACKING DWI BILL.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: DORIS AIKEN President and Founder, RID-USA Inc. Schenectady Dan Lynch's recent column states that ``no one cares'' about the drunken driver who is victimizing family members and the general driving public. He should have said that Assembly and Senate members don't care, ...
TOBACCO LITIGATION WAS NOT A BAD IDEA AFTER ALL.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: JOHN R. MASSARONI Schenectady The writer is an attorney. - I read with great amusement the recent press about the states salivating over how they'll spend their new-found money obtained as a result of the tobacco litigation. It wasn't long ago that I read many articles ...
RATIFYING TEST BAN TREATY IS THE WRONG WAY TO GO.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: WILLIAM J. LAKE Albany In her Dec. 24 letter supporting a nuclear test ban treaty, Patricia Beetle waits until the last paragraph before she tips her hand. There she indicated that the ultimate solution to prevent nuclear war is to ``get rid of nuclear weapons.'' Given ...
`STOP SMOKING?' HELP AVAILABLE TO QUITTERS.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: JANINE STUCHIN Project Manager Capital District Tobacco-Free Coalition American Lung Association Albany - I enjoyed reading Alan Wechsler's recent article ``Snuffing out the urge to puff,'' which explored the various cessation resources available to smokers in the ...
OLD BUILDINGS STAND IN WAY OF PROGRESS.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: ERNIE SCHENK Niskayuna In the midst of all the hubbub over the old decaying buildings on State Street in Albany is the consideration of how much it would cost to renovate turn-of-the-century buildings. It's not just a matter of structural improvements needed such as ...
MORE TO LIFE THAN PROSPERITY IN THIS NEW ERA.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: CAL THOMAS As America prepared to enter the century just past, Mark Twain observed the fabulously wealthy and the fabulously poor and cynically asked, ``What is the chief end of man? -- to get rich. In what way? -- dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.'' ...
GENIUS ISN'T REQUIRED FOR OFFICE.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: RICHARD BENEDETTO WASHINGTON -- Ever since Texas Gov. George W. Bush flunked a pop quiz in November asking the names of leaders in four world trouble-spots, the media have rushed to paint the Republican presidential front-runner as an intellectual lightweight. ...
HOW THE COLOR LINE IS STILL HAUNTING US.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: CLARENCE PAGE As we enter a new century, a problem from the old one continues to haunt us. It is the color line. In 1902, the black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois forecast that ``The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line, the ...
FREE MARKET CAN WALK THE WALK.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: THOMAS SOWELL The 20th century was, among other things, a century of revolutions -- not only bloody uprisings and military coups, but also revolutions in science, politics and in the way people live. However, as much as the political left loves to use words like change ...
TO OUR READERS: HAPPY NEW YEAR.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2000 ... The Earth turns today just as it did yesterday, the sun rising to reveal a planet little changed from the day before. Yet something seems different as we greet the first day of this particular year, the beginning of the 2000s. It has to do with our deep need as humans to commemorate ...
LAWSUIT DISMISSAL IN ATTACK UPHELD.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: LINDA TRISCHITTA Staff writer An appeals court has upheld a lower court's ruling dismissing a $35 million lawsuit filed by a woman who said she was raped by a state trooper who stopped her on the Northway. The woman, a college professor, wanted to sue the ...
IFS MARKS SUCCESS AS THE WORLD TURNS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: JO-ANN JOHNSTON Business writer Officials at IFS International Inc. went to work Friday knowing it would be a long day as they watched 22 banks and other clients with ATM systems in 13 countries face the Y2K test, practically hour by hour. Failing this test ...
SURVIVOR: BLAZE CHASED ME.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: BOB GARDINIER Staff writer Gladys Davis said she lost everything when her house was gutted by fire Wednesday but had tears Friday only for her ``little pet,'' 7-year-old Michael Simmons. ``I wish I had my little Michael here right now with my arm around him ...
REGION CLERGY PREPARE THE SERMON OF A CENTURY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: THEOLA S. LABBE Staff writer There's not much that can quell the slight weak-in-the-knees feeling the Rev. Ronald Steward might feel when he stands in front of the 400-plus congregants of Union Missionary Baptist Church of Albany Sunday. After all, it will be ...
HUBBARD POINTS TO CHRIST'S BIRTH.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2000 ... ALBANY -- Albany Bishop Howard Hubbard said he would give his first sermon of the new year at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception at midnight Friday. ``I will be talking about the fact that for Christians, the year 2000 commemorates the birth of Jesus ...
UPSTATE CELEBRATES: BUBBLY BELOW, FIREWORKS ABOVE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press HOWES CAVE -- Thousands of revelers in New York were looking skyward to greet 2000, but partiers in the rural hills of upstate New York headed to the land down under -- for real. ``We have 75 guests who are on the planet who will be in the ...
INMATE'S APPEAL REJECTED IN 1988 MURDER CASE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: -- Associated Press ROCHESTER -- An appeals court has rejected an inmate's plea for a new trial in the 1988 bludgeoning death of a 74-year-old woman. Frank Sterling, 34, maintains the real killer of Viola Manville was a teenager who, nine years later, was ...
FINAL WORD: PATAKI CONTROLS $60M IN BLOCK GRANTS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: -- Associated Press ALBANY -- The Pataki administration will control $60 million in federal grants, according to a decision in Washington, D.C., that ends a political squabble in Albany. The federal Housing and Urban Development department now recognizes the ...
STATE TOUGHENS RULES FOR ATM VIDEO CAMERAS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: -- Associated Press ALBANY -- The state is toughening its rules for surveillance video cameras at bank automated-teller machines. Gov. George Pataki has directed the state Banking Department to adopt an emergency regulation that will require all ATM video ...
NO MILLIONS FOR MASTODON DRAWN DURING ONLINE AUCTION.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press PINE VALLEY -- The next item up for bid on eBay auction block will be an 11,000-year-old mastodon skeleton. Do I hear $4.5 million? There were no takers for John Gilbert's find. It was just as well. Gilbert's mastodon was unearthed ...
KIDNAPPING CONVICTION UPHELD.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW HAVEN -- The state Supreme Court Appellate Divison has unanimously upheld Gary Thibodeau's 1995 conviction for first-degree kidnapping and his sentence of 25 years to life in state prison. Heidi Allen, 18, disappeared from her job at ...
GROUP SUPPORTS PRISON INMATES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press ALBANY -- Clergymen and community leaders called on prison administrators Friday to address inmates' grievances to defuse possible prison disturbances. The newly formed Coalition on Prison Affairs said it is not supporting the rumored ...
REPORT HITS VETERANS AFFAIRS LEADERSHIP.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: JAY JOCHNOWITZ Capitol bureau A scathing report by the state comptroller on the Division of Veterans Affairs depicts an agency with virtually no management at the top, little coordination with other agencies serving veterans, and front-line counselors who lack up-to-date ...
WEEKEND HAPPENINGS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2000 ... BONSAI. 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Saratoga Springs Public Library, 49 Henry St. Living art of bonsai shown by Saratoga Bonsai and Penjing Society. 587-4417. Free. SKATING SHOW. 4 p.m., Sunday, Weibel Avenue Rink Saratoga. Holiday Skating Show. 587-6846. $2, general admission, free under 5 ....
LAND DEAL CLEARS WAY TO REBUILD PART OF ROUTE 9 IN VERMONT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press NEWFANE, Vt. -- A deal has been reached that should clear the way for reconstruction of a stretch of Vermont Route 9. With no objections from the landowner, the state moved Wednesday to condemn a piece of Wilmington property for a wetland. ...
LEADER ACCUSES FIRST LADY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS -- An Indiana congressman who served as one of the House prosecutors during President Clinton's impeachment trial said Thursday that the only reason the First Lady is running for U.S. Senate from New York is to keep herself out of jail. ...
TELLER FAINTS AS ROBBER FLEES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: CATHY WOODRUFF Staff writer A robber made off with an undetermined amount of cash during a lunch-hour heist at a downtown bank New Year's Eve. The robber passed a teller a note indicating he had a weapon about 12:15 p.m. Friday, said Troy Police Sgt. Brian ...
FIRE LEAVES FAMILY HOMELESS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: DENNIS YUSKO Staff writer Wood stove ashes placed into a cardboard box led to a Friday morning fire that left a family of four with nothing for the beginning of the new year. Phyllis Cure, 50, her daughters, Laura Cure, 27, and Joanne Cure, 16, and son Robert ...
MARINE COLONEL TWO YEARS COMBATTING Y2K BUG.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2000 ... Byline: ANDREW BROWNSTEIN Staff writer In February of 1998, Col. Kevin McHale missed a meeting. The next day, he learned his punishment: He would lead the Marine Corps' efforts to combat a then-unknown enemy called the Y2K bug. McHale, who grew up in Rensselaer and ...