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 Fri, Mar 13 1992 Date: Fri, 13 Mar 92 05:47:47 EST Message-ID: 03-13 0000 DECISIONLINE: International News USA TODAY Update March 13-15, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network ISRAEL MISSILE CHARGES PROBED: The Bush administration, brushing aside Israeli denials, is investigating intelligence reports that Israel transferred secret Patriot anti-missile technology to China. The administration stressed Thursday the reports were unproved, but a sale or sharing of Patriot missiles or technology would violate Israel's agreement to keep them from third countries. IRAQI GETS HARD LINE FROM U.N.: Iraq's top envoy left a high-stakes U.N. Security Council meeting Thursday with the same tough message he has heard for days: Comply with U.N. demands or face possible military action. Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz told the Security Council that "we are not bargaining over our sovereignty. We are not bargaining over our rights to live as a free, independent people." IRAQ TO SELL OIL FOR FOOD: Iraq agreed Thursday to resume talks with the United Nations on the sale of limited quantities of its oil in order to buy food and medicines. Iraq said the terms set by the Security Council infringed upon its sovereignty. The USA and Britain have suggested the adoption of a new resolution to replace one that expires next week and permits Iraq to ship $1.6 billion worth of oil. DRUG GANGS SUSPECTED IN MURDER: Dominican and Colombian drug gangs are top suspects in the gunshot slaying of prominent Spanish-language publications editor Manuel de Dios Unanue, New York police said Thursday. Cited: Stories he was running in Crimen, a magazine whose premier edition this week focused on Colombian cocaine trafficker Griselda Blanco de Trujillo, and next week exposes Dominican drug dealers. FIGHTING IN NAGORNO: Armenian gunmen were reported to have overrun Azeri positions, lobbed rockets at their foes and recaptured a village during skirmishes over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh Thursday. At least 25 people died. `TWO-CLASS' PROVINCES OPPOSED: Negotiations aimed at ending Canada's constitutional logjam got off to a bumpy start Thursday as Western provinces opposed granting French-speaking Quebec special veto powers. Alberta premier Don Getty said he could not accept a deal that created two classes of provinces. CRASH INVESTIGATED IN SWEDEN: Swedish officials Thursday investigated why three different brake systems failed on a runaway trolley that smashed into commuters in the port city of Gothenburg. The crash killed 13 people and injured 20 others. BUSH, HUSSEIN BURY HATCHET: President Bush and Jordan's King Hussein met at the White House Thursday, renewing a friendship strained by the king's support of Iraq during the gulf war. "We're looking to the future," Bush said. MONKEYING AROUND WITH MENU: More than 20 wild-game restaurants in Changsha in Hunan province in central China are being fined for putting monkeys, scaly anteaters, leopards and other protected rare animals on the menu, the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday. DOW JONES OPENS UNCHANGED: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Friday at 3208.63, after closing unchanged Thursday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 223.30, down 0.25. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 403.59, down 2.26. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 615.92, down 1.22. DOLLAR OPENS MOSTLY UP: The dollar opens mixed on foreign markets Friday. It opens at 0.5833 British pounds, up from 0.5809; 5.6395 French francs, down from 5.6740; 134.07 Japanese yen, up from 133.78; and 1.6695 German marks, up from 1.6662. (As of 3 p.m. Thursday. 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