March 28, 1992

Patrick Keane, a 44-year-old man from Cardiff, Wales, is entitled, like all other Britons, to medical care from the National Health Service. Mr. Keane changed doctors this winter, and the reasons he gave for doing so could spell trouble for Prime Minister John Major's Conservative Party in the national elections on April 9. "My doctor went private," Mr. Keane said. "He's gone computerized, and lost the personal touch. He just didn't give me as good care."

Robert M. Gates has told analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency that he is disturbed by the widespread impression inside the agency that intelligence reports are tailored to please superiors, and he has called for immediate remedies. In a speech on March 16, Mr. Gates said he based his conclusions on a report by an in-house group that conducted a comprehensive survey of C.I.A. analysts and managers. But he seemed to go beyond the assessment of the group, which reported a few instances of "modest concern" that it said warranted "remedial action."

Hundreds Are at Risk A Philadelphia man infected with AIDS has told the authorities he had sex with hundreds of teen-age boys over the last several years. Page 7. Clinton Foreign Policy Team Even at this stage in the Presidential campaign, Gov. Bill Clinton's foreign policy advisers are still a loose collection of unpaid volunteers. Page 8.

Chancellor Helmut Kohl met with President Kurt Waldheim of Austria in Munich today and then angrily criticized prominent Jews who had deplored the meeting as inappropriate. In a nationally televised news conference after the meeting, Mr. Kohl said he alone would decide with whom he was to meet in Germany.

Gov. Mario M. Cuomo today abruptly cut short negotiations with the Quebec Government and canceled a 20-year contract to buy power from a giant hydroelectric complex that Quebec wants to build in the Canadian sub-Arctic. The Governor said that New York did not need the power and that it would be cheaper to rely on energy conservation and other energy sources instead. State energy officials said consumers could actually pay less because of the move.

For the first time since 1975, the price of Japan's most precious asset - its land - is falling. After years of sharp gains, the declines have come as a shock to the nation, especially since many speculators are deeply in debt. Official statistics show that prices dropped more than 5 percent nationwide and upward of 15 percent in Tokyo.

The manufacturer of the plane that crashed at La Guardia Airport on Sunday night recommended that airlines using its planes during snowstorms de-ice the wings more often than was done that night. In a 1989 publication, the manufacturer of the Fokker F28 prescribed specific procedures that the crew of a plane should follow when taking off in a steady snow, including how the wings should be de-iced and at what intervals.

In a departure from policies that had restricted East-West trade, the White House announced today that it had cleared the way for the American purchase of major high technologies from the former Soviet Union. The go-ahead for the space and nuclear purchases, which total $14 million, was characterized by the White House as a bold first step in what would be a substantial aid package to Russia. While this was presented as a major objective, it was also clear that the goods being acquired were extremely valuable and were being offered at bargain prices.

"Chancellor Kohl, who brought us Bitburg, showed shocking insensitivity to the moral concerns of the Jewish people as well as others who feel deeply the tragedy of the Holocaust and those terrible years." -- ELAN STEINBERG of the World Jewish Congress. [ 5:3. ] "I don't need any advice." CHANCELLOR HELMUT KOHL of Germany. [ 1:5. ]

International 2-6 DEAL ON RUSSIAN TECHNOLOGY The White House has cleared the way for the purchase of $14 million in high technology from the former Soviet Union, including a nuclear reactor used for space power. 1

A picture yesterday showing a jetliner taxiing at La Guardia Airport was published in error. It showed a McDonnell Douglas DC-9, not a Fokker F28, a plane of the type that crashed on Sunday night.

Because of an editing error, an article on Thursday about Gov. Bill Clinton's campaign appearances in New York misidentified the winner of the Democratic primary in New Hampshire. It was Paul E. Tsongas, not Mr. Clinton. The article also referred incorrectly to the black vote in the Connecticut primary; Governor Clinton, not former Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., received 6 out of 10 black votes, according to voter surveys.