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, Aug 7 1992 Date: Fri, 7 Aug 92 04:31:46 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update Aug. 7-9, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network OFFICERS SURRENDER TO MARSHALS: Four Los Angeles police officers acquitted of excessive force in the beating of motorist Rodney King surrendered early Thursday to federal marshals on charges they violated King's civil rights. After a brief court appearance, they were each released on a $5,000 unsecured bond. If they don't show up for court, they will each forfeit $5,000. The arraignment is set for Monday. BUSH SAYS SADDAM `WILL COMPLY': The White House Thursday issued strong new warnings to Saddam Hussein in advance of Firday's slated U.N. missile inspection in Iraq. Saddam "will comply" with U.N. resolutions authorizing inspection of Iraqi government ministries, President Bush said. Asked about Saddam's recalcitrance, Bush said, "I've been fed up with him for a long time." BUSH THREATENS FORCE IN BOSNIA: President Bush vowed Thursday to do "whatever we have to do to stop the killing" in Bosnia-Herzegovina, including the use of military force. Responding to increasing pressure to investigate reports of Serbian concentration camps, Bush said he is "outraged and horrified at the terrible violence shattering the lives of innocent men, women and children in Bosnia." DETENTION CAMPS ARE SEEN: Graphic images of detention camps inside Bosnia broadcast worldwide Thursday showed stark scenes reminiscent of World War II death camps: Emaciated prisoners, barracks and barbed wire. And inmates, many unshaven and in filthy clothes, told tales of torture, beatings and rapes at the hands of their Serbian captors. Bosnia claims 120,000 Muslims and Croats are held in Serbian camps. CANDIDATES SPAR ON TAXES: President Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton debated long distance Thursday about taxes. Bush warned a convention of conservative state legislators in Colorado Springs, Colo., that his opponent would impose "the largest tax increase in American history." Clinton, on a bus tour through Iowa, shot back that Bush has "no credibility" after breaking his no-new-taxes pledge two years ago. STEALTH GLITCHES WORKED OUT: The Air Force's radar-evading B-2 stealth bomber is "already the most survivable aircraft ever fielded" and favorable flight tests have paved the way for production to begin next year, Air Force Secretary Donald Rice said Thursday. Rice said technical problems that cropped up last year have been worked out, and involved "only edges and surfaces" of the bat-winged aircraft. NASA GETS SMALL BLACK EYE: The failure of a tethered satellite system on shuttle Atlantis points up the inherent risk in any space research venture, analysts say. Unlike other NASA black eyes - the Challenger explosion or the flawed mirror on the Hubble Space Telescope, among others - this time there appears to be no obvious human error. Atlantis is set to land at 7:39 a.m. ET Saturday at Florida's Kennedy Space Center. POSTAL SERVICE TO MAKE CUTS: Postmaster General Marvin Runyon Jr. Friday will announce a major restructuring to eliminate thousands of jobs. Postal Service spokesman Marty Robert said the service, facing a $2 billion deficit, will trim its "bureaucracy" - mostly managers and supervisors who don't work in the nation's post offices. Runyon hopes to avoid layoffs by offering early retirement incentives. `GAG RULE' IS OVERTURNED: The U.S. House voted Thursday 251-144 to overturn the Bush administration's "gag rule" that restricts abortion information at federally funded family planning clinics. The vote was short of what's needed to override a Bush veto. The bill now goes to the Senate, where passage is likely. FEMALES PERFORM AS WELL AS MEN: Female soldiers were more than twice as likely as male soldiers to be unfit for deployment during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, mostly because of pregnancy, a Pentagon study released Thursday found. But once in the Persian Gulf, female and male soldiers performed equally well. About 40,000 women served in the gulf war, the largest single deployment of military women ever. WALSH'S TAXES BEING PROBED: Congressional auditors are looking into allegations that special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh and his deputy, Craig Gillen, broke the law by not paying Washington, D.C., income taxes, The Washington Times reported Thursday. Walsh has an office in Oklahoma, but has spent much of his time in Washington since his Iran-contra probe began in 1986. Gillen lives in Atlanta but works in Washington. BUSH'S CRIME APPROACH OPPOSED: The president of the American Bar Association is attacking the Bush administration for a "quick fix" approach to crime. In a letter set for release Friday, ABA president Talbot D'Alemberte of Miami said Attorney General William Barr's recent report on violent crime "appears to ignore the broad societal context" for crime and focuses instead on "a panoply of `get tough' edicts." OSCAR FETCHES $60,500: The first Oscar Award known to be sold by an actor was auctioned Thursday in New York for $60,500, despite pleas from Hollywood. Harold Russell won the Oscar for his 1947 role in "The Best Years of Our Lives." He'll get $55,000 after a commission fee is paid. His wife needs cataract surgery and the couple wants extra money to travel and help their 11 grandchildren. T'STORMS TO SOAK SOUTHEAST: Thunderstorms strike Georgia, South Carolina and Florida Friday, with all-day rain in parts of North Carolina and Virginia. The storms move into the mid-Atlantic region Saturday. Severe weather also hits the Great Plains, sweeping south from the Dakotas and arriving in the Great Lakes region this weekend. The Pacific Northwest will cool, while much of the West remains sunny and hot. DOW JONES OPENS ON DOWNSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Friday at 3340.56 after closing down 24.58 points Thursday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 231.50, down 0.79. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 389.77, down 1.13. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 574.02, down 2.85. 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