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, Oct 19 1992 Date: Mon, 19 Oct 92 04:38:13 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update Oct. 19, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network DEBATE PRESSURE IS ON BUSH: President Bush, still facing a 12-point deficit in the polls with barely two weeks to go, faces his challengers for the final debate Monday. The pressure is on Bush as he, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot hold their third debate at 7 p.m. ET in East Lansing, Mich. Bush aides predict he'll come out slashing at what he calls Clinton's tax-and-spend philosophy and character. CLINTON LEADS BY 12%: A USA TODAY:CNN:Gallup Poll conducted Thursday through Saturday shows Democrat Bill Clinton leading with 46%; President Bush at 34%; independent Ross Perot at 14%. (Margin of error: 3%.) The new poll shows 56% still believe Bush could best handle an international crisis to 31% for Clinton and 6% for Perot. 68% believe both Bush and Clinton would raise taxes. PEROT WILL HIT CAMPAIGN TRAIL: Having saturated the prime-time TV schedule, Ross Perot is expected to venture onto the campaign trail after Monday's debate. Aides say Perot, with most of his TV ads done, will have more time for traditional politicking, although he has no appearances scheduled. But Sal Russo, a Republican consultant and former Perot aide, suggests Perot has little reason to go out and stump. YOUTH DRUG USE MAKES JUMP: Drug use is rising again among the USA's junior high and high school students, reversing a three-year trend, says a report out Monday by the parents' group PRIDE. A study of 212,802 students in 34 states shows drug use by students grades 6-8 rose during the 1991-92 school year. High school students are using more of all substances surveyed except marijuana, cocaine and wine coolers. COLOMBIA STRUCK AGAIN: Aftershocks continued in hard-hit Colombia - struck by two weekend earthquakes and a geyser. Toll: At least 10 dead and scores injured. Sunday's quake, measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale, was followed by aftershocks around 4.5, said Frank Baldwin of the National Earthquake Information Center. The quakes hit the largely unpopulated northwestern region of Colombia near the Panama border. CLINTON CRITICS POINT AT RIOT: Bill Clinton says leading the Arkansas National Guard during his 12 years as governor has prepared him to be commander in chief of the USA. That gives little confidence to some in Fort Smith on the Arkansas-Oklahoma border, where hard feelings linger over Clinton's handling of a 1980 riot by Cuban refugees. At nearby Fort Chaffee, 62 people, including 41 refugees, were injured. SEN. INOUYE ACCUSED IN AD: Hawaii Democrat Daniel Inouye's easy ride toward a sixth Senate term turned rough last week. Republican challenger Rick Reed aired Friday - then canceled Saturday - TV ads accusing Inouye of sexually assaulting his hair stylist 17 years ago. Reed said he pulled the ads after the stylist, Lenore Kwock, threatened to sue, although she repeated the accusation at a news conference. D'AMATO ENDORSES CUOMO: New York Gov. Mario Cuomo got an unlikely endorsement for the Supreme Court. GOP Sen. Alfonse D'Amato said Sunday that Democrat Cuomo would be a good candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court. State Democratic Party chairman John Marino criticized D'Amato's move as political, adding he questioned whether D'Amato is conceding "the whole election to Bill Clinton." KELLY TAKES OVER N.Y. POLICE: Raymond Kelly, 51, will have to deal with corruption probes, racial tensions and low morale as he takes over the nation's largest police force. But Kelly, a "cop's cop" who began his career 29 years ago as a police switchboard operator, has few illusions about what lies ahead for him as New York's 37th police commissioner. He's the first white commissioner in nearly a decade. LOTTERY WINNER IS A NUN: California's latest lottery millionaire won't be spending her boodle on any four-wheel-drive vehicles or fancy homes. Sister Josephine Contris has lived under a vow of poverty for 54 years. Sister Josephine, 71, raked in $1 million in the state lottery's televised Big Spin game Saturday night. She's giving it all to her order, the Sisters of St. Joseph, for their retirement home. SLAIN STUDENT'S TRIAL CONTINUES: On Aug. 15, a mob surrounded Vietnamese college student Luyen Phan Nguyen and viciously beat him to death in Coral Springs, Fla. The trial for the first of several white youths charged in the beating continues Monday. The key question is whether defendant Bradley Mills, 18, was a peacemaker - as his lawyers claims - or part of a mob that murdered the University of Miami student. EUROPE ECONOMIES HURT EXPORTS: August's sharp drop in U.S. exports could be followed by a worse decline in September. The problem: Economies in Europe are slowing. Aggravated by the recent currency crisis, consumer confidence has plunged. So Europeans aren't buying, and that is slashing overseas revenue for many U.S. companies. U.S. exports fell 6% in August to $35.5 billion, the Commerce Department said Friday. METEOR SHOWERS BEGIN MONDAY: The annual Orionids meteor shower begins Monday night but is unlikely to produce a shooting star as spectacular as the one that dazzled mid-Atlantic coastal watchers Oct. 9. The Orionids display - visible in the Western Hemisphere - peaks Wednesday, but continues through Thursday. The Orionids result from the Earth passing through the debris of Halley's comet. VICTIMS MEET FOR ABUSE LINKUP: The emerging problem of priests abusing children brought about 300 victims, their relatives and professionals to Arlington Heights, Ill., for the first national conference of Victims of Clergy Abuse Linkup, a lay Catholic group. The Rev. Andrew Greeley blamed a lack of standards in the priesthood and an unwillingness by church authorities or public officials to face the problem. DOW JONES OPENS ON DOWNSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens at 3174.41 Monday after closing down 0.27 Friday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 226.44, up 0.90. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 367.33, up 1.70. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 582.61, up 3.97. NEW ENGLAND GETS WINTERY TASTE: Autumn will seem like winter Monday in much of the Northeast as cold Canadian air sweeps in. The cold will extend south along the eastern seaboard, dropping nighttime temperatures into the 30s as far south as Florida. Northern Minnesota will be the only other area to get precipitation. The upper Plains will start to warm. The Northwest will stay cool, with daytime readings in the 50s. 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