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Date: 26 July 1997
By DAVID BARBOZA
Corporate America is once again showing robust earnings, three-fourths of way through second-quarter reporting season; winners are not just big players; even smaller companies are showing surprisingly strong earnings gains, creating first signs of earnings parity since first quarter of 1996; chart (M)
Date: 26 July 1997
By JOSEPH P. FRIED
Federal jury convicts alleged Genovese crime family leader Vincent Gigante of racketeering charges and conspiring in plots to kill other gangland figures; acquits him of ordering three gangland murders and fails to agree on charges he ordered four other murders; prosecutors, who battled for years to show he was mentally competent to stand trial, hail conviction; United States Atty Zachary W Carter sees devastating blow to Genovese family and organized crime; photo (M)
Date: 26 July 1997
By ALAN COWELL
Leading Italian insurance company that is seeking to expand its business in Israel offers to set up $12 million fund and investigate fate of policies that were issued by its Central European subsidiaries and confiscated by Nazi occupiers during World War II; company, Assicurazioni Generali, which is based in Trieste, is one of several big European insurance companies facing lawsuit in New York demanding compensation for confiscated policies (S)
Date: 26 July 1997
John O Pickett reaches agreement with Fleet Bank to restructure payments on an $80 million loan originally made with John Spano for his abortive purchase of New York Islanders in April (S)
Date: 26 July 1997
By BENJAMIN WEISER
Federal jury convicts Autumn Jackson of trying to extort $40 million from Bill Cosby, man she claimed was her father, and related charges; convicts co-defendant Jose Medina on all charges and Boris Sabas on other charges, but acquits him of extortion charge; photo (M)
Date: 26 July 1997
By NEIL STRAUSS
Artist formerly known as Prince performs at Jones Beach; Neil Strauss review; photo (M)
Date: 26 July 1997
Rosalind Ellis letter on abuse of deaf Mexican immigrants; deplores apathy of their neighbors
Date: 26 July 1997
By RICK BRAGG
Immigration and Naturalization Service agents raid two houses, Sanford, NC, and finds more than dozen illegal Mexican immigrants, most of them deaf; say 'bosses' held Mexicans in bondage and forced them to sell trinkets; prosecutors probe for link with similar New York City operation; Federal prosecutors arrest Frank Coenen on charges he helped bring illegal immigrants to NYC; he is former husband of Adriana Paoletti Lemus, whose family allegedly organized NYC operation; investigators probe for similar operations in Chicago, other cities; map; photo (M)
Date: 26 July 1997
By JOSEPH DURSO
Soviet Line wins in photo-finish in Fourstardave Stakes at Saratoga Springs (S)
Date: 26 July 1997
Barney's Inc says that it is postponing its selection of a buyer until next Friday, Aug 1, so it can negotiate higher bid (S)