November 27, 1989

LEAD: It hardly comes as a surprise that the house Ivan Lendl lives in is made of stone, great slabs of gray and beige stone, and is protected from the rest of the world by two fences: a natural baffle of hemlocks backed up by a no-nonsense span of chain link. Protecting himself - on the job with a dentist's drill of a forehand, at leisure with a battery of sarcasm that passes for cocktail-hour banter, at home with a meticulously trained quartet of brainy

LEAD: Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and his Congress Party appear to have lost their majority in the Indian Parliament and will be out of power unless they form a coalition government, according to early results in the country's most violent national election, which ended on Sunday.

LEAD: In a deal that would leave the United States almost wholly dependent on Japan for the chief tools used to produce future generations of computer chips, Japanese companies are negotiating to acquire one of the last American makers of the highly sophisticated equipment used to etch circuits on chips.

LEAD: The caretaker Prime Minister in Czechoslovakia's Communist Government met today for the first time with leaders of the foremost opposition grouping and then joined Alexander Dubcek at another rally of 500,000 cheering people, who continued to demand democratic changes.

LEAD: Marxism will be revived in the Soviet Union, Mikhail S. Gorbachev said, responding to conservatives.