Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!americast.com!usa-post Newsgroups: usa-today.news From: usa-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: usa-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: news Wed, Feb 19 1992 Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 06:39:08 EST Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update Feb. 19, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network BUCHANAN'S SHOWING IMPRESSIVE: In the New Hampshire presidential primary Tuesday, Pat Buchanan shocked President Bush in the GOP race, garnering 41% to Bush's 57%. Ex-Massachsuetts senator Paul Tsongas beat Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton 33% to 27% in the Democratic race. Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey got 12%; Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin 11%; and former California governor Jerry Brown 9%. New York Gov. Mario Cuomo got 3% in a write-in. IMPLANT GEL LEAKS MORE COMMON: Silicone gel frombreast implants leak more often than thought previously, a federalpanel was told Tuesday. Some reports suggest that the leaks can trigger immune disorders. The Food and Drug Administration panel meets through Thursday to study the evidence that promptedCommissioner David Kessler's call for a moratorium on implants. He wants the panel to give guidance to women. AIR TRAFFIC DELAYS DECREASE: Some of the USA's most clogged airports had significantly fewer air traffic delays last year, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. "We're working on it," says Jack Ryan of the Air Transport Association. Delays were down 24% in 1991, despite more than doubling in Los Angeles, Miami and Nashville. Minneapolis-St. Paul boasted the greatest improvement. Delays there fell 75%. LIBYAN EXTRADITION REFUSED: A Libyan judge Tuesday refused extradition demands by the USA and Britain for two Libyans accused of bombing a Pan Am jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland. The explosion killed 270. Judge Ahmed Tahir Zawi, heading the Libyan investigation, said Libyan law forbade making the investigation public. The Bush administration dismissed the Libyan proceedings as a travesty of justice. JOINT DEFENSE SYSTEM AGREED TO: The USA and Russia Tuesday agreed to set up a joint defense system for early warning of incoming enemy missiles. The system would be another step toward military cooperation between the former enemies. Secretary of State James Baker, after a day of meetings in Moscow, said he hoped the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would join the proposed system. OPERATION RESCUE TARGETS CITY: Buffalo, N.Y., is bracing for a replay of the abortion protests that brought Wichita, Kan., to a halt last summer. The arrival of Operation Rescue, which is coming at the mayor's invitation, is dividing the city. A federal judge has slapped down an injunction to keep protesters at bay. And the radical abortion foes don't arrive in New York state's second largest city until April. TAX BILL DRAWS GOP ATTACK: The White House Tuesday orchestrated a counterattack on a Democratic tax bill Republicans said would save less than a dollar a day for two years for middle-income taxpayers while threatening tax hikes for the not-so-rich. White House budget director Richard Darman told a Senate panel the plan would force cuts in Medicare, farm subsidies and student loans. ARCTIC DRILLING NO LONGER ISSUE: An amendment to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling was withdrawn from a Senate energy bill Tuesday. Shortly before the Senate was to debate the matter, Sen. Frank Murkowski, R-Alaska, backed off introducing the amendment. "Politics has overtaken policy," he later said. Opponents had threatened to defeat the entire energy bill if the measure was included. FORMER BUSH AIDE TO TESTIFY: President Bush's chief of staff during his vice presidency will take the stand for Manuel Noriega's defense, a lawyer for the ousted Panamanian leader said Tuesday. But lawyer John May was coy on whether retired admiral Daniel Murphy, due to testify Wednesday, would be asked about Bush's relationship with Noriega. "We'll have to see," May said. "But his testimony will be very short." DAHMER'S PARENTS WORRY: Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's parents say they worry about their son going to prison. "He panics," Lionel Dahmer says. "There is no doubt what people will want to do to him there. "The greatest loss to Jeff is his freedom," according to Dahmer's stepmother, Shari Dahmer. "So to be alive and incarcerated is a living death for Jeff." SOUTH TO HAVE BEST WEATHER: The nation's nicest weather Wednesday will be in the South. Texas to the Gulf coast will enjoy delightful dry weather. The Southwest will be sunny with a slight warming trend. Sunny skies and mild conditions will return to the mid-Atlantic and southern New England Wednesday. Expected temperatures: 50s and 60s. Rain and snow showers will dampen extreme northern New England. DOW JONES OPENS ON DOWNSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Wednesday at 3224.73, after closing down 21.24 Tuesday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 225.65, down 2.51. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 409.20, down 5.07. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 626.41, down 10.02. News Editor: Beth Mann. (1-919-855-3491) Making copies of USA TODAY Update (Copyright, 1992) for further distribution purposes violates federal law. 08:0002190000D0219 ADVE- R O Turner-plans-cartoon-network.......... A D0219 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