Immigration and Naturalization Service agents raid two houses, Sanford, NC, and finds more than dozen illegal Mexican immigrants, most of them deaf; say 'bosses' held Mexicans in bondage and forced them to sell trinkets; prosecutors probe for link with similar New York City operation; Federal prosecutors arrest Frank Coenen on charges he helped bring illegal immigrants to NYC; he is former husband of Adriana Paoletti Lemus, whose family allegedly organized NYC operation; investigators probe for similar operations in Chicago, other cities; map; photo (M)

Carolina Raid Finds Exploited Deaf Mexicans

Congressional Republicans, breaking impasse in budget talks, tenatively agree to Pres Clinton's demands to restore disability benefits to legal immigrants and continue Medicaid coverage for disabled children who lost Supplemental Security Income under 1996 welfare law; negotiators pare their ranks to most senior participants and reportedly work to resolve specific tax and spending issues; reportedly are making faster progress on spending issues; Clinton expresses optimism on accord (M)

TALKS ON BUDGET YIELD AN ACCORD ON DISABILITY AID

Ben Hogan, top golfer, dies at age 84; photos; table (L)

Ben Hogan, Golf's Iron-Willed Legend, Dies at 84

Richard L Scott, once celebrated as visionary hospital industry reformer, resigns under pressure as Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp chairman and chief executive amid criminal probe of business practices; his top aide, David Vandewater, also resigns; Dr Thomas F Frist Jr, vice chairman, succeeds Scott; changes policies; vows to cooperate with probe and halt selling stakes in hospitals to doctors, interview; says Rainwater Inc head Darla Moore, whose investment helped Scott start Columbia, helped persuade Scott to resign; graphs; map (L)

2 LEADERS ARE OUT AT HEALTH GIANT AS INQUIRY GOES ON

Madeleine M Kunin, United States Ambassador to Switzerland who helped persuade Swiss bankers to publish list of dormant World War II-era bank accounts, is suprised to find late mother's name on list; Kunin, whose German-Jewish family fled Switzerland in 1940 in fear of Nazi invasion, files claim; lauds bankers for publishing list; bankers had long insisted that there were few such accounts and that any surviving heirs would know who they were; photo (M)

New Twist on Swiss Accounts: Envoy Sees Her Mother's Name

 U.S. Warns Bosnian Serbs  Washington says some Bosnian Serb leaders are orchestrating attacks on NATO troops, and vows to retaliate if there are more. Page 5.    A Man Without Trust  The man identified as the focus of the Atlanta bombing investigation says his life has been changed even though he was cleared. Page 6.    Sex Case Accuser Testifies  The woman who first leveled sexual misconduct charges against the top enlisted man in the Army testified at a hearing in the case. Page 9.    Untouchable Is Exalted  Half a century after Gandhi envisioned a caste-free society, a member of Hinduism's lowest caste became India's President. Page 3.  

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Federal jury convicts Autumn Jackson of trying to extort $40 million from Bill Cosby, man she claimed was her father, and related charges; convicts co-defendant Jose Medina on all charges and Boris Sabas on other charges, but acquits him of extortion charge; photo (M)

3 Are Found Guilty Of Trying to Extort Money From Cosby

Federal jury convicts alleged Genovese crime family leader Vincent Gigante of racketeering charges and conspiring in plots to kill other gangland figures; acquits him of ordering three gangland murders and fails to agree on charges he ordered four other murders; prosecutors, who battled for years to show he was mentally competent to stand trial, hail conviction; United States Atty Zachary W Carter sees devastating blow to Genovese family and organized crime; photo (M)

Jurors Find Gigante Guilty Of Racketeering, Not Murder

The Swiss banks' listing of dormant accounts from the Nazi era has opened up wide divisions about where the pursuit should lead. Paul A. Volcker, who is heading an investigation of the accounts, objects to a class action suit in New York, saying it could chill Swiss cooperation. But others on his committee disagree.     Article, page 5.  

A Rift in the Chase

Former Republican National Committee Chmn Richard Richards contradicts testimony of another former chairman, Haley Barbour, and tells Senate panel probing campaign finance abuses that Barbour stressed urgent need for $2.1 million foreign loan guarantee to 'free up' funds for Republican candidates in 1994 campaign to take control of Congress; Barbour denied money was either solicited or used as last-minute campaign boost; Richards helped broker deal with Hong Kong businessman Ambrous T Young; photo

Former Leaders Of G.O.P. Vary On Donations

Correction of July 24 article on selection of new co-anchor for Good Morning America television program

Corrections

Correction of picture caption with July 25 article on documents indicating Pres Alberto Fujimori is ineligible for office in Peru

Correction of July 26 summary of Millennium Partners' development proposal for New York Coliseum site

Correction of July 25 profile of Tenet Healthcare

''That the nation has found a consensus for its highest office in someone who has sprung from the grass-roots of our society and grown up in the dust and heat of this sacred land is symbolic of the fact that the concerns of the common man have now moved to the center stage of our social and political life.''    K. R. NARAYANAN, India's first President from the lowest caste, the untouchables.   $(3$)  

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 INTERNATIONAL   2-5    U.S. Ambassador Is an Heir Right Under Swiss Eyes  Madeleine Kunin, the Swiss-born American ambassador to Switzerland, was surprised to discover her mother's name on the list of dormant accounts she herself had cajoled Swiss bankers to publish.   1    A complex set of schisms has developed between parties interested in the list of dormant World War II-era accounts published by Swiss banks. Paul Volcker, head of an independent investigative commission, warned that a class action suit that claims the assets of Holocaust victims are languishing in Swiss bank vaults could impede his team's progress and snuff out vital Swiss collaboration.   5    U.S. Sees Bosnian Serb Scheme  Attacks on NATO troops are being orchestrated by some Bosnian Serb leaders, senior officials have concluded. The United States and NATO vowed to be resolute if ''even one more such action'' occurred. An American soldier's car was firebombed in Vlasenica, a village in the Serb-controlled part of Bosnia. No one was injured.   5    Untouchable to Lead India  K.R. Narayanan became India's first ''untouchable'' President. He told Parliament and the nation that his election to the post symbolized the long-awaited arrival of an era when ''the concerns of the common man'' had taken precedence in the nation's affairs.   3    New Use for Cambodian Guns  Heavily armed troops were deployed around Phnom Penh, briefed to prevent high school students from cheating on their final exams. Photocopy shops were also guarded. Teachers in Cambodia are paid around $20 a month and bribery is widespread. The Government's crackdown follows its coup weeks ago.   4    Housing Angers East Jerusalem  The decision by the city government of Jerusalem to allow an American Jewish financier to build Jewish housing in an Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem caught Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu off guard. He vowed to block the plan, which enraged Palestinians.   2    Albright Attends Asean Talks  Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright arrived in Malaysia for meetings with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on how Hun Sen might be persuaded to hold legitimate elections after the coup in Cambodia. Washington has suspended its aid to Cambodia for 30 days.   4    Strike Talks Resume in Israel  Israel's skies were quiet as flights were stopped and telephone communications were often cut by workers striking against plans to privatize Bezek, the country's telephone monopoly. After Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the leaders of the Histadrut labor federation ''Bolshevik dinosaurs'' and they accused him of acting like a ''Bolshevik regime,'' the strike was called off and negotiations resumed.   3    NATIONAL   6-9    Ex-G.O.P. Chairmen Offer Differing Accounts of Loan  One former Republican National chairman contradicted another as Richard Richards told the Senate campaign finance inquiry that Haley Barbour had stressed an urgent need for a $2.1-million foreign loan guarantee to ''free up'' funds for Republican candidates in their 1994 campaign to take control of Congress.   1     Congress Adds Disability Aid  Congressional Republicans bowed to President Clinton's demands and tentatively agreed to restore disability benefits to more than half a million legal immigrants, as budget negotiators broke a week-long impasse. Republicans also agreed to extend Medicaid coverage to tens of thousands of children who will lose their disability benefits under the welfare law that President Clinton signed last August.   1     Caretaker Seeks Reward  The caretaker who stumbled on the hideout of Andrew P. Cunanan has filed a lawsuit in Dade County Circuit Court to claim a total of $65,000 in reward money that had been offered for the apprehension of Mr. Cunanan. Mr. Cunanan, who had been sought in the murder of five men, including the fashion designer, Gianni Versace, fatally shot himself on a houseboat in Miami Beach after the police were called by the caretaker.   6    Notoriety Follows Ex-Suspect  It has been almost a year since Richard A. Jewell was first identified by The Atlanta Journal as the focus of the Federal investigation into the July 27 bombing at Centennial Olympic Park. It has been almost nine months since the Justice Department cleared him of any involvement in the deadly attack. And yet, Mr. Jewell, 34, lives with his unwanted notoriety every day and his bitterness remains strikingly raw.   6    An internal Justice Department investigation into the bombing in Atlanta has concluded that a F.B.I. interview of Mr. Jewell was seriously flawed and resulted from a breakdown of communications within the law enforcement agency, Government officials said.   6    G.M. and Union Reach Accord  General Motors and the United Automobile Workers reached a tentative pact to end a strike at a transmission factory that had forced the company to idle six other plants.   7    Chrysler Seats Scrutinized  The Chrysler Corporation sent instructional videos last week to about 135,000 customers after receiving complaints that child seats built into its mini-vans malfunctioned. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating the matter. No injuries or deaths have been attributed to the seats, Chrysler and the Federal safety agency said.   7     Senate Backs Treaty Change  The Senate unanimously urged the Clinton Administration not to pursue a treaty that would limit the industrial world's emissions of greenhouse gases unless the agreement requires developing countries to control their rapidly growing emissions at the same time.   8     NEW YORK/REGION   23-27    Jury Finds Gigante Guilty On Racketeering Charges  Vincent Gigante, the enigmatic figure known for wearing a bathrobe and pajamas in public, was convicted of being a powerful Mafia kingpin who conspired in plots to kill other gangland figures and who ran lucrative rackets in New York. At the same time, though, the jury in Federal District Court in Brooklyn acquitted him of ordering three gangland killings and could not agree on charges that he ordered four other murders.   1     Law enforcement officials said Mr. Gigante's racketeering conviction was unlikely to immediately weaken the Genovese crime family's powerful underworld position, since his active role as boss of the gang was reduced in recent years by intense law-enforcement pressure and a heart ailment.   25     Conviction in Cosby Trial  A Federal jury in Manhattan convicted Autumn Jackson of trying to extort $40 million from Bill Cosby, the man she claimed was her father. When she is sentenced on Oct. 22, she could receive a prison term of up to 12 years for her convictions on extortion and two other charges, conspiracy and traveling across state lines to commit the offenses. Her attorney said he planned to appeal the verdict and that Ms. Jackson is also considering a paternity suit against the actor.   1     Forced Labor Inquiry Expands  Federal agents raided two houses in a small North Carolina city and found more than a dozen illegal Mexican immigrants, most of them deaf, who officials believe were coerced into peddling trinkets at local shopping centers and giving most of the proceeds to ''bosses'' who oversaw the operation. The United States Attorney in Greensboro, N.C., said prosecutors were exploring whether the operation in Sanford was linked to the people charged last week in New York City with holding dozens of deaf Mexican peddlers in virtual slavery.   1    Crime Falls in New Jersey  Overall violent crime dropped 11 percent across New Jersey last year. The decline was far greater than the 7 percent decrease in violent crimes across the nation.   23     BUSINESS DAY   33-47     Columbia Chairman Resigns  The top executive of the world's largest health care company, the Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation, resigned amid a growing criminal investigation of the company's business practices. Richard L. Scott, a man once celebrated as a visionary reformer of the American hospital industry, stepped down as chairman and chief executive, as did his handpicked lieutenant, David Vandewater.   1     Business Digest   33    SPORTS   28-32     ARTS   11-22     OBITUARIES   9-10     Ben Hogan  The golfer, who won nine major championships from 1946 to 1953, was 84.   1     EDITORIAL   20-21    Editorials: Bambi the pest; resuscitating the Mideast peace talks; Mr. Murdoch's payoff; Gail Collins on tired politicians.    Column: Maureen Dowd.     Bridge   19    Crossword   16    Weather   18  

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Palestinians respond angrily to Jerusalem city government's decision to let Dr Irving I Moskowitz, American Jewish supporter of far-right causes, build apartment house for Jews on land he owns in Arab neighborhood; Prime Min Benjamin Netanyahu, surprised by announcement, informs Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat he will block plan; map (M)

Plan for Apartment House in East Jerusalem Angers Arabs

Correction of July 25 article on new Microsoft Corp strategy

Israeli Prime Min Benjamin Netanyahu apparently wins first round of battle with powerful public-workers unions over plan to sell 12.5 percent stake in Bezek, Government-owned telephone monopoly, to Merrill Lynch; weathers several days of disrupted phone services and one-day general strike; battle is seen as preliminary skirmish over his plan to privatize Government-owned companies and eliminate state monopolies (M)

In Fight Over Privatization, Netanyahu Wins a Round

K R Narayanan, member of Hinduism's untouchable caste, is inaugurated President of India; post is ceremonial, but could give him key role in era of unstable coalition governments; photo (M)

Lowest-Caste Hindu Takes Office as India's President

Lawyer for Pres Alberto K Fujimori disputes allegations by opposition politicians that Fujimori was not born in Peru and thus is not qualified under Constitution to serve in office; contends that Fujimori is '100 percent Peruvian' and produces copy of of Fujimori's birth certificate (S)

Fujimori Is Called '100 Percent Peruvian'

US State Sec Madeleine K Albright arrives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for meetings with Southeast Asian nations that will help decide if Hun Sen's coup in Cambodia will succeed; she arrives with delicate diplomatic problem: without offending members of Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean, she is urging them to put some backbone into their dealings with Hun Sen (M)

U.S. Seeks Asian Help to Push For Compromise in Cambodia

Cambodian authorities move to crack down on high school students seeking to cheat on final examinations; soldiers and police set up checkpoints, block off streets around five Phnom Penh schools and chase down and arrest youngsters who try to dash past them with crib sheets; photo (M)

Armed and Ready for a War on Cheating Students

Rev Brendan Smyth is sentenced in Dublin, Ireland, to 12 years in prison after his conviction in 74 instances of sexual abuse of 20 young people over 36 years; case scandalized overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country; Smyth, 71, finished serving four years in prison in Northern Ireland four months ago for similar offenses; photo (M)

Irish Priest Gets 12-Year Term For Sexual Abuse of Children

One day after Swiss banks release list of dormant accounts from Nazi era, an array of divisions develops among potential claimants and investigators over how to keep pressing search for assets belonging to Holocaust victims; first open rift is touched off by Paul A Volcker, head of independent investigative commission set up by major Jewish organizations; Volcker, in nine-page letter filed with Federal court in Brooklyn, objects to efforts of lawyers who are pursuing class-action suit in New York on behalf of many Jews who maintain that looted and other assets belonging to Holocaust victims are still languishing in Swiss bank vaults; Volcker contends that he is afraid that Swiss bankers and confidential sources might stop cooperating with his commission's inquiry into dormant accounts if lawsuit results in American legal orders to disclose documents and sources (M)

July 26, 1997

Headlines from July 26, 1997

Carolina Raid Finds Exploited Deaf Mexicans

TALKS ON BUDGET YIELD AN ACCORD ON DISABILITY AID

Ben Hogan, Golf's Iron-Willed Legend, Dies at 84

2 LEADERS ARE OUT AT HEALTH GIANT AS INQUIRY GOES ON

New Twist on Swiss Accounts: Envoy Sees Her Mother's Name

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Men In Black--The Album

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The Fat Of The Land

Middle Of Nowhere

God's Property

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