May 29, 1999

Hospitals and advocates for poor are concerned that fledgling health care companies will be unable to cope with flood of Medicaid clients New York State plans to force into managed care; fear they will be unable to get patients to medical providers and money to financially struggling hospitals; many of managed care companies admit they have had little money to prepare for influx (M)

Reconstruction of Serb purge of more than one million ethnic Albanians from Kosovo shows that it was not was not the result of random violence but rather the product of a meticulously organized plan; plan, a harsh refinement of a failed campaign against Kosovo Liberation Army in summer of 1998, had at least two major goals at its inception: crushing KLA and achieving permanent change in Kosovo's ethnic balance by driving out as many Albanians as possible; killing and torching were major elements of the plan, but the Serbs' most potent weapon was fear; Serbs also made every effort to strip Kosovars of all identity papers, rendering them, in effect, stateless nonpersons and making it difficult for them ever to return home; implementation of plan in Djakovica, Pristina and villages across Kosovo detailed; photos; graph shows exodus of Kosovo's refugees through April and May (L)

Profile of Aleksandar Radojevic, 7-foot-3-inch Montenegran who is trying out with various National Basketball Association teams in advance of draft; planned to play for Ohio State, but was ruled ineligibile because he was paid to play briefly with Yugoslav club team; photos (M)

Hillary Clinton has waited 25 years for her own moment in the political sun. Yet even as she considers a run for the Senate, she can't stop talking about her husband. Is she willing to put herself on the line? A report by James Bennet, in The Times Magazine. And today: When the Clintons are in public, increasingly it is she who draws the spotlight. Page A10.

Tour de Sol race, annual showcase for electric cars, was held this year in conjunction with conference on hybrid vehicles, organized with Society of Automotive Engineers; hybrids are now subject of intense efforts by almost every leading auto maker; Toyota and Honda even plan to begin selling them from dealer showrooms in United States within next 12 months; electric cars have so far failed to catch on, burdened by high cost and weak preformance; but genuine market is about to emerge for clean, peppy hyrids that can go twice as far as conventional car on gallon of gasoline; photos (M)