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, Apr 2 1992 Date: Thu, 2 Apr 92 05:44:59 EST Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update April 2, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network CLINTON APPEARS ON `DONAHUE': Bill Clinton, concerned over character questions, Wednesday appeared on "The Phil Donahue Show." "I don't think it (shows) bad character to admit you're not perfect," he said. Donahue grilled the candidate, at times to the jeers of the audience. At one point, Clinton said he'd answer no more questions about Gennifer Flowers, who says she had an affair with Clinton. USA TO AID COMMONWEALTH: President Bush Wednesday said the USA will help underwrite $24 billion in aid for the former Soviet Union. He sent draft legislation to Capitol Hill, urging action by the end of the month. The move coincided with a long-scheduled foreign policy speech by Democratic candidate Bill Clinton, who called Bush's foreign policy "reactive" and accused him of footdragging on Commonwealth aid. TWO NAMES DROPPED FROM LIST: The House ethics committee Wednesday named the 22 worst check bouncers at the now-defunct House bank, dropping two names from the list. Rep. Charlie Wilson, D-Texas, and Rep. James Scheuer, D-N.Y., successfully argued the bank's records were wrong. Rep. Joseph Early, D-Mass., complained about the lack of an adequate appeals process. Ethics committee members "ran like rats!," Early said. ROSE-COLORED REALITY: People with normal vision can have a different building block in a certain gene that makes them see the color red with subtle differences, reports Thursday's Nature. British researchers say this distinction is direct genetic evidence for normal variation in sense perception, placing "people in (different) worlds." Also being checked out - if women can see hues that men cannot. COMPANIES MARKET PATCHES: Several companies have begun marketing smoking-cessation patches - adhesive patches that send nicotine into the blood - recently and a fourth may bye coming soon. Warner Lambert is awaiting Food and Drug Administration approval for its patch. Marion Merrell Dow markets Nicoderm; Ciba-Geigy has Habitrol; and American Cyanamid launched ProStep in March. JACKSON WOULD RUN WITH BROWN: Wednesday, Jesse Jackson said if Democratic candidate Jerry Brown would "pick me and the convention is willing to ratify it, I would be honored to serve" as his running mate. Brown long ago tabbed Jackson. But Jackson also said he wasn't endorsing Brown and that he would glady campaign with Bill Clinton if invited. USA NOT CROWD FAVORITE: The Bush administration may have pushed its dominant role in the "new world order" as far as the United Nations Security Council will permit. Tuesday the U.N. recorded a 10-0 vote approving sanctions on Libya. But five nations, including India and China, abstained to show their "discomfort." That shows Third World nations are more uncomfortable with the USA's U.N. diplomacy. CHICAGO WANTS GAMBLING: After years of trying to live down its 1920s "rat-a-tat-tat" gangland image, Chicago is betting on the "click-click-click" of casino chips to bring in thousands of jobs. Despite lukewarm response from some officials, Mayor Richard Daley has endorsed a $2 billion Las Vegas-style casino and entertainment complex. It's the biggest proposal yet to bring gambling to the USA's heartland. MALPRACTICE CASE OPENS: In a malpractice case that opens Thursday, the family of medical student Paul Lozano charges his death one year ago was a suicide triggered by despondency over a bizarre relationship with his psychiatrist, Margaret Bean-Bayog of Harvard Medical School. Court papers say that she reduced him to a state of childlike dependency and complimented him for "phenomenal sex." She denies it. COLUMNIST RECOVERING: USA TODAY columnist J. Taylor Buckley - beaten and robbed by three assailants in Moscow - has been flown to a hospital in Helsinki where he is in good condition. Buckley, a senior editor at the newspaper, said he was waiting for a taxi on a main Moscow thoroughfare when he was attacked early Wednesday by three men who threw him down a set of concrete steps. HOUSE REJECTS BAILOUT MEASURE: The House Wednesday rejected a measure sought by President Bush to finance the savings and loan bailout for six more months. The 298-125 vote sent administration officials and leaders of both parties scrambling for a way to keep the Resolution Trust Corp., the bailout agency, running. Congress gave the agency $25 billion in November, but the authority to spend it expired Wednesday. WINTER TO RETURN TO THE EAST: Winter-like cold will sweep to the Eastern seaboard Thursday. Snow will spread in the Midwest and Northeast, with most accumulating snow confined to the mountains of Pennsylvania, New York and New England. Partly sunny skies and unseasonably warm weather will dominate California. The central and northern Rockies and the Northwest will enjoy a mostly sunny and warm day. DOW JONES OPENS ON UPSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Thursday at 3249.33, after closing up 13.86 Wednesday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 223.42, up 0.17. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 393.15, down 1.89. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 602.10, down 1.68. 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