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A year after they were the lowest spenders in the NFL, the Washington Redskins are among the highest in 1997, having already paid out $21.4 million in signing bonuses since the end of last season. General Manager Charley Casserly has another $4 million to $5 million budgeted for holdout defensive tackle Sean Gilbert. In 1996, the Redskins were dead last in spending for signing bonuses, paying out about half as much as they did last year. This summer, the Redskins have paid their biggest bonuses to quarterback Gus Frerotte ($5 million), first-round draft choice Kenard Lang ($2.5 million), running back Terry Allen ($2.4 million), cornerback Darrell Green ($2 million), cornerback Cris Dishman ($2 million), quarterback Jeff Hostetler ($750,000), wide receiver Alvin Harper ($700,000) and second-round draft pick Greg Jones ($650,000).

Maj. Steven M. Watters, an Army veterinarian from Olympia, Wash., approached a placid Austrian cow with a golden coat splattered with white. After flattering her flank in a calming gesture, he plunged a needle into her tail, drew blood in a vial and moved on to his next victim. Watters, 41, wore a standard camouflage-patterned U.S. Army uniform. But on a warm August day, he worked bare-headed and without his sidearm. His flak jacket lay nearby in an unarmed Humvee. The only apparent danger in this hill town alongside the Drina River 35 miles east of Sarajevo came from restless beasts throwing their weight around the cow shed. Seemingly far from those concerns, Watters helped draw cow blood here in Gorazde as part of an Army civic action team helping the Bosnian Agriculture Ministry test imported livestock for bovine spongiform encephalopathy -- known as \"mad cow disease\" -- or other bovine infections. The team, based with others at peacekeeping headquarters in Sarajevo, the capital, has benefited from lighter security restrictions that allow for contact with a wide range of Bosnians and foreigners here with international relief agencies.

With aspirations to cook food, serve drinks, count receipts or escort fans at Washington's new downtown sports arena, more than 600 people converged on a church auditorium yesterday to interview for jobs. \"It would just be a surge and a thrill,\" said basketball fan Derek Jones, 43, a Shaw resident who was one of the suit-and-briefcase applicants. He said he's happy with his job as a banking officer and recruiter with Riggs Bank, where he interviews people looking for jobs. But he'd also like to greet and escort arena patrons to their seats. The arena's job fair was held at Shiloh Baptist Church on Ninth Street NW. Job seekers filled out applications and then met with one of 22 supervisors who conducted interviews at folding tables separated by curtains. It was the first of eight job fairs that arena managers and the city government will sponsor at various locations around the Shaw neighborhood to fill more than 900 part-time jobs at the nearby complex.