July 19, 1993

The autopsy report says Guadalupe Negron bled to death. But she may have died from a lack of information. Ten days ago the 33-year-old Bronx woman paid $800 for an abortion at what a health worker called a filthy, underequipped clinic, in Corona, Queens, even though she could have had a less expensive, safer operation performed at hospitals and licensed clinics throughout New York City. The outcome of her decision to use the Queens clinic -- death -- is extremely rare, city and state health officials say. But the decision itself was not.

As might be expected from a man who has no home but the White House, President Clinton used his Arkansas homecoming this weekend to visit -- and to visit some more. George Bush had Kennebunkport. Ronald Reagan and Lyndon B. Johnson had their ranches. Jimmy Carter had his peanut farm. Gerald R. Ford had a condominium in Vail. Richard M. Nixon had San Clemente. John F. Kennedy had Hyannisport.

After enough heartbreak, frustration and criticism to fill three careers, Greg Norman essentially reinvented his today with the best performance of his life to win the 122d British Open. Firing an all but flawless six-under-par 64, the 38-year-old Australian mastered both the pressures that have hindered him in the past and the harsh challenge of Royal St. George's in one of the greatest closing rounds in the history of major championship golf.

Save the moments from the bottom of the seventh inning on videotape, play the tape back in a decade and it may seem as though it was 1978. The Yankees are involved in an intense pennant race and they are not frazzled. They are loose, confident and dangerous. Very dangerous. Even though it was the 1993 Yankees last night, the A's found out how dangerous these Yankees can be when they become ornery. In a wild 29-minute half-inning that took 58 pitches to complete, the Yankees hammered three pitchers for 10 runs and 10 hits and the A's saw their 4-3 lead crumble.

Japanese financial markets reacted with a mixture of trepidation and relief to the result of Sunday's national election, in which the long-governing Liberal Democratic Party lost its control of Parliament. The election's outcome portends a period of instability in Japan's politics, something that investors usually abhor, and possibly a gradual change in the nation's economic policies.