About New York column on return of break dancing describes hyperkinetic scene at the Key, skating rink turned dance arena in South Bronx (S)

About New York; Flying Feet, Head Spins And Insights

Andreessen Steps Down From AOL

Maytag Corp's shares fall more than 26 percent after company warns that third-quarter earings will come in well below earlier projections, because of weaker-than-expected sales of its lower-priced appliances; new chairman-chief executive Lloyd D Ward is suddenly under investor scrutiny; photo (M)

Maytag Shares Tumble 26% On Concerns Over Earnings

Eleven members of Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN who vowed to renounce terrorism walk out of Federal prisons around country, freed under act of clemency by Pres Clinton that has sparked political firestorm; FALN was resonsible for 130 bombings in late 1970's and early 1980's; none of those granted clemency had been convicted of crimes that resulted in death or injuries; FALN stages celebration and rally in Chicago, where Mayor Richard M Daley and police officials have been highly critical of Clinton's act of clemency; descriptions of bombings in Chicago, Evanston, Ill, and West Hartford, Conn, in which FALN members were convicted; photo (M)

Puerto Ricans Clinton Freed Leave Prisons

Sports of The Times on Keyshawn Johnson and other New York Jets preparing for start of season; photo (S)

Sports of The Times; Worries Are The Cost Of Winning

Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 3-1; photo (S)

1 Hit, 17 Strikeouts, No Way for the Yankees

Japanese Government sells yen for dollars in foreign exchange market in effort to slow rise in value of yen, which jumped 2.8 percent on Sept 9; intervention stops yen rally for moment; late in day, yen is valued at 108.81 to dollar, off from 107.78; analysts expect yen's rise to resume because economic outlook for Japan has improved; US Treasury Sec Lawrence H Summers reiterates Clinton Administration's support of strong dollar (M)

Tokyo Slows Yen's Rally, at Least for Now

Workers and refugees taking shelter at besieged United Nations compound in East Timor are menaced by militias there after most of staff is evacuated; Gen Wiranto, armed forces chief, has resisted international pressure for Indonesia to accept deployment of UN peacekeeping force; he now says UN force may be allowed in future; turbulence in East Timor has begun to shake political position of Pres B J Habibie; reports from Dili, East Timor's capital, describe scene of continuing tension and fear; photo; map (M)

MILITIAS IN TIMOR MENACE REFUGEES AT U.N. COMPOUND

Republicans see debt reduction as having far more appeal to voters than they previously assumed; changing political calculation could prove to be crucial in determining whether White House and two parties in Congress push this year for big compromise deal on taxes and spending, or leave issue to be fought out on campaign trail next year; if there is partisan gridlock over how to divide up surplus, it automatically gets channeled into debt reduction (M)

Debt Reduction Gains Appeal In the Capital

Starting on Monday, the suggested newsstand price of The Times on weekdays will increase to 75 cents in the greater New York metropolitan area. The change, announced in the paper on Sept. 2, will not affect the Sunday price or the cost of home delivery obtained directly from The Times.  

To Our Readers

Terrence D Moore, executive director of New Jersey Pinelands Commission for twenty years, resigns under pressure; environmentalists charge Whitman administration favors development over conservation and cites antiregulatory sentiment on commission; Pinelands cover more than one-fifth of state; map; Gov Christine Whitman denies any role in resignation; Moore takes post with National Park Service (M)

Director of New Jersey Forest Preserve Steps Down Under Pressure

Hillary Clinton acknowledges she mishandled attempt to distance herself from Pres Clinton's clemency offer to members of Puerto Rican terrorist group, saying she should have consulted Hispanic leaders in New York before suddenly urging White House to withdraw offer; Mrs Clinton comments during conference of Hispanic, Asian and black women in New York, where he is likely to run for Senate; photo; Repr Jose Serrano and Rev Al Sharpton are unappeased (M)

First Lady Admits Stumbling Politically on Clemency Issue

Nation's labor movement is sharply divided over how to handle its coveted endorsement in next year's Presidential election because several powerful unions feel Vice Pres Al Gore is not sympathetic enough to their views on trade policy; many service-sector and government-employee unions want AFL-CIO to endorse Gore, but industrial unions complain that Pres Clinton has not done enough to prevent expanded trade from wiping out thousands of jobs; Gore is intensely courting union leaders, but so is former Sen Bill Bradley, who has embraced many of labor's positions as he tries to prevent Gore supporters from mustering two-thirds majority needed for endorsement by 13-million-member labor federation; union leaders opposed to early endorsement of Gore are trying to get him, and Clinton Administration, to make concessions on trade before AFL-CIO holds its convention (M)

LABOR IS DIVIDED ON ENDORSEMENT

 Producer Prices Jump, But Core Rate Slips  Producer prices, a gauge of wholesale price inflation, jumped five-tenths of a percent in August, the Labor Department reported. But the increase, the largest since last December, was largely confined to energy and food.   

BUSINESS DIGEST

WTJM-FM, Jamming 105, is challenging WCBS-FM, dominant New York oldies station for 27 years; upstart boasts of never playing doo-wop, Beach Boys or even Elvis, focusing on rhythmn and blues; challenge sets off rounds of promotions, including contests, concerts and boat cruises, to keep listeners on board; Bruce (Cousin Brucie) Morrow of CBS and James (D Train) Williams comment; photos; lists compare playlists; hometown defender, CBS Radio, has 163 stations nationwide, to 464 for AMFM Inc of Dallas, former Chancellor Media Corp (M)

Turn Down the Elvis, Crank Up the Disco; Upstart With a Younger Twist Sets Off a Rivalry on Oldies Radio

Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani must walk fine line as he navigatesfirst real public health crisis of his tenure; Mayor and health officials are challenged to appear aggressive at controlling outbreak of St Louis encephalitis, which has claimed three lives, while at same time trying not to create hysteria; vans with bullhorns are crawling down city streets bellowing public health warnings, even as city officials set up command centers on same streets to provide information with folksier touch to nervous public; scores of city officials have taken over phone banks to field inquiries from residents; photos; chart (M)

Giuliani's Challenge in Outbreak: To Warn but Not to Panic Public

North Carolina school system that pioneered busing for desegregation three decades ago is ordered to halt program by Federal judge who rules that forced integration is no longer necessary because all vestiges of intentional discrimination have disappeared; decision affects 28,000 students who ride buses in Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District; many black parents in Charlotte say their children's education remains inferior to that of whites, but Judge Robert D Potter finds no indication that it will return to segregated system; some black parents and officials in Charlotte, along with school district itself, say they are not as confident as judge that black students could receive equal education without court supervision; Judge Potter, as private citizen in 1969, collected signatures on petition against busing plan; photos (M)

By Court Order, Busing Ends Where It Began

Martina Hingis advances to US Open final with win over Venus Williams, while Serena Williams ousts defending champion Lindsay Davenport; photos (M)

Hingis Puts an End to the Williams Sisters' Act

Decline in copper prices has led to significant cutbacks in industry around world; it has hit particularly hard in US, where many of mines are more played out and more costly to operate than those abroad; over last few months, string of major copper producers has announced layoffs, reductions and closures; sagging market has also prompted wave of merger proposals that could significantly transform industry; graphs; photo (M)

Tough Times in the Copper Pits; Excess Capacity and Sagging Prices Force Retrenchment

 WELCOME BACK, McCOURT  In an excerpt from his new memoir, '' 'Tis,'' Frank McCourt, the author of ''Angela's Ashes,'' faces life as a young schoolteacher in a Staten Island vocational high school. Things haven't changed much for teachers, it seems, since 1958. In The Times Magazine.    . . . AND 'THE NEW SEASON'  The cultural horizon this fall straddles the millenniums. And as a centerpiece, a 26-hour multimedia extravaganza planned for Times Square will celebrate the epochal moment. A four-part special preview section of Arts & Leisure.  

COMING ON SUNDAY

 China Trade Talks    President Clinton arrived in New Zealand, where he was to meet with Chinese President Jiang Zemin to discuss market-opening measures that could bring China into the World Trade Organization. PAGE A6

INSIDE

''I'm sure that we'll be received as patriots in our country, not the criminals we've been labeled as in the United States.''    EDWIN CORTES, a member of a Puerto Rican nationalist group freed yesterday from prison. [A1]

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

Novartis AG research unit agrees to pay Myriad Genetics Inc $33.5 million to study cereal crop genes; Novartis Agricultural Discovery Institute Inc hopes to learn how to produce wider variety of grains with improved resistance to insects and disease (S)

Novartis-Myriad Alliance

New York Jets linebacker Marvin Jones prepares to return after string of injuries (S)

Jets' Jones Is Back and Revved Up

Shares of NEC Corp soar after report in Japan's leading business daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun suggests that company will implement sweeping overhaul that will consolidate business units, give division heads greater authority and responsibility for profits and losses and shed loss-making businesses; newspaper says NEC will liquidate NEC Home Electronics; adds company plans to sell its Tokyo headquarters building and lease it back; left unanswered is what NEC might do with Packard Bell, struggling personal computer manufacturer in which it owns majority control (M)

NEC Shares Soar on Report of an Overhaul

Belkis Ayón was a Cuban printmaker who specialized in the technique of collography. Ayón created large, highly detailed allegorical collagraphs based on Abakuá, a secret, all-male Afro-Cuban society. Her work is often in black and white, consisting of ghost-white figures with oblong heads and empty, almond-shaped eyes, set against dark, patterned backgrounds.

Belkis Ayón, Cuban painter and lithographer (born 1967)

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Gonzalo "Gonchi" Rodríguez Bongoll was a Uruguayan racing driver. He was killed in a crash at Laguna Seca Raceway during practice for a CART race which would have been his second start in the series.

September 11, 1999

Headlines from September 11, 1999

About New York; Flying Feet, Head Spins And Insights

Andreessen Steps Down From AOL

Maytag Shares Tumble 26% On Concerns Over Earnings

Puerto Ricans Clinton Freed Leave Prisons

Sports of The Times; Worries Are The Cost Of Winning

Billboard 200

Christina Aguilera

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Notable Deaths

Historical Context for September 11, 1999