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According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Journal of Urology, 'PURPOSE: Prostate specific antigen (PSA) density and age referenced PSA have been proposed in an attempt to [...]

Enhanced Immune Response. QS-21 Enhances Tumor AUTHORS: D. Johnston, M. Rivas, J.-C. Bystryn and R.O. Perelman. Department of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine and Hunter College, New York, [...]

AUTHORS: E.S. Kleinerman, T. Asano, J.B. Gano, D. Johnston, R.S. Benjamin and N. Jaffe. The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. According to an abstract presented by [...]

Reports that retired Air Force Major General, Richard V. Secord pleaded guilty to one charge of making a false statement to Congress in exchange for having 11 other charges dropped. Secord also agreed to cooperate with the government at any trial in which he may be called. INSET: The Iran-Contra figures..

Reports that the Library Awareness program of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, designed to monitor information being obtained by Soviet bloc operatives, also included the surveillance of several librarians who criticized the program.

Reports that Federal District Judge Alcee L. Hastings, the 53-year-old judge who served in the Southern District of Florida, has been removed from the bench by a United States Senate vote of 69 to 26, which convicted him of eight impeachment articles, including conspiracy to obtain a $150,000 bribe. Proceedings described; Background of case; Previous impeachments; Roll-call vote details.

Reports that President Bush quickly declared Northern California a disaster area making it eligible to use $273 million that remains in the disaster assistance fund. More money to come; White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu to supervise relief effort; Criticism over slow handling of Hurricane Hugo's victims.

Reports that a child care bill is near completion in Congress, and that supporters predict that the landmark legislation will overcome remaining obstacles, including the threat of a presidential veto. Differences between presidential plan and plan before Congress; Administration's objections to legislation; Funding.

Reports that Democratic as well as Republican senators are working to remold President Bush's anti-drug strategy by adopting proposals such as hiring 1,000 new agents for the FBI, 350 for the DEA, and 300 more assistant United States attorneys. Other significant measures; Funding discussed.

Reports that, invoking the Sherman Antitrust Act, the Justice Department is investigating whether elite colleges and universities are unfairly restraining trade in setting similar levels of tuition and financial aid. Investigation discussed; Documents requested.

Examines documents indicating that former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Samuel R. Pierce Jr. did personal favors for his old law firm, Battle, Fowler, despite a pledge to the contrary. Details of Pierce's dealings with the firm; Response from the firm to charges of unethical conduct.

Outlines how four former federal housing officials may have received preferential treatment from the Department of Housing and Urban Development during the Reagan Administration.

Discusses President George Bush's selection of John E. Frohnmayer, an Oregon lawyer, to head the National Endowment for the Arts. Prominent candidates passed over by Bush; Recent criticisms of the Arts agency for providing grants for works considered to be pornographic and morally offensive; Frohnmayer's qualifications.

Reports on Judge Gerhard A. Gesell's sentencing of Oliver L. North for his crimes in the Iran-contra affair. $150,000 fine, two-year probation, and 1,200 hours of community service in an inner-city drug program; Lightness of sentencing credited to Gesell's feelings that a harder sentence would further tarnish North's views of public service. INSET: Milestones in the North case..

Reports on findings of criminal violations of environmental laws by the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Colorado. Efforts by the plant's owners and the Energy Department to conceal violations and hinder enforcement of air and water pollution laws; Other violations; Response by environmentalists.

Discusses a Justice Department's announcement that it will begin investigation into possible federal environmental law violations at the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado, which processes plutonium for nuclear warheads. Seizure of records at Rocky Flats; Comments by Attorney General Dick Thornburgh; Environmentalists' response.

Presents the verdicts on retired lieutenant-colonel Oliver L. North in his trial on his actions in the Iran-contra affair. Guilty verdicts on 3 of 12 counts; Basis for decisions; North's plans to appeal; Lack of support from Administration officials.

Reports on the continued cross-examination of Oliver L. North by prosecution lawyer John W. Keker, and the attacks by him on North's personal integrity as well as his claim that superiors had authorized his actions. Excerpts from testimony.

Reports that Oliver North defended his handling of hundreds of thousands of dollars entrusted to him in the Iran-contra affair against pointed cross-examination by the government's chief prosecutor, John W. Keker, an ex-Marine and Vietnam veteran.Excerpts from testimony and questioning.

Reports that Federal District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell rejected an attempt to force former President Ronald Reagan to appear as a witness in the trial of Oliver L. North. No written evidence found to indicate Reagan authorized any of the illegal acts of which North is accused.

The trial of Oliver North was delayed again when the defense moved to dismiss the charges after it became known that some so-called classified information had been made public in a lawsuit last year.

Federal District Judge Gerhard Gesell temporarily halted the trial of Oliver North because of a dispute about the possible disclosure of a name the government attests is classified.

Senator John Warner of Virginia forwarded new questions about Defense Secretary-designate John Tower to the White House. Further allegations of use of alcohol and sexual behavior. Bush still stands behind Tower.

Reports that former Central Intelligence Agency official, Joseph F. Fernandez, has been cleared by a Federal District Judge in Alexandria, Virginia of all charges, ruling that he could not receive a fair trial because of information barred by Attorney General Dick Thornburgh. Independent counsel has several options.

Discusses the announcement by Attorney General Dick Thornburgh that he has barred the disclosure of classified information in the Iran-contra trial of former Central Intelligence Agency official, Joseph F. Fernandez. `Serious damage to the national security of the United States'; 1980 law, Classified Information Procedures Act; Charges against Mr. Fernandez could be dropped.

Reports that Washington Redskins defensive end Dexter Manley is facing an indefinite suspension from the National Football League for violating the league's substance-abuse policy for a third time.

Discusses the flight tapes from United Airlines Flight 232 that crashed in Sioux City, Iowa.

Reports on the indictment of former Air Force major general Richard V. Secord on nine charges of lying in Iran-contra investigations. Other criminal charges faced by Secord.

Reports that the trial of Oliver North ended after eight weeks of testimony with the prosecution calling its final witnesses, who challenged Mr. North's image of military rectitude. Telephone link to Bush; Profits suggested.

Reports on testimony given by Oliver L. North in Federal District Court regarding lies he told members of Congress in 1986 about his actions in Central America. Contradicts testimony given by former national security advisor, Robert C. McFarlane; Document released indicating involvement of then Vice President Bush in arranging contra aid.

Criminal trial of Oliver North in Iran-Contra scandal begins, after lengthy delays during discussions regarding disclosure of classified documents. Opening statements.

States that the Justice Department has subpoenaed all financial records of every House member's transactions at the House bank for a 39-month period from 1988 to 1991, setting up what could be a battle with Congress. House Speaker Thomas S. Foley (D-Wash.) did not indicate whether the House leadership would comply with the subpoenas.

Reports that federal authorities, shifting the chief focus of their banking inquiries from the Southwest, are investigating more than 230 cases of suspected banking fraud in New England that could amount to more than $1 billion. The number of cases involving allegations of large-scale fraud has increased sharply in the last two years at financial institutions in New England.

Says that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, accused by black agents of discriminating in promotions, transfers and assignments, announced that it reached an agreement to promote some of them and provide dozens of others with new jobs and special training. Terms of the agreement.

Analyzes the drug conviction of General Manuel Antonio Noriega of Panama. While it is a triumph for the Bush Administration, it has failed to stanch the flow of illicit narcotics through Panama. And critics say that the government built its case against Noriega by making far too many costly deals with murderers, drug traffickers and other criminals in an effort to get them to testify against the defendant.

Says that Malcolm R. Wilkey, a 73-year-old Republican and a retired federal appeals court judge, has been named to head the preliminary inquiry intended to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to warrant a criminal investigation of the House Bank scandal.

Reports that the Central Intelligence Agency gave S. Peter Karlow a small bronze medal, a $500,000 check and an apology for mistaking him for a spy two decades ago and making his life difficult. Karlow was one of many of the C.I.A.'s victims branded as moles during its hunts in the 1960s and 1970s; David Wise's book `Molehunt: the Secret Search for Traitors That Shattered the C.I.A.'; Many other accused moles went into professional exile; More.

Says that Samuel P. Singletary, a businessman from Pleasantville who was close to former Secretary Samuel R. Pierce Jr., pleaded guilty to attempting to evade taxes on income he received from a consulting firm that had a grant from the Departmentof Housing and Urban Development.

Discusses how six years after the federal government passed a law to halt Mexican refugees from entering the country, immigration officials believe the number of arrests this year will surpass past peak levels before the law was signed. Administration plans to announce a series of stepped-up measures to halt the flow; Attorney General William P. Barr is expected to discuss these proposals in San Diego; Illegal immigrations increasings; More.

States that Lance H. Wilson, former top official at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of fraud, conspiracy and false statements. The charges center on Wilson's activities after he left the agency in 1984 and became a senior vice president at the New York brokerage firm of Paine Webber. He left the firm last June and is now self-employed.

Discusses the convictions of two Reagan Administration officials, John M. Poindexter, former national security adviser, and Elliott Abrams, former Assistant Secretary of State for Central America. Poindexter was found guilty of criminal acts in the Iran-contra affair and Abrams of withholding information from Congress about the affair.

Quotes Senator John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) as saying that the Justice Department is dragging its feet on prosecuting the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). Kerry said he prodded Justice officials to act against BCCI since early 1989, but he is mystified by the lack of indictments against the bank or its officials.

States that Justice Department officials said they will await a White House ethics review before deciding whether to open a criminal investigation of Edward M. Rogers Jr., a former White House aide who has canceled a $600,000 contract to represent Sheik Kamal Adham, former head of Saudi Arabian intelligence and a primary figure in the criminal inquiries into the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).

States that Edward M. Rogers Jr., a former senior White House aide, said he has terminated a $600,000 contract to represent Sheik Kamal Adham, former head of Saudi Arabian intelligence who is under scrutiny in the investigation of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). His reasons.

States that a federal prosecutor has traveled to Egypt to interview Sheik Kamal Adham, former director of Saudi Arabian intelligence, on the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) scandal. Kamal has been described as a front man for theLuxembourg-based parent company of the bank.

Comments on the Senate Intelligence Committee's daunting task of sorting out facts before voting on Robert Gates' nomination to head the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Charges that Gates slanted intelligence analyses; His effective rebuttal of some allegations in his testimony.

Reports that former Assistant of State Elliott Abrams, who was one of the Reagan Administration's fiercest advocates of armed support for the Nicaraguan rebels, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of withholding information from Congress about secret efforts to aid the guerrillas. His guilty pleas and his promise to cooperate with prosecutors may open another avenue for investigators.

Discusses the testimony of Alan D. Fiers Jr., former head of the Central Intelligence Agency's Central American task force, before the Senate Intelligence Committee at the confirmation hearing of Robert M. Gates, nominated to be the agency's new director.

Reports that a federal judge dropped all charges against Oliver L. North, terminating the five-year prosecution of the former National Security Council aide. $27.5 million estimated to have been spent by prosecutors; Investigation now focusing on a possible Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) cover-up.