LEAD: The dollar continued to lose ground to the Japanese yen and other major currencies yesterday, although the Bank of Japan and Federal Reserve reportedly moved again to support it.

Dollar Continues To Decline

LEAD: Pact May Allow Exotic Arms The treaty on medium- and shorter-range missiles may allow each side to field futuristic arms, a Senate report says. Page A3.  Israel Agrees on Inquiry  The Israeli Government, ending a year of negotiations, says it will cooperate with the special prosecutor in the Iran-contra affair.

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LEAD: Soon after WPP Group acquired Lord, Geller, Federico, Einstein last July, Richard J. Lord, the agency's chairman and chief executive, approached Young & Rubicam about buying his firm or providing financing so that its managers could buy it, according to papers filed yesterday in State Supreme Court.

Young & Rubicam Discloses Lengthy Talks on Lord Deal

LEAD: Panamanian troops and plainclothesmen swept into a luxury hotel in the capital tonight, seizing opposition supporters and more than a dozen journalists, five of them Americans.

Panama Troops Storm a Hotel To Arrest Foes

LEAD: Japanese leaders today rejected United States demands that they remove all quotas on beef and citrus imports, but they left the door open for possible concessions as negotiations with Washington reached a conclusive phase.

Japan Keeps Beef and Citrus Quotas

LEAD: In an unusual application of state law, a Brooklyn judge yesterday ordered a convicted heroin dealer dealer to pay more than $2 million in restitution, with the money to be used to support drug rehabilitation programs in New York City.

DEALER MUST PAY TO TREAT ADDICTS

LEAD: Average global temperatures in the 1980's are the highest measured since reliable records were first kept over 130 years ago, according to reports now coming in from scientists around the world.

Temperature For World Rises Sharply In the 1980's

LEAD: As the takeover war for Federated Department Stores Inc. entered its 10th week, the retailer's directors moved yesterday to bring the bidding contest between the Campeau Corporation and R.H. Macy & Company to an end by tomorrow.

Federated Moves to End Bidding War

BUSINESS DIGEST: TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1988

LEAD: The Rev. Jesse Jackson's rivals for the Democratic Presidential nomination were grappling today with a problem they never expected to face: How to deal with Mr. Jackson not as a power broker, but as a formidable opponent, and how to do so while avoiding attacks on Mr. Jackson that could tear their party apart.

Jackson Rivals Confront Problem Of How to Campaign Against Him

LEAD: When group homes first came to Long Island, they were mainly in the middle of the Island and the South Shore, where housing was less expensive. Had this continued, it could have led to a ghetto of group homes. So four years ago, the Association for Children with Learning Disabilities - a nonprofit agency with 15 community residences - planned its first home for retarded adults on the Gold Coast of the North Shore, at 312 Melbourne Road in Great Neck's Russell

Our Towns; Ordinary People: Retarded Adults Move Next Door

LEAD: Anthony Gaynor stands at the forefront of one of Britain's most promising industries of the future - the past.

British Find the Past Enriching

LEAD: Armenian protesters have shut factories and schools and halted rail cargo in the capital of the region that is the focus of a territorial dispute involving two southern republics, Soviet newspapers reported today.

Armenian Area in Azerbaijan Is on Strike, Moscow Reports

LEAD: EXPERTS are teasing thousand-year-old secrets from the clay whistles, ocarinas and flutes of the ancient Americas, discovering that these old musical instruments are surprisingly advanced in their construction and tonal qualities.

Complex Whistles Found to Play Key Roles in Inca and Maya Life

LEAD: MOURNING a loved one is always painful, but some people find the process more difficult than others, either becoming too distraught or holding too much emotion in. In studying these extreme reactions, researchers are coming to a sharper understanding of the normal course of mourning, and of the signs that it has gone awry.

Study of Normal Mourning Process Illuminates Grief Gone Awry

LEAD: Two years after a coalition of developers offered to build at no profit 3,000 condominium units for middle-income New Yorkers, the group is still awaiting city sites on which to build more than a third of the apartments.

Delays Plague Middle-Income Condominium Plan in New York

LEAD: A protest is being mounted to save a Metro-North rail station in the South Bronx from closing this week, but the noise is not coming from local residents, many of whom say they have no idea the train even stops in their neighborhood.

Trains End Bronx Stop: Who Cares And Why

LEAD: The Israeli Army announced tonight that it was sealing off the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip in anticipation of planned Arab demonstrations on Wednesday.

ISRAELI SOLDIERS BEGIN SEALING OFF ARAB TERRITORIES

LEAD: Asher B. Edelman, the corporate takeover entrepreneur, rarely walks away from a deal without making money. Yet when faced recently with the need to put up more capital to buttress Ponderosa, the steakhouse chain he owned, he chose to sell at no profit, walking away from a potentially lucrative deal.

An Edelman Plan That Went Awry

LEAD: Efforts by House Democratic and Republican leaders to fashion an aid package for the Nicaraguan rebels broke down tonight over Republican demands for an early vote on renewed military aid for the contras if the current truce collapses.

BIPARTISAN TALKS ON AID TO CONTRAS COLLAPSE IN HOUSE

LEAD: Here amid the tombstones of historic Kensico Cemetery, a quiet war is raging over a subject as old as civilization: the desire of men and women to leave behind some mark of their existence.

The Debate Over Style at Death's Door

LEAD: In many capitals and in the headquarters of international organizations throughout the Western world, planning has begun for what may become one of the greatest movements of people in modern times - the return of Afghan refugees to their country.

The Afghan End Game: When Millions Move

LEAD: Irked by an airline advertisement touting a way for Americans to delay paying their Federal income taxes, the Internal Revenue Service today closed a longstanding loophole in the law that gave taxpayers who managed to be out of the country on April 15 an extra two months to pay.

Gone, One Tax Loophole: Being Abroad on April 15

LEAD: In a day of angry and anguished testimony, William and Elizabeth Stern appealed today for Mary Beth Whitehead Gould to be barred for the near future from seeing Melissa Stern, the 2-year-old at the heart of the Baby M surrogacy and custody dispute.

At the Baby M Visitation Hearing, Bitter and Anguished Testimony

LEAD: Legal arguments in the nine-month trial of a day-care teacher accused of sexually abusing 20 children at a center in Maplewood ended here today.

Legal Arguments End in Jersey Child-Abuse Trial



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Maurice Blackburn, Canadian composer and conductor (born 1914)

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March 29, 1988

Headlines from March 29, 1988

Dollar Continues To Decline

INSIDE

Young & Rubicam Discloses Lengthy Talks on Lord Deal

Panama Troops Storm a Hotel To Arrest Foes

Japan Keeps Beef and Citrus Quotas

Billboard 200

Dirty Dancing

Faith

Bad

Kick

Tiffany

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for March 29, 1988