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 17 1992 Date: Tue, 17 Mar 92 05:44:53 EST Message-ID: 03-17 0000 DECISIONLINE: International News USA TODAY Update March 17, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network SOUTH AFRICANS VOTE ON REFORM: South Africa's whites decide Tuesday whether to embrace multi-racial democracy or revert to apartheid. If the referendum proposed by President F.W. de Klerk fails, he's promised to step aside and call new elections. A "no" vote turning back reforms is expected to bring further violence, already soaring in black townships. NAGORNO STRIFE CONTINUES: Armenia called Monday for Commonwealth peacekeeping forces to be deployed in Nagorno-Karabakh as fresh fighting raged across the disputed territory despite a cease-fire agreement. President Levon Ter-Petrosyan planned to put the proposal to a summit meeting in Kiev on Friday. More than 1,500 people have been killed in Nagorno-Karabakh. U.N. PEACEKEEPERS ON THE SCENE: United Nations peacekeeping advance teams Monday started setting up base in Croatian trouble spots, but renewed fighting in the area highlighted the problems U.N. troops face in bringing peace to Yugoslavia. QUAKE CLEANUP IN TURKEY: Rescue teams said there was little hope of finding more survivors of an earthquake that hit eastern Turkey; 376 bodies have been recovered. Meanwhile, hundreds of frightened men left without jobs and homes by the quake, besieged government offices Monday, demanding help for their families. ANTI-YELTSIN RALLY PLANNED: Diehard communists and Boris Yeltsin opponents stage their biggest show of strength Tuesday with a rally and plans to reconvene the former Soviet legislature. The Russian president has branded "illegal and unconstitutional" a meeting by the defunct Congress of People's Deputies of the former Soviet Union, to be held Tuesday in a secret location near the capital. LABOR TO TAX RICH FOR POOR: Britain's Labor Party pledged Monday to tax the rich to help the poor. The announcement came in a bid to end 13 years of Conservative rule. Campaigning for April 9 elections begins Tuesday. COW HAS 49TH BIRTHDAY: Bertha, the world's oldest and most prolific cow, chewed a bucketful of apples Monday as humans toasted her 48th birthday in Kenmare, Ireland, with songs, a few drinks and a priest's blessing. The festivities were relayed to the nation via a popular radio talk show. Bertha is listed in the Guinness Book of Records both for her age and her 39 calves. DOW JONES OPENS ON UPSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Tuesday at 3236.36, after closing up 0.45 Monday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 224.44, up 0.14. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 402.88, down 1.18. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 617.94, down 0.68. DOLLAR OPENS MIXED OVERSEAS: The dollar opens mostly down on Tuesday. It opens at 0.5807 British pounds, down from 0.5855; 5.6610 French francs, down from 5.6685; 1.6617 German marks, down from 1.6670; and 133.84 Japanese yen, up from 133.57. (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