New York Gov George E Pataki is set to sign bill requiring that trucks and buses, which pollute air more than cars, undergo emission tests long required of autos; Environmental Conservation Department estimates program, effort to comply with Clean Air Act's tightening curbs on particulate emissions and other forms of pollution in major urban areas, will cut those emissions by 55 percent (M)

Albany to Make Trucks and Buses Pass Emission Tests, as Cars Do

Harvey Araton Sports of The Times column urges George Steinbrenner not to sell New York Yankees to Charles Dolan's Cablevision Systems; photo (M)

Sports of The Times; Steinbrenner Better Than Alternative

Interview with Dr Jim Duke, eminent botanist whose six-acre garden in Fulton, Md, contains 200 medicinal herbs, in 80 plots, each devoted to some disease or ailment; photos (M)

A Man With a Garden That's a Medicine Cabinet

Gubernatorial candidates Lt Gov Gray Davis and Atty Gen Dan Lungren have avoided education as campaign issue despite polls showing California voters rank education as their top concern and favor by wide margin $9.2 billion bond measure on Nov ballot to repair and replace crumbling schools; both candidates have run cautious campaigns aimed at middle; neither is eager to talk about education reform, potentially controversial issue, or its cost; Davis ducks issue at news conference with Sen Dianne Feinstein called to discuss education; photos (M)

Schools Are Talk of California, But Not of the Candidates There

New York City police are searching for Theresa Giannola Goldberg, baby sitter for 6-year-old Chaim Weill, who has cerebral palsy, as suspect in child's kidnapping; search teams of Hasidic volunteers and police officers comb Williamsburg section of Brooklyn and pursue leads that she may have taken child to South Carolina; photo (M)

Ailing 6-Year-Old Disappears, and Sitter Is Sought

 Stocks Up in Modest Rally, Led by Advances in Nasdaq  Stock prices resumed a rebound that began last Thursday just as it appeared that the main gauges would drop 20 percent below their July peaks and qualify as a bear market.    The Dow Jones industrial average gained 30.64 points, to 7,968.78. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index climbed 10.73 points, or 1.08 percent, to 1,005.53, and the Nasdaq composite index rose 31.52 points, or 2.09 percent, to 1,540.97, encouraging some analysts to think the worst of this year's battering may be over. [Page C10.]

BUSINESS DIGEST

Article on wenge, African hardwood not recognized as imperiled that has conspicuously contributed to stripped-sculpture look of late 1990's furniture design that it has acquired name-dropping recognition all its own; photos (M)

Wood of the Moment, of a Minute Ago

New York Yankee players discuss their victory over Cleveland Indians in American League Championship Series and their preparing to play San Diego Padres in World Series; photo (M)

Yanks Get One Day To Revel And Rest

 Prenatal H.I.V. Test Urged  A panel of experts has recommended that every pregnant woman in the United States be checked for the AIDS virus as part of routine prenatal care. Page A22.

INSIDE

New York Times/CBS News Poll finds approval of Republican-controlled Congress has slipped to 43 percent from high of 56 percent in Sept in wake of House vote to open impeachment probe of Pres Clinton; finds Congress is now widely seen as having invested too much political capital in impeachment and having accomplished little on broad array of issues of importance to voters; 48 percent of public now disapproves of job Congress is doing; Clinton's approval rating remains at highest of his Presidency, 63 percent; poll suggests Democrats may not be facing feared midterm election rout; finds election results will swing on turnout, with low turnout best for Republicans; finds Clinton is widely seen as trying harder than Congressional Republicans to find budget compromise; finds 75 percent of voters think Kenneth W Starr's probe was not worth time or money, but 55 percent of people who call selves conservative Republicans say probe was worthwhile; tables (M)

CONGRESS'S RATING CONTINUES TO SLIP IN INQUIRY'S WAKE

New York Times/CBS poll finds that for first time since Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani won election in 1993, more than half of New York City residents say that life in city has improved; nearly two thirds of city residents who were polled earlier this month say they approved way Giuliani is handling job and 59 percent say that life in city has improved in last four years; graph (M)

Residents' Views on City Life Improve, and Giuliani Gets Credit

Pop Life column finds current pop music styles are being steamrolled by rap genre, which for past two years has fueled industry, reigning supreme economically as well as culturally; says white kids are getting beat on what happens from black counterparts, noting nearly three-quarters of rap albums are sold to white fans; photo (M)

Crossing Racial Boundaries, Rap Gains Ground

Federal Aviation Administration head Jane Garvey recommends airlines replace insulation in most passenger jets in regularly scheduled maintenance because insulation now in use catches fire too quickly when exposed to heat; recommends insulation covered with chemical polyimied, sold commercially as Kapton; FAA does not ground any jets; says it will develop tougher flammability standard for insulation within six months; experts say insulation could not have caused Swissair crash off Nova Scotia, but might have helped fire spread (M)

F.A.A. RECOMMENDS AIRLINES REPLACE INSULATION IN JETS

The deal taking shape provides the full $18 billion that the White House said was needed to stem the global financial crisis. Page A16.  

Compromise for I.M.F.

Cadbury Schweppes PLC, British candy and beverage giant that bought Dr Pepper/Seven Up for $1.7 billion in 1995, has developed new marketing strategy to revive 7-Up soft drink; 7-Up, once fourth-best-selling soft drink in country, has fallen to number 8; Cadbury president Michael S McGrath comments on company's strategy; graph; photo (M)

THE MEDIA BUSINESS: ADVERTISING -- The Unmaking of the 'Uncola'; After Years of Decline, New Owner Plots Revival at 7-Up

San Diego Padres defeat Atlanta Braves, 5-0, to win National League Championship series, 4 games to 2; will face New York Yankees in World Series; photo (M)

World Series Pits Padres Vs. Yankees

Peter H Lewis to write weekly column called State of the Art, starting next week; column will discuss new products and developments in electronics industry of interest to consumers

State of the Art

New York Jets Coach Bill Parcells names Vinnie Testaverde starting quarterback over Glenn Foley; photo (M)

It's Testaverde's Job As the Plot Thickens

First Amendment issues involving public's use of the Internet present a dilemma for Faulk Central Library and Austin Public Library branches, Austin, Texas, in allowing access to Web sites by their patrons, particularly minors, that contain objectionable material; concern by library's staff over content of some material being accessed led Branda Branch, Austin's library director, to install Cyber Patrol, a filtering program popular among parents but maligned by civil libertarians; use of software resulted in protest and threatened lawsuit from American Civil Liberties Union as well as criticism from Electronic Frontiers-Texas; protests have led to modification of blocking system; Branch comments on present situation; librarians across country are watching case with interest; photos, including Branch; chart on some filtering programs with analysis by librarians Karen G Schneider and David Burt (L)

Library Grapples With Internet Freedom

Grace Glueck reviews exhibit of 16th-century armor, Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries, at Metropolitan Museum of Art; photos (M)

The High Art Of Dressing For Battle

New York State Appeals Court, in first test of New York's death penalty law, hear lawyers challenging law contend that its plea-bargaining provisions are unconstitutional because they coerce defendants into pleading guilty rather than risk execution; proponents of provision assert that law protects defendant's right to due process and that Federal courts have long acknowledged right of prosecutors to grant plea bargains to people accused of capital murder (M)

Death Penalty Is Challenged In State Court

National Basketball Assn, day after canceling regular season games because of labor dispute, reacts cooly to players' proposal to impose system in which money would be taken from upper-echelon salaries (M)

N.B.A. Owners Cool To Players' Proposal

Article discusses performance of San Diego Padres pitcher Sterling Hitchcock in victory over Atlanta Braves in Game 6 of National League Championship Series; photo (M)

For the Padres, Hitchcock Becomes a Lifeboat

Marceline (Mo) and Fort Collins (Colo), rural towns that inspired Disneyland's Main Street are looking for ways to spur growth, even as Disney company says nostalgia for Main Street America has lost its appeal and is trying new ways to woo visitors; photos (M)

A Tale Of Two Main Streets; The towns that inspired Disney are searching for a little magic of their own.

Special report: The Testing Ground on bitter legacy of 1997 pact dividing Hebron into Israeli and Palestinian areas; city serves as object lesson in what can go wrong in peace accord and reminder that interim solutions are not final answers; is scene of frequent clashes between Jewish settlers and Palestinians, Israeli soldiers and Palestinian youths and between soldiers and settlers chronically dissatisfied with security; Jewish settlement of 400, unlike others in West Bank, is in midst of large Palestinian population, guarded by Israeli troops and international observers; situation in city shows how battle for land can continue long after accord is signed and that security cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis demands evolved relationship that could take years to build; chronology of events; maps; photos (L)

THE TESTING GROUND: A special report; In Hebron, Peace Accord's Bitter Fruit

Teuku Wariza Aris Munandar, also known as T. Warija Arismunandar, is an Indonesian activist and politician. He is the administrator of Gerindra Party and is known as leader of the Banda Aceh anti-Rohingya protest in December 2023.

October 15, 1998

Headlines from October 15, 1998

Albany to Make Trucks and Buses Pass Emission Tests, as Cars Do

Sports of The Times; Steinbrenner Better Than Alternative

A Man With a Garden That's a Medicine Cabinet

Schools Are Talk of California, But Not of the Candidates There

Ailing 6-Year-Old Disappears, and Sitter Is Sought

Billboard 200

Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life

Aquemini

The Love Movement

The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill

The Globe Sessions

Notable Births

Historical Context for October 15, 1998