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 Thu, Mar 26 1992 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 92 05:44:31 EST Message-ID: 03-26 0000 DECISIONLINE: International News USA TODAY Update March 26, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network GORBACHEV CONFINED TO MOSCOW: Russian prosecutors investigating the financial affairs of the once-ruling Soviet Communist Party said they want to talk with former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev, the Itar-Tass news agency reported Wednesday. He has been ordered not to leave Moscow. KURDISH ATTACKS CONDEMNED: The State Department condemned a wave of recent attacks by Kurdish guerrillas in Turkey as terrorism, and praised the Turkish response as restrained. Eight people, including two children, were killed and five wounded in Turkey Wednesday in violence which has claimed more than 70 lives since clashes with Kurds erupted in the southeast over the weekend. NUCLEAR SUPERVISION CONTINUES: United Nations nuclear inspectors Wednesday ordered Iraq to destroy nuclear equipment at a facility Baghdad claims is largely for civilian use. Also Wednesday, another U.N. team said they supervised destruction of ballistic missile equipment used to build and repair Scud missiles. The USA and allies had warned of possible renewed military action if Iraq continued to stall on destruction. LIBYA HANGS ON TO SUSPECTS: Libya, saying its U.N. ambassador made a mistake, did not turn over - as expected - two supsects in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. Western diplomats are confident of passing as early as Friday a resolution prohibiting all air traffic in and out of the country and imposing an embargo on weapons sales to Libya. Also, the resolution calls for reducing diplomatic ties with Tripoli. COMMONWEALTH FUNDS WON'T RISE: Funding for next year likely will continue at current levels, without any new money for the former Soviet Union. A bipartisan Senate group is urging aid for the Commonwealth of Independent States but likely won't muster enough interest to push a bill through the House by next Tuesday. That's when stopgap legislation at 1991's level of $14.3 billion runs out. DEATHS IN YUGOSLAVIA: Seven people were killed on the Croatian-Bosnia-Hercegovina border Wednesday as rival Serbs and Croats ignored a U.N. appeal for an end to the worst clashes in Yugoslavia this year, reports said. `TORTURE' IN INDIA: The London-based human rights group Amnesty International Wednesday said torture and death in police custody are "pervasive and a daily routine" in every region of India. An Amnesty report listed what it said were 415 documented cases, since 1985, of deaths of people who were tortured while in custody. JOURNALISTS' BODIES SENT TO USA: Four bodies that may be those of foreign journalists believed executed by Khmer Rouge guerrillas in Cambodia 22 years ago were flown to Honolulu Wednesday for analysis. One of those missing is U.S. television correspondent Welles Hangen of NBC News. REMAINS TO BE IDENTIFIED: Remains that may belong to another U.S. journalist and an amateur photographer who disappeared in Guatemala seven years ago were sent to the USA for identification. Nicholas Blake, 27, of Philadelphia, and Griffen Davis, 38, a photographer from Scranton, Pa., disappeared in 1985 while trying to contact leftist guerrillas in a remote mountain region of western Guatemala. RUSHDIE IMPLORES THE WEST: Author Salman Rushdie urged the West Wednesday to pressure Iran into lifting the $1 million bounty that has forced him into three years of heavily guarded isolation. But the Bush administration kept its distance. With the release of U.S. hostages in Lebanon, Rushdie thinks the USA should make him a cause. The administration thinks that could be "misinterpreted" by Rushdie enemies. FRENCH TO RESHUFFLE: French Prime Minister Edith Cresson said Wednesday her Cabinet would be reshuffled after the rout of her Socialist Party at the hands of conservatives in last Sunday's regional elections. She gave no details. RETIRED SPIES MAKE A LIVING: A new kind of KGB agent was introduced Wednesday - the kind that does lunch and takes meetings. A group of retired spies said it has found a Hollywood promoter to help sell secrets to the West. The Foreign Intelligence Veterans Association said its goal is to help old spies in poverty-stricken, post-communist Russia by helping develop movies and books about the KGB's exploits for profit. DOW JONES OPENS ON DOWNSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Thursday at 3259.39, after closing down 1.57 Wednesday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 225.40, down 0.49. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 400.29, up 0.72. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 619.48, up 0.80. DOLLAR OPENS DOWN: The dollar opens down on foreign markets Thursday. It opens at 0.5780 British pounds, down from 0.5811; 5.6060 French francs, down from 5.6395; 133.37 Japanese yen, down from 133.43; and 1.6528 German marks, down from 1.6625. (As of 3 p.m. Wednesday. 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. 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