August 25, 1994

Powerful Hollywood Chief Is Leaving Disney Studios Jeffrey Katzenberg is resigning as chairman of Disney Studios. Mr. Katzenberg had sought, and failed, to get the No. 2 job at Walt Disney, the studio's parent company. Page D1. Gates Against Crime It may sound simple, but the residents of the Five Oaks neighborhood in Dayton, Ohio, put up 35 curb-to-curb gates and watched violent crime fall by 50 percent. Page C1.

The Walt Disney Company announced today that Jeffrey Katzenberg, the longtime chairman of its Disney Studios and one of Hollywood's most powerful executives, was leaving at the end of next month. Mr. Katzenberg had sought -- and failed to get -- the No. 2 job at the Walt Disney Company, after Disney's president died in a helicopter accident last April. Disney said it was reorganizing its filmed entertainment business by creating two distinct operations, one for motion pictures and one for television. Mr. Katzenberg's film-making responsibilities will be partly assumed by Joe Roth, the former chairman of 20th Century Fox and now head of Caravan Pictures, a Walt Disney movie label. Promotion at TV Unit Richard Frank, who had served as president under Mr. Katzenberg at the Disney studio since 1985, has been promoted to chairman of the newly created Walt Disney Television and Telecommunications unit.

GOOD fences may make good neighbors, but iron gates make good neighborhoods. That's the opinion of a majority of the 5,000 residents of Five Oaks, a mixed-income, racially diverse neighborhood five miles north of downtown Dayton. In 1992, after robberies had doubled in three years, the people of Five Oaks, in collaboration with local police officials, city planners and an urban-design consultant, adopted a crime-prevention technique that has been around for decades but is only now becoming an inescapable feature of the residential landscape -- iron gates designed to rebuff prostitution and drug dealing and the automobile traffic that often supports them.

DR. ROBERT BALLARD is racing down a winding road on Cape Cod in a blinding summer rainstorm. Headlights of oncoming cars loom like huge, menacing blurs through the drenched windshield. Dr. Ballard keeps his foot steady on the gas pedal. He seems totally unaware that the wipers on his sleek black Mercedes hang limp, like strands of seaweed. In fact, it is a lot like driving under water, an experience that is terrifying for his passenger but not for him: the bottom of the ocean is his second home.

OFFICER'S PARTNER DETAILS SHOOTING The partner of the transit police officer who was critically wounded in the subway on Monday has told investigators that an off-duty police officer continued firing at the transit officer after he had been hit and had fallen face down, shooting him at least twice in the back, an official familiar with the investigation said. A1. A transit police videotape is aimed at preventing the kind of shooting that occurred. B2.