Mexico's small farmers are being battered by explosion of free trade under Nafta, plummeting market prices and cuts in government support; they complain that free trade accord has not given them access to American markets they were promised, and has forced hundreds of them out of business; tens of thousands of farmers hold protests around country, including 5,000 sugar cane farmers who converge on capital and block access to government offices; for Mexico's new president, Vicente Fox, reforming agricultural industry and finding alternative employment for millions of subsistence farmers at time of widespread resentment may prove his most important domestic challenge; photos; map (L)

Farm Unrest in Mexico Challenges New President

Article speculates about terms New York Yankees manager Joe Torre is seeking in contract extension; he is in final year of contract and met with owner George Steinbrenner to discuss future; photo (M)

Torre Believes He Will Stay As Manager

Article on animal 'psychics' who interpret pet's thoughts for benefit of concerned, or merely besotted, owners; photos (M)

A Dog Biscuit for Your Thoughts

Lance Armstrong wins Stage 13 of Tour de France bicycle race and is overall leader; map; photos (M)

Armstrong Finally Wears Yellow Jersey

 Power Struggle in Indonesia  Indonesia's legislature began proceedings that could end the erratic 21-month-old tenure of President Abdurrahman Wahid.   PAGE 4    Vengeance in Cambodia  Cambodia has seen a surge in acid attacks, most by wives against their husbands' lovers.   PAGE 3

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Special report, Fujian, USA, describes vibrant refuge immigrants from Fujian Province in China have built for themselves in grimy corner of New York City's Chinatown; west of there, city's Cantonese-speaking population established base more than century ago; Fujianese Chinatown is self-contained, and confining, as rural village; every Monday, their day off, Fujianese immigrants working in Chinese restaurants and other establishments all over country converge on Chinatown, where everyone speaks their dialect and businesses cater to their needs; Fujianese couples come from as far away as Miami and Chicago to hold their wedding banquets in Chinatown; others come to shop, bank, meet friends, consult doctors, visit travel agencies and pay bills; same factors that helped make Chinatown homey retreat for Fujianese have also made it trap for Fujianese businesses, which are largely dependent on Monday windfall; photos (L)

FUJIAN, U.S.A.: A special report; Within Chinatown, a Slice of Another China

Profile of painter Leon Golub, 79, who is having retrospective, organized by Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, at Brooklyn Museum; photos (L)

Leon Golub, Brawler In a Cosmic Melee

Unilever and Procter & Gamble compete for greater sales and market domination by creating 'megabrand' lines of cosmetics and toiletries, each line bearing name of company's leading personal-care product, Dove and Olay, respectively; brands are being applied to variety of products, from soaps to deodorants, anti-aging cleansers to dish detergent; there are risks for both companies because stretching a brand to far can damage it; photos; graphs (M)

The Making (Or Possible Breaking) Of a Megabrand

Despite seemingly favorable demigrahics, growth in number of golfers in United States has slowed, rather than increased; game depends on spending habits of middle-aged men, and baby boomers are now in their 50's, with children grown and time on their hands; golf researchers agree that in last decade, too many courses have been built that are too expensive, take too much time to play and are often too hard for nation of weekend hackers, most of whom are unlikely to get much better; signals are mixed about extent to which Americans are crazy about golf or just about Tiger Woods; television ratings for golf tournaments slide when he is not playing or not competitive; in Myrtle Beach, SC, which leads country in golf holes per capita, there is golf course shakeout, with bankruptcies, rumors of mass sales and jarring vision of handsome course being bulldozed to make way for Home Depot; photos; graphs (L)

Here Are the New Courses. Now Where Are the Golfers?

Yale University renovates 133-year-old New Haven, Conn, landmark mansion and will use it for Center for the Study of Globalization to be directed by Strobe Talbott, and World Fellows Program, directed by Brooke Shearer; photo (M)

POSTINGS: $13.5 Million Renovation and Restoration for 133-Year-Old Building; Yale Mansion to House Globalization Center

Experts agree that elderly will be disappointed by even most generous prescription drug benefits now under consideration in Senate; gap in expectations is result of soaring costs of prescription drugs for elderly and limited federal money set aside to pay for them; even with $300 billion in recent budget agreement to spend on drug benefits and other changes in Medicare, lawmakers are having difficulty coming up with realistic, affordable plan; because participation would be optional, lawmakers worry that many people will decline to sign up for new drug benefits if they think premiums are too high; Democratic senators from rural states say many of their elderly constituents could not afford monthly premium of $53 that is now under consideration; study by health research group finds retirees expect benefit closer to what working Americans routinely receive, with co-payment of $10 or $15 for each prescription; finds that expectations of elderly have been colored by news reports about large budget surpluses; photos; chronology of events in effort to add prescription drug benefit to Medicare, dating back to Dec 1997 (L)

Despite High Hopes, Drug Plan May Be Disappointing to Elderly

Allowing more than three million Mexicans living in United States illegally to earn permanent lawful residency is idea packed with political, economic and even foreign policy risks for both Pres Bush and Pres Vicente Foxx of Mexico; American courts are still sorting out legal challenges from amnesty program 15 years ago; photo (L)

Ideas & Trends: Open Door, Open Questions; This Way Up

United States' leading allies, at summit meeting in Genoa, tell Pres Bush they will move ahead and ratify Kyoto Protocol on global warming by next year, even without American participation; officials suggest that round of telephone calls among leaders of Japan, France and Germany has left Bush isolated on issue; Prime Min Jean Chretien of Canada says his nation also is ready to ratify treaty, and that negotiators will work to come up with common language about global warming for communique to be issued on July 22; says negotiators in Bonn, where meeting on subject is under way, would work on details of how Kyoto accord would be implemented; says Americans agreed to come up with alternative proposal to Kyoto, but had not promised date for delivering their plan; without American participation, treaty would be largely ineffective; in Genoa, as many as 50,000 demonstrators flow through streets, as protesters and riot police clash anew; photo (M)

ALLIES TELL BUSH THEY'LL ACT ALONE ON CLIMATE ACCORD

Russia and some European nations are seen wondering where they fit into global scheme of things, with United States having emerged as earth's first hyperpower; question now is whether happy confluence of American and global interests can continue, as Pres Bush's foreign policy emerges; global consensus-building of Bush's predecessors so far has been muscled aside by more barehanded pursuit of American interests; photo (M)

The World: American Way; A World Seeking Security Is Told There's Just One Shield

Article discusses corporate apartments, which, even when economy dips, are still attractive to companies that seek cost-cutting measures, as it is less expensive than hotel; growth continues, albeit not as quickly as in recent years when economy was faring better; photos

Growth Stock: Corporate Apartments

Gretchen Morgenson column on growing number of proxy actions that are being taken against corporate managements and boards of directors by dissident, dissatisfied shareholders and their surprisingly high success rate; photo (M)

Shareholders Are Restless, and Starting to Pounce

Behind the Wheel article appraises 2002 Buick Rendezvous, crossover sports utility vehicle; photo; chart (M)

BEHIND THE WHEEL/2002 Buick Rendezvous; A Glorified Van or a Grand Slam?

Article on expedition 'megayachts,' giant private-owned vessels that have hulls and superstructures like those on commercial liners, as well as luxuries of pleasure boat for very particular owners or renters; photo; many are used to get to remote destinations (M)

Go-Anywhere Luxury Yachts Bull Out to Sea

Drilling fails to meet soaring demand for natural gas; Energy Dept projects 45 percent increase in gas consumption by 2015, but in last year, production is up about 2 percent; says that to address demand, number of gas wells drilled each year must multiply further, from current 18,000 wells to more than 30,000 wells; says even then supplies will lag, necessitating imports from Canada, Mexico and elsewhere; such projections suggest further increases in natural gas prices; make clear that future more heavily dependent on natural gas, seen as cleanest and most environmentally friendly of fossil fuels, will also require enormous increase in drilling; this factor is part of increasing pressure on opening new public lands to energy exploration; photos; graphs (L)

Boom in Natural Gas Drilling Can't Match Soaring Demand

John Teeples, whose $700,000 investment portfolio was reduced to $403.95 and $40,000 in taxes owed in only 16 months, says two brokers at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Arun Sardana and Michael Moriarty, capitalized on his naivete; 13 customers who lost total of $20 million accuse two brokers of widespread pattern of sales-practice violations, including recommendation of highly speculative stock trades and excessive use of margin borrowing; their complaints are now in process of arbitration; Teeples's story is just one of many tales beginning to emerge as investors realize that their decimate portfolios may never come back; photos; chart; graph (L)

One Investor. Two Brokers. An Account Runs Dry.

Article reviews off-season for NFL teams by division, noting players signed and lost; chart shows where training camps are located and gives last year's record; photo (M)

Baltimore Is Setting the Bar High

John Rockwell profile of Salzburg Festival, which began July 21 and runs to Aug 21; artistic director Gerard Mortier, who has had often controversial, often brilliant tenure, will be marking his final festival season this summer; photo (L)

At Salzburg, The Sting Of a Gadfly May Endure

Bernhard Langer, David Duval, Ian Woosnam and Alex Cejka share lead after third round of British Open golf tournament; chart shows leaderboard; photo (M)

After Day of Extremes, Anything is Possible In Final Round

Novelist Thomas Beller article, after rereading J D Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye, describes journey in search of character Holden Caulfield's Manhattan of late 1940's and early 1950's as well as later and current versions; photos (M)

A Room and a Park Bench of His Own

THE first thing I did when I got off at Penn Station, I went into this phone booth. I felt like giving somebody a buzz. I left my bags right outside the booth so I could watch them, but as soon as I was inside, I couldn't think of anybody to call up.''    So begins the New York adventure of Holden Caulfield in ''The Catcher in the Rye,'' the J. D. Salinger novel that was published 50 years ago this month.   

Holden's New York

Indro Alessandro Raffaello Schizogene Montanelli was an Italian journalist, historian, and writer. He was one of the fifty World Press Freedom Heroes according to the International Press Institute. A volunteer for the Second Italo-Ethiopian War and an admirer of Benito Mussolini's dictatorship, Montanelli had a change of heart in 1943, and joined the liberal resistance group Giustizia e Libertà but was discovered and arrested along with his wife by Nazi authorities in 1944. Sentenced to death, he was able to flee to Switzerland the day before his scheduled execution by firing squad thanks to a secret service double agent.

July 22, 2001

Headlines from July 22, 2001

Farm Unrest in Mexico Challenges New President

Torre Believes He Will Stay As Manager

A Dog Biscuit for Your Thoughts

Armstrong Finally Wears Yellow Jersey

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Billboard 200

Devil's Night

Songs In A Minor

Break The Cycle

Jagged Little Thrill

Survivor

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for July 22, 2001