News Summary
Date: 15 June 1989
International A3-19 In the capital of Sichuan Province, Chengdu, foreigners and the few Chinese willing to talk to reporters these days say events closely resembled those in Beijing. Page A1 China expelled two U.S. journalists, including one from the Voice of America. The Government accused the two reporters of violating martial-law regulations in Beijing. A16 China's expulsion was protested by the Bush Administration, saying the move would not keep ''the truth about what is going on in China from being heard.'' A16 On evening television news in China, the Government has reverted to the kind of indoctrination that was familiar during the Mao years. A16 A key murder case in Mexico, the 1984 shooting of the country's best-known journalist, appears to have been cracked with the arrest of a former security official who headed the initial investigation. A1 After years of terror, Uganda has emerged as a major hope of the World Bank and the United States. The three-year-old regime has achieved an unprecedented measure of political stability. A1 Vietnam and Britain were at odds over the forced repatriation of boat people now in Hong Kong as an international conference on Indochinese refugees ended. A19 In Stuttgart, Mikhail Gorbachev was welcomed with enthusiasm that appeared to confirm a West German perception of him as an extraordinary statesman. A10 Currency devaluations in Nicaragua have sent consumers reeling and provoked new doubts about the Government's ability to control the economy in a crucial election year. A3 News analysis: Dan Quayle is emerging as a defender of the Nicaraguan ''freedom fighters,'' pressing the U.S. policy adopted in a bipartisan compromise with Congress. A3 In the Olof Palme murder trial, key prosecution witnesses have given testimony far more favorable to the defendant than expected. A7 National A20-29, B8-11 The new Democratic majority leader in the House will be Representative Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri. William H. Gray 3d of Pennsylvania was elected majority whip. A1 The largest unmanned U.S. rocket to climb into space, and the first one big enough to rival the space shuttle, was launched in Florida, marking the debut of a multibillion-dollar fleet of Titan 4's. A1 The discovery of radioactive metals at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, produced only by splitting atoms, has raised tantalizing new questions about the plant's troubled history. A1 A ''frequent shopper'' program at supermarkets would award rebates to regular buyers of certain name-brand goods. Pathmark, Giant Food and Vons will begin testing. A1 A vote on the Pentagon's package for buying weapons was called for by the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Les Aspin, provoking a frenzy of lobbying and political maneuvering. B11 The victor in Virginia's primary for the Republican nominee for governor, former state Attorney General J. Marshall Coleman, plunged into the campaign. A20 A fire at the Jackson Laboratory, one of the world's leading suppliers of re- search mice, has caused major disruptions for medical scientists in the United States, Canada and other countries. A20 House Democrats failed to override the President's veto of a bill to increase the minimum wage. But the Democrats vowed to seek compromise legislation. A21 Labs that do DNA ''fingerprinting'' analyses to be used as evidence in criminal cases need a set of national reliability standards, experts in the new field say. A26 Washington Talk B10 Personal and political finances are difficult to juggle for Representative Edward F. Feighan. Like many of his colleagues, Mr. Feighan finds himself in an economic and political vise. Politics: Measuring Moral Majority's impact on U.S. Regional B1-7 Political clubs are threatened as their members age and dwindle. Many clubs that once were centers of their communities have been forced to retreat to seedy storefronts. B1 Rent rules will be extended for New York City for two years, legislative leaders agreed, leaving unresolved a series of demands from tenants and landlords. B1 Enfield's spread is about to change on July 1, when Connecticut imposes the largest one-time tax increase in its history. The spread refers to the difference between tax rates there and in Massachusetts. B1 A stormy dispute over the Tongass, the huge rain forest along western Canada, has involved Representative Robert J. Mrazek of Long Island in a peculiar mixture of bicoastal grudges and alliances. B1 A youngster's anti-crack T-shirts are part of her one-child program. Her parents hope to have the shirts distributed across the country by civic leaders and organizations. B5 On a tour of buildings being revived, 25 prominent New Yorkers joined Abraham Biderman, New York City's Housing Commissioner, while he inspected refurbished buildings in the South Bronx. B2 A travel agency was penalized more than $75,000 for violating United States trade embargoes against Vietnam and Cambodia by offering tours to those countries. B3 Subway riders are more fearful and cautious in New York City following a rash of violence in the last week. Subway crime was up 19 percent in the first three months of this year from the period a year ago. B3 Metro-North ties crumble B2