November 9, 1997

Article on interview with author Sebastian Junger whose first book, The Perfect Storm, has made him a millionaire; photos (L)

NATO's Quiet Pitchman Javier Solana, NATO's most senior civilian official, commands little notice in the United States, despite his role as an important pitchman for why the world's biggest military alliance needs to get bigger. Page 3. Holyfield Stops Moorer Evander Holyfield knocks Michael Moorer down five times and wins the International Boxing Federation heavyweight title when the fight is stopped after the eighth round. SportsSunday, section 8.

Outlook for world stock and bond markets discussed in light of recent turmoil; margin calls that forced South Korean banks to dump Latin American bonds cited as example of interconnectedness of world markets; graph (M)

State attorneys general are increasingly banding together in pairs and packs to take back for states initiative in consumer protection; consumer advocacy groups complain states often settle for too little, while companies under scrutiny complain states exercise enforcement power better left to Federal Government; photos; table (L)

New Yorkers who live in street-level apartments discuss adapting to possibility of having strangers peek in through windows; photos (S)

Article on baby boomers' babies taking over pop culture in America; says just three or four years ago, pop music was dominated by angry rappers, and movies all starred some familiar 30-something face on cusp of making $20 million per film; long-anticipated younger generation has taken control of stick shift of pop culture; photos (L)

Robert Lipsyte column reports on confrontation between Melva Max, a Chelsea restaurateur, and a New York police officer, which landed Max in jail; Max say that when the officer refused to act on her complaint about some noisy motorcyclists near her restaurant, she pointed at his badge and demanded his name; the officer says Max reached into his cruiser and grabbed his badge; drawing (M)

Wheeling and dealing on Pres Clinton's trade legislation begins in earnest as House goes into unusual weekend session to rewrite certain provisions; Rep Bill Archer says Pres Clinton will have to provide 15 or 20 more votes from among Democrats if he hopes to win; others say bill is dependent on Republicans for winning votes; measure, meant to encourage international trade, would give President authority, called 'fast track,' to negotiate trade pacts that Congress could vote up or down but could not amend; every President since Gerald R Ford has had this authority, but Clinton's lapsed three years ago (M)

F.Y.I. 2 MAKING IT WORK 3 Small-town dreaming: Frazzled urbanites soak up tales of potbellied stoves and the Rotary Club.

Clinton Administration's foreign policy puts heavy emphasis on trade, but it is not evenhanded in imposing trade sanctions for human rights and other abuses; Pres Clinton has resisted threatening trade penalties on China as way of prodding it toward democracy, but he insists that trade embargo and threat of military force are only way to force Saddam Hussein of Iraq to obverve norms of civilized behavior, and he favors continued sanctions against Iran; US's European allies only partially agree with Clinton, and France and Russia in particular are eager to trade with Iraq; photo (M)

Jeffrey Benzien, apartheid-era policeman, testifies at hearing of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Benzien is one of many minor but effective functionaries who made apartheid work for white Goverment; his only distinction may be that he came forward to talk about his job as torturer; he is only member of his unit to have done so; his story has gripped country partly because of photographs of him demonstrating his technique during hearings, and partly because until he testified he was nobody; photo (M)

French tire maker Michelin, faced with new wave of European cars in bright jelly-bean colors, is test-marketing line of small-car tires accented with bright shades of Red, Green and Yellow; what makes this colorful experiment possible is new tire-making technology that can create tires in practically any color; Michelin is test-marketing tires in Tours, France, Milan, Italy, and Munich, Germany; while a few colored tires are available in US, full-scale introduction seems remote; photo (M)