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 28 1992 Date: Thu, 28 May 92 05:21:26 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update May 28, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network PEROT SEEN AS MAJOR THREAT: Ross Perot - having won spots on the ballot in Florida and Texas Wednesday - is "clearly the major (presidential) candidate today, in terms of impact on the public," says one GOP strategist. A USA TODAY analysis shows the Texan is showing enough support in the West to pose a potential threat in the Electoral College, with his muscle-flexing in key states Texas, California and Florida. TOXIC CHEMICAL EMISSIONS DOWN: Overall toxic chemical emissions from the USA's factories declined from 1989 to 1990, the EPA said Wednesday. But that wasn't good news in Louisiana, which eclipsed Texas at the top of the list of states with the most releases. The Environmental Protection Agency index shows 4.8 billion pounds of toxic chemicals were released into the air, water and ground in 1990, down 11% from '89. LEXUS MOST TROUBLE-FREE CAR: The USA's most trouble-free new car, for the second year in a row, is Toyota's luxury Lexus LS 400, says leading automotive research company J.D. Power and Associates. GM's Saturn - created to compete with Japan's small cars - is the least troublesome U.S. brand. The company quizzed nearly 34,000 owners after they'd had their new 1992 cars for 90 days and compiled figures. NEW OLDEST FOSSIL FOUND: Three tiny tooth fossils uncovered in the Algerian Sahara may belong to the earliest known ancestor of humans, monkeys and apes. Researchers have named it Algeripithecus minutus. "Al" is an estimated 50 million years old, the oldest anthropoid fossil found so far. The findings suggest the evolutionary split that led to modern apes, monkeys and humans occurred earlier than believed. YAHWEH BEN YAHWEH CONVICTED: Yahweh Ben Yahweh, the black separatist accused of ordering religious followers to commit murders, was convicted of conspiracy with six others Wednesday in a federal court in Florida. The jury in Fort Lauderdale returned a partial verdict in the five-month trial of Yahweh, 56, the self-proclaimed "son of God," and 15 co-defendants. It deadlocked on racketeering charges. `FATAL ATTRACTION' WOMAN GUILTY: A real-life case of "Fatal Attraction" came to an end Wednesday when jurors convicted Carolyn Warmus of murdering her lover's wife. In their seventh day of deliberations, jurors in Westchester County, N.Y., found Warmus guilty of second-degree murder. She killed Betty Solomon on Jan. 15, 1989, then met Solomon's husband, Paul Solomon, for drinks and sex in her car. POLICY CUTS FOREIGN OIL NEEDS: The House Wednesday passed its version of a national energy strategy. The House voted 381-37 for the bill, which is designed to spur the USA toward efficiency and conservation. It also would encourage nuclear power and open electricity generation to competition. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve would be increased from 570 million barrels of oil to 1 billion under the bill. FILES AID FIGHT AGAINST NAZIS: The Justice Department expects to file eight cases this year - the most ever - against alleged Nazi war criminals living in the United States, thanks to files being opened in the former Soviet Union. Wednesday, Michael Schmidt, 69, a former concentration camp guard, agreed to leave the country. The Lincolnwood, Ill., janitor was stripped of his citizenship in 1990. TUPPER WON'T PRESS ADAMS CASE: Kari Tupper, who has maintained for four years that Sen. Brock Adams, D-Wash., sexually molested her, will not press the case further with the Senate ethics committee, her lawyer said Wednesday. Doug McBroom said Tupper had considered taking personal action after the committee last week decided against investigating a complaint by the National Organization for Women. DANTE FASCELL TO STEP DOWN: Florida Democrat Dante Fascell announced Wednesday he is stepping down from his House seat. A House member for 37 years, Fascell is the 43rd House member to bow out in the most resignation-filled year since 1978, when 49 retired. In addition, 22 others were defeated or sought other offices. Fascell is chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. DOW JONES OPENS ON UPSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Thursday at 3370.44, after closing up 6.23 Wednesday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 227.15, up 0.29. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 391.85, down 0.04. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 577.35, up 1.70. SOUTHEAST TO GET SOAKED: Wet weather slams the Southeast Thursday, from eastern Texas to the Atlantic Coast. Partly sunny skies and mild conditions will greet the mid-Atlantic. Expected temperatures: 60s and 70s. The southern Rockies and Great Basin will have warm, dry weather, along with isolated showers and thunderstorms. Sun will bake the Southwest, with highs around 100 in interior 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