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 Fri, Jul 10 1992 Date: Fri, 10 Jul 92 05:13:31 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update July 10-12, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network AIRLINES PLAY FOLLOW THE LEADER: Major airlines, including No. 1 American, matched Continental Thursday by reducing summer ticket prices by an average of 25% on routes where they compete with Continental. As a result, the airlines also postponed planned fare hikes of 4.4% until July 18. "The customer is interested in one thing and that's price, price, price," says American spokesman John Hotard. CLINTON, GORE IN SPOTLIGHT: Democrats hope Bill Clinton's choice of Tennessee Sen. Al Gore as his running mate, creating an all-Southern, under-50 ticket, will give him the edge in a three-way presidential race. But a USA TODAY:CNN:Gallup poll finds President Bush holding a slight lead. The latest poll of 1,004 registered voters taken Monday through Thursday, shows Bush at 35%, Perot with 30% and Clinton at 28%. USA MAY USE FORCE IN SARAJEVO: President Bush, after days of often conflicting signals, Thursday edged closer to committing U.S. air power to break the siege of Sarajevo. Bush told Bosnia-Herzegovina President Alija Izetbegovic at a European security summit in Helsinki, Finland, he "would consider" a request for air strikes against Serbian artillery pounding Bosnia's capital. PROBE OF IRAQ DEALINGS SOUGHT: House Democrats, in a highly charged election-year atmosphere, Thursday demanded that a special prosecutor investigate the Bush administration's pre-war dealings with Iraq. Attorney General William Barr has 90 days to decide whether to ask a special three-judge panel to make the appointment. But he can seek a 60-day extension - until well after Election Day. BROWN OFFERS ATTACK AD: Floyd Brown, who gained notoriety for co-producing the 1988 Willie Horton ad, Thursday introduced an ad urging viewers to call a "Bill Clinton Fact Line" that plays taped conversations between Clinton and Gennifer Flowers. It warns of "explicit language" on the tape. It will air, starting Friday, only during the Democratic National Convention on one cable channel in New York City. EPA TO ASK FOR LAW: The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will urge Congress to allow trace amounts of cancer-causing pesticides in processed food, and may appeal a court ruling that upheld a 34-year-old restriction. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision Wednesday could affect more than 60 pesticides used on everything from grapes and almonds to corn and wheat. FBI LOOKS AT BOMBING CASE: The FBI is looking into whether offers of $1 million each to families of victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 terrorist bombing came from agents of Libya, Reuter news service said. NBC News reported the offers came from lobbyists for a U.S. businessman who wants trade sanctions lifted against Libya. A New York jury is deadlocked on whether poor security allowed a bomb-laden suitcase on board. TRANSPORT BILL SPARKS FEUD: Debate opened in the House on a $35 billion transportation appropriations bill, with Republicans assailing a Democratic funds-shifting plan as an election-year effort to destroy a 2-year-old deficit-reduction agreement. The plan, which the White House has threatened to veto, calls for transferring $400 million in unspent foreign aid to transportation projects. HUMAN RIGHTS LOOK BLEAK: Amnesty International USA painted a bleak picture Thursday of the human rights situation around the globe, saying it is getting worse rather than better. The 311-page report, which covers mostly 1991 and the early months of 1992, included the United States. It labeled as "prisoners of conscience" the 32 men and women from the U.S. armed forces who refused to serve in the gulf war. SHOWERY WEATHER FOR NORTHEAST: Persistent cool and showery conditions will stetch from the northern Rockies to the Northeast this weekend. New England will see sunny weather Friday, but storms will push in on Saturday. Heavy thunderstorms threaten the lower Midwest, extending into the northern mid-Atlantic. The Southeast will seethe in heat and humidity as temperatures soar to the 90s and 100s. DOW JONES OPENS ON UPSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Friday at 3324.08 after closing up 30.80 Thursday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 227.55, up 2.06. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 381.84, up 1.98. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 564.75, up 7.18. News Editor: William Snoddy. 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