LEAD: NOT long ago, while training for his World Boxing Organization junior-welterweight title match against Hector Camacho here tonight, Ray Mancini was shadowboxing when he spied a reporter watching him.

Mancini's Mission: Stop a 'Pest'

LEAD: The soaring cost of land is bringing unwelcome redevelopment to suburbia, making it profitable for developers to buy and demolish single-family houses for the land under them.

High Cost of Land an Unwelcome Suburban Neighbor

LEAD: The size, shape and leadership of the proposed company were determined in a month of negotiations that followed two years of talks.

How the Deal Was Done

LEAD: Machinists striking Eastern Airlines yesterday withdrew an immediate threat to picket the nation's railroads in the face of a Federal court order, giving hundreds of thousands of commuters a reprieve from widespread rush-hour disruptions this morning.

STRIKERS HOLD OFF TRAIN DISRUPTIONS AFTER JUDGE ACTS

LEAD: Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call, two larger-than-life former Texas Rangers from a dusty Rio Grande town called Lonesome Dove, are riding at the head of one final roundup - this time, of perhaps the biggest herd of cash ever generated by a television mini-series.

A Big Payoff for 'Lonesome Dove'

LEAD: Forty-four years ago Emperor Hirohito's imperial forces began some of the last, desperate missions of World War II on a muddy airfield here north of Tokyo. Today, as gleaming fighters scream off a runway 60 times a day, the same site marks both the rejuvenation and the limits of Japan's modern military.

For Japan, Military Challenge Is Balancing Might and Image

LEAD:  THE TIME-WARNER DEAL  Concern about the power of a merged Time and Warner has been raised by industry experts, who noted that the major television networks and other entertainment companies might find it more difficult to compete.  [ Page A1. ]  Time and Newsweek go to press at the same time, but only Newsweek carries a report of the merger in the current issue.

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: The oil industry has been urging the Environmental Protection Agency to take steps this week that would lessen the effects of gasoline regulations by eight Northeastern states that are scheduled to take effect May 1.

States' Rules On Gasoline Are Resisted

LEAD: Twenty years after a bitter and racially divisive teachers' strike led to the decentralization of New York City's schools, lawmakers, parents and educators are again urging that the nation's largest school system be restructured.

20 Years After Decentralization, Restructuring of Schools Is Urged

LEAD:  Circumcision Benefits Seen  For the first time, the American Academy of Pediatrics said circumcision protects against kidney and urinary tract infections. Page A14.  A New Mideast Approach  Secretary of State Baker is trying to work out a Mideast settlement involving the Israelis, the Soviets and the P.L.O.

INSIDE

LEAD: Twenty-five years ago next month, Aaron Henry, a Mississippi druggist, wrapped up a week of civil rights rallies and colloquia at Queens College with a warning. Dr. Henry, who led a coalition of rights groups, told students he was disturbed by ''the thundering silence of the good people'' in response to the unfinished task facing America, a task, he said, that ''her children must accomplish.

Ask the Children: Is Mississippi Still Burning?

LEAD: Time was when the Ford Motor Company's huge River Rouge plant was a wonder of the industrial economy. Iron ore was fed through one end of the sprawling complex, and Fords rolled out the other.

Time-Warner Merger Raises Concerns on Power of a Giant

LEAD: The nation's economic growth in February was the slowest in two years, a monthly survey of the nation's purchasing managers concluded.

Purchasers Say Growth Is Lagging

LEAD: Although investors have continued to be wary of most stock mutual funds, several funds with long-established records have experienced a burst of new business this year.

Stock Mutual Funds Regain Favor With Wary Investors

LEAD: The chairman of the Long Island Lighting Company today called the two-decade saga of the utility's $5.5 billion Shoreham nuclear power plant a ''glaring example of failed national energy policy'' and, at the same time, suggested that Lilco would soon agree to end the controversy by transferring the plant to New York State.

Head of Lilco Sees Failure Of U.S. Policy

LEAD: Increased reliance on the artificial intelligence of advanced computers to run missions is helping the nation's space agency cope with impending retirements of experienced personnel that threaten to cripple its operations. And in some cases it turns out the ''smart'' computers do the jobs better than skilled people.

'SMART' MACHINES READY TO ASSUME MANY NASA DUTIES

LEAD: When a high green fence and a guardhouse appeared, half a century ago, in a mossy pine forest near this Ukrainian settlement, the villagers knew enough to speculate in silence.

Behind Stalin's Green Fence: Who Filled the Mass Graves?

LEAD: With crop prices high and inventories low, Jim Howe will increase his spending on wheat, barley and sugar beet seed crops by 17 percent this year in the rich Red River Valley of eastern North Dakota.

Farmers Plan for a Bumper Crop

LEAD: With a lift from sizable rate increases, the nation's health insurers are showing signs of recovery after having lost more than $5 billion in the last two years.

Health Insurers Rebound as Rates Increase

LEAD: Although close contests for seats in the House of Representatives have become a rarity in the New York metropolitan region, the amount of money that many House members have put away to wage those contests has increased sharply, giving local Representatives some of the largest war chests in the nation.

Bulging War Chests Protect Seats in House

LEAD: If ever a crowd willed a team to victory, it happened today at Syracuse.

Syracuse Stuns Hoyas

LEAD: Penny Tower Cook was fussing over her father, smoothing his hair, straightening his tie, dusting off his Savile Row jacket. ''I don't usually wear pink shirts,'' John G. Tower said apologetically, holding up a powder-pink cuff with a gold State of Texas cufflink attached.

Tower, With Family Near, Begins A Counterattack at the 11th Hour

LEAD: Boldly trying to press the limits of Food and Drug Administration policy, a New York group will announce today that it has set up an elaborate network to import prescription drugs not available in the United States for use by people with AIDS.

Group Will Import Unapproved Drugs For Treating AIDS

LEAD: AS an eighth grader at Marcus Garvey Elementary School in Chicago, Rashard Griffith should be enjoying a relatively simple life. Instead, he and his mother have spent the last eight weeks screening phone calls and dodging an expanding contingent of recruiters and reporters.

Recruiting Extends Its Reach

LEAD: SIX days before Hector Camacho was to fight Ray (Boom Boom) Mancini for the World Boxing Organization's junior-welterweight title, he put on his gold sequined loincloth shorts -what Tarzan might have worn to the disco - and posed for a photographer at the far end of Bally's Casino Resort here.

Camacho: Is Luster Lost?

Dwight Buycks is an American professional basketball player for Kalleh Mazandaran of the Iranian Basketball Super League. He played college basketball for the Indian Hills Warriors and Marquette Golden Eagles.

Dwight Buycks, American basketball player

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Ray Chen is a Taiwanese-Australian violinist. He was the winner of the 2008 International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition and the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition. Since then, he has regularly collaborated with the world’s foremost orchestras and appeared at renowned concert halls.

Ray Chen, Taiwanese-Australian violinist

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Agnieszka Roma Radwańska is a Polish former professional tennis player and current coach. She was ranked world No. 2 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), in July 2012. Radwańska won 20 WTA Tour singles titles, including the 2015 WTA Finals, and two doubles titles. She was also the runner-up at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships.

March 6, 1989

Headlines from March 6, 1989

Mancini's Mission: Stop a 'Pest'

High Cost of Land an Unwelcome Suburban Neighbor

How the Deal Was Done

STRIKERS HOLD OFF TRAIN DISRUPTIONS AFTER JUDGE ACTS

A Big Payoff for 'Lonesome Dove'

Billboard 200

Don't Be Cruel

Appetite For Destruction

Electric Youth

Traveling Wilburys

Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars

Notable Births

Historical Context for March 6, 1989