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There's nothing like a little sex and sleaze to take your mind off a war. Especially when life imitates the movies and leaves Hollywood in the dust. That's been the story in affluent Westchester County, where the so-called "fatal attraction" murder trial is drawing huge crowds.

There's nothing like a little sex and sleaze to take your mind off a war. Especially when life imitates the movies and leaves Hollywood in the dust. That's been the story in affluent Westchester County, where the so-called "fatal attraction" murder trial is drawing huge crowds.

Jonathan Fielding works 70-hour weeks in a relatively obscure and overwhelming job: He is Los Angeles County's top public health doctor. Friends and colleagues have long praised his professional contributions to the field. But to their surprise, Fielding and his wife are now making another huge contribution: $50 million to the UCLA School of Public Health. The gift, which was to be announced Thursday morning, is the largest single donation the school has received since its creation 50 years ago and will give it a new name: the UCLA Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health.

South Coast Repertory recently held a special evening for Orange County's gay community. The Costa Mesa theater offered "Hay Fever," by gay playwright Noel Coward, followed by a Champagne reception with director William Ludel. The event was advertised in a publication that circulates in the gay community, and it drew a larger-than-usual crowd at the 500-seat theater.

When his daughter was a little more than a year old, it became apparent that she was just not gaining weight, Bradley Kass said. She had nursed until about 9 months old and had done fine. But as soon as she began eating solid foods, she ceased to thrive. Sue Goldstein of Westchester County, N.Y., the mother of three, went to give blood and was found to be severely anemic, meaning she had a very low red blood cell count. Despite treatment, she remained anemic; her body wasn't absorbing the iron.

The Clinton house hunt intensified with President Clinton joining First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton to view suburban Westchester County, N.Y., properties for the first time in preparation for her likely Senate bid in that state next year and his retirement from office two months later. Among the properties they saw was a 2 1/2-acre, seven-bedroom $1.7-million house in Edgemont.

A mild earthquake jolted people awake today from Connecticut to northern New Jersey, two days after a minor quake struck the same area. Claus Jacob, a senior scientist at Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory in Palisades, N.J., said the tremor, which occurred at 6:27 a.m. and was centered in Westchester County, N.Y., was an aftershock of Saturday's quake and registered about 3.0 on the Richter scale.

Goldman Sachs Studies Possible Relocation: Venerable investment banking giant Goldman, Sachs & Co. has told employees it is evaluating a possible headquarters relocation to the suburbs, the latest Wall Street giant to reassess New York as a home base. Goldman, one of the most respected and profitable names in the nation's financial capital, emphasized in an internal memorandum Aug. 12 that the evaluation was part of a routine review.

Eight prison inmates suffering from AIDS have sued the Westchester County, N.Y., Medical Center, seeking to force the hospital to give inmates better care. The Sing Sing prison inmates also named the state Department of Health and Department of Corrections. A pretrial conference set for Monday was adjourned until Sept. 10. The suit, filed in June, alleges that the medical center is denying some inmates access to treatment.

Officers today arrested the reputed boss of the Connecticut faction of the Gambino crime family and 18 other members of the organization on racketeering, illegal gambling and extortion charges, federal authorities said. Federal, state and local police officers acted on an indictment handed up Wednesday by a grand jury in Hartford and unsealed today. The indictment named 22 people, 16 from Connecticut and six from Westchester County, N.Y. Three of the suspects were still being sought.

Charleston, W.Va.-based Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. and units of Dearborn, Mich.-based CMS Energy Corp., Detroit-based MCN Energy Group Inc. and Vancouver, Canada-based Westcoast Energy Inc. announced plans to build a pipeline, called Millennium, to carry at least 650 million cubic feet a day of natural gas to the East Coast from western Canada and the U.S. The pipeline, expected to cost $600 million, will run from Lake Erie to Westchester County, N.Y.