Mayor Rudolph Giuliani tells cheering crowd in Saratoga Springs that he is still 'absorbing' news of his prostate cancer but hopes to continue Senate campaign; photo; says earlier at news conference in New York City that tests show cancer has not spread and he is confident it can be cured completely (M)

VOICING OPTIMISM, GIULIANI RETURNS TO CAMPAIGN TRAIL

New York Yankees defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 6-0; photo (S)

Cone Rewinds, and Stifles Blue Jays

Bonanno crime family, which was galloping toward extinction decade ago, has revived to point where law enforcement experts say it is one of most potent, dangerous Mafia groups in New York region; retired FBI official Lewis D Schiliro explains that Joseph C Massino, who gained control in 1993 after serving prison term, has brought back discipline and order; photos of key figures old and new (M)

A Mafia Family's Second Wind; Authorities Say Bonannos, All but Written Off, Are Back

Stanley Druckenmiller is leaving Soros Fund Management after 12 years, most of which had big gains; $8.2 million Quantum Fund, which Druckenmiller managed for Soros Fund, is down 22 percent this year; George Soros and Druckenmiller say Druckenmiller's departure had been planned and was catalyst for hiring last August of Duncan Hennes, former treasurer of Bankers Trust who became chief executive of Soros Fund Management; graph; photo (M)

Another Technology Victim; Top Soros Fund Manager Says He 'Overplayed' Hand

Sports of The Times column on Lennox Lewis-Michael Grant bout at Madison Square Garden; photo; event comes as New York State Athletic Commission, once the most respected in boxing, tries to regain its authority (S)

Sports of The Times; Commission Has to Show Its Punch

 U.S. and 17 States Propose Dividing Microsoft in Two  The Justice Department and 17 states asked a federal judge to split Microsoft into two companies, one that would make computer operating systems and the other including applications software, like the word processor Word and the spreadsheet program Excel, and Microsoft's Internet properties.   

BUSINESS DIGEST

Manuel Lopez, 43, becomes ninth livery cab driver killed in New York City this year; Dominican immigrant is found shot to death behind wheel of his car on Brooklyn street; three teen-agers are in custody; Comr Howard Safir promises to add to 300 police officers already assigned to protect drivers; Fernando A Mateo of drivers organization warns drivers must not pick up fares on street at night and should install partitions; photo (M)

Another Livery Driver Is Slain, Pushing Toll to 9 for the Year

Several American companies that had factories in Nazi Germany will set up fund under auspices of US Chamber of Commerce to aid people who suffered persecution under Hitler; aim is at least in part to head off lawsuits; Clinton administration has pressed for fund to help aging survivors; Deputy Sec Stuart Eizenstat comments; at least 50 American companies operated factories in Nazi Germany; most were nationalized after 1941, but were returned just after war; some companies received dividends or benefited from forced labor (M)

A Fund Is Planned By U.S. Companies For Nazis' Victims

Justice Department and 17 states ask Federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to break Microsoft into two parts and seriously restrain company's behavior; cite goal of encouraging market forces to reshape incentives in computer software industry, so that two new Microsoft companies would have strong motivation to compete with each other and form new alliances; Asst Atty Gen Joel Klein explains, Atty Gen Janet Reno voices support and Microsoft chairman William Gates vows to continue fighting antitrust finding and breakup; proposal would split company into operating-system company and second company for everything else, including software applications and Internet properties; photos; graphs; plaintiffs would also curb Microsoft's business conduct in many areas; list (M)

U.S. AND 17 STATES ASK JUDGE TO CUT MICROSOFT IN 2 PARTS; SERIOUS CURBS ALSO SOUGHT

Gov Christine Whitman orders closing of New Jersey's Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, aging institution long criticized as substandard; patients will go to smaller centers or groups homes; photo; map (M)

Troubled Center For Mentally Ill Will Be Closed In New Jersey

Survivors of shipwreck that stranded more than 250 Haitians on barren Bahamas island say they fled in desperate attempt to escape violence sweeping Haiti in advance of elections; 222 survivors arrive in Nassau on Bahamian naval vessel and recall ordeal and deaths of others; photo; map; more than 300 other Haitians have been rescued in Bahamas in recent weeks, alarming government that cannot handle influx (M)

Political Violence at Home Made Haitians Flee, Boat Survivors Say

John Tierney The Big City column on Romanian immigrant Mihai Muset's charge that New York City family court is biased against him in divorce and child custody battle with his wife, Petruta; Cathy Young, author of book on use of court restraining orders, warns that pendulum has swung too far, and that women are just as capable as men of abusing power in such fights (M)

The Big City; An Imbalance In the Battle Over Custody

Microsoft Corp's executives repeatedly say any breakup of company would be terrible thing for customers and promises that proposal by Justice Department and 17 state attorneys general to break up company will never survive appeals process that could well reach US Supreme Court; Microsoft chairman William H Gates, chief counsel William Neukom and president-chief executive Steen A Ballmer assail breakup proposal (M)

At Microsoft's Home Base, Vitriol and a Sense of Unfairness

Federal District Judge Jed S Rakoff gives key victory to recording industry in its effort to harness distribution of digital music over Internet, ruling that MP3.com violated copyright law by compiling vast online music database for commercial use; Rakoff grants motion by five major music labels for judgment against MP3.com; says he will issue full opinion on matter sometime in next two weeks; Recording Industry Association of America has asked for damages that could exceed $6 billion; separate case is still pending in federal court in San Francisco against Napster (M)

Music Industry Wins Ruling In U.S. Court

Michael Grant and Lennox Lewis together weigh 497 pounds, most ever for title fight in history of boxing; outlook for bout discussed (M)

Fighters Have Size. Do They Have the Heart?

Photo of Leandro Dias, convicted murderer and subject of article on violence and prison conditions that reveal underside of Brazil's economic development

In Brazil, a Dark Descent

News analysis of 'surgical' approach proposed by Asst Atty Gen Joel Klein to break up Microsoft and restrain predatory business practices as remedy in antitrust case; government considers approach as more conservative and less regulatory alternatives such as giving Windows operating system to two or three companies in way that might confuse consumers and cause huge losses to Microsoft shareholders (M)

A 'Surgical' Solution

Toronto Raptors, struggling in playoff series against New York Knicks, are irked by blunt comments of coach Butch Carter about their young team; photos (M)

Raptors Pointing Fingers, Mostly at Their Coach

George Soros, who has absorbed huge losses in recent weeks, will reorganize his investment empire and abandon many of high-risk techniques that made him a billionaire and rewarded wealthy investors handsomely; five funds run by Soros Fund Management have declined twenty percent this year on technology's crash, and are down about one third from $22-billion peak in August 1998; Quantum Fund manager Stanley F Druckenmiller and Quota Fund manager S Nicholas Roditi will retire; Soros will reorganize Quantum as group of smaller funds; adds that he wants to reduce his market exposure and be more conservative, accepting lower returns as result (M)

Huge Losses Move Soros to Revamp Empire

There is no wall between public and private on the Internet. As intimate details of daily lives are monitored, they can be used to reduce complex personalities to their shopping habits or the most vulgar joke they ever told. A report by Jeffrey Rosen in The Times Magazine.    Plus: What Europe really has to fear about Jorg Haider of Austria, by Roger Cohen.  

THE E-RODED SELF

 Gore Proposes to Press Poor Schools to Improve  Vice President Al Gore proposed using the federal government's purse strings to pressure failing schools to improve performance. PAGE A10    Five Slain Near Pittsburgh  An immigration lawyer went on a shooting rampage near Pittsburgh that targeted immigrants, killings 5 people, the authorities say. PAGE A8    Miami Police Chief Resigns  Miami's police chief became the latest casualty of Cuban-American anger over the federal government's seizure of Elian Gonzalez. PAGE A9    Online Music Ruling  In a victory for the music industry, a federal judge ruled that MP3.com had violated copyright law with its online music database.  PAGE C1    Strategic Exchange  Pentagon officials have told Russia's foreign minister how Russian arms could parry a U.S. missile defense system, officials said.  PAGE A4  

INSIDE

Stephen C Hilbert, man who founded Conseco Inc 21 years ago and built it into highflying insurance industry giant through series of acquisitions, is forced to resign; Conseco is unusually frank in explaining departure of Hilbert, chairman and chief executive, and Rollin M Dick, who has been chief financial officer since 1986; David W Harkins, new acting chief executive, says board committee will immediately begin looking for new chief executive and new chief financial officer; photo (M)

Founder Resigns Conseco Post, Under Pressure of Falling Profits

British Telecommunications PLC plans to invest billions of dollars in Latin American region; Mexico, Brazil and Argentina are key growth markets for telecommunications and cellular telephone market; photo (M)

A Huge British Telecom Latin Investment

California court dismisses criminal charges against Avant Corp and executives of software developer; Cadence Design Systems had charged Avant with making use of Cadence technology in semiconductor design (S)

Criminal Charges Against Avant Dismissed

AES offers to buy all outstanding nonvoting shares of Brazilian electricity distributor Electropaulo Metropolitana (S)

LATIN PURCHASES BY AES

Phạm Văn Đồng was a Vietnamese politician who served as Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1955 to 1976. He later served as Prime Minister of Vietnam, following reunification of North and South Vietnam, from 1976 until he retired in 1987 under the presidency of Trường Chinh and Nguyễn Văn Linh. He was considered one of Hồ Chí Minh's closest lieutenants.

April 29, 2000

Headlines from April 29, 2000

VOICING OPTIMISM, GIULIANI RETURNS TO CAMPAIGN TRAIL

Cone Rewinds, and Stifles Blue Jays

A Mafia Family's Second Wind; Authorities Say Bonannos, All but Written Off, Are Back

Another Technology Victim; Top Soros Fund Manager Says He 'Overplayed' Hand

Sports of The Times; Commission Has to Show Its Punch

Billboard 200

No Strings Attached

Return Of Saturn

Supernatural

Unleash The Dragon

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