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VOL.CXLIV.. No. 50,010

Copyright © 1995 The New York Times

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Ed Quinn for The New York Times

Demonstrators and police officers clashed yesterday as thousands of students gathered at City Hall to protest
cuts in money for education proposed in the city and state budgets. Sixteen people were hurt and 60 arrested.

Students Leave
Classes to Rally
Against Budget

By MARIA NEWMAN

_ Thousands of university and high
school students, accompanied by
professors and teachers, walked out
of their classrooms yesterday to pro-

cuts to educa-

Public Hospitals Chief Quits,
Opposing Giuliani Over Cuts

‘By ESTHER B. FEIN

The chairman of New York City’s da’s seat at the board meeting, Ms.
Health and Hospitals Corporation re- Mitchell cast the deciding vote to
signed unexpectedly yesterday, say- defeat the resolution. The vote was 7
ing he could not support the deep to 6 with 1 abstention, Two members
Medicaid cuts that Mayor Rudolph _ of the 16-member board did not vote.
W. Giuliani and Gov. George E. Pa- Just a day earlier, the Mayor a
taki are seeking. . ed another supporter to the boe

The chairman, Luis A. Miranda John Ballan, an ogg

esip minutes before the .. He

ttle Over Free Speech

Measure, attached without
ate to a sweeping proposal to
aul the nation’s communica-
fs, would levy fines as high as
and prison terms up to two
f anyone who transmits ma-
at is ‘obscene, lewd, lascivi-

years

ifé the proposal will have to
hany more legislative hurdles
e law, its warm reception in
mittee suggests that it has
momentum — despite vigorous op-
Position from Internet users and
skepticism among experts that any-
in govern the sprawling and
anarchistic array of inter-
networks.
ommittee approved the en-
nmunications bill today by a
‘17 to 2. [Page D7.]
disputes that sex is abun-
the Internet, where maga-
e Playboy offer nude pic-
no cost and electronic bulle-

Here eae highlights of
each version of the line-item
veto bill. The House passed
its version last: month.

a THE SENATE VERSION

-__m Each spending item ina
bill would be sent to the
President separately.

™ President could veto an

* item within 20 working
days.

@ President could veto
certain narrow tax cuts

m@ Veto could be overturned
by a two-thirds vote in
each house.

THE HOUSE VERSION

@ President could rescind
spending items already
approved within 10 days.

@ These cancellations
would take effect unless
disapproved by a majority
of Congress within 20
days.

@ President could veto any
disapprovais.

® Veto could be overturned
by a two-thirds vote in

_ each house.

The New York Times

Shabazz Case:
Informer Says

U.S. Paid Him

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$1 beyond the greater New York metropolitan area.

ATE APPROVES MEASURE
NTING PRESIDENT A VETO

60 CENTS

VOTE IS 69 1 10 29

Plan Gives Vast Control
of Federal Purse to
Executive Branch

By JERRY GRAY

WASHINGTON, March 23 — With
wide bipartisan support, the Senate
today voted to give the President
unprecedented control of the Fed-
eral purse — the power to veto spe-
cific items in spending bills and
some future tax benefits.

The Senate passed the bill, on a
vote of 69 to 29, nearly eight weeks
after the House had approved a dif-
ferent version of the line-item veto.
A central piece of the Republican
agenda, the veto is being pushed as a
budget-cutting tool.

Before the bill can be sent to Pres-
ident Clinton, who has said he will
sign it, differences between the Sen-
ate and the House versions must be
resolved by a conference committee.

Fifty of the Senate’s 54 Republi-
cans voted for the line-item veto;
they were joined by 19 Democrats,
including Senator Tom Daschle of
South Dakota, the minority leader.

Two Republican Senators, Mark
O. Hatfield of Oregon and James M.
Jeffords of Vermont, voted against
the legislation. Senator Hatfield had
also broken party ranks in voting
against the balanced-budget amend-
ment,

Absent from the vote were two
other Republican Senators: Phil
Gramm of Texas and Ted Stevens of
Alaska. Since Mr. Gramm is a rival



a Fae e Se MI0 Ae INT OR Me
turned into a skirmish when
- police officers in riot gear tried to
“keep demonstrators, mostly stu-
dents, from marching down Broad-
- way. Some officers sprayed pepper
* gas at the protesters; some protest-
- ers threw black paint at the officers.
_/ | Sixty people, mostly students, were
j _arrested, and 16, including 11 police
|. officers, were injured. All of the inju-
» ries were minor, the police said.
* Some 14,000 public school students
‘ cut their classes to protest the budg-
_et cuts, school officials said. Not all
-of them made it to the City Hall
rally, however, which was organized
“'by students from the City University
‘of New York. City officials estimat-
| ed the crowd at 10,000.
Ki It was the largest student protest
‘in New York City in several years.
‘yen some elementary school stu-
dents attended on unofficial class
trips led by teachers and parents,
a them several classes from
- | Public School 3 in the East Village.
» The rally included thousands of
4 University faculty members,
_twho marched in the morning across
4 Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall in
‘their colorful academic robes.
_~ Shortly before 3 P.M., some dem-
rators tried to turn the rally into
‘4 unauthorized march to Wall
i The police said students be-

s Continued on Page B4, Column 1

Fax Software Flaw
May Expose Returns

tuit said a flaw in a popular tax
paration program, Macintax, has
posed thousands of Federal and
tax returns to unauthorized
swing, tampering or deletion.

* The software flaw enabled com-
puter users with modems to gain
access to the central computer that
Stores electronic tax returns filed by
its customers. The announcement
lows the disclosure of more minor
flaws in the company’s tax prepara-
tion software.

Intuit said there was no evidence
that any of the electronic tax returns
stored in a computer operated for
the company by a subcontractor had

/been tampered with or deleted, but it

/ also acknowledged that there was no
way to be sure of this. Intuit said
Programmers had corrected the
flaw and restricted access to the
System after a Macintax customer
made the company aware of the flaw
yesterday morning.

The customer said he had been
able to dial into the computer and
assume administrative control of the
returns, which were not encrypted.

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ASO, TREAT a See
the agency’s budget by close to 30
percent.

Mr. Miranda said that as an ap-
pointee of the Mayor, he was obliged
to support the administration’s posi-
tion, but that he could not in good
conscience vote against the board’s
resolution.

But some people in the agency who
were familiar with the move said the
Giuliani administration made it
clear to Mr. Miranda that if he defied
the Mayor by voting to condemn the
Medicaid cuts, he would be forced
from his position.

The Mayor immediately appoin
ed Maria Mitchell, his special advis-
er on health, as the interim chair-
woman of the. agency, which oper-
ates the city’s 11 public hospitals.
After she arrived to take Mr. Miran-

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Monday.

The board changes consolidate the
Mayor’s influence on the agency at a
time that the administration is seek-
ing to sell at least three public
hospitals and considerably reduce
the size of the remaining institutions
and the agency’s bureaucracy. The
Mayor has indicated that he would
like to get the city entirely out of the
health delivery business.

Mr. Miranda said that he general-
iy supported the Mayor’s goals of
streamlining the agency and forcing
it to be more efficient. He said that
over the last 14 months, he had stood
by the Mayor’s decision to eliminate
nearly 4,000 agency jobs, to shrink
the number of beds and to consoli-

Continued on Page B4, Column 1

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By NATALIE ANGIER

Combining elements of the sub-
lime and the macabre, scientists
have created flies that grow large,
perfectly formed eyes on the most
inappropriate parts of their bod-
ies: on their wings, on their legs,
on the quivering tips of their an-
tennae.

The experiment offers graphic
evidence that scientists may have
discovered what they call ‘“‘the
master control gene’’ for the for-
mation of the eye, one of the most
complex structures in nature. Re-
searchers in developmental biol-
ogy have been struggling, with
scant success, to identify the ge-
netic signals that initiate the
growth of the body's specialized

. components, whether limb, liver
or brain.

But the latest work, reported
today in the journal Science, sug-
gests that the gene with which the
scientists prompted laboratory
flies to sprout as many as 14 eyes
apiece is indeed the kingpin of
vision, the gene that touches off an
intricate biochemical event able
to transform a nondescript speck
of cells into a fully outfitted eye.
Whether these extracurricular fly
eyes can see remains to be deter-
mined.

alter Gehring/ Science
Flies with additional eyes have
become scientific fact.

Though the work was done with
fruit flies, which are genetically
amenable to such manipulations,
the eye gene in the fly turns out to
be similar to a gene identified in
mammals, including humans, in-
dicating that the equivalent gene
in human embryos may direct the
creation of the paired windows to
the soul.

The gene used in the fly experi-
ments is called eyeless, because
the absence of the gene results in
flies with no eyes at all.

tronie mouse on the Playboy menu, a
person Can summon up color pic-
tures the latest Playboy model.
Playpoy, in a provocative move to
ente e age of high technology, is
askigg for women to apply for a
futusg portfolio called “Women of

ernet.”
M more explicit fare, in text

and pictures, can be found in other
locafions. One site on the World Wide
Web, ealled ‘“‘For Your Eyes Only,”
offegs the likes of the Leather and
Fetigh Community Outreach and
quick access to on-line forums de-
voted to bondage, domination, sub-
i and masochism.

Butattempts to clamp down on the
et’s sexual content face vex-

Comeinued on Page D7, Column 1

“TS an amazing example of

how @Single gene can switch on an
entig® developmental program,”
said@Dr. Walter J. Gehring of the
Univérsity of Basel in Switzer-
land} the senior author of the re-

portg*‘It came as a total surprise
’

Df. Gehring estimates that at
least 2,500 different genes partici-
patdin the construction of the eye,
and/that all those genes answer
direetly or indirectly to eyeless.

Dp. Gehring did the experi-
ments with his colleagues Dr.
Georg Halder and Dr. Patrick Cal-
laerts.

“Tis the paper of the year,”
said Dr. Charles S. Zuker, a neuro-
scientist and fruit fly biologist at
the} University of California
School of Medicine in San Diego.
“This is Frankensteinian science
at its best.”

Other scientists expressed en-
thusiasm for the work, though’
sorme scorned the term “master
‘control gene,” which they said
wa8a glib phrase that ignored the
highly interactive nature of the

body’s development, the chatter-
ing talk and crosstalk that occurs
while the multitudes of growing

Continued on Page A15, Column 1

INSIDE

Error Kills Cancer Patient

An overdose of a chemotherpy drug
killed one patient and debilitated an-
other, and has raised questions

about procedures at a prestigious

Boston cancer center. Page A18.

Wisconsin Posts Big Loss

The State of Wisconsin Investment
Board lost $95 million by using com-
plex financial derivatives to specu-
late on currerigjes. Page D1.

Hazards at Harlem Building

A housing inspector had reported a
crack in a wall of the apartment
building that collapsed on Tuesday, a
defect experts say could have sig-
naled structural problems. Page B1.

Crackdown on Child Support

The House voted to require states to
Suspend the driver’s and profession-
al licenses of people who fail to pay
child support. pase A22.

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ST. PAUL, March 23 — The Gov-
ernment informer who has said that
Qubilah Bahiyah Shabazz tried to
hire him to kill Louis Farrakhan left
his hiding place today and said that
Federal agents promised to pay him
$45,000 for his help in the case.

The informer, Michael K. Fitzpat-
rick, said at a hearing here that he
had been paid $34,000 ‘by the Govern-
ment in the last seven months and
expected to be paid at least $11,000
more for secretly recording dozens
of his telephone calls with Ms. Sha-
bazz and later testifying at her trial,
if necessary.

Today was the first time Mr. Fitz-
patrick has publicly answered ques-
tions about the case and his role in it
since Ms. Shabazz, the second oldest
daughter of Malcolm X, was indicted
last January on charges that she had
plotted to kill Mr. Farrakhan, the
leader of the Nation of Islam.

Mr. Fitzpatrick was pulled from
the shadows of the Federal witness
protection program by Federal Mag-
istrate Franklin L. Noel, who ruled
on Tuesday that Mr. Fitzpatrick had
to answer questions from Ms. Sha-
bazz’s lawyers. 4

Ms. Shabazz’s defense team is
seeking to have the charges thrown
out on the ground of ‘“‘gross govern-
mental misconduct.” Nothing in to-

Continued on Page Al2, Column 1

SAVE, Eee MEER VUMINE MUUVEEED CE
arguing point in the campaign.

Mr. Gramm’s legislative spokes-
man, Larry Neal, said the Senator
was out of town tonight and could not
make the vote. Mr. Neal, who was
reached at his home, said he did not
have Mr. Gramm’s schedule so he
could not say where the Senator was.

In the New York area, all the
delegations cast split votes. Senator
Alfonse M. D’Amato, Republican of
New York, voted yes, and his Demo-
cratic colleague, Daniel Patrick
Moynihan, voted no. Of the New Jer-
sey Senators, both Democrats, Bill
Bradley voted in favor of the bill and
Frank R. Lautenberg voted against
it. Senator Christopher J. Dodd, a
Connecticut Democrat, voted
against the measure, while his Dem-
ocratic colleague, Joseph I. Lieber-
man, voted in favor.

Whatever the shape of the final bill
that reaches Mr. Clinton’s desk, it
could produce a major power shift in
Washington and create what even its
most ardent supporters concede will
be a political Pandora’s box by giv-
ing the Democratic White House a
far more potent say over the Repub-
lican agenda.

Rarely has the legislative branch
willingly shifted power to the execu-
tive branch. But with the Senate vote

Continued on Page A22, Column 1

Secretive Japan Sect Evokes

Both Loyalty and Hostility

By SHERYL WuDUNN

TOKYO, March 23 — The last time
a lawyer tried to take on the Aum
Shinrikyo religious sect, he and his
family disappeared.

That was six years ago, and the
lawyer, Tsutsumi Sakamoto, his wife
and a l-year-old boy have not been
heard from since. Now, partly in
memory of their friend, Yoshiro Ito
and four other lawyers have taken
on his cause, becoming virtually the
only legal team bold enough to chal-
lenge the sect in court.

“I hope that the police raids will
turn up some clues about the Saka-
moto family,” Mr. Ito said. ‘But I’m
doubtful. It’s been such a long time.”

The police raided 25 branches of
the Aum Shinrikyo sect beginning on
Wednesday, two days after the nerve
gas attack in the subways here, and
found tons of chemicals that can be
used to make nerve gas. Although
Aum Shinrikyo has denied involve-
ment in the subway attack or the

disappearance of the Sakamoto fam-
ily, a harsh spotlight has focused on
a number of bizarre practices of the
highly secretive cult.

The cult’s leader, Shoko Asahara,
appeared on Japanese television to-
day and denied any links to the sub-
way attack. The television station,
NHK, said that it had submitted
questions to Mr. Asahara and that he
had provided videotaped answers.
His whereabouts remain unknown,
the station said.

Several hundred families have
turned to Mr. Ito’s legal team in

Continued on Page A8, Column 1

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