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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1997
Page
1
Camillus Town officials failed to stop operations at a local asphalt plant as PAGE Bi reports statewide price increases outpacing inflation. The development tensions reflect continuing business concerns and regulatory challenges in the region.
The brief weather item reports tonight clear to partly cloudy, Friday sun and clouds with higher humidity, Saturday warm and humid with a chance of a thunderstorm, Sunday partly sunny with a shower or thunderstorm possible, and a Monday slate of clouds and sun. Forecast highs range from the upper 70s to mid 80s and lows from the mid 50s to mid 60s.
Five FBI agents raided a hostel in Afghanistan and captured Mir Amal Kansi, the 1993 CIA headquarters rampage suspect. He was taken to an undisclosed air base, then repatriated to Virginia for courtroom proceedings in Fairfax County where he faces murder charges.
Sirhan Sirhan, now 54, told the parole board he believes he did not shoot Senator Robert F. Kennedy after 29 years in prison. The Corcoran State Prison hearing denied his request for release at least until 2000, marking his 10th parole petition. Kennedy was fatally shot June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
Elizabeth Wakulich of Orland Park Illinois died within 24 hours after downing a quart of 107 proof schnapps on a dare. Her death followed a blood alcohol near four times the legal limit with a level around 0.38. Investigators described the liquor as more than 53 percent.
A monument engraver corrected a grave marker misidentifying Isaac Bashevis Singer as a Nobel Prize winner. Singer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978 and died nearly six years earlier. Eve Friedman notes the irony and sorrow in today’s Times edition.
Sasha Subbotovich, an 18 year old born without arms in Leningrad, tests a battery operated prosthetic arm in Syracuse at NovaCare Orthotics Prosthetics. He learned to adapt at an orphanage after early life hardship and later found his long lost parents. He now paints with his left foot and speaks of a hopeful future.
A wide range of items appears across the page including Clinton’s expected praise at the Friday opening summit with European leaders, tourism notes about a Disney boycott urged by the Southern Baptists, Medicare changes favoring higher payments from wealthy seniors, local Upstate focus stories, and a film show tonight downtown at Key Bank.
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