January 6, 1995

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's budget director resigned, forcing the Mayor to juggle his senior fiscal staff as the city faces mounting financial problems this fiscal year and a $2 billion deficit next year.

Moynihan Cut From Panel New York's Democratic Senator is being pushed off the Foreign Relations Committee so that a Republican will not lose his seat. Page A21. Clinic Suspect's Statement In a rambling written statement, the suspect in shootings at three abortion clinics said he wanted to be executed if found guilty. Page A12. Hitler Defaulted; Bonn Pays Sixty years after Hitler defaulted on $210 million that American investors lent Germany, Bonn is moving to pay the last of the debt. Page D1. Jets Get New Coach, Again The Jets' owner, Leon Hess, saying he wants to win now, dismissed Pete Carroll after one season and hired Rich Kotite to succeed him. Page B7.

President Clinton and the new Republican leaders of Congress, just two months ago the gray and blue commanders of an increasingly uncivil war in politics, emerged from a first meeting at the White House today to declare a firm truce in their two-year legislative conflict. At least, for now. In an 80-minute talk in the Cabinet Room over coffee, Mr. Clinton, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and the Senate majority leader, Bob Dole, agreed to pursue what they later called a sincere search for compromise on virtually every plank of the Republican Congressional agenda.

Bargain hunting after the holidays helped prop up sales at the nation's chain stores in December, but the gains retailers eked out for the entire month were still disappointing. Had it not been for strong after-Christmas sales, the month would have been dismal for most retailers, who reported sales yesterday. "Unfortunately, there was more traffic in stores the Monday and Tuesday after Christmas than in the two or three days before," said Kimberly K. Walin, who follows retailing stocks for Lehman Brothers.

An epic polar adventure is to end here today as four Norwegian skiers break camp at the South Pole to head home after nearly two months of hardships reminiscent of the historic expeditions that first traversed this hostile continent. One skier, Liv Arnesen, 40, a former Oslo schoolteacher, became the first woman ever to ski unaccompanied from the edge of the Antarctic continent to the South Pole. Three men also reached the Pole, along a different route. One of the men has no arms but uses a prosthetic right arm.