Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Headline Article Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 17:26:45 EST Message-ID: \SE A;AMERICAN SCENE \BY FROM WIRE DISPATCHES AND STAFF REPORTS S=NEW STORY Bush won't weaken wetlands rules The Bush administration won't weaken wetlands protection rules, leaving the issue for Bill Clinton when he becomes president in January, a senior government official said yesterday. Michael Deland, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said the National Academy of Sciences has been asked to review the controversial wetlands rules and issue a report next year. Mr. Deland said that the administration had hoped to reach agreement on what rule changes to make, but that it had "proved impossible. The issue of protecting wetlands from development was controversial through much of the Bush administration. The issue arose again last week after reports that Vice President Dan Quayle had raised the possibility of acting before the end of the year to weaken the rules that prevent landowners from developing wetlands. S=NEW STORY Thunderstorms spawn tornadoes in Texas HOUSTON - At least a dozen tornadoes roared through Houston and other parts of southeast Texas yesterday, ripping roofs off buildings, knocking down trees and cutting off electricity to 80,000 people, authorities said. There were no immediate reports of deaths, but authorities said at least a dozen persons suffered injuries when tornadoes spawned by severe thunderstorms touched down in scattered areas throughout Houston and neighboring counties. Winds were reported as high as 50 mph while the storm rumbled through the area between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. In southwest Houston, a building collapsed, touching off a natural gas explosion and fire, radio reports said. S=NEW STORY Inouye's accuser won't be part of probe HONOLULU - A woman who claims U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye sexually assaulted her 17 years ago says she has forgiven the veteran Democrat and will not take part in any investigation of him. The allegation by Lenore Kwock, Mr. Inouye's longtime hair stylist, surfaced during his successful re-election campaign against Republican state Sen. Rick Reed. Mr. Inouye denied the allegation, as well as similar ones made later by nine unidentified women. A new group calling itself Code of Silence Broken is pressing the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate Mr. Inouye. "I don't have any anger or resentment toward him," Miss Kwock said at a news conference Friday, adding that she considers him an effective senator. S=NEW STORY Yale unveils notes by Cole Porter NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Yale University has acquired 700 pages of notes, lyrics and doodles created by Cole Porter while he was a student at the school. The material was found in November 1991 in a Maine house owned by the family of one of Porter's roommates at Yale. But the school kept quiet about the find until experts could evaluate the eight small stenographic pads and three large notebooks, and so the alumni magazine could write about them, Yale music professor Harold Samuel said yesterday. The material includes the score and lyrics for a football song and the outline for a college musical, both previously unknown, as well as classroom notes for courses ranging from Shakespeare to psychology. Porter graduated from Yale in 1913. He wrote nearly 800 songs and two dozen musicals, several of which became films. He died in 1964. S=NEW STORY Lincoln manuscript sells for $1.32 million NEW YORK - A handwritten fragment of Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address - featuring the words "With malice toward none; with charity for all" - brought $1.32 million at auction - nearly three times its estimated value and a record for an American manuscript. Profiles in History, a California dealer in rare manuscripts, bought the manuscript at Christie's on Friday, said Todd Merrill, a Christie's spokesman. The price broke the manuscript record set by a Lincoln letter stating that he would not rescind the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the slaves on Jan. 1, 1863. The letter sold for $748,000 in 1991. The inaugural manuscript was found on the first page of a family autograph album, Christie's said. Locked away in a New York City apartment for decades, it was discovered during a routine estate appraisal. S=NEW STORY Coast Guard to renew search for yachtsman NEW YORK - Two days after calling off the search for a missing solo yachtsman, the U.S. Coast Guard said yesterday that it might have been looking in the wrong area and was resuming the search for Michael Plant in the Atlantic. "Because of Plant's reputation as a world-class sailor and navigator, his past successes in overcoming great hardships and surviving long periods at sea, and the deep and sincere interest expressed by so many Americans on his behalf, the Coast Guard will resume the search," it said in a statement. Mr. Plant, 41, from Minneapolis and Jamestown, R.I., left New York Oct. 16 on what was expected to be a two-week crossing on the S.V. Coyote to Les Sables d'Olonne, France. He had planned to take part in a solo round-the-world yacht race due to start there today. A Coast Guard spokesman said yesterday that the previous search was based on a last sighting that was considered "suspect" and that the Coast Guard had now "drifted" his position out of the original search area. S=NEW STORY Sheriff's deputies fired after suspect's death LOS ANGELES - Eight Los Angeles County deputies were fired in connection with the fatal shooting and beating of a black man following a chase in 1990, a newspaper reported yesterday. Deputies said they saw Arthur Jones robbing and kidnapping a man at gunpoint on March 1, 1990. During a 10-minute chase, deputies fired at Mr. Jones, who crashed several blockades, ran stop signs and threw out a shotgun. One bullet fractured a vertebra in his neck, and he died three days later. In addition to the bullet wound, deputies said that when Mr. Jones got out of his vehicle he resisted arrest and was struck several times with a flashlight. A coroner's report said the beating might have killed Mr. Jones if he had not already been mortally wounded by the bullet. S=NEW STORY Officials shut down uranium plant GORE, Okla. - A uranium processing plant must stay closed until its owners prove the plant can operate safely, federal officials said after a chemical leak at the plant. Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Joe Gilliland said Friday that about 26 persons, eight of them employees, may be experiencing symptoms from Tuesday's release of nitrogen dioxide, a toxic gas. He said safety procedures were violated, but no radioactive material was released from the plant operated by Sequoyah Fuels Corp., a subsidiary of General Atomics in San Diego. The NRC said the release occurred when a valve allowed chemicals to be mixed improperly, although the preliminary findings do not indicate whether a mechanical problem or an employee was responsible. Mr. Gilliland said he did not know how long the plant would be idle. "It will be closed until we're satisfied it's safe to restart," he said. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM