November 14, 1994

The Bankers Trust Company says it has suspended from their normal responsibilities several executives involved in selling to corporations the complex financial agreements known as derivatives. A bank spokesman, Douglas Kidd, said the suspensions came after "a thorough review of its leveraged derivatives business." Mr. Kidd said the bank would not disclose how many executives were suspended or who they were.

Seeking to revitalize a slowing video game market, the Nintendo Company will announce on Monday a low-priced "virtual reality" game system that it will begin selling in the United States and Japan in April. The system, known as Virtual Boy, uses a display technology pioneered by Reflection Technology Inc., a small, privately owned company in Waltham, Mass. To play a Virtual Boy game a user must look directly into two miniature displays to view stereoscopic images created by arrays of red-light-emitting diodes, or LED's.

The Walt Disney Company is close to approving the investment of as much as $2 billion to expand Disney World, its theme park in Orlando, Fla., a person close to the company said yesterday. In considering the expansion, Disney is trying to address two problems: a general slide in attendance at Disney World in the last few years and increasing competition from another Orlando theme park, Universal Studios/Florida, owned by MCA . MCA is planning to add 4,000 hotel rooms at Universal Studios.

After peaking around 1990, reported motor vehicle thefts in New York City and the region have fallen considerably. Preliminary 1994 figures show a further decline: car thefts were down 15 percent in the city and 13 percent in New York State in the first six months of 1994 from the first six months of 1993. Law-enforcement officials credit increased enforcement efforts, the proliferation of alarms and other anti-theft devices, and the growing use of identification numbers on cars and parts as reasons for the drop in auto theft. Bridgeport and Newark have even higher rates of car theft per 100,000 residents than New York City, though reported theft in each of those cities declined more than 20 percent in 1993 from 1992.

He called himself Bobby Leonard or Harvey Linen, Leroy Linden or something else, and he used various addresses, real and unreal, the police said. But the officers who nabbed him in the Bronx Saturday night called him New York City's top scofflaw -- a phantom motorist whose license has been suspended 633 times since 1990, once every two or three days, on average. More than a year after the Police Department created a list of 100 most wanted drivers with the worst suspension records, and a task force to hunt them down, the No. 1 suspect, Leroy Linen, 41, was in custody yesterday, facing a felony charge as the Jesse James of Scofflaws.