Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!usa-post Newsgroups: usa-today.news,americast.usa-today.news From: usa-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: usa-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: news Fri, Aug 21 1992 Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 04:08:23 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update Aug. 21-23, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network BUSH PROMISES TAX CUT: President Bush barrels into the campaign's final 10 weeks with a stunning call for an across-the-board tax cut during his second term. Bush offered no details of his "new crusade" Thursday night in a critical speech accepting his party's nomination. But he said he won't approve lower taxes unless Democrats in Congress approve $300 billion in spending cuts. ARMED CONFLICT APPROACHES: The gulf war allies and Saddam Hussein appear to be moving closer to armed conflict in southern Iraq. Baghdad will be informed Tuesday of a "no-fly" zone over southern Iraq, meaning Iraqi planes attacking Shiite Muslims there risk being shot down. Iraqi military officials declared Thursday they would resist the ban. The USA has more than 100 military plans deployed to the region. BUSH GETS BOOST IN POLLS: President Bush hits the campaign trail Friday after getting a boost from the Republican convention. Bush trailed Democratic candidate Bill Clinton by 19 points when the convention opened, but he's narrowed the gap to 12 points - 51% to 39% - according to a new USA TODAY:CNN Gallup poll with a margin of error of plus or minus 3%. The poll was taken before Bush made his speech. CLINTON STICKS TO HIS MESSAGE: Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton spoke in Michigan Thursday. He spoke about jobs, education and health care. There has been some intense counter-punching from Clinton this week, particularly against GOP attempts to paint Hillary Clinton as an anti-family radical feminist. Clinton aides have the simple strategy from now on to stick to the message. WEINBERGER GRANTED INFORMATION: Caspar Weinberger is entitled to detailed information on Israeli arms shipments to Iran in the mid-1980s, his trial judge ruled Thursday. The former defense secretary is charged with perjury in the Iran-contra probe. If Weinberger's lawyers win the right to use the material at trial, U.S. intelligence agencies would have to decide whether public release would harm national security. AIDE CHARGED IN HUD SCANDAL: A Washington federal grand jury Thursday charged Elaine Richardson - one-time aide to ex-Sen. Edward Brooke of Mass. - of lying to authorities about Brooke's role in the U.S. Housing and Urban Development influence-peddling scandal. At issue is whether Brooke, a lawyer and consultant, arranged for HUD to allocate subsidized units to his clients. WILSON PROMISES VETO: California Gov. Pete Wilson said Thursday he'll veto a budget bill pending in the Legislature because of "bogus accounting gimmicks and shell games." Wilson is switching his stance that the state's 52-day budget stalemate is the result of "honest disagreements" with the Democratic majority over how to close the $11 billion gap. Lawmakers nixed Wilson's budget plan Wednesday. MOUSE WILL HELP FIGHT CF: Researchers have developed a gene-altered mouse with cystic fibrosis - an accomplishment that will allow more rapid testing of new treatments for humans. The breakthrough is reported in the journal Science on Friday. Cystic fibrosis occurs in 1 of 2,000 births and affects about 30,000 children and young adults. One in 20 Americans is an unwitting carrier of the disease. BUSH WON'T RUSH RECOVERY: President Bush's Thursday night proposal to wait until next year to cut taxes and spending fits analysts' insistence that there's no instant economic recovery. In choosing the tax cut, Bush reverses his position he has held for a year that cutting taxes would raise the deficit and send inflation through the roof. The plan signals a return to the supply-side philosophy of President Reagan. ANCHORAGE FIGHTS THROUGH ASH: Anchorage, Alaska struggled to get back to normal Thursday as residents cleaned up ash from the eruption of Mount Spurr. Municipal water supplies were taxed because so many people were hosing down belongings. Stranded airline passengers were delayed as carriers tried to resume normal operations after two days. Tourism deputy director Wendy Wolf said volcanoes add to Alaska's mystique. POLICE DID NOT FRAME `BAMBI': Milwaukee police did not frame Lawrencia "Bambi" Bembenek in the gunshot slaying of her husband's former wife, but investigators made "serious blunders," according to a judge's investigation released Thursday. Bembenek, 34, a former Playboy club waitress and ex-Milwaukee police officer, contends police set her up because she had evidence of corruption and sexual harassment. OFFICER FOUND GUILTY: A military judge found Marine Gunnery Sgt. Clifton Ford guilty of 10 of 14 counts related to alleged sexual harassment of students at Pensacola Naval Air Station, Fla Thursday. Ford, 33, a drill instructor from Orrum, N.C., was reduced two ranks to sergeant. Prosecutors wanted him discharged and fined. The judge said the Navy school did not provide training to deal with female students. IDEAL CONDITIONS IN NORTHEAST: Great weather is on tap for the Northeast and mid-Atlantic this weekend, with sunshine and seasonable temperatures. Steamy weather will envelop the Southeast with thunderstorms expected. The Great Lakes can expect summer conditions to return. A Canadian cold front will push clouds and periods of rain into portions of the northern Rockies. The desert Southwest will sizzle under sunny skies. DOW JONES OPENS SLIGHTLY DOWN: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Friday at 3304.89 after closing down 2.17 points Thursday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 230.38, down 0.03. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 385.87, down 0.02. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 567.86, down 0.25. News Editor: Martin Baucom. (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