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 Mon, Mar 30 1992 Date: Mon, 30 Mar 92 05:43:33 EST Message-ID: 03-30 0000 DECISIONLINE: International News USA TODAY Update March 30, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network LIBYAN SANCTIONS LOOM: The United Nations Security Council could approve sanctions against Libya Monday after Arab diplomatic efforts Sunday. That would punish Libya for not cooperating in the probe of the 1988 Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. The Arab League appealed to the U.N. Secretary-General to avert sanctions but its letter likely won't satisfy Western demands for the supsects' extradition. IRAQ DESTROYS MANY MISSILES: Iraq has destroyed a "substantial" number of long-range missiles under terms of the cease-fire it signed after losing the gulf war, a U.N. inspection team said Sunday. On Saturday, U.N. experts made a surprise visit to a site near Baghdad and extended their stay by a day to see more rockets Iraq says it destroyed on its own, U.N. team leader Derek Boothby said. TESTIMONY DISTURBING: A Miami jury this week begins deliberations in the drug-running trial of former Panamanian leader Gen. Manuel Noriega. His trial and that of reputed mob boss John Gotti, with prosecution built largely on testimony obtained through deals, have alarmed Congress. Rep. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., says he's "very disturbed" by prosecutors deal-making in the Noriega case. BUSH TO SPEAK ON SOVIET AID: President Bush promised Sunday to unveil a long-awaited new aid package for the former Soviet republics this week. The aid question likely will be unveiled at the White House as early as Tuesday. He has been under fire from European leaders, members of Congress and even former president Richard Nixon for response to urgent aid pleas from the republics. ISRAELI OFFICIAL TO RESIGN: Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy said Sunday he plans to resign, putting Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and his ruling Likud Party on notice three months before elections. Levy, an advocate of the Mideast peace talks, has long worried about a rift between the USA and Israel. A new round of talks is scheduled for Washington. Secretary of State James Baker wants one more talk there. ATTACK THREATENS PEACE ACCORD: A government attack on Khmer Rouge guerrillas in Northern Cambodia Sunday threatened a United Nations-sponsored peace accord designed to end more than a dozen years of war in that country. The Khmer Rouge called at once for a truce between it and the government put in place by Vietnam. FILES SHOW MORE JEWS KILLED: Soviet files being studied after being hidden for more than 40 years indicate an additional 250,000 Jews were slain by Nazis (as well as the 6 million though to have been slaughtered during World War II). The files also identify hundreds of previously unknown concentration camps, ghettos and killing sites in what was then the Soviet Union during the Second World War. HONECKER DENIED REFUGE: North Korea and Cuba have told Bonn they will not give refuge to former East German leader Erich Honecker, 79, still in Chile's Moscow embassy, said a German news magazine Sunday. Honecker seeks to be allowed to go to another country to avoid extradition to Germany, where he is wanted on manslaughter charges for giving border guards shoot-to-kill orders on those fleeing to the West. BOAT FIGHT: A flotilla of Canadian civilian fishing trawlers set sail Sunday to confront foreign vessels accused of overfishing on the Grand Banks, which lie just beyond Canada's 200-mile fishing zone in the Atlantic. Canadians say Spanish and Portuguese vessels are mostly to blame. ANOTHER DEFEAT IN FRANCE: France's ruling Socialist Party Sunday suffered its second stinging loss to conservatives in two weeks in local elections. French newspapers said the defeat increased pressure on President Francois Mitterrand to fire Prime Minister Edith Cresson. MARCOS' BODY TO COME HOME: Imelda Marcos said Sunday the body of her husband, former president Ferdinand Marcos, will be brought to his home province from Hawaii late next week for burial. Marcos' body has been kept in a temporary crypt in Hawaii, where he died in September, 1989. He had been driven into exile by the February 1986 revolt that led to Corazon Aquino's installation as president. DOW JONES OPENS ON DOWNSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Monday at 3231.44, after closing down 36.23 Friday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 223.31, down 2.18. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 394.36, down 4.50. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 604.67, down 10.73. International News Editor: Beth Mann. (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