Winchester Star (Newspaper) - March 14, 1997, Winchester, Virginia The Winchester Star 215 32 SECTIONS VIRGINIA MARCH 1997 6673200 25 CENTS Clinton Hurts Knee Surgery Planned Accident During Visit at Golfers Home Tears Tendon By RON FOURNIER Associated Press Writer WEST PALM President Clinton tore a tendon in his knee early today after stumbling on the stairs at golfer Greg Normans home and was scheduled for surgery late this Doctors described the damage to his right knee as As he left Florida for the flight to Washing ton and the operation at Bethesda Naval Hos Clinton flashed a and shout ed I feel good above the roar of Air Force Ones His white cast peeking out from the leg of a black jogging Clinton was flanked by two Secret Service agents who helped him onto the plane using a wheelchair At about Clinton stumbled on a step as he left Normans home and tore his quadriceps which connects the upper thigh to the He remembers his right knee buckling He heard a very loud said Navy Connie the presidents personal phy The president suffered a 50 percent tear of his requiring surgery to Its technically not that difficult to said Joel vice president at Marys Its not a major but its not a minor You literally drill a hole in the Cohen to reattach the tendon to the If there are no the surgery generally takes about 90 The president was to be given an epidural or a local anesthetic during the surgery and will be the doctors There are no plans to turn presidential pow ers over to Vice President Al Clinton will be in a leg brace and use crutches from two to six the doctors See Clinton Page A2 Associated Press President Clinton discusses a golf shot with Greg Norman during a game last November near Jazz in the City A solemn Christopher Morrison is carried off the stage on Thursday night by wild eyed Mike Mills during a skit called Give Me Your Tired part of the 1997 Win chester Medical Center Auxiliary Sue Cooper portrays a singing Hollywood Star Photo by Rick Foster starlet in the The benefit variety show opened on Thursday additional per are scheduled for 8 tonight and Saturday night in Armstrong Auditorium at Shenandoah For a story and more see Page Top Cop to Top Gun Gilmore Gets Ready for Gubernatorial Race By DON WORTHINGTON The Winchester Star James Gilmore III wants to go from being Vir top cop to being its top When he ran for attorney general in Gil mores campaign theme was He wanted to be the states top making crime and law enforce ment the key issues of his a defeated William Dolan Gilmore wants to be the states top its His campaign committee has raised more than Thats unusual so early in a he said on The Democrats usually hold the early funding A statewide poll released in January shows Gilmore even with the Democratic gu Donald Beyer Thats Gilmore At this time in the last gubernatorial George Allen trailed Democrat Mary Sue Terry by 25 Gilmore has bumper a web site and has started the endless string of political lunches and Thursday brought him to Winchester for a fundraiser at Jimmys Restaurant on 50 East where the main course was what else No other Republican has been so Gilmore told about 50 local Republicans at the luncheon Theres only one slight hitch Gilmore isnt of a Theres no doubt hes the GOPs Hes been the heir apparent to Allen ever since he won election as attorney His widespread support is the result of his hard work as attorney he as of and at least for another Gilmore is the Republican candidate for See Gilmore Page A3 Changes Urged By DON WORTHINGTON The Winchester Star Virginia Attorney General James Gilmore III wants to change the way the state selects its Judicial selection was a hot topic during the recent General Assembly The General Assembly couldnt agree on a state Supreme Court candidate or a circuit court candidate in the 26th Judicial which includes Winchester and Frederick and Clarke In the 26th Judicial the Senate voted for Winchester lawyer John Prosser and the House of Delegates for the incumbent James The choices are now up to George Gilmores desire for change is based on this years judicial Judicial reform has been on his mind since the year he was elected Henrico Countys commonwealths That year a defeated Harris an incumbent for the Henrico County It wasnt long after the election that the General Assembly An item on its agenda was ap pointing a judge to the Henrico County Circuit The Democratically controlled legislature picked Gilmore remembers going to Courts of Justice to Committee to see how he would be See Judges Page A3 Massacre Wont Change Israeli Netanyahu Says By GWEN ACKERMAN Associated Press Writer BEIT Israel Weeping and crying out the names of the thousands attended the funerals of seven Israeli school girls shot and killed by a Jordanian soldier on Thursday during a field trip to Jordans Is land of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told mourners that the massacre would not fright en Israel into easing control of land defying a warning by King Hussein of Jor dan just days before the massacre that such a stand could bring If someone thinks that the murder of little girls will defeat this he doesnt know Netanyahu said at a cemetery in the central Israeli town of Beit site of one of the funerals within hours of the If someone thinks he will break our spirit and that we will give up our holy land and our eternal he doesnt know the great strength in every person around me Wailing mourners placed pebbles on the fresh graves of four in ac cordance with Jewish A rabbi said the prayer for the while grieving mothers and fathers leaned heavily on Classmates of the victims gathered today at the Feirst School in Beit hugging each other for comfort as they studied pictures of their dead friends on the front pages of The most important thing is to be to teacher Zohara About students prayed together before splitting into small groups for counseling by social workers and The shooting on the island of 55 miles northeast of Tel came at a time of crisis between Israel and Jordan over the im See Massacre Page A2 More Determined Than Ever By KARIN LAUB Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM Israel will start breaking ground on Mon day for a new Jewish neighbor hood on land in east Jerusalem and security forces are preparing for a violent Pal Israel radio said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would not be deterred by Palestinian warn ings of a new Im going to build on Har he told the using the Hebrew name for the area slated to hold See Determined Page A2 Forum Should Higher Sales Tax Replace Personal Property Tax By LISA DAVIS The Winchester Star A measure that would eliminate the personal property tax in Virginia is pit ting taxpayers against tax ac cording to state Charles D Although hes a Colgan con siders himself to be a not a collec This is a taxpayers he said dur ing a Winchester Rotary Club meeting on But according to Ellen di rector of finance for the Virginia Associa tion of taxpayers will suffer if the measure makes it through next years assembly The service cuts that localities would have to incur would be she Colgan and Davenport were part of a forum at the of Winchester hosted by Shenandoah John Marsh Institute for Government and Public The focus was introduction during the last assembly session of a measure that would eliminate personal property Revenues from personal property taxes would be replaced with a higher sales Although it died in the pro posed legislation raised eyebrows across the both from citizens who feel burdened by the tax and local govern ments who say millions of dollars in local revenue would be And its likely to come up again when reelection cam begin this Colgan As far as counties Davenport said there was virtually no support for the elimination of the property tax and only one of the 95 counties in the state ex pressed interest in any And thats Prince a county Colgan she Local governments are most interested in getting the not how people pay Colgan The sales tax is paid by everybody nobody escapes the sales he Thats the reason I think its a good its a fair Davenport contends that pro posal of a gradual reduction in personal property combined with a gradual increase in sales tax from percent to 6 would result in a projected loss of million in fiscal Hanover she would not see an increase in revenues for 12 years under the proposed Over that the county could only collect enough sales tax and personal property tax combined to equal the amount of per sonal property taxes received in during the phaseout the See Tax Page A6 Judge Targets Circuit City Race Bias By The Associated Press RICHMOND A federal judge has issued a sweeping order to prevent race discrimination at Circuit City the home elec tronics and said he will oversee the companys employ ment practices for five The order issued on Thursday by District Judge James Spencer requires the retailer to adopt what plaintiffs in a dis crimination lawsuit said are prac tices typical of companies its On a jury found that Circuit City showed a pattern of discrimination in failing to pro mote blacks at its Richmond head About people work 800 of them See Circuit City Page A6 INDEX D 18 Dear 4 45 58 6 Tomorrow Mostly windy MISS YOUR PAPER Call 6673200 till 7 Anarchy Spreads Across Albania By JUDITH INGRAM Associated Press Writer Albania Albanian gunmen fired on and Italian military helicopters today while they evacuated hundreds of for eigners from the anarchy that is engulfing this Balkan defense minister and his family fled to along with the presidents One Italian helicopter was but there were no the Italian government The American helicopter was not but it returned By the evac effort was suspended for security At least 23 people were reported See Albania Page A2
