October 30, 1993

Dismissal at Smith Barney Tied to Prudential Scandal A top Smith Barney Shearson executive, George L. Ball, was forced out of his post and is being investigated by Federal regulators for his role in a scandal at Prudential Bache, which he headed from 1982 until 1991, Wall Street executives say. Page 37. Court Acts on Gay Policy The Supreme Court allowed the Pentagon to enforce its new gay policy while the Administration appeals a ruling banning military discrimination against homosexuals. Page 6. Wage Increase Delayed Under pressure from the White House, Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich said he would delay until next year his plans to recommend a higher minimum wage. Page 8.

Rudolph W. Giuliani yesterday called Mayor David N. Dinkins "desperate to save a failing mayoralty" and said the Mayor was lying and distorting the truth in "vicious, nasty, false advertising" that served only to bring all New Yorkers down. As he campaigned around the city, Mr. Giuliani condemned the Mayor and warned everyone within earshot to expect a deluge of unfair attacks in the final days before the vote.

This was to have been a day for the leaders of the European Community to celebrate finally the coming into effect of the Treaty on European Union. But instead, the summit meeting today was overshadowed by anxiety about growing unemployment and mounting welfare costs in their recession-stricken continent. In a communique, the European Community leaders agreed to work more closely together to create jobs and economic growth after the Treaty on European Union goes into effect on Monday.

Along with school vouchers, sales taxes and city charter revisions, voters in San Francisco will decide next Tuesday whether to allow a veteran police officer to walk his beat with a ventriloquist's dummy. The ballot measure is a spot of comic relief in an otherwise uninspiring off-year election here and seems popular with voters in the North Beach neighborhood where the officer, Bob Geary, and the dummy, Brendan O'Smarty, had worked without a peep of official complaint until a series of high-level changes in the police department.

Beyond the questions of competence and temperament, crime and race, the 1993 campaign for mayor of New York City has offered voters two candidates with sharply different philosophies of local government. David N. Dinkins and Rudolph W. Giuliani have not met this time in a debate to spell out those ideologies, and the campaign has often wandered into more visceral diversions. But the differences between the two men emerge with great clarity from their campaign statements, position papers and weeks of appearances in the five boroughs of the city.