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, Sep 21 1992 Date: Mon, 21 Sep 92 04:39:57 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update Sept. 21, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network CLINTON GETS NOD ON ECONOMY: Bill Clinton leads President Bush on issues voters care about most, a new USA TODAY:CNN:Gallup poll finds. The poll finds 52% believe Clinton can better handle the economy; 36% say Bush in the poll with a 3% margin of error. Clinton scores even higher among younger voters, blacks, working women, union households and democrats who voted for Bush in 1988. CLINTON UNVEILS NEW AD: Bill Clinton unveiled the first negative television ad of the fall campaign Sunday - part of his new offensive aimed at shifting attention to the economy and away from nagging questions about Clinton's efforts to avoid the Vietnam draft. The 30-second ad portrays Bush as being out-of-touch with economic problems and shows him promising 30 millon new jobs. FRENCH PASS MAASTRICHT TREATY: By a razor-thin margin, French voters on Sunday backed plans for a future unified Europe. The French narrowly approved the Maastricht Treaty, an accord designed to give Europe one currency, one common defense and one political union competing on an equal footing with the United States and Japan. The positive vote helps to ease Europe's currency crisis. NIXON AIDES WILL TESTIFY: Amid continuing controversy over whether U.S. servicemen were left behind after the Vietnam War, Henry Kissinger and other top aides of former president Richard Nixon testify this week about the war's end - and what was known about POWs. More than a dozen Nixon advisers will testify at Senate hearings beginning Monday. POW-MIA activists welcome the round of hearings. SCHWARZKOPF FOUGHT OFF HAWKS: Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf had to fight off a "contingent of hawks in Washington" who wanted to start the ground offensive against Iraq in bad weather and before he was ready, the Desert Storm commander writes in his memoirs. Schwarzkopf's book, "It Doesn't Take a Hero," is scheduled for publication next month. Excerpts appear in Newsweek magazine out Monday. TOON THINKS POWS WERE USED: Malcolm Toon, co-chairman of the joint U.S.-Russian commission on POWs, said Sunday that he believes U.S. military personnel captured during the Korean and Vietnam wars were shipped to Siberia for intelligence-gathering and propaganda purposes. Toon returned to Moscow over the weekend to press Russian officials to open Soviet intelligence archives. JUDGE RULES AGAINST DEPARTMENT: A Hinds County, Miss., judge said the state Department of Health can't prohibit clinics from doing abortions beyond 16 weeks of pregnancy. Patricia Wise ruled Friday that requiring the procedure be performed in a hospital would have ended elective late-term abortions. OFFICERS FEUD OVER PROTEST: Black New York police officers denounced last week's City Hall demonstration by off-duty officers, most of whom are white and some of whom shouted racial slurs at Mayor David Dinkins. They should be arrested and punished, said Transit Police Sgt. Lloyd Finley. The protest Wednesday was against a proposal to create an all-civilian board to review charges of police misconduct. QUAYLE TO WATCH MURPHY: Vice President Dan Quayle told NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday he would watch Monday's "Murphy Brown" season opener and was sending Baby Boy Brown "a gift and a note." The vice president, who chastised the lead character for deciding to have a child on her own, will watch the show at the Washington, D.C., apartment of a friend who raised several of her sister's children. SCIENTISTS ASSESS RESULTS: Scientists Sunday began assessing the 43 experiments - from space-spawned tadpoles to Oriental hornets - that shuttle Endeavour's crew worked in the weightlessness of space. The experiments are an important step toward space station Freedom, slated for later this decade. One failure: Two-thirds of 180 hornets died due to high humidity. MINISTER CLEARED OF ALLEGATIONS: Houston minister the Rev. W. Clark Chamberlain III has been cleared by Presbyterian Church USA officials of a sexual harassment allegation. Chamberlain, elected the church's chief spokesman in June, quit the next day because of the allegation. A special panel said Saturday there was no basis for the allegation, which was not described, the church's news service said. SUPPOSED WITCHES READMITTED: Members of the First Church of Salem, Mass., voted Sunday to readmit Rebecca Nurse and Giles Corey, excommunicated in 1692 during the witchcraft hysteria. The vote by the Unitarian parish was part of the 300th anniversary of the witchcraft trials. Nurse was one of 19 people hanged on witchcraft charges. Corey was killed by the pressure of stones piled on his chest. LAST DAY OF SUMMER SEASONABLE: For the last day of summer Monday, temperatures across most of the USA are at seasonal levels. Along the nation's southern tier, 80s and 90s are on tap with 100s expected in parts of Texas and the desert Southwest. Cooler air will dip into the northern Plains and Great Lakes. In the Northeast, showers and 60s and 70s are forecast. And in the Northwest, 60s and 70s are on tap. DOW JONES OPENS ON UPSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens at 3327.05 Monday after closing up 11.35 Friday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 232.39, up 1.42. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 385.50, up 0.34. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 589.12, up 1.30. 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