June 20, 1995

HISTORY OF ILLS AT IMMIGRATION JAILS James F. Slattery started small, managing a hotel on the edge of Kennedy Airport. He kept the Riviera hotel filled through a contract with the Government to absorb the overflow from immigration jails, which convinced him that the future of the lodging industry lay not with tourists but with inmates. In six years, Mr. Slattery and his partners built the fifth largest prison business in the country. [ Page A1. ] The Union County Prosecutor's office and the Elizabeth Police Department have called for the closing of the Esmor detention center. [ B4. ] NEW YORK CITY BIAS DEBATE DIVIDES A SCHOOL The teachers and students of Norman Thomas High School in Manhattan are spending the end of the school year divided, wrestling with the troubling issues of anti-Semitism and racism and what to do about both. At an emotional meeting, most of the high school's 130 teachers voted to ask Schools Chancellor Ramon C. Cortines to bar from graduation ceremonies six seniors who wrote or knew of an anti-Semitic note given to a teacher. [ B3. ] SUSPENSION OF GOTTI LAWYER IS UPHELD A Federal appeals court chastised Bruce Cutler, John Gotti's lawyer, for defying a judge's order to curb his fist-waving remarks to the press on behalf of his client, and it affirmed his sentence of three months of house arrest and suspension from practice in some Federal courts for six months. [ B3. ] Mayor Giuliani presses his quest for veto power in the choice of a schools chancellor. [ B2. ] A fifth New York City police officer has been linked to a drunken rampage through several hotels in Washington, the police said. [ B3. ] In two accidents one hour apart, a 12-year-old youth and an 84-year-old man were struck and killed in Brooklyn by cars whose drivers did not stop, the police said. [ B3. ] REGION COMPROMISE ON BUDGET State legislative leaders in New Jersey released a compromise version of Gov. Christine Todd Whitman's budget for the coming fiscal year that preserves the Governor's 15 percent income tax cut for 1996 and eliminates several increases in taxes and fees. [ B5. ] Governor Whitman's choice of Assembly Speaker Chuck Haytaian to lead the state Republican Party delivers for his patron in his first appearance as chairman-designate. [ B5. ] WHERE PIT BULLS ARE TREATED AS PETS It is shaping up to be another pit bull summer. The dogs are arriving at the Elmsford Animal Shelter in Westchester County at a steady pace, about one a day. The pit bull fad seemed to reach its peak in the 1980's. But people who work in animal shelters will tell you it has gotten worse. Our Towns by Evelyn Nieves. [ B5. ] JUDGE RULES FOR DEAF PRISON INMATES Ruling that New York State had violated the constitutional rights of deaf prison inmates, a Federal judge in Manhattan ordered the state to provide deaf prisoners with sign-language interpreters, devices for communicating by telephone and closed-caption televisions. [ B2. ] POLICE OFFICER CLEARED IN KILLING AT MALL A Suffolk County grand jury has refused to indict a police officer who fatally shot a 21-year-old college student at a Long Island mall. [ B4. ] Chronicle B2

For six long years, Public School 165 in Manhattan dwelled in the wasteland of New York City's lowest performing schools. Miserable test scores were only a sliver of the problems that it faced. Teachers came to school burned out and bitter. Students and parents ducked for cover during shootouts on the school's street, drug-infested West 109th Street. Roaches climbed children's legs in the lunchroom. An asbestos cleanup crew stole half the computers in the sagging, 1890's building. And a parade of state and city investigators wrote incessant reports on the school's failures.

The Supreme Court made it substantially more difficult for prisoners to bring constitutional lawsuits challenging prison management. Article, page B7.

Few developments in the German banking world say more about the evolution of finance in this country than the news last week that Dresdner Bank A.G. was talking to the British merchant banking group Kleinwort Benson about a $1.5 billion takeover. Here is the bank that many describe as culturally the most German of the big institutions -- one known for focusing on the conservative, risk-averse domestic market -- deciding to step off its home turf into the cutthroat world of London investment banking.

U. S. Threatens Japan Over Air Rights The Clinton Administration threatened to bar Japanese airlines from some of their most profitable cargo routes to the United States in retaliation for Tokyo's refusal to allow Federal Express to broaden its operations. While the aviation controversy involves far lower stakes than the auto dispute, the White House made clear that it was willing to use confrontation, across the board, to move Japan's bureaucracy. [ Page A1. ] Saudi Arabian Jet Order Saudi Arabia said it would proceed with a $6 billion aircraft purchase from Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. [ D6. ] Second Bid for Bally Gaming Alliance Gaming, an operator of gambling machines and casinos, offered $134 million, or $12.50 a share, in cash and stock for Bally Gaming International, a maker of slot machines. The unsolicited bid came two months after WMS Industries agreed to acquire Bally Gaming for $127 million in stock and cash, or about $11.85 a share. [ D4. ] Prudential Settles Charges Prudential Securities has agreed to pay a $725,000 fine to settle charges with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that the firm failed to supervise properly a former broker who engaged in fraudulent trades involving energy futures. [ D6. ] Goldman Earnings Jump Goldman, Sachs has made $500 million in the first half of 1995, more than in all of 1994, some partners say, because of an increase in underwriting revenue, merger fees and rallies in the markets. [ D8. ] Problems for a Prison Operator When the newest jail run by Esmor Corrections in Elizabeth, N.J., erupted in violence on Sunday, it echoed the troubles dogging the company's rapid expansion. [ A1. ] Newspaper's Future Cloudy The editor of New York Newsday said an examination of the newspaper's viability was under way and that its parent company, Times Mirror, might even consider closing the New York City edition. [ B3. ] A Refrigerator Search The New York Power Authority is hoping to induce appliance makers to build smaller, energy-efficient refrigerators for public housing units to cut electric bills. [ B1. ] S.& L. Report Criticized Workers at the Dallas office of the Resolution Trust Corporation questioned the accuracy of a Treasury Department report that concluded the Government had made adequate efforts to recover money from wrongdoers at failed savings and loans. [ B8. ] How an Index Is Made A day spent watching how data are collected for the Consumer Price Index shows the messiness inherent in monitoring changes in a $7 trillion economy. [ D2. ] I.B.M. Steps Closer to Apple I.B.M. introduced computers based on the PowerPC computer chip and took a step toward offering the software that underlies Apple Computer's Macintosh. But I.B.M. executives were vague about the companies' relationship. [ D6. ] Cuba Will Not Extradite Vesco The Cuban Government told American diplomats that it did not plan to extradite Robert L. Vesco, who is wanted on embezzlement and narcotics charges. [ A8. ] More Than Faux Jewels QVC plans a campaign to help dispel its image as the "cubic zirconia network." Stuart Elliott: Advertising. [ D11. ]