October 26, 1991

U.S. Opens Debt Auctions In its latest response to the Salomon Brothers scandal, the Government said the auctions that raise money to finance the nation's debt would be open to all brokers, not just big Wall Street firms. Page 33. Troubled Psychiatric Chains Private psychiatric hospitals, which exploded into a highly profitable industry in the last five years, face a storm of customer resistance and severe financial problems. Page 33.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy went to the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University today to discuss his future in politics, and to do so he stepped back and tried to address the hurdle of his past. The Senator apologized to his constituents in Massachusetts without specifying what he had done wrong in his private life, but he suggested that in the future he would mend his ways.

President Bush's seemingly contradictory actions of the last 48 hours -- first assailing Congress as "a privileged class of rulers" answerable to no one, then closing a deal with Congress on a new civil rights bill -- were aimed at dampening the volatile political consequences of racial divisiveness and de-emphasizing the stalled economy. On race, the President clearly hopes he has found a path through the mine field by putting himself in a position to assert with some credibility that he is not the implacable foe of civil rights progress that some have accused him of being, while at the same time leaving himself room to assure white middle-class voters that he has protected them from the quotas they hate.

A year after the start of a devastating strike that nearly killed The Daily News, New York City's tabloid war is more competitive than ever, new circulation figures show. The figures indicate that The Daily News has regained about half the circulation it lost during the strike, which ended in March.

Former President Jimmy Carter, who has been most closely identified with foreign affairs since leaving the White House, said yesterday that he was undertaking a program to attack every problem of Atlanta's poor. He suggested that the plan could turn the city into a laboratory where solutions to urban ills might be tested. "We want to make sure that if we try something out in Atlanta that has a potential of success or proves to be successful, that it's instantly shared with other cities," he said.