LEAD: The election season in Eastern Europe, which began last March in East Germany, is ending in Bulgaria with what amounts to a referendum on the fate of the last ruling Communist Party in the Warsaw Pact outside the Soviet Union.

For Communists in Bulgaria, A Ballot With no Guarantees

LEAD: Gooey fist-size tar balls began washing ashore yesterday on several New York beaches as the impact of a 260,000-gallon oil spill on Thursday slowly spread from the site of a tanker accident in the Kill van Kull.

Tar Balls From Oil Spill Wash Up Along Beaches in Three Boroughs

LEAD: After Scott Heimdal, an American who was working at a mining company in Northern Ecuador, was abducted in that country April 28 and taken to Colombia by Colombian guerrillas, his captors demanded $1.2 million ransom.

Peoria Unites to Aid One of Town's Own, Hostage in a Jungle

LEAD: Defense Secretary Dick Cheney today ordered the Air Force to remove hundreds of short-range nuclear attack missiles from bombers in 10 states until safety studies are completed.

NUCLEAR MISSILES ON SOME BOMBERS TO BE WITHDRAWN CONCERN ON SAFETY CITED

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LEAD: With his final deadline only hours away, Acting Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir announced tonight that he had succeeded in forming a new Government, the most conservative ever in Israel.

SHAMIR ANNOUNCES A NEW GOVERNMENT OF THE RIGHT WING

LEAD: Amid the deafening roar of nearly 74,000 spectators, Cameroon upset the defending champion, Argentina, today in the opening match of the World Cup soccer tournament. The result was one of the most stunning in the event's 60-year history.

On World Soccer Stage, a Stunning First Act

LEAD: The Parliament of the Russian Federation directly challenged central authority over the largest and richest Soviet republic today by asserting that Russian laws take precedence over Soviet laws.

Evolution in Europe;   Russian Republic Asserts Its Laws Have Primacy Over Kremlin Rule

LEAD: In these bedraggled times, that old New York swagger has grown elusive. Yankee Stadium is just a ballpark in a bad neighborhood where a last-place team bumbles along. The British have bought Madison Avenue and the Japanese most everything else.

About New York;   The Doctor Is In (Row F, Seat 12); Now Sing Ahhhh!

LEAD:    International#2-5       A conservative Israeli government may take office. Acting Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir announced that he had finally succeeded in forming a new Government, which commentators are describing as the most conservative in the country's history.    Page 1       The U.S.-P.L.O.

News Summary

LEAD: ''What were these people thinking when they moved to the country? It's not like these farms snuck up on them.''     - Ray Dettmering, an Illinois farmer, responding to neighbors complaining about his plowing at night. [6:1.]

Quotation of the Day

LEAD: A picture yesterday with an article about Peter M. Brant, who was sentenced to prison for tax evasion in Bridgeport, Conn., was published in error. It showed a different Peter Brant - Peter N. Brant, who was sentenced in 1988 to eight months in prison for insider trading.

Corrections

LEAD: Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the premiers of Canada's 10 provinces reached agreement early today on a package of measures that clears the way for adoption of the Meech Lake constitutional agreement.

Canada Premiers Near Accord

LEAD: Because of an editing error, an article on May 16 about a dropout prevention program in New York City misstated the amount spent by the Board of Education per participant. It was $800, not $8,000.

LEAD: Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d indicated today that the Bush Administration was trying to do all it could to avoid breaking off the United States-P.L.O. dialogue because that would mean an end to the current peace process.

Baker Seeks to Avoid Breaking Off P.L.O. Talks

LEAD: An article on Wednesday about the likelihood of new appointments to the New York City Board of Education misidentified a current member, Dr. Gwendolyn C. Baker. She is national executive director of the Y.W.C.A. of the U.S.A.

LEAD: Representatives of Lebanon's rival Muslim factions held their first face-to-face peace talks in 16 months today, and said they were discussing ways to end three years of conflict for leadership of the Shiites.

Two Warring Shiite Factions In Lebanon Meet on Conflict

LEAD: A map of Czechoslovakia yesterday, with a chart about elections there, reversed two regional labels.

LEAD: Hundreds of Liberians are believed to have been killed in recent days in a surge of ethnic-related violence, Western diplomats and witnesses say.

Ethnic Slayings Are Reported in Liberia

LEAD: An article in some copies on Wednesday about primary elections around the country misstated the number of blacks who have served in the United States Senate. There have been three, all Republicans; the article omitted Blanche Kelso Bruce, a Reconstruction-era Senator from Mississippi who served from 1875 to 1881.

LEAD: India today rejected a suggestion from Pakistan that talks be held this month between high Foreign Ministry officials, ending a week of speculation that there is some immediate hope of reducing tension over the issue of Kashmir.

India Rejects Talks With Pakistan Over Kashmir

LEAD: One day after the Warsaw Pact announced that it no longer viewed NATO as an enemy, NATO agreed to extend an olive branch to the Soviet bloc, saying that it wanted to join with it in a partnership that would insure that the Soviet Union and its allies would not be isolated in Europe.

Evolution in Europe;   NATO Overture to a Rival

LEAD: For Lothar de Maiziere, the idea that he is about to be the first East German leader to visit the United States is not really that extraordinary.

Evolution in Europe: East Berlin Journal;   A First U.S. Visit, and Maybe a Last

LEAD: A Soviet airliner with 121 people aboard was hijacked by a teen-ager carrying a fake grenade and was forced to land at an airport north of here early today, the police said.

Youth Hijacks Soviet Airliner To Sweden, Then Surrenders

LEAD: The President of Soviet Uzbekistan said today that ethnic violence was spreading to his republic from neighboring Kirghizia and he asked Moscow to help stop skirmishes from degenerating into full-scale conflict in Central Asia.

Evolution in Europe;   Uzbek Leader Pleads for Moscow's Aid on Unrest

 Matthias Mayer is an Austrian retired World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic champion.

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June 9, 1990

Headlines from June 9, 1990

For Communists in Bulgaria, A Ballot With no Guarantees

Tar Balls From Oil Spill Wash Up Along Beaches in Three Boroughs

Peoria Unites to Aid One of Town's Own, Hostage in a Jungle

NUCLEAR MISSILES ON SOME BOMBERS TO BE WITHDRAWN CONCERN ON SAFETY CITED

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Billboard 200

Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Brigade

Pretty Woman

Poison

Notable Births

Historical Context for June 9, 1990