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 Fri, Feb 21 1992 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 92 06:00:50 EST Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update Feb. 21-23, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network BUSH STILL WOULD BE ELECTED: Even with President Bush's approval rating at a new low, he still would win re-election, shows a USA TODAY:CNN:Gallup Poll. The poll, taken after the New Hampshire primary, shows Bush's rating at 39%, down from 47% early this month. Only 42% say Bush deserves re-election, a drop from 51% three weeks ago. But most prefer him to Democrats Bill Clinton or Paul Tsongas. Margin of error: 4%. LIMITED IMPLANT USE RECOMMENDED: In a unanimous decision, a Food and Drug Administration panel said Thursday that silicone gel breast implants should return to use only on an experimental basis. The devices would be available for women after cancer surgery or injury, but access would be limited for women seeking to make cosmetic changes. The panel, reiterating an earlier view, noted the lack of data on implants. LAKE CALUMET NEW AIRPORT SITE: After two years of debate, the site for a third Chicago-area airport was chosen Thursday. The winner: The Lake Calumet site, on Chicago's far south side along the Indiana-Illinois line. The agreement between Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar virtually assures a three-state selection committee will vote for the site as early as next week. CIA TO OPEN SOME FILES: CIA Director Robert Gates Friday announces the agency's intent to release some secret files, including ones dealing with the assassination of President Kennedy. Gates created a task force to examine agency openness after he took office in November. The files he's expected to target also include the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and the 1954 Guatemala coup. MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY GENE FOUND: The gene that causes the most common form of adult muscular dystrophy has been located, reports Friday's Cell. Only two weeks ago scientists reported finding the genetic defect but not the gene itself. The discovery may lead to drug treatments and gene therapy. Information was shared among seven groups of researchers, four of which will publish their findings in the March 6 Science. `RESTRAINT' IN LEBANON URGED: The State Department Thursday dispatched ambassadors in Syria, Israel and Lebanon to urge "maximum restraint ... to bring the violence to an end." Two Israeli soldiers and four Hezbollah fighters were killed when Israeli armor and troops stormed through United Nations barricades and into southern Lebanon. Thirty-three were wounded, including four Fijian U.N. peacekeepers. BUCHANAN ATTACKS THE NEA: Republican Pat Buchanan launched a new attack on President Bush Thursday. Previewing a Southern campaign, Buchanan called the National Endowment for the Arts an "upholstered playpen of the arts and crafts auxiliary of the Eastern liberal establishment" subsidizing "filthy and blasphemous art." The Bush administration, Buchanan said, has increased its budget each year. TEACHERS MAY HAVE SOLD GUNS: Federal agents and police are investigating whether teachers manufactured machine guns in the shop of a suburban Detroit high school. As many as three teachers may be involved in the scheme in Taylor, Mich., which brought in $500 each for weapons, police say. No one had been arrested as of Thursday, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms wouldn't say if any weapons were seized. DEMOCRATS TO TAX THE WEALTHY: Democrats in Congress Thursday agreed to pay for tax cuts by hiking taxes on the wealthy. Senate Democrats abandoned efforts to use military cuts to pay for middle-class tax breaks. The Senate likely will go after wealthier taxpayers than the House, those with incomes above $150,000 rather than $85,000. The Senate change could make it easier to come up with a version to pass both bodies. SYMINGTON TREATED UNFAIRLY: Arizona Gov. Fife Symington, discussing his role in the downfall of Southwest Savings & Loan Association before a House Banking subcommittee Thursday, said he has not been treated fairly. Symington said he has been "treated to a public hanging without the facts, without a hearing ..." The Resolution Trust Corp. is suing Symington and other former bank officials for $140 million. BOY SCOUTS WON'T LIFT GAY BAN: Boy Scouts of America Thursday rejected a request by San Francisco's United Way to lift a ban on homosexuals. Spokesman Greg Bustin said gay Scouts are "inconsistent with the traditional family values that the Boy Scouts of America has represented for 82 years." United Way left open the possibility of withholding $1 million to six local Scout councils. WEST COAST TO ENJOY REPRIEVE: The West Coast and the Gulf Coast will flip-flop their damp and dry weather this weekend. Storms will leave the West Coast, and heavy rain will soak the already waterlogged Gulf Coast region by Saturday. Sunny skies will be the rule across the Southwest and the central and southern Plains. Farther east, gray skies are on tap for the Southeast and mid-Atlantic. DOW JONES OPENS ON UPSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Friday at 3280.64, after closing up 50.32 Thursday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 228.60, up 2.85. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 412.86, up 5.40. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 632.23, up 9.82. News Editor: Beth Mann. 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