LEAD: New: Reports from the nation's campuses on what students are thinking, eating and wearing.

Section 1 Part 2

LEAD: Western European policy makers and academic specialists believe that momentous changes are unfolding in Eastern Europe that could ultimately undermine the Soviet Union's hold on several nations and recast the continent's balance of power.

Along The East-West Fault Line, Signs of Stress as Ideology Erodes

LEAD: In a case that promises to provide a window into the abuses of big-time sports in higher education, two sports agents go on trial Wednesday in United States District Court in Chicago. They are accused of inducing college athletes to sign professional contracts in violation of National Collegiate Athletic Association rules, and of threatening harm to some athletes who wanted out of the deals.

Agents, and System, Are Going on Trial

LEAD:  Special reports in this issue include:

Fashions of The Times/Magazine Part 2

LEAD: In the movies, on television, even in the theater - women finally have careers. Not just jobs - like the job as an art gallery drone that miraculously supported Jill Clayburgh in ''An Unmarried Woman.'' These women are real, honest-to-god professionals - lawyers, professors, editors, business executives.

Drop-Dead Clothes Make the Working Woman

LEAD: HANGING like smoke above the debacle of John G. Tower's nomination to be Secretary of Defense is one central question: Who's really in charge here?

Bush's Man And Mandate On the Line

INSIDE

LEAD:  BILLY BATHGATE  By E. L. Doctorow.  323 pp. New York: Random House. $19.95.

AN AMERICAN BOY IN GANGLAND

LEAD: On Thursday, the nation's major banks raised their prime rates to 11.5 percent - the highest level in nearly five years. Then, on Friday, the Federal Reserve Board raised the discount rate to 7 percent, the highest level since May 1986. Four experts discuss how higher interest rates affect the economy.

Prospects; As Interest Rates Climb

LEAD: WHEN she thinks, as she often does, of the day more than two years ago when her estranged husband plunged a kitchen knife into her 33 times, Cecilia Eagleston feels guilty to be alive. It is the thought of the three Long Island women murdered this winter by their husbands, who then committed suicide, and of Lisa Solomon, strangled by her husband, Matthew, last Christmas

Justice For Whom? Wife Fears For Safety

LEAD: IN an ordinary group of offices in a mundane building on Route 24 on the edge of town, the staff of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation goes about the business of giving away large sums of money. There is no special letterhead or fancy logo, and in the annual reports there are no pictures of the trustees, the director or the program officers.

A Low-Key Foundation That Likes to Take Risks in Giving

LEAD: The first thing you notice in Lee Currlin's office at NBC's New York headquarters is the huge magnetic board that overwhelms one corner of the room. Thin colored strips with the titles of television shows are stuck to it alongside numbers signifying different time slots. At the far left side of the big board are clusters of strips in jagged disarray, as if they are captured pieces in a chess game.

As Viewers Wander, the Networks Scurry After

LEAD: WHEN a Manhattan lawyer named Neil Brown purchased vast tracts of Sullivan County forest land in the early 80's, local officials thought he was planning a development they would happily endorse, something that would mean wealthy new residents and a lucrative source of taxes.

Conservationists Turn to Tough Tactics

LEAD: Until 1967, when it was torn down, the 47-story Singer Sewing Machine Company Building at Broadway and Liberty Street in lower Manhattan stood as testimony to the architect Ernest Flagg's pioneering techniques in glass and steel skyscraper construction.

POSTINGS: Singer Restoration; A Stitch in Time

LEAD: MORE and more people are trying to meet the rising costs of housing and doing business by living and working under the same roof. It has worked well for some, but been a source of conflict with towns and neighbors for others.

Business at Home May Mean Problems Before Zoning Board

LEAD: A YOUNG writer who moved to this small lakeside town north of Houston from New Hampshire last September has started a newsletter telling out-of-staters where to find real estate bargains.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Livingston, Tex.;
Wuxtry! Read All About Deals

LEAD: William Bennett and Allan Bloom, the dynamic duo of the new cultural right, have become the easy targets of the cultural left, which I am defining here loosely and generously as that uneasy, shifting set of alliances formed by feminist critics, critics of so-called minority culture and Marxist and post-structuralist critics generally - in short, the rainbow coalition of contemporary critical theory.

WHOSE CANON IS IT, ANYWAY?

LEAD: ON a 22-acre tract farmed by one family for 80 years, a developer is trying to sell homes at prices far higher than the average value of existing homes in the town, and offering maintenance services to buyers as a way of luring them in.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: South Kingstown, R.I.;
Shore Homes With Services

LEAD: St. John's, staggering after a 3-point loss to Seton Hall and desperately fighting for a tournament berth, took Georgetown to the wire last night but came up short.

Hoyas Hang On to Beat Redmen

LEAD: REACTION among one million Long Island Lighting Company customers to a proposed court settlement that would cut $390 million from future electric rates will be measured this week by a Federal judge.

Lilco Deal: Judge Asks Customers' Reaction

LEAD: While the Communist leadership is negotiating with Solidarity, the police cracked down over the weekend on demonstrations and meetings in Cracow and other cities staged by small, independent groups that support the banned union but reject the negotiations.

Polish Police Fight Protesters As Solidarity and Regime Talk

LEAD: When prices were rising at double-digit rates back in 1979 and 1980, inflation was enough of a public concern for the Federal Reserve Board to raise interest rates dramatically and push the economy into a recession.

Can a Kinder, Gentler Fed Do the Job?

LEAD: THE trip was supposed to be all about reassurance - reassuring allied countries about American commitment, reassuring a whole region about American capacities. But before George Bush had spent even 24 hours in Asia on his first major journey abroad as President, a note of uncertainty crept into the upbeat message.

In Asia, Taking A Long View Of U.S. Power

LEAD: It was a vision and a technology that created Apple Computer Inc., producing products that changed America, profits that made shareholders rich and a unique corporate mythology.

John Sculley's Biggest Test

LEAD: Often the first clue to a building's rental tenants that a co-op or condominium conversion is in the works is when a formerly shabby lobby suddenly gets a fresh coat of paint and new carpets and furnishings. The residents of the Royal York, a three-building, 750-unit complex on 63d and 64th Streets between York and First

POSTINGS: Garden Spot; An Inside Job

Gabriel Antoine Obertan is a French retired professional footballer who is currently an assistant coach for USL League One side Charlotte Independence.

Gabriel Obertan, French footballer

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David Roy Eldridge, nicknamed "Little Jazz", was an American jazz trumpeter. His sophisticated use of harmony, including the use of tritone substitutions, his virtuosic solos exhibiting a departure from the dominant style of jazz trumpet innovator Louis Armstrong, and his strong impact on Dizzy Gillespie mark him as one of the most influential musicians of the swing era and a precursor of bebop.

February 26, 1989

Headlines from February 26, 1989

Section 1 Part 2

Along The East-West Fault Line, Signs of Stress as Ideology Erodes

Agents, and System, Are Going on Trial

Fashions of The Times/Magazine Part 2

Drop-Dead Clothes Make the Working Woman

Billboard 200

Don't Be Cruel

Appetite For Destruction

Traveling Wilburys

Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars

Electric Youth

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for February 26, 1989