August 23, 1994

More Rwandans Fleeing The Rwandan flow resumed, with as many as 50,000 more people trying to leave their country, as Zaire reopened its border. Page A6. Hostility to H.M.O.'s H.M.O.'s, once a centerpiece of President Clinton's health plan, are losing some luster in Congress as lawmakers trade horror stories. Page A12. Results on Blood Samples Prosecutors said that genetic tests suggested matches between the blood of O. J. Simpson and samples found at his former wife's house. Page A10. Approaching Absolute Zero As scientists near the elusive goal, they may find a hypothetical super-atom so big it could be visible to the naked eye. Science Times, page C1.

After a year of extraordinary turmoil that seemed to drag Mexico toward the brink of radical change, voters have decided to continue with the same party that has governed for 65 years, choosing Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon as their next President, partial official results showed today. Yet voters gave the opposition so much support on Sunday that the governing party may be forced to share power in a way not seen before in Mexico.

In a sudden reversal, the Clinton Administration has abandoned plans for a national vaccine warehouse, which was to store and distribute vaccine as part of a campaign to immunize children across the country starting Oct. 1. The demise of the warehouse is the latest in a series of setbacks to a Clinton initiative that, when first proposed in 1993, called for providing free, Government-subsidized vaccines to all children. The program has since been scaled back several times and, with cancellation of the plan for a vaccine warehouse, even less of the President's proposal survives.

Trapped when a Bronx delicatessen erupted in flames, three men and a woman died yesterday in what Fire Department officials said was a suspicious blaze apparently fueled by gasoline. A police officer who was among the first to arrive at the scene said four people were calling for help through the window guards at the back of the first-floor store. With the windows barred and no back exit from the store, they had no way to escape, fire officials said.

As Luis Donaldo Colosio lay dying in a Tijuana hospital on the night of March 23, an assassin's bullet in his head, a handful of his aides gathered in the office of Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, the manager of Mr. Colosio's presidential campaign. One phone line was open to the hospital, another to the residence of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. After a short while, some of the others began urging Mr. Zedillo to join the President. "That's where you have to be," one recalled having insisted, fearful that a rival for the suddenly vacant candidacy of the governing party might get there first.