LEAD: USING delicate laser ''tweezers'' to twist the tails of bacteria, scientists are exploring mechanisms of their propulsion, including the tiniest rotary motors in existence.

Laser 'Tweezers' Probe Nature's Tiniest Motors

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: Many of New York City's public school students are so lacking in mathematics skills that it will be difficult to absorb them into a rapidly changing city economy becoming ever more dependent on information-oriented industries, educators and economists say.

Students Poor In Math Pose Job Problem

LEAD: PATHOLOGISTS and other experts are questioning the long-term safety of materials and devices implanted into the human body for medical and cosmetic reasons.

Data Suggest That Implants May Pose Risk Of Later Harm

LEAD: The former Republican state chairman in Florida said today that he received more than $500,000 in cash and property for consulting work for developers seeking housing benefits from the Reagan Administration.

Former Florida G.O.P. Chief Got $500,000 for Lobbying of H.U.D.

LEAD: France's largest food company, BSN Groupe, is making a name for itself as a young giant in a hurry as it jockeys for position in the unified, barrier-free market that the European Community envisions for 1992.

1992 Whets BSN's Big Appetite

LEAD: With a one-line order issued on the final day of its term, the Supreme Court opened a new front in the battle over the constitutional right to privacy.

Does Right to Privacy Include Right to Die? Court to Decide

LEAD: The police here work in the face of a gnawing contradiction. The public wants them to crack down on drug use, but the state cannot keep the people they are arresting in prison.

Long Jail Sentences Run Into 109-Day Policy

LEAD: Once virtually absent from the upper ranks of the advertising industry, women are filling one of the newer and more critical roles in agency management: the pursuit of new business.

THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Advertising; Women Gain Foothold In Drive for Accounts

LEAD: The agreement Mexico reached with its American and other foreign bankers on Sunday, which provides the country with about $3 billion a year in new debt relief, was welcomed yesterday as a breakthrough in a seven-year stalemate that has weighed down Latin American economies and banking companies as well.

Mexican Debt Pact Welcomed

LEAD: In a staff shakeup that reflects fears his campaign for mayor of New York is floundering, Rudolph W. Giuliani has pressured three top advisers to step aside and added Roger Ailes, President Bush's media adviser, to the staff.

Giuliani Shifts 3 Top Advisers In G.O.P. Bid

LEAD: Honeywell Inc. made itself less attractive to corporate raiders today by saying it would cut 4,000 jobs, retreat from its $1.4 billion weapons business and provide added cash to shareholders.

Honeywell Raises Its Defenses

LEAD: When Tony Lordi was a little boy in Newark, he could glimpse the Empire State Building from some street corners. One day when he was 5 years old, his parents took him to see it.

Our Towns; An Artist Sees Icon of the Age In Empire State

LEAD: WHEN President Bush outlined his vision of America's future in space last week, Mars and the Moon outshone another initiative that the President said was critical to the space program: a 25-year effort using a new network of satellites to understand how the Earth's atmosphere, seas and living creatures function as a global system.

NASA Plans a 'Mission to Planet Earth'

LEAD: The men who pull the levers of power in Japan have governed for decades under one of this society's many unspoken accords: Keeping the Japanese economic miracle rolling, almost everyone agreed, depended on the stable command of a single political party.

Japan's Voters Rise Up

LEAD: The Bethlehem Steel Corporation practically created this brawny city, bringing not only smoke and grime but also decades of prosperity when it built one of the largest steel mills in the world here on the shore of Lake Erie.

As Prosperity of Steel Fades, A Town Debates Its Future

LEAD: Consumers are likely to face higher costs for electricity as a result of the three-month miners' strike that has curtailed Eastern coal production, for the strike has prompted several big utilities to conserve their coal supplies by curbing electricity sales to neighboring utilities.

Coal Strike Disturbs Supply Of Lower-Priced Electricity

LEAD:  Shamir Reported to Meet With Supporters of P.L.O  Israel's Prime Minister has been meeting Palestinians loyal to the Palestine Liberation Organization, Palestinians say. The reports support claims that Israel is indirectly dealing with the P.L.O. Page A8.  Further Delay for Reactors  The timetable for restarting any military reactors at the Savannah River weapons plant has been pushed back to September 1990.

INSIDE

LEAD: President Mikhail S. Gorbachev moved today to prevent further outbreaks of labor unrest by offering restive workers a chance to take out their fury on local party, government and union officials.

GORBACHEV PUSHES POLITICAL CHANGE AT LOCAL LEVELS

LEAD: Seven years after the Latin American debt crisis erupted here, Mexico is a country battered by debt-induced austerity, in which the $100 billion owed to foreign creditors is likely to remain the dominant factor in the nation's economic and political life despite the new debt accord.

Mexico Feels Squeeze of Years of Austerity

LEAD: The Eastman Kodak Company said yesterday that it would take a one-time charge of $225 million, or 70 cents a share, in the second quarter as a result of write-offs for restructured businesses and payments to departing employees.

Kodak Plans $225 Million Charge on Net

LEAD: Hours after the Delaware Supreme Court removed the final roadblock, Time Inc. today gained control of Warner Communications Inc. The merger will create one of the largest communications and entertainment companies in the world.

Time Inc. Gains Control of Warner Within Hours of Court Approval

LEAD: The Exxon Corporation yesterday put the cost of the Exxon Valdez cleanup at $1.28 billion, which would make the March 24 catastrophe one of the most expensive industrial accidents in history.

EXXON ESTIMATING $1.28 BILLION COST FOR SPILL CLEANUP

LEAD: ''We need someone who can rebuild the party in the long term.

Quotation of the Day

LEAD: A Brooklyn grand jury voted yesterday not to indict a man that the police said was the gunman who asked, ''Remember me?'' before shooting three people who supposedly had robbed him the night before.

Grand Jury Chooses Not to Indict Suspect In Brooklyn Attack

Natalia Stanislavovna Vieru is a Russian former basketball player. She is a member of the Russia women's national basketball team and competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics. Vieru played last for the Russian club UMMC Ekaterinburg as a center from 2015 to 2020.

Natalia Vieru, Russian basketball player

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Steve Rubell was an American entrepreneur and co-owner of the New York City disco Studio 54.

July 25, 1989

Headlines from July 25, 1989

Laser 'Tweezers' Probe Nature's Tiniest Motors

BUSINESS DIGEST

Students Poor In Math Pose Job Problem

Data Suggest That Implants May Pose Risk Of Later Harm

Former Florida G.O.P. Chief Got $500,000 for Lobbying of H.U.D.

Billboard 200

Batman (Soundtrack)

The Raw & The Cooked

Don't Be Cruel

Hangin' Tough

Full Moon Fever

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for July 25, 1989