Warren, calling from Linthicum, Md., was irate about high taxes. "It's axiomatic," he said, "that people in power cannot resist taxing people to the nth degree."         Tony in Frederick was having a hard time with liberals. "They are not content to let me believe the way I like to believe," he said. "They force me at gunpoint, under threat of death, to believe the way they believe."   

BATTLE OVER THE BUDGET: TALK RADIO;Talk Radio's Conservatives Enlist in the Budget Battle

As President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia negotiates a peace settlement in Dayton, the army under his control is rebuilding the Bosnian Serb military in violation of Mr. Milosevic's own pledges, American and United Nations officials  said today.         Yugoslav Army technicians have replaced the communications links blown up by  NATO warplanes in air strikes two months ago and have repaired some of the air defense systems, the officials said.   

Yugoslav Army Reported to Aid Bosnian Serbs Despite Promises

The commander of United States forces in the Pacific was forced to step down  today after he said the recent rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl could have been avoided if the American servicemen involved had simply paid for a prostitute.         The commander, Adm. Richard C. Macke, apologized after members of Congress and Japanese officials complained, but it was too late.   

Admiral Has to Quit Over His Comments On Okinawa Rape

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As the first cracks developed in the deadlock between the White House and Congress that has caused a partial Government shutdown, Congress today approved  mammoth Republican budget legislation to change the course of the American Government.         President Clinton said today that he would veto the legislation. "We should balance the budget in a way that reflects our values," he said in a statement.   

BATTLE OVER THE BUDGET: THE OVERVIEW;HOUSE AND SENATE APPROVE G.O.P.'S 7-YEAR BUDGET PLAN; PRESIDENT PROMISES A VETO

It is a colossal windfall that stirs old dreams of instant riches for this small country: 569 square miles of land abutting one of the world's most strategic waterways and more than 7,000 buildings, every last bit of which the United States must hand over to Panama by the end of 1999.         There are airports and harbors, hospitals and warehouses, shopping malls and  hotels, apartments and schools, all originally built by American engineers and soldiers as part of what was once the Panama Canal Zone.   

Bonanza: Panama Canal Zone Up for Sale

In an effort to strengthen the hand of patients dealing with the state's rapidly growing health maintenance organizations, New Jersey health officials today proposed requiring that H.M.O.'s disclose any financial incentives they offer participating physicians to hold down medical expenses.         The proposed disclosure rules were among a series of provisions made public today as the state announced its first overhaul of the rules governing H.M.O.'s  in more than two decades. Health maintenance organizations, which provide services in exchange for a fixed fee, are the fastest growing segment of the state's health care industry. Enrollment has increased from 100,000 in 1974, when the state first began regulating health maintenance organizations, to 1.4 million today. The state expects membership to exceed two million by the end of  next year.   

Trenton Seeks H.M.O. Disclosure Of Doctors' Financial Incentives

The Connecticut Senate today overwhelmingly rejected Gov. John G. Rowland's proposal for a casino in Bridgeport, ending more than four years of debate over  whether to allow casinos in the state outside of Indian reservations.         The 24-to-10 vote crushed Bridgeport residents' hopes of seeing their ailing  city, one hour from New York, become a gambling mecca. But for Atlantic City, it meant that a potential competitor, which experts said could have siphoned away as much as 30 percent of its business, had been stopped.   

VOTE IN HARTFORD BY SENATE REJECTS BRIDGEPORT CASINO

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and leaders of New York City's unions announced tentative agreement last night on contracts with 140,000 civilian employees that would increases wages and benefits by 13 percent over five years and protect unionized employees from layoffs for three years.         Like a deal reached with the teachers' union two weeks ago, the agreement with a coalition of 17 unions -- representing more than 60 locals -- would offer no raises for the first two years of their contracts. And it would also extract modest concessions from the unions that trim overtime, extra pay for working nights and the number of sick days for new employees.   

Giuliani and Labor Reach Deal To Raise Wages and Keep Jobs

An answer in the Q&A column of Science Times on Nov. 7 about cellular telephones misstated the reason their use is forbidden on passenger planes in the air. It is because of the potential for interference with ground-level cellular telephone communications. (Concern about interference with communications and other equipment aboard is the reason for regulation of the phones' use while the plane is on the ground.)   

Corrections

An obituary yesterday about Jack Finney, a science-fiction writer, misstated  the day of his death in some copies. He died on Tuesday, not Thursday.   

A report in the Daily Briefing column in New Jersey copies on Wednesday about the deaths of three elected officials in just over a year in Clinton, N.J., misstated their titles and gave an incorrect first name for one. The officials were Councilmen, not Commissioners; the one who died six weeks ago was Richard A. Simpson, not Robert.   

The proposal is dead. I am not going to put the State Senate through this again." -- GOV. JOHN G. ROWLAND of Connecticut, on casino gambling. [1:3.]   

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An article on Oct. 15 about the influence of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association in the New York State Legislature misstated the union's position on  a 1991 bill that would have prohibited the Police Department from dismissing officers who failed drug tests. The P.B.A. opposed the bill; it did not use its  influence to help bring about passage. The article also misstated the size of the union. It has 29,000 members, not 22,000. (The union telephoned to report the errors soon after the article appeared, but the writer was vacationing, and  other staff members failed to relay the message to responsible editors.)

A picture caption on Nov. 11 about the Animal Rights Law Center at Rutgers University misstated the basis for the release of Taro, the Akita that was ordered killed after it injured a 10-year-old girl. The rights center argued that Gov. Christine Todd Whitman could spare the dog under a provision in the state constitution giving her the power to return confiscated property to its owners -- not that the Governor's clemency power extended to dogs.   

China and the United States made new progress today in resuming a program of  high-level military contacts by agreeing to an exchange of visits of their top military officers next year.         But American defense officials visiting here this week reported that during private conversations they encountered trenchant rhetoric and signs of unrelenting determination by Beijing's military and civilian leaders to undermine the rule of the President of Taiwan, Lee Teng-hui.   

China-U.S. Ties Warm a Bit as China-Taiwan Relations Chill

Israeli soldiers will leave Bethlehem on Dec.  18 -- three days earlier than  planned -- to allow preparations for the first Christmas under Arab control in 28 years, Palestinian officials said today. Israel is also scheduled to withdraw from five other West Bank towns.

Bethlehem Pullout

Clawing through soft chalk this week to expand a highway near Jerusalem, an excavator suddenly opened up a man-made cave full of ancient tombs.         That in itself might not be major news in a land where scratching any parched and rocky surface is likely to yield imprints of ancient history. But in this case, archeologists found that one of the 23 containers with bones, the ossuaries, had four extant letters of ancient Hebrew that spelled "Hasm..."   

Israeli Tombs May Shed New Light on Maccabees

In 1968, French students took to the streets and nearly made a revolution. In 1995, they are taking to the streets again -- for more professors, bigger classrooms and better libraries from the Government so they can study harder and find good jobs.         That is the message from the barricades around the architecturally stunning cantilevered and glass-paneled buildings of the new university here. And it is essentially the same in some 15 other French universities on strike this month for better conditions.   

Marne-la-Vallee Journal;At Barricades, Students Seek Francs

In an address on his second anniversary of seizing power, Nigeria's military  ruler, Gen. Sani Abacha, accused the West today of waging a smear campaign against Africa's most populous nation.         General Abacha said Nigeria would not be "cajoled nor intimidated" into changing its behavior "just to satisfy the whims of foreign interests."   

Nigeria Ruler Accuses West Of Smears

Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian President, has a new joke: "You know what Dick is short for?" he asks, referring to Richard C. Holbrooke, the American mediator at the Bosnian peace talks here. "Dictator!"         Over the last several days Mr. Holbrooke, an Assistant Secretary of State, has tried every shade of bullying diplomacy to bridge the differences between Serbs, Muslims and Croats. He has harassed his interlocutors day and night; he has cajoled; he has wined and dined.   

At Bosnian Peace Talks, the Tunnel With the Light at the End Is VeryLong

Ignoring warnings that it would sabotage peace talks, the House of Representatives voted 243 to 171 tonight toprevent money from being spent to send United States peacekeeping troops to Bosnia.         Approval by the Senate is far from certain. The bill failed by a margin well  shy of the two-thirds majority needed to override a certain White House veto.   

House Votes to Bar Funds For U.S. Troops in Bosnia

When the Bosnian Government found itself at odds in Dayton, Ohio, with Richard C. Holbrooke, the American negotiator branded by his critics in the Clinton Administration as "Raging Bull," what did it do?         It hired Richard Perle, the man branded by his critics inside the Reagan Administration as the "Prince of Darkness."   

At the Talks, Raging Bull Meets Bulldog, Cordially

In a feisty, two-hour free-for-all on national television, eight Republican Presidential contenders tonight challenged each other's conservative credentials on issues ranging from balancing the budget to overhauling the welfare system and cutting taxes.         Rather than concentrate on the front-runner, Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, several candidates turned on each other in some of the sharpest attacks of the campaign season. The budget negotiations in Washington forced a hybrid, and sometimes awkward, format on the program, CNN's "Larry King Live," with contenders split between here and Washington.   

G.O.P. Candidates Spar In Long-Distance Debate

Miron Grindea was a Romanian-British literary journalist and the editor of ADAM International Review, a literary magazine published for more than 50 years. In 1984 ADAM was said to be "the world's longest surviving literary magazine". Its title was an acronym for "Arts, Drama, Architecture and Music".

November 18, 1995

Headlines from November 18, 1995

BATTLE OVER THE BUDGET: TALK RADIO;Talk Radio's Conservatives Enlist in the Budget Battle

Yugoslav Army Reported to Aid Bosnian Serbs Despite Promises

Admiral Has to Quit Over His Comments On Okinawa Rape

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BATTLE OVER THE BUDGET: THE OVERVIEW;HOUSE AND SENATE APPROVE G.O.P.'S 7-YEAR BUDGET PLAN; PRESIDENT PROMISES A VETO

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