LEAD: A storm over Winnie Mandela that has embarrassed the country's anti-apartheid movement took an ominous turn today. The police identified a decomposing body as that of a missing 14-year-old whom Mrs. Mandela's bodyguards are accused of having abducted.

In Storm Over Winnie Mandela, Body Is Identified as Soweto Boy's

LEAD: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's call for the execution of a writer he has accused of blasphemy appears to be largely a political maneuver by the Iranian leader to reassert his role as spokesman and protector of Islamic causes.

Khomeini's Judgment; Iranian Leader's Instruction to Kill Writer May Reflect a Calculation Rooted in Politics

LEAD: THERE'S nothing like a private tour through a great English landscape with the owner as your guide. And for those who prefer not to leave these shores, there is the option of enjoying ''Gertrude Jekyll: A Vision of Garden and Wood,'' a book whose publication this month coincides with an exhibition of the same name that opens at the Paine Webber Gallery in

English Garden, Picture Perfect

LEAD: A protest against ''The Satanic Verses'' was reported in Teheran as an Iranian was quoted as offering $1 million to the killer of the author, Salman Rushdie. Page A6. Mr. Rushdie canceled his U.S. book tour. Page A7.

Iranian Protest and Threat

LEAD: For the first time in a decade, the United States imported more oil in January than it produced, the American Petroleum Institute reported yesterday.

Oil Imports in January Topped Output in U.S.

LEAD: The last Soviet soldier came home from Afghanistan this morning, the Soviet Union announced, leaving behind a war that had become a domestic burden and an international embarrassment for Moscow.

LAST SOVIET SOLDIERS LEAVE AFGHANISTAN AFTER 9 YEARS, 15,000 DEAD AND GREAT COST

LEAD: In 4 of the 32 decentralized New York City school districts, where black, Hispanic and Asian-American pupils make up half or more of the public school enrollment, all the members of the locally elected school boards are white.

Local Boards: A Failure to Reflect Schools

LEAD: Israeli archeologists, searching caves near the Dead Sea, have discovered what they believe is a 2,000-year-old jug of once-fragrant oil of the kind used to anoint the ancient Israelite kings.

Balsam Oil of Israelite Kings Found in Cave Near Dead Sea

LEAD: The Bush Administration was caught off guard by the agreement by five Central American countries to disarm the Nicaraguan guerrillas, American officials said today, even though Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d met with the Foreign Ministers of Costa Rica and Honduras just last week.

LATIN AGREEMENT RAISES EYEBROWS AT WHITE HOUSE

LEAD: Gov. Mario M. Cuomo yesterday released a broad five-year state plan for combatting AIDS in New York, but he said fiscal problems are preventing his administration from fully meeting current needs or mounting major new programs this year.

Cuomo Sets AIDS Plan, Admitting It Falls Short

LEAD: A top Moscow economist predicted here today that if the United States abolished trade barriers with the Soviet Union, commerce between the countries would expand ''by a factor of 5 to 10 times'' in five years.

Gorbachev Aide Says U.S. Should Lift Trade Barriers

LEAD: Twelve years have gone by, but Percy E. Sutton, who was then the Manhattan Borough President, can't forget the news conference he held in the Empire State Building observatory.

Metro Matters; Years of Contrast: From Sutton '77 To Dinkins '89

LEAD: Local governments are increasingly demanding that real estate developers pay for everything from road improvements to day-care centers, a practice that is driving prices of new homes higher in some regions and intensifying the debate over whether such charges amount to an unfair tax on new residents.

Debate Grows on Development Fees

LEAD: A 19-year-old man wanted in the slaying of one high-school student here and the kidnapping of a second ended his three-day, 1,800-mile flight in the New Mexico desert Tuesday night when he ran a roadblock and a shower of police bullets before being forced off the road by New Mexico state troopers.

Youth Sought in Jersey Killing Is Seized in New Mexico

INSIDE

LEAD: WHEN Brian A. Murphy was an architecture student at the University of California at Los Angeles, he used to stand on the green rim of the Santa Monica Canyon and, like many exhausted joggers, just gaze. To the west lay the surf (this former lifeguard loves to surf). To the north, perched on a rim above the furrows of the canyon, was another dreamy California fantasy, a coral-colored 1926 Spanish-style house that to Mr.

Helter-Shelter: Brian Murphy Designs for Himself

LEAD: WHEN the producers of ''Out of Africa'' were combing Kenya for period pieces that would give the movie the right look, they stumbled across some unpacked boxes in an antiques store not far from the home of Karen Blixen, who under her pen name, Isak Dinesen, wrote the book on which the movie was based.

'Out of Africa' Chair Right Out of Africa

LEAD: A bidding war for savings deposits has broken out in Texas, just days after the Bush Administration announced its proposal to rescue the savings and loan industry. That proposal was intended, in part, to shut down insolvent institutions that were forcing up deposit rates for the rest of the industry.

Battle Erupts for Texas Deposits, Making Savings Plan More Costly

LEAD: The nation's industry is using more of its capacity than at any other time in nearly a decade, with operating rates approaching levels that can worsen inflation.

Capacity Use Approaching 10-Year High

LEAD: The New York State Public Service Commission yesterday granted the Long Island Lighting Company a 5.4 percent rate increase, the utility's first in three years, but made the increase conditional on Lilco not operating the Shoreham nuclear power plant while negotiations over its future continue.

Lilco Granted Rate Increase, With a Proviso

LEAD:  THE ECONOMY  A rate war has erupted among Texas savings institutions since the Bush Administration announced a proposal to rescue the industry. A major effect of the rate wars is that an industry bailout could become more costly as institutions vie for deposits.  [ Page A1. ]  The F.D.I.C. would receive broad new powers to increase deposit insurance premiums for banks and savings units far above previously disclosed levels under the Bush rescue plan.

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: Morgan Stanley & Company, the Wall Street firm that spurred four of its competitors to suspend program trading for their own accounts last year, said yesterday that it was resuming the controversial practice.

Programs Resumed at Key Firm

LEAD: A change that was slipped into New York's tax code revision of two years ago and recently revealed will cost out-of-state commuters who work in New York State an estimated $50 million this year, state officials said today.

Little-Noticed Tax Change Revives New York-New Jersey Border War

LEAD: Continuing a trend toward lower long-distance prices, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company said yesterday that it plans to cut its rates an average of 1.6 percent on April 1.

Rate Cut Is Proposed By A.T.&T.

LEAD: A cocaine distribution ring whose leader sometimes wore a gold crown was broken up today with a raid that led to 16 arrests, Federal and state authorities said.

Raid on Cocaine Ring Results in 16 Arrests

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February 16, 1989

Headlines from February 16, 1989

In Storm Over Winnie Mandela, Body Is Identified as Soweto Boy's

Khomeini's Judgment; Iranian Leader's Instruction to Kill Writer May Reflect a Calculation Rooted in Politics

English Garden, Picture Perfect

Iranian Protest and Threat

Oil Imports in January Topped Output in U.S.

Billboard 200

Don't Be Cruel

Appetite For Destruction

Traveling Wilburys

Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars

G N' R Lies

Notable Births

Historical Context for February 16, 1989