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Mr. Murtha was convicted on burglary charges in 1978 and 1979 in the Johnstown area. In a statement issued after his latest arrest, his father said that \"he's struggled with a lot of personal problems for 15 years\" and that the Congressman and his wife, Joyce, \"feel terrible about it.\"

The Pentagon provides the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, 16 percent of that school's $380 million in Federal research financing. University officials say deep cuts would force M.I.T. to close laboratories and reduce the number of graduate students. \"This is a crucial investment in the future, not just some icing on the academic cake,\" Charles M. Vest, M.I.T.'s president, said of the Pentagon financing. Mr. [John P. Murtha] also insists that lawmakers must retain the prerogative to earmark money in appropriations bills for specific projects or schools in their districts. \"A member knows better than anyone else what would go well in his district,\" he said. \"It's a very important part of our process that if a member makes a request and it's related to defense, we try to do our best to fund it.\" \"By doing what he did, Murtha wanted to say, 'There's not enough money in the budget, so I'll hit at a group that will scream loudly and get the attention of Congress, the Defense Department and the White House,' \" another senior Pentagon official said.

The Johnstown office is most similar to one run by the D.E.A. in El Paso. Though both agencies were set up to encourage cooperation, they are likely to compete against each other, Mr. [Peter B. Bensinger] said. \"Johnstown will have to come up with something El Paso doesn't do,\" he said, \"and that means that people will be spending more time talking about their roles, turf and data bases than they will spend on the Colombian cartels.\" Though he is considered one of the most influential Democrats on Capitol Hill, Mr. [John P. Murtha] is not well known outside Washington and his district. Yet he is not shy about his political power, in public or in private. That was evident in a 1980 videotape made by undercover F.B.I. agents conducting the Abscam sting operation that ultimately sent a half-dozen Congressmen to prison for bribery and conspiracy. \"I've got as much influence in that goddamned Congress with the leadership and the White House as anybody in Congress,\" Mr. Murtha was recorded as telling some undercover F.B.I. agents. Mr. Murtha, who was then a member of the House Ethics Committee, was secretly videotaped as he declined a $50,000 bribe, saying, \"It might be that I would change my mind some day.\" In 1990, Mr. Murtha revived the proposal for a national drug intelligence center, but in name only. Instead of consolidating and coordinating all of the Government's drug intelligence activities, as the Bush Administration's plan called for, Mr. Murtha's center is a much more limited operation, one that analyzes information on relatively few projects. And he placed it in Johnstown, not Washington -- a cost-saving measure, Mr. Murtha said, because rents are lower here.

Critics won't tell you until pressed, but average prices actually declined from 1984 to 1986 (the program's first two years). While prices have risen in the U.S. and other steel markets since mid-1986 (firming worldwide demand), they still averaged only about 4 percent higher in the third quarter of 1988 than when the program was implemented in 1984. Critics further argue that the price of American steel is hurting U.S. exports of manufactures. Not so. By one estimate, auto companies today pay about $100 per ton less on average for domestic steel than Toyota pays for steel in Japan. There's also no evidence that the restraints have caused shortages. First, the restraints are generally based on market share so, as demand grows, allowable foreign imports do, too. Second, in 1987, restraint export licenses equal to almost 900,000 tons went unused, and Government officials believe that licenses equal to four million tons will go unused in 1988! Third, imports from countries that do not fall under the restraints have continued to rise. And fourth, the Commerce Department approved about a million additional tons of imports for 1988, but it appears that at least half of those permits went unused.

\"The biggest disappointment we have found is the U.N. is doing nothing,\" he said. \"The U.N. is dragging its feet. The impression we get from all the people we've talked to is they should be in here as real players at this stage.\" No Response by U.N. \"I'd like to see the Americans out of here as soon as possible,\" he said, \"because the longer we're here, the more involved we get. The more involved we get, the longer the deployment will be, the more they\"ll depend on us.\" The clash with the Somali patrol began at about 1 A.M., when a Marine observer in America House, a tall building near the United States Embassy compound, saw eight armed Somalis in an alley near the compound, according to Col. Fred Peck, a military spokesman. When a Marine patrol went to investigate the Somalis moved into an ambush position, he said. The marine on the observation post opened fire, and a firefight ensued. Three Somalis were killed in the fighting, Colonel Peck said. There were no American casualties.

Critics of the Clinton Administration's Bosnian policy are making recommendations that would lead to an Americanization of the conflict, an expansion of the war beyond Bosnia and a foreign policy disaster that dwarfs anything our country has experienced since Vietnam. Advocates of the so-called Lift and Strike policy believe that a large-scale American air campaign against the Bosnian Serbs, combined with providing heavy arms to the Bosnian Muslims, would decisively change the balance of power in Bosnia and lead to a quick settlement. The Bosnia conflict is an intractable quagmire. President Clinton is on the right path by not making the bad situation he inherited worse. Our policy must continue to prevent the expansion of the conflict beyond Bosnia's borders.

''It's clearly past time for a change in America's trade policy,'' the Pennsylvanian said in the Democratic Party's weekly radio address.

Other members of the delegation are Senators Thad Cochran, Republican of Mississippi, and John F. Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts; and Representatives Robert L. Livingston Jr., Republican of Louisiana; Bernard J. Dwyer, Democrat of New Jersey; Samuel S. Stratton, Democrat of upstate New York, and Jerry Lewis, Republican of California.

Representative Bill Chappell Jr. of Florida is the next senior Democrat on the subcommittee and has served as acting chairman the past few months. But House leaders have chosen, instead, the third most senior Democrat, Representative John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania, who at 53 is 10 years younger than Mr. Chappell and is regarded as considerably less conservative. Mr.

''Members of Congress who are rated in the 'big spender' category often find that this is a serious political liability at re-eleciton time,'' said David Keating, the group's executive vice president. ''Conversely, the members who receive the ''Taxpayers' Friend' award find something to brag about to their constituents.''