October 9, 1996

The tropical storm that soaked the New York region yesterday will bring an extra day of afternoon baseball to Yankee Stadium. Game 1 of the American League Championship Series between the Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles was postponed last night, and will be played this afternoon at 4:07, with only the possibility of a shower. Game 2 will be played tomorrow afternoon, originally a travel day, at 3:07. Game 1 tickets will be honored today, Game 2 tickets tomorrow. The four-of-seven-game series moves to Baltimore on Friday.

At Lunch interview at London hotel with Frederick Forsyth, 58-year-old author of eleven best-selling books about spying and global mayhem; photo; Forsyth's latest novel, Icon, is set in a Russia disintegrating in 1999 (M)

New York State has lost estimated $1 million per day since beginning of October because of failure to file plan showing how it intends to comply with new Federal welfare law; while half of 50 states have submitted plans to Federal Department of Health and Human Services, overhaul of state's welfare system, one of country's largest, remains mired in political disputes between Republicans and Democrats; Gov George E Pataki says he doubts accord can be reached before January 1997, which could result in loss of at least $90 million (M)

Volatile and divisive social issues that Republicans strategists and candidates once thought would bring down Pres Clinton have essentially vanished from Bob Dole's campaign as he enters final weeks of contest; Dole's inability to turn issues to his advantage is comment on Clinton's success in defusing them by embracing them, with welfare being the most obvious example, and it suggests how much Dole's House colleagues undercut his electoral strategy by compromising with Clinton on major matters (M)

Biker Robert Simon, against advice of his lawyers, persuades judge to allow him to plead guilty to murdering Gloucester County Police Sgt Ippolito Gonzalez (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)