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 Fri, Oct 23 1992 Date: Fri, 23 Oct 92 04:43:42 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update Oct. 23-25, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network BUSH LAUNCHES VERBAL ATTACK: President Bush said Thursday he has "a pleasant relationship with Bill Clinton," then launched some of his harshest attacks of the campaign. "You cannot lie and you can't be all things to all people," Bush said at a Vineland, N.J., rally. He also said a vote for Ross Perot would be wasted and urged voters: "Don't listen to these nutty pollsters telling you how to think." CLINTON IS NOT TRADITIONAL DEM.: Bill Clinton mounted a podium in front of the fog-shrouded Seattle harbor Thursday - the same spot where Michael Dukakis stood four years ago. Clinton used the opportunity to return to a message with which he started his campaign: He's not a traditional Democrat. He's trying to win voters who left the party believing it was concerned with the poor more than the middle class. ESTROGEN MAY RAISE CANCER RISK: A mother's estrogen level during pregnancy can affect her daughter's risk for developing breast cancer later in life, says a study in this week's Lancet. Women who weighed more than eight pounds at birth had a 30% greater risk of developing breast cancer. Birth weight indicates a mother's estrogen level in pregnancy, say researchers. Low estrogen levels decreased the risk by 75%. CITIES UNPREPARED FOR RIOTS: While some cities say they've beefed up anti-riot procedures since April's Los Angeles riots, many cities appear unprepared to deal with major disturbances, law enforcement officials say. There's been no recent national survey of anti-riot procedures, said Patrick Murphy, who handled disturbances as New York City police commissioner. SOME HAVE BEEFED UP POLICE: Fort Worth, New Orleans and Chicago police say they are more prepared for riots following those in Los Angeles. Fort Worth police assign the SWAT team and mounted police to train regularly on dealing with surprise disturbances. New Orleans police receive regular training on how to deal with civil disorders. And Chicago police recently re-examined their disturbance-control procedures. NRA WANTS END OF BAN: In a case with implications for gang-troubled communities across the nation, the National Rifle Association files suit Friday to stop an Arizona trend - juvenile gun ordinances. The laws prohibit juveniles from carrying guns without written parental permission. But the NRA contends the ordinance won't stop drive-by shootings or robberies, and blames lax courts for helping gangs flourish. CONTRIBUTORS GIVE EVENLY: Big political contributors are hedging their bets and throwing money fairly equally at both parties and their national candidates, ignoring ideology, polls and predictions. The total so far: $230 million through Aug. 31, says a study by the Center for Responsive Politics. The Democrats' top donors: Lawyers and lobbyists. For Republicans: The finance, insurance and real estate segment. PARKFIELD IS UNSHAKEN: The strong earthquake that geologists predicted could shake Parkfield, Calif., before Thursday night never did happen, and folks here aren't the least surprised. They spent the last day of this unprecedented, 72-hour earthquake warning just as they spent the first and second days - doing their usual things. Since 1985, the federal government has spent $19 million in quake research. BACTERIA TARGETED IN PREGNANCY: Lawyers and medical experts Thursday urged pregnant women be tested for Group B Streptococcus, a common bacteria that kills 2,000 newborns a year. Between 15% and 40% of pregnant women carry the bacteria. It generates no symptoms in adults, but causes brain damage, cerebral palsy, lung and kidney damage, sight and hearing loss in 12,000 babies each year. Antibiotics decrease risks. L.A. TEACHERS REJECT OFFER: Teachers in Los Angeles, the USA's second-largest school district, rejected a contract that included a proposed 12% pay cut and voted to strike if talks with the financially strapped district break down. No strike deadline has been set, but the union, which represents 26,000 teachers and 8,000 support workers, could walk out before Nov. 6 - when the cut is scheduled to kick in. MAN GUILTY IN REAGAN INCIDENT: Rick Springer, 41, an anti-nuclear protester who shattered a crystal eagle on a podium where Ronald Reagan was speaking April 13, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of interfering with the Secret Service. Springer faces a year in prison. Also in Las Vegas, Edward Carroll, 43, was arrested after police said he called them and threatened to kill Bill Clinton, who arrives in town Friday. WALLACE LEAVES HOSPITAL: Former Alabama governor George Wallace was released from the hospital, nearly a month after he almost died from a blood infection. "We are very happy he is going home," said his daughter, Peggy Kennedy. Wallace, 73, entered Jackson Hospital Sept. 25 with a serious blood infection. Health problems have plagued Wallace since a 1972 assassination attempt. BUTTAFUOCO IS NOT CHARGED: Joseph Buttafuoco, whose purported teen-age lover, Amy Fisher, shot his wife, won't be charged with having sex with Fisher when she was a minor, authorities in Nassau County, N.Y., said Thursday. Investigators were unable to connect Buttafuoco to the shooting or the escort service where Fisher reportedly was a prostitute. Fisher faces five to 15 years in prison when she's sentenced Dec. 1. SWEEPSTAKES PROMPTS SUIT: New Jersey businessman Gary Lewis Friday goes to court in New Jersey to try to prevent Publishers Clearing House from awarding prizes until another contest can be held. Lewis had entered the contest, then saw a TV report that thousands of entries - most from those who placed no orders - had been found in the trash in Queens, N.Y. The company blames an outside sorting house for the dumping. DOW JONES OPENS ON UPSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens at 3200.88 Friday after closing up 13.78 Thursday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 228.10, down 0.50. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 374.51, up 1.09. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 597.12, down 0.03. SHOWERS TO BRUSH WESTERN EDGES: Showers are expected from New Mexico through southern California Friday, while early fog in the Northwest gives way to sun. The northern and central Rockies will be sunny and warm. Showers and cool air move from Missouri through the Great Lakes into extreme northern New England. Other areas of the Northeast will be sunny and warmer. A beautiful sunny day is on tap for the Southeast. 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