March 17, 1993

A Long Island doctor was found guilty today of hundreds of violations in her mammography practice and fined $170,000, the largest amount ever in New York State in such a case. The doctor, Padma Ram of Floral Park, was also ordered to notify the 225 patients she had treated that they may have received flawed mammograms and should have them checked by another clinician.

President Clinton told the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide today that the United States would step up its efforts to negotiate a plan to restore democracy to Haiti. But Mr. Clinton refused to set a deadline by which Washington would demand Father Aristide's return to power as President. Father Aristide's very appearance at the White House was an evident gesture of support from Mr. Clinton; the ousted Haitian President had never visited the Executive Mansion in 18 months of exile here.

Matthew Fox had suggested a light Lenten supper, but he wasn't particularly repentant. The 52-year-old theologian, whose three decades as a Dominican priest ended last week when he was dismissed from the order by the Vatican, unfolded his napkin at Elka, a seafood restaurant in San Francisco, and widened his blue eyes in bewildered innocence. "I guess I'd be sorry for the things I've done if I wanted to preserve a male-dominated, anthropocentric, essentially white institution that denies its own mystical tradition," he said.

In a perfect marriage of style and content, the first issue of The New York Post published by Abe Hirschfeld lambasted its would-be owner with the kind of rank insults and denigrating vitriol that are usually his stock in trade. And, with the offending newspapers selling well yesterday, Mr. Hirschfeld professed to love it, just as he has always claimed to savor other notoriety that he perceives as good for business. (When it's bad for business, he often sues.)

NEW YORK CITY VITRIOLIC GREETING FOR POST SUITOR In a perfect marriage of style and content, the first issue of The New York Post published by Abraham Hirschfeld lambasted him with the kind of rank insults and denigrating vitriol that are usually his stock in trade. And, with the offending newspapers selling well yesterday, Mr. Hirschfeld professed to love it, just as he has always claimed to savor other notoriety that he perceives as good for business. (When it's bad for business, he often sues.) A1. The employees of The Post essentially took the newspaper over, ignoring the would-be publisher as virtually all of the Post managers he laid off on Monday returned to work. And Pete Hamill, the editor in chief he dismissed on Friday, returned and took control of the newsroom. B2.