Robert Lipsyte column (Coping) recounts trip to Yankee Stadium with millionaire Andrew Rasiej for New York Yankees-Atlanta Braves game; drawing (M)

Talking Baseball, Talking Business

Profile of and interview with New Republic film critic Stanley Kauffmann, who comments on changes in critics and reviews over past four decades; photo (M)

A Steady Critical Eye on Film's Shifting Currents

Article on new opportunities for adventure sport in New York City; activities include kayaking from Chelsea Piers with instructor Eric Stiller, Hi-Tec adventure race run by California-based Michael Epstein, rock-climbing in Central Park and mountain biking in Van Cortlandt Park; photos; list of venues (M)

Radical! New York is Adventure-Sport City

Stock market's jitters and Asian economic crash leave many Americans to fear end of Soaring Nineties; warning flags invite comparisons with other great periods of prosperity in modern history, and how they ended: the Gilded Age in late 19th century, the Roaring Twenties, the Fabulous Fifties and Sixties; drawings (M)

Ideas & Trends: Crash Course; Learning From the Big Booms

Pres Clinton, in nationally televised news conference from Beijing, says Chinese Government's use of military force to suppress 1989 Tiananmen demonstrations was tragic and wrong; there was no advance warning by Chinese news organizations about broadcast, and Clinton's frankest comments are omitted from later news accounts; still, word gets out and residents of Beijing express surprise that authorities allowed Clinton's remarks to be broadcast on air; state-run news organizations uniformly support 'resolute measures' taken in crackdown, in which hundreds of civilians are believed to have been killed; Government's decision to allow broadcast of Clinton's comments seems to reflect situation where policy is catching up with reality already out on street; people in Beijing speak quite freely about politics, and many say without hesitation that they agree with Clinton's assessment; photo (M)

CLINTON IN CHINA: REACTION -- Surprising Exchange on Rights on Chinese Television; Clinton's Harsh Words On '89 Massacre Seep Into Beijing's Alleys

Many companies move quickly to adopt tougher measures to meet Supreme Court's standards on sexual harassment, as set forth in two recent decisions; most large corporations already have strong harassment policies, but human resource experts say many companies fail to repeatedly communicate policy to all employees, or lack effective mechanisms set up for employees to report harassment without fear of reprisals; medium-size and smaller companies with inadequate human resources staffs will have to do most to strengthen their anti-harassment policies; Robert Bernstein, lawyer who advises many large corporations on employment matters, says ruling is not limited to sexual harassment; says same general principles apply to claims of homosexual harassment, racial harassment and national-origin harassment (M)

Companies Set To Get Tougher On Harassment

Article, turning table on 1980s advice from Japan on how to improve America, offers tongue-in-cheek suggestions for reviving Japan's economy; drawings (L)

Pieces of Advice for Japan

New York Yankees beat New York Mets, 7-2; photo (M)

Poised for a Sweep: Yankees Trounce Mets Once Again

Analysis of portion of Social Security overhaul plan that calls for privatization; influential lawmakers on both sides of aisle support privatization; critics, including economists, say benefits will not help achieve long-term solvency; photo; graphs (M)

Uttering the P-Word With Social Security

Market Watch column gives advice on whether or not to invest after AT&T merges with Tele-Communications Inc (M)

Putting All the Eggs In One Basket

Article on revival of Festival International d'Art Lyrique et de Musique, opera festival in Aix-en-Provence, France, which will feature five new productions orchestrated by Stephane Lissner; photo (M)

Trying to Give Opera A Festival Like No Other

Harvey Araton Sports of The Times column on New York Yankees 8-4 and 7-2 victories over New York Mets in first two games of their interleague series; photo (M)

Sports of The Times; Yankees Keep Feeding Mets' Inferiority Complex

Illegal bed-and-breakfasts are springing up in rental buildings all over Manhattan, where landlords are forgoing security of long-term leases for chance to make thousands more a year putting up tourists for the night; many such bed-and-breakfasts are in rent-regulated buildings in affluent neighborhoods, where frustrated landlords have long complained that they are entitled to more money; they are now making it; so far, city has shown little interest in exercising its enforcement power, which mainly consists of shutting businesses down, or even regulating them; but leasehold tenants in some buildings have begun to complain, loudly and with lawyers, about so many strangers coming and going in their buildings; photo (M)

It's Tenants Versus Tourists At Manhattan's Illegal B&B's

Millennium Partners takes control of building on West 66th Street formerly occupied by Chinese Mission to United Nations, which has moved to First Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets in swap arranged by Millennium; arrangement permits Millennium to expand adjacent Phillips Club, its extended-stay hotel, by incorporating old mission building into real-estate development company's Lincoln Square complex (S)

POSTINGS: Hotel Expanding Into Old Chinese Mission; 100 Rooms On W. 66th St.

Article on Martin Luther King Jr High School soccer team notes that it won 38 consecutive matches on way to winning two consecutive Public School Athletic League championships; photo of Coach Martin Jacobson with star midfielder Mansour Ndiaye (M)

Backtalk: First Vermont, Then the World; City Champs Provide the Hope for U.S. Soccer

News analysis: China's surprise decision to televise extended news conference and debate on human rights may be seen as favor returned to Pres Clinton, who handed China's leaders a gift simply by coming to Beijing despite sharp criticism of his China policy back home; live broadcast, which must have been approved at highest levels, is testament to Chinese Government's trust in Clinton, who is viewed in China as great statesman, pursuing America's long-term interests with China despite backbiting from his political enemies; photo (M)

CLINTON IN CHINA: NEWS ANALYSIS -- Surprising Exchange on Rights on Chinese Television; With a Nod to Cultural and Historic Differences, 2 Leaders Smile and Disagree on Delicate Issues

 Split Over Lewinsky Issue  The White House and the Justice Department differ over whether President Clinton can invoke the attorney-client privilege in the Lewinsky investigation. Page 14.    AIDS Tests in Third World  Answering pleas from poor nations, a United Nations panel recommended testing AIDS vaccines outside the countries that make them. Page 6.

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loyal fans have something new to cheer about this year**Miata Club of America holds annual gathering in Pocono Mountains; about 300 owners share enthusiasm for two-seat roadster (S)

Loyal Fans Have Something New to Cheer About This Year

Mexico, once one of safest countries in hemisphere, has become place where tourists are panicking and millions fear criminal attack whenever they leave home; some experts blame economy; some say entire generation of police officers are using their violent skills as paticipants in organized crime; some trace crisis to justice system, which is so discredited that most crimes go unreported, fewer are investigated, and only tiny fraction of perpetrators are ever punished; some even blame growth of democracy, which by stripping Mexico's ruling party of many of its authoritarian powers has also diminished its ability to repress crime; all agree that country's top civilian authorities have lost control of country's criminals; photos; graphs (M)

The World: What Went Wrong?; Mexico Can't Fathom Its Rising Crime

St John's University in Jamaica, Queens, will open school's first three dormitories, to house 700 students, in fall of 1999, initial part of plan that envisions residence halls for 2,800 students by year 2002; computer rendering of student residences (S)

POSTINGS: St. John's Building Its First Dormitories; Residential Halls for 700 By Fall of '99

Vincent Gallo holds premiere of his movie Buffalo 66 in Buffalo, hometown he fled at age 16 to become painter, actor, model and, now, writer-director in New York City; semi-autobiographical film is about two pathologically tough, unfeeling parents; Gallo's real-life parents attend pre-screening picnic, and comment on son's portrayal of them; photo (M)

Vincent Gallo's American Buffalo

Michelle Krebs Behind the Wheel article on Mazda Miata; photos; table of comparison with BMW and Mercedes-Benz convertibles (S)

BEHIND THE WHEEL/1999 Mazda MX-5 Miata; The Lure of the Open Roadster

Frank DeCaro Style Over Substance column bemoans discontinuation of his favorite fragrance, Romeo Gigli per Uomo; bottle photo (S)

Scent of a Man

Big health insurers are sharply cutting fees they pay doctors and imposing strict new rules; angry doctors say this can undermine patient care, and they are fighting back with lawsuits and complaints to state regulators; many traditional health plans and physician networks have in past been relatively generous, hoping to persuade doctors to join their networks; insurers soon felt caught between big employers that resisted rate increases and doctors and hospitals that joined forces to strengthen their bargaining power; latest cuts, along with efforts to raise rates significantly for some employers, can be seen as effort to try to restore profits by regaining control; if doctors balk at any restrictions, they can be blackballed from plans, losing access to thousands of patients; even though insurers have final say over whether treatment is necessary, many contracts hold doctors, not health plans, liable in malpractice suits over denial of care; doctors say most aggressive insurers clamping down are Aetna US Healthcare, Blue Cross plans in seven states, and local units of United Healthcare and Cigna Healthcare; chart (L)

INSURERS TIGHTEN RULES AND REDUCE FEES FOR DOCTORS

Police and prosecutors are beginning to take domestic violence much more seriously in aftermath of murder of Karan Brown Chambers, who was bludgeoned to death in lobby of Van Dyke Houses by longtime live-in boyfriend Samuel Tolliver; photos; chart (L)

June 28, 1998

Headlines from June 28, 1998

Talking Baseball, Talking Business

A Steady Critical Eye on Film's Shifting Currents

Radical! New York is Adventure-Sport City

Ideas & Trends: Crash Course; Learning From the Big Booms

CLINTON IN CHINA: REACTION -- Surprising Exchange on Rights on Chinese Television; Clinton's Harsh Words On '89 Massacre Seep Into Beijing's Alleys

Billboard 200

MP Da Last Don

City Of Angels

Never S-A-Y Never

Godzilla -- The Album

Hope Floats

Historical Context for June 28, 1998