March 8, 1989

LEAD: With the Democratic primary for mayor more than six months away, David N. Dinkins, the Manhattan Borough President, stood in front of a storefront clubhouse deep in Bensonhurst the other night, his trim gray hair glinting in the fluorescent light as he talked about love, bigotry, municipal corruption and his 2-year-old grandson.

LEAD: If ever there was a company town, this is it. Since its founding more than a century ago, the Eastman Kodak Company has given steady paychecks to generations of workers and an identity to the city of Rochester. Today, Kodak employs 47,000 people, almost one tenth of the region's labor force.

LEAD: Dozens of publishers and authors gathered at the New York Public Library yesterday to call attention to a villain turning millions of books to dust: acidic paper.

LEAD: Poland's Government said today that Soviet forces were responsible for a massacre of Polish officers during World War II.

LEAD: Wariness on Europe '92 West Germany's unionized workers fear that the unified European Community planned for 1992 could erode their privileged status. Page D1. Iran Cuts British Ties Iran broke diplomatic relations with Britain a week after demanding that London denounce the author of ''The Satanic Verses.

LEAD: Because of the weather, alternate-side parking rules are suspended in New York City today. Other regulations remain in effect.

LEAD: Confronting an often angry group of senators, officials of the savings and loan industry's two largest trade groups said today that they opposed key elements of the Bush bailout plan, particularly proposals that would require their industry to pay for a large amount of the cleanup.

LEAD: A Federal judge in Miami refused to order Eastern Airlines pilots today to cross the picket lines of striking machinists, leaving Eastern's operations virtually paralyzed for a fourth day. The airline said that unless the pilots returned to work soon it would be forced into bankruptcy.

LEAD: TIME was - and not long ago, either - when the standard response to a request for a wine list in a steak joint was:

LEAD: Looking for new ways to improve the education of black children, growing numbers of parents and educators in urban school districts are supporting requirements that teachers include or emphasize the contributions of blacks and other minorities in a wide range of subjects.

LEAD: American workers' productivity rose a barely perceptible one-tenth of 1 percent in last year's fourth quarter while unit labor costs, a major inflation measure for business, shot up at an annual rate of 5.6 percent.

LEAD: The Boeing Company, which has been struggling to meet demand for its new 747-400 jumbo jet, has turned to an uncommon solution to bolster its assembly lines: borrowing workers from another aircraft manufacturer.