June 5, 2002

Footlights column: Ravinia Festival, opening in Highland Park, Ill, will feature Karita Mattila, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Marilyn Horne and Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Christoph Eschenbach; Symphony Space will present Dance Sampler featuring emerging and established choreographers and companies; BAM Rhythm and Blues Festival is set to open at Metro-Tech Center in Brooklyn; outgoing New York Philharmonic director Kurt Masur is taking orchestra on weeklong tour; third annual Lake Placid Film Forum is about to open in upstate New York; photos (M)

Former Tyco International chairman L Dennis Kozlowski is charged with evading over $1 million of New York sales taxes on six paintings he bought last fall for $13.1 million; allegedly shipped empty crates to Tyco's New Hampshire headquarters as part of scheme; pleads not guilty; is freed on bond; Dist Atty Robert M Morgenthau says indictment is part of broader criminal probe into both Kozlowski's finances and tax avoidance by art dealers and buyers, news conference; Tyco reportedly cooperates with probe and has opened owned probe into whether Kozlowski improperly used company's money to pay his personal bills; photo (M)

Douglas R Forrester wins Republican Senate primary in New Jersey; used $3.1 million of his own money to far outspend two state senators he opposed, Diane Allen of Camden and John Matheussen of Gloucester; says that in challenging Sen Robert G Torricelli, he intends to make issue of lingering ethical questions that led to federal investigation of Torricelli's personal finances and 1996 campaign; photo (M)

Flextronics International, maker of electronics for brand-name companies, cuts its profit forecast for for fiscal first half, spurring sharp drop in share price (S)

BY history and tradition, sushi-making has always been a man's world. Men, naturally, have come up with all sorts of good reasons for keeping it that way. ''They say that women cannot make sushi because their hands are too warm and that will ruin the fish,'' said Yoko Ogawa, 30, a chef at Yamaguchi in Midtown Manhattan, who spoke through an interpreter. She held out her small hands, which were pleasantly cool.

Article on wizardry of Cuban mechanics who keep fleet of vintage 1950's American cars well maintained despite island's poverty; PBS is broadcasting documentary, Classic American Cars of Cuba; photos (M)

House and Senate intelligence committees say they will investigate government's overall response to international terrorism dating back to 1986, adopting extremely broad charter for review of Sept 11 attacks; Pres Bush acknowledges communications breakdown and rivalry between FBI and CIA; renews effort to limit inquiry to Congressional panels that deal with intelligence matters and to head off Democratic calls for independent outside commission; David Frasca, chief of FBI's radical fundamentalist unit, tells Senate Judiciary Committee that it was only after Sept 11 that he saw memorandum that Kenneth Williams, agent in Phoenix, addressed to him, warning that Osama bin Laden's followers might be training for terror operations at American flight schools; photos (M)

Bruce Weber reviews American premiere of Brian Friel's Afterplay, presented by Gate Theater of Dublin as part of 26th annual Spoleto Festival USA at Dock Street Theater in Charleston, SC; photo (M)

Bankruptcy administrator reports Swissair Group, which collapsed in Oct, faces claims of $25 billion; SAirGroup, airline's holding company, plans to contest over 60 percent of claims (S)

Committee of Roman Catholic bishops proposes set of procedures that would obligate American bishops to remove from priesthood anyone who abuses a minor in future; stops short of 'zero tolerance' policy that many victims of sexual abuse have called for, allowing for some leeway in old cases where there is single instance of abuse; new rules call for bishops to turn over any allegation of sexual abuse of minors immediately to civil authorities for investigation and to cooperate with investigation; new Office for Child and Youth Protection would help monitor compliance by dioceses and issue annual report; there is no mechanism to enforce bishops' compliance, other than threat of bad publicity or Vatican intervention; proposals will be voted on by all American bishops in Dallas and, if approved there, be sent to Vatican; Archbishop Harry J Flynn of Minneapolis and St Paul, chairman of committee, comments; photo (M)

Woody Allen is sharply cross-examined by lawyer for Jean Doumanian, former producer, whom he is suing for $12 million; raises more than a few eyebrows in courtroom when he testifies that he figured that lawsuit would not interfere with his friendship with Doumanian and her partner and companion Jaqui Safra, who Allen alleges cheated him out of money for seven film he made for them beginning in 1993; crowd at courthouse is nothing like throng drawn by Allen's bitter child custody battle with Mia Farrow in 1993; photo (M)

Ex-Head of Tyco Is Indicted L. Dennis Kozlowski, the former chief executive of Tyco International, has been indicted on charges of evading more than $1 million in sales taxes on six paintings that he bought last fall. BUSINESS DAY, PAGE C1 India Digs In Its Heels At a summit meeting of Asian and Middle Eastern nations, India decisively rejected a diplomatic effort by Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin, to defuse a nuclear-armed standoff with Pakistan. PAGE A16