LEAD: A majority of New Yorkers are dissatisfied with the city's efforts to help the homeless and say they are even willing to pay more taxes if the money is dedicated to improving their lot, according to a New York Times/WCBS-TV News Poll.

Poll Shows New Yorkers Fault City Efforts for the Homeless

LEAD: Officials here love their older residents, but with about half of the township's population of 22,000 made up of retirees and the percentage rising, they have decided that there can be too much of a good thing.

Limiting Retirees, Town Says It Isn't 'Florida of the North'

LEAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission approved new rules today that would allow the agency to begin paying rewards to people who provided information on insider trading cases.

S.E.C. Backs Rewards for Insider Data

LEAD: The National Association of Realtors wrote off Greg Laughlin as a probable loser when he ran for Congress in southeastern Texas last year, giving the maximum $10,000 to his opponent, Representative Mac Sweeney, a Republican.

Realtors' Political Arm Offers Lessons on Strength of PAC's

LEAD: What a difference a month has made in the way Consolidated Gold Fields P.L.C. deals with takeover bids.

At Gold Giant, Issue Now Is Price

LEAD: Some of New York City's largest supermarket chains said yesterday that they would limit and possibly end their sales of California table grapes because they are concerned about pesticides used by grape growers.

Supermarkets Plan to Boycott Table Grapes

LEAD:  INTERNATIONAL  Japan agreed to give foreign companies greater access to its mobile telephone market. The agreement, which is the most significant fruit yet of the tough trade law that Congress enacted last year, applies to all foreign companies that seek access to Japan's telecommunications market.

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: BERKELEY, Califs., is a haven for renegade thinkers, and one of the most flamboyant is the architect Christopher Alexander. With his look of an English schoolboy and air of a philosopher, the 52-year-old Vienna-born design theorist has been a hero to students since the 1960's. Young people are drawn to Mr.

Rebel's Quest Is to Make Every Client An Architect

LEAD: The Department of Veterans Affairs, whose mortgage guarantee program has helped 12 million veterans buy houses since 1944, is suffering heavy losses from increasing defaults. And the way it handles those defaults is causing problems for another agency, the Government National Mortgage Association, which is known as Ginnie

Rising V.A. Mortgage Losses Spell Trouble at Other Agency

LEAD: Ending a 17-month racketeering trial, a Federal jury yesterday convicted seven men of being members or associates of a murderous crew of the Gambino crime family that operated out of a Brooklyn apartment.

Seven Guilty In Racket Case At Mob Trial

LEAD: The Rose Garden is getting crowded.

Campaign Matters; Political Pruning May Cut Crowd In Rose Garden

LEAD: The chairman of a group affiliated with the Republican National Committee received $50,000 for what Federal investigators described as ''questionable'' consulting work on behalf of the City of New Haven in its successful bid for a $10 million Federal housing grant.

HOUSING AUDITORS QUESTION PAYMENT TO G.O.P. OFFICIAL

LEAD: The Japanese Government was thrown into a renewed political crisis today amid widespread reports that Prime Minister Sousuke Uno told his aides he was considering resigning because of his involvement with a former geisha and his loss of political backing within his party.

Reports That Premier Might Quit Plunge Tokyo Into Renewed Crisis

LEAD: In California, the most populous and by many gauges the richest state in the nation, half the children have not been fully immunized against disease, one of five has no health insurance, children are more than twice as likely to be jailed than children nationwide and are 50 percent more likely to be abused.

California Receives Grade of 'D' In Study of Children's Condition

LEAD: There is no better place than the royal capital of Louis XVI to grasp the ambivalence that pervades the ceremonies marking the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution.

Versailles of 1989: Louis XVI Rates a Cheer

LEAD: The Government's chief economic forecasting gauge fell 1.2 percent in May, the biggest decline in 18 months and the third in the last 4 months, the Commerce Department reported today.

Economic Index Down 1.2%; Biggest Decline in 18 Months

LEAD: The Banc One Corporation of Columbus, Ohio, one of the nation's most profitable banking companies in recent years, was selected by Federal regulators late today to acquire the operations of the 20 banks in Texas formerly controlled by Mcorp.

Banc One Gets Units In Texas

LEAD:  Economic Gauge Posts a Big Decline  In yet another sign of a slowdown in economic growth, the Government's index of leading indicators declined 1.2 percent in May, the largest drop in 18 months. Page D1.  Envoys Summoned Home  China has recalled its ambassadors in what may be an effort to address reaction abroad, Western diplomats and Chinese officials said.

INSIDE

LEAD: Executives at the Ford Motor Company are dismayed that the auto maker is spending the equivalent of $311 a vehicle for health care for its American employees, while in Canada, a half-hour drive from Ford's headquarters in Michigan, the cost is $49.80.

Debating Canadian Health 'Model'

LEAD: Facing a threat by the Bush Administration to impose heavy penalties on its exports to the United States, Japan agreed today to provide foreign companies greater access to its mobile telephone market.

JAPAN TO GIVE U.S. INCREASED ACCESS IN KEY TRADE AREA

LEAD: Shareholders of the Long Island Lighting Company overwhelmingly gave final approval today to the utility's plan to abandon the $5.5 billion Shoreham nuclear power plant, which it spent 20 years preparing.

Lilco Shareholders Vote to Abandon Shoreham Plant

LEAD: MUCH of the delight of a cottage garden is in its easygoing mixture of old-fashioned herbs and flowers. Instead of tightly tidy rows and rigid color schemes, a sweet disorder prevails.

Sweet Disorder: Plants That Sow to Grow Again

LEAD: IN the pottery and porcelain of most of the world, there are few developments that do not have some relation to Chinese ceramics. An exhibition that gives some sense of the evolution and highlights of Chinese ceramics, as well as a shorter history of Japanese ceramics, can be seen at the Asia Society in Manhattan through Sept.

A History of Asian Ceramics, All in One Place

LEAD: A Delaware court today declined to block the annual stockholders meeting of Time Inc., which is scheduled for Friday.

Court Declines to Block Time Inc. Meeting

LEAD: LENORA LIPSCHUTZ, the mother of Suzanne Lipschutz, has strong opinions about her New York daughter's weekend place in the Art Deco district of Miami Beach, not far from the North Miami Beach apartment that Mrs. Lipschutz, formerly of Brooklyn, has occupied for 18 years. ''Listen, it's her life,'' Mrs.

June 29, 1989

Headlines from June 29, 1989

Poll Shows New Yorkers Fault City Efforts for the Homeless

Limiting Retirees, Town Says It Isn't 'Florida of the North'

S.E.C. Backs Rewards for Insider Data

Realtors' Political Arm Offers Lessons on Strength of PAC's

At Gold Giant, Issue Now Is Price

Billboard 200

The Raw & The Cooked

Don't Be Cruel

Beaches

Full Moon Fever

Like A Prayer

Historical Context for June 29, 1989