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Reports on the visit of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as a private citizen during the Republican National Convention in New York City. Message given by the governor to the schoolchildren at a school in Harlem during his visit; Meeting of Schwarzenegger with his mother-in-law Eunice Shriver for lunch; Avoidance of staging high-profile events.

Says that the Dinkins Administration will be forced to reduce New York City's services to close a half-billion-dollar budget gap it now projects for the next fiscal year. Dinkins' uncomfortable position; Assistance from Albany sought.

Speculates on the question of why so many candidates will seek the office of City Council President in New York City. How a dozen hopefuls are eyeing the office now used by City Council President Andrew J. Stein; Comments made by Donald M. Halperin, a State Senator from Brooklyn; The hard times that have befallen the office of the City Council President; More.

Says that, more than two weeks after a close finish in a New York City Council election on the Upper East Side, the counting of absentee ballots continues. The sharp scrutiny; The constant banter.

States that last month, Sunset Park in Brooklyn, a largely Hispanic community, forced the Dinkins Administration to back down on plans to build a sludge composting plant there. Although the move is likely to help Mayor David N. Dinkins among Hispanic voters, it could cause him serious problems, in both political and policy terms, and it could also make it harder to convince other communities to accept anything considered unsavory, from incinerators to shelters.

Discusses how a City Council race between seven candidates in New York City's Upper East Side may prove to be the costliest one ever for the city because the candidates are running without the benefit of a primary to narrow the field to two. Vacancy created by Carolyn Maloney's election to Congress last fall; Lack of traditional party designations to tell voters what they stand for; More.

Discusses how New York City is currently paying $2,250 a month to put up homeless families in the Eden Motel in the Bronx. How the city plans to send 20 more homeless families there; The families usually have one room; Hotel flooded with homeless families; Suit possible against Mayor David Dinkins' administration; How Dinkins is going back on a campaign promise to stop using motels to put up homeless families; More.

Discusses a jobs fair at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan this week for people 55 and older. 900 people attended, and 35 employers took resumes.

Reports that three teen-agers were shot and wounded yesterday as they left their Brooklyn junior high school, when ano ther student opened fire on a schoolmate who had bumped into him inside the school earlier in the day. All were listed in s table condition with superficial wounds at Woodhull Medical Center. It was the second time in four days that students were hit by gunfire outside city schools.

Discusses how in New York City and across the country, the aging find themselves tending to the needs and taking care of their own parents. During the 1980s, the total number of New Yorkers 75 years and older rose 10.6 percent, while the number of people 85 and older rose 32.6 percent. 1,460 New Yorkers more than 100 years old; Generational divides that exist; More.

Says that many elderly residents of New York City are living out their lives in neighborhoods that are at once achingly familiar and increasingly foreign. Discusses the Washington Heights area, once a German Jewish community sometimes called the Fourth Reich or Frankfurt-on-the-Hudson. Now the German Jewish community is aging and shrinking, and it struggles to adjust to the changes around it.

Tells what happens to some of the families who pass through the New York City shelter system each year and leave before getting any public assistance in finding housing. They may find an apartment whose rent they cannot afford for long, or double up with relatives, or move in with friends. Gives examples.

Focuses on United States President Bill Clinton's speech before the New York University School of Law on September 21, 1998, while the videotape of his grand jury testimony about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky was being disclosed. Issues discussed by President Clinton; Conversation between President Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair; Names of other leaders in attendance at the meeting; In-depth look at the meeting.

Focuses on an appearance of President Bill Clinton, with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, to announce a federal grant to help Giuliani keep his pledge of hiring more police officers. The announcement in front of New York police officers; Giuliani's expressions of appreciation for Clinton's efforts in this area.

Focuses on the public activities of General Colin L. Powell in April 1997. His efforts in a national campaign to encourage volunteers to help children; His assertion that he did not intend to run for president; His lamenting of the need for prisons like Rikers Island in New York City; His remarks on his activities to encourage volunteerism.

Reports that United States President Bill Clinton visited the Andries Hudde Junior High School in Brooklyn, New York City, on April 15, 1997, to urge students to seize life's opportunities and make the best of educational resources. Clinton's remembrance of the legacy of Jackie Robinson.