LEAD: Britain's highest court, backing the Government in a confrontation with the press, barred newspapers today from reporting the memoirs of a retired intelligence agent even though his book is available on the streets of London, fresh from its American publisher.

BRITAIN'S TOP COURT BANS SPY'S MEMOIRS IN ALL PRESS REPORTS

WEEKENDER GUIDE

LEAD: IT'S not Christmas yet, but a pinata filled with rich artistic gifts is about to burst on this city. The 11th Festival Latino in New York - the biggest Latin American cultural event in the United States and one of the most important showcases anywhere for Latin talent - begins tomorrow. Fifty thousand people attended the festival's events last year, and at least as many are expected this time.

Festival Latino Puts an Accent On Global Themes

LEAD: By 7:45 P.M. Madison Square Garden was filling with young, excited rock-and-rollers. A good omen, thought Steve Mountain, manager of the opening act, the Hooters, as he looked at the 18,500 seats.

Band's Quest For Stardom

LEAD: Rising metals prices, an important factor in the gain reported yesterday in the Government's index of leading economic indicators for June, are expected to be a fact of industrial life for the rest of this year, according to economists and traders.

A Rebound in Metals Prices

LEAD: In his last appearance before Congress as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Paul A. Volcker said today that an international banking agreement would likely be reached by the end of the year to provide uniform banking regulation among many industrialized countries.

Volcker Sees Nations in Bank Pact

LEAD: Curiosity about the way wounds in frogs healed quickly from surgical cuts has led a Federal researcher to the discovery of a new family of natural antibiotics that appear to kill a broad spectrum of microbes and may have uses in human therapy.

CURIOSITY ON HEALING IN FROGS LEADS TO A GAIN IN ANTIBIOTICS

LEAD: After nine days of deliberations, a Queens jury yesterday declared itself ''hopelessly deadlocked'' on charges that three reputed Mafia figures shot a New York City police detective to death on a Queens street.

Queens Jury Is Split on Murder of a Detective

BUSINESS DIGEST: FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1987

LEAD: President Reagan proposed a new set of regulations today that would bar family planning clinics that get Federal funds from counseling clients about abortion.

U.S. PROSOSES CURB ON CLINICS GIVING ABORTION ADVICE

LEAD: A mundane construction project - expanding the parking lot at the Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site here - has uncovered a monument to the 32d President's quest for a representation of feminine beauty recalled from his younger days.

Project Interrupts Solitude Of Statue F.D.R. Spurned

LEAD: Foreign investors, buoyed by a renewed confidence in the stability of the dollar, are helping to push prices of American stocks to historic highs, according to traders and international market experts.

FOREIGN INVESTORS PROPEL U.S. STOCKS TO RECORD LEVELS

LEAD: If things had worked out differently, Tommy John would not have won his 10th game last night for the Yankees. He would have been somewhere in Chapel Hill, N.C., his career having turned from pitcher to pitching coach for the University of North Carolina baseball team.

John, 44, Sends Royals Into Retirement

LEAD: Japan's Government has agreed on legislation to toughen penalties for illegal exports of militarily sensitive technology to Communist bloc countries, although approval by the parliament is uncertain.

Japanese Leaders Seek Stiffer Export Penalties

LEAD: Why is it that day-camp vans always honk five minutes before you are ready? If anyone knows, would they please give Matt Brazezicke a call.

Our Towns; Elysian Days At Helen Keller: A Special Camp

LEAD: The Government's index of leading indicators, a widely followed economic forecasting tool, climbed in June for the fifth straight month, the Commerce Department reported today.

Leading Indicators Had 0.8% Rise in June

LEAD: A scraping of skin that was removed from the tip of President Reagan's nose on Wednesday was found to be cancerous under microscopic examination, the White House announced today.

REAGAN TO HAVE SURGERY ON NOSE FOR SKIN CANCER

LEAD: SO persistent is the onrush of new construction in New York that the first temptation for the architecture buff is to track down the latest things, be they good or bad: the office towers and apartment blocks of Battery Park City, for example, or the glitzy new office buildings of the East 50's. But as the new buildings often physically overwhelm the old, a fixation on the most au courant architecture can overshadow the classic structures of the city, those works of architecture that, though they be neither the biggest nor the newest, remain the greatest, the works that transform our vision

A Baker's Dozen Of New York City's Urban Masterpieces A BAKER'S DOZEN OF NEW YORK CITY'S URBAN MASTERPIECES; 13 Gems

LEAD: Kenneth Jackson, 48 years old, sat on a plastic milk crate in front of the Chemical Bank at Broadway and 81st Street with his hand out. The shade was yielding to sun, and he had yet to collect enough for a decent meal.

Panhandlers' Numbers Seem to Rise

LEAD: Federal authorities yesterday said they had smashed a drug ring that they described as the biggest distributor of crack in New York City.

U.S. Breaks Up Major Crack Ring in New York

LEAD: The summer stock market rally continued yesterday, as strong institutional buying, both from within the United States and from abroad, pushed the leading market indexes further into record territory.

The Record Stock Rally Continues

LEAD: ASK even the most city-smart New Yorker to free-associate about the Bronx, and you're not likely to hear of forests and wetlands, horse trails and farmhouses. Yet, in the borough that boasts the city's largest proportion of parkland, all this and more can be found in one of New York's greatest natural and recreational treasures: Van Cortlandt

The Bucolic Pleasures Of Van Cortlandt Park

LEAD: Donald T. Regan, who was closer to President Reagan than anyone else who has testified before the Iran-contra committees, said today that the President felt he had been repeatedly ''snookered'' by Iranians into believing that continued arms sales would lead to the release of more American hostages.

REGAN TESTIFIES REAGAN FELT IRAN 'SNOOKERED' HIM

LEAD:  Copter Crashes in Gulf  An American helicopter in the force escorting Kuwaiti oil tankers crashed in the Persian Gulf, killing one man and leaving three missing. Page A3.  39 Die in Mexico Air Crash  At least 39 peolple were killed when a cargo plane crashed into a highway and struck a restaurnt on the outskirts of Mexico City.

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LEAD: The first 3,000 soldiers in an Indian peacekeeping unit landed today in northern Sri Lanka, and the Indian Ambassador said they would stay until New Delhi decides their mission has been completed.

INDIA SAYS IT WILL SET THE TIMING FOR WITHDRAWAL FROM SRI LANKA

Michael Sheehan Bradley is an American former professional soccer player who is currently the head coach of New York Red Bulls II in MLS Next Pro.

Michael Bradley, American soccer player

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Joseph Edward Levine was an American film distributor, financier and producer. At the time of his death, it was said he was involved in one or another capacity with 497 films. Levine was responsible for the American releases of Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, Attila and Hercules, which helped revolutionize American film marketing, and was founder and president of Embassy Pictures.

Joseph E. Levine, American film producer (b, 1905)

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The Edmonton tornado, also known as Black Friday to Edmontonians, was a powerful, and devastating tornado that ripped through the eastern parts of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and parts of neighbouring Strathcona County on the afternoon of Friday, July 31, 1987. It was one of seven other tornadoes in central Alberta the same day.

A tornado occurs in Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people.

July 31, 1987

Headlines from July 31, 1987

BRITAIN'S TOP COURT BANS SPY'S MEMOIRS IN ALL PRESS REPORTS

WEEKENDER GUIDE

Festival Latino Puts an Accent On Global Themes

Band's Quest For Stardom

A Rebound in Metals Prices

Billboard 200

Whitney

Bad Animals

Whitesnake

The Joshua Tree

Girls; Girls; Girls

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Events

Historical Context for July 31, 1987