October 27, 2001

Top bond-trader Kevin Ingram awaits sentencing in money laundering scheme with Diaa Mohsen and Mohammed Raja Malik, who were negotiating to buy illegal arms; probe has found no link between scheme and World Trade Center attacks; no one is sure for whom Mohsen and Malik were buying arms; Ingram's lucrative, but rocky, Wall Street career noted; Sen Jon S Corzine, former mentor, comments (M)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr Jeffrey P Koplan says it is likely that letter to Sen Tom Daschle was not only anthrax-tainted letter that went through government's mailrooms; holds it virtually impossible that Daschle letter contaminated State Department postal worker; postal officials say several sealed tractor-trailers full of Washington mail must be decontaminated before search begins for other suspect letters; authorities find anthrax spores in mail centers serving CIA, Supreme Court and Walter Reed Army Medical Center and its research lab; White House says anthrax in Daschle letter could be produced by microbiologist in sophisticated laboratory in United States or abroad; says state sponsorship is possible; CDC recommends anthrax vaccine for people repeatedly at risk of exposure, including state health lab workers and people who decontaminate sites where spores have been found; State Department says it 'essentially' shut down unclassified system of mail pouches to embassies after mail worker at its Sterling, Va, processing center was found to have inhalation anthrax; says dozen sites at its headquarters and elsewhere were sealed and tested; Supreme Court says its building will remain closed for testing; anthrax is found at one of 36 large neighborhood post offices tested in Washington region; photos (M)

Met's Levine Will Also Lead Boston Symphony Orchestra James Levine, the artistic director of the Metropolitan Opera, has accepted the same position with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, music executives said. PAGE D1

Federal prosecutors accuse Robert J McDonald, former top deputy to Nassau County Executive Thomas S Gulotta, and six others of bribery, fraud and money laundering in health insurance scheme that cost taxpayers $25 million and netted those charged $12.5 million in illicit fees and payoffs (M)

Abdul Haq, former guerrilla commander seen by some American oficials as potential leader of anti-Taliban uprising, is caught and executed within week of furtive entry back into Afghanistan; Taliban spokesman says Haq was executed with two others traveling with him; his death is seen as setback for US antiterrorism campaign; details about summary execution remain sketchy and conflicting; Haq reportedly pressed for and received desperate help from Robert C McFarlane, former Reagan administration national security adviser, while surrounded; US reportedly attempted to assist him by sending in aircraft on bombing raid but was too late; Haq, ethnic Pashtun, was seen by some in Washington as one who might have been able to wrench support of tribal elders away from hard-line Muslim militia; photos (M)