November 9, 1992

It was January 1989, and the fight manager Rock Newman needed a trainer for the heavyweight he had just signed, Riddick Bowe. The one he had in mind was Eddie Futch, the soft-spoken, knowledgeable man who had trained champions like Don Jordan, Smokin' Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes and Michael Spinks. On Friday night in Las Vegas, Nev., when Bowe (31-0, 27 knockous) fights for the heavyweight title against the champion, Evander Holyfield (28-0, 22 knockouts), Futch will be in the challenger's corner, but it took some convincing to get him there.

More than 300,000 Germans answered calls by their political leaders today to come to the capital to condemn violence against foreigners, and then watched helplessly as jeering rioters bent on violence hijacked the demonstration from them. Booing the assembled civic leaders as "hypocrites," 300 to 400 anarchists pelted the main speaker, President Richard von Weizsacker, with eggs, tomatoes, sticks and paint bombs as police officers held out plastic shields to protect him.

Americans have a soft spot for nonprofit organizations that champion lofty goals like protecting children and curing cancer. But in recent years, many nonprofits have been caught using loose accounting practices to mislead the public about how efficient they are with donors' money. Now, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the leading authority for the accounting profession, plans to issue proposed rules next week that would introduce more rigor and uniformity into the nonprofit sector by cracking down on how organizations list contributions ranging from gifts of cash to volunteers' time.

Judge Sol Wachtler was preparing to step aside yesterday as Chief Judge of New York State's highest court as colleagues and friends struggled to sort out what caused the bizarre behavior that led to his arrest on charges that he blackmailed a woman who had broken off an affair with him. The tumultuous upheavals at the State Court of Appeals, one of the premier state appellate courts in the country, were evident last night. A statement announcing Judge Wachtler's plan to step aside temorarily, because he was "currently unable to exercise the duties" of his office, was released by the Court of Appeals but retracted 15 minutes later.

A 23-year-old ex-convict was charged early today with the kidnapping and murder of an Edison woman who vanished while on a shopping trip here Tuesday night, the authorities said. The suspect, Scott R. Johnson, of Piscataway, was arrested Saturday night at the home of a girlfriend here about 200 yards from the water-filled, lumberyard drainage ditch where the nude body of 35-year-old Gail Shollar had been found less than 10 hours earlier. Today, a folding knife believed to be the murder weapon was found in the woods behind Mr. Johnson's girlfriend's home.