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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 05:22:47 EDT

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08-28 0000
DECISIONLINE: International News
USA TODAY Update
Aug. 28-30, 1992
Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network
    
U.S. AWAITS SADDAM RESPONSE:
   U.S. officials are watching to see if Saddam Hussein challenges 
allied planes patrolling a "no-fly zone" in south Iraq. The ban is 
identical to a protective air zone over the Kurds in northern 
Iraq. In Baghdad, a government statement hinted Saddam might 
launch a military response. Pentagon spokesman Bob Hall says none 
of 40 Iraqi flights Thursday near the zone crossed the line.
    
GROUPS CUTS CANARY WHARF BID:
   A Wall Street investor group cut its bid to rescue the Canary 
Wharf project in London, the Associated Press said Thursday. The 
group, including CBS Chair Lawrence Tisch and former Salomon Bros. 
vice chair Lewis Ranieri, lowered its bid to 235 million pounds 
(about $464 million) from 350 million pounds ($692 million). 
Olympia & York put the project under insolvency protection in May.
    
VIOLENCE NOT HITLER REBIRTH:
   Anti-foreign violence in Germany is triggered by frustration, 
economic hardship and loss of identity - but experts don't see it 
as the rebirth of Adolf Hitler's brand of fascism. Gangs of 
eastern German skinheads have fought with police and burned 
buildings housing refugees. Rostock residents cheered on the 
right-wing violence last weekend. Officials fear more trouble for 
the weekend.
    
ISRAEL WAITS FOR RESPONSE:
   Arab diplomats said Thursday they see no sign Israel is ready 
to match words with actions during the Washington peace talks. But 
Palestinian spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi didn't suggest an impasse 
was near. The Israeli delegation, meanwhile, is waiting for a 
response from the Palestinian on its plan for Palestinian 
self-rule in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
    
RUSSIAN LOANS INCREASE:
   The Export-Import Bank approved its first $102 million in loan 
guarantees for Russia's industry, and an official of the U.S. 
government bank said Thursday he hoped for a deal this fall to 
pump $2 billion into lagging oil and gas production there. The 
Soviet Union was the world's biggest producer of oil, but 25,000 
wells in Russia are idle.
    
HAITI EMBARGO FAILS:
   Organization of American States chief Joao Baena Soares said 
Thursday a U.S.-led trade embargo against Haiti is a failure. "We 
have seen a very leaky embargo," he said after a visit to Haiti 
this month. The ban was imposed last October to reverse a military 
coup which ousted elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
    
HEZBOLLAH VICTORIOUS:
   The fundamentalist Hezbollah won a landslide victory Thursday 
in parliamentary elections for an eastern Lebanon district, 
results showed. The militant group, widely believed to control 
underground groups that kidnapped scores of Westerners in Lebanon 
in the 1980s, will enter parliament for the first time.
    
CZECHOSLOVAKIA SPLITS UP:
   Czechs and Slovaks on Thursday began the arduous task of 
dividing Czechoslovakia in half by the end of the year, after 
agreeing it was time to separate. Both sides will, however, share 
the country's currency and military. The split comes after Jan. 1, 
1993.
    
TROOPS TO BOSNIA INCREASED:
   The U.N. announced Thursday it was sending more troops to 
safeguard aid convoys in Bosnia and European defense officials 
stepped up pressure on Serbia with calls for a sanction-enforcing 
blockade. Troops could increase from 1,600 to 8,000. Defense and 
foreign ministers of the nine-member Western European Union will 
consider a full naval blockade of Serbia at a meeting Friday.
    
WIESEL HEADS TO BOSNIA:
   Nobel Peace prizewinner and Nazi death camp survivor Elie 
Wiesel is heading to Bosnia. Wiesel said Thursday he'll head a 
mission in two or three weeks to investigate detention camps in 
Bosnia, where horrific human rights abuses have been reported. 
Former Polish premier Tadeusz Mazowiecki, just back from a U.N. 
investigation in the former Yugoslavia, said human rights no 
longer exist in Bosnia.
    
FOOD FLIGHTS BEGIN FRIDAY:
   The United States said emergency food flights begin Friday to 
Somalia. U.S. military planes this week airlifted food to Somali 
refugees in Kenya. But the focus of the aid operation ordered by 
President Bush is the delivery of food to Somalia, where 1.5 
million people out of a population of 6.5 million are said to be 
starving.
    
IRISH DEATHS REACH 3,000:
   Gunmen Thursday shot to death a young Catholic man on a Belfast 
bus crowded with Irish football players, police said. Hugh 
McKibbin, 19, was counted as the 3,000th death in Northern 
Ireland's political and sectarian violence since the "troubles" 
erupted in mid-1969.
    
POLICE SHAKE-UP OCCURS:
   In South Africa, the white-minority government announced 
Thursday a major shake-up in the police, long accused of racism, 
to create promotions for black officers. The main black opposition 
group, the African National Congress, described the changes as a 
"face lift."
    
DOW JONES OPENS ON UPSWING:
   The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials opens Friday at 3254.64 
after closing up 7.83 Thursday. The New York Stock Exchange 
composite opens at 227.73, up 0.25. The American Stock Exchange 
market value opens at 381.00, up 1.35. The NASDAQ OTC composite 
opens at 563.27, up 4.47.
    
DOLLAR OPENS UP OVERSEAS:
   The dollar opens up on Friday. It opens at 0.5054 British 
pounds, up from 0.5033; 4.8168 French francs, up from 4.7890; 
1.4090 German marks, up from 1.4053; and 124.88 Japanese yen, up 
from 124.75. (As of 3 p.m. Thursday. Source: First American Bank 
of New York.)
    
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