LEAD: A tanker with a cargo of heating oil struck a reef near the entrance to Narragansett Bay off Newport, R.I., late yesterday afternoon, spreading 1 million gallons of No. 2 fuel oil over 50 square miles.

Tanker Strikes Reef Off Newport, Spilling Oil in Narragansett Bay

LEAD: The rabbits are plump and destined for the pot, and so, too, are the pigeons. Mohammed Awad, who keeps them in his yard, says that in their small way they represent a weapon against occupation.

Hunger, Yes, Surrender, No: Coping With Curfew in Gaza

LEAD: China's top officials were believed to be meeting in secret today to resolve the nation's political crisis, but while there were many rumors in the capital there was no confirmation of an outcome.

BEIJING'S LEADERS REPORTED TO MEET

INSIDE

LEAD: Cuba has gone to great lengths in the last few days to acknowledge that some of President Fidel Castro's closest aides were involved in smuggling drugs to the United States.

Cuba Discloses A Drug Network Of Top Officials

LEAD: The Supreme Court declared unanimously today that a Federal ban on commercial telephone messages that are ''indecent'' but not ''obscene'' violates the constitutional right to free speech.

JUSTICES UPHOLD BUSINESSES' RIGHT TO SELL PHONE SEX

LEAD: In an exceptional agreement, Stanford University will return the skeletal remains of about 550 Ohlone Indians to their descendants in Northern California for reburial.

Stanford Agrees to Return Ancient Bones to Indians

LEAD: The Supreme Court ruled that indigent inmates on death row do not have a right to a lawyer to help them in a second round of appeals. Page 8.

Court Curbs Death Row Rights

LEAD: High-ranking officials in the Department of Housing and Urban Development's New York regional office repeatedly solicited the people they regulate - builders, housing managers, architects, lawyers, local housing authority directors - for donations to favorite charities, causes and the going-away parties of these H.U.D.

New York H.U.D. Leaders Urged Housing Industry to Give to Causes

LEAD: Reports from the Government and the nation's automobile makers provided new evidence today that the economy was slowing sharply, touching off big rallies in the financial markets on enhanced prospects for controlling inflation and reducing interest rates.

New Signs of Economic Lag Touch Off Big Market Rallies

LEAD:  International 2-5  China's leaders have met in secret to resolve the nation's political crisis, say Chinese in a position to know. But while there were many rumors, there was no confirmation of an outcome. Page 1  China's symbols have new meaning since the pro-democracy demonstrations.

NEWS SUMMARY

LEAD: ''I hope that people who deal with the remains of Indians begin to interact with the descendants of those remains.'' - Rosemary Cambra, representative of the Ohlone tribe.  [ 6:4. ]

Quotation of the Day

LEAD: An article yesterday about the poisoning of a notable tree in Texas misidentified the Mayor of Austin. He is Lee Cooke. Sally Shipman is Mayor Pro Tem.

Corrections

LEAD: An article on Thursday about Prime Minister Michel Rocard of France misidentified another Socialist politician, Laurent Fabius. He is the President of the National Assembly, not the Senate.

LEAD: American officials said today that the cease-fire announced by leaders of the Angolan Government and Angolan rebel forces was a first step toward a political settlement, but that there was no agreement on a future government.

ANGOLA CEASE-FIRE A START, U.S. SAYS

LEAD: Because of a mechanical error, an article yesterday about West German relations with Poland omitted a passage in some copies. The passage should have read: ''There has also been speculation, denied by the Government, that the rise of the right-wing Republicans and the appointment of a Bavarian conservative, Theo Waigel, as Finance Minister in April strengthened the hand of politicians opposed to making too large a financial commitment to Poland.

LEAD: Despite consistent opposition from Mrs. Thatcher, the European Community has imposed economic sanctions on South Africa to force it to dismantle apartheid, and radical opponents of the South African Government have insisted on a full embargo.

Release Mandela, Thatcher Urges Pretoria Party Chief

LEAD: A bomb exploded outside a crowded market here today, killing 2 people and wounding 35. There was no claim of responsibility for the explosion, which occurred shortly before noon. Witnesses gave conflicting accounts, but some said they saw a man hurl a bomb from a rooftop. The attack came amid fears of an increase in violence after the inauguration on June 1 of President Alfredo Cristiani, a rightist.

Blast Kills 2 in San Salvador

LEAD: Andrei D. Sakharov, fresh from the kind of parliamentary confrontation in his own country that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher thrives on in hers, visited Mrs. Thatcher today with a message of skepticism about the West's ability to help President Mikhail S. Gorbachev change the Soviet Union.

Sakharov in Britain: Jab at Gorbachev

LEAD: An article on the Law page yesterday about the departing dean of the Harvard Law School misstated the size of a class there. Each of the three classes has about 540 students. The figures given for the graduating classes in 1981 and last year - 1,638 and 1,629 - were for the entire school.

LEAD: A picture caption in Weekend yesterday about the Dance Theater of Harlem misidentified the performers. They were Judy Tyrus and Augustus Van Heerden, not Virginia Johnson and Eddie J. Shellman.

LEAD: A Company News article by The Associated Press in Business Day yesterday referred incorrectly in some editions to the relationship between a store chain, Sam's Wholesale Club, and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Sam's is a Wal-Mart division.

LEAD: For generations, Nicaraguans have guarded their savings in piggy banks handmade by the potters of this tiny town.

San Juan Journal; Is Nicaraguan Piggy Bank an Endangered Species?

LEAD: President Corazon C. Aquino's outspoken economic planning minister resigned today, citing ''honest but irreconcilable differences'' on economic policy. The official, Solita C. Monsod, told Mrs. Aquino that she wanted the Government ''to speak with one voice'' during negotiations in Tokyo next month for a multilateral aid plan for the Philippines.

Manila Economic Aide Quits

LEAD: The dragons are everywhere in Beijing, and they are multiplying. Two of them twirl around the concrete pillars of the newly built International Hotel. Another pair, recently hatched, stretch over the entrance to the 16th-century Drum Tower.

Beijing Memo; All Fire and Vengeance,The Dragons Are Loose

Teklemariam Medhin Weldeslassie is an Eritrean long-distance runner who specializes in the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres. He represented his country at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.

Teklemariam Medhin, Eritrean runner

Teklemariam_Medhin

Jiang Zemin was a Chinese politician who served as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1989 to 2002, as chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2004, and as president of China from 1993 to 2003. Jiang was the fourth paramount leader of China from 1989 to 2002. He was the core leader of the third generation of Chinese leadership, one of four core leaders alongside Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Xi Jinping.

Jiang Zemin succeeds Zhao Ziyang to become the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.

June 24, 1989

Headlines from June 24, 1989

Tanker Strikes Reef Off Newport, Spilling Oil in Narragansett Bay

Hunger, Yes, Surrender, No: Coping With Curfew in Gaza

BEIJING'S LEADERS REPORTED TO MEET

INSIDE

Cuba Discloses A Drug Network Of Top Officials

Billboard 200

The Raw & The Cooked

Beaches

Don't Be Cruel

Like A Prayer

Full Moon Fever

Notable Births

Historical Events

Historical Context for June 24, 1989