June 10, 1995

Warning on Air Traffic New York City's air-traffic system is beset by problems that make it far too vulnerable to breakdowns, the F.A.A. reported. Page 21. Wall of Silence Crumbling More New York City officers are identifying colleagues who took part in a drunken rampage in Washington, the commissioner said. Page 23. Raises for Recruiting At Mercy College in Westchester, professors' salaries are tied to their ability to boost enrollment. Page 21. Rockets Win Again With Sam Cassell leading the way, Houston takes a 2-0 lead over Orlando in the N.B.A finals. Page 27.

Reacting swiftly to the news that the state budget provides far less aid than New York City requested, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani yesterday proposed deep new cuts to the Board of Education, the city hospital system and local welfare programs, many of which benefit the poor. And as he began formal negotiations with leaders of the City Council yesterday, the Mayor removed from the table $240 million in threatened cuts to mostly middle-class programs like libraries, cultural institutions, trash pickups and day care.

In a sharp rebuff to the Clinton Administration, the Japanese Government has told Washington that Tokyo will refuse to join its embargo on trade with Iran, undercutting the American effort to isolate Teheran economically for its sponsorship of terrorism and its suspected pursuit of nuclear weapons. Britain, France and Germany have already told the White House that they will not join in the embargo. But because Japan is such a large customer -- it purchases 400,000 barrels of oil a day from Teheran -- its participation was crucial if the trade embargo was to have anything more than symbolic effect.

As the Clinton Administration celebrated the flawless rescue of an American pilot in Bosnia, NATO and Administration officials acknowledged today that intelligence and planning failures contributed to the downing of the F-16 fighter in the first place. Gen. John Shalikasvili, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other senior military officials have said in testimony before Congress this week that NATO did not expect such an attack because there was no intelligence indicating that the Bosnian Serbs had deployed sophisticated surface-to-air missiles in the area.

One day after he underwent a liver transplant, Mickey Mantle was brought back to an operating room, where doctors stanched some internal bleeding. The doctors said his liver was working well, and that he was alert enough to watch news about his condition on television. Article, page 27.