Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service back issues from May 1999:
Remembering the day Lou Gehrig's consecutive game streak ended, 60 years ago Sunday.
May 03, 1999; ... DETROIT _ Fred Rice got out of his recliner and acted out Lou Gehrig's last moments on a ball field. ``I remember it just like it was yesterday,'' Rice said of the day 60 years ago at Tiger Stadium, then known as Briggs Stadium. Gehrig, who had been shagging fly balls ...
Reaction to shootings reflects transition from private to public mourning.
May 03, 1999; ... LITTLETON, Colo. _ It started on the day of the shootings, with a few bouquets of flowers and a simple note tacked on a tree. Today, in Clement Park next to the sealed school, the makeshift memorials to Columbine High School's dead stretch over 3-1/2 acres. So many ...
Police find their response to reports of threatening behavior needs to change.
May 03, 1999; ... LITTLETON, Colo. _ The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office Friday said it did everything possible to investigate complaints more than a year ago that Eric Harris was a threat, but found nothing to substantiate charging him with a crime. What authorities have determined in the ...
Soldiers learn animal cruelty at taxpayer expense.
May 03, 1999; ... The first complaint came into the offices of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) from a military base called the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. It seemed too ridiculous to be true, but a phone call confirmed the tip-off. As part of a survival training course, forty soldiers ...
International Monetary Fund's reform plan days late and many, many dollars short.
May 03, 1999; ... WASHINGTON _ The latest proposals for a ``new architecture'' for the global financial system, unveiled this past week at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) meetings in Washington, are both too little and too late for bolstering international prosperity. They are too little, ...
Divorce a tradition that dates to before the American Revolution.
May 03, 1999; ... We've all heard the dim statistics, the proof that the institution of marriage is in peril. But here's a little reminder: One out of every two marriages in the United States ends in divorce. Must be because of the pressures of modern times. Or the decline in ...
As age impairs drivers, a debate arises on whether they should have licenses.
May 03, 1999; ... KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ Evelyn White, 84, had driven her car for 68 years without an accident _ until one chilly day last December when she hit a pickup truck. It was only a minor fender bender. But the crash jolted her into reassessing her own driving skills. ``I ...
If the end is near, we'd never know it.
May 03, 1999; ... Which is more significant, a shooting in a high school or the possible destruction of the world? Which has deeper ramifications, a president caught with his pants down or a nuclear weapons agency caught with its secrets stolen? Which is more critical to your life, the ...
Columbus physician hears dying doctor's call for help.
May 03, 1999; ... COLUMBUS, Ga. _ Ifekan-Shango Simon could have practiced medicine just about anywhere after finishing his residency in obstetrics at The Medical Center in Columbus. But he's choosing to go to Colquitt, a southwest Georgia town of fewer than 2,000 people. Normally, a ...
House distinguishes itself with Kosovo votes.
May 03, 1999 ... The following editorial appeared in The Orange County Register on Friday, 4-30: X X X The U.S. House of Representatives distinguished itself on Wednesday by its surprising vote, 213-213, denying support for the president's ongoing air war on Yugoslavia. To its credit ...
Kosovo debate a sad chapter for Congress.
May 03, 1999 ... The following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Daily News on Friday, 4-30: X X X No matter how they felt about the use of force in the Persian Gulf in 1991, many Americans respected the congressional debate that preceded it. Some called it one of Congress' ...
Wide-bodied refers not just to planes.
May 03, 1999; ... Random thoughts from an airport lobby: The truth is, America's butts are getting bigger. A recent Washington Post story said the Seattle ferries have been forced to widen their seats. It seems passengers no longer fit into 18-inch seats, the standard for 40 years. ...
Books for women from the simple to the sublime.
May 03, 1999; ... Over the years I've seen scores of personal finance books, and these six cover the basics as well as most. Where they differ is in style and delivery. If you're looking for personality, Georgette Mosbacher's provocative take on men, women and money is entertaining. If financial ...
NATO bombs mark World Press Freedom Day.
May 03, 1999; ... LONDON _ By bombing the studios and several transmitters of the Serbian government's radio and television service, NATO has made an original contribution to World Press Freedom Day. In the space of a few bloody minutes, it won this year's record for the highest number of journalists killed ...
'Why don't you go to Albania?'.
May 03, 1999; ... SARAJEVO, Bosnia _ J.R., 28, was born in Belgrade. He worked for 11 years as an auto mechanic at a big industrial plant in Rakovica, the working-class district of the city. He is also Albanian. Three months ago, five men dragged him out of the plant and beat him, breaking an ...
Who's conning whom? It's time to end Social Security shell game before next retirees end up shell-shocked.
May 03, 1999; ... DALLAS _ It's been said politics in the '90s is like cotton candy. A lot of spin, a little bit of sugar and if you eat too much you get sick. This is not true, however, when it comes to the politics of Social Security reform. It's a sugar-free zone. Whenever anyone gets close to ...
Following the trail of gun smoke and tears.
May 03, 1999; ... Dead gunmen tell no tales, but their smoking guns can. Though teen-age gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were found dead after the siege last month at Columbine High School, the handguns and long guns in their possession are helping investigators in Littleton, Colo., ...
Let's prevent another horrible school tragedy.
May 03, 1999; ... It has happened again. 13 dead. Students and a teacher. Children and a teacher. 13 dead. Murdered. Slaughtered. Countless others traumatized, perhaps for life. By two other children. Who then killed themselves. Not in Kosovo. In Colorado. Something is horribly, terribly, ...
Ally Sheedy continues her comeback with ABC movie `Our Guys'.
May 03, 1999; ... LOS ANGELES _ Ally Sheedy decided early on that she didn't want to be a movie star. ``I was going to have to make myself into a sex object, frankly,'' she says. ``That just goes against everything I believe in. With my mind, energy and creativity _ to be told the only selling ...
Ignoring hate welcomes violence.
May 03, 1999; ... Indifference is a welcome mat for violence. From the dragging death of a man in Texas last year to the beating death of a gay college student in Wyoming, acts of hate are proliferating in America. In 1997, the Intelligence Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group ...
Not healthful, just trendy: Campus craze loaded with tar, nicotine.
May 03, 1999; ... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ They are flavored like cherries or chocolate or root beer. They look a little like a joint. And they're cheap. Those are some of the reasons the hand-rolled East Indian cigarettes called Bidis are becoming a fad, at least among some ...
Push for faster progress in Kosovo may mean more risk-taking.
May 03, 1999; ... WASHINGTON _ So far, the Yugoslavian air campaign has been nearly spotless: 11,000 sorties in a month with only two downed aircraft, just a few errant missiles and no American body bags. It's been what the public wants: a war without risks. But that may soon change, experts ...
NATO confirms an errant missile form allied plane hit Bulgarian suburb.
May 03, 1999; ... BRUSSELS, Belgium _ NATO, which has stressed the precision of its weaponry, confirmed Thursday that a missile from an allied plane hit an upscale suburb of the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, 30 miles from the Yugoslav border. The Bulgarian Defense Ministry said the NATO plane was ...
Party leaders blame each other for sending signal that could prolong conflict.
May 03, 1999; ... WASHINGTON _ The House's failure this week to back the air war against Yugoslavia ignited a partisan firestorm in Congress Thursday as party leaders angrily blamed each other for sending a garbled signal that some fear could prolong the Balkan conflict. Despite an emphatic _ and ...
Palestinian leadership votes to delay independent statehood.
May 03, 1999; ... CAIRO _ After three days of debate, the Palestinian leadership voted Thursday to postpone declaring an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza until after Israel's upcoming elections. The Palestinian Central Council decided in Gaza to review its decision in June, and the ...
Macedonia may be on the brink of civil war.
May 03, 1999; ... SKOPJE, Macedonia _ When Slobodan Casule drives the streets of this obscure Balkan capital on the roads clogged with military jeeps, or listens to the helicopters churning the skies overhead, he is reminded not of his hometown but of another city he used to visit: Beirut. ``You ...
Final victim of shooting rampage buried in graduation regalia.
May 03, 1999; ... DENVER _ Isaiah Shoels will not be there when his high school classmates graduate three weeks from now. But Thursday, in his coffin, he wore his cap and gown. Shoels, 18, was the last of the 13 victims of the April 20 massacre at Columbine High School to be buried ....
Kids can be traumatized anywhere.
May 03, 1999; ... Littleton, Colo., Kosovo or around the corner. The place doesn't matter. Kids are being traumatized everywhere. In America, the numbers are staggering. According to CIVITAS, the child trauma programs at Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, more ...
NATO ties pull U.S. foreign policy down the wrong road.
May 03, 1999; ... It wasn't too long ago that American politicians boasted about the ``peace dividend,'' the savings in military expenses and reduction in overseas military missions that would accompany the end of the struggle between Western democracies and the Soviet empire. While military ...
Must religious conservatives give up on U.S. politics?
May 03, 1999; ... NEW YORK _ As the 2000 presidential campaign lurches toward the starting line, one of the unresolved questions is the role religious conservatives will play. The New York Times has already declared that ``the movement is struggling without a clear strategy.'' Paul ...
Protectionist clouds on the horizon.
May 03, 1999; ... After fifty years of preaching the benefits of global trade, the United States is in the throes of a protectionist revival. Last week, no less an authority than Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan warned of impending dangers to free trade. ``The campaign to expand free trade is ...
Partition of the former Zaire may be inevitable solution to devastating war.
May 03, 1999; ... LONDON _ Far removed from the current NATO intervention in Kosovo, another war involving at least nine nations, 50,000 soldiers and a proliferation of U.S., Soviet, French and British weaponry is taking place. Its impact on the global geopolitical environment may be limited, ...
The basics of how autos work, for men and women.
May 03, 1999; ... Many women don't know anything about cars and aren't afraid to admit it. This definitely isn't true of men. Most of the ones I talk to don't know much more about how a car works than their wives do, but are genetically incapable of admitting it. They would rather stick pins in ...
Berlin makes a good capital for united, dynamic Germany.
May 03, 1999 ... The following editorial appeared in The Providence Journal on Wednesday, 4-28: X X X After their country was reunited in 1990, the Germans voted to move their capital from Bonn, a sleepy university town in the Rhineland, back to Berlin, the nation's capital between ...
So gun control is bad, but it's okay if kids shoot each other?
May 03, 1999; ... Let's face it _ love is blind. Especially the love some people have for guns. I'm not talking about a lot of gun owners. Most are sensible people who use guns for protection, hunting or target practice. But there are many gun extremists out there who even ...
Lost boys: Why our sons turn violent and how we can save them.
May 03, 1999; ... ITHACA, N.Y. _ The morning after the school shooting in Jonesboro, Ark., in May 1998, my 16-year-old daughter sat at the breakfast table reading the newspaper. After she finished the detailed account of the attack by 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson and 11-year-old Andrew Golden on their ...
To save Europe, turn up the power.
May 03, 1999; ... With all the people who are volunteering to pronounce the benediction over NATO's intervention in Kosovo, you might assume the Serb aggression has not only succeeded, but humiliated NATO. It would be nice, of course, if Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic had folded his hand ...
Tomatoes aside, NAFTA is a peachy deal.
May 03, 1999; ... Give some of the credit to La Nina. But give most of it to La NAFTA. We're talking tomatoes here. Depending on where you live in this party to the tripartite (United States-Mexico-Canada) North American Free Trade Agreement, you may, if you frequent the produce ...
Virginia teachers worry about order to report `dangerous' students to police.
May 03, 1999; ... NEWPORT NEWS, Va. _ Fred Atwell will never forget the teacher's words about his son, then a seventh-grader at Reservoir Middle School in Newport News. ``He told us, `Your son is a very violent kid,' `` Atwell recalled. The Atwells were so disturbed by the teacher's assessment ...
Hundreds of counselors tend to the ripples from Columbine.
May 03, 1999; ... COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. _ The drawings presented to therapists by students who attend an elementary school near Columbine High School literally speak volumes. ``Pictures of people with guns and blood dripping from things, maybe a child under a dark cloud,'' says Phil Swihart, a ...
Internet ranks just under the printing press for significance, historians say .
May 03, 1999; ... PHILADELPHIA, Pa. _ Known mostly for its immediacy, the Internet is drawing praise for its ability to illuminate the past. ``The World Wide Web is probably the most significant development for historians since the printing press,'' said Richard Hitchens, a senior fellow at the ...
Sexually transmitted diseases are rampant, experts say.
May 03, 1999; ... Since being diagnosed with herpes in 1982, Alice has gotten used to dealing with the painful sores that erupt on her genitals. She's gotten used to the shame and stigma that surround her disease. She's even growing to accept the fact that the virus inside her will never fully go ...
Tips on protecting yourself.
May 03, 1999 ... What can you do to protect yourself? Plenty. Here's what you need to know: _Sexually transmitted diseases can be spread through vaginal, oral and anal sex. Some viruses, such as the human papilloma virus, also can be transmitted through skin-to-skin contact involving the ...
Small class sizes in the earliest school years makes a difference, study shows.
May 03, 1999; ... SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Students who study in smaller classes during their early school years continue to outperform those who don't through high school, according to a ground-breaking study released Thursday. Researchers who have been studying the effect of class size reduction in ...
Not all apparently parentless children in Kosovo are orphans.
May 03, 1999; ... There's the mother who was fleeing Kosovo on foot with her family. A neighbor, also a refugee, passed her on a tractor. He didn't have room for the whole family, but said ``I can take the baby.'' Now the neighbor, the tractor and the infant have disappeared. The mother is desperate. ...
Pot, it's not _ it's a valuable resource that can help farmers.
May 03, 1999; ... Imagine if during Prohibition it was forbidden to grow corn because of it's capacity to make alcohol. Or barley, for that matter, or grapes. Billions of dollars would have been lost to the American farmer. Consumers would have been forced to pay unnecessarily high prices for ...
G-7, Russia draft Kosovo peace plan.
May 07, 1999; ... In the strongest bid yet for peace in the Balkans, Russia and the world's seven largest industrial democracies crafted a plan Thursday to end the Kosovo crisis, calling for an international force to escort home more than 1 million routed ethnic Albanians. The immediate fate of ...
First female Apache pilot defends helicopter's record.
May 07, 1999; ... WASHINGTON _ The first woman to qualify as command pilot of an Apache attack helicopter bristled Thursday at armchair critics who label her bird too risky to fly against Serb forces. ``That one made me mad,'' Army Reserve Chief Warrant Officer 3 Gwen Schallow said of the ...
Dumb bombs and U.S. credibility.
May 07, 1999 ... The following editorial appeared in the Orange County Register on Thursday, 5-6: X X X Amid much gravitas, President Clinton touted U.S. attacks last summer on ``terrorist-related'' sites in Sudan and Afghanistan as strikes against facilities that pose an ``imminent ...
(B) KOSOVO: China says Belgrade shouldn't be ``side-stepped'' .
May 07, 1999 ... ^(B) KOSOVO: China says Belgrade shouldn't be ``side-stepped'' < By Bridge News Shanghai--May 7--China's government has reacted cautiously to news that foreign ministers from the G7 countries and Russia agreed Thursday to various principles seeking a diplomatic ...
Republican venom from impeachment carries into Balkan crisis.
May 07, 1999; ... WASHINGTON _ It should be dusty history. It's been three months since the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton supposedly ended. But to vengeful politicians, the bitter dance goes on. Impeachment poison hangs in the air. The fumes even cloud the Balkan War. Sure, ...
It's time to stop bombing in Serbia.
May 07, 1999 ... The following editorial appeared in the Orange County Register on Friday, 5-7: X X X The news out of Germany is encouraging: Russia has agreed with Western leaders on a basic outline for ending the NATO air war on Yugoslavia. Much still needs to be resolved, but it's ...
(B) BRIDGE ANALYSIS: KOSOVO: Russia seeking compromise with NATO .
May 07, 1999 ... ^(B) BRIDGE ANALYSIS: KOSOVO: Russia seeking compromise with NATO < By Vladimir Bespalov, Bridge News Moscow--May 7--After a month and a half of the military conflict in Yugoslavia, Russia and NATO appear to be more willing to compromise on their positions, and find ...
(B) KOSOVO: Council of Europe condemns rights violations, backs G8 .
May 07, 1999 ... ^(B) KOSOVO: Council of Europe condemns rights violations, backs G8 < By Brigid Fowler, Bridge News Budapest--May 7--In his capacity as outgoing chairman-in-office of the Council of Europe, Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi today condemned human rights ...
Monitoring groups unsure of environmental damage of Kosovo conflict.
May 07, 1999; ... VIENNA, Austria _ Upstream, the famed Danube is still as clean as it was three months ago. But as the river flows through Yugoslavian areas bombed by NATO, something ugly is coming out. It may be oil slicks and other serious environmental problems. Or it may be Yugoslavian ...
Political constraints limit pilots' effectiveness in combat.
May 07, 1999; ... GIOIA DEL COLLE, Italy _ High over Kosovo, the pilot of an American A-10 Thunderbolt II attack plane could see it plainly: building after building going up in flames in the village below. ``We saw three buildings catch fire,'' said the lanky, 27-year-old pilot, who would be ...
Refugees concerned about terms of their return to Kosovo.
May 07, 1999; ... TIRANA, Albania _ In the eyes of the Yugoslav government, Rexhep Pacarizi has been erased. First, they took his home, burning his house in the Kosovo village of Dragobilje to the ground. Then they took his car, setting fire to the vehicle with his aging, invalid parents still ...
Pentagon concerned Clinton will give in on terms to achieve diplomatic end.
May 09, 1999; ... WASHINGTON _ Top Clinton administration officials are quietly wishing for a quick diplomatic settlement in the Kosovo war, creating concern among Pentagon policymakers that the administration will accept a flawed deal. Pentagon officials, sensing the White House's keen desire ...
Relatives are primary candidates to sponsor refugees.
May 09, 1999 ... Not just anyone can sponsor a refugee. While thousands of Americans have sought information on becoming sponsors, the primary candidates _ and the ones the government wants to hear from _ are relatives of the refugees, a class that includes spouses, children, parents, ...
Former captive returns to hero's welcome, parade plans.
May 09, 1999; ... He left for foreign soil as another anonymous soldier. But Army Staff Sgt. Christopher Stone returned to America on Friday with a few breaks and bruises, a Purple Heart, and a level of name recognition usually reserved for athletes and movie stars. A little more than ...
First wave of refugees settles at Fort Dix.
May 09, 1999; ... FORT DIX, N.J. _ One morning in March, Fadil Krasniqi was driving a taxi and eking out a living in Pristina, the capital city of Kosovo. By afternoon, he and his family were homeless. ``I was in a pizzeria and the Serbs came in and started shooting,'' said Krasniqi, ...
Yeltsin, Primakov on shaky ground.
May 09, 1999; ... MOSCOW _ As his Kosovo envoy seeks peace abroad, President Boris Yeltsin is bracing for political conflict at home. He is preparing for an impeachment vote in parliament, confronting new scrutiny about his health and stirring speculation that he is close to sacking Russia's premier. ...
Bombing sets off rare protests in Beijing.
May 09, 1999; ... BEIJING _ NATO's bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade ignited Saturday the most virulent anti-American protests here since the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. What started in the late afternoon as a well-orchestrated march by about 2,000 college students turned into a ...
NATO apologizes for embassy bombing; incident could sway strike plans.
May 09, 1999; ... In the face of international outrage over NATO's bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, President Clinton and NATO officials apologized Saturday while vowing to continue the air war in Yugoslavia. Clinton called the attack that killed up to four people and left more than 20 ...
In Macedonia, family makes difficult decision to part ways.
May 09, 1999; ... SKOPJE, Macedonia _ How much can one soul endure, Rabije Berisha wondered aloud Saturday as she stared longingly at the two small faces staring back at her from the bus window high above. They were her grandchildren, the tomboyish Rita, nearly 4, and the round-cheeked baby boy ...