Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!americast.com!usa-post Newsgroups: usa-today.news From: usa-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: usa-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: news Thu, Mar 5 1992 Date: Thu, 5 Mar 92 05:55:52 EST Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update March 5, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network DOCTOR GUILTY OF FRAUD: Virginia "sperm doctor" Cecil Jacobson was found guilty on 52 counts of fraud and perjury Wednesday. Jacobson was accused of secretly fathering as many as 75 of his patients' children with his own sperm through artificial insemination. During the three-week trial, 11 unnamed women testified Jacobson secretly impregnated them with his sperm. SCHOLARSHIP BAN RESTRICTIVE: The federal plan to eliminate race-based scholarships is more restrictive than it appears, a coalition of higher education groups charged Wednesday. The organizations, representing almost all U.S. colleges, said they'll try to overturn it. Nineteen groups, led by the American Council on Education, called the Education Department's proposed rule changes "legally flawed." FARMERS FACE FED OVER WATER: California farmers are taking on the federal government Thursday over water. The state is in the sixth straight year of drought and its farmers are desperate for water to save their crops. But last month, the federally managed Central Valley Project said it would cut off water deliveries to 7,000 farms and greatly reduce supplies to 16,000 others. SCHROEDER CAN'T GET VISA: Rep. Pat Schroeder, D-Colo., said Wednesday that Kuwait would not give her a visa to visit and investigate reports of foreign housekeepers being raped by their Kuwaiti employers. Saud Nasir Sabah, Kuwait's U.S. ambassador, said, "We regard this matter as strictly a domestic issue." Schroeder's initial request for a plane was denied by the Pentagon. Officials said none is available. U.S. SPYCATCHING HEATS UP: Using information from former East Bloc intelligence services, the FBI has launched new espionage investigations in the USA, the top U.S. spycatcher says. "As we get further and further" along there could be "a couple of hundred" cases, Wayne Gilbert, chief of the FBI's Intelligence Division, said Wednesday. Subjects "run the whole gamut" of people with access to U.S. secrets. NEW ADVERSARIES PONDERED: Under a new counterintelligence policy, the FBI is investigating whether "non-traditional adversaries" are attempting to steal sensitive U.S. technology and weapons secrets, Assistant Director Wayne Gilbert said Wednesday. Part of the concern is that even U.S. allies looked with envy at the high-tech display of U.S. firepower during last year's war with Iraq. KERREY COULD CALL IT QUITS: Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey appeared ready to drop out of the Democratic presidential race Thursday after a string of poor primary showings. The first-term senator with a Vietnam war hero record and telegenic looks once appeared a top prospect. But he told friends Wednesday he was ready to drop out. Aides said only last-minute pleas from supporters would change his mind. BUDGET DEBATE BEGINS: The House began debate Wednesday on the 1993 budget as Defense Secretary Dick Cheney warned them not to cut funding too deeply. Cheney told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that personnel cuts would have to double next year to meet lower spending targets. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin, D-Wis., wants $15 billion cut next year. Cheney wants $7 billion cut. ABORTION ACT TO BE HEARD: Congress took up the politically explosive abortion issue Wednesday. A House panel opened hearings on the Freedom of Choice Act, which is unlikely to become law without more supporters in Congress. There are not enough votes to override a promised veto from President Bush. Supporters said the bill only writes into the statutes what the Supreme Court said in Roe vs. Wade. FINALISTS FACE PROBLEMS: The search for a new Los Angeles police chief, already clouded by charges it's rigged against Hispanics, has a new problem. Three of the six finalists are under investigation by internal affairs for allegations ranging from having a sexual affair with a subordinate officer to interfering with a rape investigation. SYSTEM TO BRING RAIN TO GULF: Dismal weather coupled with rain is slated for parts of the Gulf Coast, Ohio Valley and mid-Mississippi Valley Thursday. Snow showers will cap the northern and central Rockies as clouds bring rain to California, Oregon and Washington. Most of the East Coast will bask in sunshine. New England will have some of the nicest weather as temperatures flirt with 60. DOW JONES OPENS ON DOWNSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Thursday at 3268.56, after closing down 21.69 Wednesday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 226.66, down 1.77. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 413.39, down 2.10. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 630.29, down 3.96. News Editor: Beth Mann. (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