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Explains how the July 1990 stabbing death of Julio Rivera, a Hispanic drug user from Queens who lived on the far fringes of gay society, has galvanized the gay community. There have been rallies, candlelight vigils, and a gay rights march, among other things, focusing public attention on the escalating violence against gays in New York City.

Tells how the Irish Voice and other organizations are trucking hundreds of thousands of letters to Virginia from immigrants entering the resident visa lottery. The lottery is an opportunity for the more than 30,000 Irish living illegally in New York City to be lifted out of a world ruled by fear of deportation, paranoia and insecurity.

Comments on the role of Bangladeshi women in the US, which is being questioned by many of them as a result of the recent slaying of a woman by an immigrant who was hired as a house boy. Disillusionment of many immigrants; Independence of women frowned upon in their homes.

Discusses a recent case of child abuse in New York City--that of 8-month-old Ashlei Orellane, which resulted in death--and the scrutiny now being directed on the child welfare system. Question of whether the system is able to respond to reports of abuse.

Tells of the house fire in Queens that killed 5-year-old Velinda Rodriguez and critically injured six other family members. The fire was not deemed suspicious, but the building had no smoke detectors and was full of the flammable belongings of 14 people.

Presents a look at the races for New York's new City Council. Neighborhood politics; Choosing the Council; Contribution of Chinese and Korean immigrants; Immigrants' lack of impact in the voting arena.

Describes the island of Broad Channel in New York City's Jamaica Bay. Its redistricting tug-of-war, which it won. Details of the trouble.

States that residents of Waterbury, Conn., are still fumbling to understand the events of July 29 when, police say, five local teen-agers gunned down a Chinese restaurant's delivery man when he refused to hand over some cartons containing $18 worth of Chinese takeout food.

Tells how numerous banks have sprung up in Flushing since thousands of immigrants, particularly Chinese and Koreans, settled there in the last decade. The banks--American, Chinese, Korean, British, Indian, Pakistani and Colombian--tailor their strategies to serve the savings-minded workers and flourishing small businesses.

Reports that Alejandro Henriquez, 30, was indicted last week on charges of murdering Shamira Bello, 14, Lisa Ann Rodriguez, 21, and Jessica Guzman, 10. Henriquez was already awaiting sentencing on other charges. Guzman's death united the peopleof her working-class neighborhood, who took to the streets in a grass-roots campaign to flush out the killer.

Tells about the Azizi family, Iranian Jews. Their troubles in Iran, their reuniting in the US, and their troubles here when they were visited by Secret Service agents who wanted to talk to the 21-year-old Azizi son, Michael, about a check-theft. The family couldn't understand what was happening and a melee ensued--an extreme case of the trials of strangers in a strange land.

Reports that Alejandro Henriquez, a 30-year-old livery cab driver who was for months the prime suspect in the mysterious killings of five young people from the same area of the South Bronx, has been indicted on charges of murdering three of them. He pleaded not guilty to charges of killing Jessica Guzman, 10, Shamira Bello, 14, and Lisa Rodriguez, 21. He remains a suspect in the other cases.

Describes the illegal call scheme that is flourishing in Queens. Cars with doctored cellular phones act as high-tech mobile phone booths--the computer chip of the phones altered so that calls are billed to a legal, and unsuspecting, customer. The swindle has become an electronic nightmare.

Discusses the arrest of two of the three women who will be charged with the murder of Alice Serghiescu, found suffocated in 1982 at the age of 85. Detectives had suspected the women for more than five years but had never had sufficient evidence to arrest them before.

Describes the effect on Kuwait of the oil well fires that will take at least two years to put out. Officials say it will be five to ten years before Kuwaiti oil production is back to prewar levels.

Describes the destruction in Kuwait City. The people are jubilant, but there is almost no food, water, or electricity available.

Describes a chase that began when two Hudson County, N.J., police officers tried to pull over a car without headlights driven by Hector Castaneda, 17, who had stolen the car from a shopping mall and was driving with a suspended license.

Tells of the discovery of 366 pounds of cocaine and two shivering, louse-infested Colombians hidden under water in the rudder compartment of the Bright Eagle oil tanker when police scuba divers inspected the vessel in New York Harbor.

States that hundreds of illegal Chinese immigrants pay tens of thousands of dollars to become modern-day indentured servants in the New York City area in return for counterfeit identification papers and passage to the US. Smuggling network connected with Chinese organized crime.

Reports that, in the five hours after the end of a year that set a record for homicides, seven people were killed in New York City. Six were shot in separate incidents and one was stabbed to death in an elevator during an argument. Details.

Discusses the case of Zipora Yagodajev, 15, who was found strangled, naked and burned, under the Williamsburg Bridge in Brooklyn early yesterday.

Reports that seven people were killed in New York City in just over seven hours on Saturday night and yesterday morning, bringing to a bloody close a week in which the unofficial homicide tally for the year rose above 2,000 for the first time. Details.

Reports that three men and two boys were arrested and charged in the Halloween rampage on Wards Island in which nine homeless men were injured and one, Carlos Melendez, 35, was killed. Details.

Reports that three men believed to be members of a Vietnamese gang called Born to Kill were found shot to death in an execution-style slaying yesterday in New York City, in what law-enforcement officials said was the latest in a series of gang-related shootings that have spread from Chinatown.

Tells of a 12-year-old girl, Laykama Taylor, being shot to death while playing in the courtyard of a Brooklyn housing complex--the third child hit by stray bullets over the weekend, and the sixth since July 22. Police do not know who fired the shot or the direction from which it came.

Reports on the stabbing death of Thomas Ebbers, a homeless man who roamed the New York City streets and enjoyed watching the sunset. Mystery of his background; Vietnam veteran; Putting his life back together.

Tells of the shooting deaths of four employees of the newly opened Madison Tire Corporation in Brooklyn, by two men who barged into the store. The shootings had the earmarks of an execution, but robbery is not being ruled out.

Tells how Victor Lopez, 18, stabbed and killed a man who mugged and molested his mother, Maria, 37-year old mother of nine, who was on her way to work. Now Lopez has been charged with manslaughter.

States that Robert Felzenberg, 49-year-old president of Payroll Express Corporation, a New Jersey payroll company, was charged with stealing more than $25 million from prestigious clients by promising to cash employees' checks and then walking away with the companies' payroll. He is also accused of transferring $30 million in Payroll Express accounts into the accounts of other companies he owns and into his personal bank account.

Tells of the violence in East New York, where there are daily wars of drug dealers fighting for turf, and where three people were wounded this week--one, a 3-year-old girl. As one 14-year-old said, `You always got to be bad here, or you just don't make it.'

Reports that a federal judge in Brooklyn agreed to combine 44 hand-injury suits (repetitive stress injury) into one consolidated case. These injuries, which can be caused by the routine use of computers, supermarket checkout scanners and other mechanical and electrical devices, have spawned hundreds of individual lawsuits across the country in recent years. Possible precedent for future litigation.

Says that a crowd in a crime-ridden Bronx neighborhood took justice into its own hands on Wednesday night, surrounding a fleeing robbery suspect and stabbing him to death--and then disappearing into the dark. Stumped by uncooperative and silent residents, the police had few clues to the killing.

Reports that Pierre La Roche, a 5 and one-half-month-old boy, was shot in the head yesterday in Manhattan when a bullet tore through an apartment wall as he lay sleeping in bed with his grandmother. He is the sixth child hit by a stray bullet in the last 15 days in the city. He is in intensive care.

Announces that New York City transit police officers will be allowed to carry a more powerful handgun that has been resisted because of its possible danger to the public. Description of the 9-millimeter pistol; Matching the growing firepower of street criminals.

Discusses a shootout in a New Jersey cemetery. Mourners at a gang member's funeral apparently shot back at two or three men, believed to be from rival groups, who opened fire at graveside in what law-enforcement officials say is an escalating Chinatown feud.

Discusses New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez's recommendation that the schools completely revamp their mathematics education, requiring all students to take algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, requiring teachers to take brush-upcourses, and offering lessons to parents so they can help their children. Possible effect on dropout rate.

Tells how Lenox Terrace, a high-rise luxury oasis in the heart of Harlem, has been infiltrated by drug dealers and has fallen prey to crime.

Profiles Andrew Siano, 63, a police officer in Chinatown for 38 years, and tells of the changes that have occurred there in that time.

Reports that three people were killed and three others wounded early yesterday morning when gunmen fired automatic weapons in a bar in Harlem. Unexpected clues; No motive found.

Refers to an article on page B1 stating that actress Paulette Goddard, who died last month, left more than $20 million to New York University for scholarships and endowed professorships.

Describes the burning and shooting which occurred between feuding Mohawk factions in St. Regis, N.Y. Clash over gambling, smuggling, drugs, and the vast number of automatic weapons on the reservation. Families divided; Tensions and tempers running high.

Reports on the tens of thousands of demonstrators who swarmed across the Brooklyn Bridge into lower Manhattan yesterday to protest a Federal health policy on blood donations they said unfairly stigmatized Haitians and Africans. The rally was called to protest a recommendation by the Food and Drug Administration in February that excludes all men, women and children from Haiti or the sub-Saharan region from donating blood.

Refers to a page B1 story telling of the killing of Rafael Montes De Oca, 38, a livery cab driver, on Saturday night on a deserted street in the Fordham section of the Bronx. It was the fifth such killing in five weeks, but investigators said it was not connected to the previous ones.

Discusses the shooting of 39-year-old Ronald Ford in East Harlem by Kenneth Mendoza, 19. Police said Ford had threatened a neighbor with a knife. Mendoza's fear and confusion.

Tells of the scheme of a 63-year-old Brooklyn man, Vincent Pannone, who swindled dozens of workers he hired to paint more than 700 subway pillars. How he operated.

Tells about Leroy Strachan, a 61-year-old Harlem resident who shot and killed a black police officer in Miami 43 years ago. He was seized on a Manhattan street, arraigned in Criminal Court in Manhattan, and held without bail on a fugitive warrant.

Relates the shooting death of Sabrina Williams, 13, of the Bronx, when a pistol her 14-year-old brother, Jabbar, was playing with accidentally discharged.

Describes the shooting of an unarmed man Louis Liranso, in Bedford-Stuyvesant on January 28 by Hyda Hernandez, a police officer.

Discusses the stabbing death of James Zappalorti, a 44-year-old emotionally disturbed man, in Charleston, S.I., by Michael Taylor and Phillip Sarlo, who believed he was gay and had made a hobby of harassing the gentle, disabled man.

Describes the Japanese Medical Practice at New York Health Care in midtown Manhattan, which will officially open next week. It will provide Japanese-style health care, a sorely needed service for the growing Japanese community as well as tourists.