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, May 7 1992 Date: Thu, 7 May 92 05:31:39 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update May 7, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network BUSH TO TOUR LOS ANGELES: President Bush Thursday will get a closeup look at how riots devastated a city, but White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Wednesday "we're not going there to put a new blueprint for solving the problem" of urban programs "on the city of Los Angeles." Bush said, "We've got to find answers that will guarantee tranquility in these cities." GORBACHEV SAYS COLD WAR OVER: Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev Wednesday blamed the USA and the West for "unleashing a monstrous arms race." He said the Cold War arms race was "a fateful error" based on overestimates of Soviet military might and that the Soviets, "exhausted and destroyed" by World War II, "never could have engaged in a major war." He formally declared the Cold War over. YOUNG LEFTIES INJURED MORE: Left-handed kids are 1.7 times more likely than right-handed kids to be accidentally injured and need emergency care, a study says. Dr. Charles Graham, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, presented the findings Wednesday at a Ambulatory Pediatric Association meeting in Baltimore. The study of 761 kids showed that accidental injuries were twice as common among male lefties. SIGN OF THE (ROTTEN) TIMES: A new monthly newsletter called Rotten Times has come out. Its niche market: The unemployed. Economists are citing all kinds of numbers to show there's a recovery. But Rotten editor:publisher Hal Gieseking says, "You can't eat statistics." Rotten Times, begun in March, features job search tips and warnings about phony job tips. Write P.O. Box 1440, Williamsburg, Va. 23187. UKRAINE TO SURRENDER WEAPONS: Ukraine President Leonid Kravchuk Wednesday pledged to surrender his short-range nuclear weapons to Russia by July and to adhere to a Soviet-U.S. nuclear arms reduction treaty. Kravchuk, meeting with President Bush in Washington, said "I think we will" sign the START treaty to dismantle many long-range nuclear weapons, an agreement the USA had earlier negotiated with the Soviet Union. WEAKENED WARMING TREATY SET: United Nations negotiators Thursday are poised to unveil a much-weakened treaty to slow global warming. Under pressure to have a document ready for June's Earth Summit in Brazil, European delegates have succumbed to U.S. pressure to drop targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The proposed treaty merely requires nations report levels of "greenhouse" gas emissions. POLICE TRIAL SHIFTED: A Dade County, Fla., judge Wednesday moved a Miami police officer's manslaughter trial to boost the chances of finding black jurors. At issue: The trial of Hispanic police officer William Lozano, whom a multi-ethnic jury found guilty of killing a black motorist in 1989. The verdict sparked riots. An appeals court ordered a new trial. Location has shifted now to Tallahassee. COURTHOUSE SECURITY INCREASED: Security was increased Wednesday at the St. Louis County courthouse in Clayton, Mo., where a gunman awaiting his divorce hearing Tuesday killed his estranged wife and wounded four other people. Suspect Kenneth Baumruk, 53, of Lynnwood, Wash., who was shot by police, remained in critical condition. HAITIANS INTERCEPTED: The Coast Guard Wednesday said it stopped 593 Haitians bound for the USA on seven wooden sailboats, bringing the number of Haitians intercepted since the Sept. 30 coup to 25,108. The boat people are taken to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for immigration screening. Those found to be fleeing for economic reasons are returned to Haiti. AID PACKAGE CRITICIZED: Senators bluntly warned the Bush administration Wednesday that its aid package for the former Soviet republics is in danger because it can be seen as a foreign aid blank check. During a joint Agriculture Committee:Appropriations foreign aid panel hearing, Sen. Robert Kasten, R-Wis., pointed out vague language in the bill calling for "such sums as may be necessary" for aid programs. DOW JONES OPENS ON UPSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Thursday at 3369.41, after closing up 10.06 points Wednesday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 229.56, up 0.06. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 393.77, up 0.60. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 589.36, up 1.29. SOUTHEAST TO BE WET, CHILLY: Chilly and wet weather will grip the Southeast Thursday. The Carolinas will be rainy, reaching only into the 40s in some areas. Sunshine and mild temperatures will stretch across the mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Sun will prevail across the Great Plains. In the Pacific Northwest, look for dry conditions and temperatures in the 60s along the coast with 70s and 80s inland. 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