LEAD: With the Food and Drug Administration expected to approve a new genetically altered hormone that increases milk production in cows, opponents have mobilized to persuade state legislatures to ban its use.

Gene-Altered Farm Drug Starts Battle in Milk States

LEAD: Twelve percent of the doctors who treat Medicare patients refer them to laboratories and clinics in which the doctors have financial interests, according to a Government report released today.

Study Questions Cost Of Physicians' Using Facilities They Own

LEAD: Using Spain as the principal port of entry to a lucrative new market, Colombia's powerful drug cartels have set up a highly proficient trafficking network that is feeding Western Europe's rising demand for cocaine.

Colombian Cocaine Dealers Tap European Market

LEAD: The Mobil Corporation said yesterday that it had agreed to sell its South African operations, blaming ''very foolish laws'' enacted by the United States Congress.

Mobil Is Quitting South Africa, Blaming 'Foolish' Laws in U.S.

LEAD: The Rev. Jesse Jackson is seriously thinking about running for Mayor of Washington next year, sensing that Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr.'s political troubles have deepened to the point that he may have to step aside, Mr. Jackson's friends and associates say.

Jackson Allies Say He May Seek Election as Mayor of Washington

LEAD: The Justice Department is expected to open an investigation of a $225 million Federal housing program that led developers to pay large consulting fees to former Interior Secretary James G. Watt and other prominent Republicans, Bush Administration officials said today.

REAGAN OFFICIALS GOT BIG H.U.D. FEES, A U.S. AUDIT FINDS

INSIDE

LEAD: President Bush announced today that the United States intends to proceed with a $7 billion project with Japan to produce a new jet fighter, declaring that prolonged negotiations had yielded an agreement ''in the strategic and commercial interests of the United States.''

U.S. AND JAPANESE AGREE TO PROCEED ON FIGHTER PLANE

LEAD: The United States said it would retaliate because Japan had not opened its telecommunications market to American companies. Hearings will be held in May to decide what form the retaliation should take. Page 33.

Another Front in Trade War

LEAD: Many of the rigors of life at sea are easing. This ship, for instance, has a salad bar and each night many of the sailors call their wives on cellular phones.

Life on a Tanker: More Salad, Less Grog

LEAD: Independent monitors and opposition leaders assert that the Government of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega has prepared widespread fraud to steal the May 7 general elections.

Noriega Is Rigging Election, Independent Monitors Assert

LEAD:  International 3-5  Development of a U.S.-Japanese jet will proceed, President Bush announced, declaring that prolonged negotiations had yielded an agreement ''in the strategic and commercial interests of the United States.'' Page 1  A U.S. trade retaliation against Japan is planned because of Japan's failure to open its $9 billion-a-year market in telecommunications market to American companies.

NEWS SUMMARY

LEAD: ''We had been seriously affected by the very foolish laws that had been passed in the U.S.

Quotation of the Day

LEAD: An article on April 18 about a plan - since altered - to build an airport runway over a blue coral reef in Japan misstated the proposed length.

Corrections

LEAD: Even though all sides are trying to play down the extent of the crisis within NATO, British officials say the alliance may find it hard to recover fully from the possible consequences of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's speech to the West German Parliament on Thursday.

NATO Crisis: London Frets Over the Alliance . . .

LEAD: The Weekender Guide in Weekend yesterday gave an incorrect location for the Tibetan-Asian Bazaar. It takes place today and tomorrow at the Eastside International Community Center, 330 East 45th Street, not at the Tibetan Cultural Institute.

LEAD: A list of Queens community school board candidates on Tuesday omitted a candidate in District 27. He is Matthew L. Kessler. It also misidentified a candidate in District 30. He is Michael J. Moore.

LEAD: A commentary on the Word and Image page on Tuesday about dignity versus sensationalism in television discussed news programming changes over the years. It said the CBS producer Don Hewitt once declared that a report was boring if he felt an itch near the seat of his pants, a doctrine that ''infuriated the orthodox acolytes of Edward R.

Editors' Note

LEAD: The debate now straining the Atlantic alliance echoes the controversy that brought millions of demonstrators into the streets of Western Europe six years ago to protest the deployment of American medium-range missiles.

NATO Crisis: London Frets Over the Alliance . . . As Scars Reopen on the Continent

LEAD: The gathering storm in NATO over short-range missiles dominated the front pages of West German newspapers today, giving Chancellor Helmut Kohl temporary respite from the political battering of recent weeks but presaging tougher battles ahead.

In West German Press, Support for Soviet Talks

LEAD: Fourteen British soccer fans today were convicted of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the deaths of 39 Italian fans at an abortive match at Heysel Stadium here nearly four years ago. The 14 were given sentences of three years, with half of the time on probation. They were each also fined $1,500.

British Soccer Fans Convicted

LEAD: A map and a table yesterday about racial imbalance in Connecticut schools included a number of errors and omissions. A corrected version appears today on page 32.

LEAD: At least 68 people, including 62 leftist guerrillas, were killed today when army troops clashed with rebels in one of Peru's richest farming regions, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.

68 Reportedly Killed in Peru As Soldiers and Rebels Clash

LEAD: France said today it was expelling three South African Embassy officials to protest what it described as an illegal effort by Pretoria to acquire a stolen British Blowpipe missile in Paris. Officials said one of those being expelled was Daniel Storm, who was found in a Paris hotel on April 21 with three Protestant extremists from Northern Ireland.

France Expels Pretoria Envoys

LEAD: Sheik Saud Abdelaziz al-Mutthami, the chief of the Rabiaa and Rufaydah tribe, was sipping his tea and taking a whiff of incense as he listened to a petitioner from his clan the other day at his afternoon majlis, or open-house audience.

Abha Journal; Saudi Leaders Lend an Ear to Anyone

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April 29, 1989

Headlines from April 29, 1989

Gene-Altered Farm Drug Starts Battle in Milk States

Study Questions Cost Of Physicians' Using Facilities They Own

Colombian Cocaine Dealers Tap European Market

Mobil Is Quitting South Africa, Blaming 'Foolish' Laws in U.S.

Jackson Allies Say He May Seek Election as Mayor of Washington

Billboard 200

Like A Prayer

Loc-ed After Dark

Don't Be Cruel

Electric Youth

G N' R Lies

Notable Births

Historical Context for April 29, 1989