LEAD: The United States Mint has inadvertently struck a new collector's item: an unknown number of 1989 quarters with no mint mark.

Quarters, Mints and Marks: Little Things Can Mean a Lot

LEAD: With Prime Minister Li Peng apparently winning China's power struggle, documents criticizing his rival, Zhao Ziyang, have been circulated among senior officials, evidently in preparation for a formal decision to dismiss Mr. Zhao as Communist Party leader.

Chinese Hard-Liner Tightens Grip As Attacks on His Rival Multiply

LEAD: In a gesture both to American allies and to Moscow, President Bush is expected to act next week to remove the remaining economic sanctions imposed on the Soviet Union after its military intervention in Afghanistan 10 years ago, Administration officials said today.

BUSH IS EXPECTED TO END SANCTIONS AGAINST MOSCOW

LEAD: Representative Tony Coelho of California, the No. 3 Democrat in the House and the leading contender to become majority leader, said today that he was resigning from Congress rather than put his party and his colleagues through a protracted investigation of his personal finances.

COELHO TO RESIGN HIS SEAT IN HOUSE IN FACE OF INQUIRY

LEAD: Representative Tony Coelho's decision to leave Congress rather than face a siege of questioning over his finances dramatizes the extraordinary climate in Washington on the issue of ethics.

New Fallout Over Ethics

LEAD: For a woman who the night before had been likened unflatteringly to Napoleon's Empress Josephine on nationwide television, Raisa Maksimovna Gorbachev was showing no signs of post-glasnost depression this morning.

Raisa Gorbachev Hits Back: 'The Women Are All for Me'

LEAD: For much of six years, James Reginald Jarvis lived in a cave in Inwood Hill Park at the northern edge of Manhattan with his prized possessions: a sleeping bag, a collection of rocks and fossils and sheet music of sonatas by Bach and Beethoven.

Random Death Claims a Man Who Struggled to Regain Life

LEAD: The Soviet Union today struggled to give birth to a new kind of government in a process that laid bare bitter divisions of class, geography, nationality and outlook.

FEUDING SETS TONE IN SOVIET CONGRESS

LEAD:  New Tensions in Trade: Hope in U.S., Scorn in Japan

INSIDE

LEAD: Because of an editing error, an article yesterday about a pipeline explosion in San Bernardino, Calif., carried inconsistent references in some editions to the parent company of the Calnev Pipeline Company. It is the GATX Corporation, not the Union Pacific Corporation.

Corrections

LEAD: ''I want to give my party a chance to move on.'' - Representative Tony Coelho. [ 1:6. ]

Quotation of the Day

LEAD:  International 2-7  An end to U.S. sanctions on Moscow that were imposed after the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan is likely to be announced by President Bush next week, Administration officials said. Page 1  President Bush arrived in Rome for the start of a European trip.

NEWS SUMMARY

LEAD: A court today upheld the Government's ban on the broadcasting of interviews with members of militant groups in Northern Ireland.

London Broadcasting Ban On Ulster Militants Upheld

LEAD: As the Philippines awaits the death of Ferdinand E. Marcos, the nation is consumed with what some are calling ''necropolitics,'' a morbid mixture of squabbling and expiation so intricate that it needs a psychoanalyst or a priest to unravel.

Shadow of an Ailing Marcos Hangs Over Politics in Manila

LEAD: A farm tractor pulling a wagon loaded with wedding guests fell into a canal today, killing 13 people, a news report said. About 30 people were riding on the tractor or in the wagon near West Godavari, about 825 miles southeast of New Delhi, the United News of India said. Among the dead were three children.

India Tractor Wreck Kills 13

LEAD: An obituary on Wednesday about William J. Hampton, an aide to the late Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr., misidentified a surviving daughter. She is Gail McKeller.

LEAD: ''I love elections,'' a former Irish Prime Minister, Garret FitzGerald, confessed this morning as he hurried into the Georgian parliament building, where he is a member of the opposition. ''It's the dull parts in between I can't stand.''

Once Again, Irish Leader Goes on Quest for a Majority

LEAD: Journalists and technicians at the British Broadcasting Corporation today staged the fourth in a series of 24-hour strikes over wages, disrupting radio and television programs. The spokesman for the National Union of Journalists, Don Brind, said 10,000 employees were on strike, but BBC spokesmen said it was too early to say how many of the 28,000 employees were out.

Journalists Again Strike BBC

LEAD: A front-page headline in some editions yesterday about charges of sexual assault against a group of high school football players in Glen Ridge, N.J., misstated the nature of the case.

LEAD: An article on May 11 about the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition misstated the location of Youri Egorov's 1978 debut concert in New York. It was Alice Tully Hall, not Carnegie Hall.

LEAD: The Arab League ended a four-day summit meeting today without persuading Syria to withdraw its 40,000 soldiers from Lebanon.

Arab League Fails to Sway Syrians on Lebanon

LEAD: The ''At the Bar'' column on the Law page yesterday discussed lawyers' use of advertising, legalized 10 years ago. Describing the use of newspaper ads by some kinds of law firms, it said: ''One will never see Sullivan & Cromwell alongside the bartending schools or high school equivalency courses. Most are personal-injury firms, whose names, like Longi & Loscalzo or Gersowitz & Libo, seem lifted from the log at Ellis Island rather than the pages of Martindale-Hubbell.

Editors' Note

LEAD: A South African judge today sentenced 14 blacks to hang for the murder of a black policeman in the rural town of Upington three and a half years ago.

Judge Condemns 14 South Africa Blacks

LEAD: Government troops and leftist guerrillas clashed early today in some of the heaviest fighting in the capital in several years.

Salvadoran Army and Rebels Clash in the Capital

LEAD: In 1925, Fabiana Ghigliani's grandfather left Italy for Argentina, a land of hope in the New World.

Old Country Looks Good to Immigrants' Children

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May 27, 1989

Headlines from May 27, 1989

Quarters, Mints and Marks: Little Things Can Mean a Lot

Chinese Hard-Liner Tightens Grip As Attacks on His Rival Multiply

BUSH IS EXPECTED TO END SANCTIONS AGAINST MOSCOW

COELHO TO RESIGN HIS SEAT IN HOUSE IN FACE OF INQUIRY

New Fallout Over Ethics

Billboard 200

Like A Prayer

The Raw & The Cooked

G N' R Lies

Beaches

Loc-ed After Dark

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for May 27, 1989