June 27, 1995

The New Jersey Devils announced plans yesterday for their Stanley Cup victory parade, and just as promptly rained on it by proclaiming their intention to end their franchise agreement with the state's Sports and Exposition Authority after the 1996-97 hockey season. At the very moment the team was planning for a celebration with its ecstatic fans through an evening motorcade tomorrow outside Byrne Meadowlands Arena, the Devils sent the most serious signal yet that they are unhappy with their lease and might move to Nashville, which has been courting the team for months.

Haiti Election at Risk The election to expand democracy in Haiti unraveled further, with criticism both of the vote itself and of vote-counting procedures. Page A8. A Win, and Perhaps a Loss The New Jersey Devils prepared for a Stanley Cup victory parade and for a possible end to their franchise agreement with the state. Page B1. Balkan Role for Germany Germany decided after much debate to send armed forces to support the Balkan peacekeeping effort, but it will not send ground troops. Page A3. New Rules on Sex Offenders Leaders said the New York State Assembly would approve a bill requiring sex offenders to register with the state upon release. Page B1. Clinton Begins Ad Campaign The President effectively begins his re-election campaign today by broadcasting $2.4 million worth of television advertisements. Page A14.

The Lockheed Martin Corporation announced a sweeping consolidation plan yesterday that would close plants and field offices, eliminate 12,000 jobs and ultimately save the company $1.8 billion a year. The planned cuts are a painful byproduct of the merger, completed in March, between the Lockheed Corporation and the Martin Marietta Corporation, a combination that created the nation's biggest military contractor.

CUNY ADOPTS STRICTER ADMISSION POLICY Tightly restricting admission to its four-year colleges, the City University of New York will no longer accept students judged unable to complete all remedial work within the freshman year. The policy change, approved by the Board of Trustees, will affect about 1,000 to 2,500 of incoming freshmen who attend the system's 11 senior colleges. [ Page A1. ] LEGISLATURE PASSES WHITMAN'S TAX CUT The New Jersey Legislature completed Gov. Christine Todd Whitman's historic tax cut tonight, as many Democrats joined Republican majorities in the Assembly and Senate to approve the second half of Mrs. Whitman's 30 percent income tax reduction a year ahead of schedule. [ A1. ] NEW YORK CITY A NEW ROW INVOLVING OFFICERS Two off-duty police officers raised a drunken row in the Bronx late Sunday, cursing and scuffling with other police officers who had responded to a report of a man waving a gun, the police said. The incident was the third case involving drunken off-duty officers over the last six weeks. [ B3. ] A VOICE FROM THE PAST CRIES FOUL William Seales was happily married and running his own photo shop when the voice of a friend reached out of the past and accused him of murder. [ B3. ] GRANDSON HELD IN DEATH OF 82-YEAR-OLD They called her the Grandmother of Westbury Court, a mother figure to dozens of teen-agers and young adults on the block in her Flatbush neighborhood. But Arrelia Mascha, 82, had trouble mothering one child: the grandson she had recently taken in, Waheed Foster, 14. Last week, the police said, he killed her. [ B3. ] RENT BOARD SCALES BACK PROPOSAL After an outcry from tenant groups and lobbying from Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, the Rent Guidelines Board scaled back its proposal for a two-tier system. [ B3. ] JEFFRIES TO STEP DOWN AT CUNY In a quiet end to his controversial chairmanship of City College's Black Studies Department, Professor Leonard Jeffries will step down at the end of this month, college officials said. [ B2. ] FRAUD CHARGED IN HOUSING VIOLATIONS The City Comptroller has charged that the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development is permitting widespread fraud and abuse by not pursuing landlords who falsely claim to have corrected housing violations on their property. [ B2. ] REGION A 62-YEAR ASSIGNMENT Among the highlights of Sister Martha Winum's tour is the iron lung parked in a hallway near Rehabilitation. It takes some explaining. What helped save lives during wave after wave of the polio epidemic looks like a space capsule with a window at the head, rubber portholes on the sides, a crank at the feet. Our Towns by Evelyn Nieves. [ B4. ] DEVELOPER PLANS RESORT IN ATLANTIC CITY The casino developer Steve Wynn is planning a $600 million complex on what are now 155 marshy acres in Atlantic City's Marina District, near the Harrah's and Trump Castle casinos and west of the Boardwalk area where 10 casinos sit. [ Business Day, D1. ] Chronicle B7

Upholding a random drug-testing program for the first time, the Supreme Court ruled today that public school officials could require student athletes to submit to random urinalysis as a condition of being allowed to play interscholastic sports. The 6-to-3 decision, which stressed student athletes' status as role models as well as their special needs for mental and physical well-being, left open the broader question of whether school districts could subject all of their students to random drug testing. [ Excerpts, page B6. ]