April 30, 1992

NEW YORK CITY LAWYER CONVICTED OF FRAUD Harvey Myerson, a lawyer widely known for his flamboyant style in and out of court, was convicted of defrauding some of his clients of more than $2 million but was acquitted of defrauding his law firm of an additional $1 million. Mr. Myerson who acted as his own defense lawyer, could face a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine when sentenced. B3. BACK IN JAIL He fled the United States after pleading guilty to running what New York officials called one of the largest gasoline bootlegging schemes in the nation. Then he emerged as an entrepreneur in post-Communist Poland. But now David Bogatin is back in New York and in jail. B4. DELAY AT KENNEDY

Three-quarters of a century after his family lost the Russian imperial throne, the late scion of the Romanovs was brought back to St. Petersburg for a funeral befitting a king and for eventual interment alongside his ancestors in the Fortress of SS. Peter and Paul. Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich Romanov, eulogized as the head of the Russian dynastic house by Patriarch Aleksy II of the Russian Orthodox Church, died in Florida last Thursday while working to encourage American businessmen to invest in Russia. A Glorious Heritage With virtually no debate, President Boris N. Yeltsin of Russia and Mayor Anatoly A. Sobchak of St. Petersburg quickly cleared the way for his burial in a special vault for Romanovs, though not in the church where all Romanov emperors from Peter the Great through Alexander II were interred.

Transit officials and leaders of the transit workers' union, whose 32,000 members rejected a contract last month, said yesterday that they had reached a new agreement that would prevent a threatened strike by New York City's subway and bus workers. "The strike threat is gone," said Sonny Hall, president of Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union. "There is not going to be a strike." The agreement contains a provision that both sides will agree to binding arbitration should the rank and file reject the new contract.

Although President Bush claimed his party's nomination Tuesday night, Administration officials say he has recognized what many Republican strategists concluded long ago: that he has not given the rest of America a good reason why he deserves a second term. That is why the President has instructed his staff to focus on defining a broad agenda for the next five years, the officials say, an order that came as Mr. Bush shifted his attention to the general election and away from a primary season that had been much meaner than any of his advisers had predicted.

Floundering and dispirited after 10 days of protests that neither closed abortion clinics nor generated a groundswell of local support, members of Operation Rescue suspended their protest in Buffalo yesterday and sank into a tense debate over how -- or whether -- to proceed with demonstrations scheduled to end on Saturday. The unexpected hiatus, and the debate that followed, revealed a split between Operation Rescue's local and national leaders.