August 11, 1996

PGA Championship golf tourament continues, Louisville, Ky; photo (M)

The Republican Party wants tight control over the proceedings at its convention in San Diego, and two prominent Governors have declined to speak at the event rather than accede to conditions for their appearances. The Governors, Pete Wilson of California and William F. Weld of Massachusetts, had been at the forefront of an unsuccessful effort to force the party to moderate the anti-abortion stances in its platform, and aides to the men said they believed convention organizers set out to silence them.

The New York City on-line world is exploding with phenomenal growth in number of sites on the Internet; this year, New York surpassed San Francisco as the fastest-growing city on the Internet, measured by the number of new commercial domains; several sites described; chart; photos (M)

MAKING IT WORK 3 The stoop sale, an urban yard sale, is a distinctly Brooklyn tradition that thrives on the borough's brownstone byways. NEW YORKERS & CO. 4 Finger sandwiches? Not from Steven Fuentes, ethnic caterer. Try the habichuelas rosadas. MOVIE CLOCK 7 What's showing at the local movie houses, today through Thursday. PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD 10 Celebrating the Hudson River with the River Project; free jazz in Norwood; gymnastics in Washington Heights; an educational park in Red Hook. GOOD EATING 10 Exploring Queens; savory soup dumplings at Joe's Shanghai; southern Italian specialties at Park Side. LETTERS 11

Article by Mary Rose Paster, a Long Island psychologist, on her work with a Red Cross team assisting families of passengers aboard the TWA airplane that crashed into the Atlantic shortly after takeoff from Kennedy International Airport; photo (M)