LEAD: Job growth continued to lag in June as the unemployment rate edged up one-tenth of a percentage point to 5.2 percent, the Labor Department reported today.

Jobless Report For June Shows A Rise to 5.2%

LEAD: Under fire from conservative Republicans, Drew E. Altman today withdrew his name from consideration to be administrator of the agency that oversees the $100 billion Medicare program. It was the second time in two days that a person chosen for a top Bush Administration position had withdrawn under such pressure.

Bush Choice for Health Post Withdraws Under Pressure

LEAD: Enraged mourners tried to attack Finance Minister Shimon Peres today at the funeral of a victim of a bus crash that killed 14 people, while in several other parts of the country angry Jews assaulted any Arabs they encountered.

Peres Escapes Crowd at Funeral As Rage Over Bus Attack Spreads

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LEAD: Declaring that the postwar era is over, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev spent three days in France this week trying to sketch his seductive but elusive concept of ''a common European home'' stretching from the Urals to the Atlantic.

His Blueprint for European Amity Is Fuzzy And Tinged by Hints of His Own Problems

LEAD: As Connecticut prepares, with other states, to carry out a new Federal law that requires most welfare recipients to accept job training, state officials have backed away from optimistic talk of breaking the welfare cycle by teaching people how to flip hamburgers or operate a cash register.

New Welfare Focus Is '4th R': Readiness

LEAD: Aam Kamel bought his first television set the other day, but by then it was much too late.

Egyptian Population Growth Strains Resources and Society

LEAD: Granting a waiver of the sanctions announced by President Bush last month, State Department officials said today that the Boeing Company could sell four commercial jetliners to China.

U.S. GRANTS BOEING A WAIVER TO SELL JETLINERS TO CHINA

LEAD: President Bush asked Congress today to increase salaries as much as 25 percent for 7,900 officials of the executive branch and to give larger raises to 200 of them who are Government specialists like doctors and scientists.

Bush Calls for Raises of Up to 25% For Officials of Executive Branch

LEAD: Raul Alfonsin, who brought to the Argentine presidency the hopes of a people trying to cast off a bitter history, leaves office on Saturday with his legacy hostage to the country's debilitating economic crisis.

Argentine Departs, Democracy Hardly Bankrupt

LEAD:  International 2-4, 24  The Boeing Company can sell China four commercial jetliners, the State Department said, granting a waiver of the sanctions announced by President Bush last month. Page 1  The need to maintain ties with China was stressed by officials of Southeast Asia in a meeting with Secretary Baker, who reaffirmed the U.S.

News Summary

LEAD: ''He's like a driver on a slippery road. He can't take the turns as if he were on a dry highway.''  - Foreign Minister Roland Dumas of France, speaking of President Mikhail S. Gorbachev.  [ 4:4. ]

Quotation of the Day

LEAD: Shen Tong spoke slowly to make sure his English would be understood as he described the tumultuous events that in the last seven weeks cast him first as a student leader in Beijing, then as a fugitive in hiding, and finally led him to the United States.

In U.S., Student Recalls China Tumult

LEAD: The Soviet Union has scaled back its nuclear testing program, possibly to ease concerns of Soviet citizens that the blasts are contaminating the environment, Bush Administration officials say.

Soviets Cut Back Nuclear Testing As Hazards Become a Local

LEAD: An article on Wednesday about an American aid pledge to the Philippines referred incorrectly to Corazon C. Aquino's succession to the presidency. She succeeded President Ferdinand E. Marcos immediately after he was toppled in 1986.

Corrections

LEAD: A Cuban military court today condemned a highly decorated former army general, the general's aide and two other former officers to death by firing squad for drug trafficking in the country's worst scandal since Fidel Castro seized power 30 years ago.

4 Cuban Officers Sentenced To Die for Drug Trafficking

LEAD: Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d said today that the countries of Southeast Asia had stressed to the United States the importance of ''maintaining open lines'' of communication with China despite the shooting of demonstrators in Beijing last month.

ASIAN ALLIES BACK U.S. CHINA POLICY

LEAD: A brief article on Thursday about memorial service plans for the journalist I. F. Stone misstated the location of the Ethical Culture Society, where a service will be held at noon on Wednesday. It is at 2 West 64th Street, not 66th Street.

LEAD: An art review on June 13 about the Hess Collection in Napa, Calif., misidentified an artist. He is Leopoldo I. Maler, not Maier.

LEAD: China accused foreign countries today of giving money and passports to leaders of the student democracy movement, whom it called ''a gang of political hooligans.''

Students' Foreign Aid Is Criticized by Beijing

LEAD: A map in some copies yesterday tracing the path of a storm system from the Pacific Ocean to the Eastern Seaboard misidentified the body of water southeast of North America.

LEAD: South Asia slips into Southeast Asia somewhere here in the Chittagong Hills, where the great floodplain of the Ganges and Brahmaputra gives way to sharp ridges and gorges whose depths are lost in tropical foliage.

Khagrachari Journal; Seeking Happiness High in the Hills

LEAD: Anupam Chakma traveled with more than 400 other tribespeople from the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh into this refugee sanctuary in May, escaping a reported Bangladesh Army crackdown, hiding in thick jungle in the day and moving only at night.

Under Cover of Darkness, 400 Flee to Haven in India

LEAD: The Bush Administration declared a permanent ban today on almost all foreign-made semiautomatic assault rifles. Imports of the weapons have been suspended since spring.

Import Ban on Assault Rifles Becomes Permanent

LEAD: A Federal district judge today placed a conservative fund-raiser, Carl R. Channell, on two years' probation but imposed no other penalties on him for using a tax-exempt foundation to funnel millions of dollars to the Nicaraguan rebels.

Probation for a Fund-Raiser In Tax Fraud for Contra Aid

Yarden Gerbi is an Israeli former judoka world champion. She won an Olympic bronze medal competing for Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in women's 63 kg judo.

Yarden Gerbi, Israeli Judo champion

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July 8, 1989

Headlines from July 8, 1989

Jobless Report For June Shows A Rise to 5.2%

Bush Choice for Health Post Withdraws Under Pressure

Peres Escapes Crowd at Funeral As Rage Over Bus Attack Spreads

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His Blueprint for European Amity Is Fuzzy And Tinged by Hints of His Own Problems

Billboard 200

The Raw & The Cooked

Don't Be Cruel

Full Moon Fever

Like A Prayer

Beaches

Notable Births

Historical Context for July 8, 1989