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, Oct 13 1992 Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 05:19:04 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update Oct. 13, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network BUSH CAMP PLANS SHAKE-UP: The Bush administration Monday signaled a White House shake-up to convince voters the president intends to make a new assault on the economy. Bush promised an economic team headed by ex-Secretary of State James Baker. He likely will dump Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, Budget Director Richard Darman and chief economic adviser Michael Boskin - all criticized for giving faulty advice. GORE FAVORITE IN V.P. DEBATE: Debate action shifts Tuesday to Atlanta where Dan Quayle, Al Gore and James Stockdale face off at 7 p.m. ET, in the only vice presidential debate. Gore enters as the favorite, with 61% saying they expect him to do the best job, a new USA TODAY:CNN:Gallup poll shows. Bush campaign cochairman Bob Teeter Monday said Ross Perot's debate showing could help President Bush by opening up the race. NASA SEARCHES FOR OTHER LIFE: NASA on Monday marked the 500th anniversary of Columbus' arrival by launching a $100 million, 10-year search for extraterrestrial worlds. Scientists activated mammoth radio telescopes to listen for radio signals from space. A 112-foot-wide dish at Goldstone in the Mojave Desert and a 1,000-foot-wide dish at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory will scan more than 1,000 stars closest to Earth. WOMAN RECEIVES PIG ORGAN: A transplanted pig's liver kept a California woman alive long enough for a human liver to be located Monday. Doctors were in surgery Monday night to replace the pig liver with a human one flown in from Utah. Susan Fowler, 26, of Burbank, received the pig's liver Sunday after her own failed and she went into a coma. It was the first-ever pig to human transplant. FISCHER, KREBS WIN NOBEL PRIZE: Edmond Fischer, 72, and Edwin Krebs, 74, have shared scientific insights for nearly 40 years. On Monday, they shared a Nobel Prize in medicine. The colleagues at the University of Washington, Seattle, pioneered work that showed how cells are turned on and off. The research has implications for the study of all kinds of disease - including cancer, diabetes and AIDS. SOUTH LAGS IN TEEN FUNDING: Southern states spent $5.7 billion last year to support families started by teenagers, but provided only $110 million to prevent teen pregnancies, shows a new report. The report by the Southern Regional Infant Mortality Program and the Southern Governors Association also found that the cost of support increased 60% since 1987. The teen pregnancy rate increased an average of 16%. BRAUN'S LEAD SLIPS IN ILL.: Illinois U.S. Senate candidate Carol Moseley Braun tried to rekindle her romance with voters Monday in her first debate with Republican opponent Rich Williamson in Peoria. But the honeymoon is over. A Chicago Tribune poll has Braun leading 46% to 33%, compared with 54%-26% on Sept. 28. Growing criticism is that Braun, who wants to be the first black woman in the Senate, is weak on issues. INDIANS CHEER RECENT GAINS: Leaders of 125 tribes met on Columbus Day at the National Congress of American Indians in Arlington, Va., to cheer recent political gains, including reauthorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act. But they noted what awaits Congress: passage of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, strengthening reservation sovereignty and overhaul of Bureau of Indian Affairs. FLA. NEEDS BETTER EVACUATION: Florida officials Monday, in the first post-Hurricane Andrew readiness review, warned the state must be better prepared to evacuate residents from hurricanes. "We've got a lot of rethinking to do," Florida Lt. Gov. Buddy McKay told federal, state and local officials evaluating damage from Andrew. The panel, picked by Gov. Lawton Chiles, met in Miami for the first of five sessions. CHILDREN'S TRAIN CONDUCTOR SHOT: A popular Los Angeles children's train ride was shut down after a well known train conductor was slain. Train engineer Stanley Diamond, 43 - a former clown and Little League baseball coach who drove the Griffith Park trains for three years - was robbed of the day's earnings and fatally shot Sunday evening. Many who knew Diamond said he had a way with children. ZOO HATCHES BABY DRAGONS: Thirteen new baby dragons have been born at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., marking the first time the dragons have hatched outside their native Indonesia. Two eggs of Komodo dragons - the world's largest lizards, which can grow to 9 feet and weigh 300 pounds - still remain to be hatched. U.S. breeders have tried for years to mate the dragons. BEAR IN ROAD KILLS DRIVER: A driver was killed when a bear wandered onto Interstate 5 in Mount Shasta, Calif., triggering a four-car accident. Laurent MacGill, 33, of Mare Island died when his car struck a bear that minutes before had been killed by a truck. Two other cars then crashed while trying to avoid the carcass. Two other people were hurt. N.C. SHERIFF KILLED BY ROBBER: Federal and state officials surrounded an Oak City, N.C., bank into Monday night after the town's sheriff was fatally shot by a gunman who took two hostages in a foiled morning bank robbery. Sheriff Jerry Beach - a 33-year law enforcement veteran in the town of 700 - died after being shot in the stomach. Officials negotiated with the gunman, reportedly holding two cleaning workers. BURNING ENGINE CUTS OFF FLIGHT: A USAir Boeing 737 aborted a takeoff Monday at Pittsburgh International Airport after an engine caught fire on the runway, officials said. All 133 passengers and crew en route to Charlotte, N.C., were evacuated safely through inflatable chutes. The airport opened Oct. 1. DOW JONES OPENS ON UPSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens at 3174.41 Tuesday after closing up 37.83 Monday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 224.28, up 2.17. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 365.98, up 1.13. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 573.84, up 3.32. WARM WEATHER DOMINATES: Sunny, warm weather dominates Tuesday across the nation's mid-section from California to the Carolinas, and north to the mid-Atlantic and lower Midwest as well. Rain or snow is expected in upstate New York and northern New England. Temperatures in the 70s and 80s will cover the Southeast. The Southwest will be clear and warm Tuesday. Northwest temperatures will drop, with medium winds. 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