June 11, 1989

LEAD: Last Monday, the Supreme Court ruled on an employment discrimination case, Wards Cove Packing v. Atonio. The 5-to-4 decision shifted the burden of proof of discrimination in hiring onto the plaintiff - the job seeker. Previously, it was up to the defendant, the employer, to prove it had not engaged in discriminatory hiring practices.

LEAD: On his way to work, Roy Mayo took five plastic bags bulging with grass clippings and stuffed them in the trunk of his Buick.

LEAD: Easy Goer finally lived up to his spectacular promise of early spring yesterday when he roared past Sunday Silence on the turn for home and won the 121st Belmont Stakes by eight lengths. In doing so, he prevented Sunday Silence from becoming racing's 12th Triple Crown winner.

LEAD: Wittgenstein said it: whereof one cannot speak, one must not speak. The unspeakable draws its force and its mystery from its own silence. A 19th-century Hasidic teacher put it his own way: the cry unuttered is the loudest.

LEAD: THE House of Representatives is like a small town after a tornado these days.

LEAD: Policy Clash on Nicaragua

LEAD: Federal investigators say they have uncovered a nationwide pattern of embezzlement by contractors working for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, who they say have taken millions of dollars the Government should have received from the sale of homes obtained through foreclosure.

LEAD: In the first indication of what many fear will be a growing wave of arrests in the capital, the Government said today that it had arrested more than 400 participants in the democracy movement, including leaders of unofficial student and labor organizations.

LEAD: A publishing party will be held Thursday by the writers and editors of a booklet on how to preserve a house, street lamps, a patch of marsh - just about any part of the environment worth preserving. The party will start at 6 P.M. at the Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue at 51st Street, and the public is invited.

LEAD: The letter that Martin S. Davis, chairman of Paramount Communications Inc., received on Thursday from Time Inc.'s chairman, J. Richard Munro, was nothing short of scathing.

LEAD: ''MY boyfriend hits me once in a while. I know if we get married it will stop, because he'll have to mature.''

LEAD: Residents of the Boulevard Gardens development in Woodside, Queens, claimed victory - at least temporarily - last week in their efforts to prevent a sponsor from adding to the number of apartments in each of their 10 buildings. The complex covers a square block between 31st and 30th Avenues, and Hobart and 57th