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 Thu, Jul 16 1992 Date: Thu, 16 Jul 92 05:07:59 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update July 16, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network CLINTON WINS NOMINATION: Bill Clinton Thursday accepts the Democratic presidential nomination from a party that senses it can win the White House in November. New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, in nominating Clinton, said the nation needs him "because he is our only hope for change ..." Meanwhile, a new ABC News-Washington Post poll released Wednesday showed: Clinton at 42%, Bush at 30% and Ross Perot at 20%. ROLLINS QUITS PEROT CAMPAIGN: Ross Perot's presidential bid stumbled again Wednesday as co-manager Ed Rollins exited, saying Perot wouldn't take his advice. "Things just weren't going to work out," Rollins said. Rollins, a longtime GOP operative who joined the Perot camp 44 days ago, was regarded by political insiders Perot's best hope for gaining credibility in a three-way race. ABORTION PILL CASE UP TO THOMAS: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will decide, perhaps Thursday, whether to return abortion pills to a California woman who is 7 1:2 weeks pregnant. Leona Benten must take the 12-pill dosage by Friday or face a surgical abortion. The Food and Drug Administration seized the French-made pills, RU-486, from Benten July 1. Thomas opposed abortion rights in a case last month. FORCES ARRIVE IN ADRIATIC SEA: As fighting raged Wednesday across Bosnia, a NATO naval task force arrived in the Adriatic Sea to enforce U.N. a sea blockade against the two remaining Yugoslavia republics, Serbia and Montenegro. The 12 warships, including the U.S. Navy frigate Jack Williams, will not stop cargo vessels but will keep watch for ships that might be carrying banned goods to Yugoslavia. IRAQ RISKS WAR WITH USA: The United States is warning Iraq it risks renewed war by continuing a stand-off with U.N. nuclear inspectors. The inspectors have been blocked from the Agricultural Ministry in Baghdad since July 5. They believe weapons-related materials are stored there. Iraq "is putting at risk the cease-fire," a State Department spokesman said Wednesday. Iraq says it has met its obligations. BUSH WANTS TO CUT NUKE TESTS: The Bush administration has told Congress it plans to reduce U.S. underground nuclear tests to six a year, but has rejected calls to suspend them. In two letters to congressional leaders, the administration also vowed to conduct tests only to check the safety and reliability of nuclear weapons. The administration opposes legislation that would impose a one-year moratorium on testing. JUSTICE DEPT. RESPONDS TO COURT: The U.S. Justice Department said a federal appeals court has no authority to reopen a hearing that sent John Demjanjuk to Israel, where he was convicted and sentenced to death on charges he was a concentration camp guard. U.S. prosecutors Wednesday filed their response to the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. There have been reports that Demjanjuk may be the victim of mistaken identity. SUN SPOTS MAY BE EXPLAINED: Scientists said they may be closer to understanding the cause of major solar flares that can disrupt electrical power and radio transmissions on Earth. NASA's orbiting Compton Gamma Ray Observatory found a strange "afterglow" of high-energy gamma rays five hours after a June 11, 1991, solar flare explosion. Another, four days later, lasted 90 minutes. EASTERN STORMS PACK PUNCH: Violent weather erupted in the East, the sixth day in the last seven that storms have lashed parts of the USA. Lightning killed a man in Fairmount Park, Pa., and wind storms, possibly tornadoes, skipped through the New York communities of Flushing Meadow, Howard Beach and Manhasset Bay, and Union County, N.J. No damage or injuries were reported. HOUSING BIAS SUIT SETTLED: A Washington, D.C., woman Tuesday won a record $2.41 million judgment from a real estate management firm that refused to rent her an apartment because she had children. The federal jury award to Carie Timus, 36, from William J. Davis Inc., is the nation's largest since the 1989 housing discrimination law was passed, said the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights. CLOUDS, STORMS LEAVE NORTHEAST: Thunderstorms will pop in the Plains Thursday, with an increasing chance of gusty winds and hail. The Northeast will enjoy a breather from the clouds and storminess as dry comfortable weather graces the region. The mid-Atlantic gets relief from the heat wave that sent temperatures into the upper 90s and low 100s this week. Highs will be in the upper 80s and low 90s. DOW JONES OPENS ON UPSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Thursday at 3345.42 after closing down 12.13 Wednesday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 229.20, down 0.31. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 386.87, up 0.79. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 575.47, up 0.26. 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