July 9, 1994

Kim Il Sung, the North Korean leader since 1945 and the man who led the invasion of the South and beganthe Korean War, died at 2 a.m. on Friday at the age of 82, Pyongyang Radio said today. At shortly after noon, the Korean Central News Agency, the country's official news organization, issued a seven-page announcement of Mr. Kim's death, which said that he would be remembered as a man capable of "creating something from nothing."

President Clinton's chief AIDS policy officer, Kristine M. Gebbie, submitted her resignation today after a rocky 11-month tenure. Her resignation had been rumored here for weeks. Advocates for people with AIDS had been unhappy with Ms. Gebbie ever since she was named and it became clear that she would not be the sort of high-profile AIDS "czar" that the Clinton campaign had promised.

Over the strenuous objection of the Manhattan District Attorney, a Federal judge in Washington today accepted the guilty plea of the chief executive of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International on sweeping charges of fraud, racketeering and conspiracy. The executive, Swaleh Naqvi, admitted responsibility for $255 million in losses in the United States, and faces a sentence of six to nine years in Federal prison as a result of his role in B.C.C.I.

They are the elite of this remote mill town in central Oregon, handsome, proud young men and women who like to talk of their dangerous work with the Prineville Hot Shots, a daredevil squad that battles some of the nation's most threatening wildfires for the Government. They can be seen around town in their blue Hot Shot shirts, training and partying together and, when they are summoned by their team leaders with the United States Forest Service, racing for the small local airport to board planes for destinations like California, Arizona, Montana and Alaska.

O. J. Simpson was ordered today by a Municipal Court judge to stand trial for murder, just hours after an expert testified that Mr. Simpson's blood matches a drop of blood found where his former wife and a friend were slashed to death. The judge, Kathleen Kennedy-Powell, said the prosecution had satisfied her that Mr. Simpson should answer charges in Superior Court that he murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald L. Goldman on the night of June 12. The ruling concluded a six-day hearing to determine whether the evidence was strong enough to send Mr. Simpson to trial.

The Cuomo administration today gave the green light to New York City and two suburban counties to take electronic fingerprints of some welfare recipients in an effort to fight fraud, as long as local governments pay a share of the cost and follow state regulations. Today's decision, which was announced in a letter sent to local officials by the State Social Services Commissioner, Michael J. Dowling, will almost certainly be challenged in court on the grounds that it changes the rules for eligibility. But Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who has made the process known as finger imaging a centerpiece of his welfare policy, said in an interview that he would proceed with plans to set up a system in all five boroughs by May.

Few Takers for Haiti American allies have been slow to make commitments for a peacekeeping unit that would serve Haiti if its military leaders left power. Page 6. South African Premonition The first black mayor in a South African city is making tough budget decisions, a sign of things to come nationwide under integration. Page 3. A Shift by Macy's Creditors A crucial group of R. H. Macy creditors moved closer to striking a deal to clear the way for a merger with Federated Department Stores. Page 35. Lesbian Officer Reinstated A National Guard colonel discharged two years ago because she is a lesbian has been reinstated and is to return to her old job today. Page 9.

A Labor Department report showing a sharp and unexpected surge in the number of jobs created in June gave financial markets jitters about inflation today. Traders' concerns were only magnified as the Clinton Administration tried later to allay their fears about the economy and the dollar. While the unemployment rate held steady at 6 percent, the increase in business payrolls of 379,000 jobs was considerably stronger than analysts had anticipated. Coming on top of sizable upward revisions in the number of jobs created in April and May, the report seemed likely to push the Federal Reserve closer to another increase in short-term interest rates to prevent a surge in inflation -- a move it opted not to take at a policy-setting meeting this week.

State Senate bill 8014A gained final legislative approval on the evening of July 1, one of the last days of business in Albany. The bill, to create an independent disciplinary hearing process for New York City employees, would strip the city's Police Commissioner of the power to dismiss officers for misconduct on the job. The legislation had a handful of sponsors. And it had one major lobbyist: the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, the main police union.

International 2-6 KIM IL SUNG DIES Kim Il Sung, the North Korean leader since 1945 and the man who launched the Korean War, died at the age of 82, Pyongyang Radio said. 1 The suddenness of Kim's death added dangerous uncertainty to the nuclear dispute with Pyongyang. 5

A picture on Sunday with an obituary of U Maung Maung, who was briefly President of Burma, was published in error. It showed U Maung Maung Kha, a former Prime Minister, not the former President.

A caption yesterday with a picture by Agence France-Presse showing President Clinton visiting the Warsaw Ghetto misidentified one of the people who joined him at a wreath-laying ceremony. The man standing next to the President was Benjamin Meed, president of the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Organization in America, not Marek Edelmann.