July 17, 1993

William S. Sessions, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, abruptly canceled a Chicago appearance and returned to the capital today amid strong indications that the Clinton Administration was preparing to dismiss him imminently, possibly as soon as Saturday. White House officials said President Clinton, concluding that Mr. Sessions should be replaced, met tonight with Louis Freeh, a New York Federal judge who has emerged as the leading candidate to succeed Mr. Sessions.

In a compromise with the United States, Russia agreed to call off its planned sale of missile-related equipment and technology to India, the State Department announced. The agreement also held out the prospect of potentially lucrative Russian-American space projects. Article, page 4.

Amid the clip-clopping of seven white horses, the beat of drums, the shuffle of mourners' shoes and the faint sound of a rolling caisson, Second Lieut. Lisa N. Bryant took her last journey today, through the undulating hills of Arlington National Cemetery. Then she was buried, a few paces from the tomb of John F. Kennedy and the tour buses nearby. But unlike most of her new neighbors at Grant and Roosevelt Avenues, and the 15 others interred today in what was once Robert E. Lee's front lawn, Lieutenant Bryant was not cut down in battle, nor was she coming to Arlington after a biblically allotted lifetime. She was a 21-year-old woman who only two months ago graduated with honors from Princeton.

Americans are being bombarded with explanations of why the nation cannot generate enough jobs: a shortage of skilled workers, they are told, holds down hiring, along with higher taxes, global competition, expensive Government regulations, technology that automates work and cutbacks in military spending. All of these play a role, many experts say, but the biggest problem is simply a lack of robust economic growth -- the most basic source of job creation. Until the national economy kicks into higher gear, they say, faster job growth will be hard to come by.

The creaky iron elevators at the October Coal Mine clanked open at the end of the first shift, releasing hundreds of red-helmeted miners, their faces and chests blackened and damp from six hours of labor on deep and treacherous coal seams. Last month these miners and hundreds of thousands of others were on strike, pushing an increasingly impoverished and unstable Ukraine toward what many here describe as economic and political chaos.