Winchester Star (Newspaper) - April 19, 1990, Winchester, Virginia The Winchester Star 94th Year 245 48 SECTIONS VIRGINIA APRIL 6673200 25 CENTS Book Says Winchesters but We Know That By SUSAN ABRAMSON Star Staff Writer Local officials are pleased by the news that Winchester ranks 23rd on a list of the top small cities in the United but said the book didnt tell them anything they didnt already Im not said City Manager Ed I would expect It doesnt surprise said Shen executive director of the Win County Chamber of Weve always felt we were an outstanding The ranking comes from a book by Scott to be published on May 21 by Prometheus In Thomas looked at eco and other factors to rank what he called micropolitan areas cities with populations between and Among Virginia cities ranked he listed Fredericksburg Win County Staunton Waynesboro Harrisonburg Blacksburg and Martinsville Fredericksburg is the best small city in the Thomas The best small according to the is San Luis and the worst 219th is The book examined strengths and weaknesses of all the cities Winchester has the highest income in micropolitan it It leads the same group in availability of doctors and medical Washington is just 71 miles Baltimore is slightly Education and crime didnt fare as The total crime rate is higher than those of the the states either Only Mar has a larger high school dropout problem than Winchester among The assessment is based primarily on 1980 census said Lorraine a spokeswoman for Prometheus If a company were researching whether to locate in your those are the figures See Winchester Page A2 Lithuania Gas Cut Sharply MOSCOW AP The Kremlin sharply curtailed supplies of natu ral gas to Lithuania hours after it halted the flow of crude oil to the republic for refusing to scrap laws promoting Lithuanian officials Moscow had shut off oil day night to only a first step in a blockade promised by Mikhail In anticipation of the a delegation of top Lithuanian of left for Norway earlier Wed seeking alternative oil sup Vytautas called the cutoff economic coercion and economic warfare against a neighboring The republics ment had refused offering instead to ne and pass no new pro independence laws until May Lithuania is entirely dependent on Moscow for oil and and the embargo was the toughest measure taken by Moscow in its effort to make the republic of million people back down from its in dependence The flow natural gas was cut in three pipelines two from Latvia and one from Minsk in Byelorussia but continued in a said of of the secessionist republics That leaves Lithuania with just 16 percent of the supply of gas it needs Lithuania uses an average of 18 million cubic meters daily for industrial and domestic The one operating pipeline from Slonim in Byelorussia sup plies million cubic meters a See Gas Page A2 Contras Agree to Disband Nicaragua AP The Sandinista government and the rebels signed a cease fire agreement early today that calls on the Contras to begin laying down their arms next week and disband by June The which began mid night will be verified by forces and Nicaraguan Cardinal Miguel y The document was signed by Nicaraguas minister of Humberto rebel commanders Oscar and Aquilino Ruiz and repre of Presidentelect Violeta Barrios de Northern California Jiggled Jolts Come On 06 Quake Anniversary AP About 75 earthquakes jolted Northern California on the anniversary of the catastrophic Great Quake of The temblors were aftershocks of the October quake that killed geologists There were no reports of inju ries or major damage from Wed mornings the largest measuring up to on the Richter Eight others regis tered at least The temblors on the San An dreas Fault were felt from San Francisco to King 150 miles The San Andreas also caused the 1906 and 17 All the memories came back to the kids this one Darrell Daniels said with his 4 yearold on his She wont let me The family is living in a mobile home because their home in downtown Watsonville was con after the October Wednesdays aftershocks were centered about four miles east of 60 miles south of San Octobers magnitude quake caused major damage to the farming com The temblors began at shortly after a group of Great Quake gathered in San Francisco to commemorate the 1906 The strongest quake Wednesday struck at In about 75 were re according to Pat Jorgen a spokeswoman for the Geological Survey in Menlo Associated Press A landslide rushes toward Highway 129 near Two Days That Jiggled The World Earthquakes across the world from each other are not likely to be but by coincidence a large number of medium to large temblors have occurred in widely scattered places over the last two days A date The quake that devastated San Francisco happened exactly 84 years ago on April Asia A EQUATOR Australia All magnitudes are measured on the Richter scale Locations and magnitudes APRIL 17 1 2 3 APRIL 18 4 513 Nine quakes in three ranging to 14 Indonesia Central and 17 Indonesia South America Source National Earthquake Information Center Greer and Pat Lyons Scientists Say LOS ANGELES AP Scien say its only coincidence that earthquakes rocked and rolled Indiana and three parts of California this You do get the impression these things are related when they happen over a large area at about the same said geophysicist Don Anderson of the California Institute of Technology in But when you do the statistics after the a link between these quakes never holds Most also believe its only by chance that so many quakes happened during a period this 2 Could Join In 8 Weeks EAST BERLIN AP Prime Minister Lothar de Maiziere told East Parliament to day that the German states could merge their societies and create a single economy in just eight But he also challenged wealthy West Germany to agree on conditions that ensure East Germans do not get the feeling of being German citi The East German in his first full address to the new also said the re maining sections of the Berlin Wall would be torn down to symbolize the end of 40 years of The wall and East other border controls were opened in November during the prodemocracy revolt that top pled the former hardline Com munist De in a also sought to ease Soviet objections to quick We ask the citizens of the Soviet Union not to view as a threat the support by the people and political leaders of the GDR East Germany for a united he told the nations first freely elected He said a final plan for unification could be in place be fore Parliament breaks for the De Maiziere also reiterated that East Germany wants a 11 exchange rate for East German marks to West German T Beirut Grenade Kills 11 on School Bus Associated Press A school bus sits at a crossing be tween east and west Beirut Wednesday after a grenade fired by a rifle struck killing at least 15 including 11 Lebanon AP A grenade slammed into a school bus and exploded during Christian factional fighting Wed killing 11 schoolchildren and at least four other The driver was burning as the bus hit the mumbled one dazed Many of the pupils yelled for help as we tried to extinguish the At least one teacher also was among the dead along with the said a soldier at the A police spokesman said the bus was hit while crossing into Chris tian east Beirut in the It was bringing children back from school in south The grenade ignited the fuel It couldnt be determined who fired the rifle said the who cannot be named in line with command could not be reached by Mitterrand Huddle KEY AP President Bush arrived here today to meet with French President Francois Mitterrand in the midst of consultations with allies on how to respond to the crisis in the breakaway republic of Were still trying to get verifica tion of the exact situation White House spokesman Fitzwater told reporters aboard Air Force One as Bush flew to the Florida Keys for his meeting with The Kremlin sharply curtailed supplies of natural gas to Lithuania hours after it halted the flow of crude oil to the republic for refusing to scrap laws promoting Lithuanian officials President Bush has begun a series of consultations with our allies on appropriate Fitzwater He telephoned German Chancellor Helmut Kohl yesterday on this He will discuss it with President Mitterrand this afternoon and we will be in touch with all of the allies either di or through diplomatic chan nels in the next few Asked if joint NATO or Western action was being Fit water I wouldnt put it in that I think its more a con about what individual countries might what their ap proach might Were stil to get Trying to get both sides to use whatever maneuvering room they said The spokesman also said the government had received a message from Syria Wednesday saying it appears an American hostage would be released as the Islamic Jihad said A Today showers INDEX TV JESSE TURNER Hostage May Be Freed Lebanon AP Rival Shiite militiamen battled in west Beirut and the southern slums to prompting fears the violence could threaten the promised release of one of three American hostages held by a The United States dispatched a hostage reception team to West Germany after hearing state ments of imminent release of an American White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Were hopeful this could be Fitzwater said as the presi dent flew to He added that the hostage reception team had been sent before on rumors of a hostage release that never happen The kidnappers said Wednesday they were freeing one of the three American educators in response to requests from Iran and See Hostage Page A2
