June 5, 1996

When Senior Campus Living, a Baltimore developer, presented plans in December for a 2,000-unit retirement community on the site of the former American Cyanamid plant, the Township Council rejected the project as too big, Council President James Russo said yesterday. Now Senior Campus is back with a scaled-down version that includes 1,000 apartments, and tonight it is asking the Council for preliminary approval of a zoning change needed before the project can be built. The project would create 300 construction jobs and 500 permanent positions, said Mel Tansill, a company spokesman.

To make way for a 25-screen movie complex, the latest addition to an updated Times Square, a developer plans to pick up a 42d Street burlesque house and move it 70 feet down the street. The plan, which would move the facade and interior of the 93-year-old Empire Theater, on the south side of 42d Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues, was outlined yesterday by government officials and business executives just as AMC Entertainment Inc., one of the nation's largest movie theater chains, was completing its plan to operate the new 42d Street complex.

The standings of President Clinton and Senator Bob Dole remain relatively unchanged from polls of two months ago, despite events that could have roiled the Presidential race, including the convictions of Mr. Clinton's former business partners and Mr. Dole's resignation from the Senate, the latest New York Times/ CBS News Poll shows. The survey also found that economic concerns had receded somewhat as an issue and that crime had become the most important problem for voters, even though Federal statistics show dramatic drops in many big cities' crime rates.

A Japanese naval destroyer has accidentally shot down an American bomber during joint military exercises in the central Pacific, forcing the two American crew members to bail out seconds before the bomber plunged into the ocean. Neither was reported to have been seriously injured. The American bomber, an A-6E Intruder, was fired upon as it towed a gunnery target -- the target in the exercise -- near the Japanese destroyer. The incident occurred on Monday evening about 1,600 miles west of Hawaii. The crew members who ejected were rescued by the Japanese vessel, the Yuugiri.

U.S. Investigates Citibank Role in Mexican Deals Through an elaborate series of transfers involving Citibank, Raul Salinas de Gortari, brother of the then-President of Mexico, whisked more than $80 million out of Mexico in 1993 and into Switzerland.