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 Tue, Mar 10 1992 Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 05:44:45 EST Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update March 10, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network EPA OFFERS TO BUY CLUNKERS: The Environmental Protection Agency has a proposal to offer cash for polluting clunker cars. It would benefit consumers, who would sell aging cars to companies for $700 to $1,000. It also would help corporations, which would junk the cars and get credits for meeting pollution-cutting standards. Firms that meet standards sell credits to companies that don't, which use them to offset excess emissions. TUESDAY MAY CREATE FRONTRUNNER: Super Tuesday could play Democratic kingmaker to Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton as voters in 11 mostly Southern states cast ballots. President Bush is expected to win the GOP nomination but the latest poll shows him facing a struggle with the Democrats in November. Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin Monday ended his campaign. That leaves Clinton, Paul Tsongas and Jerry Brown to divide 783 delegates. COURT BOOSTS TERM LIMITS: The Supreme Court Monday boosted a national movement seeking to limit the number of terms a politician can serve. The court let stand a ruling by California's high court upholding term limits for state officials, enacted in 1990. Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, first elected in 1964, was outraged. Brown, who is black, compared the act to the poll tax in restricting voters. WOMEN ARE SMOOTH TALKERS: Findings of high-tech brain scans add to evidencethat women's verbal advantage over men may be linked to brain differences. On average, women have a larger splenium, a thick rounded fold on the bridge of fibers connecting the brain's two hemispheres. Studies have shown that women on average are more fluent than men. But no link's been shown between splenium size and verbal ability before. BOY AND DOG RECOVER FROM STORM: A Nebraska boy and his dog, whom he had wrapped in his coat, are recuperating Tuesday after surviving a night lost in a winter storm. Matt Meyers, 15, and his springer spaniel Katie got lost Sunday in a sudden dense fog. A heavy snowstorm blanketed the area. They were found Monday, the boy semiconscious near a gully. Meyers has been hospitalized for hypothermia. Katie is recovering at home. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEAD RESIGNS: The head of the Christian Science Church Monday resigned amid questions over the financially troubled church's use of pension money to support its ailing newspaper and a television station. The resignations of Harvey Wood and several other top church officials come during a period of tension. Some feel the church is focusing too much on its media outlets and not enough on teaching faith. IRAQ TO MEET WITH U.N.: Deputy Iraqi Prime Minister Tariq Aziz Tuesday leads a team of officials in preparation for Unted Nationss Security Council meetings Wednesday and Thursday. The U.N. says Saddam Hussein's regime has ignores U.N. resolutions calling for Iraq to scrap weapons of mass destruction. Aziz's mission appears to be testing the allied coalition that defeated Iraq in the gulf war. USA WATCHING KOREAN SHIPS: White House officials said Monday the USA still is watching the North Korean freighters suspected of carrying Scud missiles to Iran or Syria. But President Bush said he had "nothing to say publicly" on the matter. U.S. intelligence agencies have been monitoring the ships since they left North Korea. Israeli officials have expressed concern about the missiles' possible delivery. HOUSE PURSUES CHECK SCANDAL: House Republicans will try Tuesday to come up with a strategy to force the House to reveal the names of every lawmaker who wrote a bad check. GOP lawmakers want the identities of all abusers of checking privileges at the informal House bank, not just the 24 worst offenders as the ethics committee has recommended. The House is expected to vote Thursday on the committee resolution. SNOW CHOKES MIDWEST: Storms cut across the nation's midsection Monday, shutting down schools and offices and leaving some motorists stranded. In Denver, 16 inches of snow closed schools and stranded 200 motorists. In Wyoming, 100 miles of interstate were closed from the Nebraska border west to Laramie where two died in accidents. Ten inches fell in Cheyenne, closing state offices. WINTER RETURNS TO MIDWEST: Wintry weather returns to the Midwest Tuesday, as chilly readings push right to the Gulf Coast. Clouds and a threat of showers will increase across the mid-Atlantic and Southeast by Tuesday evening. Colder air will slam into these areas by Wednesday. Drier weather is slated for the western Gulf Coast. Clouds and mountain showers will linger in the Southwest. DOW JONES OPENS ON DOWNSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Tuesday at 3215.12, after closing down 6.48 Monday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 224.15, up 0.36. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 407.21, down 0.74. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 615.82, down 0.13. 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