Former Arkansas Gov Jim Guy Tucker pleads guilty to conspiracy charge and agrees to cooperate with Whitewater investigators; photo; four-year investigation of Pres and Mrs Clinton's business dealings in Arkansas days recounted; Tucker was involved in failed land deal involving Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan and also has extensive knowledge of Clinton's dealings with Jim and Susan McDougal, who ran bank (S)

Ex-Governor, in Plea, to Aid in Whitewater Case

Great Brington Journal about great concern in small English village about huge crowds expected to visit Althorp, family home of late Princess Diana; photos; map; Earl Spencer, Diana's brother, proposes to convert stable complex into museum, set uip cafe, gift shop and 500-car parking lot in village that has 200 inhabitants and no traffic lights; Earl, who lives mostly in South Africa, also plans open-air rock concert in Diana's memory and alienates neighbors on other side of his 5,800-acre estate by proposing to sell 400 acres of woodland to developers (M)

Great Brington Journal; There'll Always Be a Shrine to Diana, but Must It Be Here?

 THE EUROPEAN GAME -- It was an extraordinary day for Olympic hockey: Dominik Hasek was again dominant in goal as the Czech Republic shocked Canada in a shootout, and Pavel Bure scored five goals in Russia's defeat of Finland. On Sunday, the Czechs and Russians will revive one of the sport's best rivalries in the gold medal game. SportsSaturday, page C1.  

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Vernon Jordan reportedly kept Pres Clinton, his close friend, personally informed of efforts to find a job and a lawyer for Monica Lewinsky in days after former White House intern became potentially damaging witness in Paula Jones lawsuit against Clinton; Jordan reportedly complained that he was not told Lewinsky was potential witness and continued his efforts on her behalf only after Clinton gave personal assurance he had 'never, no way' had sexual relationship with Lewinsy; White House declines comment on account; chronology of Jordan's assistance to Lewinsky in December; photo of Jordan with Clinton (M)

LAWYER SAYS ALLY INFORMED CLINTON OF AID FOR INTERN

 Expulsion From Irish Talks  The Irish and British Governments temporarily expelled the I.R.A. political wing from peace talks. Page A3.    Indonesia Blinks on Currency  Indonesia has retreated from a sharply criticized plan to strengthen its ravaged currency. Page D1.

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Ballroom dancing is becoming increasingly popular among 10-year-olds in Westchester County; ballroom dancing to such standards as Stardust and Begin the Beguine is not a fusty anachronism but has become the cool thing to do among prepubescent set; in Larchmont, ballroom dancing lessons are provided by Patricia Healy Bainton, director of Helen Adams School of Dancing; fifth and sixth graders seem to like dressing up and feigning manners, at least for one night a week; photos (M)

Grace Displaces Grunge; 10-Year-Olds in Westchester Take to Ballroom Dancing

George Vecsey, in Sports of The Times, comments on Tara Lipinski winning gold medal in women's figure skating, and Michelle Kwan's gaining silver medal; photos of Lipinski, Kwan and Lu Chen of China (M)

Sports of The Times; Lipinski Took a Head Start on Her Way to Gold

Indonesia retreats from highly criticized plan to strengthen its ravaged currency by setting up currency board that would peg rupiah to US dollar at artificial rate; US has warned that action could backfire, and IMF has threatened to cancel $40-billion rescue package; Finance Min Marie Muhammad issues carefully worded statement; his photo (S)

Under Pressure, Indonesia Halts Currency Plan

Tara Lipinski, age 15, becomes youngest woman to win Olympic figure-skating championship; photos; second American teen-ager, 17-year-old Michelle Kwan, wins silver medal in Nagano; Lu Chen of China wins bronze, just months after ruinous 1997 season in which she suffered foot injury and had to earn Olympic spot in special competition; Lipinski beats out Kwan with fast, spirited, joyous performance, defeating rival on eight of nine technical marks and matching her on four artistic marks (M)

For Lipinski, Skating Dream Turns to Gold

Judge Vito J Titone, one of most liberal members of New York State Appeals Court, says he will resign; decision gives Gov George E Pataki opportunity to make his second appointment to seven-member bench that he has sharply criticized as being overly lenient; Titone, longest-serving judge on court, says he will leave court at end of June and join Mintz and Gold, small Manhattan firm that was co-founded by one of his former law clerks; Titone's term is set to expire on May 28, 1999, but Titone says he is leaving now because he is healthy; photos of Appeals Court members, noting their ages (M)

A Liberal On Top Court Is Resigning

Profiles of two men arrested in Las Vegas for possession of toxin believed to be deadly anthrax; photos; Larry Wayne Harris, 46,is right-wing radical from Ohio, onetime member of Aryan Nation who was earlier convicted of illegally obtaining bubonic plague bacteria; William Job Leavitt Jr, 47, is mild-mannered Republican who has been bishop in his Mormon church, chairman of his town board and Rotary Club president in Logandale, Nevada; he has thriving business maintaining fire extinguishers and has spent spare time searching for unorthodox ures for AIDS and multiple sclerosis; two are being held in Federal detention center while material seized from car trunk is analyzed; officials are so far uncertain about facts (M)

In a Mysterious Germ Case, 2 Worlds Collide

BUSINESS DIGEST

Pres Clinton and military advisers have approved plans for intense four-day round-the-clock bombardment aimed at undermining Iraqi military apparatus and diminishing Iraq's ability to produce and deliver biological and chemical weapons; Defense Sec William Cohen, in interview, relates Desert Thunder plan, precipitated by Saddam Hussein's defiance of UN arms inspectors; Administration planners do acknowledge UN monitoring ability would be even more limited after such an attack; US would rely on strikes against production facilities, conventional forces and Hussein's power structure because Pentagon cannot pinpoint Scud missiles or stores of chemical and biological weapons; Pentagon warns Congress that more than 1,500 Iraqis could die, despite steps to limit civilian casualties; Government experts doubt Iraq would launch chemical or biological counterattack; plan envisions 300 combat flights daily; operations planning in recent weeks reviewed (M)

U.S. Plan for Iraq Envisions 4 Days of 24-Hour Bombing

Merger of Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter, announced last year, has brought big windfall for Philip J Purcell, top executive of combined company; Purcell cashed in on stock options worth $36.4 million in year ended Nov 30, 1997, in addition to his $14.4-million salary and other pay; his 1996 pay was $4.2 million; photo; company announces that new name will be Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter & Co (S)

Morgan Merger Creates Windfall, at Least for Boss

Comment on historic rivalry between Czech and Russian hockey teams, who will face each other in championship game at Nagano; photo (M)

Czechs and Russians Renew The Rivalry of Another Era

Bass PLC, British brewer, agrees to buy 187 Inter-Continental Hotels from Saison Group of Japan for $1.4 billion; deal follows six-week auction among five hotel companies, including Marriott and Patriot American; Bass owns Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza chain, but wants to expand into higher-priced hotels; Inter-Continental also includes Forum and Global Partner hotels (M)

British Brewer Will Buy Big Hotel Chain

David Gonzalez, in About New York column, comments on case of Dylcia Pagan, who is among 15 Puerto Ricans imprisoned since early 1980's throughout country on firearms, theft and seditious conspiracy charges; Federal authorities at time of their arrest said they comprised core of Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional, FALN, which had carried out series of bombings in 1970's in name of Puerto Rican independence; parishioners at St Cecilia's Roman Catholic Church on East 106th St, where Pagan made her first communion, will be asked to write letters to Pres Clinton asking for clemency (M)

About New York; Plea for Mercy From a Parish For a Prisoner

Harvey Araton, in Sports of The Times, comments on Czech Republic hockey team's defeat of Canada; photo (M)

Sports of The Times; A Great Olympic Image Left for the Imagination

* Article reviews pioneering Bolivar Project that tranformed operations of Harman Automotive rear-view mirror factory in Tennessee in 1970's through worker empowerment and management innovations; audacious experiment fell victim to changes in mnanagement and human nature, as workers took advantage of disastrous 'earned idle time' benefit to leave early and cheat on time and production; former owner Sidney Harman says he did not realize how critical good management would be when he devised project with UAW official Irving Bluestone; Harman sold factory in 1976 and subsequent owners were happy to see experiment die; UAW also lost interest once Bolivar was used to get Big Three auto makers to look at power sharing; concepts developed by Bolivar are now widespread; photos; graph; missteps that led to shutdown recounted; current owner Harvard Industries is now in bankruptcy (M)

The Little Project That Couldn't; Others Learn From a Failed Test in Worker Democracy

Mayor Giuliani reports that his Administration's crackdown on jaywalking paid unexpected dividend when police officers on Upper West Side stop man for jaywalking and find that he is wanted for two robberies (S)

Giuliani Crows as Theft Suspect Is Caught on Jaywalking Charge

Correction of photo caption with Feb 20 article about Hindu-Muslim relations in India; mosque noted

Corrections

Ford will lay off 3,500 workers at Wayne, Mich, plant for two weeks to cut backlog of Escorts and Mercury Tracers (S)

FORD SETS 2-WEEK LAYOFFS TO CUT BACKLOG OF SMALL CARS

Indonesia will repay all deposits stored at 16 banks that were closed in November 1997 under initial IMF reform package (S)

Indonesia Will Repay Deposits at Closed Banks

Japanese car makers increased exports in January as strong sales in Europe and US offset declines in Asia (S)

Japanese Auto Exports Increased in January

Norway and Sweden end talks on merging state-owned communications companies, Telenor ASA and Telia AB; Norway feared Sweden would become dominant partner (S)

February 21, 1998

Headlines from February 21, 1998

Ex-Governor, in Plea, to Aid in Whitewater Case

Great Brington Journal; There'll Always Be a Shrine to Diana, but Must It Be Here?

In Other Rinks

LAWYER SAYS ALLY INFORMED CLINTON OF AID FOR INTERN

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Billboard 200

Titanic

Yield

Let's Talk About Love

Spiceworld (Soundtrack)

My Way

Historical Context for February 21, 1998