LEAD: The New York City Board of Estimate last night unanimously passed a major citywide rezoning intended to encourage construction of lower and bulkier apartment buildings as middle-income housing.

New York City Agrees to Allow Building of Bulkier Apartments

LEAD: The Federal Government would sharply reduce its contributions to the cost of keeping homeless families in hotels under new regulations it intends to propose, an administrator for the United States Department of Health and Human Services said yesterday.

U.S. PLANNING CUT IN AID TO HOMELESS

LEAD: Women and Catholicism  The Roman Catholic archbishop of Los Angeles said sexist language and exclusion of women from power were alienating church women. Page 6.

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LEAD: The first major exhibition in the Soviet Union of the paintings of Marc Chagall will open at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow next month, one of the show's organizers said today.

After Long Disdain, Moscow Plans Show Of Chagall's Works

LEAD: The Federal Aviation Administration, citing a ''serious breach of safety,'' today revoked the license of the pilot of a small plane who flew within 200 feet of President Reagan's helicopter. The pilot was identified as an Army private who was absent without leave.

F.A.A. Revokes License of Pilot In Near Miss With Reagan Copter

LEAD: The United States imported $15.71 billion more than it exported in June, a figure that represents the largest trade deficit for any month, the Commerce Department reported today. The unexpected deterioration reflected a quickening pace of higher-priced imports. These included oil, which Government and industry analysts said was being bought in anticipation of Persian Gulf hostilities.

U.S. TRADE DEFICIT INCREASES SHARPLY AND UNEXPECTEDLY

LEAD: From her vantage point beneath the rustling maple trees at a playground in a South Bronx housing project, Sallie M. Coleman, a grandmother of five, sees young men and women standing in the shadows, wasting their lives in drugs and alcohol.

Bronx Playground: Focus of Area Under Siege

LEAD: Philip C. Habib resigned today as President Reagan's special envoy to Central America, reportedly displeased with the White House's failure to assign him a major role in the new diplomatic efforts for a regional peace settlement.

RIFT IS REPORTED

LEAD: A panel of the National Academy of Sciences has concluded there is no evidence that organisms developed by the techniques of genetic engineering present any ''unique'' ecological hazards.

Panel Discounts Special Hazards In Gene Splicing

LEAD: Several explosions ripped through a chemical warehouse near a housing development today, killing 5 people, injuring 70 and forcing 1,500 to flee, the police said.

Chemical Warehouse Blasts Kill 5 Near the Seoul Airport

LEAD: In denouncing the violent antagonists in the troubles of his beloved Ireland, the playwright Sean O'Casey always spared the women: ''The mothers, alone sensible and suffering, bear the brunt of it all.''

Second Look for Family After Years in British Jail

LEAD: Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who is vacationing in Austria, had an unannounced private meeting there Thursday with President Kurt Waldheim of Austria, spokesmen for the two leaders said today.

Kohl and Waldheim Meet Privately

LEAD: David F. Emery, deputy director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, said today that he planned to step down from the post he has held for the last four years. In a letter to President Reagan, Mr. Emery, a former Maine Congressman, said he planned to return to private life and hoped his resignation could take effect by Jan.

Arms Agency Aide Resigns

LEAD: ''We must strike a wise balance between the thrust of innovation and the restraint of regulation.'' - National Academy of Sciences panel on genetic engineering.  [ 7:5. ]

Quotation of the Day

LEAD:  International 2-5, 28  Philip C. Habib resigned as President Reagan's special envoy to Central America. He was reported to be displeased with the White House's failure to assign him a major role in diplomatic efforts to work out a regional peace settlement. Page 1  News analysis: The Latin peace plan proposed by President Reagan, put forth in part to demonstrate that the Administration was moving forward after the Iran-contra hearings, is instead causing the White House nothing but difficulty.

NEWS SUMMARY: SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1987

LEAD: Culminating a four-year effort, the American Jewish Committee announced today that the East German Government had granted permission for an American rabbi to live and work in East Berlin.

East Berlin to Allow a U.S. Rabbi to Work There

LEAD: The recent accord between India and Sri Lanka intended to end ethnic strife on the island has been slowed in being put into effect by the bitter divisions and suspicions among the Tamil rebel groups, Indian officials say.

India Says Delay in Sri Lanka Is Result of Tamils' Rivalries

LEAD: A Washington dispatch in some editions last Saturday about the creation of service and manufacturing jobs misstated the number of minimum-wage jobs in the United States in 1981 and 1986. There were 7.8 million such jobs in 1981 and 5.1 million at the end of 1986.

CORRECTION

LEAD: Because of an editing error, an article in some editions yesterday about three former members of the Jewish Defense League who pleaded guilty to Federal charges in a series of bombings omitted their names. They are a former J.D.L. leader, Victor Vancier, 30 years old, of Whitestone, Queens, and two former members of the group's governing board, Jay Cohen, 24, of Forest Hills, Queens, and Murray Young, 59, of East Meadow, L.I.

LEAD: Chadian troops beat back a land and air attack by Libyan troops on the northern village of Aozou today, killing more than 150 Libyans and capturing 48, the Chadian radio said tonight.

Chad Reports New Libyan Attack

LEAD: Some senior Navy officers have criticized command arrangements for operations in the Persian Gulf because responsibility is divided, officers said today.

Concern Reported in U.S. Military on Gulf Command Structure

LEAD: Because of an editing error, a Paris dispatch on Tuesday about France's decision against sending troops to an area disputed by Chad and Libya characterized the Chadian forces of President Hissen Habre incorrectly.

CORRECTIONS

LEAD: With the military under intense pressure to show its commitment to democracy, South Korea's Defense Minister has offered the first public pledge of military support to the country's next president.

Seoul's Military Vows to Abide by Vote

LEAD: A strike by hundreds of thousands of black miners turned increasingly violent today as police officers fired birdshot into crowds of strikers, wounding at least 13 in the first reported use of live ammunition in the six-day strike.

13 Miners Are Reported Wounded By Police in South Africa Strike

LEAD: A Dallas dispatch yesterday about a lawsuit on care for the mentally retarded in Texas misstated the age of residents of state institutions. Most are adults. Because of an editing error, some copies also misstated the filing date of the original lawsuit. It was 1974.

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August 15, 1987

Headlines from August 15, 1987

New York City Agrees to Allow Building of Bulkier Apartments

U.S. PLANNING CUT IN AID TO HOMELESS

INSIDE

After Long Disdain, Moscow Plans Show Of Chagall's Works

F.A.A. Revokes License of Pilot In Near Miss With Reagan Copter

Billboard 200

Whitney

Bad Animals

Whitesnake

Bigger And Deffer

The Joshua Tree

Notable Births

Historical Context for August 15, 1987