September 6, 1997

Princess Diana and photographers who pursued her were bound together in dance of attraction and repulsion throughout summer that reached deadly limit of contradictions on last day of her life, special report, Collision Course; chronology of events leading up to fatal nighttime accident in Paris highway tunnel; photos; diagram; map (L)

Atty Gen Janet Reno and inner circle at Justice Department have reportedly changed attitude and are seriously weighing whether to refer inquiry into camapign fund-raising abuses to independent prosecutor; change follows news that some of money raised by Vice Pres Al Gore in telephone calls from White House were improperly funneled directly into Pres Clinton's re-election campaign in 1996, instead of to legal party-building activities; Gore, in television interview, says what he did was legal and appropriate; says he is cooperating fully with review; says campaign-finance reform is badly needed; claims he has been advocate of reform for more than 20 years; photo (M)

11 Israeli naval commandos are ambushed and killed in raid into Lebanon; 12th is missing and presumed dead; disaster follows terrorist bombings in Jerusalem on September 4, in which four Israelis died; thousands hold demonstration at site of bombing; Prime Min Benjamin Netanyahu condemns attacks; says nation will prevail against terrorists, whose only intention is to destroy state of Israel and its people; coincidence of latest blows contributes to restiveness of many Israelis over deterioration in relations with Arab countries, four years after peace talks with Palestinians began; losses in Lebanon are certain to revive debate over continued presence of Israeli soldiers there; recent losses bring to 864 number of Israeli soldiers killed since Israel set up buffer zone nine miles deep along border in southern Lebanon in 1982; map (M)

New Central Park Caretaker Mayor Giuliani has decided to turn over official responsibility for maintaining Central Park to a private organization. Page 25.

Mother Teresa, Roman Catholic nun who won 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for work among poorest of world's poor, dies of cardiac arrest at age 87 in Calcutta, India, where she lived since her work with destitute began five decades ago; had been in failing health for past year; ethnic Albanian, founder of Order of the Missionaries of Charity, was revered in India, where she worked for 68 years and became citizen; was honored internationally for compassionate, effective way she set up and oversaw projects to provide care and comfort to very poor and sick; she was born Agnes Bojaxhiu in August 1910 to Albanian parents in Skopje, capital of Macedonia; highlights of her life, especially work in slums of Calcutta, discussed; photos (L)