June 7, 1995

A Serbian official said that 108 more United Nations troops who had been held hostage by Bosnian Serb forces were released early today with a promise that the remaining peacekeepers would be freed soon. The release came after international pressure, including appeals from the President of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic.

Japan and U.S. Admit Missteps Over Trade Japanese and American officials concede that they deeply miscalculated the other country's resolve in their trade confrontation, and so far, neither side can find a way out.

Italian guardians of the venerable pizza tradition say there is too much bogus pizza, and they want to set standards. But some chefs say setting pizza rules limits creativity. Florence Fabricant considers the demands of the pizza purists, page C6.

Ernesta G. Procope is convinced that her commercial-insurance brokerage firm is one of the best in the business. But it is her identity as a black woman, she says, that emboldened her firm, the E. G. Bowman Company in Manhattan, to go after Fortune 500 clients and helped her land 45. "A white firm our size would never have the nerve to go against the Marsh & McLennans or the other big boys," she said. "Affirmative action has been a door opener."

RONALD L. KUBY's professional life has the pace and feel of a movie thriller. In his world, the cliches of the genre are real: there's always a reporter on the line, a fugitive client waiting in the wings, an attitude to be struck. This high-wire activity takes place in the basement of a quaint Greenwich Village townhouse where Mr. Kuby works as the junior partner of William Kunstler, the civil rights lawyer who was defending clients like Daniel Berrigan and Lenny Bruce back when Mr. Kuby was in public school in Cleveland. The presence of Kunstler & Kuby is signified only by a tiny sign that says OFFICE .