February 9, 1993

A state appeals court yesterday ordered Larry Hogue, who has for years frightened residents of Manhattan's Upper West Side with his bizarre behavior, to remain in a state mental hospital until a hearing next week. Last Tuesday, a Queens judge ruled that Mr. Hogue, a 48-year-old veteran with a long history of mental illness and drug addiction, could be freed from the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens because he no longer posed an immediate threat to himself or others. Before he was arrested, Mr. Hogue had attacked passers-by and cars in the area around West 96th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.

NEW YORK CITY NEW TROUBLES FOR POST SUITOR The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a civil suit accusing the New York-based Towers Financial Corporation and its chairman, Steven Hoffenberg, of operating a fraud that used false financial statements to sell more than $400 million in securities. The accusation appears to raise serious doubts about Mr. Hoffenberg's bid to purchase The New York Post, calling into question whether he will be considered a viable buyer of the nation's oldest daily newspaper. A1. Prospective Post publisher says regulatory problems won't derail purchase of the paper. B3. For some Tower investors of modest means, brokers inflated assets, the S.E.C. says. B3. AIDS CURRICULUM IN DISPUTE AGAIN New York State's top education official has ruled that the New York City Board of Education overstepped its authority and infringed on teachers' rights by requiring that all AIDS education stress abstinence as the most effective means of avoiding the disease. Thomas Sobol, the State Commissioner of Education, overturned a board resolution that he said established a "stopwatch approach to education" by dictating how and when teachers should teach about AIDS. A1. FERNANDEZ MAKES APPEAL IN QUEENS Schools Chancellor Fernandez is targeting Queens in his lobbying effort to change one vote on the New York City School Board and keep his job as the head of the country's largest school system. In a brief, closed-door meeting with the seven-member board, Mr. Fernandez responsed to a board critique of his leadership, part of a formal review of his performance. B2. COLD AND FLU STRAIN CITY HOSPITALS The recent frigid weather and an outbreak of the flu have put a strain on New York City's medical services -- overloading ambulances and some emergency rooms, and raising fears among hospital officials of a return to the gridlock of 1989 when waits for beds were as long as four days. B3. REGION NEW REALITIES IN CONNECTICUT When Congress restored $2 billion last summer to the all-but-scuttled Seawolf submarine program at the Electric Boat shipyard in Groton, Bill Sullivan immediately felt the blip. His General Motors dealership in nearby New London ended the year selling more cars than any year since 1987, but most of the sales were for used cars. Similar fault lines are everywhere in Groton, as the most Pentagon-dependent corner of the nation shudders and shakes toward a future after the cold war. In many ways it is a story of waiting for the worst. A1. CLOSING ARGUMENTS IN GLEN RIDGE CASE As the Glen Ridge, N.J., sex assault trial in Newark entered its final phases, the first of four defense lawyers began closing arguments by attacking the credibility of two of the state's expert witnesses and stressing inconsistent testimony about the mental capabilities of the mildly retarded woman at the heart of the case. B5. A DINNER FIGHT, WITH A FEMINIST SLANT A group of 20 prominent women in Norwalk, including the president of the League of Women Voters, is trying to put an end to what it believes is Connecticut's largest men-only function, the Norwalk Catholic Club's Lincoln Day dinner. B5. Our Towns by Joseph Berger B5

SINCE Young Werther died from it and Cyrano de Bergerac was so noble about it, unrequited love has been one of the great themes of literature and drama. Now, at last, unrequited love is getting systematic scrutiny from psychologists. The first studies to look at the two sides of unrequited love -- the would-be lover and the rejecter -- show there is pain on both sides and, surprisingly, the rejecter often suffers just as much as the rejected.

Rosa Glover, a cook at Columbia University, took her son, Shane Anthony Walker, to the playground of a Harlem housing project late in the afternoon on Aug. 10, 1989, and looked away for a few minutes. Shane was 19 months old. It was the last time Ms. Glover saw her son. The police traced several leads. They say that calls still trickle in about the case, but they are stumped.

People now control computers with a keyboard, a mouse or in some cases with spoken commands. But at Japan's largest computer company, Fujitsu Ltd., and at several other laboratories around the world, researchers are developing ways to control a computer by merely thinking a command. A New York State Department of Health research team has developed a system that allows users, after some training, to move a cursor slowly up and down or side to side on a computer screen by mental action alone. University of Illinois psychologists developed a way of allowing people to type, albeit at a rate of only 2.3 characters a minute, by spelling out words in their minds.