September 21, 1992

After a bruising referendum campaign that divided France and alarmed Western Europe, French voters narrowly approved a treaty on European union today, keeping alive the region's ambitious blueprint for the future but underlining the depth of opposition that it has awakened here. The result -- 51 percent to 49 percent, according to the Interior Ministry -- brought immediate expressions of relief from Government leaders throughout the 12-nation European Community who had feared that French rejection of the treaty would open up the region to a period of political uncertainty and even more profound economic disarray. 'Impetus' for Unity

To 4-year-old Jenny Liu, the new day-care center at the Woodhull Hospital Center in Brooklyn is a place full of toys and books and playmates. To her father, Zi Yang Liu, who is a laboratory technician at Woodhull, it is a safe, affordable child-care alternative that allows him to visit at noontime and take his daughter to the cafeteria for lunch.

The Turmoil in Europe French voters narrowly approved a treaty on European union, keeping alive the ambitious blueprint for Europe's future but underlining the depth of opposition that it has awakened. Fears of a "no" vote had roiled world currency markets last week. [ Page A1. ] The narrow vote may have pushed the dream of unity further away rather than bringing it closer. News Analysis [ A1. ]

New Jersey lawmakers are unanimously in favor, the League of Municipalities is all for it and Gov. Jim Florio says he supports it in principle. But the American Civil Liberties Union says the very first New Jersey community that imposes a curfew on juveniles and holds parents responsible for enforcing it will find itself in court. Against a backdrop of increasing teen-age violence and an epidemic of car theft in Newark, not to mention the threats posed to young people by drugs and AIDS, the New Jersey Legislature voted with not a single dissent this week to empower any or all of the state's 567 municipalities to arrest anyone under 18 who is on the streets between 10 at night and 6 in the morning unless they are going to church, school or civic functions or have other legitimate reasons for being out of the house in the evening.

The names are toppling like financial dominoes: Phar-Mor, the Ohio drugstore chain; College Bound, a school-test coaching service in Florida, and Gottschalks, a retailer in California. In the last year, each has been found to have provided regulators and investors with seriously inaccurate information about its activities. They are part of a growing parade of companies sent to the regulatory woodshed in the 90's in what some securities lawyers and regulators say is a sharp change in the type of corporate frauds being committed -- from those involving stock trading to those involving the way public companies are run.