June 10, 2000

Another article in the series George W Bush's Journey focuses on his years at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass; says Bush's high school days were in most respects supremely undistinguished but it was during them that he first began to cultivate the people skills that served him well in later life; says it was also at Andover that Bush began turning some people off with what they saw as arrogance, emptiness and a tendency to smirk and be dismissive; photos (L)

Estimated 100,000 to 200,000 North Koreans are living illegally in China as result of their government's failure to solve its longstanding food crisis; many fear arrest and deportation to a North Korean jail; say the food aid arriving in North Korea from abroad is being sold on black market at prices that are beyond their reach; aid workers say government seems to have given up on providing food for the whole country and is forcing remote regions to fend for themselves; up to two million people have died from food shortages over last five years; deaths rates are dropping, but that is largely because of Western food aid and because North Koreans have developed survival strategies to blunt what United Nations experts have called 'slow-motion famine'; photo; map (M)

Deborah Sontag analysis of the diminished options availabe to Prime Min Ehud Barak after Israeli Parliament vote to disperse and go into new elections; photo (M)

Remarkable economic recovery is under way in Indonesia, evidenced by dramatic increases in output, exports and consumer demand; but investor confidence is disproportionately low, due only to sorry state of political regime of Pres Wahid; photo (M)

Los Angeles Lakers defeat Indiana Pacers in Game 2 of National Basketball Association Finals, 111-104, Lakers lead series 2-0; photo (M)