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 Tue, Jun 2 1992 Date: Tue, 2 Jun 92 05:20:35 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update June 2, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network BUSH REPACKAGES EARTH GOALS: President Bush Monday repackaged his oft-stated goal of environmental protection and economic development, introducing it as "the new environmentalism." Bush is taking fire for trying to undercut the goals of the Earth Summit beginning Wednesday. Among his moves: He's stifled efforts to fix timetables and targets for reducing greenhouse gases. PRIMARIES WRAP UP TUESDAY: Presidential primaries that began in February close out Tuesday in six states with voter discontent still loud. Bill Clinton likely will lock up the Democratic nomination. He leads ex-California Governor Jerry Brown in that state 35% to 28%, according to a California poll. President Bush already is the Republican nominee. Ohio, New Jersey, West Virginia, Montana and Alabama also vote. LYME EXPERTS HOLD CONFERENCE: More than 9,300 cases of Lyme disease were reported in 47 states in 1991, say researchers at the Fifth International Lyme disease Conference in Crystal City, Va. From late May to early June is the most likely time of year to get the disease, which is concentrated in East Coast states from Maine to Virginia, in California and the upper Midwest, researchers say. Tiny deer ticks carry the disease. MAN WINS EMBRYO CUSTODY CASE: The Tennessee Supreme Court Monday ruled that a divorced man cannot be forced to become a father, ending a three-year custody battle over seven frozen embryos between Junior Lewis Davis and Mary Sue Davis Stowe, now remarried. Davis' ex-wife won temporary custody in 1989 and said then she might replant the embryos in her womb. An appeals court granted joint custody in 1990. BROWN WITHHOLDS ENDORSEMENT: Democratic presidential hopeful Jerry Brown in Hollywood Monday called for Democrats to hold an open convention in July, where someone besides Bill Clinton might be considered for selection as its nominee. Brown said he would not endorse likely candidate Bill Clinton before the convention and alluded to Clinton's trailing President Bush and independent Ross Perot in polls. U.S. ANTI-DRUG ACTION TO EXPAND: The Bush administration said Monday it plans to expand anti-drug operations in Central America and the Caribbean, a move carrying risks in one target nation, Guatemala. It's become a key shipping point for U.S.-bound cocaine. The plan reportedly involves use of military helicopters. Congress has long objected to U.S. military aid to Guatemala because of its military's human rights record. ELDER ABUSE IS CHARGED: Robert Lanman and his wife, Rosemary, were formally charged Monday in Clewiston, Fla., with elder abuse. The charges relate to the quality of care given to retired missionaries Bene and Bernice Roviera. Nationwide there were 210,000 reports of elder abuse, up from 117,000 in 1986. In Florida, elder abuse investigations are up 147% since 1987, the year before a hot line began. SADDAM REJECTS CEASE-FIRE KEY: Saddam Hussein's government has told the United Nations it won't recognize its new border with Kuwait, rejecting a key cease-fire condition of the 1991 gulf war defeat. The new boundary, set by U.N. surveyors, shifts the border deeper into Iraq, giving Kuwait 10 new oil wells and an abandoned Iraqi naval base at the port of Um Qasr. Western diplomats said Iraq had gradually encroached. ARREST MADE IN TV STAR DEATH: A friend of slain actor Bob Crane, long considered the prime suspect, was charged Monday with "Hogan's Heroes" star's 1978 murder. John Carpenter, 63, was arrested on a first-degree murder warrant Monday by Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies and police from Scottsdale, Ariz., where Crane, 49, was found dead June 29, 1978. Carpenter was held without bail. NAACP WITHDRAWS PLAN SUPPORT: The NAACP Monday withdrew its support of the Yonkers, N.Y., housing desegregation plan, which goes before federal Judge Leonard Sand Tuesday. Cited: Condo and co-op boards could still discriminate. John Spencer, the City Council majority leader, also dropped support of the agreement in the 12-year-old lawsuit. Sand had ordered the suburb to provide low and subsidized housing. SOUTH-CENTRAL USA TO GET WET: The south-central part of the nation will brace for more shower and thunderstorm activity Tuesday. Warm sun will be across much of the Midwest through midweek. Clouds, showers, and thunderstorms continue to plague the Gulf Coast. A pleasant, cooler day is on tap for the Pacific Northwest. Coastal California can expect morning clouds and an afternoon clearing. DOW JONES OPENS ON UPSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Tuesday at 3413.21, after closing up 16.33 Monday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 229.90, up 1.03. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 394.84, up 0.15. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 588.37, up 3.06. 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