March 13, 1999

About New York column on 94-year-old artist William Segal, whose 60 years of self-portraits are displayed at Tibet House in Manhattan; Segal comments; photo (M)

$800 million bid by Howard and Edward Milstein for Washington Redskins shows how costly game has become; NFL's full 31-team ownership will vote on deal, and if rejected, Milsteins and their partners will lose not only their contract for team but also $30 million nonrefundable deposit held by Jack Kent Cooke estate; cost of playing NFL poker is climbing; spurred by network television deals that will total $18.3 billion through 2005, team values are soaring; chart; photos (M)

Oil price surge this year, which gets another boost with new agreement by oil ministers meeting in The Hague on cutting production, is beginning to sting consumers; despite oil price increase, economists are not predicting new surge in inflation across the board; they are saying that decline in inflation, which limited last year's increase in Consumer Price Index to 1.6 percent, will be over if oil price rises stick; Labor Department reports prices paid to producers fell four-tenths of 1 percent in February; without energy and food, producer prices were unchanged (M)

Miami of Ohio basketball team upsets University of Washington, 59-58, in first round of Midwest Regional of NCAA tournament, New Orleans; photo (M)

New York City Transit officials say that control room fire on F and G subway lines in Brooklyn destroyed critical switching equipment, forcing transportation officials to close five stations and and disrupt service for more than 150,000 passengers; say that while most service will be restored on F line today, service on G line will be eliminated for up to two months at its last three Brooklyn stations; photo (M)