June 23, 1986

An article in Business Day on Thursday about savings bank life insurance misstated the home cities for the East River Savings Bank and the Goldome Federal Savings Bank. East River's main offices are in New York and Goldome's are in Buffalo.

International Spain's Socialists won in national elections, according to official preliminary returns. According to the Interior Ministry, the Socialist Party of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez will have a slightly reduced majority in Parliament, but it decisively turned back a spectrum of rightist, leftist and centrist parties that challenged it. [ Page A1, Column 6. ] Three bombs exploded in Durban, one of them causing a huge fire near an oil refinery and spilling a mile-long slick of oil into the Indian Ocean. The explosions came a week after a car bombing that killed 3 people and wounded 69 in the South African port city. [ A1:5. ]

''That's the Darling I love,'' said a relaxed Davey Johnson yesterday, without even one twitch in his brush mustache. His sometimes-erratic young right-hander, Ron Darling, unveiled a new pitch, didn't walk a batter and threw a complete game as the Mets beat the Cubs, 4-2. He even slugged two singles after compiling only two hits his first 34 times at bat. Darling, who raised his record to 8-2, thus helped the Mets retain their 10-game lead over the Expos, who start a three-game series at Shea Stadium tonight, facing Dwight Gooden.

''Democracy today has taken a new step forward. Spain enters a new phase.

Federal civil rights laws provide some protection to AIDS victims, but employers and public health officials who believe they are preventing the spread of the fatal disease may discriminate against people afflicted with it, the Justice Department has ruled. This decision interprets the legal rights of people with AIDS and related conditions much more narrowly than the department's career civil rights lawyers had recommended. Despite scientists' assurances that the infection cannot be spread through casual contact, under the Justice Department's opinion employers and others would apparently be able to discriminate against AIDS victims even if the employers' fears were not based on scientific opinion. ''The risk of medical uncertainty must be borne'' by the person alleging discrimination, the department says.