Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!usa-post Newsgroups: usa-today.inter,americast.usa-today.inter From: usa-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: usa-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: inter Wed, Oct 7 1992 Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 04:38:01 EDT Message-ID: 10-07 0000 DECISIONLINE: International News USA TODAY Update Oct. 7, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network PANEL WILL LOOK AT WAR CRIMES: The U.N. Security Council voted Tuesday to create a Yugoslavian war crimes commission - a move that could lead to the first world atrocity trials since Nazi leaders were prosecuted after World War II. U.S. Ambassador Edward Perkins said the action "sends a clear message to those responsible (for) Ethnic cleansing and other crimes against humanity." U.N. WANTS TO DETER FORCES: A U.N. Security Council resolution investigating "mass killings" in Yugoslavia is aimed at deterring Bosnian Serb forces. Also: U.N. peacekeepers in Sarajevo meet Wednesday with warring Serbs, Croats and Muslims to work out a Bosnian no-fly zone; Serb fighters smashed through Croat defenses and seized the key town of Bosanski Brod, the last held by Croats and Muslims in north Bosnia. BOEING KNEW OF ENGINE PROBLEMS: The Boeing Co. said Tuesday it discussed possible problems with engine mounts on its 747 aircraft with El Al, Swissair and some other airlines on Sept. 16. Engine remains from the El Al cargo jet that crashed into Amsterdam apartments Sunday were found and taken to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport for investigation by Dutch, Israeli and U.S. experts. PIN PROBLEMS WERE REPORTED: Boeing Co. spokesman Jack Gamble explained Tuesday that Boeing had received 15 reports of problems with metal fatigue cracking in the 747's engine fuse pins over the past seven years. The pins hold the planes four engines onto the wings. Gamble said Boeing was redesigning the pins and asked operators of some 747 models to inspect the pins and repair or replace them if necessary. BUSH TO INITIAL TRADE AGREEMENT: President Bush is in San Antonio Wednesday to initial the North American Free Trade Agreement, the controversial pact his administration worked long and hard to achieve. The agreement - which would phase out all tariffs on goods traded with Mexico or Canada over the next 15 years - is still subject to congressional approval next year. WALSH WANTS CONVICTION: Iran-contra special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh asked the Supreme Court to reinstate the conviction of former national security adviser John Poindexter. Walsh said a 2-1 appeals court ruling that overturned Poindexter's conviction threatens federal corruption prosecutions and opposes rulings by other federal judges. He had been sentenced to six months in jail and a $250 fine. FIRING OF MISSILE BEING STUDIED: Investigators may take until the end of October to determine what caused the USS Saratoga missile firing that killed five sailors on a Turkish destroyer last week, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Two Sea Sparrow missiles were launched accidentally from the carrier during a NATO exercise in the Aegean Sea on Oct. 1. One missile struck the Turkish ship. U.S. AND RUSSIA SIGN NUKE PACT: U.S. and Russian officials signed a pact Tuesday on U.S. help in storing materials taken from dismantled nuclear weapons. The pact is one of a series implementing an umbrella accord signed in June by President Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin, the Pentagon said. The USA has made up to $400 million available to assist the republics of the former Soviet Union in dismantling the weapons. YELTSIN PROMISES CRACKDOWN: Russian President Boris Yeltsin pledged to keep building a market economy Tuesday but also promised to crack down on rising corruption and street crime that he said are "destroying our reforms and plans for the future." He rejected popular calls for restoring a traditional Russian authoritarian system, but said he might use the military or expand the police force to fight crime. ALLIED GROUPS GET MAJORITY: Seven loosely allied opposition groups and independent candidates captured 35 of 50 Parliament seats in Kuwait's elections held Monday. According to the numbers released Tuesday, most of the 15 solid seats for the government came from traditional supporters of the ruling Sabah family. IRISH WILL VOTE ON ABORTION: Citizens of Ireland will vote in December on a referendum on the predominantly Roman Catholic republic's controversial anti-abortion law. Planned are separate votes on the rights to travel abroad for an abortion and access to information about overseas abortion facilities, as well as on the issue of abortion legislation. SOUTH AFRICAN FACTIONS MEET: In an unusual twist to South Africa's racial politics, black tribal leaders and white rightists held a political summit. They demanded that the country's current forum for negotiating an end to white-minority rule - the Convention for a Democratic South Africa -be reshaped. They seek to lessen the role of Nelson Mandela, the black nationalist heading the African National Congress. JUDGE QUITS IRAQI LOAN TRIAL: A federal judge in Atlanta removed himself Tuesday from the trial of a former banker charged with making $5 billion in illegal loans to Iraq. U.S. District Judge Marvin Shoob was off the case after he criticized the government's investigation of whether Italian state-owned Banca Nazionale del Lavoro approved loans to Iraq. Shoob said Washington tried to shield Italian officials. DOW JONES OPENS ON DOWNSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens at 3178.19 Wednesday after closing down 0.81 Tuesday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 224.09, down 0.05. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 367.71, up 1.09. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 570.55, up 5.34. DOLLAR OPENS MIXED OVERSEAS: The dollar opens mostly up on Wednesday. It opens at 0.5861 British pounds, down from 0.5867; 4.8485 French francs, up from 4.8115; 1.4304 German marks, up from 1.4140; and 119.83 Japanese yen, up from 119.60. (As of 3 p.m. Tuesday. Source: First American Bank of New York.) International News Editor: Martin Baucom. (1-919-855-3491) 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. 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