LEAD: Two Justice Department officials acknowledged today that the department is investigating two Democratic members of the House of Representatives who are involved in military procurement issues, as part of a major Federal inquiry into bribery and fraud at the Pentagon.

2 House Members Are Mentioned In Pentagon Bribery Investigation

INSIDE

LEAD: A lack of leadership and a poorly trained work force are weakening the Environmental Protection Agency's effort to clean up the nation's hazardous waste sites, a study performed by a research arm of Congress said today.

CONGRESS REPORT FAULTS U.S. DRIVE ON WASTE CLEANUP

LEAD: When local newspapers announced the names of Moscow delegates to the coming national Communist Party conference, many residents of the Kirov district were distressed to learn that one of the Communists representing them would be Anatoly S. Ivanov, a conservative editor.

In the Gantlet of Democracy, A Soviet Editor Takes Knocks

LEAD: As President Reagan and the leaders of six other nations gather for an economic conference in Toronto on Sunday, economists say the world economy has rarely looked so healthy and needs little of the tinkering that countries sometimes attempt at such meetings.

WORLD'S ECONOMY HELD SOUND ON EVE OF SUMMIT TALKS

LEAD: Hanna Mandelgeim's Jewish friends in Leningrad tried their best to talk her out of moving to Israel earlier this year.

Israel Feels Growing Anguish As Immigration Flow Falters

LEAD: Five Costa Rican fishermen reached Honolulu yesterday after spending what they said was nearly five months adrift on the Pacific Ocean in a disabled 30-foot boat, surviving on rainwater, turtles and fish.

A Sea Tale: Adrift 5 Months, 3,600 Miles

LEAD: Haiti's civilian President, Leslie F. Manigat, tonight announced the dismissal of the army commander, Lieut. Gen. Henri Namphy, who had been instrumental in bringing Mr. Manigat to power four months ago.

Haiti's Chief, Citing Disobedience, Dismisses the Head of the Military

LEAD: Federal officials have proposed regulations that would require hospitals with emergency rooms to examine all patients who seek treatment, and to treat all those suffering medical emergencies and all women in labor, regardless of their ability to pay.

U.S. Seeks to Require Treatment Of All Hospital Emergency Case

LEAD: More than two years after taking office on a platform that emphasized human rights, the Government of President Corazon C. Aquino has increasingly been accused of condoning violations of those principles.

Aquino Said to Condone Human Rights Abuses

LEAD: ''We don't praise Stalin for killing millions of people. The party has condemned his mistakes and crimes. At the same time, I think that this man was not just a one-sided figure, as people write so often these days.''  - Anatoly S. Ivanov, conservative Soviet editor.  [ 4:2. ]

Quotation of the Day

LEAD: For the last two weeks, three planes have regularly sprayed thousands of gallons of water and detergent into the smog cap hanging over Santiago in a much-ridiculed effort to reduce air pollution.

Chile Takes Soap and Water To a Stubborn Cloud of Smog

LEAD:  International 2-5, 28  The world economy is healthy as President Reagan and six other heads of state meet for an economic summit meeting in Toronto. Economists say the seven leaders will need to do little tinkering. Page 1  Muscovites hectored a comrade, a conservative editor, at a meeting called after they learned he would represent their district at the coming national Communist Party conference.

NEWS SUMMARY

LEAD: President Joaquin Balaguer dismissed his Defense Secretary today after rumors circulated Thursday night that the armed forces were preparing a coup on the Caribbean island.

Dominican General Is Removed From Post

LEAD: Because of a mechanical error, the final section of an art review in Weekend yesterday, about group shows, included scrambled passages. The affected section is reprinted today on page 10.

Correction

LEAD: Six Zimbabweans are facing trial here on charges of carrying out a seven-year campaign of bombings and assassination attempts on behalf of South Africa.

Trial in Zimbabwe Points to Pretoria

LEAD: In his first move against Brazil's powerful military establishment, President Jose Sarney dismissed the Chief of Staff of the armed forces today after the officer criticized the Government's economic policy.

Brazilian Leader Dismisses a Top Officer

LEAD: The building is traditional on the outside, red brick and slate-roofed, but inside it looks like one of Japan's futuristic factories. Automated machine tools and one-armed robots are lined up in neat rows, each with its own blinking computer screen, drilling, plucking and whirring purposefully.

Harrow Journal; High Tech for the Old Boys of the 80's

LEAD: The first teams of United Nations aid and development experts are expected to enter Afghanistan next month to begin rebuilding the economy and caring for returning refugees, the coordinator of relief operations says.

U.N. Teams Will Enter Afghan Areas

LEAD: The legislature of the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan voted today not to give up a region that the neighboring Armenian Republic has voted to annex.

Deadlock for Armenian Dispute

LEAD: A Federal magistrate in Brooklyn ruled yesterday that a naturalized United States citizen accused of taking part in a terrorist attack on a passenger bus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in 1986 could not be extradited to Israel.

Federal Judge Rules Against Extradition Of Suspect to Israel

LEAD: A Palestinian was killed today and several others were injured when villagers in the West Bank tried to prevent soldiers from destroying the home of an Arab accused in a series of killings, the Israeli Army said.

Israeli Troops Kill Arab Protesting Razing of Home on the West Bank

LEAD: Britain today ordered the expulsion of an Israeli diplomat after discovering that Mossad, the Israeli secret service, ran a double-agent intelligence operation here directed against Palestinian terrorists.

Britain Orders Israeli Diplomat to Leave

LEAD: Demonstrators protesting the death of an imprisoned Basque separatist guerrilla blocked roads and rail lines and set fire to train cars and a bus today, the police said. The protests were called to observe the funeral of Juan Carlos Alderbi, 30 years old, who had been serving a 16-year term for the attempted murder of a policeman.

Spanish Basques Protest

LEAD: President Reagan intends to nominate Carl Copeland Cundiff, a career Foreign Service officer, to be Ambassador to Niger, the White House announced Thursday. Mr. Cundiff, 47 years old, entered the service in 1965. Since 1986, he has directed the office of food and policy programs in the State Department's economic bureau.

U.S. Envoy to Niger Named

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Elini Dimoutsos, Greek footballer

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June 18, 1988

Headlines from June 18, 1988

2 House Members Are Mentioned In Pentagon Bribery Investigation

INSIDE

CONGRESS REPORT FAULTS U.S. DRIVE ON WASTE CLEANUP

In the Gantlet of Democracy, A Soviet Editor Takes Knocks

WORLD'S ECONOMY HELD SOUND ON EVE OF SUMMIT TALKS

Billboard 200

Faith

Open Up And Say...Ahh!

Hysteria

Dirty Dancing

OU812

Notable Births

Historical Context for June 18, 1988