Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.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 30 1992 Date: Fri, 30 Oct 92 09:37:04 EST Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network RACE IS UP TO FULL SPEED: President Bush, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot will press home their messages not only on the road this weekend, but also with TV ads and interviews. Polls show Clinton ahead in 18 states for a total of 223 electoral votes. Bush leads in four states with 17 total votes. A candidate needs 270 votes to win. Many key states - including Ohio, Florida, Michigan and Texas - are up for grabs. CLINTON'S LEAD STAYS SMALL: In the latest USA TODAY:CNN:Gallup poll of 1,657 likely voters, taken Tuesday and Wednesday, Bill Clinton stands at 41%, President Bush 38% and Ross Perot 16%. Margin of error: 3%. Among appearances this weekend: all on "Talking with David Frost" Friday; Clinton on "Good Morning America" and C-SPAN Friday; Bush on "Today" and "Larry King Live" Friday and MTV Sunday. CLINTON PLEDGES AIDS PUSH: Bill Clinton, warning that AIDS could gut the nation's health care system and kill 1 million people, pledged an all-out campaign against the epidemic Thursday - including appointment of a single official to oversee the effort. Clinton also called for increased research funding, education programs in schools, quicker approval of experimental treatments and anti-discrimination measures. PEROT'S CONFIDENCE IS UP: The way Ross Perot sees the election, President Bush can't win - but Perot can. No matter that polls show Bush in a statistical dead heat with Bill Clinton and Perot a distant third. "We believe that if there is a massive turnout, there's going to be a surprise vote for Perot," campaign legal counsel Clayton Mulford said Thursday. 39 CITIES CHANGING GAS: Starting Sunday, clean air means costlier, more frequent trips to the gas pump for motorists in 39 cities. To reduce unhealthy winter levels of carbon monoxide, motorists will have to use cleaner-burning fuel - a blend of gas and ethanol or a methanol-based chemical. Another 19 cities began using it in September and October. All must use it through winter, says a Clean Air Act rule. FDA APPROVES DEPO PROVERA: A birth control injection that lasts three months will be widely available in the USA after receiving Food and Drug Administration approval Thursday. Depo Provera, manufactured by Upjohn Co., is already available in 90 countries and used by millions of women. The drug has long been approved as a cancer treatment. Supplies will be ready by January, says Upjohn. HISS PROCLAIMS INNOCENCE: Convicted perjurer and accused spy Alger Hiss proclaimed his innocence Thursday - backed by a Russian general and newly-released Soviet military files. The former State Department lawyer was called a Soviet spy 44 years ago. Although never tried for espionage, Hiss was convicted of perjury in 1950. He served 3 1:2 years in jail - and the years since then trying to clear his name. RUSSIAN GENERAL SUPPORTS HISS: Convicted perjurer Alger Hiss watched a video Thursday of Russian military archivist Gen. Dmitri A. Volkogonov, who says Hiss never spied for the Soviets. Hiss, now 87 and frail, said at a news conference that he was not bitter towards admitted Communist Whittaker Chambers, who started it all by saying Hiss gave him secret government documents. JEWS PROTEST TRIAL OUTCOME: Angry Jews protested peacefully at a New York courthouse Thursday after a jury acquitted black teen-ager Lemrick Nelson in the fatal stabbing of a Jewish scholar from Australia. Yankel Rosenbaum, 29, was killed in Brooklyn's Crown Heights area in August 1991 during several days of racial unrest sparked when black youth Gavin Gato, 7, was killed by a car driven by a Hasidic Jew. SCHOOL BUSES GAIN EXIT: Full-size school buses made after May 2, 1994, must add another emergency exit, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Thursday. The rule will require an emergency door to the left side of a typical 65-passenger bus that also has a rear emergency door and a right-side door. Larger buses would require more exits. STUDENT PROPHESIED DEATH: When students in Gary, Ind., got together Oct. 5 to discuss rampant violence, Mann High School senior Kenyota White urged the community to stop the violence. "They're killing us one by one," he said. Now, classmates are mourning White, 17, shot to death while sitting in a car Tuesday - the city's 74th homicide this year. BIOSPHERE GETS MORE OXYGEN: Two of the eight people sealed in Biosphere 2 in Arizona are breathing better now that they're getting pure oxygen pumped into their bedrooms. Roy Walford, a physician, and Jane Poynter, a scientist, reported troubles sleeping after oxygen levels dropped to those found at elevations of 11,500 feet. Tubes will be installed soon to funnel oxygen to all crew. HEMOPHILIAC TEEN IS FIGHTING: Ricky Ray, 15, one of three hemophiliac brothers with the AIDS virus, was in serious condition fighting an infection at All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla.The youth has been hospitalized several times in the past 18 months. His plans to marry a 16-year-old schoolmate are on hold. The Ray family was an early victim of anti-AIDS harassment. PITTSBURGH PRESS SOLD: E.W. Scripps is selling Pittsburgh Press Co. to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a move that's likely to put Pittsburgh on the growing list of one-newspaper cities. The sale to Post-Gazette's owner, Blade Communications, depends on the Post-Gazette getting a contract with the Teamsters. They have been on strike since May 17, shutting down both papers. If the deal fails, Press Co. closes. DOW JONES OPENS ON DOWNSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens at 3246.27 Friday after closing down 5.13 Thursday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 231.42, up 0.51. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 381.29, up 2.29. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 605.82, up 4.43. PACIFIC STORM ROLLS INLAND: A Pacific storm that struck areas of California Thursday will move into the Rockies over the weekend, bringing snow to parts of Montana and Wyoming. Intervals of rain and drizzle are on tap for the northern Plains through Sunday. Rain will continue in the Northwest. Cool Canadian high pressure dash into the Northeast. Partly sunny skies and cool conditions hug the Great Lakes. News Editor: Kate Coughlin. (1-919-855-3491) Making copies of USA TODAY Update (Copyright, 1992) for further distribution purposes 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