 AFTERMATH -- Experts say they fear an India-Pakistan war and a new arms race. News analysis, page A9.

NUCLEAR ANXIETY

Article in series France '98: World Cup Profile discusses career of US soccer player Claudio Reyna; photo (M)

FRANCE '98: World Cup Profile -- From Onlooker to Playmaker; After a Four-Year Wait, Reyna Will Finally Get His Shot

Ben Ratliff previews major jazz festivals coming up in New York City in June: JVC Jazz Festival and Texaco New York Jazz Festival; schedule of events; photos (L)

All Jazz, All June

Baseball column discusses unfairness involved in recent decision to suspend Baltimore Orioles pitcher Armando Benitez 8 games for intentionally hitting New York Yankees first baseman Tino Martinez with ball while Martinez remains on sidelines with injury (M)

After the Drilling: Martinez Pays, Benitez Walks

Commerce Department reports gross domestic product rose in first quarter at annual rate of 4.8 percent; corporate profits fell 2.2 percent, after taxes; it is second quarterly decline after more than three years of steadily rising profits; new orders for durable goods rose 2.6 percent, to $191.2 billion in April, after slight increase in March; graph (M)

Economy Brisk, But Data Offer Some Cautions

Market Place column on how Asia's economic problems are playing havoc on Latin American stock markets; says economic stability in Russia and East Asia, and particularly recent weakness in Japanese yen, appears to be playing bigger role in shifting investor sentiment than local economic or political factors in Latin America; photo (M)

Market Place; Late but Emphatic, Asia's Woes Reach Latin America

 Yeltsin Wants Help on Ruble  As Russian financial markets steadied slightly, President Yeltsin said he would call on Western leaders to help defend the ruble. Other officials said Russia would need a hefty bailout package from the West. Page A3.

INSIDE

Article discusses growth in retail coffin sales; stores that promise prices up to 75 percent lower than those offered by undertakers are sprouting up across country, waging what has become nasty price war with entrenched funeral home industry; photo (M)

Selling Coffins From a Storefront; Savings Are Large, but Some Find the Setup Unnerving

Caryn James reviews HBO film A Bright Shining Lie, based on the book about Lieut Col John Paul Vann and United States involvement in Vietnam, and Showtime film Thanks of a Grateful Nation, miniseries on United States' forces exposure to chemical weapons during Persian Gulf war; photos (L)

Complex Warriors and Victims

Japanese housewives are seen as key to reviving nation's economy; many housewives are focusing on saving instead of helping nation spend its way out of economic trouble; consumer spending accounts for almost 60 percent of Japan's gross domestic product; because Japan is world's second-largest economy, any reluctance on part of its consumers is felt worldwide; Japanese spending, after reviving in 1996, has slowed to growth rates last seen in 1993, when economy was in recession; graph; photo (L)

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: Shopping for a Recovery; In Japan, Housewives Seen as Key to Reviving Economy

Pakistan carries out underground nuclear tests in response to India's recent detonations; Prime Min Nawaz Sharif declares his country a 'nuclear power,' fulfilling secret plan made by predecessor thirty years ago; photos; Government says it is fitting nuclear warheads on missile that could strike most of north and central India; Sharif's announcement that Pakistan has 'evened the score with India' sets off pandemonium in Indian Parliament and raises specter of retaliation; explosions are carried out at test range in Chagai Hills, remote southwest desert near Afghan and Iran borders; Pakistanis celebrate in streets; Government declares state of emergency; analysts believe two weapons were tested, not five announced; Pres Clinton, who made calls to Sharif appealing for restraint, quickly announces US sanctions; says he cannot believe new century will start with Indian subcontinent repeating worst mistakes of 20th century; Sharif tells Clinton he is bowing to overwhelming domestic pressure from military chiefs, Muslim clerics and opposition leaders like Benazir Bhutto, who vowed to take to streets unless Sharif acted; her late father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, committed to covert nuclear program in 1970's to make 'Islamic bomb' (L)

PAKISTAN, ANSWERING INDIA, CARRIES OUT NUCLEAR TESTS; CLINTON'S APPEAL REJECTED

New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 8-3; photo (M)

Yankees Fight Off Fatigue and Knock Off Red Sox

Manhattan Theater Club will stage Terrence McNally's play Corpus Christi as planned next fall, reversing cancellation that had been announced because of criticism from Roman Catholic group as well as bomb threats; Catholic protesters object to play's depiction of gay Jesus-like figure who has sex with his apostles, while artists have been furious about cancellation; artistic director Lynne Meadows and producer Barry Grove deny self-censorship, saying they removed play because of security concerns and restored it after conferring with police officials; Athol Fugard had threatened to remove his play The Captain's Tiger from club's schedule; statement by 30 leading playwrights welcomes reversal; Rick Hinshaw of Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights says play amounts to bigotry that would not be countenanced if it were directed at blacks, Jews or other groups (M)

In Reversal, Theater Vows to Stage Play That Drew Threats

Moving for a quick resolution in his battle with the White House, the special prosecutor Kenneth W. Starr asked the Supreme Court to rule directly on an appeal of a lower court ruling denying privilege claims and compelling testimony by two of President Clinton's aides.     Article, page A14.  

Starr Seeks Action

United Healthcare Corp, one of nation's largest health insurers, agrees to acquire Humana Inc for $5.5 billion, further shrinking number of competitors in industry and narrowing choices of managed-care plans for consumers; chart (M)

United Health To Acquire Humana Inc.

New York City Taxi and Limousing Commission, handing major defeat to taxi industry, approves most of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's strict new regulations, including quadrupling insurance requirements, sharply increasing traffic fines and making it easier to take away licenses; chairwoman Diane McGrath-McKechnie postpones voting on two other hotly-contested changes, requiring taxi owners to post $100,000 bond for accident victims and suspending cabbies' licenses after they get six penalty points; vote follows tense month of confrontations with drivers and eight hours of angry testimony by drivers and companies charging measures will cripple industry (M)

TAXI PANEL PASSES MUCH OF PACKAGE SOUGHT BY GIULIANI

Clyde Haberman NYC column discusses what he sees as lack of public interest in first capital murder case in New York State since 1963; Darrel K Harris faces death penalty after being convicted of murdering three people in Brooklyn social club (M)

Life or Death? More Yawns Than Passion

EPA study warns that automobile catalytic converters, which have dramatically reduced smog for twenty years, have now become significant and growing cause of global warming; converters break down compounds of nitrogen and oxygen from exhaust that can combine with hydrocarbons and produce smog, but researchers have suspected for years that converters sometime rearrange compounds to form nitrous oxide, which is 300 times as potent as carbon dioxide; new study estimates that nitrous oxide, nearly half of it produced by vehicles, now accounts for about 7.2 percent of gases that cause global warming; increase comes from increasing number of miles traveled by cars with converters, and problem has worsened with more efficient converters; EPA is not proposing solution at this time; official Wylie J Barbour comments (M)

Autos' Converters Cut Smog But Add to Global Warming

Astronomers have deciphered digitized pictures made by Hubble Space Telescope last August and reconstructed what they believe is first image ever captured of planet outside this solar system; photo; putative planet, scorching hot and larger than Jupiter, is in constellation Taurus about 450 light-years from Earth; discovery team at news conference at NASA shows image of two stars circling each other, with third, much smaller, object visible but dimmer; existence of extra-solar planets has until now been inferred mainly from gravitational wobbling induced in their parent stars, but never seen directly; team leader Dr Susan Tereby, founder of Extrasolar Research Corp, says planet TMR-1C has apparently been expelled from its binary-star system and is hurtling outward at about 12 miles per second; says very young, very large planet apparently was created at about same time as two sunlike stars it orbited, but orbit was unstable, and it ws expelled from system by gravitational 'slingshot'; planet seems destined to be rogue, forever drifting outward; Tereby photo; other astronomers comment (M)

Image Is Believed to Be the First Of a Planet Beyond Solar System

Autos on Friday column on automobile head restraints; notes that while in theory restraints, required by Government since 1969, help prevent whiplash injuries that often result when occupant's neck snaps back suddenly, in practice most head restraints do little to protect the neck in such crashes as rear-end collisions; drawings show whiplash, and how to avoid it (M)

AUTOS ON FRIDAY/Safety; Devices That Can Save Your Neck

Harvey Araton Sports of The Times column discusses announcement by NBC and Turner Sports that they plan to start new professional football league (M)

Sports of The Times; A Bold New Venture For Moguls?

Pres Clinton, after futile midnight effort to dissuade Pakistan, grimly denounces nuclear tests and imposes penalties that could cost Pakistanis billions of dollars; Clinton warns that Pakistan and India have embarked on dangerous arms race; test comes hours after anguished, impassioned call in which Clinton all but begged Pres Nawaz Sharif not to detonate weapon; Clinton reportedly offered 'changed' relationship, promised to try to deliver jets that Pakistan paid for but never received and said he would try to cut through knot of laws blocking aid; Pakistan's billions of aid dollars were cut off after cold war and in response to its development of nuclear bomb; Sharif replied that world's failure to punish India for its tests made it impossible not to follow suit; US believes Sharif's announcement of five detonations is domestic propaganda and that number was perhaps two (M)

After an Anguished Phone Call, Clinton Penalizes the Pakistanis

Betty Tyson, whose conviction 25 years ao for strangulation death of Rochester, NY, businessman Timothy Haworth was overturned, discusses how her imprisonment turned out to be positive experience; case reviewed; photo (M)

A Conviction Ruled Unjust Leads to a Redemption

Special Report, Taking Names; New Jersey Health Department maintains secret registry of names and addresses of 13,205 residents who are infected with HIV, at time when states like New York and California are still debating issue; New Jersey has had no breaches of confidentiality in six years of registry, other perils that critics foresee have not come to pass, and benefits are abundant; public health officials note that records help to quickly identify groups needing special programs, even though as many as 20,000 HIV-positive people have not come forward to be tested; New Jersey lacks powerhouse advocacy groups, which tends to mute objections; officials say reporting is even more crucial with new drug treatments; point to identification and treatment of mothers and newborns; New Jersey's legal protections and tracking of cases explained; photo; demographic graphs (L)

TAKING NAMES: A special report.; New Jersey's H.I.V. List: Valuable, and Still Secret

New York State Democratic leaders agree to put all three party candidates for Senate, Charles E Schumer, Geraldine A Ferraro and Mark Green, on Sept 15 primary ballot; photo (M)

3 Democrats In Senate Race Go to Primary

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May 29, 1998

Headlines from May 29, 1998

NUCLEAR ANXIETY

FRANCE '98: World Cup Profile -- From Onlooker to Playmaker; After a Four-Year Wait, Reyna Will Finally Get His Shot

All Jazz, All June

After the Drilling: Martinez Pays, Benitez Walks

Economy Brisk, But Data Offer Some Cautions

Billboard 200

The Limited Series

City Of Angels

Sittin' On Top Of The World

Before These Crowded Streets

Titanic

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