LEAD: After a 14-year slide, New York's Republicans are in the grip of a malaise that has brought the party to its lowest point since the Democrats held absolute sway over state politics in the 1930's.

New York Republicans: A Decline Into the Doldrums

LEAD: Genentech Inc. said today that it had received a broad patent for purified tissue plasminogen activator, or TPA, a drug that is becoming the first major product made with genetic engineering.

Genentech Gets Patent For Drug for Blood Clots

LEAD: The Federal Home Loan Bank Board is close to completing a deal that would eventually permit a large savings institution in Phoenix to acquire a number of insolvent Texas savings and loan associations, savings industry officials said today.

NEW TACK IS SEEN IN SAVINGS CRISIS

LEAD: ST. HELENA, Calif., June 21 - Paying $13,000 for $4,000 worth of wine made Robert C. Powell an instant celebrity here Saturday. Mr. Powell, a developer from Sacramento and a recent arrival in the Napa Valley, successfully bid that amount for a barrel of 1988 Domaine Mumm sparkling wine at the eighth annual Napa Valley Wine

Sold to the Bidder: Just $13,000 a Barrel, But Who's Counting?

LEAD: Representative Dan M. Rostenkowski, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, today proposed scaling back the tax advantages of a variety of insurance products and increasing the tax burden on military contractors.

ROSTENKOWSKI OFFERS TAX CHANGES

LEAD: The price of a 32-pound bushel of oats was bid up to a record $3.18 on Midwestern commodity exchanges yesterday as a devastating drought continued to grip the Grain Belt.

Futures/Options; Drought Pushes Oat Prices to Record High

Business Digest

LEAD: Monday evening, as the air became thick and an orange gob of a sun slid down the sky, there came from Riverside Park at 108th Street the sound of music not quite right. To be frank, it sounded like the sort of music somebody might play preparatory to parboiling a missionary. Soon it began to draw investigators from the neighborhood.

About New York; Rites of Solstice: Dancing, Poetry And Immersion

LEAD: The long-delayed plan to redevelop Times Square took an important step off the drawing board yesterday as New York City and State officials announced that they had signed detailed development agreements for four office towers, to be built at two intersections of 42d Street.

Key Step Taken in Times Sq. Redevelopment

LEAD: OTHER people can charm the clothes off your back. Bill Blass can charm them right onto you.

On the Fashion Road With Bill Blass

LEAD: Brazil said it had reached an accord with foreign bankers that would cut the interest on $62 billion debt and provide a fresh loan. Page D1.

Brazil Reports Debt Pact

LEAD: Democratic and Liberal Party leaders yesterday disavowed the candidacy of the Bronx District Attorney, Paul T. Gentile, and began searching for a new candidate to seek the Democratic nomination in the Sept. 15 primary.

Party Leaders In Bronx Turn From Gentile

LEAD: THE dining predilections of famous ghouls and monsters is one field of gastronomic research that has yet to be mined. Frankenstein, in at least one movie, dug into a bowl of stew when he stopped at a blind man's house. Dracula's eccentric drinking habits are well documented, although he never showed much interest in stick-to-the-ribs Transylvanian cuisine.

DINING OUT With Michael Crawford; Feeding the Phantom's Appetites

LEAD: AT 8 o'clock on a warm spring morning, all is quiet in the central farmers' market in Tbilisi, capital of the Soviet Republic of Georgia. Vendors are still arranging their pyramids of hot peppers; sprinkling water on the bunches of deep green tarragon and relishing a few more bites of freshly made puri, the flat bread that is served with every meal.

A Bazaar of Exotic Flavors Spices Life in Soviet Georgia

LEAD: An anonymous man, outbidding a voice on a telephone line to the Christie's East auction house, paid $165,000 yesterday for a rather dowdy pair of crimson low-heel shoes, size 5B, which experts say pinched the feet of their owner.

Price for 'Oz' Shoes Is Over the Rainbow

LEAD: After two decades of periodic attempts to overhaul a welfare system under which generations of poor Americans have lived unproductive lives on the dole, change suddenly appears within reach.

The Welfare Consensus

LEAD: Two weeks after it appeared hopelessly mired, the Tawana Brawley mystery has taken another turn, landing the family's three advisers in the center of accusations that they have been perpetuating a hoax.

Accusations About Advisers Transform the Brawley Case

LEAD: Even before the Federal investigation of possible fraud and bribery in military procurement reached the doorstep of the McDonnell Douglas Corporation last week, John F. McDonnell, the company's new chairman and chief executive, had plenty to worry about.

Inquiry Latest Blow to McDonnell

LEAD: At least half the wheat, barley and oat crops in the northern Great Plains have been lost as heat and drought gain a tighter grip on the nation's farmland.

Half of Wheat, Barley and Oats In Northern Plains Lost to Drought

LEAD: Reaffirming their confidence that the world economy is looking uncommonly robust, the leaders of the seven biggest industrial democracies agreed today to a variety of measures to keep the growth going.

7 SUMMIT LEADERS AGREE ON POLICIES TO FOSTER GROWTH

INSIDE

LEAD: Half the nation's schoolchildren have no cavities or other tooth decay in a continuation of gains that health officials say could mean the virtual end of dental disease as a major public health problem, a new Federal survey released today shows.

Survey Finds Sharp Drop In Tooth Decay in Young

LEAD: The Consumer Price Index rose three-tenths of 1 percent in May, the second straight month in which it has slowed. Page D1.

Good Sign on Inflation

LEAD: Representative Bill Chappell Jr., the chairman of the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee, said today that press reports naming him as a target in the investigation of weapons procurement fraud were based on lies and were fueled by election-year politics.

Rep. Chappell Says Lies Are Used to Tie Him to Investigation

LEAD: Television can do strange things to a man out here in the hardwood hinterlands of northern Fairfield County. Particularly, big-dish 300-channel satellite TV.

You See, a Neighbor's Tree Blocked a TV Channel...

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June 22, 1988

Headlines from June 22, 1988

New York Republicans: A Decline Into the Doldrums

Genentech Gets Patent For Drug for Blood Clots

NEW TACK IS SEEN IN SAVINGS CRISIS

Sold to the Bidder: Just $13,000 a Barrel, But Who's Counting?

ROSTENKOWSKI OFFERS TAX CHANGES

Billboard 200

OU812

Faith

Hysteria

Open Up And Say...Ahh!

Dirty Dancing

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for June 22, 1988