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03-25 0000
DECISIONLINE: International News
USA TODAY Update
March 25, 1992
Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network
    
MRS. NORIEGA CHARGED WITH THEFT:
   Manuel Noriega's wife Felicidad was arrested Friday for  
shoplifting $305 in buttons at Burdine's Department Store of 
Miami. "It was nothing," Noriega said Tuesday at her husband's 
drug trafficking trial. "It's just rumors." Just four years ago, 
she and her husband charged up to nearly $280,000 on his Visa at 
places like Christian Dior and Valentino in Paris.
    
BOMBERS TO BE TURNED OVER:
   Two Libyans wanted in the bombing of a 1988 Pan Am flight over 
Lockerbie, Scotland, are expected to be released to Arab diplomats 
Wednesday, said U.N. Security Council President Diego Arria. 
Despite the apparent diplomatic movement, U.S. officials remained 
skeptical Tuesday and turned up the heat against Libya to hand 
over the men.
    
RUSSIAN PLANT HAS A LEAK:
   A nuclear power reactor near St. Petersburg leaked radioactive 
gas Tuesday, but Russian atomic energy officials said it was minor 
and no cause for alarm. Radioactive gases released from the third 
reactor at the Leningradskaya nuclear power station in Sosnovy Bor 
did "not exceed the requirements of sanitary rules and regulations 
for facilities of this type," Russian officials said..
    
CONSERVATIVES LOSE IN S. KOREA:
   President Roh Tae-woo's conservative governing party conceded 
defeat Wednesday in South Korea's general elections, in which it 
failed to recapture a parliamentary majority. With more than 90% 
of the votes counted for National Assembly elections, the 
Democratic Liberals lead in 113 of 237 districts, six seats short 
of a majority, TV reports said.
    
PEACE TALKS PLANNED:
   A European security conference launched a plan Tuesday to hold 
peace talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute in the Belarus capital 
of Minsk after winning the agreement of Armenia and Azerbaijan. 
Also, Azerbaijan moved toward putting itself on a war footing to 
retake the enclave.
    
COSMONAUT RETURNS HOME:
   Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who has spent the past 10 months in 
space, returns home Wednesday. Krikalev is scheduled to arrive at 
noon Moscow time (4 a.m. EST) aboard a Soyuz landing capsule, due 
to land near the southern Kazakhstan town of Arkalyk. Germany's 
Klaus-Dietrich Flade also returns to Earth although his journey 
aboard the space station Mir lasted only eight days.
    
FIGHTING SPREADS IN CROATIA:
   Eleven people were killed and dozens wounded in artillery duels 
between Serbs and Croats which spread across Croatia. Officials 
said Tuesday that fighting spread into the neighbouring republic 
of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
    
HONECKER WANTS TO GO TO KOREA:
   Chile's special envoy said Tuesday that former East German 
Communist leader Erich Honecker, now holed up in Chile's Moscow 
embassy, wants to go to North Korea. Germany wants to put him on 
trial for manslaughter.
    
KURDS MOVE THEIR ATTACK ABROAD:
   Kurdish separatists held violent protests in Germany, Britain 
and the Netherlands on Tuesday, and four people were killed and 28 
wounded in attacks inside Turkey. It was the fourth straight day 
of deadly confrontation between the Kurdish guerrillas and 
security forces in southeastern Turkey. More than 50 people have 
died.
    
GUESTS FLEE JORDAN HOTEL BLAZE:
   At least one person died when a fire engulfed part of Amman's 
Intercontinental hotel, forcing hundreds of people to flee; 22 
were injured. The fire broke out on Tuesday evening in the hotel's 
basement banqueting hall, which had been crowded for a feast 
marking the end of daytime fasting during the holy month of 
Ramadan.
    
DOW JONES OPENS ON DOWNSWING:
   The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Wednesday at 
3260.96, after closing down 11.18 Tuesday. The New York Stock 
Exchange composite opens at 225.89, down 0.50. The American Stock 
Exchange market value opens at 399.57, down 1.79. The NASDAQ OTC 
composite opens at 618.68, down 3.15.
    
DOLLAR OPENS DOWN:
   The dollar opens down on foreign markets Wednesday. It opens at 
0.5811 British pounds, down from 0.5826; 5.6395 French francs, 
down from 5.6561; 133.43 Japanese yen, down from 133.73; and 
1.6625 German marks, down from 1.6688. (As of 3 p.m. Tuesday. 
Source: First American Bank of New York.)
    
International News Editor: Michele Coleman. (1-919-855-3491) 
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