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 Fri, Mar 27 1992 Date: Fri, 27 Mar 92 05:43:21 EST Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update March 27-29, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network MILITARY RESERVES TO BE SLASHED: Defense Secretary Dick Cheney Thursday ordered cuts of 140,000 military reservists by 1993 and a total of 234,000 by 1997. The announcement "will cause great consternation, to say the least," said Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa. Cheney said the reductions will save more than $20 billion. The armed forces "are not a social welfare agency," said Cheney, responding to talk of the cuts' impact. IACOCCA GETS BENEFITS: Lee Iacocca next week begins getting the benefits of a bonus drawn up by Chrysler's board in 1990: $6 million this year for staying to groom his successor. The bonus gives him 62,500 shares of Chrysler stock for each quarter he works beyond Dec. 31, 1991. That's $1.1 million for working Jan. 1 through Tuesday with stock at Thursday's close of $17 5:8 per share. JUSTICE DEPT. MAY JOIN CASE: The Justice Department may hear as early as Friday if the Supreme Court will allow it to join oral arguments on April 22 over a restrictive Pennsylvania abortion law. The administration's intervention raises the stakes in the case, which could reverse Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 ruling that first declared abortion rights. TYSON GETS SIX YEARS, FINE: Mike Tyson Thursday was sentenced to six years in prison and fined $30,000 for rape and deviate sexual conduct. The former heavyweight boxing champion said he felt "devastated" and that accuser Desiree Washington "must know" that he "never meant to hurt anyone." Judge Patricia Gifford suspended four years of Tyson's 10-year sentence, but refused to set him free on bail. SCIENCE NOT A SCHOOL PRIORITY: Schools are still not making science education a priority, a new report says. The Nation's Report Card, out Thursday, "paints a sad picture," says Maine educator Eve Bither. The test of 19,000 students in grades 4, 8 and 12, shows, among other things, that lecturing and textbooks are a mainstay; 25% of seniors said they never did experiments in science classes. HARKIN ENDORSES CLINTON: A month after hammering Bill Clinton as a "warmed-over Republican" who embarrassed his party in the supermarket tabloids, Tom Harkin Thursday became the first former Democratic presidential contender to endorse Clinton. The Iowa senator, with a smile and a nod to Clinton at his side, tried to erase three months of Clinton-bashing during which he criticized the Arkansas governor's life. COUNCIL UNMOVED BY LIBYA: Libya tried Thursday to argue its way out of a looming confrontation with the U.N. Security Council, set to impose an air embargo on the country for not handing over two Pan Am bombing suspects. Libya made a new extradition offer Thursday but the USA, England and France plan a Monday vote on a resolution that would cut off air traffic to Libya. ROCKWELL GUILTY, TO PAY $18.5M: Former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant operator Rockwell International Corp. Thursday admitted to crimes against the environment. Rockwell pleaded guilty to four felony hazardous waste violations, one felony violation of the Clean Water Act and five misdemeanor Clean Water Act violations and will pay $18.5 million. Among violations: Storing hazardous wastes without a permit. JFK FILES COULD BE OPENED: An often-delayed resolution to open sealed files on the assassination of John F. Kennedy was introduced Thursday - with the warning that any new information might take up to three years to come out. The resolution, which needs Congress' approval, calls for an independent panel to review and release 880 boxes of material. The documents are now sealed until 2029. CLINTON LOSES HIS COOL: Bill Clinton became irate at a fund-raiser Thursday when a member of the AIDS activism group ACT-UP accused him of "dying of ambition" in his presidential bid. If he were, Clinton shouted, "I wouldn't have stood up and put up with all this crap I've put up with over the past six months. ... I have listened to all these attacks ... on me that's just a bunch of bull," he said. REP. SAYS HE'S NOT ONE OF WORST: Rep. James Scheuer, D-N.Y., surfaced on the unofficial list of the 24 worst abusers in the House check-cashing scandal. Thursday, he said his name shouldn't have been on it. Scheuer claimed his accountant has identified mistakes made by the House bank in handling his account. He said he's probably bounced at least one check but is not among the worst offenders. SLUGGISH STORM TO HIT NORTHEAST: A slow-moving storm will dump rain and snow on the northeast corner of the USA this weekend. The Southeast will be sunny and cool through Saturday but cloudy by Sunday. Showers will drive through the Southwest Friday, moving into the Plains and Mississippi Valley over the weekend. Colder air and showers will work into the Northwest, but the region will warm up by Saturday. DOW JONES OPENS ON UPSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Friday at 3267.67, after closing up 8.28 Thursday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 225.49, up 0.10. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 398.86, down 1.43. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 615.40, down 4.08. News Editor: Beth Mann. 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