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 Wed, May 27 1992 Date: Wed, 27 May 92 05:20:54 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update May 27, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network NEW GENETIC FOOD RULES UNVEILED: Vice President Dan Quayle Tuesday announced new administration guidelines for biotechnology firms that produce genetically engineered foods. The genetic altering could result in increased disease resistance, longer shelf life and quicker growing periods. Most cases won't require testing and labeling. The rules will bring healthier and less expensive foods to consumers, Quayle said. STATES CANNOT TAX CATALOG FIRMS: The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in the case of Quill Corp. vs. the North Dakota Department of Revenue that states cannot require out-of-state catalog companies to charge sales tax. But the court's ruling leaves the door open for Congress to change the law. "The court basically punted," says North Dakota Attorney General Nicholas Spaeth. At stake is as much as $3 billion in sales taxes. PEROT CHASING INSIDERS: Ross Perot, who's selling himself as the presidential campaign's ultimate outsider, is wooing Washington insiders. The tycoon, whose Texas confidants have been running his all-but-official campaign, has authorized aides to approach political pros with job offers - a contradiction of his renegade reputation. He's also recruiting a an ad team from New York's Madison Avenue. NEW TB TEST DEVELOPED: A new tuberculosis test can produce results in two days, compared to up to four weeks needed with traditional methods, according to research to be presented Wednesday to the American Society for Microbiology in New Orleans. With drug-resistant strains of the disease appearing, reported cases numbered 26,283 in 1991, up from 22,000 in 1985. Most cases have been in inner cities. ABORTION SHAKES GOP PLATFORM: Republican abortion rights supporters alternately cajoled and threatened party leaders Tuesday, saying they should reverse the GOP's long-held opposition to legal abortion. The party's platform now calls for a constitutional amendment banning abortion. Abortion rights supporters vowed to take the fight to August's GOP convention, warning of November defections. BUSH SWEEPS PRIMARIES: President Bush swept conservative challenger Patrick Buchanan Tuesday in primaries in Kentucky and Arkansas. The president had 87% of the vote with 43% of the precincts in Arkansas reporting, compared to 13% for Buchanan. In Kentucky, Bush won with 74% to 26% for Buchanan. CLINTON CLEANS UP AT HOME: Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton picked up 68% of the vote in the Democratic presidential primary in his home state Tuesday. With 56% of the precincts reporting, challenger Jerry Brown had just 11% of the vote. In Kentucky, Clinton won with 56% of the vote to Brown's 8% and former candidate Paul Tsongas' 5%. DIPLOMAT PHILIP HABIB DIES: Career diplomat Philip Habib died Monday while visiting France. He was 72. Habib was head of the U.S. delegation to the Paris peace talks that officially ended the Vietnam War under President Nixon and helped President Carter arrange meetings between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Habib's father was an immigrant Lebanese grocer. HUSBAND, WIFE ARE DEFEATED: Kentucky's bid to become the first state with a husband-wife team serving together in Congress ended in a double defeat as returns came in from primary voting Tuesday in Kentucky, Arkansas and Idaho. Carol Brown Hubbard was defeated by former state senator John Doug Hays in Kentucky's newly redrawn 5th District. Rep. Carroll Hubbard lost to Tom Barlow in the 1st District. BLACK-KOREAN ALLIANCE QUESTIONED: Proposals hailed Monday as a major step toward soothing strained relations between Korean-American merchants and blacks are being greeted with skepticism. One major reason for concern is no established black leader knew anything of the summit talks between the Korean-American Grocers Association and gang members. The credibility of summit organizer James Stern is being questioned. STORMS TO THUNDER OVER COLORADO: Showers and thunderstorms will pound eastern Colorado, northeastern New Mexico and the Texas panhandle over the next couple of days. Flooding may be common in the eastern Rockies. Sun will cover California, Nevada, the northern Plains, Great Lakes and Midwest. Rain will sweep north along the Eastern seaboard into New England, while showers stay in the mid-Atlantic. DOW JONES OPENS ON DOWNSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Wednesday at 3364.21, after closing down 22.56 Tuesday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 226.86, down 1.34. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 391.89, down 0.57. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 575.65, down 4.65. 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