September 8, 2002

Special section, Unseen: War of Secrets; US intelligence agencies, harshly criticized after Sept 11 terrorist attacks, have had surprisingly little restructuring in months since; broad debate has begun on reorganizing domestic and foreign intelligence in face of supple, unfamiliar and suicidal new form of threat; CIA and FBI prove resilient in defending turf, although some legal restrictions on information sharing have been lifted and senior officials can now work more closely together; other proposals working way through bureaucracy are certain to be altered or quashed by interagency battles; one that would give defense secretary more authority over major military intelligence agencies might diminish CIA director's role; CIA Dir George Tenet's close ties with Pres Bush clearly helps him withstand crisis and FBI Dir Robert Mueller has become strong advocate of keeping FBI intact; Congress looks to incremental changes because committee structures mirror turf of executive branch agencies (M)

Interview with Secretary of State Colin L Powell, fifth in series, Perspectives, in which national and world leaders reflect on Sept 11 terrorist attacks and their effect on year of public life and policy; Powell defends Pres Bush's policy of pre-emption against countries that threaten United States, and plays down talk of tensions with American allies in Europe as squabbling among friends; argues that US has been unfairly characterized as unilateralist and opposed to treaties; disputes those who say Bush's embrace of idea of pre-emptive strikes against enemy threats is departure from traditional policy; says that because of devastating threats posed by terrorists, policy of pre-emption has 'risen in the hierarchy of options a bit' since Sept 11; says he does not feel isolated within administration for encouraging Bush to build international support for campaign against terrorism; says Sept 11 changed nature of American diplomacy, shattering cold-war assumptions and opening door to cooperation among nuclear rivals against shared enemy: stateless terrorists who seek their own biological and nuclear weapons; photo; biographical data (L)

Article on 2003 Nissan 350Z automobile; photos (M)

Anemona Hartocollis Coping column descibes some voters' recollections of Primary Day in New York City, when terrorists attacked World Trade Center; drawing (M)

A special issue of The Times Magazine today takes two long looks at Lower Manhattan. The first is a biography of the World Trade Center towers: the dizzying ambition that led to their rise and ultimately figured in their fall. The second is a series of blueprints for the future, dreamed up by a panel of architects that includes Peter Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Rem Koolhaas, Maya Lin, Richard Meier, David Rockwell, Frederic Schwartz and Rafael Viñoly, moderated by The Times's architecture critic, Herbert Muschamp. 9/11/02 IN NEW YORK -- Changes in the city and the region, in the words of the clergy and in the economic fallout. With Portraits of Grief. METRO SECTION WAR OF SECRETS -- American intelligence agencies have undergone surprisingly little change since 9/11. Are they better prepared now? WEEK IN REVIEW

Families of Sept 11--widows, parents and other kin touched by terror--say what defines them most is their sense of separation from other Americans; say nation that wept together has resumed its hectic, distracted course, while they, Sept 11's bereaved, have been left to find their own way; scholars say that, like Holocaust survivors, many of Sept 11 families bear intimate witness to evil, and they have clung to one another through crisis, forging an identity; no one knows where their road leads; some family members have forsaken contact, some who leaped into action on Sept 11 have since withdrawn; others have begun to reach out in last few months; only small vanguard is directly involved with political issues like Manhattan memorial; most families have been silent, their stories still untold; sampling of interviews with more than 100 family members; photos; map; graph (L)

Serena Williams defeats Venus Williams to win US Open and third major of year; photos (M)

Article on Jeff Galloway and his family and Gila Fortinsky and her family, who lived at Gateway Plaza apartment complex one block west of World Trade Center when towers collapsed; 600 Gateway Plaza and 114 Liberty Street were only two residential buildings physically damaged in attack; Galloways, after three months of living like refugees while waiting for building to be repaired, have returned there and are trying to get their lives back to normal; Galloways, also seeking normalcy, have moved to suburban Larchmont, N Y; photos (L)

Last Rolls Royce was produced at plant in Crewe, Eng, on Aug 30; Rolls will move to new factory on estate of Earl of March at Goodwood on Jan 1, 2003, when control passes to BMW, from Volkswagen; Crewe factory will continue to be main production site for Bentley, which will remain subsidiary of Volkswagen AG; photo (M)

Extraordinary confluence of American instincts appears in hindsight to have dulled nation's readiness, chief among them complacency Americans shared about security of their continent, whose shores seemed impervious to malevolent assault; before Sept 11 there was also innate resistance to kind of domestic intelligence gathering that authorities consider necessary for tracking suspected terrorists and subversives; system was also flawed as result of long degradation of American intelligence gathering; review of what some members of Congress are calling greatest failure in American intelligence since Pearl Harbor; photos (L)

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Law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom signs 10-year lease for 48,842 square feet at Reckson Metro Center in White Plains; plans to use space for alternative data center; lease deal and renovations will cost $21.9 million (M)