Couples comment on handling ethical or economic conflicts of interest that arise from their work for competing firms or from careers that overlap in key areas; photos; cartoon (L)

Keeping the Shop Talk Out of the Pillow Talk

Article on compulsive shoplifters interviews several, including Joseph Rosen of NYC; security experts describe different types of shoplifters; photos (L)

Shoplifting: The Life Style; When Having Enough Is Not Enough. Why People With Money Raid the Aisles

Article on preview of 1997 National Hockey League season focuses on influence of the team captain, on the ice and off; holds teams usually name veteran players, but some are choosing young stars; table; photos (L)

HOCKEY -- Wearing Hockey's Badge of Leadership; Captain's 'C' Carries Much Influence, on the Ice and Off

New York Congressional seat for Staten Island and southwestern Brooklyn, held by member of Republican Molinari family for almost two decades, is all-out Democratic target this year, following resignation of Susan Molinari; strategy offers preview of 1998, with organized labor plunging in headfirst to help Assemblyman Eric N Vitaliano; Republicans also mount major effort on behalf of their candidate, Councilman Vito J Fossella Jr; photos (M)

In Race to Fill Molinari's Seat, A National Test

Europe takes commanding 9-4 lead over US in Ryder Cup tournament, Sotogrande, Spain; photos (L)

After Deluge, Europeans Pull Away In Ryder Cup

People of former Zaire who welcomed Laurent Kabila's coup four months ago are disillusioned, as foreign-dominated security forces repeatedly crack down on protesters and new Government offers little sense of direction after 31 years of ruinous dictatorship; Kabila, who led obscure guerrilla movement for three decades, is experiencing jarring apprenticeship in rigors of managing large, complex country; photo; map; rebellions smolder in east, tensions persist between neighborhoring countries that helped Kabila, Government has little money to pay soldiers or civil servants and international lenders are demanding accounting of suspected massacre of tens of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees; Government especially lacks disciplined force to create order (M)

Hope for Congo's Revolution Dissolves Over Old Tensions

Huge Wall Street mergers reawaken memories of failed financial services mergers of early 1980s; merger mavens hold financial services firms must buy added heft needed to play in booming world markets and are financing deals with stock, not debt (M)9

Outbreak Of Fever Brings Chills

Day-by-day account of Treasury Sec Robert E Rubin's 10 day-trip to Asia; he wrestled with Southeast Asia's currency crisis at meetings of Group of Seven finance ministers and at annual meeting of International Monetary Fund and World Bank, Hong Kong; he then traveled to China's interior to assess nation's confusing, often contrary brew of economic changes; map; photos (L)

Mr. Rubin's Long March to China

Fox Butterfield article notes that crime rates around nation have dropped for five straight years, but number of prison inmates has risen because of tougher sentencing laws; graphs; photos (M)

Punitive Damages; Crime Keeps On Falling, but Prisons Keep On Filling

 F.Y.I.   2    MAKING IT WORK   3  At the gun clubs of Queens, a mood of defeat.

ALSO INSIDE

Republican Congressional leaders begin concerted drive for radical revision of US tax code, as party begins intense internal debate over fiscal agenda to follow balanced-budget agreement; Speaker Newt Gingrich says citizens are moving beyond merely cutting taxes; Repr Dick Armey, who proposes flat tax, and Repr W J Tauzin, who favors national retail sales tax, plan 'Scrap the Code' tour of several cities (M)

LEADERS OF G.O.P. SEEK TO OVERHAUL FEDERAL TAX CODE

More than $300 million is being spent on construction and renovation of public and private libraries across New York City; library executives who formerly fought constant battles for subsistence-level funding now say they can count on steady support from elected officials; they are also benefiting from improved economy; photos; map (M)

For Libraries, a Time of Rebirth

Jon Pareles profile of Bob Dylan, who is now 56 years old; Dylan has new album out, Time Out of Mind, and Pareles contends it is far and away his best sustained work since mid-1970's; photos; drawing (L)

A Wiser Voice Blowin' In the Autumn Wind

Experts say road rage, incidents of motorists behaving in overtly hostile manner, is at epidemic levels on America's highways; say it should be certified as official mental disorder in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; DSM is put out by American Psychiatric Association and used by psychiatrists and other therapists to identify set of behaviors as mental illness; photo (M)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; You're Not Bad, You're Sick. It's in the Book.

First of two articles, The Testing Empire, on Educational Testing Service, nation's largest academic testing organization, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary; organization, which expresses zero tolerance for cheating, has recently come under criticism for turning blind eye to problems and of failing to take aggressive steps in time to insure integrity of its tests; critics accuse it of being all too eager to sweep its dirt under rug to protect its lion's share of testing business instead of spending money to tighten security; in many cases, company's insular culture dictates that lapses of testing security remain hidden behind curtain of customer privacy and test confidentiality; photos; graph (L)

Giant of Exam Business Keeps Quiet on Cheating

Ford Motor Co's Mercury Grand Marquis, large rear-wheel drive sedan, remains popular among purists, despite widespread acceptance of front-wheel drive; many prefer it for its weight distribution and superb handling in high-speed turns; photos (M)

BEHIND THE WHEEL/Mercury Grand Marquis; Rear Drive but Refusing to Retire: A Case of Modern Maturity

INSIDE

Major league baseball umpires, unhappy that baseball has not adopted code of conducts, are saying they will have no tolerance for abusive conduct in this year's playoffs; photos (L)

Who Runs This Game? Baseball Squabbles Into the Playoffs

Jack Telnack, Ford Motor Co's vice president for global design since 1987 and designer at company for nearly 40 years, will retire at end of 1997; will be succeeded by J C Mays; photo (M)

New Designer to Take a Seat at Ford's Drawing Board

Robert Lipsyte column (Coping) on changes in medical care as result of rise of managed-care industry; offers reaction of his former soon-to-be former primary care physician; drawing (M)

A Plaintive Note Heard in a Heartbeat

Technology is changing the worlds of politics, business, and entertainment. A special issue of The Magazine asks, what is it doing to us?  

Special Today: What Technology Is Doing to Us

Black historian John Hope Franklin discussess daunting task of addressing vexing racial problems, as chairman of Pres Clinton's Initiative on Race and Reconciliation; 82-year-old professor emeritus at Duke University expresses hope that panel will turn corner 'once and for all' with respect to race, and reflects on his own long career and patient cultivation of orchids; interview; White House has yet to fill panel's staff jobs; conservatives criticize Administration for stacking board with people whose positions mirror its own; Franklin himself is unapologetic about makeup; list; photos (M)

Scholar Takes On His Toughest Study of Race

Six-story residence with one-bedroom rental units for low-income elderly couples or individuals is being built in East New York section of Brooklyn; $7.6-million project is Federally financed and affiliated with Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center across the street (S)

POSTINGS: $7.6 Million Residence in East New York; Rental Housing For the Elderly

Daffy's, off-price clothing retailer, is refurbishing former Sears, Roebuck warehouse in New Jersey's Meadowlands as corporate headquarters, distribution center and retail store; hopes to open store in time for holiday shopping season; photo (S)

POSTINGS: Daffy's to the Meadowlands; A Warehouse Stays In Fashion

Number of European telephone companies are offering free calls to customers who agree to listen to commercials before they dial; Paolo Balestri's company has 12,000 subscribers in Viareggio and two other communities on west coast of Italy, and expects to spread to more than 100 cities; Gratistelefon of Sweden, which claims to have invented idea, has 30,000 subscribers who hear new phone ad every three minutes; subscribers say they do not mind listening because savings are considerable (M)

September 28, 1997

Headlines from September 28, 1997

Keeping the Shop Talk Out of the Pillow Talk

Shoplifting: The Life Style; When Having Enough Is Not Enough. Why People With Money Raid the Aisles

HOCKEY -- Wearing Hockey's Badge of Leadership; Captain's 'C' Carries Much Influence, on the Ice and Off

In Race to Fill Molinari's Seat, A National Test

After Deluge, Europeans Pull Away In Ryder Cup

Billboard 200

You Light Up My Life -- Inspirational Songs

Ghetto D

No Way Out

The Dance

Pieces Of You

Historical Context for September 28, 1997