August 11, 1992

Three-year-old Leonid Rozental had seen the vaccination needle and was screaming as Dr. Anatoly Belilovsky approached. "This will be like the bite of a big mosquito," said the doctor in Russian to the boy. Then, he gave Leonid the shot and a lollipop in quick succession. "He should have had this when he was 2 months old," the doctor said, referring to a standard vaccination intended to prevent a type of meningitis.

The McDonnell Douglas Corporation, struggling to trim costs in the face of declining earnings, announced plans yesterday for combining its six military businesses into two groups and handing its largest pending project over to different managers. The nation's largest military contractor, McDonnell Douglas has been humbled by cutbacks in weapons spending and by cost overruns. Its commercial aircraft business has not been able to take up the slack in the military operations.

Because of the risks of extended internal strife in Bosnia, the Pentagon sees it as the wrong place and time for military intervention. News Analysis, page A6.

Officials said today that less than two weeks' reserve of flour was left at Sarajevo's only functioning bakery, posing the threat of hunger just as the United States and other Western powers debate military options to insure the delivery of food and medicine to the city. Adding urgency to the steps contemplated by President Bush and other leaders, the officials said it would be necessary to augment the 200 tons a day of supplies that are being flown into Sarajevo airport -- only limited amounts of it flour -- with overland convoys from points outside Bosnia and Herzegovina, principally the Adriatic port of Split in Croatia.

Suzanne Welsh, a clerical worker from Buena Park, Calif., had no intention of trading in her 1989 Toyota Camry, but her brother-in-law's new Saturn started her thinking. "I've had three Japanese cars in a row, and I started to feel real guilty," she said.