LEAD: The General Assembly approved today an overhaul of Connecticut's hospital regulation system and gave the State Correction Department an emergency authorization to suspend competitive bidding for one year to allow urgently needed prison expansion.

Curbs Voted For Hospitals In Connecticut

LEAD: Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan is urging the United States to try to persuade the Soviets to accept the departure of President Najibullah of Afghanistan, Pakistani officials said today.

Bhutto Urges U.S. to Start Seeking Political Solution for Afghanistan

LEAD: A state ethics commission yesterday criticized Gov. Mario M. Cuomo for ''blurring'' the distinction between his roles as Governor and fund-raising candidate.

Ethics Panel Says Cuomo 'Blurs' Roles

LEAD: The Justice Department said today that the antitrust division would oppose the plan of Eastern Airlines to sell its assets in Philadelphia to USAir Group Inc. for $85 million.

Justice Department to Oppose Eastern's Plan to Sell Gates

LEAD: As a young architect, Witold Rybczynski, author of the recently published book ''The Most Beautiful House in the World,'' recalls terrorizing his first clients (as with many young architects, the first clients were none other than his mom and dad).

A Place to Shelter Dreams

LEAD: It has been a year and a half since the first prisoners in New York State's shock incarceration program got off the bus at a prison camp in Beaver Dams in Schuyler County dressed in state-issued fatigues, hair cropped to a quarter inch and prepared for six months of paramilitary drills and drug therapy.

Albany Weighs Expanding 'Shock' Jails

LEAD: Time Inc. stock soared $44 yesterday, to a record $170 a share, as top executives of the communications giant met with advisers to consider how to fight off a $10.7 billion hostile takeover bid from Paramount Communications Inc.

Paramount Bid Lifts Time by $44

LEAD: The Soviet Prime Minister said today that the Government intended to continue steadily cutting the military budget until at least 1995, slashing annual spending by up to one-third.

Soviet Premier Says Cutbacks Could Reach 33% for Military

LEAD: A contentious six-day meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ended in disarray today after Kuwait refused to abide by the group's decision to raise only slightly the nation's production ceiling.

New OPEC Limits Meet Resistance

LEAD: Because of Shabuoth, the Feast of Weeks, alternate-side parking rules will be suspended in New York City tomorrow and Saturday. Other regulations will remain in effect.

Parking Rules

LEAD: Officials in this middle-class village rigged the distribution of federally subsidized houses in the early 1980's, selecting politically connected villagers and keeping out blacks, according to an audit by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

D'Amato, His Village and Favoritism in Housing

LEAD: THE porch was the apron of the house - the outdoors domesticated, the indoors given a breath of fresh air. Tack a porch onto a wooden facade and you bridged private and public space and allied welcome and retreat. The porch cosseted babies in arms and lovers on swings, Andy Hardy on its stoop and grandparents in the rocking chair.

The Return of a Native: The Front Porch

LEAD: IT took Judy Pfaff, a New York-based artist, 13 years to get around to concentrating on putting her house together. But last year, when she finally did, she built her dream house, or at least a small version of it.

Inside a Loft, A Cozy Cottage Nestles

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: Representative Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said today that he might reverse himself and consider a reduction in the capital-gains tax rate. President Bush contends that such a step would enhance economic growth and bring in more revenues without raising taxes.

Rostenkowski May Reverse Stand And Back Capital-Gains Tax Cut

LEAD: Residents of Sacramento, Calif., voted Tuesday to shut down their utility's only nuclear power plant, the first time voters have decided to close a working reactor.

Voters, in a First, Shut Down Nuclear Reactor

LEAD: Depositors withdrew billions of dollars from the nation's savings and loan associations in April, the Government reported today, but at a considerably slower rate than earlier this year.

Savings-Unit Withdrawals Are Smaller

LEAD: President Bush today rebuked one of the primary architects of his 1988 election triumph as the White House sought to blunt outrage in both parties over a Republican National Committee attack on the new House Speaker, Thomas S. Foley.

PRESIDENT REBUKES KEY ELECTION AIDE FOR FOLEY ATTACK

LEAD: Mismanagement at the department extends beyond a low-income houseing program now under investigation, a report says. Page B9.

Attack on H.U.D. Widens

LEAD: As reports of clashes between military units on the outskirts of Beijing continued, a major convoy of tanks and trucks returned to the capital early today, dashing hopes that the unit responsible for large-scale killing might be withdrawing.

FOREBODING GRASPS BEIJING; ARMY UNITS CRISSCROSS CITY; FOREIGNERS HURRY TO LEAVE

LEAD: Never mind what you've heard about David N. Dinkins, the Manhattan Borough President and a Democratic candidate for mayor.

New Slogan Says Dinkins Is Strong (Not Too Strong)

LEAD: The New York City Planning Commission unanimously approved broad new zoning rules yesterday that are meant to preserve the character of lower-density neighborhoods in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx and on Staten Island.

Planners Act to Save Low-Density Areas

LEAD: Steven J. Ross, his own dreams of taking control of Time Inc. perhaps shattered, now holds the trump card in deciding who will be able to buy Time, and on what terms.

Market Place; In the Time Inc. Game, Warner Head Has Aces

INSIDE

LEAD: As more than 100,000 aerospace executives converge in Paris for the opening on Thursday of their annual air show, the industry finds itself split.

For Air Industry, a Divided Outlook

Timea Bacsinszky is a Swiss former professional tennis player. A former top ten singles player, Bacsinszky reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 9, on 16 May 2016. She won four singles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as 13 singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit

June 8, 1989

Headlines from June 8, 1989

Curbs Voted For Hospitals In Connecticut

Bhutto Urges U.S. to Start Seeking Political Solution for Afghanistan

Ethics Panel Says Cuomo 'Blurs' Roles

Justice Department to Oppose Eastern's Plan to Sell Gates

A Place to Shelter Dreams

Billboard 200

The Raw & The Cooked

Beaches

Like A Prayer

Don't Be Cruel

G N' R Lies

Notable Births

Historical Context for June 8, 1989