July 27, 1992

Not surprisingly, Charles Barkley got into the Olympic spirit this afternoon by smashing an intentional elbow into the chest of the skinniest member of the Angolan team. Leave it to the 250-pound Barkley to pick on a 174-pound economics student from a third-world, war-torn nation who has spent many a Wednesday night back home in Luanda searching the television dial in search of his favorite forward from the National Basketball Association.

In May, when the Bush Administration announced a plan to collect fetal tissue for research into Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases and other ailments, officials stated that they could supply all that would be needed without using tissue from induced abortions. But newly obtained memorandums from officials at the National Institutes of Health show that the Administration greatly exaggerated the amount of fetal tissue that its storage bank could obtain from miscarriages and from ectopic pregnancies, in which the fertilized egg develops outside the uterus.

RON KARNAUGH learned to swim in the Maplewood, N.J., town pool but his husky 60-year-old father seldom went there. After two heart attacks, Peter Karnaugh no longer drove the truck he hired out; his older son, Peter Jr., did. The father occasionally attended the big swimming meets around the country. Whenever he had visited Ron at the University of California at Berkeley, he always cooked one of his son's favorite meals, liver and onions. As soon as Ron qualified for the United States Olympic team in March, the family's friends in Maplewood had an idea: They would raise $25,000 to send Peter and Jean Karnaugh and their daughter, Debbie, to the Summer Games.

For Patricia Irvin, one of the handful of black partners who practice law on Wall Street, it was a revelation, hearing the Rev. Al Sharpton talk about his run for the United States Senate a few weeks ago at a forum for members of her old-line firm, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. In place of the negative picture gleaned from years of news accounts of his protests, Ms. Irvin said, she heard someone who was "clearly very smart, and very concerned about the black community, but also concerned about a lot of broader issues that affect our society, and he talked about them in a very articulate way."

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