September 27, 1995

The national service program started at President Clinton's initiative is left out of a Senate appropriations bill. Page D22.

Two dozen demonstrators marched outside City Hall yesterday, contending that the police fatally shot an unarmed man on Monday night while he was handcuffed and lying on the ground. Police officials said the man, Robert Rodriguez, was killed when he tried to grab an officer's gun during a struggle after a routine traffic stop.

Mark E. Whitacre, the former executive with the Archer-Daniels-Midland Company who blew the whistle on possible price-fixing at the company, has agreed to plead guilty to at least two felonies involving other criminal activity, people who have been briefed on the agreement said yesterday. Under the plea deal, which was said to have been struck in early August, Mr. Whitacre is required to cooperate with the growing number of investigations involving the giant agricultural company, these people said. They include a fraud investigation involving corporate money some executives received in overseas bank accounts as well as several inquiries into possible price-fixing involving several agricultural products.

JOSEFINA HOWARD'S addiction to huitlacoche goes way back. "I had a huitlacoche soup in Mexico City in 1957, and from then on I was hooked," said Ms. Howard, a native of Cuba, who owns Rosa Mexicano, the Mexican restaurant on First Avenue and 58th Street.

A former vice president of Riverside Savings Bank in Riverside was indicted yesterday for his role in a $1.8 million bank loan scheme, the United States Attorney's office said. The indictment accuses the bank officer, Michael Hogan, of arranging the loan for Shannon Hills Farms, a real estate development company in Bernards Township in Somerset County, on condition that $50,000 be diverted to bank customers who were having trouble meeting their loan obligations.