THE MARKETS

Dow Jones industrial average down 25.68 points, closing at 3699.09 . . . N.Y.S.E.'s composite index down 1.68, to 248.29 . . . NASDAQ stock-market composite index fell 11.98 to 700.78 . . . American Stock Exchange down 1.91, to 431.31 . . . Gold up $0.20, to $389.70, on the Commodity Exchange in New York . . . The 30-year Treasury bond closed with a yield of 7.49 percent, up from 7.46 late Wednesday.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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