August 19, 1992

The Two Faces Of One Outlook The Republicans may be fighting a "cultural war" against the Democrats, but there is also a cultural war being waged within the Republican ranks. It pits conservatism with a snarl against conservatism with a smile. News analysis, page A13. Between Two Worlds The frequency with which politicians and journalists now hop back and forth between two fields has raised questions on ethics. Page A14. Growing Asset for the G.O.P. The political sophistication of Barbara Bush, who is often described as the Republicans' "secret weapon," is now a secret poorly kept. Page A15. The Market Speaks A political "stock market" at the University of Iowa has the Bush-Clinton race neck-and-neck. Page A17. Erratrum The President on the left did not say what the President on the right said he said. Page A13.

FEWER APARTMENTS FOR THE HOMELESS Attributing an array of new problems in New York City's housing projects on a program to set aside thousands of apartments for homeless families, Housing Authority officials say they plan to sharply reduce the number of apartments given to the homeless in the future. The shift in policy has created a division between the Housing Authority and other officials of the Dinkins Administration who are scrambling to find homes for thousands of families each year and say they are counting on the Authority to provide apartments. A1. TRYING TO JUMP START A HOUSING PLAN A coalition of community housing advocates went to Federal court to try to get the Newark Housing Authority to make good on its promise to build hundreds of units of low-income housing. The promise, made three years ago, is backed by millions of Federal dollars. But the only housing built so far blew down in a 1989 storm. B5. NEW YORK CITY THE COST OF AN INCINERATOR Mayor Dinkins and Council Speaker Vallone have carefully put together a garbage management plan that they believe has a chance -- if only a slim one -- of making it through a skeptical and hostile City Council. But everyone involved in the debate agrees that neither official can survive the fight over an incinerator in the Brooklyn Navy Yard without suffering politically, though history may judge them more kindly. B3. A WAR OF WORDS OVER AIDS The unrelenting squabble over AIDS instruction between Schools Chancellor Fernandez and a majority of the Board of Education flared again over the wording of a pledge that outside AIDS lecturers will have to sign. While the Chancellor was on vacation in Florida, at least four members of the board indicated their disapproval of his wording and scheduled a meeting to draft their own wording. B3. REGION RULING REVEALS A HARSH TRUTH In Connecticut, the unborn have no rights. That principle may be inherent in the state's liberal abortion-rights laws, but the State Supreme Court has now stripped away any illusion. In a decision on Monday, it said that if an individual's legal rights only begin at the moment of birth, then the state was wrong to have taken a child from a mother who had injected drugs into her system only hours before the delivery. News analysis, B5. A PENSION AND A PROMISE The white Teaneck police officer who fatally shot a black teen-ager will get a disability pension on the condition that he never works as a police officer in New Jersey again. B5. ARGUING FOR A TIMELY TRIAL A television news program on kidnapping is no reason to delay the trial of the New Jersey man charged in the fatal abduction of a top Exxon executive, Federal prosecutors say. B6. Optimism on Connecticut agriculture. B5. UConn credit union fails. B6. About New York by Douglas Martin B2 Chronicle B6

The Republicans pressed their lacerating attack on Gov. Bill Clinton and the Democrats in Congress at their National Convention today, as speaker after speaker portrayed Mr. Clinton as a radical liberal who would coddle criminals, disarm America and break the economy with higher taxes and more Government spending. President Bush worked in his hotel room with his advisers to devise an acceptance speech intended to restore the credibility of the "read my lips" candidate's economic promises. As if previewing his themes, Mr. Bush promised in interviews to put new faces in his Cabinet in a second term, restore economic growth and take a tougher line with Congress. An Image of Diversity This produced a wave of reports across the Astrodome that the three men widely regarded as the architects of Mr. Bush's unpopular economic policies -- Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady; the budget director, Richard G. Darman; and the chief White House economist, Michael J. Boskin -- would be offered as sacrifices after the election.

Attributing an array of new problems in New York City's housing projects to a program to set aside thousands of apartments for homeless families, Housing Authority officials say they plan to sharply reduce the number of apartments given to the homeless in the future. The shift in policy has created a division between the Housing Authority and other officials of the Dinkins administration who are scrambling to find homes for thousands of families each year and say they are counting on the Authority to provide apartments.

With an edgy Crown Heights marking the anniversary of last summer's racially charged disturbances, a coalition of community leaders has taken a second look at the neighborhood and found a community suffering from high unemployment, AIDS, an overwhelming influx of immigrants and overtaxed city services. The report, prepared by 40 educators, civic leaders and clergyman in an effort to examine the underlying causes of the disturbances, also called youth services in Crown Heights "grossly inadequate." A third of 235,000 residents of Crown Heights are under the age of 24.