Post-Standard, The (Newspaper) - March 17, 1997, Syracuse, New York SYRACUSE TEEN DIES IN FABIUS CRASH MONDAY MARCH GOOD MORNING THE 1997 The Herald Company CARRIAGE typewriters are hot items Typewriters put out of ness by the computer chip denly have regained favor They are part of a collectibles non known as obsolescent office technology People are collecting antique adding machines cash registers calculators and even ribbon tins See Business Extra Liverpool man searches for the perfect pint Jim Grace of Liverpool is a draft specialist for Guinness Im- port Co He travels from pub to pub in New York and Vermont making sure bartenders pour fect pints of the Irish stout See cny Page Gates plan for world 840 satellites Corp and its two mary investors Gates of Mi- and Craig McCaw founder of McCaw Cellular tions plan to launch 840 satellites into space to beam the Internet to every ble spot on the earth See story Page million tower at National Airport has problem with heights WASHINGTON The al Aviation Administration has knowledged that counter tops in the new million tower at tional Airport were built too high to let shorter controllers see the runways The tower was to open in early March but repairs will add another two to four weeks to that schedule and cost about said Ron Morgan the chief of air traffic control The controllers com- that those under 5 feel 5 inches wouldn't be able to see if runways were clear About six of National's 60 con- trollers are under officials said The decision to replace the console comes after FAA officials considered solutions that included installing boxes for controllers to stand on or even using plastic soda crates Those ideas were re- out of concern that lers could fall off the boxes News Service Reports Corrections To discuss a correction call executive editor at A FLURRY OR TWO M will bs with a chance ola Jew scattered 39 28 Sports Class Front Local YEAR NO 35 CENTS o 9640412121 2 IT'S MARCH GLADNESS AS WESTHILL WINS STATE Hoop state championships Above High School basketball coach Todd Widrick hugs Bryan Sidoni as they celebrate a victory over Walter Panas High School for the state Class B championship Sunday in Glens Falls It was the school's first state title in boys basketball See Sports Page STEPHEN D the road through Syracuse North Carolina California Louisville and Texas head this way for Friday's NCAA semifinals and Sunday's final One of those will go to the Final For Sunday's results see Page Crips Gang For Slayings Of Rappers Gang members reportedly had links to rap rivals Tupac Shakur and The Notorious NEW YORK AP The Crips a violent street gang with roots in Los Angeles is under investigation in the deaths of rappers Tupac Shakur and The Notorious Time zine reported Police in Las Vegas believe a member of the Crips was re- sponsible for the SepL 7 by shooting of Shakur 25 near the Las Vegas Strip Time said in its March 24th edition Crips hired as bodyguards are under investigation in the March 9 drive-by killing in Los Angeles of The Notorious whose real name was Christopher ace Time said citing fied sources Wallace 24 was affiliated with New Bad Boy Entertainment which hired Crips bodyguards on his Los An- geles visit Shakur recorded on Los Death Row Records which reportedly has ties to the rival Bloods Last week Las Vegas police said there was no evidence to link the slayings or to ate rumors that an East West Coast rivalry may be be- hind the killings Los Angeles and Las Vegas police had no comment Sunday Food Lodging Cost More Top Elected Officials Travel expenses are triple what they were in the Cuomo administration ALBANY AP ed expense accounts for Gov George Pataki and the three other statewide elected cost taxpayers almost during the past two years That is three times more than Mario Cuomo and the state's other three elected officials cost taxpayers in Of the almost in ex- payments the four officials supplied no documents for more than and weren't required to They took advantage of flat per diem charges Under that system in force since 1984 Pataki was able to charge taxpayers per day for 206 days that he was on the road outside Albany and away from his home in Garrison Putnam When he's on the road Pataki is most often driven by state troopers and rarely is handed a He still pockets the a day as did Cuomo While Pataki takes a flat a day Comptroller H Carl McCall a potential Democratic rial rival hits taxpayers up for a day whenever he has to spend an overnight in New York City There were 188 such days over the past two years for in expense account charges McCall a former New York City school board president and former Citibank vice Vacco leads in travel expenses by At Abrams S McCall Edward Regan tural sites being con- for possible state investments and a speech to retirees affiliated with the United Federation of Teachers McCall is sole trustee of the state's more than billion public em- ployee pension fund LL Gov Stan dent maintains homes in New York City and in Saratoga Springs just north of Albany McCall is able to collect the a day because he has declared Albany his duty tion as state comptroller If he had declared it to be New York City he could charge taxpayers a day for overnight stays in Albany McCall spokesman Steven Greenberg defended the ment even though McCall is to vote in New York City He spends more time in bany He probably averages three days a week in Albany and two days in New York Greenberg said The ler's office is based in Albany and the vast majority of the of- employees work in Albany Included in McCall's billing was a first-class roundtrip plane ticket to Florida Greenberg said the five-day trip included visits to several The other three days in Florida we're personal time for which the state was not charged berg said Attorney General Dennis Vacco who makes his home just outside Buffalo used tr charge taxpayers a day when he stayed over in New York City 57 such but hotels ing him more than that in the city spokesman Chris McKenna said Over the past year Vacco has been submitting his actual hotel bills for reimbursement when he stays in the city Seventy-six such nights at the Sheraton New York have cost taxpayers more than The reimbursement for the hotel is in lieu of the per diem Forty-five overnights for Vacco outside New York City cost payers each He also charged taxpayers a day for 81 days when he was on the road but didn't have an overnight stop He lists Buffalo as his duty station That means he charges taxpayers for overnights when he is in New York City and Albany the ney general's two main offices Boy 4 Finds Mother Slain Candace Seitz of East Syracuse was found dead in her bed Sunday By NINA KIM The A boy discovered his mother dead Sunday morning at their house in East Syracuse deputies said The boy called liis grandmother who called 911 at said John spokesman for the Onondaga County Sheriffs ment East Syracuse police arrived at 100 W Second St and found dace 37 dead in her bed She was in the upstairs apartment of the house on the cor- ner of West Second and S Center streets Onondaga County Sheriff Kevin Walsh said the case is being gated as a homicide Walsh said there was no sign of forced entry and no weapon found He wouldn't say how Seitz died or why investigators are calling the death a homicide The sheriffs department has rip suspects but detectives are several leads Walsh The Onondaga County Medical Office will perform an autopsy today to determine the cause of death Only one of the other ments in the house was occupied See BOY next page E Syracuse murder A woman was found dead at her home Sunday SUZANNE Dr Mary Jumbelic of the ical Office talks with Sheriffs Deputy Chris mone right at the scene of a probable homicide in East Syracuse Sunday TROUBLE SPOTS Bad knee will delay the start of talks by a day Just a few weeks ago it was Boris Yeltsin who many doubted was healthy enough to meet with President Clinton But because of his knee surgery Clinton is delaying the two- day summit by a day The rwo leaders agreed Sunday to push back the start of meeting in Helsinki from Wednesday to Thursday to gtve Clinton more lime lo recuperate The two leaders are to discuss expansion of NATO into Eastern Europe and other ty issues Yeltsin is recovering from heart surgery and pneumonia Yews Service Reports Refugees flee to Italy as Albania nears collapse A day after its government ordered police stations to pass out arms among its citizenry to shore up a police force weakened by civil unrest Albania stumbled through yet er day of violence and fear Italian authorities said their ports were strained to the limit Sunday with more than Albanians some of whom reportedly paid smugglers as much as to cross See story Page Albanian children refugees from anarchy sleep on the dock at Brindisi Italy Sunday after being rescued from a ship stuck offshore Jordan's king kneels with families of slain Israeli girts Jordan's Kinp Hussein knelt in mourning Sunday in Israel with the families of seven schoolgirls gunned down by a Jordanian soldier Thursday and said they were all members of one family the sorrow I say I hope and believe in King Hussein and a real said Cohen daughter was killed Hussein also spoke with Israeli Prime ister Benjamin Netanyahu Irving to resolve PI crisis in peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians See related story Page
