March 14, 1992

A strong earthquake struck eastern Turkey, killing more than 570 people, the country's semi-official news agency reported. It quoted an official as saying that at least 500 bodies had been pulled from the wreckage in Erzincan, the city hit hardest by the quake, about 350 miles east of Ankara. Panicked survivors spent the night outdoors in freezing temperatures.

Four days before the Michigan primary, President Bush told business executives today that the Government would not require automobile manufacturers to install pollution-control devices on new cars to capture gasoline fumes released into the atmosphere during refueling. In making the announcement just three days after the primary in Texas, Mr. Bush settled a long dispute between auto makers and oil companies over which industry would be required to invest in new equipment to clear the air of benzene and other chemical compounds that contribute to urban smog.

Senate Proposal on Israel Aid A Senate compromise would give Israel $1 billion in loan guarantees and leave $9 billion subject to restrictions on settlement-building. Page 3. Shooting Stirs Chicago Race The race between Representative Gus Savage and Melvin J. Reynolds took an odd turn when Mr. Reynolds was hurt in a shooting. Page 6.

The glaring scenes of an all-male Senate Judiciary Committee -- the only group permitted to question Clarence Thomas about charges of sexual harassment at his Supreme Court nomination hearings -- enraged many women last year. Galvanized by anger and frustration, they began to call more insistently than ever for greater numbers of women to run for United States Senate. This year in New York -- with the two most prominent women ever to compete against each other seeking the office -- anxious and conflicted partisans of both New York City Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman and former Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro of Queens may already be getting more than they bargained for.

With the certainty of full disclosure hanging over them, 17 of the New York region's 54 representatives acknowledged today that they had written overdrafts on their checking accounts at the House Bank. As the representatives headed home for a weekend of rest and campaigning after a week of partisan political angst, many frantically tried to put the best face on a scandal that began as a administrative foul-up but now threatens some political careers.