Around the world
AUTHENTIC: A painting that hung in the dining room of a Jesuit house in Dublin, Ireland, for more than 50 years has been authenticated as a work of the 17th-century Italian artist Caravaggio. "It is a hugely important work. It has been unknown for a couple of centuries," said Brian Kennedy, assistant director of the National Gallery of Ireland. It will go on display at the gallery on Nov. 17.DEPORT: Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe said Friday his government would deport all whites who refuse to abandon racist attitudes. Mugabe's threat followed several weeks of acrimony over plans by the government to seize white-owned farms for landless peasants. In his strongest attack so far on the nation's 100,000-strong white community, Mugabe described racism as "the greatest enemy" of his 10.5 million black countrymen.
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Across the nationQUAKE: A moderate earthquake jolted Southern California on Friday night, knocking goods off store shelves and causing at least one minor injury. The shaker, an aftershock of last year's powerful Landers earthquake, was felt as far south as San Diego and northwest to Los Angeles. The temblor measured 5.0 on the Richter scale and struck at 6:46 p.m. It was centered 10 miles southeast of Yucca Valley, said seismologist Phil Maechling.
NEW LEGS: An outdoorsman who freed himself from a fallen log by cutting off part of his left leg is receiving two artificial limbs for free. Donald Wyman left his New Bethlehem, Pa., home Thursday and took his first flight ever, to the Sabolich Prosthetic and Research Center in Oklahoma City. He was cutting logs about 100 miles northeast of Pittsburgh on July 20 when an oak tree snapped back on his lower leg. He fashioned a tourniquet with a chain saw cord, severed his leg below the knee with a pocketknife and drove his truck two miles for help.
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In Washington
FUNDING: An increase in the amount taxpayers check off on their federal returns will avert a $100-million shortfall for the 1996 presidential campaign fund, the Federal Elections Commission said Friday. Beginning with the 1993 tax year, the voluntary contribution for federal elections funding will increase from $1 to $3. The provision was included in the budget bill passed by Congress earlier this month.