June 10, 1994

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani faced increasing pressure yesterday to include the Police Department in his efforts to reduce New York City's budget, as Democratic elected officials in the city and in Albany said the city could save millions by cutting overhead or hiring more civilians. For his part, the Mayor indicated more strongly than before that he would be willing to accept some cuts in the $2 billion budget he has proposed for the police. But he insisted that he would not accept any decrease in the total number of police officers.

In a surprise ending to an 18-month search, Merck & Company said yesterday that it had chosen Raymond V. Gilmartin, an outside executive with no pharmaceutical experience, to succeed P. Roy Vagelos, who has headed the world's largest drug maker since 1985. Mr. Gilmartin, a 53-year-old electrical engineer, has headed Becton, Dickinson & Company, a medium-size hospital supply company, since 1989. He will become chief executive and president of Merck on Thursday and will add the position of chairman on Nov. 1, when Dr. Vagelos retires at 65.

TWO men, an unmarried woman and a baby of uncertain paternity, all living in splendid isolation in an Ulster farmhouse by the sea. Can a clergyman be far away? In Thaddeus O'Sullivan's 1990 film "December Bride," the local minister is indeed troubled by this domestic arrangement, as is practically everyone who lives nearby. The time is turn of the century, and it is the minister's job to point out that this living arrangement violates the rules of the community. Sarah (Saskia Reeves), the quiet but shockingly bold heroine of the title, simply ignores him. She thinks some rules are made to be broken. Repression and rebellion are constantly at war throughout the films in a new, landmark series exploring the full range of Irish cinema. In the Name of the Nation: Celebrating Irish Film Making 1910-1994, which begins today and will run through July 7 at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, explores an astonishing variety of similar tensions. These dramas are often played out against rugged, lonely landscapes of extraordinary natural beauty, and acted by a small circle of fine Irish actors whose work has been seen elsewhere, but not to such obvious advantage. The great appeal of this series rests on both academic interest and entertainment value.

Pressure Over Police Cuts Mayor Giuliani is facing increasing pressure from Democratic officials to include the Police Department in his efforts to reduce New York City's budget. Page B1. New Chairman at Merck Merck, the world's largest drug maker, picked an outside executive with no pharmaceutical experience to become its top official. Page D1. Champagne Stays on Ice Poised to win their first Stanley Cup since 1940, the Rangers lost to the Canucks, 6-3, and will take a 3-2 lead to Vancouver for Game 6. Page B9.

Judging that a stark label could inflame calls for United States military action, the Clinton Administration has instructed its spokesmen not to describe the mass killings in Rwanda flatly as genocide. The State Department and National Security Council have told spokesmen to say only that "acts of genocide may have occurred." Such wariness puts the Administration in conflict with prominent experts, who say the violence -- in which 200,000 to 400,000 people have died -- reflects the deliberate extermination of an ethnic group.