Article on NBA finals between New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs discusses aggressive play of Knicks forward Marcus Camby and notes that Knicks can tie series with victory in Game 4; photo (M)

Camby Doesn't Back Down, and Neither Do Knicks

Jelena Dokic, 129th-ranked player, beats Martina Hingis, No 1-ranked player, in opening round of Wimbledon tennis tournament in what is considered biggest Grand Slam upset of Open era; photos (M)

Hingis Loses, And There's No Shoulder To Cry On

Anheuser-Busch Companies is aggressively marketing its flagship Budweiser beer in Argentina, Britain, China, Ireland and Japan; hopes to turn Budweiser into truly global brand, something no other beer has ever pulled off; Anheuser has remained leader in US, with 45 percent market share, slightly more than it had five years ago; volume has risen slightly in recent months, and company has used promise of extra marketing funds to entice many distributors to deal exclusively in its products; map; graph; photos (M)

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: This Bud's for Them; Anheuser-Busch Takes Closer Aim at Foreign Markets

Seiji Ozawa will resign as music director and leading conductor of Boston Symphony Orchestra after 2002 season to join Vienna State Opera; shift adds Boston to list of venerable orchestras with podiums to fill in coming years; photo (M)

Ozawa to Quit Boston Symphony, Adding to a Void on U.S. Podiums

Interview with Cristina Saralegui, host of Miami-based El Show de Cristina, highest-rated talk show on Spanish-language television; it is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year; photo (M)

Arts in America -- With Latin Flair (and Flare); Diverse Audience Presents a Balancing Act for Talk Show Host

Federal authorities have issued arrest warrant for Martin R Frankel, who has fled country with at least $334.6 million in life insurance premiums from as many as 11 insurance companies in five states; Frankel has not been charged with any crime; authorities suspect Frankel's firm Liberty National Securities was foundation of pyramid scheme; they say Frankel escaped just before Liberty National collapsed, slipping out of country in early May; Federal prosecutors say scheme may have involved larger sums--unless accounting records filed by Frankel were faked; civil lawsuit filed by insurers says that $950 million is missing, though some of that may reflect exaggerated trading profits; nearly $2 billion appears to be missing from Saint Francis of Assisi Foundation, charity controlled by Frankel and affiliated with Vatican-linked foundation, though some investigators question whether those assets ever existed; Federal investigators say Frankel used credibility provided by Roman Catholic Church and prominent persons with whom he associated to defraud insurance companies; Rev Peter Jacobs, retired priest living in Rome, worked closely with Frankel to establish charity; Frankel retained law firm Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, run by Democratic Party heavyweight Robert S Strauss, to handle charity's legal work; Akin Gump says it did minimal work for charity and no longer has any connection to it; charity also claimed former CBS new anchor Walter Cronkite and former Chrysler Corp chairman Lee Iacocca as board members; Cronkite and Iacocca say they had nothing to do with charity; Frankel's troubles became evident on May 5 when firemen, responding to alarm at Frankel's $3 million home in Greenwich, Conn, found blazing documents spilling out of fireplaces and file cabinet smoldering in kitchen; house was deserted; photos (M)

Of Fraud, Millions and One Who Got Away

Initial public offering of Salon.com, on-line magazine with meager revenue, fails to enthuse Internet stock investors; clouding new stock's performance is unusual method used to set opening price, a process called modified Dutch auction, which allows individuals to bid on stock before it begins trading publicly; first-day enthusiasm may have been undermined by auction format, which eliminates role of traditional underwriters of stock; stock was priced on June 21 by W R Hambrecht & Co at $10.50 a share and closed June 22 at $10; in contrast, initial offering of Ramp Networks on June 22 gets off to roaring start; its stock was priced at $11 and rose 61 percent in first day of trading to close at $16.75; company, started by former staff members of San Francisco Examiner, wound up day with market value of $107 million, having sold 2.3 million of 10.7 million shares; Salon's chief executive Michael J O'Donnell comments (Market Place column) (M)

THE MARKETS: Market Place; Dutch Auction Fails to Enthuse Internet Stock Investors

Stephen Holden reviews film An American Love Story, 10-hour documentary on interracial marriage, race relations and opportunity in United States; photo (M)

Love Forged In a Crucible And Observed In Cold Light

 Hatch Enters G.O.P. Race  Declaring that the Republican Party could use someone like him with a reputation of being able to work with Democrats, Senator Orrin G. Hatch of Utah said he would seek the Presidential nomination.   PAGE A17    Senate Backs U.N. Payment  The Senate approved a bill authorizing the payment of more than $800 million in back dues to the United Nations but cutting future contributions to the organization.   PAGE A4

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Two new airline alliances are announced between Delta Air Lines and Air France, and among AMR's American Airlines, Swissair and Sabena World Airlines of Belgium; while both accords are expected to integrate flight schedules and frequent-flier programs between partner airlines, Delta-Air France long-range plan is to bring other partners into the fold, so they can better compete with eight-member Star Alliance, led by UAL's United Airlines, and eight-member One World alliance, led by American Airlines; end of NATO bombing campaign in Balkans will not revive region's travel or tourist industry anytime soon; but Austrian Airlines has already restored its daily flights between Vienna and Skopje, Macedonia, and is evaluating whether to restore service to Tirana, Albania; two months ago PricewaterhouseCoopers estimated that fighting in Balkans could cost hotels, travel agencies, airlines and cruise ships as much as $100 million; Joel M Abels, editor and publisher of Travel Trade, says American-led nightly bombings of Yugoslavia have brought annual summer invasion of American tourists into Europe to a halt; Princess Cruises, which is owned by Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co, has ordered four new ships for delivery between October 2001 and May 2004; two of ships will be built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique of France; other two will be built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Japan; P&O Cruises has also ordered ship from Fincantieri of Italy; five ships will cost approximately $2 billion; photo of Delta Air chairman Leo F Mullin and Air France chairman Jean-Cyril Spinetta (Business Travel column) (M)

Business Travel; Two New Airline Alliances Are Aimed at Sharpening Competition

Freddie Meeks, one of 50 black sailors convicted of mutiny for refusing to resume loading ammunition onto ships during World War II after July 1944 explosion at California Navy station killed 320 men, is seeking pardon from Pres Clinton; his lawyers argue Meeks, 79, and others had no intent to mutiny and were afraid they would become victims of careless Navy that used only blacks to load munitions at base and gave them no training; map; photos (M)

Old Sailor Turns to Clinton To Lose Label of a Mutineer

New York Mets beat Florida Marlins, 8-2; photo (M)

Ordonez Making His Case as Mets Rally to Win

Profile of Neil Labute, filmmaker and playwright whose latest play, Bash, Latterday Plays, is set to open at Douglas Fairbanks Theater play consists of three separate monologues starring Ron Eldard, Calista Flockhart and Paul Rudd; photo (M)

A Filmmaker's Faith in God, if Not in Men

Thirty more management-company owners, agents and contractors are indicted for allegedly taking total of nearly $4 million in kickbacks from contractors for work at 74 co-op apartment buildings in New York City; Jeffrey C Gold, manager who helped draft ethics rules to clean up industry in 1994, is among those indicted; Dist Atty Robert M Morgenthau holds rampant corruption continued despite 1994 indictments of over 70 companies and agents (M)

30 Are Charged In Bid Rigging On Co-op Work

Wine world is watching intently to see if standards will be maintained at Williams Selyem winery in Healdsburg, Calif, producer of much esteemed pinot noir, now that winery has acquired by John S Dyson from Burt Williams and Ed Selyem; Williams Selyem has always been made from grapes purchased under handshake agreements, and the most important of those agreements was with Joe Rochioli, who will now keep his grapes for his own pinot noir; photo of Rochioli and Bab Cabral, new winemaker at Williams Selyem (L)

A Great American Wine Swirls In Turmoil

Harvey Araton Sports of The Times column praises play of New York Knicks guard Allan Houston in NBA finals against San Antonio Spurs; contends that his calm exterior has helped Latrell Sprewell control his temper; Houston photo (M)

Sports of The Times; Houston's Calmness Is Very Cool

Supreme Court, 7-2, rules that people with physical impairments who can function normally when they wear their glasses or take their medicine generally cannot be considered disabled and do not qualify for Federal disability law protection against employment discrimination; ruling, hailed by employers, comes in three separate cases; Justices John Paul Stevens and Stephen G Breyer dissent in all three; Justice Sandra Day O'Connor writes two of majority opinions, and Justice David H Souter one; photo (M)

HIGH COURT LIMITS WHO IS PROTECTED BY DISABILITY LAW

Fly Without Fear is support group for people who fly with anxiety or are too petrified to fly at all; it meets at La Guardia Airport and is run by Carol Cott Gross and her husband, Herb; photo (M)

Group Therapy Eases Takeoffs; Learning to Conquer the Fun-Limiting Fear of Flight

Fourteen letters written 27 years ago by author J D Salinger to Joyce Maynard are sold at Sotheby's for $156,000 to software entrepreneur and philanthropist Peter Norton, who says he is going to return them to reclusive author; photo (M)

Salinger Letters Are Sold And May Return to Sender

 Measure to Limit Imports Of Steel Is Killed by Senate  The Senate killed a bill that would have sharply restricted imports of foreign steel to the United States, a blow to unions and steelmakers and a victory for President Clinton, who had warned that the legislation would revive protectionism.    The bill, which became a divisive argument over the merits of free trade and the economic wisdom of protecting steelworkers at the expense of raising prices on a range of everyday goods, would have rolled back imports of steel to the levels before the Asian economic crisis, ending a surge that began as countries sought to export their way out of trouble. [Page A1.]

BUSINESS DIGEST

Joseph Berger, in Our Towns column, notes that Dr Natasha Shaginian-Needham, Russian expatriate and director of Happy Family adoption agency in Cold Spring, NY, flies Russian children to village and has them put on festivals of Russian songs and dances to interest families in idea of adoption (M)

Our Towns; From Russia, A Showcase For Adoptions

Top chefs today are expected to have good looks, just like other celebrities; some chefs clearly revel in the role while others tolerate it or find it silly and trivializing; photos (L)

Such Fresh Ingredients: The Chef As Beefcake

Fifth of eight columns by Thomas Keller, chef and owner of French Laundry in Yountsville, Calif, on summer soups; recipes for yellow pepper soup with paprika mousse, gazpacho and puree of English pea soup with white truffle oil; photos (L)

THE CHEF; The Spirit of Summer, Captured in a Soup

Sam Cohn, 70, is being replaced as head of New York office of International Creative Management by Esther Newberg and Amanda (Binky) Urban, who run agency's literary division; Cohn comments; photo (M)

Top Agent Loses Role At I.C.M. Talent Agency

Members of Berlin Philharmonic are to hold secret-ballot vote to elect sixth chief conductor in orchestra's 117-year history; Claudio Abbado is stepping down in 2002; some 100 prints from private collection of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller will go on display at Museum of Modern Art on June 24; Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut, is chosen to open 11-day Venice film festival on Sept 1; hand-illuminated prayer book containing Passover Haggadah printed in Prague in 1515 and a compendium of Jewish law copied on parchment by scribes in Germany in 1391 are among rare Hebrew manuscripts and books offered at auction June 23 at Christie's; New York will be home this fall to a new citywide festival of dance, theater, music, opera, video and spoken word; festival, New Europe '99, will run from Oct 11 to 31, and is intended to introduce new generation of European performing artists to New York audiences (M)

June 23, 1999

Headlines from June 23, 1999

Camby Doesn't Back Down, and Neither Do Knicks

Hingis Loses, And There's No Shoulder To Cry On

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: This Bud's for Them; Anheuser-Busch Takes Closer Aim at Foreign Markets

Ozawa to Quit Boston Symphony, Adding to a Void on U.S. Podiums

Arts in America -- With Latin Flair (and Flare); Diverse Audience Presents a Balancing Act for Talk Show Host

Billboard 200

Millennium

Ricky Martin

Californication

...Baby One More Time

Venni Vetti Vecci

Historical Context for June 23, 1999