September 30, 1995

Just hours after he signed a peace agreement with Yasir Arafat, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel moved on to another battle. In a meeting on Thursday with leaders of American Jewish groups, he sternly warned that lobbying against Israeli Government policies could cause a serious rift in Israel's relations with the Jewish community in the United States.

An I.R.S. Gift to Business The Internal Revenue Service unexpectedly eased an irksome paperwork burden for business travelers, raising the level at which receipts are needed to $75 from $25. Page 33. Helms and Clinton Cut Deal Senator Jesse Helms will allow votes on more than 30 Clinton appointees he has stalled as head of the Foreign Relations Committee. Page 5. Weighing Sheik's Case As lawyers try to read their minds, the jurors in the terrorism trial of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and nine others are still deliberating. Page 21. Gift of $50 Million in Art Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon have presented 85 works of art, valued at more than $50 million, to the National Gallery of Art. Page 13.

Hundreds of Palestinians have been evicted from Libya in an effort to show the P.L.O. that peace with Israel is impossible. Page 4.

On the eve of Adelphi University's centennial year, the quiet of the small, suburban campus should not be mistaken for serenity. Enrollment has dropped 25 percent in a decade. Dormitory rooms are vacant, course offerings are dwindling, copy paper is rationed, workers have been laid off and last month the campus radio station was abruptly closed. The chief architect of these painful budget cuts is Adelphi's longtime president, Peter Diamandopoulos, 67, a Harvard-trained philosopher who preaches passionately to his faculty and students about the need for a "radical recasting of the academy" and the value of "frugal spending."

As the sound of Nicole Brown Simpson's anguished voice reverberated for perhaps the final time throughout the courtroom, and photographs of both her battered face and the bloody corpse of Ronald L. Goldman flashed on a screen, prosecutors completed their murder case against Orenthal James Simpson today, and Judge Lance A. Ito gave it to the jury. After hours of minute and largely listless summation, Deputy District Attorney Marcia Clark brought the case back with a surge of emotion to the tangled and tortured relationship at its core. She played a tape of one of Mrs. Simpson's frantic calls to 911, in which she exclaimed: "He's back. He's O. J. Simpson. I think you know his record." It was a record, Ms. Clark said, that led a healthy 30-year-old woman to draw up a will.