Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!usa-post Newsgroups: usa-today.news From: usa-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: usa-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: news Mon, Jun 29 1992 Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 05:27:36 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update June 29, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network COURT TO LOOK AT ABORTION LAW: Monday is the Supreme Court's last chance to make a landmark ruling on abortion rights before it adjourns for the summer. The justices are expected to hand down a ruling on Pennsylvania's abortion law. At issue: Provisions on informed consent, a waiting period, and spousal and parental notification. The court could delay a ruling by ordering the case reargued after Election Day. SOUTHERN CALIF. ON EDGE: Southern Californians are on the alert Monday after an unusual double earthquake touched off fears of the dreaded "Big One" that many fear could kill thousands. The powerful quakes shook Southern California on Sunday. One toddler was killed; at least 152 people were injured. The big concern: That both quakes were near the San Andreas Fault - source of many of the state's worst quakes. SERBS AGREE TO GIVE UP AIRPORT: Bosnian Serbs, faced with a U.N. ultimatum - and threats of U.S. action, cleared the way for humanitarian airlifts Sunday by offering to give up control of Sarajevo airport. U.N. forces were expected take over control of the airport Monday. The Security Council meets Monday to decide what to do if the Serbs ignore an ultimatum to deliver their heavy artillery to U.N. control. MOST S&LS IMPROVED LAST YEAR: The financial health of most savings and loans improved last year, according to an analysis by USA TODAY of the nation's 2,188 S&Ls at the end of last year. However, five of the USA's 10 biggest S&Ls are on USA TODAY's list of 326 troubled thrifts. That means their problem assets were bigger than the tangible capital and reserves they had on hand to absorb loan losses on Dec. 31. DECISION COULD SPARK ACTION: Congress is ready to strike back quickly if the Supreme Court rules Monday against abortion rights. Supporters promise to bring up this week a bill establishing a nationwide, statutory right to abortion. President Bush is almost certain to veto it. Still, abortion-rights advocates say their strategy is to force a vote on the legislation and a veto right before the November election. BACKLOG TO BE CLEARED MONDAY: The nation's trains are moving again, but officials said Sunday it would take through Monday to clear a backlog left by last week's two-day rail shutdown. A bill signed by President Bush early Friday ended the shutdown setting up a 35-day cooling-off period. Union officials reacted angrily: "Workers have one basic right ... to withhold their labor," said John Peterpaul of the machinist union. POWS IN RUSSIA A MYSTERY: A Russian military official reaffirmed Sunday that U.S. POWs were kept in Soviet mental hospitals in the 1950s, but he said he still doesn't know their identities. "We have some unresolved mysteries," said Gen. Dmitri Volkogonov. Volkogonov and former U.S. envoy to Moscow Malcolm Toon made an appeal on Russian television for information about missing POWs. EXXON CHIEF'S BODY FOUND: The body of kidnapped Exxon International President Sidney Reso was found in the southern New Jersey Pine Barrens, the FBI said Sunday. Searchers had been looking for eight weeks for Reso. Morris County Prosecutor W. Michael Murphy said felony murder charges would be brought Monday. He didn't say whether both Arthur and Irene Seale, being held for the abduction, would be charged. SIMON BELIEVED HILL, NOT THOMAS: Senate Judiciary Committee member Paul Simon, D-Ill., says he didn't believe Clarence Thomas' denial of sexual harassment charges made by Anita Hill. In his book, "Advice and Consent: Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork and the Intriguing History of the Supreme Court's Nomination Battles," it's obvious from his discussion of the Thomas-Hill controversy that Simon believes Hill. ANDERSON CLOSES WITH `BLESSING': Former hostage Terry Anderson spoke to Batavia High School's graduating class in New York and ended his speech by reading a prayer. Despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week forbidding prayers at school graduations, Anderson said: "I'm not a school official, and I don't think I'm breaking the law. I want to give you something you need, and that's a blessing." STORMS IN STORE FOR NORTHWEST: Stormy weather will lash much of the nation Monday. In the Northwest, storms will stretch from Oregon and Washington to Idaho and Montana. The Southwest will have temperatures in the 100s. The northern Plains will be cool. The southern Plains will have thunderstorms. Showers are on tap from the Tennessee Valley east to North Carolina. The Northeast will be sunny. DOW JONES OPENS ON DOWNSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Monday at 3282.41 after closing down 1.60 Friday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 221.68, up 0.15. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 374.04, down 0.11. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 547.84, down 0.36. News Editor: William Snoddy. (1-919-855-3491) Making copies of USA TODAY Update (Copyright, 1992) for further distribution purposes 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. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM