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iBMlBii The Hometown Newspaper of Clinton, Essex, Franklin Counties Vol. 103 - No. 42 > Copyritfit 1995, Prees-Republican Plottsburgh, NY 12901, Monday, October 2, 1995 Suggested Price: 50 c 24 Pages Israel will move out in weeks •y HILARY APPELMAN Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) - After-28 years of occupation, Israel will start withdrawing troops and shutting down the offices of its military government in the West Bank this month, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said Sunday. The impending transfer of power set off protests among Jewish settlers, who accused the Israeli government of abandon- ing them. Peres, speaking to The Associated Press by telephone from New York, said the troop withdrawal from the West Bank would probably begin \in several- weeks.\ He said Israel also would shut down the 12 offices of its military government in the West Bank. Shlomo Dror, a spokesman for the military government, said the first four offices would be closed next week, T and the others within six months. Peres repeated Israel's inten- tion to have its troops out of six West Bank towns by the end of the year. This was part of a compromise worked out between Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chief Yasser Arafat just before - they signed an accord Thursday in Washington on expanding Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank. Israel has until March 30 to redeploy troops in the seventh ci- ty, Hebron, where 450 Jewish settlers live among 120,000 Palestinians. The transfer of power in cities and villages will give the Palestinians control over almost a third of the West Bank, which Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 Mideast War. The Israel-PLO agreement faces stiff opposition from Jewish settlers in the West Bank. FALL HARVEST: Main Street in Lake Placid is alive with the colors\ of autumn. Tourists flocked to the region over .the we'ek^n,cl /i to, enjoy the celebration of reds, oranges and yellows the leaves are providing. ' \ ''• others found guilty By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press Writer Dole may settle for smaller GOP tax cut ByJIMABRAMS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, expressing surprise at the opposition of some Republican conservatives, said Sunday he might have to give ground on the GOP plan to cut taxes by $245 billion. \There's been some indications even from conservative Republicans ... that maybe we shouldn't try to go all the way to $245 billion,\ Dole, R-Kan., said on CBS' \Face the Nation.\ \Will it be $245 billion? I'm not certain at this point.\ But House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., speaking on ABC's \This Week With David Brinkley,\ noted that Dole and other Senate leaders had voted for the $245 billion cut and said\ \I think the Senate frankly is honor bound to deliver on it.\ Gingrich said it would be \vir- tually impossible\ to win House approval of a smaller cut, The tax reduction plan, a cor- nerstone of House Republicans' \Contract With America,\ has been hammered by Democrats who say Republicans are pro- posing cuts that mainly benefit the well-off at the same time they are slashing social programs and promoting steep cuts in the growth of Medicare and Medic- aid. • That argument got some sup- port last week when three Republican' members on the Senate Finance Committee, Or- rin Hatch of Utah, Alan Simpson of Wyoming and Alfonse D'Amato of New York, all expressed skep- ticism about the wisdom of cut- ting taxes while Congress was struggling to balance the budget. Hatch predicted that the tax cut, would never happen, and D'Amato said he would • prefer Continued Page 8 NEW YORK (AP) - A federal jury on Sunday convicted 10 mili- tant Muslims, including Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, of con- spiring to kill scores of Ameri- cans with bombs and frighten the United States into changing its Middle East policies. The Egyp- tian b 1 i n d cleric was convicted of directing the conspiracy to turn Manhattan into Ar- mageddon by blowing up the United Nations and 5h«lkOm« bridges and Abd.KRohmon tunnels linking New York and New Jersey. The jury also convicted one of the defendants, El Sayyid Nosair, in the 1990 killing of extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane^ ,an assassination once described as an isolated attack by a crazed* gunman but later as the opening blow of a \war of urban ter- rorism.\ The jurors, who had deliber- ated for a week, looked tired as their verdict was read and the word \guilty-v rang out 48 times in the federal courtroom in Manhattan. Most of the defendants looked on sternly. But one smirked and another repeatedly yelled in Ara- bic, \Allahu Akbar!\ or \God is Continued Pag* 5 Forbes 400: Gates richest American; Oprah is 399th ByERICR-QUINONES AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Soon it may be Oprah with nine O's. ~In-Eorhea_magazine's 1995 list of the 400 richest Americans, Oprah Winfrey stands at No. 399. Although she has a consid- erable way to go, she's en route to becoming America's first black billionaire, the magazine said in its Oct. 16 issue, released Sun- day. Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates, whose accomplishments this year included finally in- troducing Windows 95 and tur- ning the Stones into software pitchmen, held the top spot for the second consecutive year. Forbes put Gates' net worth at about $14.8 billion. Investor Warren iBuffett again -assumed. the.Na~2.alat v .this-yeaK M at roughly $11.8 billion. Winfrey, the only entertainer on the annual list, is worth about $340 million, which Forbes said put her just ahead of New York money manager Leon Levy. The 41-year-old Chicagoari owns her top-rated talk show and produc- tion company, Harpo, and holds a big stake in the show's distributor, King World Produc- Centinuad P«g« 8 WEATHER Todqy, partly sunny with highs 70 to 75; South winds 5 to 15 mph. To- night,, partly cloudy with a low near 50. INDEX Bfldgei_ 21 HortJspope....... 10 lfipfrs)nes\$rNews r...-..m»nn7- Ann Landers....... ..».»;,...10Lt — ^mifffc 19-24 PeatuJ*s......^....., ->'•»»$ Soiisiv.. 10 Public. Record* .• 11-12 Ws&R-tf.* i. -'4 Sport*.*.; ... M-l* EnterilHriient * Weather..,.. .....;.:,;# H,Y.'Utt«y: 674. ?lek 4's 651 7. ' ' A „ „ ,. fm$&\A3M, 9,11,14,30,34,45,54,55,56,59,65,67,70,72,73,74. i- • ^-jr-iV-'-- *• v-S*^ ^J Photo/Richara 1 C. ten Wolde An assortment of bicyclists, including Press-Republican Staff Writer Rich ten Wolde, took part lit an international tour last week that took them through New York, Vermont and Canada. Writer's cramp: Bike tour makes reporter shape up By RICHARD C. TEN WOLDE Stoff Writer NORTH OF PLATT- SBTLfRGH, SOUTH OF MON- TREAL —. I inched through yet another com field, on another cracked country road. Grinding away at the pedals, panting towards the next rest stop, and all I could find to distract my mind were circular questions. YOiy_ainjLhete? Not a philosophically driven query of mjftroje in the uni- verse, but a simpler puzzle. Did I actually yoluMeer last week to take a I20pl^bike^6ur? 0p^^ Or .Wto4>1i^fiotfeed' by one of my editors/ Who then planted the idea in my subconscious, waiting days, perhaps weeks, to activate me by chanting the trigger words, something like \monkey boy,\ under the usual din of newsroom chatter? Whether or not I did volun- teer is a matter being in- vestigated by the Labor Department. . . well, maybe not, but I did tell someone at the Jerry Springer Show, who assured me, they \would see what they could do.\ If Mid-volunteer, certainly I would have been more prepared to ride through two states and pedal well into Canada. But 40 miles into the trek, as southerly winds hissed through drottght-dried stalks, no an- swers were clear. The tour was put together by the Pittsburgh and Clinton County Chamber of Commerce, the Vermont chamber and the Quebec equivalent. We started at the Fish-Hatchery on Grand Isle heading north 65 miles to Saint Jean sur Richelieu. By the time I arrived at the Fish Hatchery, I knew I was in trouble. I was one of maybe three who was going to try to make the ride on a mountain bike. Yes, as promised by Carolyn Harding of the Plattsburgh- area chamber, there was a wide variety of experience levels amongst the riders. People in their 50s mixed with young sprocket jockeys. A couple of guys looked like high schoolers with enough energy to ride straight on through to Quebec City. The young bucks had a shine in their eyes, like they couldn't wait to buzz by me at some ludicrous speed which would suck the wind from my lungs and make the ensuing miles a discouraging hell. I learned, but not until later, that it was to my benefit not to let- t-heae two get behind me; it was morally .exhausting each time they passed. But most of the spokes and chains fiends were warm, social people having a good time. As I stood in the crisp autumn air outside the hatch- ery, I realized I was out of my Continued Page 8 •Ai&«.
