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, Apr 7 1992 Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 05:44:02 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update April 7, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network NEW YORK PRIMARY IS TUESDAY: Bill Clinton and Jerry Brown continue their competition for the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday with voting in New York, Wisconsin and Kansas. Former candidate Paul Tsongas has said that he might re-enter the race if he does well in New York. Republican votes will take place Tuesday in Wisconsin, Kansas and Minnesota. President Bush is the only Republican candidate in New York. BUSH PITCH IS IN THE DIRT: President Bush Monday celebrated baseball's opening day by throwing out the first ball at Baltimore's brand-new Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Bush took a helicopter to the $106.5 million stadium and, hampered by a bulletproof vest, tossed a curve into the dirt. He was ready to throw "heat," he said. In Milwaukee, Vice President Dan Quayle's pitch was high and away. COURT RULES FOR NEBRASKA MAN: The Supreme Court Monday ruled in favor of Keith Jacobson, a Nebraska farmer who the court says was lured into buying child pornography through the mail by the federal government. The court ruled the government's 26-month campaign to get Jacobson to purchase magazines amounted to entrapment. Jacobson was targeted after his name came up on an adult bookstore's mailing list. PROGRESS REPORTED ON TAXOL: Taxol, a promising drug made from the rare Pacific yew tree, may be widely available by next year, scientists say. But the manufacturing process that extracts the drug from the yew bark kills the tree. Scientists at an American Chemical Society meeting Monday report rapid progress making taxol synthetically or from the tree's abundant needles. MOST STRIKERS REMAIN OUT: Caterpillar Inc.'s threat to replace strikers if they did not return to work Monday went unheeded by the vast majority of the 12,600 striking United Auto Workers union members. The six-month contract battle between the UAW workers and Caterpillar could have a big impact on future negotiations between the UAW and some top U.S. employers, such as the Big Three automakers, analysts say. GENERAL CHEATED ON EXAM: The commander of the Marine Corps' air units during Operation Desert Storm has admitted he falsified a flight qualification test and will retire at a lower rank July 1. Lt. Gen. Royal Moore Jr., 56, told Department of Defense inspectors that he submitted as his own parts of an exam completed by a subordinate. The three-star general will revert to a two-star major general on retirement. U.N. INSPECTORS ARRIVE IN IRAQ: U.N. nuclear weapons inspectors arrive in Iraq Tuesday, uncertain whether Saddam Hussein will dismantle a nuclear research center as ordered. "Now is the test," U.N. inspection team leader Dimitri Perricos said. "They have given no indication they are not going to go on with the destruction" ordered by the United Nations, Perricos said. "I'm hopeful." THREE GET $1M IN CASINO HOLDUP: A daring Las Vegas casino robbery netted three bandits an estimated $1 million Monday. The robbers set off two smoke bombs in the crowded casino of the Stardust Hotel, then grabbed a guard as he carried a satchel from a casino cage to an armored car. No injuries were reported, although several customers complained of inhaling the smoke. Police said casino robberies are rare. MILITARY PHYSICIAN FREED: Yolanda Huet-Vaughn, a military physician convicted of desertion for refusing to go to the Persian Gulf, was released from prison after serving about eight months of a 30-month sentence. Huet-Vaughn, 40, of Kansas City, Kan., was an Army Reserve captain at Fort Riley, Kan. She became one of the most vocal critics of the war, which she called "immoral, inhumane and unconstitutional." BRUTALITY LAWSUITS SETTLED: Los Angeles is settling police brutality and misconduct lawsuits at a pace likely to exceed last year's record $13 million payout. Settled: 19 lawsuits totaling $3.6 million as of March 31. "It's bleeding us dry," Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky, chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee, said Monday. DOW JONES OPENS ON UPSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Tuesday at 3275.49, after closing up 26.38 Monday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 223.79, up 1.93. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 391.57, up 2.35. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 596.29, up 6.28. APRIL SHOWERS MOVE TO EAST: Showers will dampen the Midwest and Southeast Tuesday, continuing to move up the Eastern Seaboard. Thunderstorms are likely to rattle through parts of Florida. The Southwest will bask in warm spring weather, while the southern Rockies will enjoy dry and warm weather for the next couple of days. Clouds and a few showers will dampen the northern Rockies. News Editor: Beth Mann. (919-855-3491) Making copies of USA TODAY Update (Copyright, 1992) for further distribution violates federal 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