January 11, 1998

Hartz Mountain Industries in June expects to start work on 400,000-square-foot office building on Jersey City's Hudson River waterfront; Hartz believes that with 3.2 percent vacancy rate for Class A space along Hudson County portion of shoreline, its 12-story, $70 million neo-Classical building will find tenants before it is completed in 1999; drawing (L)

Selling of naive and desperate young women into sexual bondage has become one of fastest-growing criminal enterprises in robust global economy; international bazaar for women is hardly new; Asians have been its basic commodity for decades; economic hopelessness in Slavic world has opened what experts call most lucrative market of all to criminal gangs that have flourished since fall of Communism: white women with little to sustain them but their dreams; pimps, law enforcement officials and relief groups agree that Ukrainian and Russian women are now most valuable in trade; Israel says it has deported 1,500 Russian and Ukrainian women in past three years; for most, deportation offers only escape; photos (M)

Growing use of black and white images in print media, television and advertising has given rise to sense that young people may not be as adverse to it as had been thought; influence of fashion and art photographers, who continue to do much of best work in black and white, cited; photo (M)

Article on North American International Auto Show at Cobo Center in Detroit, Mich; says many of 1998 concepts cars fall into two camps: inventive vehicles that would use far less fuel and produce far less pollution than today's models, and extravagant, powerful, potentially high-profit machines that seem to mock very idea of conservation and constraint; photos (L)

Robert Lipsyte column on a week's vacation in Florida, and telling stories of how New York under Rudolph Giuliani is 'like just before the Olympics when they bus out the uglies'; also reports on status of city's case against Melva Max, restaurant owner who was arrested and strip-searched after complaining to passing patrol car about noisy motorcyclists (S)