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 Wed, Apr 22 1992 Date: Wed, 22 Apr 92 05:41:50 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update April 22, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network ABORTION CASE TO BE HEARD: The Supreme Court Wednesday begins hearing arguments on a Pennsylvania law regulating abortions. The court will decide if the law violates a woman's constitutional rights. The court's ruling is due by July. Two of the nine justices are known to solidly favor the abortion rights of the 1973 Roe vs. Wade. Four are solidly opposed and three are swing votes. PEROT TOPS BUSH IN TEXAS: A poll by Texas A&M University Tuesday showed Texas billionaire Ross Perot getting 35% support in that state to President Bush's 30% in the race for president. Bush has a home in Texas. Clinton got 20% in the poll, which has a margin of error of 4%. In a two-way race in Texas, Bush beat Clinton 48%-32%. Bush won 56% of the Texas vote in 1988. HARRIS KILLED AFTER FOUR STAYS: Critics Tuesday blasted the Supreme Court's extraordinary rejection of the appeals of California death row inmate Robert Alton Harris. Harris was executed at 6:21 a.m. PDT Tuesday after a flurry of activity. The court's unprecedented 7-2 ruling ordered "no further stays" by federal judges. Four stays had been ordered in the last hours. BUSH MAY LEAD SUMMIT GROUP: President Bush is leaning heavily toward leading the U.S. delegation to the first U.N. Earth Summit this June in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He fears U.N. pollution-control standards could leave the industrial nations the bill for Third World cleanup. And he's worried conservatives will rebel against him for embracing tougher environmental rules that could drive up business cost. FETUS DISPLAY LEADS TO ARREST: Two leading Operation Rescue pastors were arrested Tuesday in Buffalo after one displayed the fetus that is becoming the movement's graphic trademark. Rev. Robert Schenck was arrested for "creating a physically offensive condition." His twin brother, the Rev. Paul Schenck, was arrested after insisting on following Robert Schenck onto a prison transport bus. Police kept the fetus. PRISON SUMMIT UNDER ATTACK: A federal "prison summit" set for Monday and Tuesday is under attack, with critics denouncing it as propaganda from the Bush administration. Proponents of prison reform Tuesday said they've been kept from participating in the Justice Department conference. The Federal Bureau of Prisons said there's no effort at exclusion, but the conference is limited to corrections practictioners. QUAYLE SAYS BUSH WILL WIN: If Vice President Quayle is worried about re-election this November, he's not letting on. Meeting Tuesday with the USA TODAY editorial board, he said he's "very confident" President Bush will win a second term. He suggested low voter turnout in Democratic primaries shows that Democrats "know they can't win the White House" and "don't particularly care" for the candidates. YAHWEH ON TRIAL: Black separatist and self-proclaimed son of God Yahweh Ben Yahweh denied in court in Fort Lauderdale Tuesday that he ordered his followers to commit murders. Yawheh is on trial with 15 current and former members of the Miami-based Temple of Love. Government prosecutors charge that he or his followers conspired in 14 murders and other violence, including public execution. MORE OWLS FOUND: Washington state forests have so many more spotted owls than previously believed that the state Department of Natural Resources no longer will require landowners to survey for owls as part of applying for logging. A 1990 federal survey estimated 10 owl pairs on non-federal land. Landowners have found 122 owl pairs or nesting sites on private land, and 331 more just inside federal boundaries. KEEP BATTLING VIOLENCE: Trish Crawford, whose husband was found innocent of marital rape charges, came forward Tuesday in Columbia, S.C., to tell other women they should keep battling domestic violence. She wasn't identified during the rape trial of her husband, Dale, but she appeared at a Statehouse rally to protest his acquittal by a jury. They have separated and she's seeking a divorce. DOW JONES OPENS ON UPSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Wednesday at 3343.25, after closing up 6.94 Tuesday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 225.70, down 0.07. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 386.73, down 0.35. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 575.05, down 2.15. THE SOUTH WILL BE DRY AND MILD: Winterlike weather will move northeast across the Great Lakes Wednesday, while spring showers spread into New England. The South should be dry. Party cloudy skies are on tap for the mid-Atlantic states. Cloudy skies will dominate the central and upper Plains. Showers will hit the West. Across the Southwest and southern California, temperatures will be in the 80s and 90s. 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