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LEAD: Stubble covered his face and exhaustion was written around his eyes as Lech Walesa spoke to the shipyard workers whom a Government propagandist derides as ''Walesa's teen-agers.''

Young and Wary Strikers Take Solace From Walesa

LEAD: Poland's Roman Catholic bishops today denounced the Government's use of force to end the strike at a major steel complex near Cracow.

BISHOPS DENOUNCE WARSAW FOR USING FORCE ON STRIKERS

LEAD: Vice President Bush conceded publicly for the first time today that he was ''troubled by some of these allegations'' of ethical impropriety surrounding Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d. He said Mr. Meese's fate should depend on the findings of a special Federal prosecutor.

BUSH IS TROUBLED BY ISSUES RAISED ON MEESE'S ETHICS

LEAD: Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir today ordered the deportation of a Palestinian-American who has advocated nonviolent resistance in the Israeli-occupied territories. The United States strongly objected to the move.

ISRAEL TO DEPORT AN ARAB-AMERICAN

LEAD: The nation's unemployment rate fell a tenth of a point last month to 5.4 percent, the lowest since 1974, as the proportion of the population with jobs hit a record, the Labor Department reported today.

Unemployment Shows a Decline To 14-Year Low

LEAD: Bolstered by advances in its own technology, India is proceeding with an ambitious nuclear energy program requiring the storage of tons of plutonium of potential use for nuclear weapons in installations without international safeguards, according to Indian officials.

INDIA'S NUCLEAR ENERGY POLICY RAISES NEW DOUBTS ON ARMS

LEAD: The dawn of the new century may come as a shock to thousands of computers around the world. Programs that record years in two digits and know no time but the 1900's may be stymied by the year 2000.

For Computers, the Year 2000 May Prove a Bit Traumatic

LEAD: A mortar shell exploded among British troops on maneuvers today, killing a soldier and wounding 16, a military spokesman said.

Blast Kills Briton in Cyprus

LEAD: Britain's governing Conservatives weathered a test for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Government today, maintaining its strength in local elections. The opposition Labor Party made gains.

Tories Hold Their Own In Local British Voting

LEAD:  INTERNATIONAL 2-6, 28  Poland's bishops denounced the Government's use of force to end the strike at a major steel complex near Cracow. The decision to use force indicated divisions in the Polish Communist leadership. Page 1  Lech Walesa spoke to young strikers at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk as riot police massed outside the gates.

NEWS SUMMARY

LEAD: Both the Sandinista Government and union leaders claimed victory today after protesting construction workers called off a 10-day hunger strike.

Workers in Nicaragua End Fast, With Both Sides Claiming Victory

LEAD: ''I know him. I know him well. I know him favorably but I must say I'm troubled by some of these allegations. But I think fair play dictates that the system go forward and make the determination.'' - Vice President Bush, on Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d.  [ 1:2. ]

Quotation of the Day

LEAD: Deep and possibly momentous fissures are opening within France's loosely united rightist parliamentary majority as President Francois Mitterrand, a Socialist, remains a heavy favorite in Sunday's presidential election.

Election Could Splinter the French Right

LEAD: A Media Business article in Business Day on Thursday about New York City's tabloid newspapers misstated New York Newsday's circulation in Brooklyn and Manhattan. It is about 37,000 in each borough.

CORRECTION

LEAD: A recently released French hostage was quoted today as saying American hostages in Lebanon were treated brutally because they had tried to escape.

Americans Were Treated Brutally, Freed Frenchman Reportedly Says

LEAD: Two days before France's presidential election, Prime Minister Jacques Chirac infuriated New Zealand's Government today by summoning home a secret agent convicted of sabotaging an environmentalist group's ship. France had agreed that the agent would be held on an obscure Pacific island until July 1989.

France Letting Ship Saboteur Return

LEAD: A picture caption in Business Day on Thursday with an article about an American-Japanese trade dispute misidentified Japan's Farm Minister.

LEAD: Because of an editing error, an article on Thursday about the release of three French hostages in Lebanon misstated the occupation of one of them. The former hostage, Jean-Paul Kauffmann, is a journalist for a French weekly magazine, L'Evenement du Jeudi.

Correction

LEAD: A leading member of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's party proposed today that West German planes be outfitted with American nuclear-tipped missiles to demonstrate the solidarity of the NATO alliance after the new missile treaty.

Kohl Aide Is Asking U.S. Atom Missiles For German Planes

LEAD: A West German company accused by Norway of diverting a chemical used in nuclear reactors acknowledged today that the shipment had gone to Switzerland rather than West Germany. But the company insisted that Norway knew of the change and that no laws were violated.

Heavy-Water Transfer Defended

LEAD: Secretary of State George P. Shultz may make another trip to the Middle East in June in a further effort to promote Arab-Israeli peace talks, a United States official said today.

Shultz May Fly to Mideast In June for More Peace Talks

LEAD: They call him Mr. Rambo. He roams the chambers of the nation's legislature, smashing microphones, jumping on desks, and shouting at his 80-year-old antagonists and fellow lawmakers.

Taipei Journal; A Rambo Tries to Beat Life Into Dying Legislature

LEAD: President Najibullah of Afghanistan today appealed to ''moderates'' among the Afghan insurgents to join his Government. But he asserted that even after Soviet troops withdraw, the Afghan Army could easily defeat the guerrillas on the battlefield.

AFGHAN CHIEF COURTS GUERRILLA MODERATES AND ISSUES WARNING

LEAD: Rival Shiite Moslem factions fought running gun battles today in the streets of southern Beirut as Palestinian guerrillas fought among themselves in a nearby refugee district. The authorities reported that 27 people died in the two battles, which did not appear to be related.

May 7, 1988

Headlines from May 7, 1988

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Young and Wary Strikers Take Solace From Walesa

BISHOPS DENOUNCE WARSAW FOR USING FORCE ON STRIKERS

BUSH IS TROUBLED BY ISSUES RAISED ON MEESE'S ETHICS

ISRAEL TO DEPORT AN ARAB-AMERICAN

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