Rebels knock out all electrical power to Kinshasa, Congo, and tighten their hold on a strategic region outside the capital city; observers say that if rebels gain control of supply routes, capital could fall with little or no fighting; map; photo of new recruits being enlisted for Pres Laurent Kabila's forces (M)

Rebels Closing In on Blacked-Out Congo Capital

Autos on Friday column notes that automobiles that win top honors at high-profile collector shows--like recent Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance--owe their beauty not so much to companies that manufactured them, but to well-heeled collectors who had cars essentially remanufactured; says most cars are restored not to their original factory condition, but to level of perfection considerably above that; says overrestoration has virtually become requirement for car owners intent on winning trophies; photos (M)

AUTOS ON FRIDAY/Collecting; At Top Shows, as Good as New Isn't Nearly Good Enough

Tiger Woods leads PGA Championship after opening round, shooting 66 and setting course record at Sahalee Country Club in Redmond, Wash; photo (M)

Once Again, The Cup Looks Bigger For Woods

Ira Berkow Sports of The Times column on late New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris, who hit 61 home runs in 1961 to break Babe Ruth's single-season mark; photo (M)

Sports of The Times; Cherished, And Lost, Memories

University of Notre Dame's once-pristine reputation has been battered by age-discrimination lawsuit filed by former assistant coach Joe Moore that featured sordid testimony about football program, and NCAA review of violations involving gifts to players; photos (M)

FOOTBALL: Teetering on Its Pedestal; Notre Dame's Image Marred by Off-the-Field Troubles

In Colorado and across the Rocky Mountain West, tourism and the second-home industry have spurred land rush that is threatening the very landscape that draws so many people; these pressures are so powerful that they have forged alliances of two longtime adversaries: cattlemen and environmentalists; a major strategy for saving private land from development is the formation of land trusts, such as the pioneering Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust; purpose is to save West's privately owned wide-open spaces by keeping cattle grazing on them; charts compare Colorado land in trusts and in ranches; map of private and Federal land in Colorado; photos ((M)

Rare Alliance in the Rockies Strives to Save Open Spaces

Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson withdraws his application for boxing license in New Jersey day before State Athletic Control Board is to make decision; Tyson instead applies to Nevada, state that revoked his license last year after he bit Evander Holyfield's ears during championship bout (M)

Tyson Bid to Return Is Shifted to Nevada

Adam Nagourney analysis contends that Geraldine A Ferraro is following unadventurous approach of self-presumed front-runner as she runs for Senate Democratic nomination; says that was apparent at candidate's second debate; says Ferraro offered familiar positions and endorsements of Democratic doctrine, as her opponents, Rep Charles E Schumer and Public Advocate Mark Green, traded attention-grabbing proposals and quotes (M)

Citing a Lead In the Polls, Ferraro Plans To Play Safe

New York City's large and varied immigrant population holds on to places left behind by gathering for music, theater or movies from the old country, wherever that might be; detailed listing of places and events that offer possibilities for cultural globe-trotting while staying in city; photos (L)

Many Nations, One Big Party

Federal Bureau of Investigation reports that it has found fragments of truck that carried the explosives in bombing of American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya; says picture of what happened in the seconds before bomb went off is being assembled; embassy's private guards have given FBI detailed account of what happened just before attack, and one guard helped FBI draw sketch of one of suspects; diagram mapping aspects of attack (M)

F.B.I. Reports Finding Pieces Of Bomb Truck

Stock and bond prices plunge in Russia, jarring hopes that Government can avert depletion of its finances and meltdown of banking system; capping week of ominous declines, blue chip stocks now have lost almost a quarter of their value and demand for Russian bonds seems to have vanished; Central Bank and aides to pres Boris N Yeltsin dismiss suggestion by financier George Soros that the ruble should be devalued, move that would effectively reduce nation's debt, but inflate prices; photo (M)

Stock and Bond Prices Drop In Russia as Investors Bolt

New York Yankees beat Texas Rangers, 2-0; photo (M)

Defying the Hitters, Hernandez Fans 13 and Wins

 Russian Stocks and Bonds Plummet Into Free Fall  Russia's stock and bond markets plunged, taking with them hopes of averting a depletion of the Government's finances and a meltdown of the country's banking system. Capping a week of ominous declines, the nation's major blue-chip stock index dropped as much as 25 percent before rebounding some. It ended down 6.5 percent.  

BUSINESS DIGEST

Billionaire Alan Gerry is financing music festival that will be held on Aug 13 to 15 at site of 1969 Woodstock concert in Bethel, NY; transformation of concert grounds into fenced commercial enterprise appalls many 'Woodstockers' who have protested that field is public shrine to state of mind, not piece of private real estate where one can charge admission; Gerry says he wants to bring new surge of moneyed tourists to Catskills, paving way for regular series of concerts in years to come; map; photos (M)

A More Sedate Woodstock Tries to Lure Yuppies, Not Hippies

Cendant Corp, struggling to regain investor confidence amid accounting scandal that has slashed its share price in half, says profits for first half of 1998 were robust and more than $640 million of profits reported for last three years were false; also says board-level investigation of accounting problems has been completed and will be provided to its directors in two weeks; chief financial officer Michael P Monaco says investigation uncovered much greater and more systematic fraud than was expected when probe was launched; chairman-chief executive Henry R Silverman says second-quarter profits were more than 40 percent higher than last year's figures (M)

False Profits For 3 Years At Cendant

Market Place: Growing possibility of devaluation of Russian ruble throws scare into world's markets; although Russians insist there will not be devaluation, threat has already led to major selloff in emerging markets and proved drag on Wall Street and other major stock markets; Russia's crisis could be sign of broadening malaise that would stunt strong economy in US; Russian stock market plunges and is closed temporarily as sellers swamp buyers; yields on short-term Russian bonds jump to nearly 200 percent; main stock market index falls 6.5 percent for day, resulting in loss of almost 50 percent in just last four weeks; George Soros, well-known financier and big investor in Eastern Europe, calls for major financial reforms and 15 to 25 percent devaluation of ruble; graph (M)

THE MARKETS: Market Place; Ruble Throws Another Scare Into Markets

Author Lucian K Truscott 4th, in 25 years of novels, newspaper articles and TV appearances, has chided his alma mater, US Military Academy, and Army for secrecy and chastised them for sexism and homophobia, describing flawed societies too often governed by prejudice and personal ambition; that holds true in Truscott's new novel, Full Dress Gray; surprise is not what is in pages of Truscott's novel, it is academy's response; academy bookstore has set up two signings for Truscott, and he is being welcomed by West Point officials; his upcoming trip to West Point reflects larger, longer journey that academy itself has taken, traveling over recent years toward greater openness and more measured, sophisticated response to criticism; photos (M)

West Point Greets the Enemy; Author Once Shunned Returns to His Alma Mater

Federal appeals court rules that Medicare patients are entitled to immediate hearings and other protections when they are denied care by health maintenance organizations; in decision on a nationwide class action suit, court says that many HMO's have failed to provide adequate explanations for the denial of benefits and have failed to inform patients of their appeal rights (M)

RIGHTS EXPANDED IN MEDICARE CASE

The Federal Trade Commission said that a popular site on the World Wide Web had lied to more than two million subscribers when it told them that it would not disclose personal information it had collected from them.    In the Government's first enforcement action to safeguard privacy on the Internet, the commission said it had reached a settlement with Geocities, the company that runs the site, to stop making such promises.   

U.S. Cites Violation Of Internet Privacy

274 residents of Woodstock Hotel, many of them elderly, mentally ill and formerly homeless, still cannot go home three weeks after construction accident at Conde Nast building on 43d Street; hotel, badly damaged in accident, has not been deemed safe; accident has thrust many Woodstock residents back into life they thought they had long abandoned, forcing them to live out of plastic bags in sterile hotel rooms; it has financially drained Project Find, private nonprofit social service agency that runs hotel; agency is trying to raise $350,000 to help pay for clothing, meals and transportation costs for tenants during displacement; photos (M)

Frailest Residents Of Times Square Remain Uprooted

Senior advisers say Pres Clinton has had extensive discussions with his inner circle about a strategy of acknowledging to grand jury that he had intimate sexual encounters with Monica S Lewinsky in the White House; discussions have centered on plan that would allow him to acknowlege a specific type of sexual behavior while still maintaining he told the truth when he testified in Paul Corbin Jones sexual harassment lawsuit that he never had 'sexual relations' with Lewinsky; Clinton's advisers are urging him to explain his testimony to American public, perhaps in brief televised speech after he testifies (M)

PRESIDENT WEIGHS ADMITTING HE HAD SEXUAL CONTACTS

 Threat to Swiss Lifted  A $1.25 billion settlement between Holocaust survivors and Swiss banks led officials in several states to cancel sanctions against Swiss financial interests. Page A8.

INSIDE

Ben Brantley reviews Donald Margulies's play Collected Stories, directed by William Carden and starring Uta Hagen; photo (M)

Of Love and Literary Betrayal

Twelve years after Coca-Cola Co moved to centralized 'anchor bottling' model, Pepsico Inc is planning to spin off its company-owned bottling operations; new bottling company may then acquire small independent bottlers; many small bottlers are already consolidating: there were 180 independent Pepsi bottlers in 1987 while today there are 121; Pepsi is considering spinoff at a time when Coca-Cola is facing increased scrutiny over the way it has moved its expensive bottling factories to its own spinoff, Coca-Cola Enterprises; operations of family-owned Minges Bottling Group, Pepsi's bottler in Kinston, NC, for last three years, and competition from Coca-Cola Bottling Co Consolidated, which covers 12 states in the South, discussed; graph; photos (M)

Cola War II: The Bottler Battle; On Pepsi Front Line, It's Getting Dangerous to Go Solo

Katsuhiko Kumazaki, prosecutor who led investigation into scandals in Japan involving expensive free entertainment paid for by businessmen who wanted bureaucrats' favor, was transferred in June to relatively remote coastal city, and investigation seems to have fizzled out; apparent collapse of investigation underscores resiliency of Japan's traditional way of governing (M)

Japan's Corruption Fighter Is Shunted Aside

Jaylah Ji'mya Hickmon, known professionally as Doechii, is an American rapper and singer. Her songs became viral videos on TikTok in 2021 and she signed recording contracts with Top Dawg Entertainment and Capitol Records in 2022. Her single "What It Is " (2023), which features Kodak Black, became her first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 and received a platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). That same year, she made her acting debut with the drama film Earth Mama.

August 14, 1998

Headlines from August 14, 1998

Rebels Closing In on Blacked-Out Congo Capital

AUTOS ON FRIDAY/Collecting; At Top Shows, as Good as New Isn't Nearly Good Enough

Once Again, The Cup Looks Bigger For Woods

Sports of The Times; Cherished, And Lost, Memories

FOOTBALL: Teetering on Its Pedestal; Notre Dame's Image Marred by Off-the-Field Troubles

Billboard 200

Hello Nasty

Armageddon -- The Album

City Of Angels

Jermaine Dupri Presents -- Life In 1472 The Original Soundtrack

Dr. Dolittle: The Album

Notable Births

Historical Context for August 14, 1998