LEAD:  I. F. Stone Dies at 81  I. F. Stone, the muckraking pamphleteer who tirelessly crusaded for peace and civil liberties and against official evasion and wrongdoing, died at the age of 81. Page D13.  Death Penalty: In Limbo  Thirteen years after the Supreme Court restored it, capital punishment is bogged down in a costly legal and emotional morass.

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LEAD: The Sara Lee Corporation knows there is magic in a good name, and its own is something of a marvel: look once and you see cheesecake, but look again and you see shoe polish, coffee, combs and brushes, toothpaste, packaged meats, underwear, gloves and pantyhose.

At Sara Lee, It's All in the Names

LEAD: New York City, now the preeminent world financial center, could watch that position erode and lose tens of thousands of financial services jobs unless both business and government take action, says a report by a task force of the city's top securities companies, banks and life insurance companies.

Action Urged To Retain Jobs In Finance

LEAD: By seeming never to make big mistakes, the Honda Motor Company became the envy of its bigger rivals through the 1980's. But in recent months, to the amazement of the auto industry here, Japan's most daring auto maker has been humbled - maybe briefly, maybe for longer.

Honda Gets a Taste of Humility

LEAD: The Mets today traded two of the blithe spirits and key players in their success of the last five years when they sent Roger McDowell and Lenny Dykstra to the Philadelphia Phillies for Juan Samuel, who will become the center fielder and leadoff hitter on a heavily revamped team.

Mets Get Samuel for McDowell, Dykstra

LEAD: HIS victory on center court at Roland Garros in Paris was still fresh, but on this night last week, Michael Chang was playing Johan Kriek on a bandbox grass court where wide serves thud off the plywood protecting the temporary stands. Contented Dutch cows moo in the nearby meadows and gnats pester the players between points.

17-Year-Old Chang Follows A Carefully Laid Game Plan

LEAD: High levels of ozone and acid rain, pollution normally associated with industrialization, have been found for the first time over the virgin rain forests of Central Africa.

High Ozone and Acid-Rain Levels Found Over African Rain Forests

LEAD: Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou lost control of the Greek Parliament in national elections on Sunday, but his conservative challengers may not have won the majority needed to form a government.

PAPANDREOU LOSES MAJORITY CONTROL IN GREEK ELECTION

LEAD: If a white candidate coined the campaign slogan ''strong enough to hold the line,'' some people might suggest that the subliminal message was racist.

Campaign Matters; Anti-Bias Pledge: When the Cases Are Hard to Call

LEAD: Over the last decade, the world had grown used to a China that seemed inexorably on the move toward the free market of ideas, as well as of commodities; a land of cordial, even convivial Communism.

Crackdown in China; Which China Is for Real?

LEAD: Only a few years ago, designer status most often took the form of the crossed G's of Gucci, or Ralph Lauren's signature polo horse. But a new kind of designer label is captivating millions of Americans: the Lone Star symbol of the Dallas Cowboys, or the Penn State Nittany Lion.

Sports Logos Become Symbols of Big Profits

LEAD: Curtis Strange executed one of the most efficient rounds of championship golf within memory today to become the first man to win a second consecutive United States Open title since Ben Hogan did it in 1951.

Strange Takes 2d Straight Open Title

LEAD: The United States and Japan appear close to settling their long-running dispute over American access to the cellular telephone market here, officials from both countries have said. The United States had threatened to take retaliatory action within a month, All last week, the Posts and Telecommunications Ministry published proposals in the Japanese press to resolve the dispute, which has deeply divided the Japanese bureaucracy.

Japan Pact On Phones Expected

LEAD: Socialists and environmentalists appeared to have made strong gains in all 12 countries of the European Community today, according to initial results of voting for seats in the European Parliament.

ENVIRONMENTALISTS AND SOCIALISTS GAIN IN EUROPEAN VOTE

LEAD: From giant corporate headquarters to small businesses to Americans traveling abroad, the startling rise of the dollar over the last six weeks is beginning to be felt.

Strong Dollar May Cut Prices But It Lowers Profits as Well

LEAD: In the latest repercussions of a widening stock scandal, the president of Brazil's central bank and the head of Rio's stock exchange have announced their resignations.

Resignations Over Scandal In Brazil

LEAD: With the strike at Tavern on the Green entering its eighth week, the dispute at the Central Park landmark has deepened into an angry urban battle involving a flamboyant restaurateur, a powerful union local with underworld ties and a Federal grand jury investigation.

Labor Strife Turns a Restaurant Into a Combat Zone

LEAD:  THE ECONOMY  The dollar's startling rise is beginning to be felt by giant corporations, small businesses and overseas travelers. The increase, if sustained, bodes ill for the trade deficit and the economy. For now, companies with large foreign operations expect lower profits, but Americans traveling abroad are getting more for their money.

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: ''If you have nothing to say, sing it,'' David Ogilvy, the advertising genius, once declared.

Fewer Ad Jingles Are Heard As Madison Ave. Shifts Beat

LEAD: Come fall, a long-delayed piece of Interstate 78 crossing the Delaware River here is to open, tightening the bonds between exurban western New Jersey and rural Pennsylvania and creating a new migration route for disenchanted Jerseyans.

For Jerseyans, a New Route to Escape High Living Costs

LEAD: ''For Sale'' signs have begun to sprout at small gasoline stations across the country as owners find they cannot afford the cost of complying with new Government regulations aimed at protecting underground water from leaks from gasoline storage tanks.

Fuel-Leak Rules May Hasten End Of Mom and Pop Service Stations

LEAD: Talks on strategic nuclear weapons resume in Geneva today, but for the first time in 20 years they are no longer the top American arms control priority. Conventional arms talks are.

Geneva Arms Talks: U.S. Shifts Priorities

LEAD: The Time-Warner-Paramount imbroglio has featured shifting rumors and wild swings in sentiment about who will win. Now, as the battle nears a legal showdown, the company name on the tongue of nearly every trader is Macmillan Inc.

Market Place; In Time Inc. Battle, Eyes Are on the Courts

LEAD: A brief report from the official New China News Agency today added to the mystery of who the next Communist Party General Secretary will be.

'A' Party Chief Vs. 'the' Chief

LEAD: To get to Pine Lake, his property deep within the Adirondacks, Dr. Vincent J. Vaccaro has to use a four-wheel-drive vehicle over four miles of bumpy, muddy roads. He has to drive through a river, 20 feet wide, that swells when it rains.

Adirondack Case Tests Eminent Domain

Elisabet "Betti" Alver, was one of Estonia's most notable poets. She was among the first generation to be educated in schools of an independent Estonia. She went to grammar school in Tartu.

June 19, 1989

Headlines from June 19, 1989

INSIDE

At Sara Lee, It's All in the Names

Action Urged To Retain Jobs In Finance

Honda Gets a Taste of Humility

Mets Get Samuel for McDowell, Dykstra

Billboard 200

The Raw & The Cooked

Beaches

Like A Prayer

Don't Be Cruel

Forever Your Girl

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for June 19, 1989