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 15 1992 Date: Mon, 15 Jun 92 05:41:48 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update June 15, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network BUSH AND CLINTON TAKE TO TV: President Bush and Bill Clinton bring their battle to the airwaves this week. Bush sits for a rare interview Monday on CNN's International Hour at 3 p.m. EDT. Clinton, who recently was on "The Arsenio Hall Show," takes questions from a studio audience on "CBS This Morning" Monday, 7-9 a.m. EDT. Tuesday night at 10 EDT he's on cable's MTV. YELTSIN COMES TO WASHINGTON: Russian President Boris Yeltsin arrives in Washington Monday for a summit with President Bush that he hopes will bring about a new arms control pact. He's also seeking support for international aid to his country. Questioned about a lack of antibiotics in an interview on "60 Minutes" broadcast Sunday, he said angrily, "Why don't you give us antibiotics - you are a rich country." FTC TO RESTRICT WEIGHT LOSS ADS: Commercial weight loss programs will soon have to back up claims made in advertising with hard data to meet new Federal Trade Commission ad standards. Barry Cutler of the FTC says if a program says, for example, that once the weight is off the person will be able to keep it off, they'll have to prove it. Critics say too many diet ads base their claims on anecdotes, not scientific studies. RESTRICTIVE LAW TAKES EFFECT: Monday in Springfield, Ore., a measure prohibiting the city from "promoting, encouraging or facilitating homosexuality" becomes law as one of the USA's most restrictive laws on homosexuals. The measure blocks protection of gays from discrimination in jobs and housing. In exit polls, voters said they didn't want to give gays special rights. The city says it won't enforce the law. HOMELESS CASE BEGINS: A case that begins Monday in Miami asks a federal judge to decide whether sweeps and other efforts aimed at the homeless violate their constitutional rights. The case is being filed on behalf of an estimated 5,000 to 7,000 homeless. Crackdowns against the homeless are on the rise and public sympathy on the decline. But legal challenges on behalf of the homeless are increasing. CLINTON ATTACKS RAPPER: Bill Clinton's attack on black rapper Sister Souljah at a weekend meeting of Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition may have been a deliberate move to underscore his ideological independence. But it was seen by some as a costly snub of Jackson. The presidential candidate criticized the coalition for hosting Souljah, who reportedly made comments Clinton considered racist. PEROT HITS CITIES: Ross Perot heads for five cities in six days, as his unconventional route to a presidential bid makes a hairpin turn toward the traditional. He visits California on Thursday, with stops in Sacramento and Irvine. Stops are scheduled in Denver on Friday, Boston on Saturday and Annapolis the following Wednesday. Perot has qualified for the ballot in 15 states. EARTH SUMMIT ENDS: The U.N. Earth Summit ended Sunday with world leaders saying the gathering would be a catalyst for curing a host of global environmental ills. Leaders emerged from the summit with treaties on global warming and endangered species protection. But the summit cast the United States as a villain for watering down the warming agreement and refusing to sign a biodiversity treaty. TOWN WANTS BORDER PATROL OUT: A federal judge in Los Angeles is expected to rule this week on a temporary restraining order filed by the city of Temecula, Calif., to keep the Border Patrol out. More than 4,500 people have signed a petition calling for the closing of the checkpoint at Temecula, a second "rim" to catch illegal immigrants from Mexico missed at the border. A fiery crash June 2 killed two children. DOW JONES OPENS ON UPSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Monday at 3354.36 after closing up 2.85 points Friday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 225.51, up 0.41. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 391.32, up 1.42. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 569.52, up 1.84. TEXAS HEAT SPURS HARSH WEATHER: Extreme heat in Texas will help feed a system of severe weather over the Great Plains. Wind gusts in excess of 50 mph, hail and tornadoes will stretch from northern Texas to Montana Monday. Storms will roll through the mid-Atlantic and into parts of the Southeast. The Northeast will have temperatures dropping to the 60s and 70s, but the air will stay dry. Temperatures and humidity are on the upswing across Dixie. 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