Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!usa-post Newsgroups: usa-today.news From: usa-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: usa-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: news Tue, May 12 1992 Date: Tue, 12 May 92 05:10:23 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update May 12, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network BUSH, HILL LEADERS TO MEET: President Bush meets Tuesday with congressional leaders who are urging a bipartisan attack on urban problems. Democratic congressional leaders on Monday said they were prepared to pass legislation creating urban enterprise zones sought by Bush, and appealed to him to support other domestic initiatives. Bush press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said the proposal "looks realistic." TEST MAY CAUSE DEFORMITIES: Chorionic villus sampling, a prenatal test, may increase the risk of babies being born with missing or shortened fingers or toes. The average risk for such defects is 1 in 5,000. But evidence suggests the risk with CVS may be 1 in 1,000, says Dr. Barbara Burton, Humana Hospital-Michael Reese, Chicago. More evidence is needed, says Dr. Maurice Mahoney, Yale University Medical School. MORE WORKERS IN LOW-PAY JOBS: The number of full-time workers in low-paying jobs rose sharply over the last decade, the Census Bureau reports Tuesday, more evidence the rich-poor gap is widening. Workers not earning enough to keep a family of four above the poverty line - $12,195 a year in 1990 - jumped from 12.1% of the full-time workforce in 1979 to 18.0% in 1990. IT'S GOING TO BE HOT: A new exhibit about global warming says that by about 2050, Washington, D.C., Omaha, Memphis and Denver will suffer more than 80 days with temperatures above 90. The Environmental Defense Fund produced the exhibit with the American Museum of Natural History. It says that NASA estimates higher temperatures for many cities unless gases that may be causing global warming are controlled. MIDEAST TALKS OPEN: The second round of multilateral talks on Mideast issues opened in Washington and Brussels, Belgium, Monday but both meetings were clouded by no-shows: Israel boycotted the economics meetings in Brussels because Palestinian exiles were taking part; Syria and Lebanon skipped both meetings, saying it's pointless until there's real progress in the main Arab-Israeli negotiations. GORBACHEV'S U.S. TOUR CONTINUES: Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev Monday told Emory University graduates that the world is "sinking into a chaos of conflicts of a different order" involving ethnic groups. Later in New York, Gorbachev, on the latest stop of his 13-day U.S. tour, received a leadership award from the Hugh O'Brian Youth Foundation and met with United Nations Secretary-General Boutrous Ghali. SANCTIONS APPLIED TO FOREIGN FIRMS: The USA Monday slapped sanctions on a Russian company and an Indian company for a $250 million rocket deal. Russia's Glavkosmos plans to sell engines to the Indian Space Research Organization. While India insists the engines are for its space program, the USA says the engines could be converted to offensive weapons. The USA placed a two-year ban on exports and imports of the two firms. CENSUS TRIAL BEGINS: Trial began Monday in New York on a challenge by 30 states and local governments over the accuracy of the 1990 Census. The states question the Census Bureau's 248.7 million population count, accepted by the Commerce Department, although two statistical surveys done by the bureau's own experts have counted 253 million people. The trial is expected to last two weeks. STUDY SAYS LAW INEFFECTIVE: The 1986 U.S. Immigration Reform Control Act - passed to reduce Mexican border immigration by increasing patrols and prohibiting the hiring of undocumented workers - has been largely unsuccessful, a new study shows. In certain rural Mexican communities, nearly every man can expect to migrate to the USA at least once by the time he is 40, the University of Chicago study shows. UNITED WAY CHIEF ON TOUR: United Way of America President Kenneth Dam met in Seattle Monday with Northwest United Way representatives in the first of three West Coast meetings aimed at mending fences with the United Way's independent chapters. Public confidence in the charity giant was shaken earlier this year following reports of questionable management practices that led to the resignation of its president. PARIS INVITATION ISSUED: French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas met briefly with President Bush at the White House Monday and invited him to visit Paris in July during a trip to Europe. Bush said he would see if a stop in Paris for talks with French President Francois Mitterrand could be worked into the trip, built around the Munich summit of the seven major industrial nations. DOW JONES OPENS ON UPSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Tuesday at 3397.58 after closing up 28.17 points Monday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 230.47, up 1.27. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 395.84, up 1.72. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 587.13, up 1.37. SPRING WEATHER LIES AHEAD: Showers and thunderstorms will bring rain to the Midwest Tuesday, as spring weather returns to most of the USA. Partly cloudy skies and cool conditions occur for the coastal Northwest. Early clouds to partly sunny skies occur along the California coast. The mid-Atlantic region will be in the 70s. The Southeast will see sunshine and warmth. News Editor: William Snoddy. (1-919-855-3491) Making copies of USA TODAY Update (Copyright, 1992) for further distribution purposes 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