June 9, 1994

President Clinton returned today for a sentimental journey to the university where he didn't inhale, didn't get drafted and didn't get a degree. The last got rectified by Oxford University in a ceremony conducted by men in black gowns speaking in Latin in a 325-year-old stone building designed by Christopher Wren. Mr. Clinton, who studied politics at University College as a Rhodes Scholar from the fall of 1968 to the spring of 1970, was awarded an honorary doctorate in civil law.

They have the best record in the American League. But the New York Yankees seem the essence of mediocrity in attendance, and the Yankees' principal owner, George M. Steinbrenner 3d, blames the South Bronx. Article, page B1.

The Clinton Administration's plan to impose new global sanctions against North Korea for its defiance of nuclear inspectors has run into strong resistance from Japan, throwing into question the effort to impose strict financial sanctions against the Communist Government. The Japanese, concerned about North Korea's reaction, are balking at a quick cutoff of the hundreds of millions of dollars that Koreans living in Japan send back to relatives in the North. Combined with China's reluctance to exert greater pressure on North Korea, the sharp debate threatens to greatly reduce the pain inflicted on the North.

Federal authorities seized a filthy, dilapidated residential hotel near Gramercy Park yesterday, saying that drug dealers used it to operate "a virtual supermarket for crack cocaine." The owner, prosecutors said, did nothing about it. Roving bands of drug dealers and addicts took over whole floors at the Kenmore Hotel, the largest single-room occupancy hotel in New York City, regularly robbing and sometimes killing elderly residents for a few dollars, prosecutors said. With unlighted stairwells, broken toilets in common bathrooms and prostitutes plying their trade in the hallways, the hotel "was permeated with violence," said the United States Attorney, Mary Jo White.

They have the best record in the American League. Their right fielder is hitting like Ted Williams. And their pitching staff has one of the league's best earned run averages. But when it comes to attendance, the New York Yankees seem the essence of mediocrity: 7th in the league, according to the latest available figures, and 16th overall. The Yankees principal owner, George M. Steinbrenner 3d, blames the South Bronx.