October 22, 1992

The General Accounting Office released a study yesterday showing that the prices charged by Canadian subsidiaries of American drug companies were 32 percent lower than the same companies charged American customers. The study, for the health subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, compared 121 drugs. It found that although the prices of 23 drugs were lower in the United States, 98 were higher here, most often by 50 percent or more.

New Israeli Peace Offer Israel, without outlining any details, offered concessions over territory in the Golan Heights in an effort to obtain a peace treaty on normal relations with Syria. Page A3. Twist in School Shooting A distraught teacher talked a student into trying to kill her last week at her Brooklyn school, officials said. The shooting had gained attention as an example of school violence. Page B1. Jim Garrison Is Dead The onetime New Orleans prosecutor, who crusaded in the belief of a conspiracy in President Kennedy's killing, died at age 70. Page B12.

The law Congress enacted six years ago to combat illegal immigration has done nothing to stop exploitation of migrant farm workers, one of its principal objectives, a Government-appointed, bipartisan commission has found. The panel, charged with assessing the law's impact on agriculture, confirms earlier reports that illegal immigration continues largely unchecked. The commission attributes the problem to lax enforcement, widespread fraud and the tenacity of people, mostly Mexicans, in fleeing severe unemployment at home for jobs in the United States. Little Incentive to Improve Congress was both tough and benign in adopting the Immigration Reform and Control Act. To stop illegal immigration, the law established sanctions against employers who hire unauthorized workers, and it granted amnesty to three million workers who could show they had worked at least 90 days in agriculture in the United States in the year ending May 1, 1986. But inadvertently, the law also gave birth to a bustling market in counterfeit documents that has undermined the objectives of the law.

Distraught over a separation from her husband and a recent diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, a Brooklyn machine-shop teacher talked a 17-year-old student into bringing a gun to school last Friday and trying to kill her during a between-classes break, the authorities said yesterday. The police arrested the student, Lamar Goodwine, of 370-A Bristol Street in East New York, Tuesday evening on charges of attempted murder and weapons possession. The teacher, Barbara Mendez, 23, who was hit in the shoulder and survived, was not charged. But officials said they were not ruling out that possibility.

Now it's the Americans' turn. First came the Belgian, British, Italian, Japanese and Austrian designers, along with the French, to show their work on the runways here over the last 10 days. On Tuesday afternoon, Oscar de la Renta took his made-in-New York collection to one of the tents in the courtyard of the Louvre, where about half the 80 scheduled ready-to-wear showings for spring and summer were held. The French got the last word, however, with Yves Saint Laurent's strong showing this morning.