BORIS' NEW BEST FRIEND

President Clinton cozied up to Boris Yeltsin during the Russian President's state visit today, giving him a bear hug and a pledge of a half-billion dollars in financing and insurance for private investments in the former Soviet Union. More agreements on aid and nuclear disarmament will probably follow tomorrow. The only likely point of conflict in this two-day love fest: Russia's arms sales to Iran.

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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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