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 Tue, Feb 18 1992 Date: Tue, 18 Feb 92 06:36:31 EST Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update Feb. 18, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network DAHMER GETS 15 LIFE TERMS: Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer Monday was sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms in prison. Speaking for the first time in open court, the former chocolate factory worker said he hopes God has forgiven him because "I know society never will." The sentences mean a minimum 936 years in prison. Earlier, Dahmer sat stone-faced as families of victims vented their anger. BUSH, TSONGAS IN THE LEAD: A new USA TODAY:CNN:Gallup Poll of likely voters shows President Bush leading Pat Buchanan 58% to 33%. For the Democrats, former Massachusetts senator Paul Tsgonas leads Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton 35% to 22%. Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey has 11%, Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin 10%, ex-California governor Jerry Brown 3% and 3% plan to write in New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, who's not running. Margin of error: 5%. WARMING TREATY TALKS RESUME: The Bush administration's desire for individuality likely will ruin chances for a global-warming treaty before a June summit in Brazil. Treaty talks resume Tuesday at the United Nations. The administration is at odds with most countries on stabilizing carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels. President Bush wants to give countries another year to devise strategies on heat-trapping gases. TEEN GETS COMPUTER HELP: John Thompson, the North Dakota teen whose arms were reattached after being severed in a farm accident, is getting state-of-the-art help. IBM and Dragon Systems of Newton, Mass., are loaning him a $12,000 voice recognition system that projects words onscreen. It will let the teen "take notes in class, and write my reports," he says. He may be able to leave the hospital soon. MILLIONS SPENT ON HAITIANS: Reports Monday the government has spent $24 million to pick up, house and return fleeing Haitians raised the ire of human interest groups. The Sun-Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., reported that since October the Coast Guard has spent about $4.8 million, and a joint military task force has spent at least $19 million, on illegal Haitian immigrants. RUSSIA JOINS MIA SEARCH: Russia agreed Monday to help American families find their loved ones missing since the Vietnam War. Documents turned over to U.S. senators Monday from the former Soviet KGB security service may help retrace the steps of soldiers missing since the war against Soviet-backed North Vietnam. The Russians have confirmed that deserters from Vietnam came through the Soviet Union, but left. POLITICAL ADS COME TO AN END: Car dealers and furniture salesmen return in force to the New Hampshire airwaves Tuesday. In just a month and a half, the five major Democratic and two Republican presidential candidates paid $3.5 million to broadcast more than 500 ads each. They spent more than $600,000 on last-minute ads. Monday, WMUR's local news hour included 25 political spots. TYLENOLS GET TWO SUSPENDED: A junior high school student in Hamilton, Ohio, who violated her school's drug policy by giving another student Tylenol returns to school Tuesday while she fights her suspension. Dana Merry and Michelle Wiles, both 14, were suspended Friday for five days after officials learned Merry gave her friend Tylenol for a headache. Merry is appealing to the school board. Wiles is transferring. USA PULLS SHORT-RANGE WEAPONS: Army Gen. John Galvin said Monday the USA has begun withdrawing short-range nuclear weapons from Europe. Galvin is the top NATO commander in Europe. The withdrawal of an estimated 2,000 short-range missiles and nuclear artillery shells, based mostly in Germany, began several weeks ago and will take up to three years, Reuters reported. M.D. COULD FACE MURDER CHARGES: A Rochester Hills, Mich., judge will announce Feb. 28 whether Jack Kevorkian, 63, will face murder charges. Lawyers for the retired pathologist wrapped up a hearing Monday by portraying him as an angel of mercy who helped Sherry Miller and Marjorie Wantz escape terrible pain Oct. 23, 1990, with his suicide machine. Michigan has no law against assisted suicide. TEENS `CURIOUS' ABOUT DEATH: Two teen-age boys in Selma, Ala., bound their wrists together and leapt 300 feet to their deaths, officials said. Victims Nicolos Trammell Alcantara and Bruce Harris Jr., both 16, left behind notes saying they were curious about death. "They wanted to search for a new life," Sheriff Cotton Nichols said. The Dallas County High School students were found Sunday still tied together. MUCH OF USA TO BE MILD: Mild temperatures will prevail across much of the USA Tuesday as there's a notable absence of cold arctic air. A wet pattern is on tap from the Pacific Northwest to central California. A strong storm system will bring rain to parts of the middle Mississippi Valley and the mid-Atlantic states Tuesday. A cold front will produce showers and thunderstorms along the Southeast Coast. News Editor: Beth Mann. (1-919-855-3491) Making copies of USA TODAY Update (Copyright, 1992) for further distribution purposes violates federal law. 08:0002180000D0218 ADVE-R O Television-returns-to-normal.......... A D0218 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