LEAD: THE final deals have yet to be cut, but already the floor is littered with scrapped amendments bearing the names of legislative stalwarts from both houses and both parties.

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SIX MEMOS FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM 
By Italo Calvino. 124 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. $12.95.

THE PROMISED LAND OF LITERATURE

LEAD: Honduran Air Force jets bombed suspected Nicaraguan troop positions this afternoon in the border region where the Sandinistas have been attacking United States-backed Nicaraguan rebels.

Honduran Air Force Planes Bomb Nicaragua Positions Along Border

LEAD: ''It is not an offensive building,'' said Jonathan Paskow, the developer of an almost completed, 22-story condominium at 255 West 85th Street. ''It's ugly,'' said John Kowall, chairman of Community Board 7.

POSTINGS: Where Brownstones Stood; A Tall Tower

LEAD: IN the commotion over the Washington Redskins' snatching Wilber Marshall, an All-Pro linebacker, from the Chicago Bears as a free agent, the popular debate is whether this is an isolated case or the start of a trend. But there's no debate over whose idea it was. There is only added evidence that Bobby Beathard, befitting the general manager of the reigning Super Bowl champions, is now the National Football

THE MARSHALL PLAN

LEAD: GOVERNOR CUOMO'S comments that the Long Island Power Authority might be enlisted to watch over the continued existence of the company have added new confusion to the bewildering course of efforts to end the impasse over the Shoreham nuclear power plant.

Governor Confuses Lilco Issue

LEAD: A condominium office building under construction in Flushing that its co-developer, Ted Schorr, said has ''a very different look from what has been built in Queens'' would fit well into any New York City suburb. The six-story structure's open surroundings and layer-cake design of alternating glass and brick are more often seen from a New Jersey Transit train than the IRT No.

POSTINGS: Layer-Cake Offices; A Suburban Look in Flushing

LEAD: THE debate in Washington over what to do about Central America's problems has underscored one essential point: though the United States may strongly influence the changes now shaking the region, it cannot bring an end to the conflicts.

The Region's Fate Is Not In Washington's Hands

LEAD: THE cost of a college education, already high, is climbing higher, and finding ways to meet it is becoming a preoccupation for many students and their families.

Concern Growing On College Costs

LEAD: Can anyone who is not well-off buy a home in Westchester County these days? ''It requires an extensive search,'' said Blossom Blum, executive director of Westchester Residential Opportunities Inc., a nonprofit open-housing group. ''We help people to try to find a way to afford what's out there.''

POSTINGS: Home-Buyer's Class; Looking for Affordability

LEAD: I guess I loved Cher the most the night she showed up at the Academy Awards looking like a tarantula. The academy had, pointedly, failed to nominate her for her top-calibre work in ''Mask'' - a calculated disciplinary action that sent shivers down the spine of every former teen-age girl in the audience who had ever been called into the principal's office for yet another futile round of ''life style correction'' measures.

Cher: Yes? No? (Check Only One)

LEAD: Dr. Phog Allen had a saying that he used whenever a young assistant tried to convince him that this new wrinkle or that would be great innovation for Kansas University basketball.

TAR HEELS STOP LOYOLA, 123-97

LEAD: In a one-time resort now being transformed into a bedroom community, Henry V. Vaccaro is hedging his bets. Along with the first hotel to be built in Ocean Grove, N.J, in 50 years, Mr. Vaccaro plans 14 town-house condominiums. The combination resort-and-conference hotel will have 168 rooms and Victorian architecture.

POSTINGS: By the Sea; Hotel and Town Houses

LEAD: The destruction of the earth's protective ozone layer, set in motion by the release of industrial gases into the atmosphere, will continue for decades despite the best efforts of governments and industries to control it, scientists now agree.

Treaty Powerless to Stem A Growing Loss of Ozone

LEAD: IN the late 1950's, when Bruna Odello and her family first contemplated development of part of their 284-acre artichoke farm at the mouth of the Carmel River, they envisioned 1,844 single-family homes on 134 acres. The remaining acreage would stay as farmland.

FOCUS: Monterey;
Safeguards For a Land Of Beauty

LEAD: A LOCAL manufacturer is still reeling from the shock of the rejection by the Knox County Commission of its proposal to build 225 mobile homes on 50 acres, with tennis courts, a swimming pool and other amenities.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Knoxville, Tenn.;
Mobile Homes: No Showplace

INSIDE

LEAD: WHEN Jacques Calvet, chairman of the Peugeot automobile group, joined the company in 1982, it was in shambles. It lost $300 million that year, its market share in Europe was plummeting and many analysts said bankruptcy was just around the corner.

Peugeot Alive and Going Global

LEAD: The Running Rams of Rhode Island came into their first National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament in a decade believing they could run with anybody. After a desperation 3-pointer by Earl Duncan, the Syracuse guard, bounced off the rim at the buzzer today, the East Regional's 11th-seeded team had proven it did indeed belong among the nation's elite.

Rhode Island Bounces Syracuse, 97-94

Special Today; Men's Fashions/Magazine, Part 2.

Political Memo; Momentum Eludes Democrats, One by One

LEAD: THE developers of a new inn near the Killington ski resort believe that as skiers get older they will be looking for luxury on ski vacations, and will spend to get it. That thought has inspired the development of The Inn of the Six Mountains, which is expected to open in May.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Sherburne, Vt.;
A Condo Hotel On the Slopes

LEAD: THE United States Postal Service is well on its way to acquiring the 33 acres adjacent to the Westchester County Airport on which it wants to build a $100 million mail distribution center.

Post Office Acts to Acquire Airport Site

LEAD: Rebuffing the Reagan Administration, Panama's military leader, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, has rejected an American offer to let him leave the country without facing extradition to the United States on drug charges, senior Administration officials said today.

NORIEGA REBUFFS U.S. ON AN OFFER TO LEAVE PANAMA

LEAD: WHEN University Circle, a management group, initially agreed with this city in 1974 to lease five acres near Case Western Reserve University, the idea was to create interest in the property among private developers.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Cleveland; Reversing Disinvestment

The Eritrean War of Independence was an armed conflict and insurgency aimed at achieving self-determination and independence for Eritrea from Ethiopian rule. Starting in 1961, Eritrean insurgents engaged in guerrilla warfare to liberate Eritrea Province from the control of the Ethiopian Empire under Haile Selassie and later the Derg under Mengistu. Their efforts ultimately succeeded in 1991 with the fall of the Derg regime.

Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.

March 20, 1988

Headlines from March 20, 1988

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THE PROMISED LAND OF LITERATURE

Honduran Air Force Planes Bomb Nicaragua Positions Along Border

POSTINGS: Where Brownstones Stood; A Tall Tower

THE MARSHALL PLAN

Billboard 200

Dirty Dancing

Faith

Kick

Bad

Tiffany

Historical Events

Historical Context for March 20, 1988