September 10, 1992

Anna Jaeger, a registered Democrat who lost her job as a waitress last year, has not decided which of the four United States Senate candidates to vote for in her party's primary next Tuesday. While the most important issues to her are "jobs, jobs, jobs," she is not sure there are any major differences between the candidates on how to create them. So she plans to turn on her television set tonight and watch as Robert Abrams, Geraldine A. Ferraro, Elizabeth Holtzman and the Rev. Al Sharpton debate.

Addressing the B'nai B'rith convention, Gov. Bill Clinton said the Administration was virtually devoid of Jews in high posts. Page A20.

The Economy House and Senate negotiators agreed on a measure that would require local cable systems to negotiate licenses from local television stations to retransmit their signals. The compromise set the stage for a bill reregulating the cable industry. [ Page D1. ]

Traveling to Pennsylvania and New Jersey suburbs, President Bush renewed his no-new-taxes pledge today, promising he would not raise taxes again, "ever." The President campaigned on improving education, but quickly ended up defending his management of an economy that even he conceded, not once but three times, was "lousy."

In a big step toward reregulation of the cable television industry, House and Senatenegotiators agreed today on a measure that would require local cable systems to negotiate licenses from local broadcast stations to retransmit their signals. The change could provide broadcasters with hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties.