July 3, 1993

The Federal Communications Commission voted 2 to 1 today to give television stations devoted to round-the-clock shopping the same right as regular broadcasters to demand that cable television systems carry their programs. The decision is a windfall for the Home Shopping Network, which pioneered the all-shopping format and is carried on a number of cable systems. The network also broadcasts by satellite to about 100 small stations around the country. Those stations, often situated just outside big cities, will enjoy a much broader reach if they are carried on cable.

Responding to pressure from fiscal monitors and Wall Street, Mayor David N. Dinkins yesterday took the unusual step of ordering significant new cuts in New York City's budget only two days into the new fiscal year. Mr. Dinkins said he was trimming the new budget and planning to make similar reductions in future budgets to head off a threat by Standard & Poor's, a major credit-rating agency, to lower the city's bond rating.

In what they described as a breakthrough in efforts to resolve the political crisis in Haiti, United Nations negotiators said yesterday that they had won the approval of Haiti's army commanders for a series of steps aimed at returning the ousted President, the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to power by Oct. 30. Father Aristide withheld agreement from the settlement proposed by the United Nations, however, holding out for a more rapid schedule for his return to power, the negotiators and aides to Father Aristide said.

The failure of a computer system to identify undesirable immigrants helped Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman enter the United States. Page 22.

Surrounded by chanting supporters, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the Islamic fundamentalist whose followers have been linked to two bombing conspiracies, emerged from a Brooklyn mosque and surrendered to Federal authorities last night, ending a months-long Federal debate over the danger he posed as a free man. Mr. Abdel Rahman walked on the arm of his lawyer shortly after 6 P.M. from the Abu Bakr Elseddique mosque across the street to a firehouse that had become a Federal command post, after a day of negotiations over his detention on immigration charges. He was greeted cordially by Federal agents and lightly frisked.