June 17, 1989

LEAD: Consumer Prices Up 0.6%

LEAD: The Bush Administration will seek to negotiate and carry out some measures to monitor Soviet strategic forces before completing a new strategic arms treaty, a senior Defense Department official said today.

LEAD: The inspector general of the Department of Housing and Urban Development told Congress today that Samuel R. Pierce Jr. was ''quite concerned'' while he was Secretary that investigators were moving too quickly last year in pursuing allegations of influence peddling at senior levels of the agency.

LEAD: Near the sixth hole at Oak Hill Country Club, not far from the blue forget-me-nots in the muddy creek in front of the green, a historical marker reads, ''Denonville with army of 3,000 French and Indians crossed these grounds twice in July, 1687.'' Now another historical marker should be placed there.

LEAD: Twelve days after soldiers machine-gunned civilians on the streets, the Government seems to have willed the capital back to normal life, with buses and bicycles rolling down streets and markets filled with the latest harvest of watermelons.

LEAD: The future of student- and teacher-exchange programs that have brought tens of thousands of Chinese to the United States and sent smaller numbers of Americans to China has been thrown into doubt by the events in China.

LEAD: Thirty-one years after he was hanged and his body thrown into a prison grave, Imre Nagy, who led the 1956 uprising against Soviet domination, was given a solemn funeral today on Budapest's largest square, followed by a hero's burial.

LEAD: The New York State Board of Regents voted unanimously today to prohibit commercially sponsored television programs in the state's public schools, dealing a severe blow to the company that hopes to beam a daily news broadcast for teen-agers into the nation's classrooms.

LEAD: After its electoral victory in Poland, the Solidarity union has circulated sweeping proposals to non-Communist industrialized nations calling for $10 billion in relief for the Polish economy over three years.

LEAD: Time Inc. took a new approach yesterday to its goal of joining with Warner Communications Inc. and offered to buy the company for $14 billion.

LEAD: ''The neat part for me was that I was on the 12th tee, less than 100 yards from the 6th green, when Mark got his hole-in-one.

LEAD: Baron Armel de Wismes, who puts on a black tie of mourning on the anniversary of Louis XVI's execution, is not enthused about the festivities marking the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution.