April 2, 1994

You couldn't get lost in Larchmont, not with Jim Shevlin on the other end of the cellular phone. Even if you had never been here before, even if you couldn't tell the Hutch from the Cross County, the Taconic from the Tappan Zee, Mr. Shevlin could make you feel like a Magellan of the interstates, at ease on Westchester County roads whose names you did not know. "O.K., now you're on North Chatsworth," Mr. Shevlin reported with uncanny accuracy from his computer console in an office 20 miles away. "Come down approximately three-tenths of a mile, and we're going to get you to an intersection by the New England Thruway, heading north."

After a month camped among the thorn trees alongside the world's most famous rhinoceros sanctuary, the eager Zulu men were piling into trucks and buses, taking their new skills home. "Normally we have a ceremony," apologized Philip Powell, the white South African who commands the training camp, 25 miles from the capital of the Zulu homeland. "Under the circumstances, these people really want to get back to their communities to do what they were trained to do."

Seven carloads of Chinese security agents today stopped and arrested Wei Jingsheng, the most prominent dissident in China, as he was trying to return to Beijing by car after a month of self-imposed exile from the capital. It was the second time Mr. Wei has been taken into custody in a month. Starting on March 4, he was held for about 30 hours. It was not known how long he would be held this time.

Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders announced an agreement on the outlines of a $34 billion state budget, but broke for the holiday weekend without actually enacting it or even providing details of their plan. Article, page 22

Rebounding strongly from the effects of harsh midwinter weather, the economy generated 456,000 new jobs in March, the largest expansion of employers' payrolls in more than six years and nearly twice the growth that analysts had expected, the Labor Department reported today. At the same time, the unemployment rate, which is calculated from a separate survey of the nation's households, was unchanged at 6.5 percent, the department said.