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 Mon, May 18 1992 Date: Mon, 18 May 92 05:21:50 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update May 18, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network BUSH, ENVIRONMENTALISTS AT ODDS: President Bush again has environmentalists crying foul over a ruling they say weakens the Clean Air Act of 1990. The self-declared environmental president overruled his EPA chief last week in quietly granting industry a concession on emissions. The ruling eases the approval process for plants when operational changes increase emissions of pollutants beyond what their permit allows. POLICE KEEP EYE ON GANGS: Police Monday are keeping close watch on south central Los Angeles after gang-related deaths over the weekend threatened a fragile truce. Sunday, 700 Crips and Blood gang members held a picnic to cement their participation in the three-week old truce. But a gang brawl Sunday left at least one person dead, said Pomona police Lt. Bela Laszlo. HEADSET MAY HELP VISION: A 16-ounce video headset may soon help many of the three million people with visual impairments caused by diseases, says Robert Massof of the Lions Vision Center at Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute, Baltimore. The device uses a miniature camera that sends images to two three-inch monitors. Mirrors then reflect the images to the eye through lenses. Estimated cost: Nearly $3,000. POLICE SEARCH FOR SLAYING CLUES: Oklahoma City police Sunday searched for clues into the deaths of four women and a 14-year-old girl found Saturday in a house in the Christian Valley neighborhood. Police said they had no motive and no suspects. Drug dealers were known to frequent the area, police said. Bobby Stevenson, 53, who lived with one of the women, said officers reported the victims had been shot PEROT ALL BUT DECLARES: Texas billionaire Ross Perot came within a hair's breadth of declaring himself a presidential candidate Sunday. Perot said it's "a good bet" volunteers will get his name on ballots in all 50 states and added, "I told them I would give them a world-class campaign." The statement came in an interview with C-SPAN taped the day before a survey showed Perot leading other hopefuls. MILITARY AIDING KURDS: The U.S. military is helping to spirit out of Iraq a cache of government records Kurdish leaders said detail Iraq's execution of tens of thousands of Kurds in recent years, The New York Times reported Sunday. Last week, the Pentagon authorized U.S. planes and trucks to enter northern Iraq to collect and transport the documents and videotapes Kurdish groups seized from Iraqi police. DOCUMENT TRANSFER STOPPED: The Associated Press Sunday reported that the Bush administration has stopped transferring classified documents to a congressional committee investigating U.S. policy toward Iraq prior to the gulf war. In an exchange of May 15 letters obtained by the AP, Attorney General William Barr accused House Banking Committee Chairman Henry Gonzalez, D-Texas, of endangering national security. WEINBERGER MAY HAVE CONTRA PROOF: Iran-contra prosecutors still think Ronald Reagan must have known about the arms-for-hostages deal, despite denials by the former president. They also think former Defense secretary Caspar Weinberger can prove it. That belief explains recent news reports alleging that Weinberger may face indictment for perjury or obstruction of justice if he doesn't discuss Reagan's role. RESCUERS TRY FOR CLIMBERS: Rescuers Sunday struggled to reach three climbers stranded for five days on Mount McKinley, northwest of Anchorage, where three European climbers have died since Friday. The stranded climbers, three South Koreans, were within 2,120 feet of the 20,320-foot-high peak. "They are in a snow cave and they are in serious trouble," said National Park Service spokesman John Quinley. FAA WANTS BOEINGS CHECKED: Federal safety investigators want autopilots on Boeing 747 jumbo jets checked to prevent unexpected rolls, which happened to a U.S. cargo plane and passenger jets flown by Air Canada and British Airways. "The potential exists for loss of an airplane," the National Transportation Safety Board has told the Federal Aviation Administration. Boeing said the autopilot system is safe. DOW JONES OPENS ON DOWNSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Monday at 3353.09 after closing down 15.79 points Friday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 212.01, down 0.62. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 390.37, down 1.42. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 574.43, down 2.03. NORTHEAST TO WARM, CLEAR: The Northeast will warm up as skies clear Monday. Bright sunshine and delightful spring weather will be the rule across the Midwest. The Southeast will enjoy a sunny, moderately humid day. Sunshine will bake the Southwest, with 100s common throughout the desert. Fog and clouds will yield to partly sunny skies across coastal California. News Editor: Beth Mann. (1-919-855-3491) 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