April 22, 1987

LEAD: Citicorp and the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company reported lower first-quarter earnings yesterday, citing their placement of billions of dollars in Latin American loans on a cash basis. But the Bankers Trust Company, which also placed some Latin loans on a cash basis, reported record earnings and credited continued strength in its investment-banking division.

LEAD: For the last 26 years, Dr. Hugh Barber has been the director of obstetrics and gynecology at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan and an authority on gynecological cancer.

LEAD: In an important victory for companies seeking protection from takeovers, the Supreme Court for the first time today upheld a state law that restricts hostile offers for companies incorporated in that state. M Reversing a Federal appellate decision, the Court ruled that the 1986 Indiana law, which resembles laws in Ohio, Pennsylvania and several other states, violated neither the Federal Williams Act of 1968, which regulates tender offers, nor the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, which bans state obstruction of interstate commerce.

LEAD: The Pentagon said today that it recently discovered that a secret Army unit disbanded in 1983 had set up a Swiss bank account that may later have been used illegally to finance arms for the Nicaraguan rebels.

LEAD: FORGET the image of the male grocery shopper of the 1950's: sent to the store for a can of peaches, he came home with a sheepish look and a jar of chocolate-covered ants. Working women and job-sharing at home have changed all that. Men are going to the grocery store in record numbers, and while some still break out in a cold sweat just walking through the automatic door, far more are at ease in the aisles and thoroughly capable of distinguishing between a mango and a papaya.