July 11, 1991

The lifting of American trade sanctions is likely to raise President F. W. de Klerk's standing among white voters. South Africa's blacks are less pleased. News analysis, page A10.

President Bush today lifted the American economic sanctions imposed on South Africa in 1986, saying Pretoria's moves to end its system of racial separation and white minority rule were "irreversible." Mr. Bush said the State Department had advised him that with the release of all political prisoners in recent weeks, President F. W. de Klerk had met all five conditions laid down by the sanctions legislation and therefore by executive order he was immediately ending the ban on trade with South Africa, bank loans to its Government, new investments there and airline connections.

President Bush announced tonight that he would nominate Alan Greenspan to another four-year term as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. The announcement was expected here and on Wall Street. But with Mr. Greenspan's current term expiring Aug. 11, mild jitters developed in the financial community in recent weeks when no word from the White House was forthcoming.

Shannon, 4 years old, is No. A-458 in New York State's new catalogue of children who need adoptive homes. The book says he was born with fetal alcohol syndrome and has serious mental limitations. He loves his toy car. "Fast!" he exclaims. A few pages over is Tammy, No. Z-285. She is 14. She was placed in foster care at 6, adopted at 9 and orphaned a few months later. "Though she is rarely affectionate, those who know Tammy detect an underlying sensitivity," the book says.

When school opens in New York City on Sept. 11 more classrooms will be strained to the breaking point. Fewer teachers will be around to offer art, music and the electives that give high school its pungency. Fewer guidance counselors will be available to help the most aimless and unruly youngsters, and ragged textbooks will have to make it through another year patched together by tape and glue.