LEAD: A television commercial here shows what Japanese now see when they look at the United States. Two American workers, panting from their exertions on an assembly line, turn to each other and say, ''I guess we just can't keep up with the Japanese.'' Only when they drink a Japanese health tonic can they go on.

New Pride Changes Japan's View of U.S.

LEAD: Five classmates from a Bronx prep school set out to raise some quick cash Saturday night, the police said yesterday. Hours later, the authorities said, the foray ended tragically, when one youth was shot and fatally wounded by an off-duty policeman during a robbery attempt, and his panicked friends dumped his body in a deserted park.

Police Say Friends Dumped Youth Officer Killed in Robbery Attempt

LEAD: When savings and loan institutions fail, as hundreds of them have in recent years, government officials picking through the rubble usually have no problem identifying the cause.

Untangling a Savings Failure

LEAD: THE home for space-station astronauts that is being built here at the Marshall Space Flight Center might irk Capt. James T. Kirk, commander of the starship Enterprise in ''Star Trek.''

AN EFFICIENCY APARTMENT FOR 8 WEIGHTLESS PEOPLE

LEAD: The battle over who will be the next majority leader of the State Senate has turned into a broader struggle for control of the state's Republican Party, setting off a feud among Republican leaders that includes Alfonse M. D'Amato, the United States Senator.

Senate Struggle Splits New York G.O.P.

LEAD: A Federal judge ruled yesterday that the United States Government could not force the Palestine Liberation Organization to close its observer mission to the United Nations in New York.

JUDGE RULES P.L.O. CAN RETAIN OFFICE

LEAD: Unexpected rains over much of the nation's parched Farm Belt caused panic selling of soybeans and other agricultural commodities yesterday on futures exchanges.

Rains Cause Crop Prices To Plummet

LEAD: After years of struggle between the tobacco industry and the anti-smoking lobby, Canada has adopted some of the world's toughest anti-smoking laws, including a ban on all forms of advertising and a requirement that every cigarette pack contain a detailed leaflet warning of the fatal diseases that have been linked to smoking.

Canada Passes Law To Ban Tobacco Ads And Curb Smoking

LEAD: In one of its most important interpretations of the doctrine of separation of powers, the Supreme Court today upheld the Federal law that provides for independent prosecutors to investigate suspected crimes by high-ranking officials.

7-1 RULING IS REBUFF TO REAGAN; SCALIA IN DISSENT

LEAD: It's unseemly: the Bronx District Attorney and a Federal prosecutor publicly feuding; the Manhattan District Attorney investigating allegations of irregularities commmitted by his Queens counterpart. What's going on?  It's arguable whether these are anything more than isolated events, tied together only by timing.

Metro Matters; Why Prosecutors Are Waging War On One Another

LEAD:  'Writerproof' Season  With the writers' strike threatening the fall TV season, NBC made plans for ''writerproof'' programs, including remakes of old series. Page C22.  House Passes Housing Law  The House approved a bill to toughen enforcement of laws prohibiting dis-crimination in the sale of rental of public or private housing.

INSIDE

LEAD: Bowing to intense lobbying from the insurance industry, the House Ways and Means Committee agreed tonight to only a limited cutback in the tax advantages of investment-oriented life insurance products.

Limited Insurance Changes Are Accepted by Tax Panel

LEAD: The dollar rose again early yesterday but finished slightly lower after a late wave of selling by traders.

Dollar Off a Bit After Selling Spree

LEAD: The International Business Machines Corporation said yesterday that it would phase out manufacturing at five domestic factories and further reduce its headquarters staff.

I.B.M. Set To Close 5 Factories

LEAD: In proposing a strong Soviet president - probably himself - Mikhail S. Gorbachev hopes to break free of the restraints of party conservatives. News analysis, page A12.

President Gorbachev?

LEAD: Governor Kean's telephone rang this morning at 7:30 at his home in Livingston. It was Governor Cuomo with some words of advice about how to deliver the keynote speech at a national political convention. Mr. Kean learned a day earlier that he will keynote this year's Republican convention in New Orleans.

Kean Gets Bipartisan Advice on Speech

LEAD: On one level, the Supreme Court decision upholding the law on independent prosecutors is a footnote to history, ratifying one of the major legacies of the Watergate experience. The Court removed all lingering doubt about the constitutionality of the steps Congress took to spare the country the trauma of a repetition of the Saturday Night Massacre in which President Nixon ordered the dismissal of the Watergate special prosecutor.

Fetters on the Executive; By Finding No Threat in Prosecutor Law, The Court Rejects a Constitutional Vision

LEAD: Anne Recchia graduated from one of England's most selective training schools for nannies. She helped raise the children of a duke and a duchess. She has worked as a nanny for the children of the actor Michael Caine, as well as for some ''very lovely ordinary families,'' as she put it.

U.S. Nannies Seek Regulation Of Their Profession

LEAD:  COMPANIES  I.B.M. will phase out manufacturing at five domestic factories and reduce its headquarters staff in Westchester County by several thousand employees. I.B.M. said 10,000 of its 228,000 domestic employees would be affected. [ Page D1. ] Michael D. Dingman will pay $103.9 million for the 17.2 percent stake in Henley Manufacturing held by two foreign investors.

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: A Federal judge, responding sharply to defiance by the Yonkers City Council, began a process yesterday that could take a housing desegregation plan out of the hands of the city's elected officials.

Yonkers Faces Court Control Of Housing

LEAD: TWO grand old Long Island houses - Keewaydin, a stately home in Southampton, and Meadowcroft, an arts-and-crafts residence in Quiogue - will be open to the public as decorator show houses this summer.

IN THE HAMPTONS, GENTILITY REGAINED

LEAD: Michael D. Dingman, the chairman of the Henley Group, said today that he had purchased another 17.2 percent of the Henley Manufacturing Corporation for $103.9 million, or $55 a share.

Dingman Puts $103.9 Million In One of His Henley 'Dogs'

LEAD: Delegates to a special Communist Party conference expressed irritation today with the recently emboldened Soviet press and complained bitterly about economic problems.

Soviet Party Conference Delegates Turn Anger on Press and Economy

LEAD: After weeks of a contentious fiscal tug-of-war, the Koch administration, the City Council and city's Board of Estimate agreed early this morning to a $25.2 billion spending plan that depends in part on a $71.9 million property tax increase that Council leaders had earlier promised they would never pass.

New York Gets An Accord On a Budget

LEAD: I COULD go through the entire summer without writing a word about bathing suits. There are other, more serious issues to be explored, like bad haircuts and mean men. There are elections to be analyzed and politicians still to be made fun of. I could claim that this was not my summer to consider the issue, since I will be wearing a maternity bathing suit, which is as different from the regulation model as, say, typhus is from cholera.

LIFE IN THE 30'S

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June 30, 1988

Headlines from June 30, 1988

New Pride Changes Japan's View of U.S.

Police Say Friends Dumped Youth Officer Killed in Robbery Attempt

Untangling a Savings Failure

AN EFFICIENCY APARTMENT FOR 8 WEIGHTLESS PEOPLE

Senate Struggle Splits New York G.O.P.

Billboard 200

OU812

Faith

Hysteria

Dirty Dancing

Open Up And Say...Ahh!

Notable Births

Historical Context for June 30, 1988