September 28, 1993

Strike Halts Publication Of The New York Post Rupert Murdoch's company said it would cease efforts to buy The New York Post after workers honored one union's picket lines. Page B1. Yeltsin Rejects Election Plan Both President Boris N. Yeltsin of Russia and holdout legislators rejected the compromise proposal for early simultaneous elections for President and Parliament. Page A10. CBS Concedes Cable Battle CBS conceded defeat in its long struggle to win payment from the cable television industry for the rights to carry the signals of the local broadcast stations it owns. Page D1. Doctors Appraise the Plan For a young doctor in private practice, the health proposal is a threat. But for a doctor in an H.M.O., the plan is a non-event. Page B11. James H. Doolittle Dies The aviation pioneer who led the first bomber raid against Japan in World War II was 96. Page B13. Wait Till Next Year The Yankees were eliminated as the Toronto Blue Jays clinched the American League East title. The Chicago White Sox won the West. Page B15.

On a balmy Sunday after church, Elizabeth Crane stood in a parking lot trying to recall her address. It had been a month since the river took the house she lived in for 44 years, the little town of Hardin, Mo., where she settled as a war bride, the antique table linens from her mother in Germany and even the cemetery where she buried her husband. "Let me see," she said, looking to the pavement for clues. She thought hard, then opened her purse and began mining for anything with her house number on it, growing more frustrated with each wrong envelope she found.

For 16 years the case of four mentally handicapped men who died in a boarding-house fire was forgotten, swept into the back corners of memory in a seaside town that measures time in cycles of onslaughts by summer visitors and angry winter storms. For the last five weeks, however, Sea Bright has been squirming under a spotlight cast on the 1977 deaths and how suspicions about them were investigated. The spotlight is coming from an unlikely source, a weekly newspaper based in nearby Red Bank, The Two River Times, and its owner, Geraldo Rivera.

A CONSORTIUM of American companies and the nation's main nuclear weapons laboratory have joined forces to develop and market a revolutionary new type of computer and television display screen based on synthetic diamond film. The new display screens would exploit a recent discovery that synthetic diamond emits showers of electrons when exposed to weak electric fields. The consortium hopes to steal a long march on competitors in the electronics industry, particularly the Japanese, in a technology expected to earn some $9.4 billion by the year 2000.

During the late 1980's, when Spain was booming, Kuwait came shopping for corporations and investments, got a little carried away and plowed $5 billion into paper, chemical and fertilizer companies, as well as two leaning office towers whose bizarre silhouette dominates the Madrid skyline. But now Spain's boom has turned to bust, the Kuwaiti corporate flagship here is in receivership, many of its businesses have closed, more than 20,000 jobs have been lost and the office towers are not even completed much less occupied. As for the investment, it has become the object of countless lawsuits disputing how the money disappeared.