June 8, 1998

Cable & Wireless PLC's plan to buy MCI Communications's Internet business is threatened by antitrust issues being raised about Worldcom's planned acquisition of MCI; company could end up with more of MCI than expected or lose deal entirely; is racing to build bulk in belief that global communications market will end up being dominated by few international giants; tables and graphs of company financial data; diagram; photo (M)

Chicago Bulls defeat Utah Jazz, 96-54, in third game of NBA championship series; lead series, 2-1; photo (M)

For all the attention paid to Social Security and Medicare, many experts say that the gap in long-term care coverage poses the most immediate and often most devastating threat to the financial security of older Americans and their families. But little is being done about the gap, in part because of its sheer size. And policy-makers fear the prospect of an overwhelming demand for services from families that are now caring for elderly relatives themselves at no cost to the Government. Article, page A18.

New York Yankees defeat Florida Marlins, 4-1; photo (M)

One of jurors who concluded that Darrel K Harris should be first man sentenced to death in New York City since 1963 says she reached her decision after turning to Bible; anonymous juror says that when she began deliberating Harris's fate, more than half panel of five men and seven women in State Supreme Court, Brooklyn,--herself included--opposed sentencing him to death; Harris was convicted of killing three people in Brooklyn social club in Dec 1996; photo of group in Times Square demonstrating against jury's verdict (M)