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Isn't it about time that the tobacco price support program be eliminated? Taxpayers are tired of financing a welfare program that grows tobacco that nobody wants. If farmers want to grow tobacco, let them compete with the rest of the world on a free-market basis. JOHN H. O'HARA Bowie, Md., June 14, 1987 The writer is president of the Bowie Group Against Smokers' Pollution.
ASTREX INC reports earnings for Year to March 31
c-Net income
Crime Likelier to Hit Western Households
Nationally, one in four American households experienced a rape, robbery, assault, burglary or theft in 1986, down from one in three households in 1975, the Justice Department agency said.
Inmate Is Shot at Prison
At least one inmate was shot by a guard and four others suffered knife wounds tonight in a disturbance at the Clinton Correctional Facility here, officials said. An inmate was hospitalized after he was shot by a guard who fired two rounds from a tower overlooking an exercise yard, where the disturbance broke out, a spokesman for the State Correctional Services Department, James Flateau, said.
HCC INDUSTRIES INC reports earnings for Year to March 28
c-Net income and after a loss from discontinued operations of $503,000 and a loss on disposal of $280,000.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
But Mr. Grass is too exuberant to remain a bore for long, as he continues to wreak the mischief of Till Eulenspiegel on German literature. Some of his nightmare scenes make your hair stand on end. His rewriting of ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin'' as a parable of punk is inspired. (It was not the rats but the children the good burghers really wanted to be rid of.) And reading his prose, as always superbly translated by Ralph Manheim, is like being wakened from the sleep of reason by acid rain. The leader of the bargewomen sings, after their cruise is over and their knitting ended because their yarn has run out: In the search for differences be tween man and animal, love is often mentioned as a faculty peculiar to man. Meant here is not love of one's fellows, which is more frequent among animals than among men, but that of Tristan and Isolde and other exemplary couples which even among swans is inconceivable. . . . No nightingale or lark, only man loves at all costs, in and out of sea son, to the point of madness and beyond the grave. As we know, lovers would even like to eat each other up. That is true, dearest: at once, bones and all. But first - to a lute accompani ment - let us roast a juicy loin of pork and eat it.
E. Raymond Wilson, 90, Dies; Founded Quaker Legal Group
He is survived by two sons - Kent of Del Mar, Calif., and Lee of Washington - and four grandchildren.
WOMEN ADAPTING TO TREACHEROUS GRASS
''I'm more eager than in a long time,'' he said. ''I've had my share of the spotlight, but maybe there is another spotlight over the rainbow.'' WIMBLEDON
Sherill Leonard and David Sanger Wed
The bridegroom is a grandson of Elliott M. Sanger, a co-founder of WQXR, the radio station of The Times, and Eleanor N. Sanger, formerly program director of WQXR.
INTERMETRICS INC reports earnings for Qtr to May 31
b-After tax credits of $160,000 for the latest first quarter and $76,000 for the year-ago period.
Food and Drug Unit Warns About Counterfeit Hormone
The agency said the hormone was sold to athletes trying to reverse breast enlargement, which is a side effect of the misuse of steroids.
TRIDEX CORP reports earnings for Qtr to March 28
The net income for the 1986 full year includes a gain of $1.7 million from the settlement of contingent payments due from the sale of the company's relay division in a prior year and a $375,000 gain on the sale of property.
GROWTH IN FLIGHTS A SURPRISE TO F.A.A.
''I'm not satisfied with the progress being made'' in modernizing the air traffic control system, he says. It is a project that will have cost an estimated $16 billion by the turn of the century. ''By the same token, given the technical difficulties and the availability of dollars, we're not doing all that bad.''
BRITAIN EXPORTS A SUBTLE GAME
The start was slow and the rewards meager. But Mr. Hearn steadily burnished snooker's image, making sure his players dressed well and stayed at good hotels, even if it meant dipping into his own pocket. Today, his players are chauffeur-driven and travel first class.
Deborah Beth Goldberg Has Wedding
Mr. Winter, an associate director of Bear, Stearns & Company in New York, graduated from Northeastern University. His previous marriage ended in divorce. His father, who is retired, owned a chain of dry-cleaning establishments in Boston.
THEATER: ''DREAMGIRLS,'' A MUSICAL, IS REVIVED
Marty... Roy L. Jones; Curtis Taylor Jr.... Weyman Thompson; Deena Jones... Alisa Gyse; Lorrell Robinson... Arnetia Walker; C. C. White... Kevyn Morrow; Effie Melody White... Lillias White; Michelle Morris... Susan Beaubian; James Thunder Early... ; Herbert L. Rawlings Jr.; WITH... Stephen Bourneuf, Tim Cassidy, Robert Clater, Yvette Louise Cason, Bobby Daye, Matthew Dickens, Germaine Edwards, Robert Fowler, Rhetta Hughes, Lynda McConnell, Milton Craig, Nealy, Leonard Piggee, R. Lachanze Sapp, Vernon Spencer, David Thome, Shirley Tripp, Lorraine Velez, Fuschia Walker.
FOR N.C.A.A, DAYS OF RECKONING BEGIN IN DALLAS
In what is being viewed as a challenge to many schools, the commission has asked for roll-call votes on 23 of the proposals, assuring that each school's voting will be recorded.
FINANCE BRIEFS
* Bantec Inc. has filed for 1.7 million shares through Shearson Lehman Brothers.
BANKS' JOB PROGRAM FAILS TO FIND ENOUGH QUALIFIED STUDENTS
The successful student applicants, he said, were ''getting a first-time job in the mainstream of the New York economy rather than a part-time job outside the mainstream.''
BRENNER COMPANIES INC reports earnings for Qtr to May 31
.70
No Squares Please
SPORTS WORLD SPECIALS
BETWEEN A CITY AND A SMALL TOWN
AN APPRAISAL
ALPHA MICROSYSTEMS reports earnings for Qtr to May 24
.09
A Celebration of Brazil
Costumed participants dancing yesterday in the second annual Brazilian Summer Carnival parade on the Lower East Side. The carnival's theme this year was a celebration of Bahia, a state in eastern Brazil. (NYT/Angel Franco)
Question Box
Twelve such races are scheduled at Saratoga when the thoroughbred season moves upstate for four weeks starting Aug. 5, capped by the New York Turf Writers Handicap Aug. 21. The only downstate steeplechase, though, will be the Temple Gwathmey at Belmont Oct. 9. Steeplechase racing, never big among American bettors because of the fans' unfamiliarity with the horses and the conditions, has not been held too often in New York since the early 1970's, when the legalization of offtrack betting reduced parimutuel handles at racetracks. That put pressure on tracks to scratch such races as steeplechases because their lack of profitability made their cost too steep.
2 MORE BY MCGWIRE SET ROOKIE RECORD
The victory was the fourth straight for Oakland. Cleveland has lost seven in a row.
Ambulance Accident Kills 2 and Injures 5
METRO DATELINES
PLAYERS INTERNATIONAL reports earnings for Year to March 31
5,199,600
RELIGION FROM CUBA STIRS ROW IN MIAMI
Mr. Pichardo said that his church had nothing to do with the stores and that animal sacrifices were but a small part of Santeria rites, although integral to them. He took exception to the religion's being called a sect or a cult.
DIVIDED WEST EUROPEAN LEADERS MEET IN BRUSSELS TODAY FOR TALKS
The Common Market Commission and the southern countries say the community needs stronger central institutions and the transfer of resources from the rich north to the poorer south if it is to become the cohesive political bloc its founding fathers envisioned.
Dainippon Head Pushes U.S. Bids Aggressively
BUSINESS PEOPLE
Business and the Law; Ruling Clouds Insider Cases
Mr. Olson said last week's decision would provide an impetus for Congress to pass a law defining illegal insider trading. Such a proposal has been introduced on Capitol Hill. ''The decision makes folly of the argument that Congress should wait for the outcome of the Winans case,'' he added.
MUSIC: KATHLEEN BATTLE AT CARAMOOR FESTIVAL
In the audience was Marian Anderson, who got a standing ovation when Miss Battle dedicated to her the encore, whose text the soprano recited as a simple tribute to the great artist and pioneer. ''Oh, had I Jubal's lyre, or Miriam's tuneful voice, to sounds like his I would aspire, in songs like hers rejoice,'' she said (fighting back a tear, I think),''my humble strains but faintly show how much to Heav'n and thee I owe.'' It was a moving moment at the end of a beautiful concert. ''I think she's magnificent,'' said Miss Anderson, and everybody seemed to agree.
ROGER KELLAWAY
JAZZ FESTIVAL
METRO DATELINES ELDERLY MAN KILLED IN BROOKLYNN FIRE
Four unidentified people who were in the first-floor apartment were treated at Brookdale Hospital for smoke inhalation and burns, Mr. Kilcooley said. He said one firefighter was treated for minor injuries.
RECYCLING HAS FANS IN OREGON
''We have a Western attitude,'' Ms. Parker said. ''We'll do the right thing if you don't try to force us.''
West Bank Arab Clash Leaves Palestinian Dead and 4 Hurt
''Nobody is really sure what happened, and the whole matter is under investigation,'' he said.
James W. Gerard, 73, Dies; A Retired Brigadier General
He is survived by his wife, Jean, United States Ambassador to Luxembourg; a son, James W., of Washington; a daughter, Harriet C., of Manhattan, and three brothers, C. H. Coster Gerard, Sumner Gerard and John Train, all of Manhattan.
FIGHT BUILDS OVER THE SHAPE OF RELIGIOUS FUTURE IN ISRAEL
Correction: July 8, 1987, Wednesday, Late City Final Edition
MAXCO INC reports earnings for Qtr to March 31
c-Includes pre-tax gains of $1,131,000 for the quarter and $6,710,000 for the year on the sale of Medar stock and losses of $457,000 and $634,000 for the quarter and year, respectively, from Maxco's equity share of Medar; the year was also after a charge of $390,000 for pension plan and contract settlement.
How India Is Dealing With Its Neighbors
What is perhaps most objectionable in your editorial is the attempt to impart a religious color to the ethnic crisis in Sri Lanka, by speaking of ''Hindu Tamils'' and ''Sinhala Buddhists.'' The root of the crisis is the discrimination faced by Sri Lanka's Tamil people as a whole, among whom are many Moslems and Christians. S. S. MUKHERJEE Press Counselor, Embassy of India Washington, June 18, 1987
TOURISM FLASH: THE WEST WANTS YOU
But Mr. Wilson of the Montana Commerce Department said: ''At least they are jobs. And they are jobs in places where unemployment has been a problem.''
Shift at Saudis' Oil Company
The sources said Mr. Rubaishi was not expected to hold the post permanently.
Women at the Top
Geneva Overholser's June 15 editorial notebook asks, ''Would Women Govern Differently?'' I think it is only a matter of time before technology allows us to measure precisely the differences in the structure of male and female human brains. Animal studies clearly indicate that such differences exist. With different arrangements of the nerve cells between the sexes, there are undoubtedly different kinds of behavior that are inherent. That females would govern unlike males is a real possibility. MARIAN C. DIAMOND Professor of Neuroanatomy University of California Berkeley, Calif., June 23, 1987
BIOMET INC reports earnings for Qtr to May 31
.51
Susan Greenfield Becomes a Bride
The bride's father is a partner in the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and her mother, Judith C. Greenfield, is the children's librarian at the Rye Free Reading Room. The bridegroom's father is a salesman with Computer Amusement Systems Inc. in New York, and his mother is an executive assistant at St. Joseph's Hospital in Flushing.
QUALITY SYSTEMS INC reports earnings for Year to March 31
.09
INVENTIVE CHILDREN HONORED FOR SALT DYE AND BAG-A-DIAP
The design has a slot for paper to pass through the bottom of the cage and an attached frame that folds a roll of paper towels. When the bottom of the cage is dirty, the paper can be pulled through and torn off, explained the 12-year-old from Forestdale School.
THE MEADOWLANDS, SYMBOL OF REGION'S 'BORDER WARS'
''When companies come out here, they don't seem to like the name Secaucus,'' he said. ''Every now and then a company will come to me and say, 'Can we change our address to Harmon Meadows?' or something. But the town fathers are sticklers about it. So as far as I'm concerned it has to be Secaucus 07094.''
TAKING A DETOUR (FROM JETLINER TO POLICE STATION) TO DRIVE HOME A POINT
''What rights do we passengers have?'' he asked. ''That's the issue. How much do we have to take?''
WESSEX CORP reports earnings for Qtr to March 31