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 Tue, Mar 10 1992 Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 05:44:45 EST Message-ID: 03-10 0000 DECISIONLINE: International News USA TODAY Update March 10, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network USA EYES NORTH KOREAN FREIGHTER: The United States is still watching the North Korean freighter suspected of carrying Scud missiles to Iran or Syria, White House officials said Monday. U.S. and Israeli officials have expressed deep concern about the possible delivery of the medium-range missiles and its potential destabilizing effect on the volatile Middle East. DEMONSTRATION IN BELGRADE: About 50,000 demonstrators in Belgrade on Monday accused Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic of starving his republic to wage war in Croatia and demanded he resign. It was the boldest challenge to Milosevic in a year. Also: The Serb-led Yugoslav army fought Croatian rebels forces along the Adriatic coast and in Croatia. IRAQ NOT BUDGING: Even as a top Iraqi envoy sought Tuesday to avert new military action and ease sanctions, the United Nations said Saddam Hussein's regime ignores U.N. resolutions to scrap weapons of mass destruction. Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz leads a team of 15 officials, including the head of Iraq's atomic energy agency, in preparation for Security Council meetings Wednesday and Thursday. ARMENIANS SURROUND BASE: In Armenia, 60 armed Armenian fighters surrounded a former Soviet anti-aircraft missile base near the Turkish border Monday, demanding surrender of heavy weapons to use against Azeris in Karabakh. Two soldiers were reported killed. CLASHES FLARE IN REPUBLICS: Tension remained high in Moldova as peace talks were to open after a week of clashes between ethnic Russians and majority Romanian-speakers in which 10 people died. Also, three police officers died and several others were hurt in an explosion in Georgia. Officials blamed supporters of ousted President Zviad Gamsakhurdia. TURKEY STRIKES KURDISH BASES: Turkey sent warplanes to strike guerrilla bases of the Turkish Kurds in northern Iraq for the second time this month, Turkish officials said Monday. The planes bombarded two camps of the Kurdish Labor Party five miles from the Turkish border. Officials said the hour-long air strike was in retaliation for a Kurdish Labor Party attack on Turkish reconnaissance planes on Saturday. MANDELA SPEAKS OUT: Nelson Mandela warned of a renewed armed struggle by the African National Congress if South Africa's whites vote to uphold apartheid in next week's referendum. White leaders, meanwhile, stepped up their campaign before the March 17 vote, which will ask whites whether they support President F.W. de Klerk's moves to dismantle apartheid and share political power with the black majority. RULING COLOMBIAN PARTY ON TOP: Colombia's ruling Liberal Party kept its majority but suffered some stinging defeats in municipal elections. The Liberals won Sunday's mayoral elections in 17 provincial capitals, opposition Conservatives won in six. The elections were hit by scattered guerrilla violence. LEOPARD ON THE LOOSE IN INDIA: A wild leopard attacked a man in the southern city of Cuttack Monday, 775 miles southeast of New Delhi, but was captured after a woman locked the beast in a bathroom, United News of India reported. Forest officials using tranquilizer darts later captured the animal. DOW JONES OPENS ON DOWNSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Tuesday at 3215.12, after closing down 6.48 Monday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 224.15, up 0.36. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 407.21, down 0.74. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 615.82, down 0.13. DOLLAR OPENS MOSTLY DOWN: The dollar opens mixed on foreign markets Tuesday. It opens at 0.5807 British pounds, down from 0.5822; 5.6665 French francs, down from 5.6721; 131.90 Japanese yen, up from 131.75; and 1.6635 German marks, down from 1.6676. (As of 3 p.m. Monday. Source: First American Bank of New York.) International News Editor: Michele Coleman. (1-919-855-3491) Making copies of USA TODAY Update (Copyright, 1992) for further distribution violates federal law. This article is copyright 1992 Gannett News Service. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM