October 3, 1998

Cleveland Indians defeat Boston Red Sox, 4-3, in Game 3 of American League division series; Indians lead series, 2-1; photo (M)

Labor Department reports unemployment rate edged up only slightly in September, to 4.6 percent, from 4.5 percent in August; but payrolls expanded by just 69,000 jobs, a fraction of 309,000 jobs created in August; total hours worked dipped, suggesting that production and income are leveling out, and hourly pay barely inched up (M)

George Vecsey's Sports of The Times column on New York Yankees pitcher David Cone, who is reeling over death of Dan Quisenberry and revelation that Darryl Strawberry has colon cancer as Yankees sweep American League division series; photo (M)

Trancripts of conversations Linda R Tripp taped with Monica S Lewinsky are rich in talk about hair, diets, shopping and sex but show less a real friendship than a temporary alliance between two women obsessed with Bill Clinton who often do not even seem to like each other very much; Tripp frequently lets slip her feelings of moral and intellectual superiority; urges Lewinsky harder and harder to press Clinton for a good job; Lewinsky, in turn, bristle at Tripp's superior attitude; photos (M)

* The Walt Disney Company, under Michael Eisner, is raising its sights toward high art. -- Arts & Leisure. * Azerbaijan's oil rush has drawn gangsters, spies and multinationals. -- Magazine.