Interview with Ian Tyson, singer who gave keynote speech at annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering, which draws close to 10,000 working cowboys and spectators to Elko, a small city in northeast Nevada; photos (L)

Someday Soon Is Now

Union City, NJ, Police Chief Charles Pascale, who was found liable in 1993 for sexually harassing department's first female officer, Nilsa Garcia, to retire May 1 (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)

Police Chief Retiring

Homeless man identified as Joseph Dudek is killed when he lies down on tracks and is run over by New Jersey Transit train in Middletown, NJ (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)

Train Kills Homeless Man

Analysis of threatened pilots' strike at American Airlines; current talks are charged with strong emotions born of long-simmering dispute over issues of respect, trust and pilots' role within carrier, making strike more likely; map; photo (M)

A Risky Test of Wills

European officials, in last-minute bid to avoid breach with United States, ask World Trade Organization to delay for week naming panel to rule on validity of US law that imposes sanctions on non-American firms doing business with Cuba; delay follows week of frenzied and sometimes bitter talks, in which US threatened to envoke 'national security' exemption, move that threatens organization's future; European Union aide Sir Leon Brittan scores

EUROPE POSTPONES CHALLENGE TO U.S. ON HAVANA TRADE

Many Turks fear Prime Min Necmettin Erbakan's Government seeks to undermine secular state as tensions rise between religious and secular Turks; Erbakan has backed away from most militant campaign promises, but is pressing ahead with series of moves that together with outbreaks of fundamentalism frighten secularists; map; photos (L)

Secular Turks Alarmed by Resurgence of Religion

Camden County Park Police Officer Stephen Leoniy 3d is shot and wounded while investigating noise near local high school (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)

Park Officer Wounded

The Population Council, the nonprofit group that holds the rights to sell the French abortion pill in the United States, said it had settled the litigation surrounding control of the drug and had arranged for it to be handled by a new company.    Article, page A28.

Gain for Abortion Pill

Orlando Castro Llanes, influential financier in Venezuela until banking crisis there in 1994 led to run on that country's financial institutions, collapse of his empire and losses of over $15 million to depositors in banks he controlled, is standing trial in Manhattan on charges of bank fraud in Venezuela; some lawyers are criticizing Manhattan Dist Atty Robert M Morgenthau for what they say is bid for global influence that is excessive for local prosecutor; Morgenthau says case is adaptation of existing law that represents how prosecutors will have to respond to modern white-collar crime; Castro's son, Orlando Castro Castro, and his grandson, Jorge Castro Barredo are also charged with scheming to defraud Venezuelans of millions of dollars; photo (M)

Question in New York Trial: How Long Is Arm of the Law?

Senior executives of Bell Atlantic Corp will play dominant role in company resulting from merger with Nynex Corp, despite earlier pledges that $23 billion deal would be merger of equals; two senior vice chairmen, James G Cullen and Lawrence T Babbio, will run company's major lines of business in attempt to capitalize on Bell Atlantic's reputation as better-run telephone company; among top staff jobs, Nynex executives fare better, playing key roles in image making, lobbying and employee relations; intramural jockeying and its implications for telephone customers from Maine through Virginia discussed; photos (M)

Chief Molds Phone Giant In Bell Atlantic's Image

Investment Company Institute reports mutual fund investors poured estimated $24 billion into equity funds in January 1997, fourth-largest total on record; says more than half of amount was invested in money market funds, generally safest type of mutual fund (M)

Investors Put $24 Billion In Equity Funds

Treasury Sec Robert E Rubin and members of Group of Seven industrial nations, in move to stem surge of dollar, may have inadvertently given currency traders reason to push it even higher; their statement affirms view that exchange rates should reflect economic fundamentals; dollar gains on currency markets on February 12 (M)

Continued Rise In the Dollar May Compel Officials to Act

Donald H Forst became editor of Village Voice in Oct; publisher David Schneiderman says he wants to create newsier paper aimed at 32-year-old computer executive with 'vaguely Bohemian drift'; news writers at Voice express hope that Forst will make weekly relevant; feature writers express concern that he is not interested in literary quality; Forst is former editor of New York Newsday; photos (M)

New Editor Changes the Cadence of The Village Voice

New Jersey Gov Christine Todd Whitman, testifying before House transportation subcommittee, says New Jersey is justified in demanding more in Federal highway money than its drivers pay in Federal gasoline taxes (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)

For the Roads Oft-Traveled

Evelyn Nieves Our Towns column discusses Clare and Vincent Sabatini's fight against Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, which is trying to seize their Atlantic City restaurant under eminent domain and hand property over to Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino for its expansion (M)

A Restaurant Fights Trump For Survival

Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani, saying he is embarrassed by widespread wrongdoing and sexual misconduct at New York City-run shelter for abused women, takes responsibility for failings and plans major changes in how shelter is run; city aide says Human Resources Administration knew for years about complaints by residents; residents laud shelter; advocates for battered women say shelter was not notoriously troubled; photos (M)

Embarrassed, Giuliani Promises Changes at a Shelter for Women

 FATAL FIRE -- Three people, apparently homeless, died when a shack caught fire under the boardwalk in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. B3.    WWW.PASTRAMI.COM -- Taking niche marketing to a new level, a Midtown Manhattan cafe plans to transform itself into a Kosher cybercafe. Metro Business, B8.    HIGH SCHOOL VOUCHERS -- A New Jersey town hopes vouchers will help improve the schooling of its high school students. B5.  

INSIDE METRO

House, in devastating defeat for effort to impose term limits on members of Congress, fails to approve proposed constitutional amendment, which gets only 217 ayes, 69 short of needed two-thirds majority and 10 fewer than in 1995; measure would have barred anyone from serving more than 12 years each in House and Senate; gets 211 nays (M)

House Rejects Term Limits, Bringing Drive to a Dead Halt

Thomas Jefferson's collaborator on dozens of furnishings that grace Monticello in Charlottesville, Va, was John Hemings, a slave artisan who managed Monticello's woodwork shop, known as the joiner's shop; photos (L)

Slaves' Contribution To Monticello Style

American Airlines cancels most of its Friday night overseas flights in face of looming pilots strike; Pres Clinton urges airline and pilots' union to use mediation, holding dispute has huge implications for nation; orders his Administration to weigh potential economic dispruptions; photo (M)

Dispute at American Airlines Draws Clinton Plea

America Online's fourth-quarter 1996 loss of $155 million raises new questions among analysts over how costly company's business strategy is proving to be, whether it has cash to execute its plans, and how long it will take for company to show steady profits (M)

America Online's Strategy Raises Eyebrows

 Korean Defection Reported  South Korea said a top North Korean had asked for asylum, in what would amount to a stunning coup, but the North disputed the report. Page A3.    Chat in P, Not in R, D or L  Talking on a cellular phone while driving was found to be as dangerous as being legally drunk. Page A30.

INSIDE

New York Public Service Commission, ending over decade of litigation, orders Nynex Corp to pay $109.6 million to its customers in state--at least $8.70 a customer--for what it calls shoddy service and improper business practices between 1984 and last year; gives Nynex, which is hoping to win regulatory approval by April 1 to merge with Bell Atlantic, 30 days to pay $22.6 million in rebates to customers as compensation for poor service, and 90 days to pay remaining $87 million in rebates that are penalty for unethical practices in 1980's; notes that Nynex's service had improved during last three months of 1996 (M)

Panel Orders Nynex to Give Big Refunds

Larry Chatzidakis discusses his roles as car dealer, Burlington County freeholder, member of Mount Laurel Township Council and New Jersey State Assemblyman (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)

Political Hat Trick

American workers won modest wage gains in 1996 that were largest since 1990, keeping ahead of inflation for only second time in decade; many economists expect gains to continue; hourly wages, in current dollars, are rising at annual rate of 3.8 percent, about 0.5 percent above inflation rate, to average of $11.98; there are no signs that raises are proving inflationary, even in tight labor markets with low unemployment; graphs; photo (L)

In Era of Belt-Tightening, Modest Gains for Workers

Robert Klark Graham was an American eugenicist and businessman who made millions by developing shatterproof plastic eyeglass lenses and who later founded the Repository for Germinal Choice, a sperm bank for geniuses, in the hope of implementing a eugenics program.

Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman (born 1906)

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Mark Aleksandrovich Krasnoselsky or Mark Alexsandrovich Krasnoselskii was a Soviet and Russian mathematician renowned for his work on nonlinear functional analysis and its applications.

February 13, 1997

Headlines from February 13, 1997

Someday Soon Is Now

Police Chief Retiring

Train Kills Homeless Man

A Risky Test of Wills

EUROPE POSTPONES CHALLENGE TO U.S. ON HAVANA TRADE

Billboard 200

Gridlock'd

Tragic Kingdom

Evita

Falling Into You

Secrets

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for February 13, 1997