LEAD: Deng Xiaoping and Mikhail S. Gorbachev shook hands today to signal the formal end of three decades of hostility between China and the Soviet Union.

PROTEST GOES ON

LEAD: The investigation of Joseph DeVincenzo, who was a top Koch administration insider, is like a ticking time bomb for the Koch campaign. Koch aides are concerned that Mr. DeVincenzo might be indicted in the middle of the mayoral campaign for lying about the job-dispensing operation he ran in the City Hall basement.

Campaign Trail; Patronage Inquiry: Big Blast or Whimper?

LEAD: Mikhail S. Gorbachev's aggressive and inventive diplomacy has so transformed this country's view of the Soviet Union that two out of three Americans say Moscow no longer poses an immediate military threat to the United States and nearly three out of four consider nuclear war unlikely.

Poll Finds That Gorbachev's Rule Eases American Minds on Soviets

LEAD: Third graders at George Washington Elementary School do not do Shakespeare. ''In third grade I didn't know anything about Shakespeare,'' said Laura Mannino, 9 years old. ''All I knew, he was a writer in Elizabethan times. That's it. That's it.''

Our Towns; Fourth Graders Do Shakespeare For the Fun of It

LEAD: The first debate among Democrats running for Governor turned into a surprisingly gentle affair tonight, with three candidates performing a feat that New Jersey politicians often promise but rarely pull off: they attacked the issues and not each other.

Civility Sets Debate Tone In New Jersey

LEAD: Responding to higher gasoline prices and what it hopes is a group of eager buyers, Volkswagen A.G. said today that it would again offer a diesel car in the United States.

Volkswagen To Sell Diesel Cars in U.S.

LEAD: The apple industry, citing a sharp drop in sales that has already cost growers $50 million, said today that the growers would voluntarily stop using the chemical Alar by this fall.

Apple Industry Says It Will End Use of Chemical

LEAD: The dollar jumped sharply yesterday against other major currencies, seriously undercutting the efforts of the United States and its allies to manage the foreign exchange market.

Dollar's Puzzling Rise Continues; 30-Month High Against the Mark

LEAD: AFRIKAANS, the language that symbolizes white supremacy, has actually been heavily influenced by tribal dialects and is widely spoken by South Africans of mixed and black racial origins.

Blacks Shaped Language Of Apartheid, Linguists, Say

LEAD: Lawmakers writing legislation to rescue the nation's troubled savings industry have adorned the complex bill with amendments that provide special treatment for a handful of institutions, banks and financial corporations.

Savings Rescue Bill Gives Special Treatment to Some

LEAD: New York City named a private developer yesterday to build a $2 billion project of 10,000 condominium apartments on a two-mile stretch of beachfront land in the Arverne section of the Rockaways in Queens.

Joint Venture For Housing In Rockaways

LEAD:  In Peron's Footsteps  Carlos Saul Menem used an almost mystical personal manner to appeal to voters in Argentina. Page A3.  Supercomputer Rivalry  Seymour Cray, the nation's foremost supercomputer designer, will form his own company. Page D1.  The Charter Revision Race  New York City's charter panel completed its preliminary proposals.

INSIDE

LEAD: As the Bush Administration approaches its first major decision on trade policy, the American Embassy in Tokyo is urging Washington to refrain from tough action to retaliate against Japan for its trade barriers.

Embassy Asks Trade Caution

LEAD: A peek beyond the walls of the aging automobile assembly plant in Van Nuys, Calif., is a glimpse into the uncertain future of labor relations at the General Motors Corporation.

Union Vote Is Crucial Test for G.M.

LEAD: Gov. Mario M. Cuomo and leaders of New York's public universities ended their intense budget dispute yesterday, avoiding layoffs and a tuition increase that had led thousands of students to strike.

New York's Public Colleges Agree With Cuomo to Stabilize Tuition

LEAD: The Ogilvy Group, a bastion of American advertising that has proclaimed ''Maxwell House is good to the last drop'' and ''Merrill Lynch is bullish on America,'' agreed shortly before midnight yesterday to be acquired by the WPP Group, the owner of the J. Walter Thompson Company.

WPP's Bid Is Accepted By Ogilvy

LEAD: Continuing its efforts to make the country's economy more competitive worldwide, the Mexican Government today announced a sweeping liberalization of its foreign investment regulations. It revoked measures that have prevented majority foreign ownership of businesses and opened to foreign investment some areas that have previously been off limits altogether.

MEXICO LOOSENING INVESTMENT RULES

LEAD: A feud between normally like-minded intellectuals took a jarring turn this month when five conservatives from Illinois seized the Manhattan office of a leading conservative theologian and former colleague, carted away office equipment and dismissed the office's five-member staff.

Magazine Dispute Reflects Rift on U.S. Right

LEAD: President Bush, announcing a $1.2 billion anti-crime package, today rejected calls for a ban on domestically made semiautomatic assault rifles in the face of strong lobbying from opponents of gun control.

PRESIDENT UNVEILS $1.2 BILLION PLAN TO BATTLE CRIME

LEAD: After three weeks of intense and sometimes divisive debate, the New York City Charter Revision Commission yesterday completed, just two days behind target, its preliminary proposals for reshaping the government of the nation's largest city.

Charter Panel, for Now, Finishes Reshaping the Government

LEAD: RESEARCHERS are well on their way to determining the precise genetic changes that must occur to make a normal cell cancerous, an achievement that could make it possible to identify people susceptible to particular kinds of tumors.

Scientists Pinpoint Genetic Changes That Predict Cancer

LEAD: FOR a year, it seems, the weather has gone crazy in America.

Diverted Jet Stream Creates Weird Weather Patterns

LEAD: In a dramatic split, Cray Research Inc. said yesterday that Seymour R. Cray, its founder and the nation's foremost supercomputer designer, would form a company that will be its direct competitor in the development of the world's most powerful computers.

Cray Splits Operations Into 2 Rival Entities

LEAD: As he steered around a corner into Bethlehem, passing Rachel's Tomb and leaving Jerusalem behind, Dr. Tuvia Peri rolled up his window, slowed down and, his eyes darting, looked for clues.

For West Bank Jews, 'Stay Alert' Is the Rule

LEAD: The Los Angeles Dodgers arrived in town last night with their World Series rings and their low earned-run averages, and staged their first pitching duel with the Mets in 1989. And after eight innings of matched performances, the Mets surrendered when the twin aces of their bullpen gave up three walks and a two-run single in the ninth and the

Mets Lose Pitchers' Battle With Dodgers

Behati Prinsloo is a Namibian model. In 2008, she became a Pink contract model, and moved on to become a Victoria's Secret Angel in 2009. She walked in eleven Victoria's Secret Fashion Shows, and opened consecutive Victoria's Secret Fashion shows in 2014 and 2015.

Behati Prinsloo, Namibian model

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Leila Kasra also known as Hedieh, was a prominent Iranian contemporary poet and lyricist who has written lyrics for notable artists including Ebi, Dariush, Sattar, Vigen, Moein, Mahasti, Andy, Homeyra, Morteza, Hassan Shamaizadeh, Siavash Shams and many more. She was best known for writing more than 30 songs for Hayedeh.

May 16, 1989

Headlines from May 16, 1989

PROTEST GOES ON

Campaign Trail; Patronage Inquiry: Big Blast or Whimper?

Poll Finds That Gorbachev's Rule Eases American Minds on Soviets

Our Towns; Fourth Graders Do Shakespeare For the Fun of It

Civility Sets Debate Tone In New Jersey

Billboard 200

Like A Prayer

G N' R Lies

Loc-ed After Dark

The Raw & The Cooked

Don't Be Cruel

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for May 16, 1989