LEAD: A Federal judge refused today to dismiss a suit against three cigarette manufacturers, saying sufficient evidence had already been presented for a jury to reasonably conclude that the companies had conspired to misrepresent and conceal the dangers of smoking.

END TO SUIT DENIED IN SMOKING DEATH

LEAD: The chance of catching the AIDS virus from a single act of heterosexual intercourse with an infected partner is 1 in 500 if no condom is used, according to a report published in the current issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.

Researchers List Odds of Getting AIDS in Heterosexual Intercourse

LEAD: Arab officials said today that the hijackers of the Kuwait Airways plane left Algiers early Wednesday and were flown on a private Algerian jet to Damascus, Syria. The officials said the hijackers were then believed to have traveled overland to Beirut, Lebanon.

Hijackers of Jet Went to Syria, Arab Aides Say

LEAD: The Politburo, meeting in special session this week, approved steps that all but removed Yegor K. Ligachev as the party's No. 2 leader, Soviet officials said today.

SOVIET POLITBURO IS SAID TO DEMOTE THE NO. 2 LEADER

LEAD: The General Motors Corporation's heavy use of financial incentives helped it to regain some of its lost share of the car and truck market but caused it to earn slightly less in the first quarter than many analysts had expected.

G.M. Share Is Higher, Profits Disappointing

LEAD: The State University of New York has selected D. Bruce Johnstone, the president of Buffalo State College, to be its new Chancellor, university officials disclosed yesterday.

SUNY Selects A Chancellor From Within

LEAD: Defying a veto threat by President Reagan, the House of Representatives today overwhelmingly passed the most comprehensive trade legislation in 14 years.

HOUSE VOTES 3 TO 1 FOR BILL ON TRADE FOUGHT BY REAGAN

LEAD: THINK of a huge hot fudge sundae topped by a banana split and you get a taste of American Ballet Theater's eagerly awaited revival of ''Gaite Parisienne.''

Review/Dance; Dance: 'Parisienne,' A Ruffled Confection From Ballet Theater

LEAD: Gov. Michael S. Dukakis of Massachusetts has come close to winning the Democratic Presidential nomination without making the commitments on issues or to interest groups that have crippled Democratic Presidential candidates in the past.

Dukakis Avoids Commitments to Factions In an Unusual Course Toward Nominations

LEAD: A tremor initially went through the municipal markets Wednesday when it was learned that the Supreme Court had ruled that Congress has the right, if it chooses, to begin taxing the interest income paid on bonds issued by states and localities.

Skepticism Over Tax-Exempts

INSIDE

LEAD: The BankAmerica Corporation today reported its best quarterly financial results in three years, a further sign that the banking company is on the mend after losing $1.8 billion over that time.

No. 3 Bank Says Profit Rose 62.7%

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: ''No man is an Iland,'' John Donne wrote. Not even Dean Kamen, sole owner and resident of this rocky three-acre freckle in Long Island Sound, three miles off Noank, Conn. ''I am an empire!'' he boasts. Mr. Kamen, a 36-year-old bachelor and millionaire inventor who prefers to be called Lord Dumpling, has fulfilled one of life's larger fantasies.

Our Towns; From L.I. Sound, A New Nation Asserts Itself

LEAD: The American Express Company reported yesterday that its earnings dropped 15.3 percent in the first quarter while revenues rose 31 percent.

American Express Earnings Fall 15.3% as Revenue Rises

LEAD: In 15 minutes yesterday, Governor Cuomo rescued Mayor Koch from the boos of his own constituents, told him to keep quiet and implied that the Mayor's vociferous attacks on the Rev. Jesse Jackson had led the press to paint New York unfairly as a ''hellhole of contention and divisiveness.''

Cuomo Tells Koch of the Sounds of Silence

LEAD: Mark Rudd, the fiery Columbia rebel of 1968, is now a 40-year-old writer living quietly in Albuquerque, N.M. The university president's office, seized then by rebels, is occupied by Michael I. Sovern, a calm-spoken former arbitrator.

'68 Passions Replayed at Columbia

LEAD: Government officials estimate that the popular anti-acne drug Accutane has caused hundreds, perhaps more than 1,000, babies to be born with severe birth defects in the past six years.

Anti-Acne Drug Faulted in Birth Defects

LEAD: A woman who said Wednesday that her 2-month-old son had been kidnapped from his stroller on a Brooklyn street was charged last night with second-degree murder in his death.

Police Say Mother Killed Missing Baby

WEEKENDER GUIDE

LEAD: The Irving Bank Corporation yesterday postponed its shareholder meeting in an attempt to thwart the Bank of New York Company in its proxy fight to take over Irving.

Irving Bank Postpones Crucial Vote

LEAD: In a short story much talked about these days in Vietnam, a dying grandmother is knocked to the ground by rough militiamen in a midnight tax raid. They want the rice she has stored in her coffin, her insurance against indignity in death.

All Vietnam Is Now a Stage; Its Players Are Mostly Angry

LEAD: For more than four decades, his Ph.D. dissertation remained locked in a steel box, the bitter legacy of an academic future that had died when a faculty committee at the University of Chicago rejected the manuscript.

After 45 Years, Vindication for Scholar

LEAD: Wall Street had another volatile session yesterday, with wide swings in the prices of blue chips - and another chorus from traders and brokers criticizing index-arbitrage-related program trading.

Dow Up Just 1.99 in Wild Day

LEAD: They are often dwarfed by skyscrapers or rusted from decades of indifference. But the cast-iron buildings of New York, with their ornate facades mimicking the palaces of Italy and France, once stood as conspicuous examples of this city's commercial and architectural aspirations.

Rediscovering An Ornate Cast Of Cast-Iron Buildings

Devaris "Dee" Strange-Gordon, formerly known as Dee Gordon, is an American former professional baseball second baseman, shortstop, and center fielder. He played Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Miami Marlins, Seattle Mariners, and Washington Nationals.

Dee Strange-Gordon, American baseball player

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Grigori Kuzmin was an Estonian astronomer, who worked mainly in the field of stellar dynamics.

Grigori Kuzmin, Russian-Estonian astronomer and academic (born 1917)

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Irene Frances Rich was an American actress who worked in both silent films, talkies, and radio.

April 22, 1988

Headlines from April 22, 1988

END TO SUIT DENIED IN SMOKING DEATH

Researchers List Odds of Getting AIDS in Heterosexual Intercourse

Hijackers of Jet Went to Syria, Arab Aides Say

SOVIET POLITBURO IS SAID TO DEMOTE THE NO. 2 LEADER

G.M. Share Is Higher, Profits Disappointing

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Historical Context for April 22, 1988