INTERNATIONAL GAY-PRIDE EVENT WRAPS UP

More than 11,000 gay and lesbian athletes from 43 nations converged on New York this week for the fourth annual Gay Games. Begun as a low-profile event to encourage greater visibility for gays and lesbians, this year's games saw one athlete, former Olympic Gold Medalist Bruce Hayes, set a world record in a masters-division swimming event. The athletic tournament coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, widely considered the beginning of the gay-rights movement. Thousands are expected to participate in a rally Sunday morning.

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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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