LEAD: Here at Valkill Park East, a Dutchess County community where ornamental shrubs grace neatly mowed lawns, the precarious life of the mobile-home owner suddenly feels secure.

Mobile-Home Owners Win New Rights

LEAD:  Rep. Frank Urges Inquiry  Representative Barney Frank said the House ethics panel should investigate his association with a male prostitute to clear the record. Page A12.  South African in Zambia  South Africa's Acting President, F. W. de Klerk, met with President Kenneth D. Kaunda of Zambia, a relentless critic of apartheid.

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LEAD: Salma Fababji and her family are fed up. They want out. And so, like an ever-growing number of Palestinians, she and all her immediate relatives are trying to move to the United States.

Palestinian Uprising Prompts Both Arabs and Jews to Leave

LEAD: The nation's effort to overcome its pressing environmental problems is being slowed by barriers that discourage technologically innovative companies and the people who invest in them, Government officials, investors and executives at the companies say.

Innovators and Investors Hindered In the Business of Pollution Control

LEAD: The New Jersey Casino Control Commission has made it more difficult for institutional investors to own large stakes in casino companies.

Owners Fear New Jersey Casino Ruling

LEAD: While New York's mayoral candidates agree on many public health matters, sharp differences have emerged among them on the proper response by municipal hospitals to the health crisis.

Mayoral Hopefuls in New York Assess the City's Health Crisis

LEAD: Mitsui Bank and Taiyo Kobe Bank said today that they had agreed to merge next year, creating the second-largest bank in the world.

Two Banks Set Merger In Japan

LEAD: Scientists say Neptune's surprising moon Triton appears to be the coldest place in the solar system. Science Times, page C2.

Solar System's Coldest Spot

LEAD: Facing a crisis with Moscow over the growing nationalist movements in the Baltic republics, Communist Party leaders in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania issued statements today that straddled the line between the Kremlin's demand for restraint and local cries for more radical change.

BALTIC COMMUNISTS PRESS MIDDLE ROAD ON INDEPENDENCE

LEAD: Miss Piggy and Mickey Mouse may have more pressing concerns than mergers and high finance, but their corporate masters have other ideas.

Muppets Join Disney Menagerie

LEAD: This clean, bustling Midwestern city is fighting back. The police, the Mayor, the City Council and neighborhood citizens have made a vow: They are not going to lose one portion of their city to crack dealers.

As Crack Moves Inland, Ohio City Fights Back

LEAD: Continuing a crackdown on private enterprise that began after the crushing of the democracy movement in June, China announced today that it would close a large number of privately owned companies.

China, in Crackdown, Orders Many Companies to Close

LEAD: IN French the left is gauche, and in Latin it is sinister, but researchers studying left-handedness have come to a more ominous meaning: left-handed people, on the whole, may die younger than right-handers.

A Sinister Bias: New Studies Cite Perils for Lefties

LEAD: Resorts International Inc. said yesterday that it had stopped paying interest to its bondholders.

Resorts Suspends Bond Payments

LEAD: The community response to the racial killing of a black youth in Brooklyn has become an issue in the New York City mayoral election, with candidates clashing over how to keep racial polarization from spreading.

Racial Link in Brooklyn Killing Divides the Mayoral Candidates

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: When Andrew Reed is asked how old he is, he proudly holds up three fingers, one, then another and another, unfolding them with all the care that three years of living deserve. On this day, each finger was a different color, blue, red and purple.

Our Towns; Festival Fosters The Creativity Of Young Artists

LEAD: Critics of a policy of Domino's Pizza Inc. that guarantees delivery within 30 minutes plan to try to hit the company where it hurts this autumn. They are moving their campaign onto college campuses, where take-out pizza is synonymous with study breaks and where the company recruits a large proportion of its drivers.

Fight on Quick Pizza Delivery Grows

LEAD: On a recent afternoon, the event on Ronald S. Lauder's campaign schedule was a visit to Bellevue South Park, a patch of tree-shaded concrete on 26th Street between First and Second Avenues.

Ties to G.O.P. Are Stressed By Lauder In Campaign

LEAD: Two decades ago, a British scientist named James Lovelock put forth an imaginative and poetic view of how the Earth functions. The planet's living organisms, he said, act together to regulate the global environment: Life interacts chemically and physically with the air, the waters and the rocks to maintain optimum conditions for itself.

Evolving Theory Views Earth as a Living Organism

LEAD: Asserting bitterly that national sovereignty and the ''feelings of all Poles'' are under attack, Poland's Roman Catholic Primate has accused Jews of fomenting anti-Polish feeling by objecting to a convent at the site of the Auschwitz death camp.

Poland's Primate Denounces Jews In Dispute on Auschwitz Convent

LEAD: Even as New Jersey's traditional mills and foundries waste away, a factory of the future is rising here.

New Jersey Factory to Create Coffee Cups and Industrialists

LEAD: Astronomers have discovered what they believe is a galaxy in the throes of birth, the first such proto-galaxy to be found in a state of gestation, researchers at Cornell University and the Arecibo radiotelescope in Puerto Rico said today.

BIRTH OF GALAXY SEEN IN GAS CLOUD

LEAD: RESEARCHERS trying to understand the relative frequency of rape between acquaintances are focusing their attention on the radical differences in how men and women interpret each other's interest in a sexual encounter.

When the Rapist Is Not a Stranger: Studies Seek New Understanding

LEAD: A Federal judge has eliminated one of the Occidental Chemical Corporation's main defenses in a lawsuit over liability for cleaning up the Love Canal toxic dump, according to a decision made public today.

Love Canal Defense Setback

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Charlotte Ritchie, English actress

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August 29, 1989

Headlines from August 29, 1989

Mobile-Home Owners Win New Rights

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Palestinian Uprising Prompts Both Arabs and Jews to Leave

Innovators and Investors Hindered In the Business of Pollution Control

Owners Fear New Jersey Casino Ruling

Billboard 200

Batman (Soundtrack)

Repeat Offender

Hangin' Tough

Forever Your Girl

Full Moon Fever

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for August 29, 1989