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 Thu, May 14 1992 Date: Thu, 14 May 92 05:42:12 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update May 14, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network SATELLITE IS RESCUED: Three astronauts teamed up to grab an elusive communications satellite Wednesday in a historic rescue 225 miles above Earth. It was the first time three astronauts walked in space at the same time. With the satellite wobbling just six feet above the bay of space shuttle Endeavour, the spacewalkers waited until each could grasp struts on the underside of Comsat-6 before pulling it in. L.A. COP MAY FACE NEW TRIAL: One of the four white police officers acquitted in the beating of motorist Rodney King may be facing a new trial. Los Angeles District Attorney Ira Reiner Wednesday said he'll seek to retry Officer Lawrence Powell on a charge of using excessive force. The jury deadlocked on that charge in the original trial. Powell was acquitted April 29 on other charges, as were three fellow officers. POST OFFICE AIDS JUNK MAIL: Junk mail follows folks around when they move thanks to the Postal Service. It sells a mailing list that includes every change-of-address form filed at the USA's 40,000 post offices. For $52,000 each, 23 companies get 96 million names on a computer in Memphis. Privacy advocates decry the practice. Rep. Bob Wise, D-W.Va., is holding a hearing Thursday on privacy and the post office. VOICE MAIL HANGING UP ON WOMEN: Women with high voices are the victims of a strange new technology problem. Voice mail, the computerized telephone answering system, sometimes hangs up on them or loses their messages because the computer hears their voices as a command. That's a complaint of several big users of voice mail, which lets callers leave messages for office workers. OSWALD CIA PAPERS RELEASED: The CIA Wednesday released 34 documents detailing the spy agency's interest in Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963. It is the first of what could become a flood of JFK-assassination material to be released in the coming months. The CIA material relates to when ex-Marine Oswald defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 before returning in 1962. SHULTZ, WEINBERGER FATE PENDING: A federal grand jury investigating the Iran-contra affair could decide this week what to do about former Reagan administration officials George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger. Special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh reportedly is examining the pair's activities to see if they know more about the affair than they told Congress. The term of the Washington-based jury expires Friday. MOVE MEMBER OUT OF PRISON: Ramona Africa was released Wednesday after the member of the radical group MOVE served a seven-year sentence for riot and conspiracy. She is one of only two survivors of the 1985 Philadelphia police bombing that killed 11 and destroyed a neighborhood. She turned down parole as early as 1986 because of conditions she not associate with the group and its members. COMMITTEE PASSES DEFENSE BUDGET: The House Armed Services Committee approved, 47-8, a $274 billion military budget Wednesday. The measure would allow production of all 20 B-2 stealth bombers President Bush wants, but under a strict $44 billion cost limit. It would also cut Bush's $5.4 billion request for Strategic Defense Initiative anti-missile research to $4.3 billion, deleting most money for space weapons. CONGRESS CAN'T GUARANTEE RIGHT: The Bush administration told Congress Wednesday that it lacks constitutional authority to pass a law guaranteeing the right to abortion. The proposed Freedom of Choice Act is being considered in case the Supreme Court overturns or significantly undermines its 1973 decision permitting abortion. Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Harrison says the interpretation used is "doubtful." PEACEKEEPERS QUIT SARAJEVO: U.N. peacekeepers are largely pulling out of Sarajevo, the embattled capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Ghali said Wednesday. He said "the bulk" of the 230 military peacekeepers will leave. The site had been selected as a neutral spot but now was too dangerous, Ghali said. "As soon as the situation is better, we'll bring them back." SYSTEM LEAVES NORTHEAST: Milder temperatures will dry out the Northeast coast Thursday, as a low pressure system finally moves on. Inland, plenty of sunshine will prevail, but conditions will be noticeably cooler. Clouds and showers return to the Midwest Thursday. Isolated heavy thunderstorms will dot the middle Mississippi valley, reaching southwestward through Texas. DOW JONES OPENS ON UPSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Thursday at 3391.98 after closing up 6.86 points Wednesday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 229.44, down 0.01. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 393.75, up 0.29. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 582.38, down 1.58. 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