June 13, 1992

Mayor David N. Dinkins lashed out at the Board of Education yesterday, one day after school officials blamed city budget cuts for disappointing results in reading and math scores. But in a three-page statement, the Mayor never mentioned the scores, which dropped sharply this spring. Instead, he focused on the board's quarrelsome handling of a new AIDS curriculum and what he called its "ineffectual governance" of the school system. - He also renewed his call for a new 11-member board dominated by mayoral appointees; the Mayor now appoints two of the seven board members. A Defensive Strike

Six Newark police officers under investigation in the shooting of a 17-year-old suspected car thief were suspended from duty without pay today, and the city's Mayor and police director complained that the officers' statements about the shooting were too sketchy. "There's still a lot of gaps in statements we want to see answered," said William R. Celester, the police director, as he announced the suspensions at a news conference. "We're just not satisfied the whole truth is out there."

Years before the case provoked a furor in the United States and Israel, Federal prosecutors were confronted with doubts about John Demjanjuk, the retired Cleveland auto worker whom they had identified as Ivan the Terrible, the savage operator of the gas chambers at the Nazis' Treblinka death camp. In interviews in recent days, George L. Parker, a member of the Demjanjuk prosecution team, recalled conversations with other lawyers on the case in which he discussed his misgivings about whether Mr. Demjanjuk was in fact the murderous Ivan of Treblinka.

Vice President Dan Quayle today delivered the Bush campaign's most direct and forceful attack yet on Ross Perot, calling him a "temperamental tycoon who has contempt for the Constitution of the United States." As the Bush team searches for weapons to use against Mr. Perot's undeclared independent candidacy, the Vice President offered voters what amounted to a political ultimatum: elect a Republican Congress to work with President Bush in a second term, or choose a Democratic President.

Moscow Says It Held G.I.'s Russia's President told a Senate committee in a letter that the Soviet Union imprisoned American servicemen during World War II. Page 6. Burden of Serbia's Partner As international sanctions take hold, Montenegro is growing restive in its role in Yugoslavia. Many citizens suggest a complete break. Page 3. Opposing F.B.I.'s Bias Pact A predominantly white group of F.B.I. agents is questioning the bureau's settlement of a discrimination complaint by black agents. Page 7. Redirecting Tax Incentives Mayor Dinkins and City Council leaders agreed to encourage development outside Manhattan in an overhaul of tax incentives. Page 25. Bulls Near Second Title The Bulls, behind Michael Jordan's 46 points, won in Portland, 119-106, and can repeat as N.B.A. champions in Chicago tomorrow. Page 29 Inflation? Barely a Trace Consumer prices rose just 0.1 percent in May, and the report seems likely to nudge the Federal Reserve closer to cutting interest rates. Page 35.