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                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, June 3, 1993                   TAG: 9306030014
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PEOPLE COLUMN

New York Gov. Mario Cuomo is an avid fan of basketball's roughhousing New York Knicks. But is he adopting their style of play?

Cuomo accompanied his 22-year-old son, Christopher, to a hospital on Memorial Day when Christopher needed stitches to close a gash over his eye.

Cuomo said he took a knock of his own, chipping a tooth during the two-on-two game between Cuomo, his son, his future son-in-law and a fourth person the governor wouldn't identify. Cuomo also wouldn't say who injured Christopher.

"We don't ascribe liability," Cuomo told radio station WAMC. "There is a code of honor - as long as it's done in good sport, it wasn't a cheap shot. This is one of the prices you pay for playing ball."

Now playing the Palace, it's a reunion in the tradition of Sonny and Cher. Except this one has royal watchers semi-seriously speculating about the potential for Happily Ever After: Part II. The Duchess of York, forever Fergie, arrived Tuesday at the royal family's Balmoral estate in Scotland, for a vacation with her estranged hubby, Prince Andrew. The little princesses, Eugenie, 3, and Beatrice, 4, were in tow. The couple split in March 1992 after nearly six years of marriage. Something about some photos of a topless Fergie cavorting with her American "financial adviser," you may recall. But Fergie and Andrew frequently do the family-togetherness thing, as opposed to those other estrangers in the night, Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Andrew, a commander in the royal navy, will join the brood later in the week.

A judge in Nashville, Tenn., ordered a psychiatric examination for a man accused of stalking Tanya Tucker.

Winston Wier, 41, of Hamilton, Texas, has been held on $5,000 bail since his arrest May 14.

Judge Bill Faimon ordered the evaluation on Tuesday and set trial for June 15.

Wier is accused of repeatedly calling Tucker, visiting a Nashville studio where the country singer was recording, and leaving a threatening note for her.

"I think the principal thing people have against lawyers is that they pretend they know all the answers, and yet when you look into their world you see it's no better than anybody else's. Lawyers do, in the public perception, have these clay feet, because they are so bad at practicing what they preach." - lawyer-novelist Scott Turow ("Burden of Proof"), in People magazine.



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