Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!americast.com!usa-post Newsgroups: usa-today.inter From: usa-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: usa-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: inter Mon, Feb 24 1992 Date: Mon, 24 Feb 92 06:25:44 EST Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: International News USA TODAY Update Feb. 24, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network ABORTION CASE TO BE REVIEWED: A 14-year-old girl's fight to have an abortion abroad will be heard by Ireland's Supreme Court Monday. The case has revived calls for a new constitutional referendum on abortion in the largely Roman Catholic country. The unidentified 14-year-old girl says she was raped by the father of a friend, after two years of sexual abuse. Ireland has the most restrictive abortion law in Europe. MIDEAST TALKS RESUME: Arabs and Israelis resume negotiations Monday in Washington against a backdrop of Middle East violence and political tensions that threaten the survival of the shaky peace process. Israel will meet in a fourth round of bilateral negotiations with Syria, Lebanon and a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation. The likely blowup: Whether to move the talks from Washington to the Mideast. IRAQ REPORTEDLY IN VIOLATION: The United Nations' chief weapons inspector ends a mission to Baghdad Monday, frustrated by Iraq's "rejection" of gulf war cease-fire terms. Rolf Ekeus took to Iraq a Security Council statement telling Saddam Hussein to cooperate or face "serious consequences." Not ruled out: Military action. Iraq says it has disclosed all weapons after losing the war against U.S.-led allies. PANEL POISED TO CONDEMN CASTRO: The U.N. Human Rights Commission is certain to condemn Cuba next week for human rights violations, according to a draft U.N. resolution. The report, obtained by USA TODAY, harshly criticizes the Fidel Castro regime for recent "mob action" against dissidents. Cuba has already made clear it will reject any attempt by the U.N. panel to monitor human rights in Cuba. KOREAN NUKES REPORTED: Communist North Korea may be only months away from developing nuclear weapon capabilities, The Washington Post says. In December, North and South Korea signed an accord banning nuclear bomb-making facilities. The Post said Washington officials fear that North Korea is stalling in order to make weapons-grade plutonium, which can be hidden, before bilateral inspections. HAITI DEAL PROVES ELUSIVE: Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide met with Haitian lawmakers and politicians in Washington over the weekend to try to find a way out of the political crisis in that Caribbean nation. However, Haiti's military rulers - who toppled Aristide's elected government last Sept. 30 - showed no signs of relenting in their opposition to Aristide's return to power from his Venezuelan exile. CROATIA PREPARING FOR U.N. TEAM: The leader of the main Serb enclave in Croatia has stepped up demands for a seat at talks on Yugoslavia's future once thousands of United Nations peace-keeping troops arrive in the country. Milan Babic, president of Krajina, has dropped his opposition to the deployment of a U.N. force and promised to cooperate with it. The U.N. has agreed to send 14,000 peacekeepers to Croatia. ROMANIANS VOTE: Romanians voted Sunday for mayors in most of the country's major cities in balloting that tests the opposition's strength ahead of this spring's national elections. The voting was for mayors in 1,611 municipalities where Feb. 9 voting produced no absolute winners. SOUTH AFRICA VOTE HELD IN MARCH: A crucial whites-only referendum on ending apartheid will be held March 17, the independent South African Press Association reported. President F.W. de Klerk said South Africa will be thrown into a "huge crisis" and returned to international isolation if he loses a referendum on his moves to end apartheid against the 30-million black majority by South Africa's 5 million whites. ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT MEETS: A new cabinet that now includes two Muslim fundamentalist defectors meets in Algiers Monday and the Islamic opposition called for renewed dialogue with the government. Cities across Algeria were wracked by street battles between fundamentalists and security forces earlier this month after the government canceled elections in which fundamentalists were favored. IRISH MILLIONNAIRE ARRESTED: Police in Orlando, Fla., said they arrested one of Ireland's richest men, Ben Dunne, 42, for cocaine trafficking after he threatened suicide at a hotel near Disney World last Thursday. He was freed on bond. Sheriff's deputies said they found 32.5 grams of cocaine in his suitcase. Dunne is a grocery store executive whose family wealth has been estimated at $960 million. DOW JONES OPENS ON DOWNSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Monday at 3280.19 after closing down 0.45 Friday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 227.46, down 1.14. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 412.85, down 0.01. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 629.75, down 2.48. International News Editor: Michele Coleman. (1-919-855-3491) Making copies of USA TODAY Update (Copyright, 1992) for further distribution violates federal law. 08:0002240000D0224 ISSU- R H Art;-Health........................... 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