July 11, 1990

LEAD: JERK-STYLE Jamaican barbecue is more prevalent than McDonald's along East 233d Street in the Bronx, and Allan Vernon is known there as Vernon, the King of Jerk.

LEAD: The economic world focused on the business of the seven leading industrial powers here, but Houston's food community has been obsessed since April with the politics of culinary summitry. The chefs and caterers wanted to do their part to make Houston look good after so many years at the bottom of the oil barrel.

LEAD: Judge Orders Vote Monitors At All Teamster Locals A Federal judge ordered the teamsters' union to put court-appointed monitors at each local to scrutinize the election of national officers. The judge said the monitors were needed because teamster leaders had tried to sabotage Federal efforts to rid the union of criminal influence.

LEAD: John A. Mulheren Jr., once an aggressive Wall Street speculator, was convicted yesterday of conspiring with Ivan F. Boesky to illegally manipulate stock prices, conduct sham transactions and exchange confidential market information.

LEAD: The United Parcel Service said today that it planned to convert its 2,700 delivery trucks in the smog-choked Los Angeles area to run on cleaner-burning natural gas in the first major step by a company to comply with strict new vehicle-emissions laws here.

LEAD: The leaders of seven major industrial democracies effectively agreed today to go their own way on the matter of aid to the Soviet Union, European and American officials said tonight.

LEAD: Edgar B. sat with his 6-year-old child, Edgar B. Jr., at a small table. Each week, the Bronx Family Court allows the father exactly an hour-and-a-quarter of closely supervised time with his son. This was it.

LEAD: A panel of space agency experts has concluded that the nation's planned $37 billion space station will require nearly 75 percent more maintenance than predicted in even the most recent gloomy forecast.

LEAD: STEVEN RUBIN, who founded a large oil brokerage firm, flees his life several times a year for the Maharishi Ayur-Veda Health Center in Lancaster, Mass., a serene and elegant retreat where the emphasis is on integrating the mind and the body.

LEAD: Congressional investigators and tax officials reported new evidence today that American subsidiaries of foreign automobile and electronics companies have been underpaying Federal income taxes, with at least $13 billion in back taxes now being sought by the Government.

LEAD: James M. Fail, the Arizona insurance executive whose acquisition of 15 failed Texas savings and loan associations from the Federal Government is under Congressional scrutiny, has misled regulators in the past about his legal problems.

LEAD: Like many parents who cannot afford health insurance for their children, Edith M. Harris has known the guilt of delaying her sons' vaccinations and treating their fevers with compresses rather than antibiotics.