LEAD: Almost invisible inside one of the thousands of bright green coca fields that cover the Upper Huallaga Valley in Peru is a tiny brown plot with dead plants that represents the United States' latest hope of winning the war against cocaine.

In War on Coca, U.S. Weapon Is Bogged Down in a Dispute

LEAD: The nation's Roman Catholic bishops voted today to leave in place a controversial document about AIDS, but they acknowledged that it had shortcomings and agreed to work on a further statement of policy.

Catholic Bishops Vote to Retain Controversial Statement on AIDS

LEAD: The Supreme Court upheld a Wisconsin town's restrictions on picketing in a case pitting free speech rights against residential privacy. At issue was the right of abortion foes to protest outside a doctor's home. Page 18.

Picketing Restriction Upheld

LEAD: The board of the Fort Howard Corporation, the giant maker of paper products, said yesterday that it had agreed to sell the company to a group led by senior management for $53 a share, or $3.57 billion.

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LEAD: The Carnation Company said yesterday that it would introduce an infant formula that relieves symptoms of milk allergy in babies - symptoms such as intestinal disorders, insomnia, skin rashes and other discomfort.

A Safer Infant Formula Promised

LEAD: The noon rush had subsided, and the talk at the Iberia Restaurant turned to how the Portuguese immigrants who make up the majority of residents in the Ironbound section here tend to speak almost exclusively in their native language.

In a Thriving Community, Ties That Bind Also Chafe

LEAD: In a court filing suggesting that blatant insider trading is far from dead, the Securities and Exchange Commission said yesterday that a 24-year-old junior analyst at Morgan Stanley & Company had sold confidential information on at least 25 proposed corporate takeovers.

S.E.C. Discloses Insider Scheme Worth Millions

LEAD: The Manhattan District Attorney's office has dropped manslaughter charges against two men and five teen-agers in the death of a man caught and beaten by a mob in East Harlem last March after he snatched a $20 bill from a woman in a bakery.

Charges Dropped Against 7 in Fatal Beating

LEAD: AFTER two years and more than $2 billion, the space shuttle has been completely rebuilt in a process involving hundreds of changes to key systems and support gear. Experts say they believe the winged spaceship is safer than ever and nearly ready to fly, but they note that the multitude of design changes, never before tested in flight, introduce new risks of their own.

New Shuttle: Hundreds of Safety Changes Also Add Risks

LEAD: Even before Sunday's crash in eastern France of one of its A320 jetliners, Airbus Industrie, the European airplane consortium, was having serious problems.

Crash Just the Latest Of Airbus's Troubles

LEAD: The dollar continued its rally yesterday before retreating slightly in the face of reports of Federal Reserve intervention and some profit taking.

Fed Is Said To Act Amid Dollar Rally

LEAD:  THE ECONOMY  The Supreme Court gave military and other contractors broad immunity against liability for deaths and injuries caused by negligently designed equipment. The 5-to-4 decision was a major victory for contractors. Three dissenters accused the majority of ''absolving multibillion-dollar private enterprises from answering for their tragic mistakes.

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD:  Plot Against Pope Reported  As Pope John Paul II ended his Austrian tour, a news report said a new plot by Turkish extremists to assassinate the Pope had been foiled in Vienna. Page A6.  Strike Ends in Soviet Union  On the eve of a national Communist Party conference, residents of a disputed southern Soviet region ended a monthlong general strike.

INSIDE

LEAD: It used to be, well, different to talk to Andrew J. Stein. Other politicians would bob, weave and obfuscate about their ambitions, but not Andrew Stein. What's wrong with being ambitious, he used to say. Or, sure, I want to President - why not? Or, yes, I may run for governor or for senator or for whatever, whenever.

Stein, Once Politics' Bad Boy, Is Putting on a New Face

LEAD: New Yorkers - an overwhelming share of whites and a solid majority of blacks - say Tawana Brawley's mother and advisers have not handled her case responsibly and that the advisers are using it ''for their own personal advantage,'' according to a New York Times/WCBS-TV News Poll.

Blacks and Whites, in a Survey, Are Critical of Brawley Advisers

LEAD: Baby Tess Maye was born prematurely. Her grandmother believes it was because the baby's father beat the baby's mother during pregnancy.

Our Towns; Foster Families Feel the Anguish Of a Girl's Death

LEAD: WHEN Timmy drinks orange juice he has no problem. But Timmy is just one of close to a dozen personalities who alternate control over a patient with multiple personality disorder. And if those other personalities drink orange juice, the result is a case of hives.

Probing the Enigma of Multiple Personality

LEAD: Although this part of northern Nicaragua is still at relative peace, sporadic gunfights have broken out between contra and Sandinista Government patrols in recent days, and residents fear the three-month-old cease-fire may be falling apart.

NICARAGUAN TRUCE BEGINNING TO FRAY

LEAD: The Supreme Court, by 5 to 4, voted today to give military and other Government contractors broad immunity against liability for deaths and injuries to service members and others caused by negligently designed equipment, ranging from fighter aircraft to mail trucks.

JUSTICES, 5-4, GIVE U.S. CONTRACTORS LIABILITY IMMUNITY

LEAD: The Senate today defeated the last major Republican effort to derail a a bill that would force companies to give advance notice of factory closings or large-scale layoffs.

Republican Alternative Bill On Plant Closings Defeated

LEAD: Prices of all grains, soybeans, oilseed products and cotton soared to their allowable limits yesterday as the weekend brought no relief to the nation's drought-seared croplands.

Crop Prices Advance by Daily Limit

LEAD: Completely rebuilt with hundreds of changes to im-prove performance and safety, the space shuttle Discovery is nearly ready to be rolled to the launching pad for the first shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster more than two years ago.

New Shuttle Is Readied for Launching Pad

LEAD: A veteran administrator of the City University system was chosen yesterday to become president of Hunter College, one of the most academically prestigious branches of the City University of New York. And in a second, surprising appointment, a Harvard scholar and internationally known explorer was named the new president of Medgar Evers College, a small and troubled community college in central

CUNY Names New Leaders Of 2 Colleges

LEAD: FISHING in some of the strangest waters on earth, where cracks in the ocean floor vent hot, mineral-rich water, marine biologists have landed such bizarre specimens as giant clams and crabs and tube worms six feet long. The creatures thrive in a dark environment where chemicals leeching into the seawater support a whole chain of living organisms that get along without sunlight.

At Sea Vent 8,000 Feet Deep, One Fish Didn't Get Away

LEAD: The tiny Persian Gulf sheikdom of Qatar, which has traditionally sought good relations with the United States, is defying the Reagan Administration by refusing to turn over American-made Stinger missiles that it bought on the black market.

June 28, 1988

Headlines from June 28, 1988

In War on Coca, U.S. Weapon Is Bogged Down in a Dispute

Catholic Bishops Vote to Retain Controversial Statement on AIDS

Picketing Restriction Upheld

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A Safer Infant Formula Promised

Billboard 200

OU812

Faith

Hysteria

Open Up And Say...Ahh!

Dirty Dancing

Historical Context for June 28, 1988