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 29 1992 Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 05:41:23 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update April 29, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network BUSH, CLINTON EASY VICTORS: Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Clinton easily won Pennsylvania's votes Tuesday. The Associated Press declared him the winner. With 51% of the precincts reporting, Clinton had 56% to Jerry Brown's 26%. Ex-candidate Paul Tsongas got 12% of the vote. The Associated Press, with 56% of the precincts reporting, has named President Bush the GOP winner with 76%. Pat Buchanan got 24%. UPSTART WINS PA. PRIMARY: Political upstart Lynn Yeakel Tuesday won Pennsylvania's Democratic Senate primary in an upset over Lt. Gov. Mark Singel. Her win sets up a November battle with Republican incumbent Arlen Specter, who coasted to renomination. Yeakel, who runs a fund-raising organization for women's causes, entered the race after seeing Specter grill law professor Anita Hill last year. STATE FARM TO PAY $157 MILLION: State Farm Insurance Cos. has agreed to pay 814 women in California $157 million to settle sex-discrimination claims, both sides said Tuesday. Average settlement amount: $193,000. No woman will get less than $150,000. The damage recovery is the largest ever under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, said Guy Saperstein, of Oakland, Calif., the women's lead lawyer. JFK FILES ON HOLD AGAIN: The Justice Department - reversing what Congress thought was a firm promise of support - Tuesday said it will oppose efforts to open sealed files on the JFK assassination. The announcement came as a House subcommittee began hearings on legislation aimed at immediate disclosure. The 80 boxes of material are now set to be released in 2029. GRAND JURY INDICTS GORE: A federal grand jury in Washington Tuesday indicted Deborah Gore Dean, a former executive assistant to former HUD Secretary Samuel Pirece. She was indicted on felony charges of accepting an illegal gratuity and making a false statement to Congress. Her predecessor, Lance Wilson, was indicted four months ago. Dean says the charges were brought in an attempt to compel her to testify against Pierce. BABY-SWAP CASE IN COURT: The biological parents of a girl caught in a custody tug of war because she and another baby were swapped at birth are expected to ask a judge Wednesday to let them keep her. Kimberly Mays, 13, is torn between parents Ernest and Regina Twigg and the man who raised her, Robert Mays. Mays, whose wife died in 1981, is opposing the action. BUFFALO PROTESTS FIZZLE: Last summer, the militant abortion foes of Operation Rescue stormed Wichita, Kan., with a massive demonstration of spirit and force. This spring's siege in Buffalo has been a bust. Tuesday a federal judge ordered the arrests of five leaders for violating orders to stop blocking clinics. The two-week-old protest now is scheduled to end Saturday, two weeks ahead of schedule. EXPLOSION INVESTIGATION BEGINS: Investigations began Tuesday into the destruction of California's Napa Valley's most expensive house, the $8 million mansion of a high-profile real-estate developer Joaquin de Monet. Nearly 900 gallons of butane gas siphoned from a swimming pool heating system were used to blow up the home Monday. Investigators are looking at Monet, his family and business associates. QUAKE DAMAGE TOPS $61 MILLION: Damage from Saturday's 6.9-magnitude earthquake and aftershocks in California passed $61 million Tuesday. Gov. Pete Wilson toured stricken Humboldt County and said he will seek federal disaster assistance. Most schools reopened Tuesday and Wilson praised residents for their courage and fortitude. Experts said there's a 15% chance of another quake of magnitude six or stronger. TOP CALI MEMBERS ARRESTED: U.S. drug agents Tuesday said they arrested 10 key members of the Colombian-based Cali drug cartel, linked to 22 tons of cocaine found in shipments of frozen vegetables and hollow fence posts. Officials said the cartel is responsible for 80% of the cocaine smuggled through Miami. Authorities seized $3 million in assets from the group. SERVICEMEN PURSUED: Five U.S. senators, returning from a 10-day investigation in Southeast Asia, said there's no hard evidence any of the 2,266 missing U.S. servicemen from the Vietnam War are still alive there. But team leader Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said there's evidence that could "suggest" men are alive, or were held in Vietnam and Laos long after the war ended. He said it's being pursued. DOW JONES OPENS ON UPSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Wednesday at 3307.92, after closing up 3.36 Tuesday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 225.12, up 0.18. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 383.04, down 1.94. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 560.33, down 6.61. STORMS IN THE MIDWEST: A swath of rain and showers extends from the Great Lakes through the Midwest and into the Gulf Coast states Wednesday. Mostly sunny skies and temperatures in the 60s and 70s will grace East Coast states. Showers will hug the Northwest coast with thunderstorms in eastern Washington and northeastern Oregon. 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. 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