February 14, 1993

Long after the hour of her scheduled appointment had passed, Michele Bryant sat with her 2-year-old son in the waiting room of the New York City Department of Health clinic in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. She had little choice but to wait it out in the dreary room on a snowy Saturday: As a single mother with a full-time job that offered no health benefits, she had neither the time nor the money to go to a private pediatrician to get her son vaccinated. "I got up this morning at 6:30 to bring him here," Ms. Bryant said, as her son, Taurean, scurried along the rows of plastic seats, restless after two and a half hours in the clinic. "This is what you have to do. If you love your child, you want them to have the best care you can get." Struggling With Bureaucracy Vaccines are free and readily available in public health clinics in New York and many other states.

In what appeared to be a growing battle of wills, the United Nations today countered the Bosnian Government's refusal to accept relief supplies for Sarajevo by suspending all aid flights into the Bosnian capital. The suspension, ending the missions that have sustained the besieged city for nearly eight months, was ordered by the United Nations military command here and by United Nations relief officials in Geneva, who said they saw no point in risking the lives of international air crews to fly in food and medicine if the aid was not going to reach Sarajevo's 380,000 residents. Supplies Are Refused The action followed the decision on Friday by the Bosnian Government to refuse any further relief supplies for Sarajevo until the United Nations also undertook the delivery of aid to other besieged Muslim communities in eastern Bosnia.

Joining the ranks of banks relocating from lower Manhattan to Midtown, Banco Di Roma has bought 34 East 51st Street for its New York headquarters. The 10-story, 42,000-square-foot building sold for $11.9 million. Banco Di Roma had been leasing offices at 100 Wall Street.

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On Wednesday President Clinton, who in his campaign promised better economic times, will finally reveal his program. He is expected to propose measures to create jobs and to shrink the Federal deficit. Since Election Day, the economy has shown signs of improving. But many problems remain. The two coasts continue to suffer very high unemployment. Markets for America's exports are in the doldrums, and major corporations are shedding jobs.