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 Mon, Aug 24 1992 Date: Mon, 24 Aug 92 04:10:13 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update Aug. 24, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network BUSH BOUNCES INTO RACE: President Bush has "bounced" from the Republican convention, but he's still trailing Democrat Bill Clinton with 10 weeks until the election. A new USA TODAY:CNN:Gallup poll taken Friday and Saturday shows Clinton ahead 52%-42%, a nine-point bounce from the pre-convention poll where Clinton led by 19 points. The margin of error was plus or minus 4%. ANDREW AIMS AT MIAMI: As the whirling wrath of Hurricane Andrew built off Florida's coast, so did panic-stricken warnings: Flee or face a hurricane disaster like none seen in this century. Authorities ordered 1 million people along the south Florida shore to evacuate. After ripping through the Bahamas Sunday night, Andrew took aim at Miami. Andrew was expected in Miami Monday morning, New Orleans Wednesday. BAKER TAKES OVER WHITE HOUSE: James Baker officially left his diplomatic post Sunday to take over as White House chief of staff. At the same time, Baker's top deputy, Lawrence Eagleburger, took charge as acting secretary of State. Baker, back in one of the jobs he held under President Reagan, plans to give direction to the White House and President Bush's reelection campaign in the 10 weeks before the election. BAKER BEHIND TAX-CUT PLAN: James Baker, the new White House chief of staff, was widely suspected of encouraging President Bush to insert the tax-cut proposal in his nomination acceptance speech last Thursday. Although Bush offered no specifics, the cut proposal reflects the Reagan era supply-side principle that tax cuts ignite economic growth, which Bush sorely needs as the recovery remains flat. BUSH TRIES TO STOP SADDAM: Experts say the Bush administration appears determined to stop Iraq's Saddam Hussein from attacking the country's Shiite Muslims in the south - the delayed price for earlier policy decisions. Establishing an allied-protected "no fly zone" south of the 32nd parallel is aimed at halting Saddam's air control over southern Iraq. Critics say Bush is in a bind about options with Saddam. PEACE TALKS IN WASHINGTON: The sixth round of peace talks between Israel and its Arab neighbors opens Monday in Washington amid renewed hope the adversaries really are ready to make peace. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has replaced negotiators from Yitzhak Shamir's hard-line government with academics and pragmatists. The parties have agreed to a full month of talks - unlike past 10-day sessions. PRESS WILL BE KEPT OUT: Unlike the last five rounds, characterized by much public name-calling, the Israelis and the Jordanians will not brief the press every day during the peace talks which begin Monday. The Arabs are unhappy about President Bush's pledge to give Israel $10 billion in loan guarantees to settle Soviet immigrants without requiring Israel to freeze all the settlements in the occupied territories. MICROWAVES ZAP WASTE: Acid rain may evaporate soon because of a development being unveiled Monday at the American Chemical Society meeting. High-frequency microwaves would zap the poisonous sulfur dioxides and nitrogen oxides formed from burning high-sulfur coal into byproducts that could be used for treating wastewater and cleaning toxic gases, researchers say. The process converts 98% of the acid. MARKET NERVES INCREASE: The presidential campaign is starting in earnest and financial markets are getting a case of nerves. Wall Street favors President Bush in this election because it sees Republicans as more pro-business than Democrats. Investors hope markets don't jitter like Friday, when the dollar fell to an all-time low against the German mark and the Dow Jones industrial average fell 51 points to 3254. GEORGE TRIAL RESUMES: A jury weighing the guilt or innocence of former CIA spy chief Clair George on Iran-contra criminal charges resumes deliberations Monday. The eight-woman, four-man jury met for a half-day Saturday before adjourning for the rest of the weekend. It has deliberated for a total of 15 hours since receiving the case Thursday. George is accused of lying to Congress. REPORT SAYS NIXON SOUGHT: Senate POW:MIA investigators are seeking to question Richard Nixon about his Oval Office declaration that no U.S. soldiers were left behind in the 1973 Vietnam withdrawal, New York's Daily News reported Sunday. The Senate Select Committee on POW-MIA Affairs would neither confirm nor deny that Nixon's testimony is sought, but confirmed that Henry Kissinger would testify next month. U.S. AIRLIFT IN WAJIR: U.S. transport planes shuttled food for starving Somalis into the Kenya-Somalia frontier town of Wajir Sunday, flying a total of 18 missions from the Kenyan Indian ocean port of Mombasa. The U.S. airlift is part of an international attempt to fight famine in Somalia, where hundreds of thousands have died. CUBANS DIGGING TUNNELS: Cubans are going underground, digging "People's Tunnels" beneath cities and towns to be prepared for the "Yanqui" invasion. That's the latest sign of Fidel Castro's obsession with a U.S. invasion - 31 years after the Bay of Pigs fiasco put a lid on such U.S. adventuring. Now, the U.S. government prefers to let its economic embargo squeeze Cuba while waiting for Castro to fall. MERITS SHOWN AT BLACK SCHOOLS: A new study shows black students at historically black colleges feel more comfortable and get better grades than their peers on predominantly white campuses. UCLA sociologist Walter Allen surveyed 4,000 black students on 16 public campuses and found that grade averages are higher at black schools, they feel alienated at white schools and 75% say they've felt racial discrimination. ROCKIES, GREAT PLAINS GET SNOW: Cold air and snow bring a touch of winter to the northern Rockies and upper Great Plains Monday. Showers will stretch from Minnesota to Colorado, while Iowa and Missouri see a sunny, pleasant day. Sun and warmth remain in the Midwest, with localized thunderstorms. The Northeast will warm and the Northwest will be mostly sunny. DOW JONES OPENS ON DOWNSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Monday at 3254.10 after closing down 50.79 points Friday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 228.61, down 1.77. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 384.31, down 1.56. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 563.70, down 4.16. News Editor: Kate Coughlin. (1-919-855-3491) Making copies of USA TODAY Update (Copyright, 1992) for further distribution purposes 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