BUSINESS DIGEST: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1987

LEAD: The Mount Sinai Medical Center has admitted responsibility for an unauthorized heart transplant performed there last August and has been fined $8,000 by New York State.

MOUNT SINAI ADMITS FAULT IN TRANSPLANT

LEAD: A White House commission has uncovered information linking the National Security Council to private efforts to aid the Nicaraguan rebels while such activity by the Federal Government was banned, according to sources familiar with the commission's work.

TOWER PANEL DATA SAID TO LINK N.S.C., PRIVATE REBEL AID

LEAD: GOOD evening. This is a tale of obsession, of sublime passion, deep and everlasting.

EVOCATIVE GOTHIC: REVIVAL AMID THE GLOOM

LEAD: Mikhail S. Gorbachev's espousal of greater openness in Soviet society has met a mixed response from his Eastern European allies, from applause in Poland to apparent unease in Czechoslovakia.

GORBACHEV DRAWS A MIXED REACTION

LEAD: Private insurers object to the proposed expansion of Medicare that would offer protection to the elderly against catastrophic illness.

MEDICARE EXPANSION UNDER FIRE

INSIDE

LEAD: Roger B. Smith, chairman of the General Motors Corporation, predicted today that his company's cost-cutting efforts would start to improve earnings this year, but many analysts doubt that big short-term gains are likely.

G.M. CHIEF SEES PROFIT GAIN SOON

LEAD: IT seemed like a gimmick when it was introduced 20 years ago, but that first toll-free, long-distance telephone call unleashed a revolution in telecommunications, marketing, information services and personal dialing habits beyond even the wildest dreams of most telephone-industry executives. The 800 number - that 10-digit tie line to a mind-boggling array of products and information - has mushroomed into a multibillion-dollar business and is entrenched in

THE REVOLUTION WROUGHT BY TOLL-FREE CALLS

LEAD: Prospects for a renewal of Congressional aid to Nicaraguan rebels are so bleak that the Reagan Administration has decided to postpone its formal request for several months, Administration officials said today.

CONTRA AID APPEAL WILL BE POSTPONED

LEAD: Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward, in his first lengthy interview in eight months, yesterday defended the New York Police Department's handling of the Howard Beach case, criticized some black leaders for attacking the department and said it was committed to improving race relations in the city.

WARD DEFENDS POLICE ON RACIAL CASE

LEAD: The increasing public discussion of the condom, a birth-control device that was once an unmentionable in many homes, has stirred debate among educators, religious leaders and parents.

CONDOMS, AIDS AND MORALS: NEW CONCERN ALTERS DEBATE

LEAD: Early in the 1980's, when Saudi Arabia was riding the oil boom, stories circulated about Saudis who traded in their cars when the ashtray filled up. Today, however, many cars on the roads of Riyadh look three, four and five years old.

THE HUMBLED SAUDI ECONOMY

LEAD: The Soviet Union has turned a major corner in its handling of human-rights cases with the pardoning of dozens of imprisoned dissidents, Western diplomats and Soviet officials say. Although not satisfying

Release of Dissidents More Than a Gesture

LEAD: BRONX Democratic leaders are not questioning whether Borough President Stanley Simon, who prosecutors say is a target of a Federal grand jury investigation, will resign - but when.

Search Is Already On For Simon Successor

LEAD: Last Friday, Edward M. Marwell's small factory in Mount Kisco, N.Y., shipped its first forklift truck parts to a Japanese manufacturer. He credits this small coup to the sharp decline of the dollar relative to the yen, which made his product more competitive.

SPECTER OF A RECESSION IS SEEN IN FALLING DOLLAR

LEAD: Stand-up comedy plays in New York and Hollywood, but what interests Richard Fields is how well it plays in the likes of Peoria and Poughkeepsie.

IMPRESARIO PROMOTES LAUGHS

LEAD: In the last four and a half years, photographers employed by the City Finance Department have walked down every street, stood on every corner and photographed every building in the city's five boroughs, as well as every vacant lot where a building once stood or may one day stand.

NEW YORK TAKES PHOTOS OF ITSELF FOR POSTERITY

LEAD: IF you're one of the thousands of homeowners who have decided to renovate or remodel their current dwellings, you couldn't have picked a better time.

A BORROWER'S MARKET FOR HOME-EQUITY LOANS

LEAD: The 12 youths charged in the Howard Beach racial assault have histories similar to those of middle-class white youths around the city, and the attachment of their names to charges of murder, manslaughter, assault and riot stunned those who know them differently.

YOUTHS NEIGHBORS STUNNED BY THE CHARGES IN ATTACK ON BLACKS

LEAD: Seeking to avert the delays that have affected many airline flights, the Federal Aviation Administration today is putting into effect a major change in East Coast air traffic flows.

PLAN TO AVERT AIR TRAFFIC DELAYS ON EAST COAST IS STARTING TODAY

LEAD: THE Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens, who struck out on his own with $2,500 in 1959, is known around Wall Street as the prototypical deal maker of the 1980's - wily, inventive, persistent and almost always in the money.

What Next For Pickens?

LEAD: * Burnham Service Corp., Columbus, Ga., an electronics and household mover, named Calvin J. Martin president and chief operating officer, succeeding Raymond E. Crowley, who remains chairman and chief executive. Mr. Martin was also named a director.

EXECUTIVE CHANGES

LEAD: A uniformed security guard in a dormitory at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center was arrested yesterday and charged with raping a 29-year-old medical student in the basement, the police said.

GUARD ARRESTED

LEAD: The Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation's board, after days of meetings, announced yesterday that it had named a troika of directors to run the company while the position of chairman remains vacant.

Troika of Directors To Run Wheeling

Jérémy Chardy is a French tennis coach and a former professional player. He has won one ATP Tour singles title, in Stuttgart in 2009. His best major performance in singles was reaching the quarterfinals of the 2013 Australian Open, and in doubles was reaching the final at the 2019 French Open partnering Fabrice Martin. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 25 on 28 January 2013 and No. 24 on 3 February 2020 in doubles.

Jérémy Chardy, French tennis player

Jérémy_Chardy

Gabriela Mărginean is a Romanian professional women's basketball player who plays for the Turkey club İzmit Belediyespor.

February 12, 1987

Headlines from February 12, 1987

BUSINESS DIGEST: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1987

MOUNT SINAI ADMITS FAULT IN TRANSPLANT

TOWER PANEL DATA SAID TO LINK N.S.C., PRIVATE REBEL AID

EVOCATIVE GOTHIC: REVIVAL AMID THE GLOOM

GORBACHEV DRAWS A MIXED REACTION

Billboard 200

Slippery When Wet

Licensed To Ill

Different Light

Night Songs

The Way It Is

Notable Births

Historical Context for February 12, 1987