New York Rangers defeat New Jersey Devils, 2-0, in second game of NHL playoff series; series is tied, 1-1; photo (M)

Scrapping Start to Finish, Richter and the Rangers Get Even

Metro Matters column discusses long-time campaign by former Assemblyman and New York City Council member Andrew J Stein against proposed deregulation of rent control laws (M)

A Name From the Past On Rent Fights

Several states enact legislation outlawing controversial late-term, partial-birth abortion, even as ban faces veto in Senate following passage in House; 11 states have enacted bans, out of 40 that have taken up matter, demonstrating power of issue for anti-abortion movement; procedure is believed to account for less than 1 percent of estimated 1.5 million abortions performed annually; veto of legislation in 1996 by Pres Clinton, on ground that it did not make exception to protect woman's health, noted (M)

States Outlaw Late Abortions As a Federal Ban Faces a Veto

Democratic voters will be able to get closer look at all three of party's candidates for governor at their first televised debate on May 7; State Senator James E McGreevey, Rep Robert A Andrews and W Michael Murphy will attend debate (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)

TV Debate on Wednesday

Murder trial of Jesse K Timmendequas to begin May 5 in Mercer County Courthouse in Trenton (NJ); Timmendequas is accused of killing and raping 7-year-old Megan Kanka in 1994; photo (M)

'Megan' Trial Is Set to Begin Amid Scrutiny

Movie industry is in midst of frenzied period before release of summer blockbusters, when armies of workers perform post-production technical tasks of editing, scoring, sound mixing and digital effects; laborious post-production process has traditionally taken 20 weeks or longer; in recent years, incentive to crunch post-production schedules has increased as major studios compete furiously to release their films first; studios also need to recoup high costs of production as quickly as possible; this has led to 80-hour weeks for post-production workers; petitions to limit days to 14 hours have been signed by many post-production workers, but that campaign is controversial in industry where most workers are freelancers who welcome chance to earn overtime; photos (M)

Turning Rough Takes Into Summer's Big Hits

Broadcast industry has great power in Washington because it spends millions in campaign donations and on high-powered lobbyists and because its television stations determine how politicians are portrayed to their voters back home; in latest example of industry's influence, Government lent industry, free of charge, new space on public airwaves worth $7 billion to $15 billion, while other industries must buy air space at auction; critics are particularly upset that after this act of 'corporate welfare,' broadcast industry is resisting Pres Clinton's efforts to provide free 'public interest' television air time for political candidates; Edward O Fritts, president of National Assn of Broadcasters, has decried notion of federally required free air time for candidates as 'unconstitutional' and claimed that his industry is already faced with burdensome regulations (M)

Broadcast Lobby Excels at the Washington Power Game

Residents of communities of Wood-Ridge and Hasbrouck Heights may take unusual step of authorizing two school boards to merge (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)

Schools Merger Possible

FBI Director Louis J Freeh rules out terror as cause of crash of Trans World Airlines Boeing 747 over Long Island, NY, in July 1996, stating, during NBC-TV interview, that evidence points to catastrophic mechanical failure; stops just short of ruling out sabotage; says there is need to draw criminal inquiry to close; comments are strongest yet that agency is moving toward abandoning search for clues to disaster (M)

F.B.I. Discounts Terror Theories In T.W.A. Blast

Zairian Pres Mobutu Sese Seko and rebel leader Laurent Kabila meet aboard South African warship in Congolese port of Pointe-Noire but fail to agree on terms of cease-fire for ending civil war; Mobutu says he will relinquish power as demanded by rebels, but only to transitional authority that would organize national elections; Kabila insists that power be handed over to him directly; vows to press ahead with military campaign; South African Pres Nelson Mandela, who brokered meeting, says both sides agreed to meet in six to eight days to resume discussions; stage appears set for rebel military takeover before second meeting can convene; photo; map (M)

ZAIRIAN FOES MEET BUT FAIL TO AGREE ON END TO CRISIS

New York City landlords and developers, in five years leading up to current battle on rent controls, mounted quiet concealed effort to build their influence in state government through large increase in campaign contributions, with one of stated aims being to do away with rent laws; campaign has made real estate interests, always important figures in state politics, among biggest contributors to State Republican Party and Republican candidates for state office, including lawmakers leading bid to abolish most rent regulation; effort, illustrated by pattern of political contributions from property owners and their political action committees, discussed; chart (L)

Landlords Quietly Increased Donations to Fight Rent Law

Article discusses plight of Polish immigrants Jan Kamieniec, Kazimierz Cielas, Januz Kosmowskiand Frank Glowacki, who perished in fire in home in Maspeth, Queens, two weeks ago; photo (M)

Plight of Four Polish Immigrants Comes to Light After a Fatal Fire

Paralyzed Since Fall In 1962, Man Is Still Seeking Benefits** Article describes legal saga of 62-year-old former utility lineman Bob Manning, who has been unsuccessful in efforts to collect workers' compensation benefits since falling from utility pole in 1962 and becoming quadriplegic; even though he has won awards, largest being $1.2 million, they have been tied up in litigation ever since, making case probably longest unresolved workers' compensation issue on record; Utilities Mutual Insurance Company, insurer for Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, Manning's former employer, says it has no obligation to pay anything until appeals are exhausted; at heart of case is whether company can be forced to pay for round-the-clock nursing care Manning receives from wife, who is registered nurse; photo (M)

Paralyzed Since Fall in 1962, Man Is Still Seeking Benefits

An independent consultant has found that a location in the Indonesian jungle said to have been the site of the gold strike of the century appeared to contain no gold worth mining.  

Scam Is Up as Study Finds No Gold Mine

Constance A DeJoseph, former nurse at Hackensack University Medical Center, is suing hospital, saying she was fired for refusing to help perform abortions (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)

Ex-Nurse Sues Over Abortions

New Jersey Community Forestry Council, in effort to fight trend in which nearly a third of New Jersey's 167 municipal shade-tree commissions-- volunteer groups that oversee the planting and maintenance of trees along sidewalks and in parks--have disbanded during 1990's because of fears of lawsuits, is starting to draw up standards that shade-tree commissions may use to review towns' shade-tree plans and to train commission members (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)

Defending Tree Commissions

Pope John Paul II beatifies Ceferino Jimenez Malla, illiterate Spanish horse-trader, who was executed by firing squad during Spanish Civil War, making him first Gypsy ever beatified by Church; beatifies four others, including Marian Encarnacion Rosal, 19th-century Guatemalan nun, Revs Enrico Rebuschini and Gaetano Catanose, Italian priests, and Florentino Asensio Barroso, Italian Bishop; photos (M)

Spanish Martyr Is First Gypsy Beatified by Catholic Church

Murders of pizza deliverymen Jeremy Giordano and Giorgio Gallara in Sussex County last month have spurred new bills by Federal and state lawmakers concerning firearms and death penalty (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)

Killings Bring 2 Bills

 BIKE TOUR ACCIDENT A bike rider was left brain dead after an accident at the annual Bike New York ride. B3.    SEEKING MESSINGER'S JOB Deborah J. Glick, an Assemblywoman from Greenwich Village, formally entered the race for Manhattan borough president. B3.

INSIDE METRO

Compaq Computer Corp will overhaul way it makes and distributes its personal computers in a campaign that could mean lower prices and shakeout of weaker competitors; intends to begin building made-to-order PC's and is even exploring buying direct-sales PC maker like Gateway 2000 Inc or Micron Electronics Inc to improve its efficiency further; hopes to slow momentum of smaller but faster-growing PC makers that enjoy cost advantage because they ship directly to customers while Compaq sells through dealers, with attendant price mark-ups; Compaq's moves are risky because they will threaten company's relations with tens of thousands of large and small dealers around world that distribute its computers and were largely responsible for helping it overtake IBM in 1994 to become world's No. 1 PC vendor (M)

Compaq Plans A Big Change In Its PC Sales

Miami Heat defeat Orlando Magic, 91-83, to win NBA playoff series, 3-2; photo (M)

The Other Hardaway Insures a Heat-Knicks Series

Car driven by Walter Harris, who had his 8-year-old son with him, hits two police cars and police officer in Newark; Harris is charged with assault (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)

Son a Passenger in Crashes

IBM computer Deep Blue, in major surprise, draws even in its chess match against world champion Garry Kasparov, winning second of their six games; series is tied 1-1; reaction among chess experts to computer's victory discussed; photo (M)

Computer Defeats Kasparov, Stunning the Chess Experts

Broadcast television networks are aiming for digital high-definition programs, while nation's cable operators are willing to forgo picture clarity to offer customers more channels; cable companies want to use digital compression to make themselves more competitive, quantitatively rather than qualitatively; are stung by competition from direct-broadcast satellite companies that are stealing millions of customers by offering nearly four times the channels; broadcast television executives think high-definition will give them competitive advantage over rivals in cable industry; television manufacturers worry that cable industry's plans may undercut their drive to sell expensive, new high-definition sets next year; photo (M)

As Digital TV Arrives, Cable's Picture May Not Be So Clear

 Test of Bre-X Gold Site Finds Nothing to Mine  An independent consulting company has found no sign that there is gold worth mining at the Indonesian site discovered by Bre-X Minerals of Canada, which had contended that it had found the gold strike of the century.  

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May 5, 1997

Headlines from May 5, 1997

Scrapping Start to Finish, Richter and the Rangers Get Even

A Name From the Past On Rent Fights

States Outlaw Late Abortions As a Federal Ban Faces a Veto

TV Debate on Wednesday

'Megan' Trial Is Set to Begin Amid Scrutiny

Billboard 200

Life After Death

Spice

Space Jam

Bringing Down The Horse

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Historical Context for May 5, 1997