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, Aug 3 1992 Date: Mon, 3 Aug 92 03:33:15 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update Aug. 3, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network BANKS SET BUDGET DEADLINE: California Gov. Pete Wilson and top legislators worked late Sunday to try to end a 34-day budget deadlock. Three of the state's four largest banks say they will stop accepting the IOUs that are keeping the state running. Bank of America, the biggest, will stop Wednesday. More than $1.4 billion in vouchers have been issued since July 1. DRUG INFORMANTS ARE PAID WELL: A House Government Operation Committee report, out Monday, shows some drug informants are getting rich at taxpayers' expense. Several informants made more than $500,000 a year in 1990 or 1991, and 65 made more than $100,000 a year. Committee chairman Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., notes some informants - most with extensive records - make more than the president and vice president combined. ORPHANS FLEEING SARAJEVO KILLED: Snipers killed two orphan children being evacuated from Sarajevo by bus Sunday as fighting in the Bosnian capital reached new levels of intensity. The bus carrying 50 orphans was attacked along "sniper alley" en route to meet German officials in Split. Dozens of civilians were killed over the weekend as ethnic Serbs continued fighting to block independence of a Muslim-dominated Bosnian state. BUSH TAKES JABS AT CLINTON: Trailing badly in the polls, President Bush has begun taking verbal jabs at Bill Clinton. "In the dog days of summer, it's very easy to be attracted to the new candidate - the one who says the things the polls say the people want to hear," Bush said Sunday. "But by the fall, the American people look more closely, and they ask this question: Who do we trust to change America?" TROOPS LEAVE FOR KUWAIT: On the second anniversary of Iraq's surprise invasion of Kuwait Sunday, there were stark reminders of that crisis for about 2,400 troops at Fort Hood, Texas, and Fort Campbell, Ky. Troops from the two bases are being sent to Kuwait for war exercises that will take place next month. An advance party from Fort Hood leaves Monday. The rest are to be flown to Kuwait in the next three weeks. RADIO REPORTS REFER TO POWS: Investigators for the Senate POW:MIA Committee have discovered, in National Security Agency files, intercepted Laotian radio communications that refer to U.S. POWs held in Southeast Asia in 1980, U.S. News & World Report says. It added that panel members plan to press the spy agency for an explanation, perhaps this week when they begin open hearings on POW sightings. CRACKS IN WING BEING STUDIED: Aviation investigators Sunday were probing cracks in the wing of a TWA jumbo jet that skidded off a runway Thursday as it was taking off from New York's Kennedy International Airport. All 292 passengers escaped safely. Investigators found a four-foot crack in a beam on the right wing of the Lockheed L-1011. Sunday, officials hauled wreckage pieces to a hangar for study. MANY L.A. RIOTERS HAD RECORD: Nearly half of the 3,156 people arrested for curfew violations during the Los Angeles riots had criminal records, and many were homeless, the Los Angeles Times reports Monday. The computer survey also found: 46% were black and 45% Hispanic. The American Civil Liberties Union says at least 33 people were arrested within two blocks of their homes or while on their property. WILDFIRE RAGES IN CALIFORNIA: A wildfire that forced the evacuation of two towns and closed a highway into Yosemite National Park raged Sunday through dry brush toward the town of Groveland, Calif. Countless homes have been threatened, but only a barn was destroyed by the blaze, which has charred 4,000 acres and closed Highway 120. Nobody has been injured. EURECA SATELLITE IS RELEASED: Astronauts on the space shuttle Atlantis released a European satellite Sunday after a day's delay, but it is in a dangerously low obit. Unless the Eureca satellite is raised to a higher altitude, astronauts might not be able to retrieve it in the spring as planned, officials said. Tuesday, the crew will try to generate electricity by dragging a tethered metal ball through space. EAST TO RECEIVE TASTE OF FALL: Much of the USA will seem like fall Monday as autumn temperatures extend across the Northeast. The South will be warm, with afternoon showers. The desert Southwest will be hot, with dry lightning storms. The West Coast will be warm. The Pacific Northwest will begin to cool slightly: 70s along the coast, 90s inland. Storms may hit eastern Wyoming and Colorado. DOW JONES OPENS ON UPSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Monday at 3393.78 after closing up 1.89 points Friday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 233.15, up 0.26. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 387.10, up 1.16. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 580.83, up 2.03. News Editor: Ed Kelleher. (1-919-855-3491) Making copies of USA TODAY Update (Copyright, 1992) for further distribution 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