May 7, 1994

The Security Council voted unanimously today to impose a near-total trade embargo on Haiti to try to force its military rulers to permit the return of the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power as President. The sanctions imposed on Haiti were those long demanded by Father Aristide himself but rejected for months by the Clinton Administration out of concern that they would deepen the economic hardship of ordinary Haitians with no guarantee that the steps would persuade the military to change its position.

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After many toxic compounds were banned in the 1970's and tens of billions of dollars were spent on pollution equipment to control others, the concentrations of the chemicals in people's bodies and in the environment across the Great Lakes region have dropped sharply, according to findings made public at a scientific conference here. Canadian scientists reported that the levels of the insecticide DDT in the milk of nursing mothers have fallen nearly 90 percent since 1972, when the compound was outlawed by the United States. American scientists reported that the concentrations of PCB's in Lake Michigan trout have fallen nearly 90 percent since 1973. PCB's, or polychlorinated biphenyls, industrial chemicals once used in electrical equipment, were banned five years later.

Nelson Mandela, his election landslide validated today as "substantially free and fair," hastened to put his stamp on the new Government, naming a vice president who became his heir apparent and a list of Cabinet ministers dominated by war horses of the struggle against white rule. Mr. Mandela, who is to be inaugurated as President next Tuesday, selected Thabo Mbeki as his first executive deputy president, making him instantly the leading candidate to succeed the 75-year-old liberation movement patriarch.

In an unexpectedly vigorous performance, the economy generated 267,000 new jobs in April, showing that it was more than regaining the ground it had lost to harsh winter weather. Today's employment report jolted the stock and bond markets as it raised new concerns about the possibility of a surge of inflation from a rapidly growing economy. Interest rates jumped.