Clyde Haberman column notes that 'zippy' new edition of The Communist Manifesto, which was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 150 years ago, is selling briskly at some bookstores in trendy New York City neighborhoods (M)

Red Sales In the Sunset Of the Left

Pres Clinton agrees to nominate prominent conservative selected by US Sen Slade Gorton to important Federal appeals court post, in exchange for confirmation of one his nominees to same court; Judge Barbara Durham is Republican choice for appointment to US Court of Appeals for Ninth Circuit in San Francisco; in return for her nomination, Republicans have agreed to stop blocking confirmation of several Clinton nominees, including William A Fletcher, University of California law professor and Clinton friend whose nomination they have blocked for past three years; photo (M)

Clinton Agrees To G.O.P. Deal On Judgeships

 Ragtime -- 13  The Lion King -- 11  Cabaret -- 10  The Beauty Queen of Leeane -- 6  The Chairs -- 6  A View from the Bridge -- 4  

'Ragtime' Leads Tony Nominations

Ira Berkow Sports of The Times column praises New York Knicks Coach Jeff Van Gundy and guard Allan Houston in view of Knicks first-round victory over Miami Heat in NBA playoffs; photo (M)

Sports of The Times; Knicks' Tale: Instincts And Elan

For 17 years, the F.B.I. had been investigating a series of bombings in the case the agency called Unabom. Then, after a tip in 1996, agents converged on a shack in the mountains of Montana. Inside, a team of bomb experts found cans marked with the chemical names of explosives and 23 bomb igniters, and knew that the long search was over.    Article, page A24.

Success Took 17 Years

Gov George E Pataki and Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani are refusing to provide any more financial assistance to Apollo Theater, state-owned historic anchor of Harlem, until private foundation that controls it answers questions about its financial affairs; Pataki and Giuliani aides say questions center on series of state and Federal loans to Apollo Theater Foundation, which is controlled by Rep Charles B Rangel, and foundation's contract with Inner City Broadcasting; former Manhattan Borough Pres Percy E Sutton is chairman of broadcasting group; aides say foundation agreed several years ago to allow Sutton's organization to use theater for filming popular syndicated television show It's Showtime at the Apollo; Empire State Development Corp senior vice pres Randy Daniels says foundation's managememt has determined that it is owed over $3 million under contract; Rangel denies any wrongdoing and calls withholding of funding 'insulting' and 'arrogant'; photo (M)

Giuliani and Pataki Demand Apollo Theater Financial Data

Excite Inc, on-line directory service, agrees to pay Netscape Communications $70 million for right to provide just fraction of search services and other information that Netscape will make available to users of its browser software and home page on World Wide Web; Excite hopes to recoup money by selling advertising on pages it delivers to people who use its search service; Excite expects that deal will initially increase 40 million pages it currently serves each day by about 8 million to 10 million; Netscape expects to take in $93 million to $100 million over two-year life of the deal (L)

Excite, a Web Directory Service, In a 2-Year Deal With Netscape

Estelle Sapir, Holocaust survivor living in Far Rockaway, Queens, accepts undisclosed settlement from Credit Suisse that by some estimates could total $500,000; Sapir, in return for settlement, agrees to withdraw from huge class-action suit against three major Swiss banks; her father, Jozef Sapir, was wealthy Jewish businessman from Poland who was imprisoned by Nazis in southern France in 1943; photo (M)

Under Pressure, Big Swiss Bank Yields to Daughter of Nazi Victim

Anna Kisselgoff analysis of controversy in Israel over Batsheva Dance Co performance during jubilee program celebrating country's 50th anniversary; representatives of religious parties objected to Batsheva work in which male and female dancers would be performing in undershirts and shorts; Ohad Naharin, Batsheva's artistic director and choreographer, was pressed by office of Prime Min Benjamin Netanyahu and Pres Ezer Weizman to have dancers appear in long underwear; Naharin resigned as matter of principle, and his dancers withdrew from program in solidarity; photo (M)

When Dance and Politics Both Dig Their Heels In

Resurgence of straight plays on Broadway is underscored as Tony Award nominations are announced; Ragtime garners the most nominations, 13; The Lion King follows with 11 and Cabaret with 10; The Chairs, Eugene Ionesco's surrealistic drama, receives six nominations, including best revival, best leading actor and actress and best direction; The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh pulls down six nominations, including awards for all four actors, best play and best direction (L)

Dramas Show a Surprising Strength in Tony Nominations

Article on next generation of executives to lead some of most prominent family-controlled companies in the world; focuses on Jane Lauder, granddaughter of founder of Estee Lauder Companies, Caroline Krug, daughter of head of House of Krug, family's 150-year-old Champagne dynasty based in Rheims, France, Maurizio Borletti, who has taken over Christofle Group, Christofle-Bouilhet-Borletti family's corporate entity, which sells crystal and gold tableware along with luxury silver products, and August A Busch 4th, heir to Anheuser-Busch Companies beer empire; photos (L)

Born to Be Boss; Grooming the Next Generation To Take Over the Family Business

Federal grand jury in Arkansas indicts Susan H McDougal on charges of criminal contempt and obstruction of justice for repeatedly refusing to answer questions about business dealings with former Whitewater partners, Pres Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton; prosecutors say she refused to answer questions on grounds inquiry was biased, even though she was granted immunity and compelled to testify by Federal judge; questions covered whether Clinton testified truthfully at her criminal trial, nature of First Lady's legal work for corrupt Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan Assn and Clintons' knowledge of improperly financed land deal aimed at bailing out Whitewater Development Co (M)

Refusing to Discuss Clintons, Susan McDougal Is Indicted

Cosmologists gather at Fermi National Laboratory in effort to explain compelling new evidence that universe is expanding at an accelerating rate and to understanding what appears to be unknown form of energy associated with vacuum of space, the so-called 'missing energy' of the universe; if both current theory and new observations are correct, this energy must be acting as repulsive force to counteract gravity's restraining influence and thus speed up cosmic expansion; straw vote of scientists at the Fermi workshop finds that two-thirds of them agree that two teams of supernova astronomers have made a strong case for an accelerating universe and thus for something like the missing energy; photos (M)

Cosmologists Ponder 'Missing Energy' of the Universe

New York Knicks will play Indiana Pacers at Market Square Arena on May 5 in first game of Eastern Conference semifinals; Mark Jackson, former Knick who is Pacers' point guard, expresses his contempt for New York fans who once jeered him; Reggie Miller of Pacers predicts that Knicks-Pacers series will be more physical than Knicks opening round against Miami Heat; photos (M)

For Combustibility, It's Knicks-Pacers

 Suharto Sets Price Rises  Hours before the I.M.F. approved restoring aid to Indonesia, President Suharto said he would raise fuel and electricity prices sharply. Page A6.    A Universe in a Hurry  Scientists are stretching their imaginations to explain recent evidence that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. Page F1.

INSIDE

Red fox is thriving like few other wild predators, and their numbers are even growing in New York's suburban woods; biologists say it has become most widely distributed wild meat-eating mammal on earth, thanks to an evolutionary heritage that has enabled it to adapt superbly to presence and activities of people; fox is favored by astounding athleticism and certain feline traits; drawings (M)

Red Foxes Thriving In Suburban Woods

New York Mets place third baseman Edgardo Alfonzo on 15-day disabled list because of strained rotator cuff (M)

The Bad News Gets Worse: Alfonzo Is Out

Bo Bo Poultry Market, company that began as hobby at Lee family's house in Catskills decade ago, has grown into $10 million-a-year enterprise that now supplies 7 out of every 10 chickens sold in Chinatown; categorized as 'Buddhist style' by Agriculture Dept because head and feet are not removed, Chinese chickens are raised, killed and prepared according to precise specifications; Richard Lee and his three brothers recently opened fully automated slaughterhouse and processing plant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, making company largest producer of Buddhist-style chicken in country; company is expanding up and down East Coast and planning to aggressively pursue customers who follow kosher and Muslim dietary laws; photo (M)

Buddha and the Art Of Raising Chickens; Family Caters to Chinese Market With Farm-Fresh, Whole Pullets

Dr. Larry Norton, a prominent oncologist in New York City, received a telephone call at his home at 7:30 A.M. yesterday from a rich and very sick man.    ''Would a large infusion of cash,'' the patient asked, ''be able to get me the drug any quicker?''  

In Excitement Over Cancer Drugs, A Caution Over Premature Hopes

Federal investigation of October 1997 arrest of four Cuban exiles aboard weapons-laden cabin cruiser off Puerto Rico raises questions about possible role of powerful anti-Castro lobby, Cuban-American National Foundation, in plot to assassinate Fidel Castro; boat was believed headed for Margarita Island off Venezuela, where Castro and other Latin American leaders met for summit in November; assault rifle found aboard belonged to Francisco Hernandez, president of foundation, and cabin cruiser was owned by Jose Antonio Llama, member of foundation's executive board; arrests followed statement by one of men aboard about plot to kill Castro; organization, which has raised more than $1 million for both Republicans and Democrats, is one of most powerful lobbying organizations in US; has forged close ties to every President since Ronald Reagan; photo; map (L)

A Plot on Castro Spotlights A Powerful Group of Exiles

 Friendly $3.6 Billion Bid Could End Brawl for Echlin  Dana made a friendly $3.6 billion stock offer to acquire Echlin, a smaller rival in the auto parts industry and the target of a hostile $3.1 billion bid of cash and stock from SPX. Echlin shares rose 8.4 percent and Dana fell 5.2 percent. The bid could end a takeover battle that began nearly three months ago.    Echlin would, in effect, become a seventh business unit at Dana. Echlin's chairman and president, Larry W. McCurdy, would be named president of the Echlin Strategic Business division and would lead Dana's entry into the aftermarket, where Dana has little presence. [Page D2.]

BUSINESS DIGEST

Kansas Federal jury awards more than $66 million to 1,900 assistant college coaches whose salaries were found to have been illegally restricted by National Collegiate Athletic Assn; penalty, which includes more than $22 million in back wages, penalties and legal fees that were tripled under Federal antitrust law, is by far largest court assessment against association, which regulates and administers major intercollegiate sports; verdict follows five years of often tortuous legal wrangling, in which coaches contended that blanket rule imposed by NCAA in 1992 to restrict salaries of certain assistant coaches to $12,000 for academic year stifled competition and deprived them of fair market wages (M)

Assistant Coaches Win N.C.A.A. Suit; $66 Million Award

Market Place column on wild fluctuations of stock of Entremed Inc, small biomedical company that might--or might not--have drugs that could lead to cure for cancer; says stock rose $39.75, to $51.81, with volume reported at level well above number of shares outstanding; says trading in stock was perhaps more chaotic than any in years, with highest prices--more than $80 a share--coming in first two minutes after market formally opened; chart (L)

THE MARKETS: Market Place; Drug Stock Joins List of Wall St.'s Wildest

Boston Pops to begin its 113th season on May 6; James Taylor to perform new folk song based on his trip to Northern Ireland; conductor Keith Lockhart will introduce first piece had has commissioned for orchestra since becoming conductor in 1995; photo of Taylor; French police question museum guards and tourists as they try to determine how thief managed to steal Camille Corot painting valued at $1.3 million; Dalai Lama dedicates Tibet House Cultural Center, block from Union Square, on West 15th St, in Manhattan; photo of Philip Glass; American conductor JoAnn Falletta is appointed music director of Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (M)

Footlights

Theodore J Kaczynski, confessed Unabomber, receives four life sentences plus 30 years in prison for string of bombings over past 17 years that killed three people and injured 22; Sacramento Federal District Judge Garland E Burrell berates him for committing unspeakable and monstrous crimes for which he has shown no remorse; Kaczynski delivers statement accusing prosecutors of distorting facts for political purposes; asks people to reserve judgment; members of victims' families, including Susan Mosser, attend sentencing; condemn Kaczynski as vicious killer, coward and manipulative monster; his brother David Kaczynski, who first raised suspicions about him, offers 'deepest apologies' to victims's survivors (M)

JUDGE SENTENCES CONFESSED BOMBER TO FOUR LIFE TERMS

Aryna Siarhiejeŭna Sabalenka is a Belarusian professional tennis player. She is currently ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and is a former world No. 1 in women's doubles. Sabalenka has won 20 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including three majors at the 2023 Australian Open, 2024 Australian Open, and 2024 US Open, as well as nine WTA 1000 events. She has also won six doubles titles, including two majors at the 2019 US Open and 2021 Australian Open, both partnering with Elise Mertens.

May 5, 1998

Headlines from May 5, 1998

Red Sales In the Sunset Of the Left

Clinton Agrees To G.O.P. Deal On Judgeships

'Ragtime' Leads Tony Nominations

Sports of The Times; Knicks' Tale: Instincts And Elan

Success Took 17 Years

Billboard 200

Titanic

Let's Talk About Love

City Of Angels

Savage Garden

Backstreet Boys

Notable Births

Historical Context for May 5, 1998