October 5, 1997

Seattle Mariners defeat Baltimore Orioles, 4-2, and trail Orioles two games to one in American League playoff series; photo (M)

Peter Passell compares two General Motors cars, German-built Opel Omega, which is GM's bread-and-butter car in Europe, and Cadillac Catera, Detroit-built car that is positioned as 'entry level' luxruy car aimed at more youthful market than Cadillac's traditional owners; photos (M)

Reno and Counsel Law Janet Reno has swung from one position to another on using the independent counsel law, sometimes angering the White House and sometimes the Republicans. News analysis, page 28. Fire Consumes Cruise Ship Some 700 people on a day cruise from Cyprus to Egypt fled as fire consumed their ship. They landed safely, rescued by a nearby ship and British helicopters. Page 10.

Many countries complain that America's remarkable run of prosperity has made it unbearable; say US not only wants to set rules for world, it also wants to use its power to dictate exceptions to those rules; Rahm Emanuel, senior adviser to Pres Clinton, says our competitors see an America that is winning every contest we enter; says many US economists and politicians see America that keeps losing in world economy (M)

Article discusses growth in Northeastern states in high-rise senior living retirement communities, in which there is independent living for healthy and special medical facilities for infirmed; photo (M)

Absence of inflation is making Federal Reserve's short-term interest-rate policy more restrictive than it may appear; real Federal funds rate, adjusted for inflation, is 3.28 percent, up from 2.22 percent in Feb; graph (M)p

Profile of Brooklyn Mariners, semipro football team that plays at Kings Bay Field in Sheepshead Bay, and Pudgie Walsh, team's coach for past 41 years; photos (L)

Comment on Cadillac's redesign of its Seville sedan; photo (S)

Hundreds of thousands of Christian men, summoned by Promise Keepers, new all-male evangelical movement, gather on Mall in Washington to repent for own sins in what they see as secular and socially troubled America; crowd appears to rank in numbers with largest events ever held on National Mall; gathering described; photos (L)

Smaller stocks and mutual funds that invest in them outperformed blue-chips and index funds in third quarter, enabling some domestic equity funds deserted by investors during 1996 small-cap stock slump to re-emerge in recent months as top performers; strong performance of Seligman Communications and Information fund cited; graph (M)

Intel and IBM recently announced innovations in microchip design that will speed up computer industry even further; chip-making improvements were hailed as major breakthroughs--and further confirmation that digital age in words of author George Gilder is 'biggest technological juggernaut that ever rolled'; many historians and economists disagree; they say present rate of technological change pales compared to late 19th century; photos (M)

Tishman Speyer Properties proposes ambitious public/private partnership involving transformation of city block in dowtown White Plains, NY (S)