Nation/World BRIEFINGS

IRAQ STILL BALKING: Iraq renewed tensions over weapons inspections byforbidding a newly arrived United Nations team from entering anygovernment ministries. Story on this page. DOCTOR-PATIENT SEX: Nearly one of 10 U.S. physicians responding to asurvey admitted having sex with at least one patient despite takingthe oath against such intimacy. Story on this page. NEW PUSH VS. SERBS: President Bush announced full diplomaticrelations with three former Yugoslav republics, and the United Statesurged the United Nations to authorize the use of force to protect aiddeliveries. Bosnian factions continued to deny the Red Cross accessto detention camps despite Security Council pressure. Stories onPage 8. NEW ABORTION TEST: The House voted 251-144 to overturn the Bushadministration's so-called gag rule regulation, which prohibitsabortion counseling at federally financed family planning clinics,but the tally fell short of the two-thirds needed to override a veto.Story on Page 10. AID TO EX-SOVIETS OKd: The House, overcoming the political pain ofhelping a former adversary at a time of domestic economic distress,approved a historic package for Russia and the other former Sovietrepublics. Story on Page 11. DE KLERK OPTIMISTIC: South African President Frederik W. de Klerkexpressed confidence that constitutional talks with the AfricanNational Congress would be back on track soon because theirdifferences are surmountable. Story on Page 15. RABIN COMING TO COLLECT: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was enroute to Washington, where his clampdown on Jewish settlements in theoccupied territories and willingness to expedite Palestinian autonomyare expected to win President Bush's promise of loan guarantees forimmigrant absorption. Story on Page 15. SOMALIA PLEA: Bernard Kouchner, the French minister for health andhumanitarian affairs, added his voice to appeals for assistance toSomalia, which he called "hell on earth." The United Nationsestimates that 1.5 million Somalis will die of starvation if fooddoes not reach them soon. "We have been, my delegation and I,depressed," Kouchner said at a news conference in Nairobi, Kenya,after the group visited Somalia and refugee camps along theKenya-Sudan border. COLOR HIM DIFFERENT: President Bush drew contrasts between himselfand Bill Clinton but conceded that, on "some issues, especiallyeconomic issues, I'm afraid we don't yet sound all that different."Story on Page 22. EASIER TO VOTE SI OR NO: Spanish-speaking citizens in Chicago andsuburban Cook County will have an easier time voting under plansformulated in anticipation of congressional approval of bilingualservices. Story on Page 24. SPACE MISSION WINDS DOWN: Astronauts dropped Atlantis into an orbit124 miles high to sample the Earth's ionosphere before ending aneight-day voyage described as a technical success despite theabandonment of a key experiment involving a tethered satellite.Story on Page 38. ESCOBAR SOCCER DEAL: Drug baron Pablo Escobar - from thecustom-designed prison he later fled - approved the trade of aColombian soccer star to an Italian club, a congressional panel inBogota was told. Attorney General Gustavo de Greiff saidinvestigators discovered a document signed by Escobar giving thego-ahead for the deal involving Faustino Asprillo. He played for theAtletico Nacional club of Medellin, where Escobar's potent cocainetrafficking cartel is based. Italy's Parma club got him in May foran estimated $2 million. De Greiff said the document was found inthe prison in Envigado, from which Escobar escaped July 22.