June 20, 1988

LEAD: Caspar W. Weinberger, former Secretary of Defense, said today he was disturbed by reports of widespread bribery among Pentagon officials, acknowledging that the Defense Department may not have been sufficiently vigilant against fraud during his years at the Pentagon.

LEAD: Somewhere in New York City, perhaps in the modest house where he and his wife live pseudonymously, David Greenglass must have paused a moment yesterday to ponder the day, precisely 35 years ago, when his sister and brother-in-law died in the electric chair, largely as a result of his testimony.

LEAD: The nation's community and junior colleges, sometimes dismissed as the poor relations of higher education, are carving a new role for themselves delivering customized job training and technical education to manufacturers and businesses in their towns.

LEAD: President Reagan and the leaders of six other industrialized democracies began their economic summit meeting today with a three-hour session that turned into a celebration of the improvements in the economic climate among the participating nations in recent years.

LEAD: The hands of the Palestinian taxi driver, Shakir Hamid, were covered with brown paint. An hour earlier he had driven into town with a fare, when Israeli soldiers stopped his cab and made him get out.