April 15, 1995

The Pataki administration wants homeless people to be ejected from shelters if they fail to follow a variety of rules, including participating in drug treatment and job training programs, state officials said today. The State Social Services Department plans to issue regulations that would for the first time make the right to emergency shelter in New York State contingent on the willingness of recipients to comply with a strict code of conduct. The new rules would also require individuals and families in homeless shelters to search for permanent housing and to avoid drugs and violence.

Criticism for McNamara The public reaction to Robert S. McNamara's regrets about the war that the United States waged in Vietnam has been broadly and almost relentlessly negative. Page 7. The 1040 of the Top 2 Their 1994 tax returns show that Vice President Al Gore earned a lot more than the President last year and was a lot less generous. Page 8. A Soldier's Anniversary Fifty years after being badly wounded in combat, Senator Bob Dole received his hometown's blessing of his quest for the Presidency. Page 8.

Ever since Ramzi Ahmed Yousef was arrested in Pakistan two months ago on charges that he engineered the World Trade Center explosion, Federal prosecutors have found themselves in a predicament in their efforts to prosecute Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 10 others in a related terrorism case. On the one hand, the Government is trying to prove that Mr. Abdel Rahman, a blind Egyptian cleric, was the spiritual leader of a band of terrorists who plotted to blow up not only the World Trade Center but also the United Nations and the Hudson River tunnels.

The Security Council voted unanimously today to offer Iraq easier terms under which to sell oil to meet its urgent need for medicine, food and other essentials. If Iraq accepts the plan, it would be the first break in the wall of sanctions that has surrounded the country and constricted its economy since Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990.

Five years ago, Dr. Jonathan Boniuk would have been guaranteed overnight success. An eye surgeon trained at top medical schools, he would have walked into a busy practice and earned over $150,000 a year. But in the last month he has talked to friends, colleagues, friends of friends, recruiters, health maintenance organizations and drug company representatives who make the rounds of doctors' offices, all with the dwindling hope of finding a permanent job. He has had little success.