August 10, 1997

Oldsmobile is marking its 100th anniversary, first American auto company to reach milestone; photos (S)

Use of antidepressant drugs to treat children is soaring; drug companies, seeking marketing boost, are gathering data and running pediatric studies to win specific Food and Drug Administration approval for use in children, although such approval is not needed; Eli Lilly's Prozac, and most of other such drugs, regulate mood by adjusting brain chemical serotonin; graph (L)

Allison Butts, private hotel developer, is building 276-bed student residence on Dowling College's Brookhaven, NY, campus; is supplying financing and will run residence, eventually giving school share of profits; rendering (S)

Stagnant wages are beginning to rise, eating away at foundation of America's mid-1990's economic boom; more than usual, stock market and economy have fed off strength of profits at expense of wages, which along with benefits declined as percentage of national output to their lowest level in more than decade; some economists and business executives attribute economic boom to increased productivity, but others disagree; photos; graphs (M)

First of two articles, Deadly Exports, examining effects of stepped-up US efforts to deport growing numbers of immigrants who have become criminals; under effort mandated by Congress decade ago and strengthened with new financing in past four years, US is shipping back to countries of origin legal and illegal immigrants who have been convicted of broad range of crimes; however, program intended to lower American crime rate, free up prison space and save American taxpayers money, is having far more noticeable and unintended side effects; has resulted in exportation of American gang habits in such countries as El Salvador and around Caribbean, and trapped and marked for deportation small but significant number of people who under other circumstances would be considered good candidates to become law-abiding and productive; has also had boomerang effect, in which many who were deported have returned quickly after forging new connections to crime rings in own lands and compounding their ability to commit new crimes in US; effects of deportations in El Salvador, where American-bred gang violence is on rise discussed; Immigration and Naturalization Service has deported approximately 37,000 criminals in past fiscal year, up from 27,000 in three prior years, and more than 23,000 during first half of 1997, for annual rate of more than 45,000; map; photos (M)