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: Fri, 30 Oct 92 15:33:28 EST Message-ID: \SE A;TOP OF THE NEWS NATION \BY FROM WIRE DISPATCHES AND STAFF REPORTS S=NEW STORY $36.7 million spent by Perot in October Ross Perot has dropped $36.7 million of his own money on his presidential bid this month, and already has spent more than President Bush and Bill Clinton are allowed to spend on their entire general election campaigns, according to campaign finance reports. Reports that Mr. Perot's campaign filed with the Federal Election Commission show the Texas billionaire forked over another $10.7 million of his fortune to his campaign between Oct. 15 and Oct. 26. The additional transfers bring to about $36.7 million the amount Mr. Perot has spent since entering the race Oct. 1 - the substantial portion of which has gone to a national advertising blitz. Mr. Bush and Mr. Clinton are limited to spending the $55.2 million each received from taxpayers for the fall campaign. In all, Mr. Perot has spent $58.7 million, all but $1.3 million of it his own, since first flirting with an independent bid in March. S=NEW STORY Bush to address voters on MTV special NEW YORK - President Bush will make his first appearance on MTV's "Choose or Lose" political series this weekend, the cable TV music video network said yesterday. Reporter Tabitha Soren's interview with the president will be conducted on Bush's whistlestop train tour across Wisconsin and air during MTV's "Choose or Lose Wrap-Up Special" on Sunday at 6:30 p.m. The "Choose or Lose" campaign has covered this year's election campaign since the New Hampshire primary in a nonpartisan effort to engage young people in politics and boost voter registration. The Democratic candidates, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton and Sen. Al Gore, already have appeared in "Choose or Lose" forums. Ross Perot and Vice President Dan Quayle declined invitations to appear on MTV. S=NEW STORY Executives make up fund-raising letter Three Michigan businessmen sent out a fund-raising letter saying they might get a spot for the scrap metal industry on Bill Clinton's transition team for $50,000, but they now say they made it up. The Bush campaign has circulated copies of the letter to reporters, saying they should be alert for fund-raising irregularities in the closing days of the campaign. But Clinton aides said they had nothing to do with the matter. And Michigan's Democratic state chairman, Gary Corbin, told the three in a letter: "Under no circumstances would we engage in this kind of cynical fund raising." S=NEW STORY Judge fines Hughes, questions conviction LOS ANGELES - A judge reluctantly imposed a $3.5 million fine yesterday on Hughes Aircraft Co., convicted of conspiring to defraud the government by skipping required tests on military components. However, U.S. District Judge William Byrne said he cannot understand the reasoning behind the jury's verdict in June. Jurors convicted Hughes of one count of conspiracy, but acquitted Donald Anthony LaRue, the former supervisor accused of actually shipping untested parts. Rejecting a government request for a fine of $10 million or more, Judge Byrne questioned whether the case should have been pursued as a crime. He also refused prosecutors' requests to put the defense electronics company on probation, saying it was up to the Pentagon to police suppliers. S=NEW STORY 32 health-care workers contract HIV at work ATLANTA - Public health officials said yesterday they have found 32 health care workers infected with the AIDS virus on the job and suspect at least 69 other HIV-positive health workers also were infected while at work. "We can't say what the degree of underreporting is," said Carol Ciesielski, a medical epidemiologist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "We need more information." Another CDC survey released yesterday showed that very few workers who care for sick primates become infected with the monkey strain of the virus. S=NEW STORY Judge blocks Allen from seeing daughter NEW YORK - A judge yesterday ordered Woody Allen to stay away from his adopted daughter Dylan pending a court hearing in his custody battle with ex-lover Mia Farrow. Mr. Allen has denied allegations by Miss Farrow that he sexually abused the 7-year-old girl. State Supreme Court Justice Elliott Wilk also ordered Mr. Allen to stay away from Dylan's school, its administrators and its teachers pending Wednesday's hearing. Mr. Allen's spokeswoman, Leslee Dart, said the actor-director is just a responsible parent. "What's so terrible about a father being concerned about his child?" she asked. Mr. Allen sued in August for custody of Dylan and two other children he shares custody of with Miss Farrow. Soon after, he admitted he was romantically involved with Miss Farrow's 21-year-old adopted daughter, Soon-Yi. S=NEW STORY 'Scud Stud' sues NBC to restore reputation LOS ANGELES - Fired correspondent Arthur Kent filed a $25 million lawsuit against NBC yesterday, claiming the network wrongly dismissed him and tried to destroy his reputation. "I have never been in litigation before," Mr. Kent said in a statement released by his attorney. "However, the efforts by certain executives at NBC to blacken my reputation by accusing me of cowardice cannot go unchallenged." NBC News spokeswoman Katherine McQuay said the network doesn't comment on litigation matters. Mr. Kent, who earned the nickname "Scud Stud" for his popularity with women and his Gulf war reports during Scud missile attacks, was fired Aug. 21. NBC had suspended him nine days before, claiming he violated his contract by refusing an assignment in the Croatian town of Zagreb. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. 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