Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!americast.com!usa-post Newsgroups: usa-today.news From: usa-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: usa-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: news Mon, Feb 17 1992 Date: Mon, 17 Feb 92 06:46:35 EST Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update Feb. 17, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network REAGAN, POPE AIDED SOLIDARITY: President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II formed an alliance in 1982, Time magazine reports this week. Its purpose was to secretly bolster Poland's then-outlawed Solidarity movement. The operation wanted to "hasten the dissolution of the communist empire" and was "one of the great secret alliances of all time," Reagan national security adviser Richard Allen told Time. `MAXIMUM RESTRAINT' URGED: The State Department says the USA urges "maximum restraint" and Shiite Muslims have vowed to step up their holy war against Israel following a helicopter attack that killed Hezbollah leader Abbas Musawi. Hezbollah said the attack killed Musawi, his wife Siham and the youngest of their six children, Hussein, 5. Hezbollah is an umbrella group for Lebanese Shiite guerrillas. CANDIDATES BLAST BUSH: The five major Democratic candidates fired at President Bush more than each other in a TV debate Sunday night. With the New Hampshire primary coming down to its final days, the candidates clashed over nuclear power and tax cuts. But in the end, the enemy was still Bush. "Each of these people has a stronger core" than Bush, said candidate Paul Tsongas, ex-Massachusetts senator. TSONGAS STILL LEADS: A USA TODAY:CNN:Gallup poll of likely voters, done before a Sunday debate, finds former Massachusetts senator Paul Tsongas and President Bush ahead. Tsongas leads Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, 40% to 20%; Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin and Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey have 10% each; and ex-California governor Jerry Brown, 7%. Bush leads Pat Buchanan 60% to 31% in the GOP race. Margin of error: 5%. WORKERS ARE OVERWORKED: The average U.S. worker is not lazy but overworked, according to a study out Sunday from the Economic Policy Institute. "America is starved for time," says the study. Economists Juliet Schor and Laura Leete-Guy, who wrote the report, say U.S. men and women worked an average 158 hours more in 1989 than their counterparts of 20 years earlier, nearly an extra month of work every year. VICTIMS' FAMILIES SEE DAHMER: Relatives of victims of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer confront Dahmer in open court Monday when they read their "impact statements" before his sentencing. Dahmer faces 15 mandatory life prison terms without the possibility of parole for the slayings of 13 men and two 14-year-old boys. Jurors Saturday found Dahmer sane on each count, the harshest ruling they could make. NORIEGA DEFENSE RESUMES: The government's case against Gen. Manuel Noriega could be in trouble. The defense on Tuesday resumes pounding away at charges that Noriega turned Panama into a safe haven for drug traffickers and money launderers. They hope to create reasonable doubt by calling current and former top U.S. drug agents to begrudgingly acknowledge Noriega's help in high-stakes anti-drug operations. MOTHER TERESA RECOVERING: Mother Teresa, the 81-year-old missionary Catholic nun, is recovering from an undisclosed ailment that sent her to a Rome hospital last week. "Her condition is clearly improving although she is being kept under observation during convalescence," Maurizio Elia, spokesman for Rome's Salvator Mundi Hospital, told AGI news agency Sunday. The nun had heart surgery last December. BANK ROBBERIES SET RECORDS: Last year was a record breaker for bank robberies across the USA, the FBI reports. Heists for 1991 are expected to surpass the 7,347 bank heists of 1990. Bank robberies in Atlanta nearly doubled to 207 from 109 in 1990; Los Angeles' 810 heists broke the 1983 record of 742. Blamed: Drug abuse, poor economy and a new breed of banks that are easy marks. CHILDREN HOLD UP STORE: A 10-year-old boy is set to appear in juvenile court in Lincolnton, N.C., Monday on charges he pointed a revolver at a drug store clerk and a security guard and with his 7-year-old brother stole $4.90 worth of valentines and notebook paper. He was arrested Wednesday while addressing the cards to classmates. Their grandparents Sunday reported a .38-caliber handgun stolen. MORE RAIN TO HIT WEST COAST: The West Coast will receive more rain this week, with rains hitting northern California and the Pacific Northwest Monday and Southern California by mid-week. Temperatures 10 to 15 degrees above normal will warm much of the East Monday. Storms will push into New England by night, bringing rain through the mid-Atlantic by Tuesday. Thunderstorms will roll across the Great Plains. DOW JONES OPENS ON DOWNSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Monday at 3245.97 after closing down 0.68 Friday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 228.16, down 0.57. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 414.27, down 1.00. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 636.43, down 2.67. News Editor: Beth Mann. (1-919-855-3491) Making copies of USA TODAY Update (Copyright, 1992) for further distribution purposes violates federal law. 08:0002170000D0217 ADVE-R O `Heat'-may-be-on-move................. A D0217 This article is copyright 1992 Gannett News Service. 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