Binney & Smith, company that makes Crayola crayons, has angered some Peekskill, NY, history buffs by refusing to sponsor programs marking company's 19th century roots in city; company move to Easton, Pa, around 1900; photos (M)

Tracing Crayola To Peekskill Roots

Popularity of film Titanic is factor in stronger-than-usual bookings reported by most big cruise lines; film has spurred surge of interest from travelers in their 20's; photo (M)

Allure of 'Titanic,' Minus Ice, Is Packing Cruise Ship Cabins

Strength of Manhattan residential market ripples through other boroughs, lifting prices and tricking even into poor neighborhoods like East New York and South Bronx; house prices rose in 1997 in all but 14 of 130 ZIP codes outside Manhattan; maps; charts; declining crime rates and uplifting renewal efforts cited, as well as pressure cooker of Manhattan market; some prices for houses and apartments in various neighborhoods noted (M)

Manhattan Strength Lifts All Boroughs

Murray Chass preview of 1998 baseball season notes that Major League Baseball is expanding for sixth time since 1961, with new teams in Tampa Bay and Arizona; predicts that some records will be broken because of decline in quality of pitching during expansion year; photos (M)

1998 BASEBALL PREVIEW: Boom Times; This Season Promises New Teams, Worse Pitching and Better Hitting

THERE'S no good time to get bad news, but some times are worse than others. Nicole Maxwell was the humand resources director for Barrington International Hospitality Inc., an upstart hotel-management company in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., eight months pregnant - and had moved the previous day to a new house in a new neighborhood - when the word came: The plane carrying her boss and father, Barry L. Conrad, on a United States trade mission to the former Yugoslavia was missing.  

When Life After Death Is the Company's Lot

Article on how two companies have fared since April 1996, when their chief executives died in plane crash in Croatia, along with Commerce Sec Ronald Brown and executives from other companies; Barry L Conrad, 55, was so closely identified with his upstart hotel-management company, Barrington International Hospitality, that there were no plans for succession; his widow, Patricia, took charge and Paul J Sistare has since become chief executive; Robert E Donovan, 54, headed US unit of ABB Inc, part of Swedish-Swiss engineering conglomerate; colleagues have pursued his reorganization plan under leadership of Howard Pierce; photos; list of executives killed in crash (M)

Police say Mitchell Johnson, 13, stole family van and helped Andrew Golden, 11, steal guns from grandfather's home in events leading up to shooting at Jonesboro, Ark, school that left teacher and four students dead and another teacher and nine other children wounded; students say Johnson, angry at popular girl who scorned him, had made wild threats; diagram; photos (L)

From Wild Talk and Friendship To Five Deaths in a Schoolyard

 Lawyers Accuse Clinton Of Obstructing Justice  Lawyers for Paula Corbin Jones filed papers accusing President Clinton of obstruction of justice for failing to provide them with letters from Kathleen E. Willey until after she accused him, in a televised interview, of sexual harassment. Page 28

INSIDE

Robert Lipsyte Coping column focuses on reluctance of Civilian Complaint Review Board to back civilians allegedly mistreated by police officer after orally challenging officer's authority; notes citizens, losing faith in agency, are increasingly suing city instead of complaining to board; drawing (M)

Got a Police Problem? Keep It to Yourself.

Frank DeCaro comment relates his quite obsessive search for Nike Air Max Metallics, runaway sneaker hit that has flown out of stores; photo (S)

Tied Up in Knots In the Race for a Shoe

Up-and-coming downtown designers describe their strenuous efforts to attract attention of hundreds of buyers and media people in New York for spring fashion week; photos (M)

Hey Kids, It's Showtime!

Article by Prof Martin Duberman notes assortment of tributes are planned to mark centennial of Paul Robeson's birth; says Robeson, who was hounded in his day by guard dogs of civic orthodoxy, is about to be praised within halls of some of same institutions that once locked him out, denied him an audience, and helped to destroy his career; photos (L)

FILM; A Giant Denied His Rightful Stature In Film

Market Watch column compares differing fate of two intial public offerings, successful one by ISS Group, and crash of share prices for Earthshell; graph (S)

Rolling The Dice On Expensive I.P.O.'s

First of two articles, Questioning Miranda, examining US Supreme Court's landmark 1996 Miranda ruling, which requires police to warn criminal criminal suspects of right to remain silent during interrogations; both Supreme Court and lower courts have over past 32 years narrowed definition of when police must give warnings, relaxed standards for what passes as waiver of rights, and even allowed prosecutors to make moderate use of incriminating statements taken after suspect has asked for lawyer; interrogators have been trained to talk suspects through warnings in ways that minimize chance they will ask for lawyer, and studies show some have been artful enough in inducing 80 to 90 percent of suspects to waive rights; even when some suspects invoke Miranda rights, detectives ignore them; cases in which police have violated suspects Miranda rights in such manner have been addressed by appellate courts in 38 states, with mixed results; photos (L)

Police Tactics Chipping Away at Suspects' Rights

Two-story 'taxpayer' building with up to three stores is going up on West 42d Street near corner of Sixth Avenue, as owners Joseph E and Ralph J Bernstein decide not to try to assemble more land for major project; photo; Durst Organization, which owns most of property on block, may take advantage of Times Square boom to build midblock, next to its new 4 Times Square building (S)

POSTINGS: Project Dims Office-Building Prospects; New Stores For 42d Street

South Africa, where drug prices are among the highest in world, sets off pitched battle with powerful global pharmaceutical industry by enacting new law that gives health minister sweeping power to allow cheap imports, encourage use of generics and sharply curb pharmacists' markups; law assigns Health Minister Nkosazana, who is also a physician and Zulu princess, mission of turning around health care system that has provided high-quality care to whites while forcing blacks to wait in crowded public hospitals or turn to traditional healers; photos; medicines consume huge portion of health budgets, and half of drugs in public hospitals are stolen; American companies charge that the law threatens patient rights and gives Zuma power to undo international patent protections and give anyone she chooses right to make pirate versions of drugs; Merck cancels $10 million investment and other companies close down South Africa factories; Commerce Sec William Daley took up issue during Pres Clinton's recent stopover; 47 members of Congress have signed letter asking US trade officials to pursue appropriate response (L)

South Africa's Bitter Pill for World's Drug Makers

Years of social activism and legislation have only partly eased plight of 33 million Hindu widows in India; problem arises because brides traditionally largely sever ties with own families; custom leaves woman dependent on in-laws, whose main interest after husband's death is to rid family of burden of supporting her; many widows flock to Vrindavan, devoting lives to prayer, to escape lives as outcasts in native villages; others are abandoned there by families; map; photo (L)

Once Widowed in India, Twice Scorned

Whitney Museum of American Art must find replacement for David A Ross, who is leaving after seven years as director; he is given mixed reviews; good shows appeared at Whitney from time to time during his tenure, but expectations progressively dimmed in reaction to what seemed to be lack of seriousness and clarity of purpose; photo (M)

The Whitney's Search for a Mission

Utah stunned North Carolina, 65-59, to advance to the final of the men's N.C.A.A. Division I basketball tournament. In Monday's final, Utah will take on Kentucky, which narrowly avoided an upset of its own in an 86-85 overtime victory over Stanford.     SportsSunday, section 8.  

Down to the Final 2: Kentucky and Utah

1998 mid-term elections are expected to be relatively serene, as incumbents benefit from high popularity ratings, sturdy economy and dearth of contentious issues; Republicans, struggling to retain narrow House majority, are expected to retain control of Senate and most of big-state governorships; attention will be focused on some 75 of most competitive House races; failure of Democratic challenger to emerge in Rep Todd Tiahrt's Kansas district, scene of pitched battles in last two elections, cited; table; photo (M)

REPUBLICANS HOLD AN EDGE IN KEEPING CONTROL OF HOUSE

E! Entertainment Television, known for mix of celebrity news, features and specials, increases fashion programming in response to viewer interest in what film stars and other celebrities wear; photos; Time Warner unit now produces 28 half-hour segments each week, up more than 33 percent from last year (S)

All Fashion, Almost All the Time

New-York Historical Society plans six free symposiums on landmark preservation (S)

POSTINGS: Symposium Series and an Exhibition; On Preservation And Landmarks

Behind the Wheel article on testing five big new sport utility vehicles on 2,200-mile trip through desert Southwest; features listed for Dodge Durango, GMC Envoy, Honda Passport, Lexus RX 300 and Mercedes-Benz ML320; photos (M)

Go West: New Sport Brutes Square Off on the Utah Buttes

Pres Clinton's tour of Africa, now half over, has been filled with words of remorse, mostly for other Administrations' errors in dealing with Africa; Clinton has voiced regret for American support of African dictators during cold war, for American 'neglect and ignorance' of Africa, for failure to intervene sooner in Rwandan genocide, and for American 'complicity' in apartheid; Administration officials believe expressions of remorse are helpful in soothing countries still smarting from decades of perceived American high-handedness; cynics might say that compassion is low-cost adjunct to development money, which has been scarce since Congress lost interest in developing world when cold war ended; photo (M)

The World: Sorry About That; Africa Gets the Clinton Treatment

South Street Seaport, NYC, rehabilitated in 1980's, is on decline; Fulton Market Building, originally retail heart of project, is nearly empty; Rouse Co, Seaport developer, plans face lift; holds some two-thirds of empty spaces in market are leased; map; tables; photos (L)

March 29, 1998

Headlines from March 29, 1998

Tracing Crayola To Peekskill Roots

Allure of 'Titanic,' Minus Ice, Is Packing Cruise Ship Cabins

Manhattan Strength Lifts All Boroughs

1998 BASEBALL PREVIEW: Boom Times; This Season Promises New Teams, Worse Pitching and Better Hitting

When Life After Death Is the Company's Lot

Billboard 200

Titanic

Ray Of Light

Let's Talk About Love

Pilgrim

Savage Garden

Historical Context for March 29, 1998