LEAD: South Korea's main opposition party rejected an offer Wednesday from President Chun Doo Hwan to reopen discussions on the critical issue of constitutional change.

OPPOSITION IN SEOUL REJECTS OFFER BY CHUN AIMED AT ENDING CRISIS

LEAD: In Trenton yesterday, a group called Residents Against Dumping of Noxious Soils (Radons) was trying to present a petition to Governor Kean. On Long Island, Residents Against Garbage Expansion (R.A.G.E.) was demonstrating outside Governor Cuomo's Mineola office. And a mile off Brooklyn was the otherwise nondescript garbage barge that, after leaving Long Island

GROWING REPLY TO SOCIETY'S ILLS: 'NOT IN MY YARD'

LEAD: The Chrysler Corporation was indicted today on charges of fraud for disconnecting the odometers on at least 60,000 cars used by its executives and then selling the cars as new, without the accumulated miles showing.

CHRYSLER IS INDICTED OVER MILEAGE SHOWN ON SOME NEW CARS

LEAD: Jackie Gleason, the roly-poly comedian, actor and musician who was one of the leading entertainment stars of the 1950's and 60's, died last night of cancer at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 71 years old.

COMEDIAN AND ACTOR WAS 71

LEAD: Sales of American-made new cars fell 11.3 percent in mid-June, to 223,376 units, the eight domestic manufacturers reported today. The decline was partly offset by a 7.6 percent increase in sales of light trucks, which often substitute for cars, to a total of 125,193.

MID-JUNE CAR SALES FELL 11.3%

LEAD: Winthrop Financial Associates, like many companies that make a living by investing other people's money in real estate, was badly wounded by the uncertainty preceding last year's revision of the tax code.

REAL ESTATE SYNDICATOR'S GAIN

LEAD: ''HOSPICE care is not about death and dying,'' said Ann Armstrong Dailey, founder and executive director of Children's Hospice International. ''It is about life and living.''

A SUPPORT NETWORK OF HOSPICE GROUPS FOR DYING CHILDREN

LEAD: The Supreme Court today blunted the most potent weapon used by Federal prosecutors against state and local political corruption by rejecting a broad definition of ''mail fraud'' under which dozens of people have been convicted.

JUSTICES NARROW MAIL FRAUD SCOPE

LEAD: Seven men who would be President spent several hours Tuesday night paying tribute in ridicule to one who would not - at least not right now.

AT BRADLEY ROAST, BARBS ARE GOOD-NATURED (KIND OF)

LEAD: To shoppers outside San Juan, P.R., the symbol of a chess piece may have meant a place for one-stop shopping.

U.S. SEIZES SHOPPING MALL IN HEROIN CASE

LEAD: The number of soup kitchens and food pantries serving meals in New York City has grown from 30 to almost 500 in the last seven years, according to a report issued yesterday.

SOUP KITCHENS RISE SHARPLY, REPORT FINDS

LEAD: At an occasionally heated and often colorful three-hour annual meeting yesterday, Steven J. Ross strengthened his grip as chairman of Warner Communications Inc., winning a vote to trim the company's board to 14 members from 15.

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LEAD: ONE of the most important objects in ''Mario Bellini: Designer,'' a retrospective exhibition of the work of the 52-year-old Italian architect and industrial designer that opens today, might very well be the drawing that hangs just inside the entrance to the show at the Museum of Modern Art.

27 YEARS OF MARIO BELLINI'S DEFT DESIGNS

LEAD: MARIO BELLINI has an emotional attachment to objects. ''We need to touch objects,'' the Italian architect and designer said in a recent conversation about his life and his attitudes toward design. ''We filter our relationship to the outside world through our hands, our fingers, ears, eyes and nose.

HUMANIZING ELECTRONICS AND TECHNOLOGY

LEAD: A bill intended to require the New York Yankees to broadcast more of their games on standard televison channels and fewer on pay cable outlets was passed overwhelmingly by an Assembly committee today. But it is being blocked in the Senate by the lawmaker who earlier this week killed a bill requiring sports teams to set aside stadium seats where alcoholic beverages could not be consumed.

ASSEMBLY PANEL PASSES YANKEES TV BILL

LEAD: Thanks to the prolonged decline of the dollar, the United States has seen the worst of the extraordinary deficits in its trade, economists, businessmen and other experts are now persuaded. The shrinking deficits, they add, spell important changes in the behavior of the economy and could blunt the efforts in Congress to impede imports.

SHRINKING TRADE DEFICIT HERALDS ECONOMIC SHIFT

LEAD: In three rulings today, the New Jersey Supreme Court expanded the right of individuals to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment, and said the patients' interests must come before those of the state.

RIGHT OF PATIENTS WHO WISH TO DIE WIDENED IN JERSEY

LEAD: HAD she not reigned for more than half a century, the frumpy little lady in lace might not have become the icon of an age. But, like a curl of pressed baby's hair in a locket, endure Queen Victoria did.

LONG LIVES THE QUEEN: THE PASSION FOR VICTORIANA

LEAD: Andrew Lloyd Webber has written half a dozen of the most successful shows in musical theater history and made millions in London and New York, but his wife, a British actress, can't get a job on Broadway. Mr. Lloyd Webber is angry, and his anger threatens a New York production of ''Phantom of the Opera,'' perhaps his biggest hit ever.

2 ACTORS' UNIONS WAGE TRANS-ATLANTIC BATTLE

BUSINESS DIGEST: THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1987

LEAD: In a retreat from its sweeping diversification strategy, the Lorimar-Telepictures Corporation said today that it would sell its advertising agencies, television stations and publishing operations.

LORIMAR REFOCUSING, SETS SELLOFF

LEAD: The Internal Revenue Service today introduced the complicated and lengthy new tax form that hundreds of thousands of parents must fill out for their children under the new tax law.

TAX FORM FOR CHILDREN FAR FROM CHILD'S PLAY

LEAD: West Germany announced today that it would not extradite a hijacking suspect to the United States but would try him in West Germany on charges of air piracy and murder.

BONN TO TRY HIM IN HIJACKING

LEAD: WHEN Tom Venturella was a small boy, he used to sit in the choir loft in his hometown church in Indiana and stare at the stained-glass windows, wondering ''how they did that stuff.'' Now Mr. Venturella, one of the few artistans in the city who repair stained glass, knows well how the windows are made.

June 25, 1987

Headlines from June 25, 1987

OPPOSITION IN SEOUL REJECTS OFFER BY CHUN AIMED AT ENDING CRISIS

GROWING REPLY TO SOCIETY'S ILLS: 'NOT IN MY YARD'

CHRYSLER IS INDICTED OVER MILEAGE SHOWN ON SOME NEW CARS

COMEDIAN AND ACTOR WAS 71

MID-JUNE CAR SALES FELL 11.3%

Billboard 200

Whitney

Girls; Girls; Girls

The Joshua Tree

Whitesnake

Slippery When Wet

Historical Context for June 25, 1987