August 21, 1996

New Jersey officials say they have smashed organized-crime ring that siphoned money from group health care programs serving million patients (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)

Ingrid Marchlowitz, encouraged by her sister's successful heart transplant in May, undergoes heart transplant in Philadelphia (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)

Nancy Harmon Jenkins describes food and cooking of Tuscany in summertime, noting that Tuscan farm families labor to grow, harvest and preserve fruits of field and gardens, orchards and vineyards in ways not too different from those of their forebears; photos (L)

Many of the coach seats in a section of T.W.A. Flight 800 are still missing, strongly suggesting to investigators that an explosion on board took place in that part of the passenger cabin. Salvage workers have recovered seats from every area of the cabin but from rows 17 to 28 on the right side of the airplane.

City workers begin interviewing homeless women at crowded housing center in South Bronx for new workfare program; Giuliani administration abruptly halts interviews, yielding to State Supreme Court Justice Helen E Freedman's order barring enrollment effort at center because of chaotic conditions there; city's actions at center come on second day of tense contest of wills between Freedman and Giuliani, who has accused judge of overstepping her power by trying to set city's policy toward homeless; photo (M)