July 29, 1988

LEAD: KO NIMO, 54 years old, who will be playing tonight as part of Lincoln Center's Serious Fun festival, is a lab technician and one of Ghana's premier palmwine guitarists. Moses Rascoe, 71, who plays tomorrow at the Central Park Band Shell, is a retired truck driver, and one of America's finest country-blues guitarists.

LEAD: The United States and Vietnam have agreed to make a joint effort to resolve the lingering question of the 1,758 American military men still unaccounted for in Vietnam, American officials said today.

LEAD: The Mayor has upset the Irish New Yorkers by saying the British are safeguarding the peace in Northern Ireland. News analysis, page B1.

LEAD: Interco Inc., the nation's biggest manufacturer of both furniture and men's shoes, came under a hostile takeover attack yesterday.

LEAD: In another attempt to increase its profitability, the International Business Machines Corporation said yesterday that it was raising prices by 5 percent on computers and software sold in the United States. Charges on service agreements will be raised 3 percent.

LEAD: The Economy

LEAD: Nearly a century after the Yukon gold rush, the family of Len and Rona Millar spends 10 hours every summer day down on Gold Bottom Creek, participating in the biggest gold-mining revival here since World War I. From a wooden home that is all that remains of a thriving gold rush town 20 miles east of Dawson, the Millars run what has become a typical Yukon mining operation.

LEAD: Proposals to give New York City school principals greater authority and make them more accountable for their students' performance have been made by a panel established by the State Board of Regents.

LEAD: Persian Gulf Talks Stall

LEAD: It was the fourth time that morning that Kenneth N. Levy had been approached by a panhandler.

LEAD: Divided by religion, social class and even geography, the Hanna family of the elegant town of Hillsborough and Brendan Davison of the bleak Markets area of South Belfast were linked in death today as they never were in life.

LEAD: For most of the passers-by on Eighth Avenue, the automated dry cleaning machine near 15th Street is an occasion for gawking and giggling, for nostalgia about the good old days when people did business with other people and computerized gadgets had yet to take over everyone's lives.