February 1, 1994

ALLIANCE OF BLACK GROUPS IN JEOPARDY Recent bigoted remarks by a chief aide to Louis Farrakhan, minister of the Nation of Islam, and his failure to disavow them have interrupted the tenuous rapprochement between mainstream civil rights leaders and the Nation of Islam. A10. NEW YORK CITY GIULIANI NAMES HOUSING CHAIRMAN Mayor Giuliani named Ruben Franco, the former president of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, as chairman of the New York City Housing Authority, concluding an appointment process that had been one of the most difficult for the Mayor. The prospect of Mr. Franco's appointment had created strong opposition among Hasidic leaders in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. B3. AID TO HOMELESS PROGRAM IS CURTAILED The State Social Services Department has temporarily halted its support for the expansion of an important city program to house the homeless, Commissioner Michael J. Dowling said. B2. RIGHT TO PRIVACY IS UPHELD IN H.I.V. CASE A Federal appeals court ruled that a person has a constitutional right to privacy about whether he is infected with H.I.V. B3. REGION THE KINGDOMS OF HOME RULE Dering Harbor, L.I., with just 32 houses, a puny water tower and a maintenance staff named Richie, is an incorporated village, the smallest in New York State, a locality with a budget of $115,000 a year and two major parties: the Independent Party, from which all candidates for village mayor and trustee are drawn, and the yearly summer cocktail party, to which all Dering Harbor is invited. A1. AGREEMENT REACHED ON BANKING BILL Less than two hours before state banking laws were scheduled to expire, Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders reached agreement on a bill that would make permanent the rules that give banks great latitude to create new financial products and to set interest rates for credit cards and most types of loans. B4. ARGUMENTS ON EVIDENCE IN ABUSE CASE The New Jersey Supreme Court heard arguments about the admissibility of evidence in the case of Margaret Kelly Michaels, who was convicted of sexually molesting 19 children during her seven-month employment at Wee Care Nursery in Maplewood. She served 5 years of a 47-year sentence before her conviction was overturned early last year. B5. John G. Rowland, a 36-year-old Republican who almost defeated Lowell P. Weicker Jr. in the 1990 race for governor of Connecticut, announced his return for another run. B4. The star fullback on the Army football team and another West Point cadet were stabbed during a brawl outside a bar in Newburgh, N.Y., after they left the campus without passes in a van they were not supposed to be driving. B4. Upstaging Gov. Christine Todd Whitman and Assembly Republicans, Republicans in the New Jersey Senate announced their plan to reduce state taxes. B5. Chronicle B2 Our Towns by Evelyn Nieves B5

Jeff Gillooly, the former husband of Tonya Harding, has told investigators that Miss Harding helped plan the assault on her figure-skating rival, Nancy Kerrigan, Mr. Gillooly's lawyer said today. Ronald H. Hoevet, the lawyer, said Mr. Gillooly told Federal investigators last week that Miss Harding had given final approval for the Jan. 6 attack in Detroit, where Miss Kerrigan was struck above the right knee and kept from competing in the national championships. The lawyer said Mr. Gillooly's account was fully detailed, and included many points that could be corroborated by phone logs and bank records.

THE paw prints in the reddish sand of a forest road were only vaguely defined by the time Jim Hammill saw them, softened by an overnight rainfall: the tracks of a timber wolf. Usually gladdened by any sign of a wolf, Mr. Hammill was disheartened because these prints were made by only a single animal, and they were more than a mile from where he had set a line of five traps along a wolf path. He was searching for members of the Nordic Pack, a wolf family that has been ranging around 130 square miles in north Dickinson County for several years.

Sitting on a gently sloping hill of elm and locust trees that leads to a rocky beach, Dering Harbor offers virtually none of the amenities of a modern municipality. No post office. No playground. Not a single quaint country shop. Just 32 houses, a puny water tower and a maintenance staff named Richie. Still, it is an incorporated village, the smallest in New York State, a locality with a budget of $115,000 a year and two major parties: the Independent Party, from which all candidates for village mayor and trustee are drawn, and the yearly summer cocktail party, to which all Dering Harbor is invited.

Beyond cutting 14,000 to 18,000 jobs from the city work force, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani is seeking $200 million in concessions by the municipal unions in benefits in the next fiscal year and roughly $200 million in savings from temporarily reducing the city's contributions to the municipal pension plans. The new details emerged as the Mayor and his aides put the finishing touches on a four-year fiscal plan, to be released tomorrow, which will provide the first comprehensive blueprint of Mr. Giuliani's plans to reduce the municipal work force and force city workers to face competition from the private sector in areas that have traditionally been the province of government in New York City.