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BURNING WEST: Firefighters finally made headway against the largestand most persistent of several Western fires, but lost groundelsewhere as dozens of new blazes burned in Washington and six otherstates. Thousands of firefighters were able to extend fire linesaround two-thirds of the 116,000-acre Tyee Creek fire in centralWashington. In all, about 18,000 firefighters were battling 37 majorfires. HAIRY ISSUE: The U.S. Justice Department wants a judge to reconsidera ruling allowing The Citadel to shave Shannon Faulkner's head whenshe enters the South Carolina military school's cadet corps. And ifU.S. District Judge C. Weston Houck will not do that, the departmentsays, the judge should delay his order until the issue can beappealed. Faulkner is expected to report to campus Aug. 15, but anyappeal could delay her entrance into the corps. JERUSALEM VISIT: King Hussein is planning to visit Jerusalem for thefirst time since Jordan lost the eastern part of the holy city toIsrael in the 1967 Middle East War, Jordanian sources said. Thesources said the visit would take place "soon" after the inaugurationMonday of a four-mile highway linking the Red Sea port city of Aqabawith the Israeli port of Eilat. They did not specify a date. ATTACK CONDEMNED: Lebanon strongly condemned an Israeli air raidThursday that killed two children and five others. Prime MinisterRafik Hariri called it a "new link in the chain of Israeliaggression." Israel issued a highly unusual apology for the Thursdayraid in which a jet fired a missile into a two-story house in thissouth Lebanese village of 9,000. The attack, which Israel was amistake, wounded 17 people, all civilians, police said. CLINTON ON ECONOMY: President Clinton used a rain-interrupted RoseGarden ceremony to claim credit for the nation's good health on thefirst anniversary of the passage of his economic program. The billraised taxes on the wealthiest Americans and set in motion a processto slash $500 billion from the deficit over five years. Clinton saidthe measure "helped drive those interest rates down and got thiseconomy moving again." CLINTON ON CRIME: President Clinton lashed out at the National RifleAssociation for blocking a House vote on anti-crime legislation,saying they sought to "let procedures get in the way of saving thelives and the future of the United States." He complained that eightdays after congressional negotiators agreed on compromise crimelegislation, foes are blocking a final vote in the House. Supportersof the bill have been unable to muster enough votes to approve a rulethat must be in place before the legislation, which includes some guncontrol provisions, can come up for a vote. ON ALERT: Restive forces led by Russia's most popular and outspokengeneral, Alexander Lebed, went on alert in the former Soviet republicof Moldova in response to reports he had been ousted by Moscow. Inordering all commissioned and noncommissioned officers to stay in thebarracks with their troops, the 14th Army commanders were apparentlydefying Moscow, which wants to withdraw the army from Moldova'sTrans-Dniester region.