August 7, 1999
RIGHT SAYS GREENSPAN WRONG ON RATES
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amAlan Greenspan is losing support from the right-wingers that were once his most ardent fans. The chairman of the Federal Reserve has taken too-aggressive a stance in fighting non-existent inflation...
CASE CLOTHESED: FIND FILCHED FROCKS FROM NICOLE MILLER
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amThe case of the purloined party dresses is on its way to being solved. Police have recovered most of the Nicole Miller clothes that were heisted from a garment district...
KING'S SON HAS DREAM JOB OFFER
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amMARTIN Luther King III, the oldest son of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., is being offered a talk show. King is in talks with at least a...
CLOSE TO HIS ROOTS : ' WOOD' STAR SEAN NELSON KEEPS IT REAL IN THE BRONX
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE'S little to distinguish apartment 17L from the 15,000 others that make up Co-op City, the sprawling housing complex in The Bronx. Except that a tumble of lush indoor plants...
BALL MCGWIRE HIT FOR NO. 500 OUGHT TO BE A MILLION-DOLLAR CATCH: EXPERTS
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amSt. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire's historic 500th home-run ball could fetch a cool $1 million on the auction block, baseball memorabilia mavens say. Josh Evans, president of Leland's Auctions...
BIN LADEN MAY BE POISED TO STRIKE :U.S. ON ALERT ONE YEAR AFTER AFRICA BOMBINGS
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amLaw-enforcement agencies from Washington to the Middle East have dramatically ratcheted up security amid a worldwide terror alert on today's first anniversary of the embassy bombings in East Africa. Osama...
MAN, 75, CHARGED WITH AIDING ILL WIFE'S SUICIDE
August 7, 1999 | 4:00am"He drilled a hole in the ceiling beam and tied a noose ... He left the house at 7:30 a.m. When he returned at 1 p.m., his wife was dead...
THAT LONG-CLOGGED PUBLIC-TOILET PLAN IS BACK IN PIPELINE
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amTHE The Giuliani administration hasn't given up on a long-stalled plan to build public toilets. "There will definitely be a proposal sometime this year," said one administration source. New Yorkers...
DEFIANT MILOSEVIC: HELL, NO, I WON'T GO!
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amA defiant Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic signaled yesterday he won't step down from power and blamed efforts to force his resignation on NATO "aggression" and "corrupt" local pols. Speaking out...
FINGERPRINT NAILS JUNKIE IN BRUTAL BRONX SLAYING
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amEdwin Martinez was so sure he had covered his tracks he didn't resist when detectives said they wanted to question him about the murder of an old and frail Bronx...
WHY PATAKI BURIED HATCHET IN LAZIO'S BACK
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki's decision to push Rep. Rick Lazio out of the Senate race in favor of Mayor Giuliani was surprising only in terms of its timing, GOP insiders...
BARBELL-BASH HUBBY FACES STALK CHARGE
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amAn Upper East Sider accused of bashing his financial-wizard wife in the head with a barbell must come up with another half-million dollars in bail after prosecutors charged he's been...
COLONEL'S WIFE LIKED TO POWDER NOSE: FEDS
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amThe Army colonel was in charge of the U.S. anti-drug effort in Colombia. The wife of the U.S. Army colonel in charge of the anti-drug effort in Colombia was a...
HILL'S JEWISH ANGLE: 'LET VOTERS HAVE THE FINAL SAY'
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday said it will be "up to the voters of New York" to decide whether news of her Jewish step-grandfather will help her in the...
TALK'S A LOUD-'N'-CLEAR SUCCESS
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amTina Brown's new Talk magazine is selling so well it's going back to press tonight for 300,000 more copies of its premiere issue. "That means we'll have put 1.3 million...
WOUND SHOULD HAVE GROUNDED RED BARON: DOC
August 7, 1999 | 4:00am"I believe the Red Baron should not have been declared fit for duty."DR. HENNING ALLMERS Manfred von Richthofen, World War I's fabled Red Baron, should have had his wings clipped...
VIDEO REGAL & ILLEGAL : TYCOON'S WIFE: NO SPYING ON MY DINNER WITH ANDREW
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A jealous husband violated his wife's privacy and humiliated her by secretly videotaping the socialite's dinner with England's Prince Andrew, the woman said in a lawsuit. Melissa...
COUNCIL & RUDY RAISE A STINK OVER FISH MARKET
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amA City Council plan to amend the anti-corruption laws regulating the Fulton Fish Market and other public markets has sparked a bitter war with Mayor Giuliani. Mayoral aides warn that...
15-MPH SIDE-STREET LIMIT GATHERS SPEED
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amSlow down, drivers - New York City may soon lower the speed limit to 15 mph on residential streets under a measure approved by the state Legislature. The slow-speed bill...
HERO FIREFIGHTER PULLS TOT FROM BLAZING B'KLYN APT.
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amWhen firefighter Kevin McCarthy woke up yesterday morning, it was supposed to be "just another routine day." But for McCarthy, who's been on the job for only six months, it...
SPAIN OFFICIAL WANTS CHILE'S PINOCHET FREED
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amSpain's attorney general yesterday asked a Madrid court to rule that General Augusto Pinochet should be released from Britain and allowed to return to Chile without facing a trial for...
SOME SICKENING NEWS ON STREP THAT BESTS PENICILLIN
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amVersions of the "strep" bacteria that cause pneumonia, meningitis, sinusitis and ear infections are becoming more and more resistant to penicillin - and one reason is overuse, health officials say....
FAT CITY FOR FEN-PHEN VICTIM : DIET-DRUG JURY GIVES TEXAS WOMAN $23M
August 7, 1999 | 4:00am"What that company has done makes you lose faith in a lot of things. Maybe they'll learn their lesson."PLAINTIFF DEBBIE LOVETT A plump Texas woman who banked on the diet-drug...
GOP AIMS TO PIT PREZ VS. PEOPLE ON TAX CUTS
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton yesterday kicked off the war of words over the $792 billion Republican tax-cut plan by vowing, "This tax cut will not become law." But Republicans vowed...
HAMAS' CHILLING THREAT
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amThe Palestinian terrorist group Hamas threatened new terrorist strikes against Israel last night. It's the first warning from Hamas since Ehud Barak was elected Israeli prime minister in May. Hamas...
EXPERTS SEE SOME RAIN BUT NO END TO DROUGHT
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amAlthough Mother Nature might send some cooler air and rain into the metropolitan area this weekend, complete drought relief is months away, weather watchers say. Today's temperatures in the mid...
G.O.-PEACE AS PATAKI BACKS RUDY : TOP REPUBLICANS UNIFIED FOR 2000
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amGov. Pataki yesterday threw his weight behind longtime foe Mayor Giuliani as the GOP candidate for U.S. Senate - a political bombshell that effectively shut Rep. Rick Lazio out of...
IT'S SURPRISE TO ALL - EXCEPT GIULIANI
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amGov. Pataki's unexpected announcement backing Mayor Giuliani for the U.S. Senate played out just as the mayor had predicted. For weeks, skeptics have questioned whether Giuliani had the clout to...
TAKE MY KNIFE, PLEASE! BOBBITT LANDS COMIC GIG
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amLots of folks think there's too much penis humor out there - but not John Wayne Bobbitt. The 32-year-old ex-Marine, who shot to infamous stardom when his wife lopped off...
GOV'S STUNNER:I'M BACKING RUDY! : SENATE ENDORSEMENT STOPS GOP CIVIL WAR
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amFormer Sen. Al D'Amato was go-between in top-secret talks. Gov. Pataki yesterday threw his weight behind longtime foe Mayor Giuliani as the GOP candidate for U.S. Senate - a political...
PAIR IN DRAMATIC SEA RESCUE
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amA gutsy couple from upstate New York was rescued after spending a terrifying 17 hours in shark-infested waters in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida. Nichole Ballard, 17, and her...
BANSHEE BREEZE GOES FOR 'WAND'
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Today's Grade 1, $250,000 Go for Wand Stakes for fillies and mares at 11/8 miles should give odds-on favorite Banshee Breeze a sense of deja vu. Flash...
TUNA IS WAILING ; OFFENSIVE GAFFES PEEVE PARCELLS
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amTraining camp is a mere week complete and yet Bill Parcells is in mid-season form with his button-pushing. Parcells hasn't been enamored with the fluidity of the offense, and so...
KIMMEL, PRADO ARE 'SUCCESSFUL'
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - When jockey Richard Migliore, who rides first-call for the John Kimmel stable, broke his arm in a spill near the end of the Belmont Park meet, it...
NETS TALKING FORWARD DEAL
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amWhile the Nets still await word from Scott Burrell, who is expected to make his free-agent decision this weekend, the team is considering other options that include the possibility of...
WALLACE WILD OVER RETURN TO KNICKS
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amThe Raptors are viewed by many as a team on the rise, blessed with a talent of staggering proportions in Vince Carter. Yes, Toronto's future isbright. But John Wallace was...
MITCHELL COULD PROVIDE BIG BLUE BOOST
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Welcome to the modern age of football. The dark ages lingered seemingly forever for the Giants, who attempted to assemble a cohesive offense without the services of a...
SEVEN SET TO GO IN JIM DANDY
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - A field of seven was entered for tomorrow's Grade 2, $300,000 Jim Dandy Stakes. The race will be run at 11/8 miles and is the local prep...
BOSS GOES TO WATCH STRAW
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amSEATTLE - With George Steinbrenner looking on last night at Cooper Stadium in Columbus, Darryl Strawberry's comeback continued as he served as the Clippers' DH and hit third against Indianapolis....
PLUNKED JETER MAY HAVE TO SIT ONE OUT
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amSEATTLE - The X-rays were negative, but that didn't do much for the size of the welt a Jose Paniagua fastball had left on Derek Jeter's left forearm. Standing in...
MARTINEZ RELAXES, REVIVES : AFTER PEP TALK, TINO CRASHES 200 BARRIER
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amSEATTLE - As one out followed the next, the result of yet another poor swing thanks to mechanical difficulties with his feet and hands, Tino Martinez took it out on...
AGAIN, PUNCH IS SERVED AT CAMP
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - It was not exactly a reprise of Monday's brutality, but the Giants did engage in some minor altercations during yesterday's afternoon practice session. You know things are spirited...
FLEISHER STAYS HOT
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amWhen you watch Bruce Fleisher scorch Senior PGA competition this year, you wonder how he spent an entire career as an also-ran on the regu-lar tour. Fleisher, 50, continued his...
OL' RICKEY SHOWS WAY ; HENDERSON WISDOM'S AMAZIN'
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amThere is a worldly wisdom about Rickey Henderson, acquired through 40 years of life and 20 years of big league baseball. And that wisdom has spread through the Met clubhouse,...
VALENTINE MAY HIT BULL'S-EYE
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amIt was on June 6 that manager Bobby Valentine made his bold and well-chronicled statement that if the Mets didn't improve over their next 55 games, he should be fired....
IT'LL BE A HALL OF A DAY FOR LT THE GREATEST GIANT JOINS CANTON CLUB
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amCANTON - On the day before his induction into the Hall of Fame, Lawrence Taylor retreated to his favorite place on earth: the golf course. The golf course was LT's...
TODD MISSES RIDE TO TOP : HUNDLEY FINDS THINGS HAVE CHANGED AT SHEA
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amJOHN Franco opened the box of new shoes that had been placed in his locker inside the Mets' clubhouse. "Oh great, another pair of cleats," Franco said in a tone...
BOMBERS' THOUGHTS ON RAINES
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amSEATTLE - Tim Raines was in the Yankees' thoughts last night when they played the Mariners at Safeco Field. While the Yankees dressed, the classy veteran was holding a press...
TORRE GIVES PLUNKED JETER A NIGHT OFF
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amSEATTLE - The swollen bruise on Derek Jeter's left forearm spoke a lot louder than Jeter's voice when it came to Joe Torre filling out last night's lineup card. "I...
DOTEL SHOWS TODD METS TRULY AMAZIN' OCTAVIO'S GEM SMOTHERS L.A.
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amMets2 Dodgers1 Many of the 43,825 fans on hand for the Mets' 2-1 win over Los Angeles may have come to Shea Stadium for the return of Todd Hundley. But...
DARRYL GETS 2 HITS FOR BOSS
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amSEATTLE - With George Steinbrenner looking on last night at Cooper Stadium in Columbus, Darryl Strawberry's comeback continued as he served as the Clippers' DH and hit third against Indianapolis....
VALENTINE HITS BULL'S-EYE ON 55 TARGET
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amIt was on June 6 that manager Bobby Valentine made his bold and well-chronicled statement that if the Mets didn't improve over their next 55 games, he should be fired....
BENITEZ FINISHES WITH A FLOURISH
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amMets closer Armando Benitez had an exciting ninth inning last night, giving up a hit and a walk with the Mets leading just 2-1. But he ended up striking out...
YANKS CLOCK MARINERS : SCORE TKO IN SAFECO BRAWL GAME
August 7, 1999 | 4:00amYanks11 Mariners8 SEATTLE -A game that should have been a laugher turned into a brawl last night at Safeco Field where the Yankees and Mariners were involved in a ninth-inning...