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LEAD: Dr. Victor Zakkay of New York University is an internationally known researcher of pressurized fluidized bed combustion, a new coal-burning technology that many feel may be the cleanest, most economical way for utilities to produce electricity in this country in the next 20 years. His pilot plant here is the largest in the nation burning coal using this method.

Our Towns; Scientist's Vision: Carrying Coals To Shoreham

LEAD: In sharp opposition to a Reagan Administration position, the chairman of the President's AIDS commission today called for strong new Federal laws and directives to prevent discrimination against people who carry the AIDS virus.

AIDS PANEL'S CHIEF URGES BAN ON BIAS AGAINST INFECTED

LEAD: Matthew Baptiste came to New York City from Grenada in 1979, working in a bank and at printing jobs, saving his money and making plans. Nine months ago, in a one-room storefront on Rutland Road in Brooklyn, Mr. Baptiste opened the Vanguard Printing shop, producing business cards, wedding invitations and fliers for reggae, calypso and other concerts.

Caribbean Verve Brightens New York

LEAD: Carl C. Icahn told more than 300 analysts and Texaco shareholders yesterday that he could easily raise the $14.22 billion needed for his ambitious $60-a-share proposal to take over the nation's third-largest oil company. But analysts in the audience continued to show the skepticism that has held the stock near $50 a share even after the $60 bid.

Icahn in Appeal to Wary Analysts

LEAD: As Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega grows visibly more self-confident and assured, a population that no longer underestimates him counts the cost of the American failure to oust him: a sinking economy that is further undermining a cowed political opposition.

Growing Chorus in Panama: When in Doubt, Blame U.S.

LEAD: ONE of the requirements for being a cabaret singer in a rock-and-roll world is a stubborn faith in the durability of styles of music often dismissed as nostalgia. When Mary Cleere Haran, one the most talented younger-than-40 cabaret singers in the country, was growing up in San Francisco, she found herself surrounded by long-haired flower children who had flocked to the city, lured by the hippie culture and the siren song of psychedelic rock.

Pop/Jazz; 2 Singers, 2 Styles, But It's All Cabaret At the Ballroom

LEAD: Stock prices sagged yesterday as the Dow Jones industrial average fell 11.56 points to close at 2,052.45.

Dow Falls 11.56 to End 2-Day Rally

LEAD: While acknowledging that the Moscow summit talks produced ''peanuts'' in the way of practical agreements, White House officials today portrayed the meeting as a success because it continued to stabilize the relationship between Moscow and Washington.

Summit Wasn't the World Series, U.S. Says, but Was Still a Success

LEAD: In a sudden, surprising retreat from its diversification outside of the railroad business, Burlington Northern Inc. yesterday disclosed a plan that could lead to the spinoff of its energy resources operations.

Burlington Northern's Spinoff Plan

LEAD: At the summit talks this week, Mikhail S. Gorbachev found in President Reagan a useful partner and foil for furthering his own foreign and domestic interests.

Gorbachev Used Reagan's Visit to Bolster His Position Before Big Party Conference

LEAD: At a news conference in Buffalo recently, Robert R. McMillan, the Republican who on Wednesday announced his candidacy for United States Senator, noticed a young woman who was taking notes but had not been introduced to him. He marched up to her and eagerly extended his hand. Was she covering the race for a local newspaper, he wondered.

David Beat Goliath, Moynihan's Challenger Points Out

LEAD: For 20 years, the Sullivanians have been a quiet presence in Manhattan - a collective whose 200 members live together in three buildings on the Upper West Side and run the Fourth Wall Repertory Company, a political theater group in the East Village.

Custody Case Lifts Veil On a 'Psychotherapy Cult'

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: A Government-appointed committee recommended today that foreign and corporate brokers, as well as business executives, should have a greater role in running Hong Kong's young, notoriously unconventional stock market.

Panel Urges Hong Kong Stock Reform

LEAD: Mayor Koch and a developer unveiled a new, scaled-down plan for Columbus Circle yesterday featuring shorter, thinner towers that will cast less of a shadow on Central Park and, they clearly hoped, on the disputed project's future.

A New Plan Is Presented For Coliseum

LEAD: With exports rising, some factories have been having trouble keeping up with orders, leading to a handful of shortages and some price increases. But all the recent Government and industry data indicate that the scarcities are the exception and will not result in higher inflation in the immediate future.

Demand Up? Plants Can Take It

LEAD: Six months ago, this was just another anonymous spot in the Negev, home only to lizards, scorpions and hellish heat that often inches up toward 120 degrees. Now more than 2,000 Palestinians who have not been charged with a crime, given a hearing or even told what offense they committed spend their days here sitting under tents in a desert prison, swatting at flies and growing increasingly angry.

In Desolate Israeli Desert, 2,000 Prisoners 'Just Sit'

LEAD: The publisher of Consumer Reports called on the Federal Government yesterday to recall the Suzuki Samurai, a four-wheel-drive vehicle that the magazine said was prone to roll over if maneuvered quickly to avoid an accident.

Consumer Group Asks Recall Of Suzuki Samurai as Unsafe

LEAD: The Government said today that special inspections of Eastern Airlines had found its flights to be operating safely but that discord between labor and management could ultimately pose flight hazards.

EASTERN AIRLINES AND CONTINENTAL ARE TERMED SAFE

INSIDE

LEAD: IN the kind of urban flowering so common and so peculiar to Manhattan - where the worlds of art and real estate often meet, where a mixture of low rents and high ceilings can catalyze a flood of commerce and creativity - a section of lower Broadway has become the city's fastest-growing art neighborhood.

It's LoBro in SoHo As Latest Magnet for Art

LEAD: The Soviet Union has removed 10,000 soldiers from Afghanistan since it began its withdrawal May 15 and shows no sign of slowing the pace despite its threats to do so, according to United Nations officials monitoring the pullout.

Soviet Says Pakistan Broke Afghan Withdrawal Accord

LEAD: The tobacco industry concluded its defense in the Rose Cipollone smoking trial today with lawyers for the Lorillard Corporation and Philip Morris telling jurors that their companies had not misled Mrs. Cipollone by claiming cigarette smoking was safe.

Tobacco Lawyers Say Smoker Was Not Misled

LEAD:  INTERNATIONAL A2-11  The U.S. failure in Panama to oust Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega has left a sinking economy that is further undermining a cowed political opposition while the general is increasingly self-confident and assured. Page A1

June 3, 1988

Headlines from June 3, 1988

WEEKENDER GUIDE

Our Towns; Scientist's Vision: Carrying Coals To Shoreham

AIDS PANEL'S CHIEF URGES BAN ON BIAS AGAINST INFECTED

Caribbean Verve Brightens New York

Icahn in Appeal to Wary Analysts

Billboard 200

Faith

Dirty Dancing

Open Up And Say...Ahh!

Bad

Savage Amusement

Historical Context for June 3, 1988