February 15, 1995

GIULIANI SEEKS DEEPEST CUT SINCE 1930'S Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani proposed a financial blueprint for New York City that included the largest percentage reduction in overall spending since the Great Depression and that would drastically reshape municipal government and slash its services to the poor. A1.

In some communities a young man who turned in a man accused of being a terrorist and became eligible for a $2 million bounty would be pointed out as an example of virtue rewarded. Among South African Muslims, however, the prevailing view of Istiayaak Parker, the Cape Town student who reportedly betrayed the man accused of masterminding the World Trade Center bombing, seems to be disbelief and scorn.

SHE arrives, apologizing. The driver took her first to the old La Goulue and she had to ask directions to the new La Goulue, and that is why she is late. "I don't know the town," Elisabeth Maxwell says in her French-accented English. "When I've come I've had to rely on other people's experience. Like a parcel, really, in the hands of my hosts." As she sits, the women at the surrounding tables don't recognize her. In fact, they look right through her. The royal blue suit and watercolored silk scarf at the throat are on the wrong side of chic for the Upper East Side (where it's taupe or die), and her level of concentration is too grim even for the would-be business lunchers, male and female alike, who sneak admiring glances at their own profiles in the mirror as soon as their guests look down.

In a move to trace illegal guns to their sources, the state and Federal governments announced an agreement yesterday under which county prosecutors will give the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms information on all guns used in crimes. The New Jersey Attorney General, Deborah T. Poritz, and Faith S. Hochberg, the United States Attorney for New Jersey, said the Federal agency may then find it easier to go after dealers who sell guns -- or trade them for drugs -- knowing they are likely to be used in crimes.

A Congressional watchdog group plans to use a news conference today to ridicule as pork barrel spending the Ellis Island footbridge, a $15 million project pushed by Senator Frank R. Lautenberg. Citizens Against Government Waste berates the bridge and other Federal projects in its annual "Pig Book."