INSIDE

LEAD: A $500 million mixed-use complex meant to provide a comfortable outdoor environment even when the temperature soars above 100 degrees is rising on eight downtown blocks in this city known as the Valley of the Sun.

FOCUS;
Outdoor 'Air-Conditioning' for a Phoenix Complex

LEAD: Tony Coelho's fund-raising ability never extended to personal finances.

Behind Coelho's Troubles

LEAD: ''What's the pay like? Rotten, as usual?''

Working the Floor at a Job Fair

LEAD: In what seemed too tall a task even for Michael Jordan, the Chicago Bulls erased a 13-point deficit in the final six minutes today to stun the Detroit Pistons, 99-97, and take a lead of 2 games to 1 in the Eastern Conference championship series.

Jordan Basket Wins It

LEAD: It is the same sport but a different game, with the rules, the duties and even the environment influencing the way a basketball coach approaches his job at the college or the professional level. There is, however, at least one similarity. As Rick Pitino has discovered, a coach with a high-profile job at any level is subject to intense public scrutiny.

Basketball's 2 Stressful Worlds Offer Coaches a Tough Choice

LEAD: The Sharpstown Pirates Little League team lost its last game of the season, but after the final inning, a 15-year-old Pirates player with cerebral palsy was hoisted amid cheers onto the shoulders of his teammates.

Hero Lifts Team Spirit

LEAD: Capitol Hill braced today for more partisan bloodletting after the announcement by Representative Tony Coelho, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, that he would resign to spare his family and his Democratic colleagues the turmoil of a lengthy investigation of his finances.

Republicans Vow to Press Attack on Ethics While Digging in for Democratic Reprisals

LEAD: China's student leaders today called for an end to their two-week occupation of Tiananmen Square, in the center of the capital, but said that they would continue to hold large-scale demonstrations to press for greater democracy and the resignation of Prime Minister Li Peng.

CHINESE STUDENTS URGE END TO SIEGE OF BEIJING SQUARE

LEAD: ''It's a breath mint,'' says Robin Williams, spurred by it's-impossible-to-say-exactly-what. ''No, it's a paper,'' he continues, and now it's getting clearer. The rhythms of the contrast come from an old TV commercial for Certs. But where is he going?

Robin Williams, the Comic, Confronts Robin Williams, the Actor

LEAD: AFTER more than two decades of trying to obliterate their house-trailer heritage, manufacturers of modular houses are finally persuading skeptics to buy housing off the assembly line.

Modular Housing Gaining Acceptance

LEAD: FIFTEEN years ago, a Democratic Congress forced a Republican President from power, striking a blow against what had come to be called ''the Imperial Presidency.'' Ever since, Republicans have bemoaned the rise of what they called ''the Imperial Congress.''

Partisan Rancor Fuels Warfare Over Ethics

LEAD: Representative Jim Jeffords, the genial, boyish-looking Vermont Republican, had just finished telling a group of arts advocates gathered in Washington last month how devoted he was to cultural pursuits - his grandfather, he said, was an architect and his mother an art teacher. Then he came to his main point.

Arts Dollars: Pinched As Never Before

LEAD: ''CRACK is very bad for you,'' Jon Draskovich, a first grader at Middlebrook Elementary School in Trumbull, wrote in his essay. For Jon and the 15 other children in Amy Traggianese's class, putting pen to paper that day was not part of a writing lesson. Instead, they were taking part in a curriculum aimed at preventing drug abuse.

Children Learning ABC's of Drug Abuse

LEAD: Spring planting, always a season of hope, has taken on a heightened sense of expectation this year in California's bountiful valleys as some of the nation's largest farms begin experiments in growing fruits and vegetables without synthetic chemicals.

Big Farm Companies Try Hand at Organic Methods

LEAD: PLANS for the Villages at Rocky Fork, a golf course and housing development on 4,200 acres 20 miles northeast of Columbus, have run into an obstacle.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: COLUMBUS, OHIO;
Static From Radio Church

LEAD: President Bush told Italian leaders that Soviet proposals to reduce conventional arms could lead to reductions in U.S. forces in Europe. His spokesman said the issue would be discussed at the NATO summit talks on Monday and Tuesday.  Article, page 18.

Bush on Troops

LEAD: Driven by the explosive growth of state-sponsored lotteries, gambling is becoming a national pastime.

States Sell Chances for Gold As a Rush Turns to Stampede

LEAD: IT was as if the clock in China had been set back decades, to the politics of intrigue and purge. Suddenly, instead of the exuberance of people power in the streets of Beijing, instead of throngs of joyful students marching for democracy, the focus shifted last week to a secret power struggle at the top of the Communist

The Same Old Response, But Not the Same Old China

LEAD: In an effort to provide more housing for the elderly in Harlem, the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development has teamed up with one of the city's largest black churches to build an apartment house at 2177 Frederick Douglass Boulevard at 118th Street. The building will be named Wyatt Tee Walker Senior Housing.

POSTINGS: Building in Harlem; Housing the Aged

LEAD:  THE GOOD TIMES  By Russell Baker.  Illustrated. 351 pp. New York:  William Morrow & Company. $19.95.

STILL GROWING UP: A REPORTER'S JOURNEY

LEAD: Ultimately, the early issues before the single-party new Soviet congress are evoking the scene of a bare-knuckled American party convention with a rock-solid majority starting to roll, its path greased by control of the rules.

Deputies in Soviet Congress Learn That Party Still Wins

LEAD: The 13 member countries of OPEC will meet in Vienna on June 2, when they will consider requests for increases in the production quotas of some members and a proposal by Saudi Arabia to set a $15-a-barrel floor price for crude oil. Four experts consider what the outcome of the meeting could mean for oil supplies and prices.

Prospects; As OPEC Prepares to Meet

LEAD: WHEN Harold F. Bernstein, a 28-year-old lawyer, joined a law firm in New York City, he decided to live in Stamford, where he was born and raised. In particular, he said, he wanted to remain a member of Congregation Agudath Sholom, where his children would represent the fifth generation of the family's involvement in the synagogue since its founding 100 years ago.

Sense of Continuity Helps Stamford Synagogue Flourish at 100

LEAD: He was still aching from the loss, from another day gone by without so much as a mild threat or a late-inning rally. The crowd had booed when the game was over, and in the quiet moments afterward, Dallas Green again continued to search for answers.

May 28, 1989

Headlines from May 28, 1989

INSIDE

FOCUS; Outdoor 'Air-Conditioning' for a Phoenix Complex

Behind Coelho's Troubles

Working the Floor at a Job Fair

Jordan Basket Wins It

Billboard 200

Like A Prayer

The Raw & The Cooked

G N' R Lies

Beaches

Loc-ed After Dark

Historical Context for May 28, 1989