November 13, 1998

Siblings struggle to survive on farm in 1936 Ireland. Splendid.

Article on Kansas State in view of upcoming football game against Nebraska; notes that Kansas State has 9-0 record this season; Coach Bill Snyder photo (M)

Texaco Inc will cut 1,000 jobs worldwide, or about 5 percent of its work force, in its oil-exploration division as part of cost-cutting effort that is intended to save $200 million a year (M)

''Singing comes from the head, the vocal cords and the diaphragm,'' says the German bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff. It also comes from the heart. Mr. Quasthoff, 39, among the most critically hailed and sought-after singers in Europe, was one of 5,000 children born with abnormalities after their mothers took the drug thalidomide. Yet he has embraced life without regret in a career that is a tribute to talent, optimism and tenacity. He performs tonight and tomorrow in Mahler's ''Knaben Wunderhorn'' with the New York Philharmonic under Sir Colin Davis. An article by Anthony Tommasini, page 4.

Market Place column on possibility of strike by Federal Express pilots holds Wall Street analysts and investors appear to be unmoved at prospect; says pilots have begun toning down their language, trying to lure company back to negotiating table; photo (M)

Lawyers for Microsoft Corp make broad and aggressive attempt to discredit Intel vice president Steven McGeady who has emerged as important Government witness in antitrust trial, portraying him as resentful employee and introducing testimony from his own supervisor, Ron Whittier, that differs from his memory of events; McGeady is unfazed by testimony introduced to contradict his account; photo (M)

New York State election officials are rechecking machines and counting paper ballots to determine winner of race for Attorney General; Democratic challenger Eliot L Spitzer has increased his lead to 22,000 votes over Republican incumbent, Dennis C Vacco; nine days after election, outcome remains in doubt with 100,000 votes still to be counted; latest figures represent sharp increase in Spitzer's lead, which stood at 4,101 votes on Nov 11; photo (M)

Article on National Basketball Players Association pres Patrick Ewing discusses his role in negotiations to end lockout; photo (M)

Israel opens bidding for state-run housing development in predominantly Arab east side of Jerusalem that has been flash point in relations with Palestinians; Prime Min Netanyahu says flatly that Jerusalem will not be divided again, and Israel will build in any part of city 'we deem worthy of building in'; action is seen as gesture to disaffected right on day after divided Cabinet approves agreement on next Israeli withdrawal from West Bank; Palestinians charge violation of agreement, and appeal to US; bids will be for first 1,000 housing units on Har Homa; photo; map; Netanyahu says virtually all is private Jewish land within Jewish capital, and is not provocation; Sec Madeleine Albright has cool but restrained reaction; Har Homa, 2,500 feet above sea level, is rare open space in Jerusalem, with commanding vistas (M)

Recent knifing attacks on homeless people in San Francisco, including one murder, intensifies debate about huge number of highly visible street people in what has been very tolerant city; Oakland man, Joshua Rudiger, is charged with murder and attempted murder; Mayor Willie L Brown Jr enrages advocates with his policies of removing vagrants from Golden Gate Park, moving those in tourist areas to shelters and arresting those disobeying the law; vagrants and panhandlers huddle near fancy hotels of Nob Hill, sleep on benches near department stores and camp out at Civic Center; photos; city budgets $60 milloin for services, but numbers are far out of proportion: San Francisco is nation's 13th most populous city, but only New York and Los Angeles have larger numbers of the homeless (M)

US continues to build up forces for possible attack on Iraq, amid eerie silence on diplomatic front, in contrast to previous showdowns with Saddam Hussein; no last-minute mediation trips are announced, and even Arab countries that at in past have condemned US threats warn that Iraq alone will take blame for consequences of defying UN on weapons inspections; US welcomes such warnings; dozens more jet fighters and heavy bombers head toward Persian Gulf; photos; UN diplomats, including Russians and French, are angered and frustrated by Iraq's latest moves to end inspections and demands that economic sanctions be lifted before Security Council conditions are met; Iraqis want UN Sec Kofi Annan to intervene, but Annan has seen his February agreement defied and violated since its signing; Iraqi spokesman Tariq Aziz delivers defiant message from Hussein (M)

Arizona Diamondbacks managing partner Jerry Colangelo denies report that team has offered Bernie Williams, free-agent who played center field for New York Yankees last season, $100 million for seven years (M)