Metro Digest New York City Trying Again On Aids Policy
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A week after a vote to stress abstinence in AIDS education bitterly divided the Board of Education, board members who supported the policy have decided to back off and come up with a compromise plan. The changes being discussed would still require teachers to emphasize abstinence as the most effective way to avoid AIDS, but not in every lesson taught or every pamphlet distributed. B3. A WORD FROM THE WHITE HOUSE The Bush Administration denounced the Mayors of New York City and Washington for allowing drug addicts to receive clean hypodermic needles under experimental programs intended to curb the spread of AIDS. B3. THE FUTURE OF THE DAILY NEWS A Canadian publisher who is seeking to buy The Daily News in New York said that the paper’s unions should give him concessions because they are less painful than extinction. B3. NEW SAFETY PLAN FOR SCHOOL A new security agreement calling for increased hallway patrols and other measures was approved by teachers at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in the Bronx. Teachers had been threatening to strike if nothing was done to improve security conditions at the school, where a teacher was beaten twice last week by the same student. B3. REGION NEW BUDGET GAP IN NEW JERSEY New Jersey’s Treasurer announced a new $450 million hole in the budget. On top of other recent revenue losses, that leaves state leaders with the task of finding almost $1.7 billion in the 28 days before a new budget must be in place. The latest bad news came when the Federal Government did not come through with $450 million in anticipated Medicaid payments. A1. MYSTERY IN AU PAIR CASE At the opening of the trial of the Swiss au pair charged with burning to death the baby in her care, the central question of the case remained unanswered. Why would she have done it? The prosecutor said he had no answer, but told jurors that should not dissuade them from voting to convict her. B5 CAR DEALER PLEADS NOT GUILTY John McNamara, the Long Island car dealer accused of defrauding General Motors of more than $400 million, pleaded not guilty to Federal racketeering and fraud charges. B5. A NEW VIEW OF A SHOOTING SUSPECT After her arrest two weeks ago, authorities portrayed Amy Fisher as a lovesick teen-ager who shot her boyfriend’s wife in a jealous frenzy. But today, at her arraignment, a prosecutor called her a prostitute who had studied her victim since August and plotted her murder. “To call her a 17-year-old girl who lives at home and goes to high school is as accurate as calling John Gotti a businessman who lives in New York,” he said. B5. RADAR GUNS BANNED IN CONNECTICUT Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. signed legislation today making Connecticut the first state in the nation to ban the use of hand-held radar guns, which police unions believe can cause cancer after long-term use. Medical studies have found no link between the radar guns and cancer. B5. About New York by Douglas Martin B3 Chronicle B6 More : query.nytimes.com |