September 23, 1994

The Carter mission to Haiti has fueled a struggle between two long-time colleagues, as Anthony Lake, the national security adviser, and Secretary of State Warren Christopher compete for dominance over foreign policy. Critics of Mr. Christopher inside the White House say that he has failed, most recently with the Haiti crisis, to project an image as a strong Secretary of State whose role is to serve as the President's chief foreign policy maker. With the exception of the Middle East, they say, he has essentially ceded policy portfolios to subordinates or other agencies of government.

Only three months after the city balanced a $31.6 billion budget with sharp spending cuts, the Giuliani administration is struggling with a further gap that city officials say will require another round of cuts that could reach $800 million. To fill the gap, the administration has embarked on a high-gear search for spending cuts, agency consolidations and work-force reductions that could include as many as 7,000 layoffs. Administration officials said Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani wants to use severance offers as much as possible to soften new rounds of personnel reductions.

At least seven of the city's 11 hospitals will be hit with layoffs and other cuts under a plan to close a $357 million budget gap, the head of the Health and Hospitals Corporation told the agency's board yesterday. As expected, Harlem Hospital would be most severely affected by the cuts, losing 300 workers, including 28 doctors and 37 part-time residents, and 119 surgical beds, bringing a projected savings of $9.6 million. The hospital has the lowest occupancy rate of any city hospital, with just 65 percent of its beds being used on any given day, and the president of the hospitals agency, Dr. Bruce Siegel, said the agency could not afford to provide staff for empty beds.

Director Quentin Tarantino's linked vignettes about petty hoodlums and their ilk. Shocking, funny and blazingly original.

AS COSTS RISE, MAYOR WEIGHS MORE CUTS Only three months after the city balanced a $31.6 billion budget with sharp cuts, the Giuliani administration is struggling with a further gap that officials say will require another round of cuts that could reach $800 million. A1. POPE, CITING HEALTH, DROPS NEW YORK TRIP The Vatican announced that John Paul II was postponing a visit to the New York City area and Baltimore, planned for next month, because he had not fully recuperated from a fall in April in which he broke his leg. A1. Many believers could not help but wonder if something more serious was going on. A8.

In another sign of the Pope's physical frailty, the Vatican announced today that John Paul II was postponing a visit to the New York City area and Baltimore, which was planned for next month, because he has not fully recuperated from a fall in April in which he broke his leg. The unexpected announcement renewed speculation about the 74-year-old Pope's broader state of health, particularly because he planned an important speech at the United Nations on the family in which he was expected to discuss the Vatican's views of the recent population conference in Cairo.

NATO Hits Serbian Targets NATO jets struck at Serbian targets near Sarajevo after United Nations troops came under Serbian machine-gun and rocket fire. Page A8. Disney's Turmoil at the Top The Walt Disney Company's magic is fizzling without Jeffrey Katzenberg. His one-time ally, Michael D. Eisner, forced him out. Page D1. First Baseball, Now Hockey? The National Hockey League Commissioner said the season would not start without a new collective bargaining agreement. Page B9. Clinton Cuts Atomic Arms President Clinton ordered cuts in nuclear bombers and submarines and will ask Russia's President for similar reductions. Page A3.

WHEN the Mongols swept across Eurasia in the 13th and 14th centuries, their conquests reached from Korea all the way to Hungary. No empire before or since has matched theirs in territory, not Alexander's, Napoleon's or Hitler's. These nomadic warriors on fast horses, charging out of clouds of dust, seemed to be everywhere and come from nowhere. They were feared by all, known by few. An aura of mystery still clings to the Mongols, long after they retreated to the margins of world history. What were their origins, their cultural affinities? What was it like to be a Mongol? Only in recent decades have archeologists begun to put a face on the Mongols and their long line of ancestors living beyond the northern walls of China. They were not just skilled horsemen following herds and spoiling for a fight. They also had their artisans and an artistic culture that was at once distinctive and a reflection of techniques and motifs borrowed from foes, particularly the Chinese, and the people they encountered along the ancient trade route, the Silk Road.

For the first time in nearly 50 years, Senate and House negotiators have agreed on a major overhaul of lobbying on Capitol Hill, banning lobbyists from paying for gifts lavish or lowly, whether resort vacations or the ubiquitous fruit basket. But even as the agreement was announced, Republicans took to the floor of the Senate in an effort to block another piece of legislation aimed at making changes in campaign financing. This bill would allow partial public financing of Congressional elections and limit the amount spent by candidates.

Companies Northrop Grumman will cut its work force by more than 18 percent, or 8,650 jobs, by the end of 1995, as the newly combined company seeks to adapt to a fast-consolidating arms industry. The job cut will be another hard blow to the economies of California and Long Island. [ Page D1. ] Few employees of Grumman, which was Long Island's biggest employer for more than five decades, were surprised by the announcement of job cuts. [ D11. ]

At a gathering here of leading computer and telecommunications executives, AT&T showed a video the company shot recently on the streets of Manhattan. The video crew had asked passers-by a single question: "Where can I find the on ramp to the information highway?" "Take a left on Houston Street, and keep going straight," one man replied. "Gee, I'm not sure," a woman said. "I've been there a million times, but I can't remember. . . . Ask Reynaldo, the doorman."

United States special forces dismantled the Haitian Army's most elite military unit today, and American soldiers were told they were allowed to stop Haitian police from beating citizens. The actions were described as part of a rapidly changing policy of gradually dismantling the Haitian Army's control of the country.