October 3, 1991

The Organization of American States agreed late tonight on a campaign of diplomatic pressure to isolate the new military junta in Haiti and restore the elected Government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. O.A.S. officials said they had agreed on a resolution calling for a suspension of all economic, commercial, diplomatic and military assistance to the coup leaders. They also agreed that if these steps did not lead to a restoration of democracy, they would consider other measures, which they declined to specify at this time.

Frankly, it appears readers do give a damn. Again. Hundreds of thousands of people have been stampeding bookstores around the country to buy "Scarlett," the sequel to "Gone With the Wind" that has soared so quickly to the top of the best-seller list that even its publisher is astonished. A million copies of the book have been printed, though the book has been in the stores barely a week, and orders are coming in so furiously, the publisher says he is printing 50,000 copies a day and shipping directly from the bindery to bookstores.

Salomon Brothers Inc., plagued since August by the scandal in the Treasuries market, has uncovered evidence of an additional violation of trading rules in that market, the firm announced yesterday. The additional violation, which occurred in a December auction, involved another instance in which the firm's government bond trading desk submitted a bid in a customer's name without authorization, people working with the firm said.

The internal intelligence feuds over Nicaragua, Iran and papal assassination laid bare in Congress this week were but skirmishes in a struggle during the 1980's to shape the lens through which American intelligence viewed the Soviet Union: as an implacably evil force or an empire in retreat and flux. For the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the central question is whether Robert M. Gates, the hard-line Soviet expert who now seeks to become Director of Central Intelligence, played an intellectually honest role in that struggle, or was driven purely by ambition and political loyalty. How to Promote C.I.A. The battleground was the Central Intelligence Agency's analytical division, the Directorate of Intelligence, which Mr. Gates and his boss, William J. Casey, thoroughly shook up from the first days of their arrival in 1981. The two men were the avowed leaders in a crusade to restore American intelligence, and especially the C.I.A., to a front-line post in the cold war and a first-tier seat in the councils of the White House.

Vietnam has tentatively agreed to accept the forced return of tens of thousands of Vietnamese refugees now held in camps throughout Southeast Asia, diplomats and refugee workers said today. The decision, a major policy reversal for Vietnam, would allow nations housing Vietnamese refugees to send them home by force if they are determined to have fled their country for economic reasons, rather than out of a well-founded fear of persecution.