LEAD: The General Motors Corporation, on the verge of announcing record annual profits, today increased the dividend on all three classes of its common stock.

G.M. Lifts Dividends On 3 Stocks

LEAD: Although Federal income tax rates are now at the lowest level of the postwar years, the rules on itemized deductions have been tightened considerably. And some rules, like those governing the deductibility of interest, are more complex than ever.

Rules Are Tightened on Deductions

LEAD: rrFor 44 years John Randolph lived in institutions for the retarded. Then, in the early 80's, someone realized that was a mistake. As Mr. Randolph said, ''They decided at that time I was more fit to be able to be put out in the world.''

Our Towns; One Small World In the Midst Of the Maelstrom

LEAD: Further delays of a vote by the Senate Armed Services Committee could make the nomination of John G. Tower as Defense Secretary politically untenable, Republican committee members said yesterday.

Delay on Tower Worries G.O.P.

LEAD: The Soviet Union marked the final stage of its withdrawal from Afghanistan with a show for the press today in this dusty border city.

Soviets, Delighted to Survive, Tolerate the Afghan Hoopla

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INSIDE

LEAD: Bowing to a wave of national outrage, the House of Representatives today abandoned its leadership and forced a vote for Tuesday that is expected to kill a proposed 51 percent Congressional pay increase.

Blow To Speaker

LEAD: Reaching a significant milestone on its road to recovery, the BankAmerica Corporation announced today that it would pay a dividend on its common stock for the first time in three years.

BankAmerica Payout: Signal of a Recovery

LEAD: The list of casualties in the explosion of the Federal pay raise legislation on Capitol Hill today was lengthy.

Casualty List A Long One

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: The chemistry of the Hudson River swirls in complicated patterns that are not always understood even by scientists. But the lines in a debate over the proposed use of the river to supplement New York City's water supply are plainly drawn: the city vs. Poughkeepsie and several other communities along the

Along the Hudson, a Wrangle Over Water

LEAD: Two months after lawmakers rejected a proposed deal to close the Shoreham nuclear power plant, negotiations to resolve the issue have foundered, victims of a tortuous political struggle between Gov. Mario M. Cuomo and the Legislature.

Underlying Deadlock on Shoreham Is the Fear of Blame

LEAD: Far from the firecrackers and lion dancers in Chinatown, Tu Hsiaochun and his wife began the Year of the Snake yesterday with an early morning bus trip from their home in Union City, N.J. to their tiny storefront restaurant on Second Avenue.

Year of Snake Marks Decade of Change in Chinatown

LEAD: SPURRED by the anxiety of a public suddenly alert to the potential dangers of global warming, a small fraternity of scientists is running a high-stakes race against the environmental clock, trying to predict the precise impact of the greenhouse effect in time to take effective countermeasures.

With Cloudy Crystal Balls, Scientists Race to Assess Global Warming

LEAD: Most of a group of child-protection societies in New York State abuse their police powers and act as vigilantes or perform no function at all, the state's Attorney General said yesterday.

Abrams Seeks To Restructure Child Societies

LEAD: The trust set up by the Manville Corporation to compensate victims of asbestos will run out of money later this year if settlements continue at their current rate, trust officials and other lawyers said yesterday.

Manville Trust Fund In Trouble

LEAD: Barbara W. Tuchman, whose skill at writing histories of men at war and on the brink of war won her two Pulitzer Prizes, died of complications of a stroke yesterday afternoon at Greenwich (Conn.) Hospital. She was 77 years old and was admitted to the hospital Saturday after suffering the stroke at her home at Cos Cob, Conn.

Barbara Tuchman Dead at 77; A Pulitzer-Winning Historian

LEAD: Seeking to turn Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue into even more of a cash machine, Time Inc. is marketing a videotape of the models in designer swimsuits, and its HBO cable service will carry a program on the making of the issue.

THE MEDIA BUSINESS;
Time Inc. Finds New Ways To Profit on Swimsuit Issue

LEAD: C. Boyden Gray, President Bush's counsel and ethics adviser, resigned today as chairman of his family-owned $500 million communications company and will establish a blind trust to hold his personal assets, the White House said.

Bush Ethics Aide Quits Post in Family Company

LEAD: Pledging ''to restore our entire deposit insurance system to complete health,'' President Bush today announced a detailed plan to rescue the nation's savings and loan industry and bolster the banking industry with money collected from banks, savings and loan institutions and taxpayers.

Big Sale Of Bonds

LEAD: A new round of concerted dollar selling by the Federal Reserve and European central banks forced the dollar lower against the mark yesterday.

Fed Forces Dollar Down Vs. Mark

LEAD: In a report to be issued later this week, the United States says Israel's response to the Palestinian uprising ''led to a substantial increase in human rights violations'' in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip last year.

U.S. Cites Human Rights Abuses By Israel in Occupied Territories

LEAD: Kitty Dukakis, the wife of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis of Massachusetts, is being treated for alcohol abuse at a clinic in Newport, R.I., the Governor said today.

Kitty Dukakis Being Treated For a Problem With Drinking

LEAD: WHILE any number of people anguish over their 30th birthday and try to hide their 40th, it is with the 50th that most start to actually see themselves as beginning to be old, researchers are finding.

For Many, Turmoil of Aging Erupts in the 50's, Studies Find

LEAD: The Bush Administration's rescue plan for the savings industry appears to be a politically deft approach that is likely to find broad support in Congress. But the plan's economic underpinnings may stand on shaky ground.

Deft Politics, Fiscal Doubt

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February 7, 1989

Headlines from February 7, 1989

G.M. Lifts Dividends On 3 Stocks

Rules Are Tightened on Deductions

Our Towns; One Small World In the Midst Of the Maelstrom

Delay on Tower Worries G.O.P.

Soviets, Delighted to Survive, Tolerate the Afghan Hoopla

Billboard 200

Don't Be Cruel

Appetite For Destruction

Traveling Wilburys

Open Up And Say...Ahh!

G N' R Lies

Notable Births

Historical Context for February 7, 1989