CORRECTIONS
Page A02
   Atlantic Coast Airlines pilots are represented by the Air Line Pilots Association. A Dec. 6 Business article incorrectly characterized their union status.

Bulger Won't Testify On Mobster Brother
House Panel Gets No Help in Probe of FBI Ties
By Pamela Ferdinand, Page A03
   BOSTON, Dec. 6 -- University of Massachusetts President William M. Bulger, one of the state's most powerful and charismatic public figures, today refused to answer questions under oath from a congressional committee investigating ties between rogue FBI agents in New England and their mob informants dating back to the 1960s -- informants including his brother, the fugitive gangster James "Whitey" Bulger.

A Quieter Anniversary at Pearl Harbor
By Matt Sedensky, Page A03
   PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii, Dec. 6 -- John Latko, 84, knows this may be the final journey he will make from his home in Indiana to the place where his ship was sunk by Japanese torpedoes in 1941.

Trash Talk Drags La. Runoff Through Mud
Close Senate Race Marked by Bitter Exchanges Between Landrieu, GOP Challenger
By Lee Hockstader, Page A04
   NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 6 -- Mary Landrieu and Suzanne Haik Terrell were born a year apart, grew up in well-to-do families near each other in New Orleans, attended Catholic churches and married successful men. Both are working moms and able politicians, and each is considered a moderate in her own party.

For Democrats, a Perilous Environment
By Brian Faler, Page A05
   The Republicans have taken control of Congress. Their corporate sponsors in the oil, gas and timber industries are lining up at the door. And the next election is still two years away. So what's a rock-ribbed, left-leaning environmentalist to do?

Crash's 2nd Victim Found in Lake
Page A05
   MIAMI, Dec. 6 -- A man found dead today in a golf course lake was a passenger on a small plane that plowed into the building across the street, killing the pilot, police said.

WASHINGTON IN BRIEF
Page A06
   Air Force Jet Overruns May Reach $1 Billion
The Air Force's F/A-22 Raptor fighter jet program is facing cost overruns of $700 million and possibly as high as $1 billion, the Air Force announced yesterday.

Lott Decried For Part Of Salute to Thurmond
GOP Senate Leader Hails Colleague's Run As Segregationist
By Thomas B. Edsall, Page A06
   Senate Republican leader Trent Lott of Mississippi has provoked criticism by saying the United States would have been better off if then-segregationist candidate Strom Thurmond had won the presidency in 1948.

Often Outspoken, Now Out of the Picture
O'Neill Found That Candid Opinions Earned Him Fans, Friction at Treasury
By Paul Blustein, Page A08
   It never seemed to matter much to Paul H. O'Neill that his job description included winning over Wall Street, schmoozing members of Congress and engaging in financial diplomacy abroad. To the tart-tongued Treasury secretary, those duties often came second to telling the truth as he saw it.

On Wall St., News Of Resignations Elicits Optimism
Investors Likely to Support Insiders As Economic Advisers, Analysts Say
By Jonathan Finer, Page A08
   Wall Street to O'Neill: Good riddance.
Markets for stocks and bonds seemed to read yesterday's news that Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill and White House economic adviser Lawrence B. Lindsey had stepped down as a positive sign for the economy.

O'Neill's Departure Elicits Applause
Treasury Chief Irked South Americans
By Keith B. Richburg and Anthony Faiola, Page A09
   PARIS, Dec. 6 -- In South America today, some people could barely contain their glee over the impending departure of U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, a man widely seen there as unhelpful in the region's financial crises. World financial markets experienced a sell-off of the dollar and gold prices soared to a six-month high, movements that some analysts said were driven in part by the news about O'Neill.

Battered Economic Team May Soon Feel Relief
Power Player Who Worked With Clinton's Treasury Secretary Sought for Expertise
By Jonathan Weisman, Page A09
   For two years, the Bush administration has heard laments -- from both Wall Street and Washington -- that its economic team lacked a spokesman with the stature of President Bill Clinton's oft-praised Treasury secretary, Robert E. Rubin.

Antiwar Activist Philip Berrigan Dies at Age 79
Page A11
   Philip Berrigan, 79, the patriarch of the Roman Catholic antiwar movement, died last night of liver and kidney cancer in Baltimore, his family said.

Divided by War, United in Sorrow
Religious Holidays Anything but Festive for Palestinian, Israeli Families Struck by Violence
By Molly Moore, Page A13
   JERUSALEM, Dec. 6 -- Sharon Maman has a scrap of metal lodged in his brain, broken nails embedded in his thigh and screws wedged inside his feet. More than a year after the 23-year-old Israeli air force veteran crossed paths with two Palestinian suicide bombers, he still lies in a hospital bed, learning to talk like a toddler and write like a first grader.

Iranian Tanker Hits Navy Destroyer
Page A14
   An Iranian oil tanker struck a U.S. Navy destroyer yesterday in the northern Persian Gulf, punching a two-foot hole in the destroyer's side but causing no injuries, U.S. military officials said.

Inspectors Await Data on Iraq
U.S. to Hold Onto Intelligence Until After Regime's Report
By Karen DeYoung, Page A15
   The Bush administration has told United Nations inspectors that it will not provide them with intelligence information on suspected weapons sites in Iraq, as agreed in the U.N. resolution on inspections and pledged by President Bush, until after it examines the weapons declaration Baghdad is expected to submit today, one of the two senior inspectors said yesterday.

3 Demonstrators Killed in Caracas
Gunmen Open Fire on Anti-Chavez Rally
By Scott Wilson, Page A16
   CARACAS, Venezuela, Dec. 6 -- Gunmen opened fire at a plaza occupied by anti-government protesters here tonight, killing at least three people and wounding at least 29 others, moments after opposition leaders announced the extension of a crippling five-day-old general strike aimed at forcing President Hugo Chavez from office, witnesses said.

Israeli Raid in Gaza Kills 10 Palestinians
U.N. Condemns Killing of 2 Employees
By Molly Moore, Page A17
   JERUSALEM, Dec. 6 -- Israeli military forces launched a tank and helicopter attack on a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip early this morning, killing 10 Palestinians, including two local U.N. employees, according to the Israeli military and Palestinian officials.

When in Rome, Don't Drive
City Bans Traffic From Central Area During Holiday Rush
By Daniel Williams, Page A18
   ROME -- This is a city where pedestrians blithely stroll in the middle of busy streets, motorists park on crowded sidewalks, and motorcyclists roar the wrong direction down one-way alleys, scattering unsuspecting sightseers like autumn leaves.

Britain Arrests Key Chechen Envoy
Release on Bail Angers Russians Seeking Return for Trial
By Sharon LaFraniere, Page A19
   MOSCOW, Dec. 6 -- British authorities have arrested and released on bail Akhmed Zakayev, a leading Chechen envoy whose extradition case is testing Europe's support for Russia's protracted battle against separatists in its restive southern republic.

World
In Brief
Page A20
   AFRICA Kenyan Farmers Find Missiles Fired at Airliner
MOMBASA, Kenya -- Farmers found the missiles that narrowly missed an Israeli airliner in fields about six miles north of Mombasa airport, a police investigator...

Allies Alter Tune on Defense
NATO Members Vow to Spend More, but Reality Intrudes
By Keith B. Richburg, Page A21
   PARIS -- For years, U.S. military officials coming to Europe have sounded a constant theme: Europeans need to spend more on defense and do more to shoulder the burden of the Atlantic alliance. And routinely the message has been politely listened to, and then ignored.

NATION IN BRIEF
Page A26
   Crews Work to Restore Power in the Carolinas
CONCORD, N.C. -- An armada of utility trucks and crews assembled yesterday to work to restore power to nearly 1.8 million people in the ice-coated Carolinas.