LEAD: Continental Airlines and United Airlines, two of the nation's largest carriers, announced price increases yesterday of between $3 and $7 one way on all tickets.

CONTINENTAL AND UNITED LIFT FARES AVERAGE OF 5%

LEAD: In the first stage of President Reagan's new plan to combat the AIDS epidemic, Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d today announced details of programs to test Federal prisoners and would-be immigrants for infection with the deadly virus.

MEESE DETAILS PLAN

LEAD: The dispute over patenting of animals created in the laboratory, the latest twist in a debate that has occupied scientists, ethicists, religious leaders and environmentalists for two decades, has served as a catalyst for the formation of a loose coalition opposed to the further use of genetic engineering in animal husbandry.

CONCERN OVER GENETICS PROMPTS A NEW COALITION OF CRITICS

LEAD: The AIDS epidemic, which is increasingly causing death and illness in the worlds of art and entertainment, is having a strong effect on the substance and spirit of creativity.

CREATIVE ARTS BEING RESHAPED BY THE EPIDEMIC

LEAD: The members of the Princeton class of '87 gave one last Tiger cheer at class day today and, as is tradition, broke a clay pipe on Cannon Green to symbolize something about companionship as they approached graduation Tuesday. And on some of their class jackets was a button that summarized part of the last four years for many of the students.

BROOKE SHIELDS, '87: A PRINCETON FAREWELL

LEAD: Fawn Hall, Lieut. Col. Oliver L. North's secretary at the National Security Council, testified today that she had altered some sensitive documents, destroyed others and smuggled still others off the White House grounds last fall in seeking to protect Colonel North.

NORTH'S SECRETARY DESCRIBES EFFORT TO HIDE EVIDENCE

LEAD: In a major victory for the securities industry, the Supreme Court, by 5 to 4, ruled today that firms may block customers from bringing fraud suits in Federal courts by using standard agreements that relegate all such disputes to arbitration.

SUPREME COURT BACKS ARBITRATION OF DISPUTES WITH SECURITIES FIRMS

IT'S FIRST AND GOAL FOR ESPN

LEAD: The BankAmerica Corporation said today that it would add $1.1 billion to its reserves for future loan losses, an action that will result in the struggling bank's largest quarterly loss to date and shatter its immediate hopes for a recovery.

WEST COAST BANK SEES HUGE LOSS

LEAD: The 10:30 P.M. train to North White Plains out of Grand Central Terminal has a new name these days - and for good reason.

JAPANESE POWER SOARS IN NEW YORK

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LEAD: The police raided five auto insurance brokerages in Brooklyn yesterday and said they had uncovered evidence that thousands of livery cabs in the borough hold bogus insurance documentation and are, in fact, uninsured.

POLICE RAID FINDS SCHEME ON INSURANCE

BUSINESS DIGEST: TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1987

LEAD: A novice lawyer who acknowledged failing the bar exam four times testified today that he had drafted the legal opinion cited by President Reagan in saying that a ban on aid to the Nicaraguan rebels did not apply to the National Security Council.

KEY CONTRA RULING CLAIMED BY NOVICE

LEAD: With a corporate tug-of-war raging across the Hudson River, the booming economy and comparatively low business costs of New Jersey have transformed the state into the nation's busiest market for office construction.

JERSEY, BOASTING LOWER COSTS, LEADS NATION IN NEW OFFICES

LEAD: THE largest and longest studies to carefully analyze personality throughout life reveal a core of traits that remain remarkably stable over the years and a number of other traits that can change drastically from age to age.

PERSONALITY: MAJOR TRAITS FOUND STABLE THROUGH LIFE

LEAD: SCIENTISTS probing the sunken wreck of the Civil War gunboat Monitor have concluded that the historic ironclad is corroding so rapidly that a decision will have to be made soon on what to do with the wreck.

RAPID DETERIORATION OF THE SUNKEN MONITOR IS FORCING HARD CHOICES

LEAD: President Reagan, after meeting with Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, announced today that he had lifted part of the tariffs on electronic goods imposed on Japan in April.

REAGAN, IN VENICE, LIFTS PART OF TARIFF ON JAPAN

LEAD: The new United States Embassy must undergo a major reconstruction because it is riddled with bugging devices so sophisticated that American intelligence agents do not fully understand them, the American assigned to investigate the problem said today.

SCHLESINGER SAYS MOSCOW BUGGING MEANS EMBASSY MUST BE REBUILT

LEAD: From 1980 until 1984, only a handful of workers at the Dayton-Walther Corporation's flagship foundry in Dayton, Ohio, filed workers' compensation claims for occupational diseases. But from late July 1984 until early March 1985, while the plant was idle, the company was hit with more than 100 claims from workers who said they had occupational diseases such as silicosis, which impedes breathing, or hand and arm injuries from using vibrating tools.

COMPANY SUES ITS WORKERS' DOCTORS

LEAD: BENEATH the earth, within the heart of the planet, lies a long unexplored ocean of molten iron whose currents and undulating upper boundary are only just beginning to be discovered through a new arsenal of scientific tools.

SCIENTISTS DEPICT MOLTEN SEA FAR BENEATH EARTH'S SURFACE

LEAD: A 16-year-old in Clark, N.J., had just stabbed his brother. Cornered by the police, the youth slashed at them with the knife and threatened to kill them. The police officers might have shot him. Instead, an officer carrying a special weapon that resembled an oversized nightstick fired a cloth beanbag filled with lead pellets at the youth.

OPTIONS SOUGHT TO DEADLY FORCE

LEAD: Friday night, musicians from all over the country began arriving at the wooded camp here in the Catskills.

SPIRIT OF GUTHRIE: 'PEOPLE'S MUSIC' IN THE CATSKILLS

LEAD: An investor group headed by Odyssey Partners, Allen & Company Inc. and First Chicago Venture Capital has signed an agreement to buy Research-Cottrell Inc. in a leveraged buyout for $43 a share, or $293 million, the builder of water, air and waste treatment plants said yesterday.

RESEARCH-COTTRELL SALE TO INVESTOR GROUP SET

LEAD: When officials of companies based in Manhattan sit down to make a final decision on whether or not to leave New York, they confront the same basic questions that many other major corporations have faced before them.

STAY IN NEW YORK? CORPORATE PUZZLE

Jaan Mölder is an Estonian former rally driver.

June 9, 1987

Headlines from June 9, 1987

CONTINENTAL AND UNITED LIFT FARES AVERAGE OF 5%

MEESE DETAILS PLAN

CONCERN OVER GENETICS PROMPTS A NEW COALITION OF CRITICS

CREATIVE ARTS BEING RESHAPED BY THE EPIDEMIC

BROOKE SHIELDS, '87: A PRINCETON FAREWELL

Billboard 200

The Joshua Tree

Slippery When Wet

Whitesnake

Look What The Cat Dragged In

Graceland

Notable Births

Historical Context for June 9, 1987