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 9 1992 Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 05:44:24 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update April 9, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network JUROR HOLDS OUT IN NORIEGA CASE: Deliberations in the trial of Gen. Manuel Noriega were deadlocked Wednesday by a juror who "testified two days ago that their mind was made up before we reached" the jury room, the foreman said. The judge appealed to jurors to break the impasse. A deadlocked jury could embarrass President Bush, who launched a bloody 1989 invasion of Panama to topple Noriega. STOCKS CONTINUE DOWN WEDNESDAY: U.S. stocks continued to follow Japanese stocks down Wednesday. While the drop in the Japanese market does not effect the value of U.S. stocks, it has succeeded in scaring investors in the U.S. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 32.20 points at 3181.35. Declining stocks swamped advancers 1,388 to 435 on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume was heavy at 249 million shares. SKIP THE ANTIHISTAMINES: The USA wastes more than a billion dollars a year on useless and possibly dangerous cold remedies, a congressional panel charged Wednesday. The Food And Drug Administration approved antihistamines though they know they are ineffective, says Rep. Ted Weiss, D-N.Y. He says antihistamines were initially OK'd for safety. Then the FDA OK'd 10 for effectiveness based on a study showing one might work. ARTHUR ASHE HAS AIDS VIRUS: Arthur Ashe, former U.S. Open, Wimbledon and Australian Open tennis champion, announced Wednesday that he had contracted HIV from a blood transfusion, probably in 1983. Ashe, 48, called the news conference after inquiries Tuesday by USA TODAY and said, "I am so sorry that I have been forced to make this revelation now. I should (be able) to keep something like that private." THOUSANDS APPLY AT CATERPILLAR: Forty-seven thousand applicants applied Tuesday for jobs to replace the 12,600 workers now on strike at Caterpillar, company Chairman Donald Fites said Wednesday. The company was not sure how many responded Wednesday to ads to the $16-to almost $18-per-hour jobs. Company officials have told strikers they'll be replaced unless they come back to work. TSONGAS STILL UNDECIDED: Aides and friends of Paul Tsongas said late Wednesday he hadn't decided whether he'll revive his suspended candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination at a news conference scheduled for Thursday. Tsongas spent the day talking with supporters, friends and Democratic National Committee Chairman Ron Brown. He came in second Tuesday in New York and Wisconsin primaries. ALLIES PONDER RESPONSE TO IRAQ: Western allies are considering a response to the latest from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who has shifted anti-aircraft missiles north in violation of United Nations orders. The missile batteries have been moved north of the 36th parallel, into the Kurdish zone patrolled by U.S., British and French forces. National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft called it "minor." BUSH WANTS TO EXTEND BENEFITS: President Bush wants to extend emergency jobless benefits through 1992, Labor Secretary Lynn Martin said Wednesday. But she criticized a measure introduced last week by Rep. Thomas Downey, D-N.Y., to provide up to 20 weeks of extra benefits to 1.5 million jobless Americans, saying it would make permanent changes in the benefits program and would require a tax increase. BAY AREA SCOUTS LOSE FUNDING: The United Way of the San Francisco Bay cut off new funding to its six Boy Scouts councils Wednesday because the scouts ban gays. It's the first such action by a local United Way. Scout spokesman Greg Bustin has said gay scouts are "inconsistent with traditional family values" Boy Scouts of America represents. The local Boy Scouts gets about $1 million a year from the Bay-area United Way. SECOND CASINO HEIST REPORTED: Las Vegas casinos increased security Wednesday after the second armed robbery in three days, the third in two weeks. Gunmen took an undisclosed amount of cash from a teller's cage at the Palace Station Hotel casino. Police said the holdup may be connected to a robbery at the same casino two weeks ago. And Monday, bandits made off with $1.1 million from the Stardust Hotel casino. DOW JONES OPENS ON DOWNSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Thursday at 3181.35, after closing down 32.20 Wednesday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 217.92, down 2.08. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 380.90, down 4.48. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 573.68, down 7.93. STORMS ZIP ACROSS NORTHERN USA: A storm will bring showers to the Midwest and parts of the Northeast, moving off the coast by early Friday. Another storm will sweep the Northwest, streaming rain through the Cascades. In the Southeast, dry and and warm 80-degree weather is expected. The Desert Southwest will simmer, as temperatures in areas of southwestern Arizona soar to 90 degrees. 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