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 Mon, Apr 6 1992 Date: Mon, 6 Apr 92 05:43:33 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update April 6, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network TSONGAS MAY REJOIN RACE: Bill Clinton entered the bruising home stretch of the New York primary Sunday with more bad news: Former candidate Paul Tsongas' second thoughts and more questions on his draft record. Tsongas told ABC's David Brinkley he might reconsider suspending his campaign if he had a strong showing Tuesday. And Clinton acknowledged for the first time he received a draft notice in 1969. SAM WALTON DIES AT 74: Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton died Sunday after a two-year struggle with bone cancer. He was 74. Walton revolutionized retailing in pursuit of providing the lowest prices to shoppers and the highest level of motivation to employees. The retailer who insisted on being called "Sam" built one store in 1962 into a $40 billion enterprise, the world's largest retailer. THOUSANDS MARCH FOR CHOICE: Abortion rights supporters Sunday staged one of the largest marches ever on Washington - estimated at 500,000 - in an outpouring of fear and fury they hoped would pack a powerful election-year message. March organizers say police underestimated the crowd by 250,000. The march came just weeks before the Supreme Court hears a case that could overturn Roe vs. Wade. ANTI-ABORTION FORCES PRESENT: Though outnumbered and outcast at Sunday's abortion rights march in Washington, the foes of abortion were very much present. While high-profile Operation Rescue activist Randall Terry heckled abortion rights marchers along their route, hundreds of abortion foes picketed at the Capitol and built a mock cemetery in the shadow of the Washington Monument. CHECK CAR OR CARRY IT ON BOARD: Mazda has an idea for a 70-pound Suitcase Car. Just unfold the 2-foot-square case, snap on wheels, click steering column into place and zip away at 12 mph. The three-wheeler could be sold for about $2,000 and gets 100 miles or more per gallon. But the car won't be sold. It's a lark created by engineer Yoshini Kanemoto and his team for a Mazda contest. UNITED WAY FUTURE CLOUDED: United Way's future remains cloudy Monday as affiliates hesitated to resume paying dues. The national group also is fending off rumors it will be audited by the Internal Revenue Service. Some affiliates say they're so dissatisifed with allegations of lavish spending that they have no plans to resume their support of the national group. NORIEGA JURORS RETURN: Jurors in the Miami federal drug racketeering trial of Manual Noreiga return Monday for their second day of deliberations. Before the case went to the jury Saturday, Noriega made a brief courtroom statement, saying the U.S. invasion that toppled him "brought fire, blood and tears to the two countries." The panel has been sequestered since Thursday. ADS HAVE CANDIDATES SQUAWKING: A late flurry of TV and radio ads in New York raised questions about fairness and sent both candidates into fits of denial and back-tracking. The latest round of ads produced a round of TV and newspaper stories about the ads as well as stormy recriminations between Bill Clinton and Jerry Brown. Brown has a TV ad showing Archie Bunker and his son-in-law praising Brown's tax proposal. OZONE MEETING MONDAY: Representatives from about 90 nations meet Monday in Geneva to begin talks on a plan to accelerate the timetable for eliminating ozone-destroying chemicals. The Geneva meeting, along with another planned for July, will work out the details of revisions to the 1987 treaty calling for a phaseout of ozone-depleting substances, especially chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). BAKER TO FLY COMMERCIAL: Secretary of State James Baker, forgoing a travel perk, has decided to fly commercially on private trips, the State Department's Margaret Tutwiler said Friday. The Milwaukee Journal, citing an unreleased General Accounting Office audit, says that Baker used government planes to make 11 personal trips between 1989 and 1991 that cost taxpayers $371,599 in operating expenses. STORM SYSTEM TO HIT GULF COAST: Coastal Texas and Louisiana will be hit by strong thunderstorms Monday. Showers will reach into parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama, while a swath of light showers will dampen the northern Plains. In New England, winds will die down as temperatures reach more comfortable levels. Across the Southeast, beautiful 70- and 80- degree conditions are forecast. DOW JONES OPENS ON UPSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Monday at 3249.11, after closing up 14.99 Friday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 221.86, up 0.35. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 389.22, down 1.26. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 590.01, down 3.81. 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