June 5, 1999
DOW UP 136 ON 29-YR. LOW JOBLESS RATE
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amThe nation's unemployment rate fell to 4.2 percent in May, the lowest in 29 years, even as U.S. corporations added an unexpectedly paltry 11,000 new jobs last month. Some economists...
WHITNEY, WOMEN'S MAG PIONEER, DIES
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amRuth Whitney, the venerable former editor of Glamour magazine, a position she held for 31 years, passed away yesterday after a two-year battle against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative nerve...
TEXAS TROUPE DOES TETLEY TO A T
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amH OUSTON - What was it that St. Matthew advised about prophets not being without honor "save in their own country"? Well, the good evangelist could well have also been...
'HOMICIDE' STAR'S AGONY: 'I BAWLED LIKE A BABY'
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amHOMICIDE" star Yaphet Kotto says he was sick of playing Lieutenant Al "G" Giardello on TV - and now will never play a policeman again. "I'm not proud about a...
A NEW STAGE 'IMAGE' FOR FILM DIRECTOR BERGMAN
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amThe grand old lady of Swedish letters is about to arrive at the movie lab to see what kind of film has been made of her novel. The director and...
SHOW OF GOOD FAITH
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amIn spangled slacks, a tight black T-shirt, with blond hair gathered in a high ponytail and a covergirl's face, Nashville's hard-bodied Faith Hill made all the boys want her and...
RIDES AND GLIDES
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT- EVER SINCE CHRISTINE DIAMOND BECAME A MOTHER, SHE'S MADE IT HER MISSION TO FIND OUT WHAT SHE COULD ABOUT EVERY CHILD-FRIENDLY SPOT IN THE CITY. WHAT SHE LEARNED COULD...
ABC'S AMATEUR HOUR : DON DAHLER AND HOW NOT TO HOST 'GMA'
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amABC's amateur hour Don Dahler and how not to host 'GMA' FOUR theme today, tvgirrrl friends, is baaaaaaaad TV and the folks who make it. ITEM 1: Sometimes the stuff...
TODAY I CHASE MY OWN TRIPLE CROWN
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amWELCOME to Super Saturday, when New York wakes up to the greatest single sports day's journey into night it has ever witnessed. I grew up in this town, and I...
ABUSED GIRL'S FUNERAL INSPIRES SORROW, ANGER
June 5, 1999 | 4:00am"There were reports about abuse for this child for years."A MOURNER A 10-year-old Bronx girl allegedly beaten to death by her aunt was remembered as a "little princess" yesterday by...
FIRST LADY STEPS UP TO THE PLATE IN SENATE BID
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton finally made the opening pitch in her Senate bid yesterday and just hours later the White House gave her campaign a little gift - a photo op...
CLINTON FIRES WARNING SHOT IN GUN DEBATE
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton fired up his opponents in the great gun debate yesterday - saying gun owners should have to register their weapons, just like car owners have to...
INTREPID MUSEUM FOUNDER IS DEAD
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amZachary Fisher, who rose from bricklayer to philanthropist and converted the abandoned aircraft carrier Intrepid into an acclaimed naval museum, died here yesterday. He was 88. Fisher migrated to the...
PREZ SLIPS GAY-HEIR DIPLOMAT PAST GOP
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton yesterday defied Senate Republican leaders and did an end run to name openly gay food heir James Hormel as ambassador to Luxembourg. Clinton used a loophole...
RUDY'S PRIMARY CONCERN IS ON HIS RIGHT
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amBEFORE he can take on Hillary Clinton in a blockbuster Senate race, Mayor Giuliani may have to face Long Island Rep. Rick Lazio in a Republican primary - and Lazio...
TV REMOTE CONTROL IS GUY'S MAIN SQUEEZE
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amYou've heard of girls' night out - get ready for a boys' day in. Today's Big Apple sportsfest is an all-day party of unadulterated testosterone sports-watching pleasure featuring the Mets,...
RELIEVED YUGOS GREET SIGNS OF PEACE
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amBELGRADE - War-weary residents of the Yugoslav capital heard air-raid sirens blare 274 times in the past 10 weeks, but yesterday they shrugged off the latest alarms as a sign...
SORROW FOR FALLEN BRAVEST DOESN'T END
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amIT is a sound they dread more than the roar of an inferno, more than the ear-splitting crash of bricks, mortar and wood. It's that sound of those five bells...
NATO WILLING TO HALT BOMBING IF SERBS OK 40,000-TROOP PULLOUT
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - NATO says bombing could stop as soon as tomorrow if Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic agrees today to a specific plan to remove all 40,000 of his troops and...
LOUIMA JURY RESUMES DELIBERATIONS MONDAY
June 5, 1999 | 4:00am"It's palm-sweat time. The waiting is unbearable."DEFENSE LAWYER JOSEPH TACOPINA The jurors in the Abner Louima torture trial went home for the weekend yesterday after deliberating for six hours on...
LADY WRESTLER BLOWS TOP AND SUES WWF
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amWrestling superstar Sable has body-slammed the World Wrestling Federation with a $110 million lawsuit - charging she was stripped of her championship belt because she didn't take off her top...
FEDS TAKING ANOTHER JAB AT DON KING
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amFBI agents ordered King's workers to leave one-by-one with only their lunches and handbags.DON KINGHas beaten rap twice. A team of FBI agents descended on Don King's Florida headquarters at...
FIRE HERO DIED PROTECTING ROOKIE FOUND PAL JUST AS OXYGEN RAN OUT
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amMoments before he ran out of oxygen and collapsed of a heart attack, hero firefighter Vincent Fowler tried to make sure that his partner, a probationary fireman, was alive. In...
HE NEVER HESITATED TO PUT ; LIFE ON THE LINE
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amVince Fowler was always ready to risk his life for the firefighters in his command. Nine years ago, he refused to leave the blazing hallway of a Manhattan apartment building...
ONE MORE NAME IN LOST LEGION
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amThe tragic death of Capt. Vincent Fowler cast a pall over ceremonies to honor another fallen member of New York's Bravest. Lt. James Blackmore, a 21-year fire veteran, died in...
SPRINGER ADMITS HE FAKES IT SOMETIMES
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amCHICAGO.WHAT you see on "The Jerry Springer Show" is real - most of the time. That was the word straight from the horse's mouth yesterday as Springer testified about the...
BRONX GRANDMA KILLED IN HIT-RUN
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amA 60-year-old Bronx woman crossing the street with her grandson was killed after a speeding car plowed into them yesterday afternoon, cops said. Adriana Zamora suffered multiple injuries after the...
VIDEO HELPS COPS NAB BIKE-RIDING SLAY SUSPECT
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amA bike-riding killer who shot a woman to death when she wouldn't give up her bag is behind bars - thanks to video surveillance from a nearby building, police said...
HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER KILLS BX. GRANNY
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amA Honduran immigrant bringing her grandson home from a Bronx elementary school was killed yesterday by a hit-and-run driver who may have been racing another car on the Grand Concourse,...
HIP-HOP EDITOR WON'T GIVE ATTACKERS BAD RAP
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amThe former editor of Blaze - beaten in retaliation over a story in the hip-hop magazine - has told prosecutors he won't testify against his assailants, effectively closing the case....
AVS, STARS SHOOTIN' FOR SEVENTH HEAVEN
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amDALLAS - The heat was on, and not just the ambient temperature, which was around 95 degrees. The seventh game is hockey's pressure cooker, where simple survival last night meant...
PRE-STAKES FARE LOOKIN' SUPER
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amThe Grade 1, $1 million Belmont Stakes is the main course today, but Belmont Park is serving up some appetizing side dishes as well: four graded stakes leading up to...
HOW TO HIT TODAY'S $1M NYRA PICK 6
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amAs if the Belmont Stakes with a Triple Crown on the line weren't enough to focus attention on Belmont Park today, the good folks at the New York Racing Assn....
IT'S A THREE-FOR-ALL :KNICKS BELIEVE THEY CAN STILL BEAT INDY EVEN WITHOUT EWING
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amLike a child learning to walk, the Knicks insist they are ready to go where they haven't gone since 1974, into The NBA Finals, without Patrick Ewing. They will take...
SPREE, HOUSTON TOGETHER AGAIN
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amLook for more of Latrell Sprewell and Allan Houston together in the backcourt like in Game 2. Jeff Van Gundy admitted yesterday the Knicks were working on that duo in...
PACERS LACING UP THEIR TRACK SHOES
June 5, 1999 | 4:00am"I look for it to be more of a track meet now."REGGIE MILLER The weight and strength competitions are over. Now the Eastern Conference Finals are about to enter the...
WINNING DOESN'T DRIVE TREVINO
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amRarely does any professional athlete admit to being in a comfort zone. That, however, is exactly where Lee Trevino fully concedes that he resides now. If you're wondering where Trevino...
JACKSON: BEST TEAM WILL WIN - US
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amNow this was a guarantee. Earlier in these Eastern Conference Finals, Mark Jackson, native New Yorker, former Knick and currently a Pacer which places him only slightly above the amoeba...
VAN GUNDY'S WHINE TASTES FUNNY TO INDY
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amRebuttal, Pacers. The back-and-forth lobbying for favor with the refs while calling the opponents a big old bunch of nasty rotten meanies continued yesterday with the constituency from the state...
VAN GUNDY'S LIFE IS NOTHING BUT KNICKS ; JEFF WON'T GET A LIFE - NOT NOW AT LEAST
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amJEFF Van Gundy needs to get a hobby. In the toughest times, when it seems as if the walls, not to mention Phil Jackson, gloomy Patrick Ewing medical reports and...
TUNA EXPECTS A VERY QUIET SUMMER
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amIn his last scheduled face-to-face meeting with the press as minicamp winds down, coach Bill Parcells said he doesn't expect the Jets to make any blockbuster trades, sign any big-name...
HENTRICH VICTIMIZED BY NEW RULE
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amTennessee Titans punter Craig Hentrich enters today's final round for the NFL players' tournament at the Cadillac/NFL Classic at Upper Montclair Country Club as the favorite to win the title...
PINSTRIPES' BIGGEST TEST CHAMPS MUST LIVE UP TO STAR BILLING
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amA THEORY advanced in the lead up to the Subway Series was that the Yankees wanted to win, but the Mets had to win during the first of two intra-city,...
TO HARDCORE PROS, IT'S AMATEUR DAY AT TRACK
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amFOR THE small group of hardcore gamblers who live at the New York tracks even when there isn't a big race on the card, Belmont Park may be a nice...
WILPON: BOBBY V'S JOB SAFE
June 5, 1999 | 4:00am'For those fans who see whining players and a six-game losing streak as signs that Bobby Valentine's job as Met manager might be in jeopardy, don't consider co-owner Fred Wilpon...
BIG DAY STARTS BRIGHT & EARLY
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amGates open today at 8:30 a.m. and there will be plenty to do prior to the first race at 12:30 p.m.. From 10-1, fans can take home a piece of...
NO ONE WANTS BOBBY, MCRAE
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amThe Mets' priorities have shifted from getting another pitcher to simply getting rid of Bobby Bonilla and Brian McRae, according to members of the organization. But team sources said owner...
DON'T FEEL SORRY FOR THE WAIVEES
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amMAJOR League Baseball players get their feet kissed from so many different angles these days that the first instinct of the majority of people is to feel sorry for the...
THREE RING HOLDS OFF 'HONOUR' IN ACORN
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amReturning from a horror trip in the Kentucky Derby, Barry K. Schwartz' Three Ring held off a determined Better Than Honour to win the Grade 1 $200,000 Acorn Stakes yesterday...
CHARISMATIC FACING ULTIMATE TEST MUST BEAT HISTORY AND GRUELING BELMONT COURSE
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amStart spreading the news. It doesn't get any better than this, racing fans, and all New York will want to be a part of it today when a crowd that...
ALLAN GETTING READY TO AIM AND FIRE A LOT
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amAllan Houston has never seemed to enjoy watching Patrick Ewing shoot at least 20 times a game. For sure, it's no coincidence Houston flourished last season when Ewing was out...
NELSON DL'D, FACES 'SCOPE ON BUM ELBOW
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amYankee reliever Jeff Nelson's up-and-down year will experience another dip next week, when he's scheduled to undergo arthroscopic surgery on his bothersome pitching elbow. "They are going to shave some...
HOT TIME IN THE CITY FANS ROCK STADIUM IN SERIES OPENER
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amBy the time Rickey Henderson tracked David Cone's first pitch last night at 7:40, Yankee Stadium was as alive as it has ever been for any game, including those played...
GARDEN FANS CAN MAKE DIFFERENCE
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amCHRIS Childs claims to understand why Reggie Miller and Mark Jackson love to play in the Garden. "They should enjoy it," Childs said yesterday. "It's the best place to play...
KNICKS CHECK OUT ARTEST
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amFormer St. John's star Ron Artest worked out with Knicks scouts yesterday after the team practiced at Purchase College. After leading the Red Storm to the Elite Eight of the...
NCAA-LEADER THOMAS SAYS HE CAN SCORE WITH THE BEST
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amKurt Thomas is not shy about reminding his teammates that he led the nation with 28.9 ppg during the '94-95 season at TCU. Certainly, the Knicks' 6-foot-9 starting power forward...
BOMBERS HUNKY-DORY JETER'S 2-RUN HR GIVES CHAMPS GAME 1 VICTORY
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amYankees4 Mets3 Using a packed Yankee Stadium, the Subway Series and a delicious New York sports weekend as a three-tiered stage, Derek Jeter showed the Mets what the American League...
REED CAN'T STOP THE BLEEDING
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amOf all the Mets' starters, Rick Reed has pitched the best over the past few starts and was perhaps the best shot the Mets had to steal a game. Reed...
MCRAE FIRES BACK WITH ONE-MAN SHOW
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amBrian McRae said over and over he didn't care if the Mets had put him on waivers. There was nothing he could do but go out and play baseball. McRae...
STARS SWOOP INTO CUP FINAL
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amStars4 Avalanche1 DALLAS - This may be the Wild West, but it's really the middle of the nation. Likewise, the Stars may be the Western champs, but because they play...
NO SURPRISE: DEREK IS THE DIFFERENCE
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amIF THERE were a better league than the majors, Derek Jeter would have been sent there long ago. And he would be dominating it by now. There would be no...
DOESN'T GET WORSE THAN THIS FOR METS
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amSo, what's worse, losing to the Yankees, losing seven in a row, dropping to .500 or falling a half-game behind the Phillies, who beat the Orioles 9-4 last night? It's...
NELSON DL'D; FACES 'SCOPE
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amJeff Nelson's up-and-down year will experience another dip next week when the Yankees' right-handed reliever is scheduled to undergo arthroscopic surgery on his bothersome pitching elbow. "They are going to...
DOES BOBBY V SMELL RAT?
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amOnly Bobby Valentine knows if he was looking for something funny on a ball in the Mets' dugout in the latter part of last night's Yankee 4-3 victory at Yankee...
YANKEE FANS SAVE VENOM FOR BOO-NITEZ
June 5, 1999 | 4:00amArmando Benitez' first Yankee Stadium appearance since he foolishly drilled Tino Martinez in the back on purpose last May resulted in the pellet-throwing Mets reliever to be heavily booed by...