April 16, 1996

Broad counterterrorism legislation moved closer today to becoming law as Republican leaders in Congress predicted final passage of the measure by Friday while senior Administration officials said President Clinton was unlikely to veto it. Friday is the first anniversary of the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

Columbia University students demanding the creation of an ethnic studies department ended a rancorous two-week battle, with the administration pledging last night to hire more minority faculty members and to give students a role in the selections. As the settlement came, three students ended a 15-day hunger strike and about 100 students who had blockaded and occupied a campus building since last Friday agreed to leave quietly.

When a bypass operation last January failed to mend Frank Borino's heart, his doctors arranged for him to get an assisting device installed while he waited for a heart transplant. Mr. Borino, of Jersey City, contended in a lawsuit filed last month that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey agreed to pay for the transplant but reneged. Today, two Assembly Democrats, Loretta Weinberg of Teaneck and William J. Pascrell of Paterson, planned to ask the State Insurance Department to examine whether policies like Mr. Bodino's provide adequate coverage.

There was a time, back in their vigorous and innocent youth, when she would do anything for him, even endure a hunger strike. He would stifle his dreams of science and settle for hammering bookshelves together to be with her. As Yakov and Rita Gluzman grew older, they papered over chasms in their marriage. While they found wealth in America as Soviet emigres, they also found they were more different than they imagined. He could find solace pushing a mower around his lawn. She needed a personal trainer and wondered peevishly why she had to get by in a $530,000 home.

Like many other taxpayers, Governor Whitman and her husband, John, have not finished their tax returns and have filed for an extension. They have estimated their Federal gross adjusted income at $1.3 million, the Governor's office said, and have paid Federal taxes of $225,942 and state taxes of $112,891.