LEAD: Mary Sue Davis and Junior Lewis Davis are getting a divorce.

Embryos in a Divorce Case: Joint Property or Offspring?

LEAD: President Bush has decided to proceed with the development of a mixed force of mobile land-based missiles, Administration officials said today.

OFFICIALS SAY BUSH WILL BACK A FORCE OF MOBILE MISSILES

LEAD: The youths who raped and savagely beat a young investment banker as she jogged in Central Park Wednesday night were part of a loosely organized gang of 32 schoolboys whose random, motiveless assaults terrorized at least eight other people over nearly two hours, senior police investigators said yesterday.

Jogger's Attackers Terrorized at Least 9 in 2 Hours

LEAD: Price riots in Jordan, now in their fourth day, moved closer to the capital today when the police and rock-throwing protesters fought for four hours in this town less than 20 miles from Amman.

UNREST IN JORDAN GAINS ISLAMIC TONE

LEAD: A crowd defying a ban on public protests swelled to more than 100,000 Friday night in Beijing's central square to press demands for more democracy. It was by far the biggest protest in China since the end of the Maoist era more than a dozen years ago.

100,000 Defy a Ban on Protests In Beijing to Demand Democracy

INSIDE

LEAD: After weeks of playing down the significance of early benchmarks to gauge the Administration's effectiveness, President Bush and senior White House officials are using a flurry of Presidential activities, briefings and interviews to try to generate a flattering assessment of the first 100 days.

Bush Aides Play Him Up As 100-Day Mark Nears

LEAD: Seeking to enter the potentially lucrative market of electronic publishing, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company asked a Federal court yesterday for permission to create and transmit computerized information services over its long-distance network.

A.T.&T. Is Proposing to Offer Electronic Publishing Service

LEAD: ''The ability to create entities which are neither children nor furniture puts us in this situation.'' - Alexander M. Capron, expert in biomedical ethics, on the legal status of frozen human embryos.  [ 1:6. ]

Quotation of the Day

LEAD:  International 2-6, 28  In China's biggest protest in years, a crowd defying a ban on public demonstrations swelled to more than 100,000 Friday night in Beijing's central square to press for more democracy. Page 1  Iranians were arrested for spying for the United States, including senior navy commanders who helped the U.S.

NEWS SUMMARY

LEAD: When the Foreign Ministers of five Central American countries met here recently, well-tailored diplomats found themselves sharing space at the poolside bar with throngs of dripping swimmers.

Costa Rica Cashes In on Fame

LEAD: When Rajiv Gandhi came to power in 1984, the young Prime Minister was hailed as a leader who could bring this huge, diverse democracy into a new era. He promised clean politics, good government and a leap into high technology and modern management.

Gandhi, His Luster Dimmed After 4 Years, Faces Uncertain Political Future

LEAD: A headline yesterday about a meeting between President Francois Mitterrand and Chancellor Helmut Kohl described it incorrectly. Mr. Kohl was ending a visit to Paris.

Corrections

LEAD: A pair of drawings in Science Times on April 4 showing efforts to translate Mayan hieroglyphics appeared with a source's credit omitted in one case and erroneous in a second.

LEAD: Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi today dismissed an opposition government in the southern state of Karnataka and placed the state under New Delhi's direct rule.

Gandhi Ousts a State Government

LEAD: For the last three weeks, France has been embroiled in a solitary and somewhat quixotic diplomatic campaign to halt the murderous shelling in Lebanon, but so far it has generated only tepid international support and antagonized Syria.

French Peace Effort in Lebanon: Few Results, at High Cost

LEAD: When times are hard, it seems that soccer has a way of straightening the stooped shoulders of this battered old port and transforming its limping gait into a proud strut.

Liverpool Journal; There's Comfort in Loving the Team

LEAD: The Government said today that the K.G.B. had defused two homemade bombs planted in the Moscow subway.

2 Bombs Found in Moscow

LEAD: Recently elected members of the new Soviet Congress of Deputies accused the authorities today of wrongly absolving themselves of blame after troops killed at least 20 people last week in Soviet Georgia. They said only the highest Government authorities could have approved the use of the military.

Soviets Faulted in Use of Troops at Protests

LEAD: The Soviet Union will begin the withdrawal of 10,000 of the 62,000 troops it is estimated to have in Hungary on Tuesday, the commander of the Kremlin's forces here said today. The commander, Gen. Matvei Burlakov, said the pullout would involve 22 units and include 10,000 men, 450 tanks, 200 pieces of artillery and 3,000 vehicles.

Hungary Troop Withdrawal

LEAD: Shaken by defeats in elections for a new National Congress last month, the Communist Party's old guard rebounded today with a deft display of local machine politics.

7 Soviet Progressives Ousted in Caucus

LEAD: The acting commander in chief of Iran's armed forces said today that an undisclosed number of military officers have been arrested on charges of spying for the United States.

Teheran Is Said to Arrest Officers On Charges of Spying for the U.S.

LEAD: The police said today that they were investigating the possibility of suicide in the poisoning death of Maurice Nyagumbo, a Zimbabwean independence leader whose implication in a corruption scandal forced his resignation from President Robert Mugabe's Cabinet.

Ex-Zimbabwe Official Dies; Treated as Possible Suicide

LEAD: Celebrating Indian Day according to tradition, schoolchildren across Brazil dressed up as Indians on Wednesday and trooped to museums to learn about the first Brazilians.

Indian Day in Brazil Reflects Deep Rift Between Cultures

LEAD: The Israeli authorities again screened Palestinian worshipers attending prayers at the Al Aksa Mosque here today by refusing entry to most people from the occupied territories.

Israelis Again Block Palestinians Going To Al Aksa Mosque

Emilio Gino Segrè was an Italian-American nuclear physicist and radiochemist who discovered the elements technetium and astatine, and the antiproton, a subatomic antiparticle, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959, along with Owen Chamberlain.

April 22, 1989

Headlines from April 22, 1989

Embryos in a Divorce Case: Joint Property or Offspring?

OFFICIALS SAY BUSH WILL BACK A FORCE OF MOBILE MISSILES

Jogger's Attackers Terrorized at Least 9 in 2 Hours

UNREST IN JORDAN GAINS ISLAMIC TONE

100,000 Defy a Ban on Protests In Beijing to Demand Democracy

Billboard 200

Like A Prayer

Loc-ed After Dark

Electric Youth

Don't Be Cruel

The Raw & The Cooked

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for April 22, 1989