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 Tue, Sep 15 1992 Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 04:23:48 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update Sept. 15, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network GROUP WANTS PICKUPS RECALLED: A consumer group estimates that exploding General Motors pickup trucks have caused 10 times more fatalities than the ill-fated Ford Pinto and wants the federal government to recall 5 million full-sized GM trucks made from 1973 to 1987. The Center for Auto Safety says the pickup's gas tank is susceptible to rupturing during side impacts because it's mounted outside the frame of the truck. GROUP PUTS SPIN ON HEALTH CARE: A national health-care plan that includes caps on doctor and hospital fees was proposed Monday by the USA's second-largest doctors' group. The American College of Physicians' plan includes: A national health care budget with a ceiling of about $800 billion to be met by limiting fees, cutting costs and duplicated services. It also includes options for employers to provide insurance. COMPANIES, UNIONS SUPPORT PLAN: The American College of Physicians' plan for national health care includes financial incentives to attract more people into general medicine. The plan, published in Tuesday's Annals of Internal Medicine, has the support of some large employers, unions and consumer groups. Doctors see it as a way to ensure care without a government takeover or second-guessing of insurance companies. EMERGENCY AGENCY FUNDS SAPPED: Federal disaster officials said Monday they will freeze some relief payments - including some to riot-ravaged Los Angeles - until Congress allocates more money. Citing Hurricane Andrew and Iniki damage, the Federal Emergency Management Agency says its funds are sapped. FEMA has halted $80 million in federal aid, but officials refused to say which areas would be denied money. HOUSE REPORTING ON TAILHOOK: House Armed Services Chairman Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wis., blasted Navy leaders Monday as "derelict" in not monitoring last year's Tailhook convention where women were sexually molested by drunken aviators. The House is the first government branch reporting on the scandal that is reshaping the treatment of women in the military. A preliminary Pentagon report on Tailhook is due this month. NIXON BATTLING FOR TAPES: Former president Richard Nixon renewed his legal battle Monday to be paid for the Watergate tapes and other White House papers he was forced to turn over to the government after he resigned in 1974. A federal appeals court in Washington reserved decision indefinitely. Justice Department lawyer Neil Kowlowe claimed that history shows the papers belong to the American public. CONGRESSMAN WEISS DIES: Rep. Ted Weiss, 64, a liberal known as a "conscience of Congress," died of heart failure Monday, a day before a primary he was favored to win. Weiss, a Democrat, represented a Manhattan district that is a bastion of left-wing politics. Weiss' name remains on Tuesday's ballot. If he wins, county Democratic leaders have 10 days to select another candidate for the November ballot. BUSH ADVISER WILL LEAVE POST: President Bush's chief economic adviser, Michael Boskin, says he plans to return to the private sector in November whether Bush wins or loses the election. Before he began his almost four-year stint as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Boskin taught economics at Stanford University. He said he planned to leave last year, but Bush asked him to stay when the economy was turning up. CANADA'S GM WORKERS STRIKING: General Motors was hit with another blow Monday when workers at its joint venture plant with Suzuki Motor went on strike. About 2,100 workers at the CAMI assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario walked out midnight Sunday complaining that wages and working conditions lag those of other auto workers in Canada and the U.S. Union officials say no talks are scheduled. ATTORNEY MAKES COVER-UP CLAIMS: The Bush administration Monday was accused of orchestrating "the mother of all cover-ups" over its pre-Gulf war financial dealings with Iraq. Defense lawyer Bobby Lee Cook made the charge in a sentencing hearing for client Christopher Drogoul, who pleaded guilty to making $5.5 billion in illegal loans to Iraq. Cook says he'll prove National Security Agency agents made visits to Drogoul. PLANT OWNER GETS 20 YEARS: Emmett Roe, a 65-year-old North Carolina poultry plant owner accused of ordering fire escapes to be locked was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the Sept. 3, 1991 fire deaths of 25 workers. Charges were dropped against his son, plant operations manager Brad Roe, 29, and plant manager James Hair, 56. Roe could be paroled in three years. FAA RULES ON CHILD SEATS: Child-safety seats are not required on airplanes, but airlines must allow parents to use an approved child seat or carry their child on their lap, the Federal Aviation Administration said Monday in a new rule that will take effect in 30 days. In the past, airlines set their own policies on child seats. Most airlines permit children under 2 to fly free on an adult's lap. DETROIT STRIKE GOES TO JUDGE: Detroit school officials, seeking to open classes for 168,000 students, asked a state judge Monday to order striking teachers back to work. A hearing was set for Thursday. In Warwick, R.I., teachers agreed to work under an expired contract rather than face jail for defying a back-to-work order. A judge jailed 18 violators Friday. SINGLE PARENT FAMILIES RISE: The percentage of families with children headed by single parents rose to 22% in 1990 from 19% in 1980. In Detroit and Washington, D.C., single-parent families are a majority of families with children, according to census data analysis by the Greater Washington Research Center. The increase in single parenting is partly attributed to the violence of the drug trade and poverty. DOW JONES OPENS ON UPSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens at 3376.22 Tuesday after closing up 70.52 Monday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 233.73, up 2.93. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 390.05, up 3.60. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 594.21, up 11.20. NORTHEAST WILL BE WARM, DRY: A strong mid-Atlantic high Tuesday brings warm and dry weather. Expect sunshine in the lower Midwest and most of the Northeast. However, a weak cold front will cool the Northeast later this week. East winds will bring rain and storms to Florida and the Gulf Coast. Mild and sunny in the Plains. Rain and storms in the northern Plains. Storms are possible in parts of the Dakotas. 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