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, Jun 17 1992 Date: Wed, 17 Jun 92 05:19:38 EDT Message-ID: DECISIONLINE: News USA TODAY Update June 17, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network WEINBERGER INDICTED: Caspar Weinberger Tuesday became the highest-ranking member of the Reagan administration to be indicted on Iran-contra charges. The indictment of the former Defense secretary on five cover-up-related felony counts fueled speculation that former President Reagan is a focus of the continuing probe. Reagan lawyer Theodore Olson Tuesday would not comment on the speculation. YELTSIN, BUSH TO SLASH ARSENALS: President Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin Tuesday agreed to reduce by nearly two-thirds arsenals of long-range nuclear warheads. The cuts will bring each side down to 3,500 by 2003, at the most. That's beyond the reductions in the recently concluded strategic arms treaty. Wednesday, Bush and Yeltsin turn toward economic matters. YELTSIN ADMITS TO VIETNAM POWS: Russian President Boris Yeltsin Tuesday admitted that missing Vietnam War soldiers had been held and might still be alive in Russia. President Bush ordered Malcom Toon, former ambassador to the Soviet Union and now U.S. head of a joint Russian-U.S. panel on POWs and MIAs, to Moscow "immediately" to follow up. Senators on a POW:MIA committee urged Yeltsin to meet with them this week. ABUSE AWARENESS NEARLY NIL: A survey of 38 physicians at a large, urban HMO, finds that more than half said they had no training in recognizing domestic violence, reports Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association. The issue, devoted to domestic violence, said a fear of offending patients, a feeling of powerlessness and time constraints kept doctors from intervening in abuse cases. BAKER MAKES LIGHT OF BAN: Secretary of State James Baker said Tuesday he was confident that U.S.-Mexican anti-drug cooperation would continue despite a ban on such activities announced Monday by the Mexican government. The ban was to protest a Supreme Court ruling allowing the USA to kidnap people abroad to stand trial in the USA. The decision stems from a case involving the death of a U.S. drug agent. BUSH HASN'T FORGOTTEN URBAN AID: President Bush said Tuesday he's already decided on his next battleground with Congress: Urban aid. "I'm doing everything I can," Bush said. "I've got to get my point of view out." The White House has been virtually silent about Bush's plan to help Los Angeles dig out from the worst urban riots in U.S. history. Bush has threatened to veto a $2 billion aid bill. HOUSE APPROVES VOTER BILL: The House Tuesday approved a bill to register people to vote when they apply for driver's licenses, but like the Senate last month fell short of a veto-proof two-thirds majority. President Bush has promised a veto. The vote was 268-154, 22 short. The bill would require states to register eligible citizens when they apply for a driver's license, unemployment or welfare benefits. PEROT WON'T TESTIFY ON POWS: After 23 years seeking a spotlight for POWs, Ross Perot is refusing to testify before a Senate committee looking into the possibility that prisoners of war presumed dead in Vietnam are still alive. Perot said Tuesday the hearing could mimic the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings. POW committee chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., refused to rule out subpoena options. ABORTION OPPONENTS ARRESTED: Police arrested 99 abortion opponents, including 32 children, as they unsuccessfully tried to block entrances to two clinics in Milwaukee Tuesday on the first day of what's billed as a six-week protest. The adults were charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct, and face possible contempt-of-court charges. A judge has ordered demonstrators to stay at least 25 feet from clinics. BUSH'S BROTHER BEING SUED: A soured business deal between a Japanese company and President Bush's older brother, Prescott Bush Jr., could provide new ammunition for critics of his family's financial dealings. West Tsusho Co. of Tokyo, a company with alleged mob ties, is suing Bush's older brother for $2.5 million involving a 1989 stock deal. DOW JONES OPENS ON DOWNSWING: The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Wednesday at 3329.49 after closing down 25.41 Tuesday. The New York Stock Exchange composite opens at 224.72, down 0.90. The American Stock Exchange market value opens at 386.12, down 2.66. The NASDAQ OTC composite opens at 564.07, down 4.94. STORMS HIT THE MIDWEST: Showers and storms will dampen much of the northern tier of the USA Wednesday. The storms will hit parts of the mid-Atlantic, the Midwest and northern Plains into the northern Rockies. The Gulf Coast states will be hot and humid. Along the Atlantic seaboard humidity keeps at a comfortable level. Thunderstorms are going to pound central and southern Florida. 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