 Sentence in Prom Case  A New Jersey woman was sentenced to 15 years for killing her newborn at her senior prom, but would be eligible for parole after serving 2 years and 11 months. Page B1.

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 Trading Losses Deplete Profit at Deutsche Bank  Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest bank, said that it lost $136 million on trading in the securities of emerging markets, primarily Russia, virtually obliterating its third-quarter profit. The bank said net income for the quarter plunged 83.5 percent.  

BUSINESS DIGEST

Dow Jones industrial average gains 123.06 points, or 1.47 percent, to close at 8,495.03; Standard & Poor's 500-stock index rises 17.84 points, or 1.67 percent, to 1,085.93; Nasdaq composite index gains 19.84, to close at 1,757.19; graph; chart (M)

Stocks Gain On Stronger Profit Reports

John Glenn, an astronaut again at 77, returns to orbit in space shuttle Discovery; after two suspenseful delays, shuttle's two rockets and three engines ignite in flames and billowing vapors and lift seven-member crew into orbit some 345 miles above Earth; estimated 250,000 visitors to Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral and surrounding communities watch blastoff; Pres Clinton declares that Discovery flight--last mission before NASA begins launching International Space Station in December--is the end of an era: 'So John Glenn began this first phase of our space program, and he's ending it just before we start on the space station'; photo of astronauts: Chiaki Mukai, Steven Lindsey, Scott Parazynski, Stephen Robinson, Pedro Duque, Glenn and Curtis Brown Jr; photos of liftoff (L)

36 Years Later, Glenn Lifts Off for His Space Encore

Clyde Haberman NYC column discusses crude behaviour displayed by Sen Alfonse D'Amato during 1998 campaign and througout years; examples cited (M)

What Did You Expect? Mr. Manners?

Labor Department's employment cost index of wages and salaries rises surprisingly strong 1 percent in three months ended Sept 30; wages and salaries rise 4.3 percent in the last year, substantially more than 3.6 percent gain in previous year; Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner, Katherine Abraham, comments; photo (M)

Wages Turn Hot for Workers, With Gain of 1.2%

Tamoxifen, used for 20 years to treat breast cancer, can now be used to prevent the cancer's onset in women who have the greatest risk of developing it, the F.D.A. said. The agency offered doctors a computer disk to help them decide who is most likely to benefit from the new use.     Article, page A27.  

Tamoxifen Approved In Cancer Prevention

Jeep carrying Israeli soldiers intercepts Palestinian suicide bomber as he is about to ram car packed with explosives into school bus carrying children from Jewish settlement at Kfar Darom, Gaza; jeep absorbs explosion, which kills one soldier and wounds three others; bomber also dies; Yasir Arafat issues quick and unusually fierce condemnation of attack and then places under house arrest Sheik Ahmed Yassin, spiritual leader of Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas; drawing; photo; illus (M)

Israeli Jeep Blocks a Bomber From School Bus Carrying 40

Mike Jarvis discusses his feelings as he begins his first season as head coach of St John's University basketball team (M)

COLLEGE BASKETBALL: It's All About Life, and Winning, Too; Mike Jarvis, St. John's New Coach, Embraces His Latest Basketball Mission

Profile of Stanley Fischer, first deputy managing director of International Monetary Fund; says Fischer is trying to reinvigorate tradition-bound, often narrow-minded bureaucracy that has never adjusted to world of 24-hour markets and has proven astroundingly ill-prepared for challenge of designing economic plans that will fit political realities of countries where IMF is sent in as lender of last resort; photos (M)

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: I.M.F.'s Bearer Of Bad Tidings; Organization's No. 2 Gets To Tell Needy Nations What They Don't Want to Hear

Autos on Friday article on new onboard accident-reporting device; photos of test by Mike Buffum; graph showing safety features most desired by driving public (M)

AUTOS ON FRIDAY/Safety; In a Test, the Crashed Car Calls 911

Two years ago, an American musicologist, David Buch, found a score of the 18th-century opera ''The Philosopher's Stone'' in a German library; it had been returned there from Russia with other World War II plunder. After studying the score, he declared that Mozart had composed some of the music. Although experts are still divided, much of the evidence supports Mr. Buch's conclusion. Tonight in Boston the opera will receive its first modern performance and audience members can decide for themselves.

Fairy Tale With Hints Of Mozart

National Basketball Players Assn, labeling NBA and Turner Sports cable network as 'co-conspirators' in curent lockout, holds that approximately $475 million in guaranteed television rights fees that will be paid to NBA this season, regardless of whether games are played, gives owners more clout in their economic fight with players; it has elicited talk from players of penalizing both networks by not doing interviews both during and after current labor impasse; photo (M)

NBC May Face Boycott by Players After Lockout

Sen Alfonse M D'Amato, with five days to go until election, steers his campaign in new direction, releasing television advertisement that invokes 1980 investigation of Repr Charles E Schumer in effort to portray Democratic challenger as dishonest; advertisement begins running heavily in markets across state and previews what D'Amato's aides say will be central part of their campaign-ending strategy: an attack on Schumer's integrity, based on 1980 investigation into whether he illegally used state workers on his first Congressional campaign; 1980 investigation reviewed (M)

In a New Tactic, D'Amato Points To a 1980 Inquiry Into Schumer

Article discusses intense campaign for New York State Attorney General between incumbent Republican Dennis C Vacco and Democratic challenger Eliot L Spitzer; public's indifference to race and its general lack of knowledge of duties of office noted; photo (M)

2 Little-Known Rivals in Fierce Fight for Attorney General

Trust and Reconciliation Commission's final report on South Africa's brutal past, far from being salve for country's wounds that some had hoped it would be, is released in bitter atmosphere of court challenges and political bickering; after more than two years of hearings into apartheid-era atrocities, commission is finally able to hand over 3,500 pages of its final report, but not before last-minute bid by Pres Nelson Mandela's party to block its release; report asserts that apartheid Govt institutionalized violence in its fight against racial equality, using security forces to carry out abductions and killings within South Africa and beyond; report concludes that Govt then systematically covered up its actions; report also criticizes almost every group involved in liberation struggle, including governing African National Congress, which it found was responsible for killings and torture, including deaths of innocent civilians in bombings and other attacks; photo of Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, commission chmn (L)

South African Panel's Report Arrives in Swirl of Bitterness

Microsoft Corp antitrust trial shifts into slower gear as David M Colburn, America Online senior vice president, is led through painstaking cross-examination in which he is asked to define technical acronyms and parse fine print of contract terms (M)

In Eighth Day, Microsoft Trial Slows Its Pace

Federal prosecutors file secret charges against former sergeant in United States Army who is suspected of switching sides in war against terrorism and joining global campaign to attack Americans mounted by Saudi exile Osama bin Laden; charges are part of Federal authorities' efforts to prove bin Laden was behind bombings of two United States Embassies in Africa in August, and series of other attacks against United States soldiers in Somalia, Saudi Arabia and Yemen; they draw new ties between bin Laden and circle of Islamic militants in Brooklyn, who were implicated in World Trade Center Bombing and a plot to blow up United Nations and other New York landmarks; former Army sergeant, Ali A Mohamed, was charged in September in closed court hearing in Manhattan, and remains in custody at Metropolitan Corectional Center; his photo (L)

U.S. Ex-Sergeant Linked To bin Laden Conspiracy

Team of American and Swedish scientists, through rare glimpse inside human brain, reports that they have discovered generation of brain cells in adult humans for first time, opening an important area of investigation into possible new treatments for such debilitating neurological disorders as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and stroke; finding is one of series of recent discoveries that have overturned years of conventional wisdom about human brain: that, after birth, once brain cells died off, they could never be replaced; in one such finding last spring, scientists reported substantial new cell growth in brains of developing children under age 6; now, with discovery in adults that cells are continually dividing and producing mature new cells, potential arises that their regeneration may be used to mend a brain damaged by disease, or treat a disease caused by a damaged brain; photo of Dr Fred Gage, leader of Swedish-American team (L)

ADULT BRAIN CELLS SAID TO REPRODUCE

Ted Hughes, British poet who was known as much for his doomed marriage to the American poet Sylvia Plath as for his powerful, evocative poetry, dies at 68; Hughes, Britain's poet laureate, has been suffering from cancer for about 18 months; photo (M)

Ted Hughes, 68, a Symbolic Poet And Sylvia Plath's Husband, Dies

 POLL SHOWS UNCERTAINTY -- While the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll shows Republicans are viewed as more ethical and Democrats as better able to handle critical issues, Tuesday's elections hinge on which party brings out voters. Page A30.

IN THE CAMPAIGNS

New Jersey Judge John A Ricciardi imposes 15-year prison sentence on Melissa Drexler, young woman who has admitted killing her newborn son at her senior prom last year; photo (M)

Woman Gets 15 Years in Death of Newborn at Prom

New York Giants quarterback Danny Kanell is suffering from virus but is expected to play against Washington Redskins (M)

Kanell Has a Virus, but Fassel Sees It as a Benefit

Nonprofit theater groups throughout New York City concentrate on plays related to specific ethnic heritage; work of Latino, Asian, Irish, Italian, Jewish and black troupes noted; photos; information list (M)

Amid Diversity Onstage, Passion's a Mother Tongue

Article profiles career of Zenia Mucha, manager of New York State Gov George Pataki's re-election campaign, and senior consultant to Sen Alfonse D'Amato; photo (M)

Behind the Men Atop the G.O.P.: A Tough Woman

Cale Douglas Makar is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman and alternate captain for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected with the fourth overall pick by the Avalanche in the 2017 NHL entry draft.

October 30, 1998

Headlines from October 30, 1998

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BUSINESS DIGEST

Stocks Gain On Stronger Profit Reports

36 Years Later, Glenn Lifts Off for His Space Encore

What Did You Expect? Mr. Manners?

Billboard 200

Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life

The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill

Come On Over

'N Sync

Aquemini

Notable Births

Historical Context for October 30, 1998