Article discusses increase in number of women who have applied for and received hunting licenses; reaction from both men and women noted; photo (M)

A-Hunting She Will Go; The Fastest-Growing Group Trooping to the Woods Is Women

Slime time again, with heroine now an alien's mom. Freakish, macabre sequel.

Ripley, Believe It or Not, Has a Secret, and It's Not Pretty

AT&T Corp, continuing to shed low-growth units, reportedly seeks buyer for its paging unit (M)

AT&T Unit Is Said to Be Up for Sale

United Nations medical experts say they grossly underestimated the spread of the AIDS virus worldwide and now believe that new infections are occurring almost twice as fast as they thought a year ago -- 16,000 new infections a day, instead of 8,200. The new data suggest that 30.6 million people around the world are now living with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS.    Article, page A6.

AIDS Underestimated

Don Newman discusses his new job as Arizona State basketball coach; photo (M)

New Coach Wades Into Arizona State Maelstrom

Investors with failed Yamaichi Securities Co take collapse in stride, reassured by Japanese Government pledges that they will not suffer losses; those waiting to withdraw funds appear embarrassed, reflecting Japanese view of stock market as sort of disreputable casino; photos (M)

THE ASIAN CRISIS: THE JAPANESE INVESTORS ; In Tokyo, Taking a Collapse in Stride

 Leaders Agree on Ways To Contain Asian Crisis   President Clinton and other leaders at the Asia-Pacific economic summit declared that stringent domestic policies and closer international monitoring are the only ways to contain the financial emergencies that have crippled South Korea, Indonesia and Thailand recently and have endangered Japan.  

BUSINESS DIGEST

Govt and private groups' campaign for tough action to curb drunken driving; cite example of North Carolina as national model in campaign against drunk driving; North Carolina believes it has cut drunken driving by half, to lowest rate in country; state has taken many drunks off the road, not only by making arrests, but by making effort extremely visible, setting up approximately 23,000 roadblocks since 1993, when it began seat belt campaign called 'Click It or Ticket'; under state's 'Booze It and Lose It' campaign begun in 1994, more than 35,000 people have been arrested for drinking and driving offenses; state plans publicity blitzes during Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday season, when many people drink more than usual; photo (L)

Tough Action on Drunken Driving Pays Off

Ron Carey steps aside as pres of Teamsters' union, announcing he will take leave of absence, just before federally appointed oversight board accuses him of diverting union money to his election campaign; latest charges could lead to expulsion of Carey from union, marking end of Carey era, which began in 1992 as effort to clean up union that was dominated by Mafia for decades (M)

Beleaguered Carey Steps Aside As President of the Teamsters

Footlights column; new star is added to Yiddish Theater Walk of Fame on Second Avenue in honor of Fyvush Finkel; The Last Temptation of Christ and Last Tango in Paris are among films shown as part of program Censored Cinema, sponsored by National Board of Review of Motion Pictures; Mariah Carey and other pop music stars to perform at Oslo concert honoring Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams and International Campaign to Ban Landmines; photos; Russian Pres Boris Yeltsin and his wife, visiting Sweden, will lunch with 90-year-old Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking books that Mrs Yeltsin read to her daughters when they were young (S)

Footlights

Giuliani administration expects New York City to end fiscal year with $319 million more in revenues than it had forecast, largely because of continued robust profits on Wall Street; it is proposing that city salt away $240 million of extra revenue into so-called rainy day fund, which would bring total in fund to $740 million (M)

New York City Now Expects an Additional $319 Million in Revenues

Vancouver Canucks defeat New York Rangers, 4-2; photo (M)

An Emotional Messier Leaves Rangers Blue

 The City Council votes an independent police watchdog.   PAGE B3     A man is critically wounded in Prospect Park.   PAGE B2

INSIDE

Clinton Administration officials are concerned about whether contagion in Asian markets could spread to Japan; few officials will discuss matter publicly, except to recite reasons why Japan is different and will not succumb; reasons they cite are compelling: Japanese have prodigious national savings, war chest of $230 billion in United States Treasury bonds and industrial strength that is rivaled only by United States (M)

Could Japan Be Next?

About New York Column discusses Gwen Sellers, artist who lives in Transitional Living Community, shelter for homeless women with mental disabilities in Brooklyn; her work as sculptress noted; photo (M)

About New York ; Shelter Artist Puts the Pieces Back Together

Carl T Hayden, head of State Board of Regents, says that board will scale back its recent decision requiring high school students to take three years of foreign language and for now require only one year (M)

Regents to Rescind the New 3-Year Language Requirement

Marisa Baridis, Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter, Discover & Co legal compliance officer is indicted on charges involving sale of insider information on merger and reorganization plans of 13 of firm's clients to brokers including Robert Breed, Howard Boyar and Vincent M Napolitano; her career and that of former broker Jeffrey L Streich, who aided in probe after being barred from securities industry for unauthorized trading, discussed; photo (M)

Market Place; Lessons of Boesky and Milken Go Unheeded in Fraud Case

Leaders gatherd for Asia Pacific economic summit meeting declare that stringent domestic economic policies and closer international monitoring are only way to contain financial emergencies that have crippled South Korea, Indonesia and Thailand in recent months and have endangered Japan's already weakened financial system; conference, which ends tonight, was dominated by talk of Asian crisis; in morning session, leaders cast aside their agenda to focus on financial situation and keep wary eye on currency and stock markets throughout region for new signs that financial virus had spread; plan endorsed by leaders is based on document drafted last week in Manila by group of financial officials from United States and several countries in region; individual nations do not pledge financial help, but United States and others do commit to make individual contributions if IMF package proves inadequate; instead, arrangement calls on countries experiencing financial difficulties to take responsibility for resolving them by belt-tightening domestic economic policies, propping up their currencies, rooting out corruption and strengthening oversight of banks (M)

ASIA PACIFIC TALKS VOW TOUGH ACTION ON ECONOMIC CRISIS

Ruth Reichl Critic's Notebook in praise of foie gras as served at several New York restaurants; photo (M)

Critic's Notebook; Foie Gras, the Sin for the Season

George Vecsey Sports of The Times column describes scene at Madison Square Garden as Mark Messier returns with Vancouver Canucks to play New York Rangers (M)

Sports of The Times; Garden Gave Due Respect To a Leader

Federal prosecutors charge 19 men with duping investors in seven states to make millions of dollars in profits, in what investigators describe as most ambitious scheme by organized crime to infiltrate Wall Street in decades; prosecutors say case clearly indicates that organized crime is training its sights on lucrative bull market after law enforcement efforts had curtailed its influence in garbage hauling, garment businesses and Fulton Fish Market; prosecutors say case involved a lot of cooperation between Bonanno and Genovese crime families and payoffs to half a dozen brokers at small Wall Street brokerage house, Meyers Pollock Robbins Inc; scheme outlined (L)

BROKERS AND MOB LINKED IN SWINDLE

Harold M Evans, colorful president and publisher of Random House's trade group, will leave publishing house to head Mortimer B Zuckerman's publications, which include The Daily News of New York, U.S. News & World Report and The Atlantic Monthly; Zuckerman, in naming Evans editorial director, says that Evans will essentially take over large portion of his duties at various publications; Evans will have a say in everything form hiring to story ideas to design at magazines and at The Daily News; photo of Evans (L)

Harold Evans of Random House To Be Zuckerman Editorial Czar

The Pasteboard Bandit, children's story written by Langston Hughes in 1930's and rejected by Macmillan, is published for first time by Oxford University Press; fanciful tale of Mexican and American boys was written after death of Hughes' father in Mexico, and discovered in 1992 by Oxford editor, Nancy Toff, among Hughes papers in Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale; Hughes died in 1967; Arna Bontemps, his collaborator, was poet, author and editor (M)

Child's Tale About Race Has a Tale Of Its Own

In an abrupt reversal, the head of the New York State Board of Regents said yesterday that the board would scale back its recent decision requiring high school students to take three years of a foreign language and for now require only one year.    The three-year requirement, a last-minute amendment to a package of new graduation standards approved on Nov. 14 by a 10-to-4 vote, threw a monkey wrench into what one New York City school official called the coronation of the new state standards.  

Regents Scale Back New Language Rule

Marian Burros comment on Thanksgiving overeating; points out that, while it takes some pretty concentrated eating to gain a pound on just one day, real problem is that one-day binge too often stretches until New Year's, when desperation sets in, leading to yet another resolution to lose ten pounds right away (M)

Eating Too Well; One Day of Craziness Is Fine, But Then Watch Out

Aubrey Omari Joseph is an American actor best known for his role as Tyrone Johnson / Cloak in Freeform's Cloak & Dagger.

Aubrey Joseph, American actor

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Jennie Frances Wåhlin is a Swedish curler from Huddinge. She was a longtime member of Team Isabella Wranå. She won a gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics as alternate for the Anna Hasselborg team.

Jennie Wåhlin, Swedish curler

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Aaron Wan-Bissaka is a professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Premier League club West Ham United and the DR Congo national team.

Aaron Wan-Bissaka, English footballer

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Marguerite Henry was an American writer of children's books, writing fifty-nine books based on true stories of horses and other animals. She won the Newbery Medal for King of the Wind, a 1948 book about horses, and she was a runner-up for two others. One of the latter, Misty of Chincoteague (1947), was the basis for several related titles and the 1961 movie Misty.

November 26, 1997

Headlines from November 26, 1997

A-Hunting She Will Go; The Fastest-Growing Group Trooping to the Woods Is Women

Ripley, Believe It or Not, Has a Secret, and It's Not Pretty

AT&T Unit Is Said to Be Up for Sale

AIDS Underestimated

New Coach Wades Into Arizona State Maelstrom

Billboard 200

Higher Ground

Come On Over

Unpredictable

Levert.Sweat.Gill

Harlem World

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for November 26, 1997