July 29, 1994

Companies Big drug companies are enlisting pharmacists to promote their drugs rather than those of their competitors, without explicitly telling doctors or patients. And some doctors and medical ethicists do not like it. [Page A1.]

American and Israeli diplomats and intelligence officials strongly suggested today that the Government of Iran and the Party of God, a Lebanon-based, Iranian-backed guerrilla group also known as Hezbollah, were responsible for recent terrorist bombings of Jewish targets in Buenos Aires and London. "The killers involved in those terrible incidents must not -- we will not let them -- succeed," Secretary of State Warren Christopher told a House committee. While he did not directly assign blame for the attacks, he said: "Groups like Hezbollah that wreak havoc and bloodshed must be defeated. And Hezbollah's patron, Iran, must be contained."

Giuliani Plans Health Clinics

THERE was a time when the best one-wall handball in the world was played at the Brighton Beach Baths in Brooklyn. Thousands would crowd into its three swimming pools; men would smoke cigars and pat one another on the back; women would vie for the title of prettiest expectant mother. On weekends, performers from Milton Berle to Lionel Hampton to Herman's Hermits entertained in a band shell resembling nothing so much as half a bagel. Scores of mah-jongg players clicked their 144 tiles with the concentration of nervous assassins. People competed so furiously in egg-cream and knish-eating contests that you can guess what happened. Each endless summer, the vain would wrap reflectors around their neck to capture a perfect tan.

Mild-mannered bank clerk turned into Romeo with superpowers. Long on gimmickry, short on plot.

In an effort to improve health care for New York City's poor and to offer an alternative to overcrowded hospital emergency rooms, the Giuliani administration is planning to open 16 new health clinics to be run by private nonprofit agencies. The clinics, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's first major health initiative, are expected to open in the next two years and will provide additional basic care by expanding capacity by 500,000 medical visits each year. Several studies have estimated that the unmet need for routine care amounts to three million visits a year.

The mosquitoes rising out of the Great Meadows marsh here remind Edward Dennehy, a former Marine, of World War II. No, not as big as B-29's. As thick as on Pacific islands. "We have to stay indoors all the time," he said. "We feel like prisoners."

For more than three decades starting in the 1940's, the Federal Bureau of Investigation obsessively documented the activities of Leonard Bernstein, especially his associations with groups listed as subversive or communist, and, in the 1960's, his support for the civil rights and antiwar movements, newly released files show. The F.B.I. never established that Mr. Bernstein, who died in 1990, was a member of the Communist Party. Indeed, he vehemently denied it under oath in 1953, and soon after that, the bureau acknowledged finding no communist ties.

A sexual harassment suit against the world's largest law firm illustrates widespread problems in the structure and attitudes of firms nationwide, experts say. Page B7.

Without the knowledge of his board of directors, the executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People committed the financially troubled organization last year to payment of as much as $332,400 to a former employee who had threatened to sue him for sexual harassment, according to court records and N.A.A.C.P. officials. In an out-of-court settlement between the executive director, the Rev. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., and Mary E. Stansel, who was a deputy of his for a month last year, he agreed that she would be paid two lump sums totaling $50,000 and then six monthly installments of $5,400 each. Court records show that she has actually received at least $77,000 of that money.

On the day major league players voted for a walkout on Aug. 12 if they have not reached a new collective bargaining agreement with the owners, pitcher Kenny Rogers of the Texas Rangers rang up nothing but putouts in beating the California Angels, 4-0. The strike would be the eighth work stoppage in the last 23 years. The perfect game was the 12th in history.

A dispute has broken out between United Nations officials here and in Geneva over how strongly agencies should urge the more than a million Rwandan refugees at the huge camp here to return to their homeland, relief officials said today. Officials of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees working in Africa say they believe that more should be done to encourage the refugees to go home, including public announcements in the refugee camps about security conditions inside the country.