And In Local News ... The four top stories on assorted world newscasts for March 29, 1994

UNITED STATES (ABC)

-- Medicare coverage varies from region to region

-- Questionable data uncovered in breast-cancer study

-- Dallas Cowboys' head coach and owner part ways

-- Mrs. Clinton's killing in commodities-futures market

MEXICO (TELEVISA)

-- Zedillo named as the new P.R.I. presidential candidate

-- Congressional delegation visits Colosio assassination site

-- Marchers demand full disclosure of assassination facts

-- Mexican stock market remains calm

BRAZIL (TV GLOBO)

-- Drug traffickers use Sao Paulo prostitutes to distribute crack

-- Pastor is arrested trying to leave the country with $400,000 in cash

-- Illegal telecommunications equipment is seized in the Amazon region

-- Cities are wasting money adding fluoride to water

BRITAIN (BBC)

< -- Cabinet compromises over European Union voting rules

-- Italian election results

-- Northern England school murder

-- Gloucestershire school minibus accident

KENYA

(Kenya Broadcasting Corp.)

-- President Moi's day

-- New head of Kenya Wildlife Service assumes his post

-- The government denies that food for famine relief is being misappropriated

-- Agriculture Minister says Kenya earned $261 million from tea exports last year

EGYPT (Channel 1)

-- Continuing violence in the Israeli occupied territories

-- Egyptian Foreign Minister Moussa's visit to India for G-15 conference

-- Egyptian Prime Minister Sidki meets China's Minister of Industry

-- Arab League welcomes Comoros as its latest member

SOUTH AFRICA (SABC-TV1)

-- Talks between the government and the KwaZulu homeland are on hold

-- The government considers a state of emergency for KwaZulu

-- A judicial commission is asked to investigate Monday's Johannesburg violence

-- White right-wingers demonstrate for an Afrikaner homeland

AUSTRALIA

(National Nine News)

-- Firearms use by Victoria state police is to be reviewed after two deaths

-- Johannesburg violence

-- Australia TV personality is cleared of contempt-of-court charge

-- A leading Victoria legislator retires

INDIA (Doordarshan)

-- Indian parliamentary debate over GATT

-- The G-15 meeting of developing nations in New Delhi

-- An explosion kills 13 soldiers in Kashmir

-- A Pakistan-backed terrorist is arrested in Punjab

JAPAN (TV Asahi)

-- A former construction-company executive is indicted on bribery charges

-- The government unveils market-opening measures to reduce account surplus

-- Italian election results

-- Los Angeles police recover car stolen from two murdered Japanese students

RUSSIA (NTV)

-- A larger union is urged by leaders in several republics

-- Yeltsin discusses security and coup rumors with the head of counterintelligence

-- The IMF's managing director receives a hunting rifle from the government as a sign of gratitude

-- U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's visit