January 8, 2001

Pres Clinton delivers farewell address to Israel Policy Forum in New York City, spelling out for first time in plainest language yet his specific proposals to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and acknowledging that final settlement is highly unlikely in final days of his term; says both sides need to make deep compromises and that there can be no genuine resolution to conflict without a sovereign and viable Palestinian state; says Israel's security requirements and demographic realities must be addressed; says to achieve Palestinian state goal should be to maximize number of settlers in Israel while minimizing land annexed; says for Palestine to be viable, it must be geographically contiguous state; says Jerusalem should be open and undivided city; other major points of speech discussed (M)

Assessing Cole Blame Navy officials looking at the bombing of the American destroyer are recommending no punishment for the captain or crew. PAGE A8 Reality Intrudes on TV Vows A year after vows were made about no more exploitative programs, television is rolling out a provocative new batch of reality shows. PAGE A15

Teenagers are rejecting jobs at fast-food restaurants, places that once relied mostly on high school students for help, as holding job deemed uncool can risk social sting as wages have become secondary to cachet; such jobs are now going to poor immigrants and older workers, further lowering their status in eyes of most teenagers, especially those from middle-class backgrounds; Northwestern University sociologist Albert Hunter says notion that all work is respectable, even noble, has taken beating; says term 'flipping hamburger' has entered popular culture to mean lowest kind of unskilled work and that teenagers are aware of all negative connotations that go with it; photo (M)

Article profiles Earth Liberation Front, loosely structured movement that has taken responsibility for underground campaign of fire and destruction against those that they see as enemies of earth; group estimates cost of damage it has caused at nearly $37 million; photo (M)

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Chorus to perform United States premiere of John Adams's oratorio El Nino, conducted by Kent Nagano, San Francisco; Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, opens exhibition of works of 32 artists born in Africa from 1913 to 1964; Alan Alda to be honored at Sarasota Film Festival, Fla; CUNY Graduate Center plans program on Louis Armstrong; photos (M)