June 11, 1992

A 6-year-old boy on the way home from school was shot in the head and critically wounded in New Haven when the school bus he was riding was caught in the gunfire between two groups of youths.

Alan E. Rosenthal, a former protege of Michael R. Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert and a target of his government testimony last week, was convicted yesterday of giving a kickback to a favored client of Mr. Milken. But the jury in Federal court in Manhattan acquitted the 53-year-old defendant of four other charges, including conspiring with Mr. Milken in a tax-fraud and embezzlement scheme involving Mr. Milken's junk bond department at Drexel.

The television evangelist Pat Robertson withdrew his $6 million offer for United Press International today, insuring the end of the venerable but bankrupt news service as a worldwide presence and raising the possibility of a shutdown as soon as Friday. In a statement issued early this evening, the news agency said, "If additional funds for U.P.I.'s operations are not found, U.P.I. will terminate operations on Friday, June 12, at midnight." Pieter Van Bennekom, the company's president, told employees to prepare for an orderly shutdown.

A three-day strike at five privately owned bus companies that stranded 225,000 riders in areas of Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx was settled late last night, and company and union officials said normal service would resume for this morning's rush hour. Representatives of the companies and the more than 2,000 drivers, mechanics and dispatchers who walked off the job early Monday morning said at 11:05 P.M. that they had resolved the pension and health-benefit issues that had caused earlier talks to break off and the strike to begin.

Inaction in 'Ivan' Case The Justice Department was asked twice about its handling of an accused Nazi executioner before a Federal court reopened the case. Page B10. Bus Strike Settled A strike at five private bus compa- nies that stranded 225,000 riders in areas of Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx ended late last night. Page B1 Blazers Even Series Portland trailed until the final four minutes before pulling out a 93-88 victory over Chicago that tied their N.B.A. Finals series at 2-2. Page B11.