April 23, 1994

The announcement of Mr. Nixon's death came too late for a complete obituary to be included in this edition. It will be published tomorrow.

Representative Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, today called for a "broad tax increase" to finance some of the cost of health care and said employers should pay much of the cost of their workers' premiums. The Illinois Democrat, one of the half-dozen most influential members of Congress on health care, said he felt that additional money was needed because he doubted the Clinton Administration's estimates about cost savings. But he said he did not want to pursue a new tax like a value-added tax. Rather, he said he preferred expanding "a tax that is already on the books."

Federal Reserve Nominees President Clinton nominated two economists to the Federal Reserve Board who may seek to slow interest rate increases. Page 39. New Heavyweight Champion Michael Moorer captured a 12-round majority decision over Evander Holyfield, the defending W.B.A. and I.B.F. champion. Page 33.

Among the perverse boons of apartheid is a strong history of young South Africans, forced to be wiser than their years, who took to the streets and became the protest core of two decades of resistance and strikes. But now the advent of democracy would put this volatile youth power back in the bottle by playing down the need for protest, restoring academic responsibility to traumatized schoolrooms and setting the voting age at 18 -- a source of great dissatisfaction among this nation's many young activists as South Africa faces its historic free elections next week.

Hillary Rodham Clinton said she was influenced to hold her first formal news conference as First Lady when she read that Eleanor Roosevelt had held more than 340 news conferences during her White House years. "Now, Mrs. Roosevelt only invited women reporters," Mrs. Clinton said today, smiling. "I don't think I could get away with that."