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, Jun 1 1992 Date: Mon, 1 Jun 92 05:21:13 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update June 1, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network ENVIRONMENT IS TOP CONCERN: A USA TODAY poll and two others in France and Japan say the environment is the No. 1 concern in the United States and Japan and ranks second to poverty by a slim margin in France. A majority of U.S. residents opposes foreign aid to help solve ecological problems in developing Asian and African nations. The poll has a margin of error of 3%. IDEA LIGHTS UP MONDAY: A bright new idea makes its debut Monday. Intersource Technologies of Sunnyvale, Calif., has developed a bulb lasting up to 20 years. Unlike conventional bulbs, the new version won't use a filament, which burns out. Magnetic coil will be used instead. The bulbs are scheduled for sale next year for $10 to $20. TRAVELERS SWAMP AGENCIES: Callers overwhelmed airline ticket centers over the weekend, pursuing some of the lowest airfares in a decade. Thousands were stymied by busy signals. Those who got through endured long waits. The airlines said thousands of cost-conscious travelers unable to get through by phone lined up at airport ticket counters. Major airlines added agents at counters and phones. NETWORK FARE COULD BE PRE-EMPTED: Changes coming in network television could affect what viewers see. Networks have always paid local stations to air their programs. But CBS now says the stations, starting Jan. 1, must repay some of those fees: 25% from larger stations; 20%, mid-size stations; and 15%, smaller stations. No. 1 CBS also will no longer pay the same for a hit series as it does for lower-rated shows. LOTTERY MAKES RECORD DEBUT: The Lone Star State's new lottery made a Texas-size debut: A record first-day tally as weekend sales topped 45 million tickets. Friday, $23.2 million in tickets were sold. At least 63 won $10,000. Also in the new lottery, 198 won $1,000; 2,592 won $100; 10,679 won $50; and more than 4.2 million won $2, $5, $10 or $25. MASSIVE GUN-CONTROL BILL SOUGHT: A bill requiring all handguns to be given to the government will be introduced Tuesday by Sen. John Chafee, R-R.I. The most sweeping gun-control plan in a decade, the bill has little immediate chance of passing, but will stir debate. The government would buy all 67 million private handguns at market price. Cost: $40 per gun, $2.7 billion. Some guns would be allowed to be kept. BAKER SPECULATION RENEWED: There was a new round of speculation over the weekend that Secretary of State James Baker would replace White House Chief of Staff Samuel Skinner to jump-start President Bush's campaign, beset by dismal poll numbers and Ross Perot's rise in popularity. Bush has denied the rumors. Campaign chairman Robert Mosbacher reportedly wants to attack Perot now and is being spurned. CONGRESSIONAL BUNKER EXPOSED: Underneath the elegant antebellum Greenbrier resort hotel in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., a national security secret lay hidden for three decades. Washington newspapers reported over the weekend that beneath the sprawling Greenbrier is a gigantic concete-and-steel complex, built in 1958 and kept stocked and ready to shelter members of Congress in case of nuclear attack. CIA'S COVERT BUDGET COULD GROW: The Bush administration has proposed almost tripling the CIA's $15 million budget for covert operations to help topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. The new funding, $40 million, would be devoted to a program that began in May 1991, when President Bush signed a presidential order, it said. PRESSURE ON YUGOSLAVIA TIGHTENS: Pressure grew Sunday to stop bloodshed in Bosnia-Herzegovina. A day after the U.N. Security Council slapped economic sanctions on Serbian-led Yugoslavia, President Bush froze $214 million in Yugoslav assets. European countries cut air travel to Yugoslavia, leaving many passengers stranded at Belgrade's airport. In Sarajevo, warring actions agreed to a cease-fire. EMBARGO AGAINST HAITI LAX: The trade embargo against Haiti has been too lax to force political changes, business owners say. Few see the picture changing unless the embargo is matched by tough enforcement. The USA led a trade embargo after a coup there in September. But goods and petroleum continue to pour in from Europe and Asia. President Bush last week ordered a tightening of the embargo. DOW JONES OPENS ON DOWNSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Monday at 3396.88, after closing down 1.55 Friday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 288.87, down 0.37. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 394.69, up 2.39. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 585.31, up 4.82. EAST TEXAS MAY SEE TORNADOES: An outbreak of severe weather will hit parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana Monday, with possible tornadoes in eastern Texas. Showers will wet the central and southern Plains. Gray skies will cover most of New England as temperatures remain low and showers linger over the region. Across New York and Pennsylvania, the sun will break through the clouds, but readings stay cool. News Editor: Beth Mann. 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