June 9, 1998

Analysis of Federal Trade Commission's antitrust suit against Intel Corp; says odd feature of complaint is that it accuses Intel of victimizing putative rivals that are also customers; holds in separate instances involving Intergraph Corp, Compaq Computer and Digital Equipment Corp, Intel Corp is accused of withhholding technical data about its processors from companies that were designing computers around Intel chips; says what will make Government's case difficult is that only one of those companies--Digital--ever seriously competed with Intel; adds information that Intel freely acknowledges it withheld from those companies may have had no direct bearing on competition in chip industry (M)

Grauman's Egyptian Theater in Hollywood is to be renovated and become new home of American Cinematheque, and preservationists hope its resurrection will be catalyst for renewed attention to other forgotten movie palaces in Los Angeles, a city famous for the disregard of its past; downtown Los Angeles as a baker's dozen of surviving movie palaces of 1920's, but all but three are shuttered or used for nontheatrical purposes; photos (M)

Clyde Haberman column notes that City Council Speaker Peter F Vallone has introduced bill to make late Frank Sinatra's version of New York, New York official song of city; quotes cabaret singer Steve Ross, who suggests several other songs that could be city's anthem (M)

Footlights column discusses preparations for annual Museum Mile Festival on Fifth Avenue, new exhibition on fountains at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Richard Gaddes's appointment to succeed John Crosby as general director of Santa Fe Opera and Tom Hanks's selection as recipient of 14th annual American Museum of Moving Image Salute; photo (M)

Federal prosecutors say Honda Motor Co and Ford Motor Co have agreed to pay hefty civil fines for selling cars that were designed to pass emissions tests but run dirtier on road; Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency fine Honda $12.6 million for programming pollution-control computers to ignore sparkplug failures; EPA says Honda must spend $250 million on remedial efforts on 1.6 million cars affected; Ford will pay $2.5 million fine and spend $3.8 million on recall of 60,000 1997 vans (M)