LEAD: 5 Acquitted in Film Deaths   The director John Landis and four associates were found not guilty in the deaths of three actors during filming of a movie. Page 8.

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LEAD: A California judge ruled today that the largest possible number of insurance companies should be responsible for paying the claims of victims of asbestos-related diseases.

JUDGE BROADENS LIABILITY OF ASBESTOS INSURERS

LEAD: The American team investigating the Iraqi missile attack on the United States Navy frigate Stark said today that Iraq and the United States had agreed on steps to prevent further Iraqi attacks on American naval vessels operating in the Persian Gulf.

U.S. AND IRAQ ACT TO PREVENT RAIDS

LEAD: Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole announced today that 18 airlines had agreed to adjust schedules at five airports to reduce flight delays this summer.

FLIGHTS RESCHEDULED AT 5 AIRPORTS TO CURB DELAYS

LEAD: A 19-year-old West German pilot flew a light plane from Helsinki to Moscow on Thursday, traversing more than 400 miles of Soviet territory from the heavily defended Baltic Sea border. He landed, unimpeded, next to the Kremlin Wall at the foot of Red Square.

LONE WEST GERMAN FLIED UNHINDERED TO THE KREMLIN

LEAD: President Reagan today stated once more the goals of American policy in the Persian Gulf. But he did not say how or when the Navy would begin to escort merchant tankers through the gulf war zone, apparently because those details have yet to be worked out.

REAGAN DISCUSSES PERSIAN GULF AIMS, BUT NOT NAVY ROLE

LEAD: Federal officials and health economists say the AIDS epidemic will cost the nation at least $10 billion to $15 billion a year by 1991, and they warn that it may require major changes in the financing of health care.

YEARLY COST OF AIDS WILL SURPASS $10 BILLION BY 1991, EXPERTS SAY

LEAD: ''He was always crazy about flying. When he was a little boy, he would insist on visiting the tower if we were on holiday near an airfield.'' - Monika Rust, mother of the pilot who landed near the Kremlin.  [ 1:5. ]

Quotation of the Day

LEAD: A State Department official said today that a high-ranking Cuban military officer who defected to the United States on Thursday is ''in command of significant military and political information.''

CUBA DEFECTOR 'SIGNIFICANT'

LEAD: A 60-year-old Rumanian native who hid his past as a Nazi SS guard at a death camp left the country before being stripped of his United States citizenship, the Justice Department announced today.

EX-SS MAN QUITS U.S. FOR AUSTRIA

LEAD: The Argentine Senate passed legislation today that would substantially reduce the number of military officers facing trials on human-rights grounds.

ARGENTINE SENATE MOVES TO LIMIT HUMAN-RIGHTS TRIALS OF OFFICERS

LEAD: INTERNATIONAL   2-7   2,,q>A West German pilot flew to Moscow from Helsinki, crossing the heavily defended Soviet-Finnish border and landing his Cessna unimpeded next to the Kremlin wall.Page   1   Matthias Rust, the pilot of the plane, was described by his mother as ''a quiet young man of wonderful character with a passion for flying.

NEWS SUMMARY SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1987

LEAD: An article on Thursday about the possible effect of a disruption in oil supplies from the Persian Gulf misstated the volume of crude oil shipped through the Strait of Hormuz. According to the Department of Energy, an average of 7.4 million barrels a day has been shipped during the last three months.

Correction

LEAD: The Social Events column last Sunday gave an incorrect telephone number for tickets to the Iris Ball on Tuesday to benefit Helen Keller Services for the Blind. The correct number is (718) 522-2122, extension 227.

CORRECTION

LEAD: The attempt by the special prosecutor in the Michael K. Deaver case to compel Canada's Ambassador to the United States and his wife to testify in Mr. Deaver's trial has angered the Canadian Government, which had hoped that the diplomatic and political ramifications of its involvement with Mr. Deaver were at an end.

U.S. STEP IN DEAVER CASE ANGERS CANADA

LEAD: A Washington dispatch last Saturday, quoting Representative Helen Delich Bentley about Kuwaiti oil tankers now flying the American flag, incorrectly described crews of American-registered tankers carrying natural gas between Indonesia and Japan. Representative Bentley says she was misinformed. The crews of the natural gas tankers consist entirely of Americans, not of foreigners with American captains.

Editors' Note

LEAD: Guido Rossi is a graduate of Harvard Law School, a former head of Consob, Italy's equivalent of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and a business consultant who earned more than $2 million last year.

MILAN COMMUNISTS RUN A CAPITALIST

LEAD: An article yesterday about an archeological expedition to the Monitor, the sunken Civil War ship, misstated the date of the ship's battle with the Virginia. It was March 9, 1862.

LEAD: In a largely hidden conflict in a mountainous border region, Thai and Vietnamese forces are locked in what appears to be their most intense engagement since Vietnam invaded Cambodia more than eight years ago.

THAIS AND VIETNAMESE IN BITTER BATLE

LEAD: With relations at perhaps their lowest point since the two countries restored normal ties in 1972, Japan's defense chief went to China today on a fence-mending mission given only a limited chance for success.

JAPAN DEFENSE CHIEF VISITING CHINA IN FENCE-MENDING EFFORT

LEAD: A team of United States officials ended a round of talks in Hanoi on the issue of missing American servicemen but failed to reach agreement on a visit to Vietnam by a Presidential envoy, the State Department said Friday.

Round of U.S.-Vietnam Talks About Missing G.I.'s Is Over

LEAD: With the Thai Government threatening to dismantle its refugee asylum program by the end of June, legislation has been introduced in Congress to insure that the United States extends its resettlement program for Indochinese refugees by at least three years.

CONGRESS GETS BILL TO EXTEND INDOCHINESE RESETTLEMENT PLAN IN U.S.

LEAD: The boatmen of Dal Lake are busy this year, ferrying visitors past lotus pads, duck weed and floating vegetable gardens. Trout are biting in nearby mountain streams, and hikers and campers are looking out for black bear in the forest preserves.

IN KASHMIR, ROSES, LAKES AND FEAR

LEAD: South African commandos killed three Mozambicans today in pre-dawn rocket attacks aimed at African National Congress targets in Maputo, Mozambican officials said.

South Africa Blamed For Mozambique Raid

LEAD: A Soviet filmmaker who worked at the Chernobyl power plant within days of the nuclear accident there last year has died of radiation sickness, the weekly Nedelya reported today.

May 30, 1987

Headlines from May 30, 1987

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JUDGE BROADENS LIABILITY OF ASBESTOS INSURERS

U.S. AND IRAQ ACT TO PREVENT RAIDS

FLIGHTS RESCHEDULED AT 5 AIRPORTS TO CURB DELAYS

LONE WEST GERMAN FLIED UNHINDERED TO THE KREMLIN

Billboard 200

The Joshua Tree

Slippery When Wet

Look What The Cat Dragged In

Whitesnake

Graceland

Historical Context for May 30, 1987