December 1, 1995

About 1,600 jobs in New Jersey and an additional 400 in Philadelphia will be eliminated when PNC Bank Corporation acquires Midlantic Corporation, based in Edison. PNC, which is based in Pittsburgh, also said yesterday that it would close about 85 branches in 1996.

Pledging more severe punishment for investment brokers who defraud customers, the Federal Government announced indictments today against 11 brokers who prosecutors said stole amounts, large and small, in 10 states.

Tuzla's muddy roads are rutted by sinkholes. Its three movie theaters lie empty and abandoned. Its two seedy nightclubs close with a 10 P.M. curfew. Cheeseburgers are nonexistent. But this remote Bosnian city, its skyline shrouded in a haze of noxious coal smoke and its phone system barely able to click and wheeze from one neighborhood to another, is expected to be the temporary home of some 20,000 American soldiers.

President Clinton ranged across a remarkably transformed Northern Ireland today, promising the once bitterly hostile Catholic and Protestant communities that if they persevered in their search for peace, "the United States of America will proudly stand with you." Tens of thousands turned out to cheer Mr. Clinton, the first American President to visit Ulster, where 13 American presidents, from Andrew Jackson to Mr. Clinton himself, can trace their roots.

Roughly five years ago, several unbalanced budgets forced Columbia University to bite into its endowment and close a few departments. Today, the university seems to have worked its way out of the troubles. Columbia is to announce today that it has surpassed its five-year goal of raising $1.15 billion. The donations are to be put to a multitude of uses, though almost half will go toward operating the university. Article, page B1.