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THE NEWS in brief
MANAGUA, Nicaragua
Nicaraguan guerrillas issue new conditions for release of hostages
A rightist guerrilla leader issued new conditions yesterday for releasing at least 18 government officials held hostage. The announcement came a day after he raised hopes of an end to Nicaragua's four-day hostage crisis by freeing 20 others.
Rival left肟 gunmen, who held 27 hostages in Managua, freed two captives yesterday as a goodwill gesture. They still are holding Vice President Virgilio Godoy, eight congressmen and at least nine journalists.
Rearmed former soldiers from both sides have elapsed repeatedly with troops during the past year as President Violeta Chamorro's reconciliation policies have been foiled by political emunity and a crippled economy.
The hostage crisis involves rival groups of ex-combatants from the war between the former leftist Sandinista government and the U.S.-backed Contras that ended in 1990.
former Contras have accused the government of failing to provide the land and aid promised when they disarmed. They also claim that their rivals have continued to persecute and murder them.
Reich favors raising minimum wage
WASHINGTON, D.C
The hourly minimum wage, which has been $4.25 since 1990, should be raised and indexed to automatically reflect cost-of-living increases, Labor Secretary Robert Reich says.
But Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole said on the same program that linking minimum wage increases to cost-of-living increases "would be a big, big mistake and I don't even think it would pass" Congress.
Reich, appearing Sunday on CBS" "Face the Nation," said workers receiving the minimum wage earned less than they did in the 1970s and 1890s, based on inflation.
Republicans and other opponents of raising the minimum wage say it would result in businesses hiring fewer young and untrained workers, the group most in need of minimum wage jobs.
LOS ANGELES
Gas prices rise after downward trend
National gasoline prices at the pump rose almost half a cent per gallon, ending the lower than-usual prices that drivers enjoyed most of the summer.
The average price of all grades, including taxes, was $1.14.96 cents, up 0.39 cents from two weeks earlier, according to the Aug. 20 Lundberg Survey of 10,000 gas stations nationwide.
The price jump was caused by a combination of retailers raising the price of gas to increase revenues coupled with a greater demand for gas, said analyst Trishy Lundberg. Prices had been dropping since the beginning of June.
Average prices at self serve pumps were regular unleaded $1.08 04 cents; mid-grade unleaded $1.19 32; premium unleaded $1.27 17 cents; and regular leaded $1.10 29 cents, according to the survey.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Official resigns over Bosnian policy
a young U.S. foreign service officer abandoned a promising career Monday to protest the Clinton administration's policy of non-intervention in the civil war in Bosnia.
In resigning, Stephen Walker, 30, wrote Secretary of State Warren Christopher that U.S. policy accepts genocide and aggression in the former Yugoslav republic.
"Our policies are misguided, vacillating and dangerous," he wrote.
Walker is the third State Department official to quit this month — the fourth in a year — as dissension has spread over a policy that has threatened military action to curb Bosnian Serbs but has relied primarily on diplomacy and economic sanctions.
The exodus is the largest since a handful of National Security Council staff members quit the Nixon administration 20 years ago to protest U.S. military involvement in Southeast Asia.
WICHITA
Woman held on bail in Tiller case
A woman accused of shooting a doctor outside a clinic where abortions are performed was ordered held on $1 million bail yesterday by a judge who said activists may be using terror as a political tool.
Rachelie Renae "Shelley" Shannon is accused of wounding Dr. George Tiller in both arms Thursday outside his Women's Health Care Services clinic. Tiller was treated at a local hospital and returned to work less than 12 hours later.
Songwick County District Judge Paul Clark set bail and scheduled Sept. 7 as the tentative preliminary hearing date for Shannon, 37, of Grants Pass, Ore.
The judge caught reporters off guard by moving yesterday's hearing to another judge's courtroom and holding it about an hour earlier than scheduled. Reporters waiting at Clark's courtroom were told by a secretary that the hearing was already over.
Clark told KFDI radio he was concerned about pretral publicity and wanted to avoid large crowds of demonstrators during the hearing.
Compiled from The Associated Press.