March 11, 1999

Battle over nation's scarcest medical resource, human organs, has moved from Washington to states, where number of legislatures have begun passing laws that would bar donated hearts, lungs, kidneys, livers and pancreases from being shipped beyond their borders to sick people elsewhere in country; states that have adopted such laws are Wisconsin, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Florida; laws are intended to thwart Clinton Administration's effort to force organ recovery networks and transplant centers around nation to share their precious organs more liberally; over 61,000 Americans are waiting for organ transplants, but only about 20,000 transplants are performed each year because demand for organs far outweighs supply; Institute of Medicine, arm of National Academy of Sciences, will begin examining organ allocation system; review is being conducted at request of Congress; map; graphs (M)

Several analysts expect breakup of RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp to make Nabisco food unit hot merger target; see Philip Morris Cos and Pepsico as possible bidders (M)

Federal District Court, Manhattan, Judge John S Martin Jr rules that Latin Kings gang leader Luis Felipe, inmate in solitary confinement US Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colo, can have conversations with nation's most infamous terrorists, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy J McVeigh, Unabomber Theodore J Kaczynski but not with World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef during their one hour of exercise; photo (M)

National Jewish Book Awards given to Leon Wieseltier for his nonfiction book Kaddish, and to Aharon Appelfeld for his novel The Iron Tracks; music by composer David Amram will be featured in two-part concert series at Town Hall, At Home Around the World with David Amram; photo; Vienna Philharmonic, led by Riccardo Muti, will make its only New York appearances this year with three-concert Carnegie Hall series; Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival 1999 will include national and local debuts by companies from wide variety of countries; season begins with Pillow debut of Grupo Corpo Brazilian Dance Theater; photo (M)

Market Place column on DuPont Corp plan to issue new stock to track performance of its fast-growing life sciences products business; notes tracking stock lets investors bet on performance of one part of company, but does not represent ownership of underlying assets, as common stock does (M)