LEAD: Twenty-five years ago, a general little known to the outside world pushed aside independent Burma's only elected Prime Minister and seized control of a young country still struggling to unify and grow.

EXHAUSTED BURMA STRUGGLES IN ISOLATION

LEAD: The Haft family of Washington said yesterday that executives of the Supermarkets General Corporation were demanding a nearly $35 million ''top management goodie package'' as part of the price for the big food and drug chain.

RIFT WIDENS IN HAFTS' BID FOR CHAIN

LEAD: The San Miguel Corporation, by far the largest concern in the Philippines, is a company with an identity crisis.

TURMOIL'S TOLL AT SAN MIGUEL

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BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: A Wall Street practice that some securities industry executives say is common may be coming under scrutiny by Federal regulators as illegal acts, fueling concerns that the current trading scandal may broaden.

NEW-ISSUE PRACTICES DRAW FIRE

LEAD: More than two years after Bernhard H. Goetz, a passenger on a downtown IRT subway train, drew a .38 revolver and shot four young men, questions about the shootings and the laws governing self-defense still reverberate.

AFTER 2 YEARS, GOETZ CASE STILL PUZZLES

LEAD: The Reagan Administration appears to be on the verge of imposing sanctions against Japanese semiconductor manufacturers, according to Government officials, Congressional leaders and industry executives.

U.S. PONDERS MOVE AGAINST JAPANESE ON COMPUTER CHIPS

LEAD: Behind the stately Greek porticoes that unfold gently along Richmond Terrace -ancient Athenian and early American civilization rising incongruously where the Kill Van Kull hugs the north shore of Staten Island - Sailors' Snug Harbor waits to burst into the 20th century.

DISPUTE GROWS ON EX-SAILORS' HOME

LEAD: In November 1985, New York City began what state officials called the nation's most comprehensive mandatory effort to help single mothers get off welfare and into private jobs.

IN NEW YORK, 'WORKFARE' GETS MIXED RESULTS

LEAD: Widening public and legislative support for ever-tougher laws against drunken driving and tighter enforcement of existing regulations appear to be noticeably deterring many from driving while intoxicated.

DRUNKEN DRIVING SHOWING DECLINE

LEAD: Losing would have been a disappointment, but the prospect of being routed would have stung long after the college basketball season had ended and Jerry Tarkanian had chewed his last towel. The Nevada-Las Vegas coach was aware of the doubts that critics have about his team: that the Runnin' Rebels play in a weak conference, are undisciplined and will invariably end their season somewhere short of that magic kingdom known as the Final

RALLY BEATS IOWA, 84-81

LEAD: ''Have you ever been involved in politics?'' Floyd Abrams, the chairman of Mayor Koch's Committee on Appointments, asked a job applicant recently.

KOCH INSULATION: APPOINTMENTS BY COMMITTEE

LEAD: THE tour pros have criticized him, vilified him, even tried to drown him, but Pete Dye keeps coming back to build tougher golf courses. They say he doesn't want to identify the best players in the world with his courses; he just wants to embarrass them.

WHEN THE COURSE CONQUERS THE GOLFERS

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LEAD: Dinner was ready at the Rizzo home when the telephone rang that Tuesday night. Cheryl Burress and her sister Lisa were calling to see if Thomas Rizzo and his friend Thomas Olton wanted to go out.

TRACING THE TRAGIC PATH TO FOUR TEEN-AGE SUICIDES

LEAD: In a game that lived up to its billing as a test of muscle and will, Indiana, relying on resilience and capitalizing on crucial mistakes, defeated Louisiana State by 77-76 today to earn a berth in the Final Four.

L.S.U. SUNK BY CALLOWAY

LEAD: In a sign of the kind of cooperation the two concerns expect to build, Shearson Lehman Brothers and the Nippon Life Insurance Company plan to set up a joint venture in London if their deal to sell 13 percent of Shearson to Nippon is approved, officials at the companies have said.

SHEARSON, NIPPON LIFE MAKE PLANS

LEAD: Above the Barclays Bank's sprawling currency-trading floor in London, the air is filled with cigarette smoke and coded shouts: ''What's the cable?''

AT THE CURRENCY NERVE CENTER

LEAD: In his first 10 weeks as Speaker of the State Assembly, Mel Miller has significantly altered the dynamics of power here, splitting the Democratic Assembly from the Democratic Governor on several key issues and focusing attention on the strains between the administration and the Legislature.

ASSEMBLY CHIEF'S FIRMNESS CAUSES STRAINS WITH CUOMO

LEAD: You can say this for Jim Valvano: Even in the face of season-ending defeat, the North Carolina State basketball coach loses neither his perspective nor his humor. Right after the Wolfpack was eliminated by Florida from this year's national tournament, Valvano allowed that things could have been worse, and indeed had been.

Buffaloed Bisons

LEAD: Members of Congress and the securities industry today urged President Reagan to nominate a Securities and Exchange Commission chairman who would continue to take a tough line on law enforcement and help restore investor confidence at a time when Wall Street is reeling from its biggest scandals since the 1920's.

REAGAN ASKED TO NAME VIGOROUS CHIEF AT S.E.C.

LEAD: President Corazon C. Aquino said today that her peace initiatives had failed and that the time had come for military victory over Communist insurgents and right-wing terrorists.

AQUINO DEMANDS MILITARY VICTORY OVER INSURGENTS

LEAD: Outmoded accounting systems may be responsible for the failure of many American manufacturing companies to update their factories to compete with the Japanese and other international competitors, according to a study commissioned by an accountants' group and an organization of people involved in high-technology manufacturing.

ACCOUNTING IN FACTORIES IS CRITICIZED AS OUTDATED

LEAD: Three young people, trapped by flames in their 33d-floor apartment, jumped to their deaths and four other people were killed yesterday morning when a smoky blaze - at first thought to be contained in the basement -raced up a garbage chute and raged through the top floors of a building at the northeast edge of Central

3 JUMP TO DEATH AND 4 OTHERS DIE IN HARLEM APARTMENT TOWER BLAZE

LEAD: Senior officials of the Reagan Administration say the cost of aiding farmers has become such a burden to so many countries that the United States wants to push the problem to the top of the list of international economic issues to be negotiated this year.

U.S. WILL STRESS FARM-AID ISSUES IN GLOBAL TALKS

Alan Toovey is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played with the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Alan Toovey, Australian footballer

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Olev Roomet was an Estonian musician, a violin player, a player of the torupill and a singer in the State Academic Male Choir of Estonia. He became interested in the Estonian bagpipe in his 50s. At the death of Aleksander Maaker in 1968, Roomer became the only living player of the torupill at that time.

March 23, 1987

Headlines from March 23, 1987

EXHAUSTED BURMA STRUGGLES IN ISOLATION

RIFT WIDENS IN HAFTS' BID FOR CHAIN

TURMOIL'S TOLL AT SAN MIGUEL

BUSINESS DIGEST

NEW-ISSUE PRACTICES DRAW FIRE

Billboard 200

Licensed To Ill

Slippery When Wet

The Way It Is

Graceland

Control

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for March 23, 1987