January 10, 1994

Reviving the stalled investigation of one of the largest global frauds in history, Federal prosecutors announced today that one of the two top executives of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International would be extradited to the United States to stand trial on criminal fraud charges. As part of an agreement with the ruler of Abu Dhabi, who had been the largest shareholder of B.C.C.I., American investigators will also be given, for the first time, broad access to the bank's secret records and to 10 other former bank executives who had been inaccessible.

IN the Frigidaire of Giants Stadium, having the wind was better than having the ball. And now, with the Giants leading, 17-10, early in the fourth quarter, the Vikings had both. After catching a deep pass over the middle from quarterback Sean Salisbury, wide receiver Cris Carter was slashing across the Giants' 23-yard line when he tried to stiff-arm strong safety Myron Guyton. Myron who?

Heads and shoulders braced against the freezing wind, the Falzone family trudged through the chunks of ice and snow drifts outside Giants Stadium yesterday, the parents laden with blankets, the two boys wrapped so that little more than their cold-chapped cheeks showed. Wicked a day as it was, there were no complaints about the cold from this bunch. It was kickoff time. Pointing a gloved finger at her heavily bundled sons who waddled toward the stadium behind their father, Angela Falzone, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., said, "It was too cold to tailgate, but they wanted to be here, so we came."

In the first hours of his first visit to Europe as President, Bill Clinton sought tonight to reassure a continent full of skeptics that the United States remains committed to the Atlantic partnership and determined to resist the siren song of isolationism. Surrounded by rich carvings and sumptuous tapestries in Brussels' 15th-century City Hall, Mr. Clinton told an audience of more than 200 mostly young people, drawn from 30 countries, that Europe "is our most valued partner" in the economic and political spheres as well as in military affairs.

For more than a year, the simple act of drawing a glassful of precious water here has meant risking life itself. But now, after months of secret design, construction and transport of boxcar-size purification and pumping systems, an American aid agency is ready to turn on the taps in the homes of thousands who have been parched since the summer of 1992, when Serbs began cutting power to pumps that deliver water from a spring behind the Serbian lines.