LEAD: The Supreme Court today gave states the right to impose sharp new restrictions on abortion in a splintered decision indicating that a majority of the Court no longer considers abortion to be a fundamental constitutional right.

SUPREME COURT, 5-4, NARROWING ROE V. WADE, UPHOLDS SHARP STATE LIMITS ON ABORTIONS

LEAD: The Supreme Court ruling on abortion will move the issue to the center of the nation's political debate and lead to a bitter 50-state battle that is certain to spill over to the 1990 elections, people on both sides predicted today.

On Both Sides, Advocates Predict a 50-State Battle

LEAD: The Florida A & M University band calls itself the Marching 100. But it isn't. Its members number 250, not 100. And they don't march. They boogie.

A Birthday Gift to France: 500 American Feet in Paris

LEAD: Because of holiday production requirements, The Times is printed today in two sec-tions. Science Times beings on page 15, Busines Day on page 40.

Holiday Box

LEAD:  More Trouble at H.U.D.  The Government is considering changes in a program that has left it liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in mortgages on troubled housing projects for the elderly. Page 6.  U.S. Protests to Beijing  The American Embassy formally protested what it called a ''premeditated'' attack on a foreigners' compound in Beijing a month ago.

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LEAD: In an extraordinary rebuke to Japan's long-entrenched political establishment, Prime Minister Sousuke Uno's Liberal Democratic Party has suffered sharp losses in a Tokyo municipal election that appeared to portend further setbacks in national elections this month.

Japanese Governing Party Suffers Big Losses in Municipal Elections

LEAD: Andrei A. Gromyko, the former Foreign Minister whose enigmatic scowl was the face of Soviet foreign policy for most of the postwar period, died on Sunday, two weeks short of his 80th birthday.

Gromyko, 79, Soviet Voice, Dies of Stroke

LEAD: In the next term, the Court will rule on abortion cases involving private clinics and parental notification. Page 10.

The Stage Is Set For Further Battle

LEAD: The first order of business for Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d on his weeklong Pacific tour will be finding a way to avoid being pulled into the scandal swirling around Japan's beleaguered Prime Minister, Sousuke Uno.

Baker Heads for Japan (Scandal on His Mind)

LEAD: Drawing ever finer distinctions between permissible and impermissible Government commemorations of religion, the Supreme Court ruled today that the Constitution did not permit Allegheny County, Pa., to display a Nativity scene in its courthouse.

RELIGIOUS DISPLAYS

LEAD:  INTERNATIONAL 2-5  Losses in a Tokyo municipal election were suffered by Prime Minister Uno's Liberal Democratic Party in an extraordinary rebuke to nation's entrenched political establishment. Page 1

NEWS SUMMARY

LEAD: ''The biggest winners today are the tiniest people of all - children within the womb.''  - Archbishop John May of St. Louis, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.  [ 1:5. ] ''Now, a woman's access to abortion will become hostage to geography as states enact a patchwork of laws and regulations aimed at blocking abortions.

Quotations of the Day

LEAD: Lebanese Muslim and leftist militias backed by Syria offered tonight to lift a land and air blockade of the country's embattled Christian enclaves, but called for major concessions in return.

Lebanese Muslims Offer Deal to Christians

LEAD: The Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa today reversed his decision not to run in Peru's presidential elections next year as the candidate of the center-right. Mr. Vargas Llosa withdrew June 21 as candidate for the Democratic Front coalition, but he said the Popular Action Party and the Popular Christian Party have now agreed to present joint candidates in cities with more than 50,000 people.

Peru Author Seeks Presidency

LEAD: In its first major legislative initiative, the month-old rightist Government has introduced a broad package of legal measures that would crack down on dissent and peaceful means of protest. If approved by the Government-controlled legislature, the changes would make it a crime, punishable by a long jail term, to lobby international organizations to denounce human rights violations, or to possess or distribute information that ''subverts the public order.

Salvadoran Government Proposes Laws to Crack Down on Dissent

LEAD: With votes still being counted and political tension rising, both the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party and Mexican opposition parties today were claiming victory in elections Sunday in the states of Baja California Norte and Michoacan.

All Parties Claim Victory in Mexican Voting

LEAD: An article on June 26 about chromium contamination in New Jersey, referring to environmental problems around the country, misstated the location of Times Beach. It is in Missouri.

Corrections

LEAD: Chancellor Helmut Kohl has abandoned hopes for a symbolically important state visit to Poland this summer after German and Polish officials failed to agree on an aid package, his spokesman said today.

VISIT TO POLAND DELAYED BY KOHL

LEAD: An article on June 17 about the continued use of World War II aircraft misstated the position of the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery on proposals to ground such aircraft. The group supports the voluntary retirement of planes that are the last of their kind. It does not support the mandatory grounding of the planes.

LEAD: An article on Friday about Canada's decision to scale back a military buildup gave an incorrect date in some copies for the installation of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's Government. It was 1984. Because of an editing error, a passage in some copies also misstated the year the buildup was announced.

LEAD: In an interview published in Poland in advance of his visit beginning Sunday, President Bush has urged the Soviet Union to withdraw its troops from the country.

Bush, in Polish Press Interview, Urges a Pullout of Soviet Troops

LEAD: As a loose column of 15 Jewish settlers, outfitted in sun hats and canteens, tramped through this city's narrow alleys with a guard of 11 soldiers on Friday, Yossi Bahir produced a trumpet and began playing a popular Israeli folk song.

On the West Bank, Hiking Is Political

LEAD: A chart in Business Day on Thursday comparing the health-care systems of Canada and the United States omitted the names of two information sources. The information about medical technology was from the American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association.

LEAD: Because of an editing error, an obituary on Thursday about the British philosopher Sir Alfred Jules Ayer misstated the origin of another philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein. He was Austrian, not German.

LEAD: An article last Tuesday about Lisa Greene, a Brooklyn teen-ager who arranged a reunion with the firefighter who rescued her as a child, misidentified his unit and misstated the address of the fire. It was Engine Company 319, not 332; the fire was at 445 Ashford Street in the East New York section of Brooklyn, not 445 Astor Street in Sheepshead

Benjamin Büchel is a Liechtensteiner professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Swiss Challenge League club Vaduz, which he captains, and the Liechtenstein national team.

July 4, 1989

Headlines from July 4, 1989

SUPREME COURT, 5-4, NARROWING ROE V. WADE, UPHOLDS SHARP STATE LIMITS ON ABORTIONS

On Both Sides, Advocates Predict a 50-State Battle

A Birthday Gift to France: 500 American Feet in Paris

Holiday Box

INSIDE

Billboard 200

The Raw & The Cooked

Don't Be Cruel

Beaches

Full Moon Fever

Like A Prayer

Notable Births

Historical Context for July 4, 1989