  The extent of Apple Computer's troubles became more fully evident today.   The company announced a much bigger quarterly loss than had been expected and a big restructuring, even as it began laying off employees at its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.

Big Loss and Big Revamping at Apple

  On Fridays, television and radio news, listings and advertising now appear at the end of section D, with Home Video. Today, pages D28-29.

TV Listings

  The White House bowed today to Republican pressure and postponed confirmation hearings for President Clinton's nominee for Surgeon General, Dr. Joycelyn Elders, to give her supporters and opponents more time to examine ethical questions uncovered in background checks.   The most serious issue is a lawsuit filed against the National Bank of Arkansas over events that occurred when Dr. Elders was serving on its board. The bank was the subject of a successful hostile takeover, and some new directors sued the previous directors, including Dr. Elders, for shoddy lending practices that they said violated Federal banking laws.

Clinton Delays Senate Hearing On Health Post

  Etienne Edmont thought for sure that his odyssey from Haiti to the United States would soon be over after he was released four weeks ago from the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba.   After enduring 20 months of isolation from family and friends under the watchful eyes of armed soldiers, he had expected to move into an apartment in Brooklyn that New York City social workers had shown him two weeks after his arrival.

A Long Wait for a New Life Is Not Quite Over; For Haitian Refugees Released From Guantanamo, Housing Delay Prolongs Hardship

  Japanese elections are usually about slogans, sound trucks blaring candidates' names and young women in white gloves waving to indifferent crowds. But Tsutomu Hata, leader of a group of defectors from the governing Liberal Democratic Party and a would-be Prime Minister, stood before a hundred or so voters at the train station here on a gray morning and made sure the voters knew he was different.    He spoke about apologizing for World War II.

In Japan, Fresh Labels but Familiar Faces

  Living as she does at the confluence of the Missouri and the Mississippi, Yvonne Kinnard has always kept a wary eye on the two rivers, knowing, assuming, that periodically they will break free of their banks and levees and come licking at her front door.   Seven times in the last 20 years they have rampaged across their flood plains, including the great watery disaster of 1973, when they combined forces and crept into her three-bedroom ranch house in West Alton, ruining the rugs and some appliances.

THE MIDWEST FLOODING: The Bureaucratic Maze; At Flood Aid Centers, Advice, Help and an Armful of Forms

  Mayor David N. Dinkins, his re-election campaign stalled in the polls, abandoned an incumbent's customary reserve and sharply stepped up his attack on his Republican-Liberal challenger, Rudolph W. Giuliani, yesterday -- even as Gov. Mario M. Cuomo effusively praised the Mayor as a man who "can show us how to live together as one city going forward."   The offensives by Mr. Dinkins and the state's top Democrat came on the legal deadline for the start of the race as the candidates filed petitions for the ballot and reported raising millions of dollars more for their campaigns. Mr. Dinkins took in $2.4 million in the six months ended last Sunday, while Mr. Giuliani raised $1.8 million. Each now has just under $1.5 million on hand. A Joint Appearance in Brooklyn    Aides to the Mayor and Governor said their remarks had not been coordinated. But a number of pressures -- from Mr. Giuliani's standing in the polls to the impending release of a Cuomo administration report on the handling of the Crown Heights disturbances -- have combined to keep Mr. Dinkins on the defensive. Meanwhile, some of the Mayor's prominent black and Jewish supporters recently wrote the Governor to say they hoped the Crown Heights report would not become politicized or inflame racial tensions.

Dinkins Fires Sharp Jabs At Giuliani

  U.S. May Admit Chinese   Some of the 658 Chinese immigrants off the coast of Mexico will get the chance to enter the United States and apply for political asylum. Page A3. '85 Hijacker Seized by U.S.    In Nigeria, the F.B.I. seized a Palestinian involved in a 1985 hijacking in Malta in which 60 passengers died, including an American. Page A6. 8 Held in Plot to Kill Blacks    Officials arrested eight people who they said planned to blow up a church in Los Angeles and kill Rodney King to incite racial violence. Page A10.

INSIDE

  On Monday, Reilando Ordonez Perreira was a shortstop for the Cuban baseball team competing at the World University Games. The next day, after a dramatic rendezvous outside the athletes village and two changes of planes, he was in Miami, eating lobster, drinking wine and exploring options that had been presented by dozens of agents who had been calling his sister-in-law since he announced his defection.   "It's driving me crazy," he said. "Everybody wants me to do this, do that. All I'm doing is just listening and try to relax."

A Cuban Defector's Strange New World

  EGYPTIANS OUTLINE BOMB CONFESSION   The chief foreign policy adviser to President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt has outlined the contents of a confession given to Egyptian authorities by a trade center bombing suspect. A1. An informer critical to breaking up a second bombing plot went through long testing. B2.

METRO DIGEST

  United Airlines' unions indicated their willingness yesterday to make sizable wage concessions in return for a majority stake in the nation's second-largest carrier -- a move that underscored a significant shift toward a more collaborative relationship between airline labor and management.   With the industry awash in losses, top executives like Stephen M. Wolf, chairman of the UAL Corporation, United's parent, have said that lower labor costs are necessary for big carriers' survival. The overture yesterday suggested that employees at some carriers are agreeing, and are seeking a hefty price for cooperation.

United Air Unions Ask Big Stake

  The Queens doctor who apparently performed an abortion that led to the death of a 33-year-old woman last week had been barred from surgery at a hospital because of incompetence, an administrator said yesterday.   "He didn't even meet what I would consider the bare minimum standard of care," Dr. Anthony N. Dardano, former chief and now vice chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Utica, N.Y., said of Dr. David Benjamin, who was then known as Elyas Bonrouhi. "We got rid of him."

Hospital Says It Barred Doctor in Abortion Death

  A Federal bankruptcy judge yesterday approved a plan establishing a nine-member board to control the assets of the United States branch of Olympia & York Developments Ltd., the distressed Canadian real estate empire.    The plan was negotiated by Cyrus R. Vance, the former Secretary of State who was brought in on May 28 to mediate a dispute between creditors of the bankrupt Canadian parent and managers of the American unit.

Plan Cleared for Olympia & York's U.S. Unit

  The tightknit business community in Geneva was shocked last May when one of the city's leading institutional shareholders had the audacity to challenge Nestle S.A., Switzerland's largest corporation, at the company's annual meeting.   Introducing himself in calm and respectful tones, Jean-Francois Vielliard, chairman of the Caterpillar Overseas Company, the pension fund for the Swiss employees of Caterpillar Inc., criticized Nestle's dividends as too low and questioned the penchant of the company for diversifying away from its core food and beverage businesses.

Exporting Shareholder Activism

  Deepening a rift with the United States and the United Nations, Italy threatened today to withdraw its 2,600-member contingent from Somalia out of concern that what was originally a relief mission has turned into a combat operation that is taking sides in a civil war.   After days of an increasingly bitter dispute, culminating in the United Nations announcement on Wednesday that the Italian commander in Mogadishu would be sent home, Prime Minister Carlo Azeglio Ciampi called for the United Nations to define the role of the troops, saying such a clarification was "essential for our presence in Somalia."

ITALY, IN U.N. RIFT, THREATENS RECALL OF SOMALIA TROOPS

  THE first race at Belmont on a sizzling hot day turned out to be almost too much for one bettor. Standing near the finish line against the chain-link fence that runs along the home stretch, he stamped his right foot furiously, punched the air with one hand and, as five closely bunched horses pounded toward the wire, screamed nonstop, a study in the more brutish emotions. "Come on, move it! Get the lead out and move it! Do it!"   This ridiculous figure was none other than myself.   I had never been to a race track before. Except for the Triple Crown, thoroughbred racing had seemed pointless, a small footnote to the day's sports results on the local television news, marginally more interesting than curling or caber tossing.

A Day at the Races: Lessons Come Fast and Furious

  Officials said President Clinton had decided to accept in large measure Defense Secretary Les Aspin's plan for relaxing restrictions on homosexuals in the military. But work continued on meeting legal questions raised by Attorney General Janet Reno.    Article, page A10

Gay Ban Decision Near

  The chief financial officer of Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield and two of his subordinates were dismissed yesterday for their roles in destroying documents and filing false data with the New York State Insurance Department, Empire's chairman said.   The dismissals of Jerry Weissman and two actuaries who worked for him were an attempt to restore public confidence following months of disclosures about management failures and financial discrepancies at Empire, the nation's largest nonprofit health insurer.

Empire Blue Cross Dismisses 3, Citing Destruction of Documents

  The Procter & Gamble Company, the nation's leading maker of household and personal products, said yesterday that it would reduce its work force by 12 percent within four years as it seeks to cope with consumers' rising preference for less expensive products.   The announcement of cuts in Procter & Gamble's work force, which far exceed Wall Street's expectations, come as the economy has been generating new jobs only grudgingly and companies have been cutting back employment. But while many corporate layoffs have occurred in troubled industries -- from airlines to arms producers -- Procter & Gamble is a healthy company in a profitable industry.

Procter & Gamble in 12% Job Cut As Brand Names Lose Attraction

  Two truths about the continuing bond rally have been overlooked -- and may give its outlook a different shading.    Attention has been focused mainly on the positive news on inflation, which has been seen as the force driving down the yield on the closely watched 30-year bond. Its yield was unchanged yesterday at 6.56 percent, its lowest level in 16 years.

Bond Rally Shows Market Adapting to Weak Economy

  I AM a sucker for roadside attractions. My idea of glorious slumming is to drive through stretches of country new to me and stop along the way to look at the biggest chair in the world or performances by diving pigs.    So there I was happily driving west through the Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont, twisting through stands of proud old trees and catching glimpses of valleys offering themselves in the distance. On the radio, a highbrow disk jockey was introducing Renaissance lute music.

Serendipity And Schlock Out on the Road

  Ushering the politically explosive study of the origins of sexual orientation into a new and perhaps more scientifically rigorous phase, researchers report that they have linked male homosexuality to a small region of one human chromosome.   The results have yet to be confirmed by other laboratories, and the chromosomal region implicated, if it holds up under further scrutiny, is almost surely just a single chapter in the intricate story of sexual orientation and behavior. Nevertheless, scientists said the work suggests that one or several genes located on the bottom half of the sausage-shaped X chromosome may play a role in predisposing some men toward homosexuality. (The researchers have begun a similar study looking at the chromosomes of lesbians.)

Report Suggests Homosexuality Is Linked to Genes

  Companies    Procter & Gamble will cut its work force by 12 percent, eliminating 13,000 employees and closing 30 plants within four years. The move is meant to strengthen the company's leading market position as cost-conscious consumers shift away from premium-priced brand-name products.  [ Page A1. ]   United Airlines' unions indicated a willingness to make sizable wage concessions in return for a majority stake in the carrier -- a move that underscored a shift toward a more collaborative relationship between airline labor and management.  [ D1. ]

BUSINESS DIGEST

  The chief foreign policy adviser to President Hosni Mu barak today offered the first outline of a confession given to the Egyptian authorities by a suspect in the World Trade Center bombing.    The adviser, Dr. Osama al-Baz, said the suspect, Mahmud Abouhalima, had told Egyptian officials that the bombing plan was hatched in Afghanistan among Arab veterans of the war, and that it was approved by men describing themselves as Iranian intelligence agents and by Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman.

Egyptian Says Confession Links Iran to Bombing of Trade Center

  NOT all art movements are destined for museum captivity, least of all Fluxus, the anarchic, irreverent association of poets, composers, film makers and artists that coalesced in New York City and Germany in the early 1960's and is now, 30 years later, having its day at the Whitney Museum of American Art.    Whatever Fluxus artists did -- and they did many, many different things -- they were bent on subverting the very notions that are central to a museum's identity: permanence, posterity, quality, authorship. They were fairly successful; while a few went on to different kinds of prominence -- Joseph Beuys, Daniel Spoerri, Yoko Ono and the video artist Nam June Paik -- the names of most Fluxus artists are not familiar even to art-world insiders, and the movement itself is rarely mentioned in histories of postwar art.

July 16, 1993

Headlines from July 16, 1993

Big Loss and Big Revamping at Apple

TV Listings

Clinton Delays Senate Hearing On Health Post

A Long Wait for a New Life Is Not Quite Over; For Haitian Refugees Released From Guantanamo, Housing Delay Prolongs Hardship

In Japan, Fresh Labels but Familiar Faces

Billboard 200

Back To Broadway

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It Won't Be The Last

Core

Unplugged...And Seated

Historical Context for July 16, 1993