LEAD: New York Hospital was thrown into chaos for 22 minutes early yesterday when electrical generators failed during a scheduled repair of the main power plant, causing the death of a baby, hospital officials said yesterday.

POWER FAILS AT NEW YORK HOSPITAL AND INFANT ON A RESPIRATOR DIES

LEAD: Leading members of the Congressional committees investigating the Iran-contra affair said today that Maj. Gen. Richard V. Secord would probably be recalled as a witness to resolve serious conflicts arising from his testimony last month.

IRAN PANEL LIKELY TO RECALL SECORD ON DESCREPANCIES

LEAD: The New York City official responsible for exposing tax cheats was dismissed yesterday after admitting that he had failed to file his state and city income tax returns for 1984 and 1985.

NEW YORK TAX SLEUTH IS DISMISSED FOR FILING NO '84 OR '85 RETURNS

LEAD: The Federal Government announced today that it would take blood samples from about 45,000 randomly selected people as part of a national survey to determine the number of Americans infected with the AIDS virus. Participation is to be voluntary and anonymous.

GOVERNMENT PLANS RANDOM AIDS TESTS FOR 45,000 IN U.S.

LEAD: New Era at University Club   After years of resistance, members of the 122-year-old, all-male club have voted to admit women as members.

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LEAD: The New York region is a ''picture of an economy in strength,'' with unemployment rates below 6 percent, record numbers of residents employed and job prospects for teen-agers the best in a decade, the Labor Department said yesterday.

JOB TOTALS SHOW THIRD GOOD MONTH IN NEW YORK AREA

LEAD: The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told Congress today that carrying out President Reagan's mission of putting 11 Kuwaiti tankers under American protection could lead to more military casualties in the Persian Gulf.

ADMIRAL WARNS OF U.S. LOSSES IN GULF PATROLS

LEAD: The special prosecutor in the Iran-contra affair has issued subpoenas for three more Israeli citizens, prompting a new round of protests from the Israeli Government, according to American and Israeli officials.

SPECIAL PROSECUTOR SUBPOENAS 3 ISRAELIS AND ISRAEL PROTESTS

LEAD: Garth Ward looks around his garment factory here and sees idle sewing machines where he would like to see a second shift of 150 new employees churning out sportswear.

ALIEN LAW CAUSING SHORTAGES OF LABOR IN SOME INDUSTRIES

LEAD: Klaus Barbie was forced to appear at his trial today for the second time and was formally identified by two of his accusers, one of them weeping and the other trying to taunt him in front of the court.

BARBIE, FORCED TO APPEAR AT TRIAL, IS IDENTIFIED BY 2 OF HIS ACCUSERS

LEAD: The authorities have freed a former Nazi death-camp guard after attempts to return him to the United States failed, the Interior Ministry said today.

Vienna Frees Ex-Guard U.S. Will Not Readmit

LEAD: ''There are no absolute guarantees that such an operation will be casualty-free, or that Iran will not escalate the sea war, which will present us with further difficult choices. On the other hand, we have the capability to keep the oil lanes to Kuwait open, to assure our Arab friends of our commitment, and to keep the risks low.

Quotation of the Day

LEAD: INTERNATIONAL   2-7   2,,q>Richard V. Secord may be recalled as a witness by Congressional committees investigating the Iran-contra affair because of contradictions between his testimony and that of his business partner, Albert Hakim. Page   1   More Israelis were subpoenaed to testify in the Iran-contra affair, angering Israeli officials who indicated they might end all cooperation with the special prosecutor, Lawrence E.

NEWS SUMMARY SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1987

LEAD: The House of Deputies gave final approval early today to a bill that would end prosecution of most military officers accused of rights abuses in the ''dirty war'' against leftists in the 1970's.

Argentina Extends Immunity In 'Dirty War' Rights Abuses

LEAD: Canada today announced a 15-year program to upgrade the country's armed forces that would include the purchase of 10 to 12 nuclear-powered submarines, new battle tanks, six more frigates and the addition of nearly 30,000 men to military reserves.

CANADA PLANS BIG BUILDUP FOR ITS SUB FLEET AND ARMY

LEAD: Because of an editing error, a Venice dispatch yesterday on United States plans to seek a resolution threatening Iran and Iraq with an arms embargo if they refuse talks to end their war misidentified the body in which the measure is being sought. It is the United Nations Security

CORRECTION

LEAD: Twenty people were killed and 14 wounded in two bouts of Afghan shelling into the Kurram area of northwest Pakistan last weekend, the Pakistani news agency reported today. It said the Afghan armed forces fired 13 missiles on Saturday, killing 12 Afghan refugees and a Pakistani at Shalozan. About 200 artillery rounds were fired at Ghoz Garhi on Sunday, killing 7 Afghan refugees and wounding 12.

20 Killed in Afghan Shelling

LEAD: Some people thought that the man staying at Villa Condulmer, a three-story 17th-century country hotel with bright green awnings, was a double, and that the real American President was in Aviano, a town in Friuli to the east.

IS IT REALLY THE PRESIDENT? THE WAITER THINKS SO

LEAD: A listing with an article on strawberry picking in Weekend yesterday gave an incorrect phone number for Young's Orchard on Long Island. The correct number is (516) 727-5363.

LEAD: Pope John Paul II will conduct a ''Prayer for World Peace'' from Rome today that is to be simultaneously broadcast on radio and television to more than 150 countries and will show worshipers in churches from Poland to the Philippines.

Pope's Peace Prayer In World Broadcast

LEAD: President Reagan urged today that his counterparts at a seven-nation economic summit meeting set a goal of eliminating agriculture subsidies by 2000.

REAGAN, IN VENICE, ASKS END OF FARM SUBSIDIES

LEAD: President Reagan warmed up for a taping of his weekly radio address today by telling an Italian-Irish joke, unaware that his remarks were being picked up on broadcast monitors.

REAGAN MAKES FUN OF IRISH

LEAD: An article yesterday about large insurance companies' plans to limit the life insurance they will offer to people who refuse to be tested for the AIDS virus gave incorrect figures for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. The company paid 368 AIDS-related claims totaling $3 million since 1985.

Correction

LEAD: A United States appeals court here has delivered a setback to opponents of Ferdinand E. Marcos in their attempt to recover billions of dollars in assets they say were plundered while he was President of the Philippines.

MARCOS WINS ROUND IN COURT

LEAD: In the dusty courtyard of a Hindu temple, 1,200 women, children and old men stood quietly in line today for rations of rice and flour. Their homes had been bombed, and they told stories of hunger, terror and helplessness.

June 6, 1987

Headlines from June 6, 1987

POWER FAILS AT NEW YORK HOSPITAL AND INFANT ON A RESPIRATOR DIES

IRAN PANEL LIKELY TO RECALL SECORD ON DESCREPANCIES

NEW YORK TAX SLEUTH IS DISMISSED FOR FILING NO '84 OR '85 RETURNS

GOVERNMENT PLANS RANDOM AIDS TESTS FOR 45,000 IN U.S.

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Billboard 200

The Joshua Tree

Slippery When Wet

Whitesnake

Look What The Cat Dragged In

Graceland

Historical Context for June 6, 1987