June 9, 1999

Lou Dobbs is leaving as Cable News Network executive vice president and anchor of financial news show Moneyline to start own Web site, Space.com; was in charge of all of CNN's financial news coverage and president of financial news cable channel CNNfn; his show is CNN's most lucrative in terms of advertising revenue; Space.com will offer news, educational and fictional entertainment content about space, including science and business content; Venrock Associates reportedly will be venture's primary investor; CNN names Jeff Gralnick and David Bohrman to replace Dobbs on interim basis; photo (M)

National Assn of Theater Owners, prodded by Pres Clinton, will begin requiring teen-agers to show photo identification to get in to R-rated films without an adult; president William Kartozian and Clinton comment at White House announcement; rating system adopted in 1968 is apparently enforced in small towns and suburbs in South and Midwest, but not as much in big cities and on East and West Coasts; psychologists say curb could backfire, making violent films even more enticing to adolescents because of challenge of getting in (M)

Symphony Space and Whitney Museum of American Art will collaborate on program on art and literature of 20th century; photo; museums and monuments in France are expected to reopen to public on June 9 after employees of Culture Ministry vote to end three-week strike that disappointed and infuriated tourists; original works by winners of Pritzker Architecture Prize are assembled in museum exhibition; photo; poets from all parts of world are expected to gather in Rotterdam in June for 30th Poetry International Festival in City Theater (M)

New York City restaurants, from downtown lounges to restaurants with caviar service, are providing lounge areas with sofas and plush chairs where people can have their meals in comfortable atmosphere of home; photos (M)

Police Officer Charles Schwarz is found guilty of holding down Abner Louima while fellow officer, Justin Volpe, abused Haitian in restroom of Brooklyn precinct house; Officers Thomas Wiese and Thomas Bruder are acquitted of beating Louima in police car and Sgt Michael Bellomo is acquitted of trying to cover up incident; Louima holds news conference with lawyers in his civil suit against city, saying he is 'disappointed' in mixed verdict; Mayor Rudolph Giuliani praises verdict and officers who were willing to testify so that justice could be done; acquittal of three others suggests jurors did not take Louima at his word about beating in car after arrest at nightclub; three still face charges of misleading investigators; case reviewed, with comments by US Atty Zachary Carter and various attorneys; photos (M)