October 3, 2000

News analysis; outbreak of worst Israeli-Palestinian violence in West Bank and Gaza since 1996 shows how quickly peacekmaking relationship can give way to basest, barest ethnic and religious animosities, jeopardizing so much of what has been established during last seven years; has left everything unclear, such as how long conflict will last and what toll will be on human level as well as politically and diplomatically; photo (M)

New York State board monitoring Nassau County's fiscal crisis says that County Executive Thomas S Gulotta has failed to balance budget in his new four-year rescue plan; urges county officials to come up with sound proposal by end of month or face state takeover; photo (M)

Julie Salamon reviews Building Big, PBS's five-part documentary series about bridges, domes, skyscrapers, dams and tunnels; photo (M)

Monoclonal antibodies, disease-fighting tool that in early 1990's was almost abandoned by pharmaceutical industry, are making comeback as therapeutic method; scientists can now generate human antibodies, which bind to specific proteins on cells, in an attempt to control cancer and other diseases; among methods to produce desired antibodies is to use genetically engineered mice, and to find right match; drawings; photo (L)

Margo Jefferson comments on cultural-artistic scene in France in 1925, where black American artists were often more welcome than they were at home; recalls of Josephine Baker's 1925 Paris revue La Revue Negre, which had triumphant three-month run; photographs, posters and drawings related to show are on view in exhibit at Chez Josephine, Manhattan restaurant on West 42d Street owned by Baker's biographer and unofficial son, Jean-Claude Baker; photos (L)