LEAD: In the latest variation of Japanese and American joint automotive ventures, the Mazda Motor Corporation said today that a compact utility vehicle would be built for it by American workers and managers at an existing Ford Motor Company plant in Louisville, Ky., and sold at Mazda's American dealerships.

Ford Plant to Build New Vehicle for Mazda

LEAD: The Board of Estimate approved a mixed bag of rules yesterday that it said would strike a balance between New York's often noisy nightclubs and their neighbors who seek peace and quiet.

Noise Rules for New Nightclubs Approved

Holiday on Monday

LEAD: Investors gave the final portion of the Treasury's quarterly refunding auctions a tepid welcome yesterday, but even that was enough to push prices of notes and bonds higher.

  Lukewarm Ending for Auctions

LEAD: In a reversal of policy, the White House has approved broad and strict regulations intended to halt the proliferation of disease-prevention claims on food packages, Federal officials said today.

In Reversal, White House Backs Curbs on Health Claims for Food

LEAD: The question here is no longer which power the Communists will surrender next or which hurdle the opposition might clear. The question is which West German party will win the East German election next month.

Upheaval in the East;   Bonn's Politicians Invade East Germany

LEAD: The Communist Party leadership has mapped out a strategy to endow Mikhail S. Gorbachev with broad new presidential powers, probably without forcing him to undergo a popular election, party officials said today.

Upheaval in the East;   PARTY MAPS PLAN TO GIVE GORBACHEV BROADER POWERS

LEAD: For East and West Germany, monetary union would be a leap into the unknown, say Western economists who were caught off guard by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's call to begin negotiations on monetary integration as early as next week. The cushion on landing would depend on the terms of the union, the adaptability of East German enterprises and the confidence of West

  Monetary Union: Would It Help?

LEAD: The Government ordered the New York Telephone Company and the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company yesterday to pay a total of $1.4 million in fines for what it called an illegal scheme that inflated profits at the expense of customers.

U.S. Accuses 2 Nynex Companies Of Overcharging and Fines Them

LEAD: The morning after the Communist leadership renounced its dictatorial role, the sun rose pale and flat as ever over Moscow, and all the studious young Communists still showed up at the Higher Party School, eager as seminarians to catch up with redefined dogma.

Upheaval in the East;   A Morning After in Moscow: No Headache at Party School

LEAD: A consensus is emerging among experts on homelessness and housing in New York that if government wants to move tens of thousands of homeless people off the streets and out of shelters, it will have to reinvent an old idea: the single-room-occupancy hotel.

Experts on Homeless Push for an Old Idea: S.R.O.'s in New York

LEAD: ''A CARAVAGGIO REDISCOVERED: The Lute Player,'' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is an exhibition modest only in size. It includes paintings of the first rank, paintings that have not been on view in years and paintings that have been unjustly ignored. It juxtaposes these works with related prints, musical scores and instruments to give a vivid sense of the cultural milieu of the late 16th century, in which Caravaggio was fortunate enough to find himself.

Review/Art;   Caravaggio: A Tale of Two Lutes

LEAD:    Senator Denies Wrongdoing    Senator Dave Durenberger insisted that news reports of his financial dealings showed a ''blatant disregard for the facts.'' Page A14.       CBS Suspends Rooney    CBS News suspended Andy Rooney, the ''60 Minutes'' commentator, in response to complaints that he had made offensive remarks.

INSIDE

LEAD: Daniel P. Kearney, the president and chief executive of the Resolution Trust Corporation's Oversight Board, has threatened to resign the position he has held for only a few weeks because of differences with the Treasury Department, Government officials said today.

Top Savings Bailout Official Said to Consider Resigning

LEAD: The International Business Machines Corporation next week will introduce one of its most significant new product lines ever, a new family of computer work stations.

A New Battleground for I.B.M.

LEAD: Like seers pondering the auguries, economists and government officials in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey are sifting through sales-tax receipts for a vision of the region's future.

Region Grapples With Sluggish Sales-Tax Revenues

LEAD: Lowell P. Weicker Jr.'s last address to Connecticut, the state he represented in the Senate for 18 years, was a concession speech here in Town Hall on the cold afternoon of Nov. 9, 1988. As his supporters stood stunned and his wife, Claudia, held back tears, Mr. Weicker spoke of ''no excuses, no regrets, no griping, no comebacks.

Weicker Sees Possible Run For Governor

LEAD:    FRIDAY       HAMPTON MEETS NICHOLAS

WEEKENDER GUIDE

LEAD: ROMANTIC, in the traditional sense of the word, is not how one expects a casual observer to describe New York City circa 1990. Our steely, impetuous metropolis plays hard to get with new suitors, in contrast to her soft and pretty cousins like Paris, Rome and Barcelona - a saucy Katharine Hepburn to a come-hither Lana Turner.

Havens for the Heart in a Hard-Boiled City

LEAD: The wintertime hopes of baseball players and fans could be shattered today. The owners of baseball's 26 clubs will meet in Chicago and are expected to carry out their threat to postpone the opening of spring training.

Chill of Labor Impasse Threatens Baseball's Spring

LEAD: Bowie K. Kuhn, the former Commissioner of Baseball, is said to be somewhere in Florida, but not for spring training. In fact, a New York bank and several of his former law partners charged that he was hiding from the bankruptcy of the defunct law firm that bore his name.

Bowie Kuhn Is Said to Be In Hiding

LEAD: A week after it was sold to a black couple, a two-family house in a predominantly white section of Brooklyn was set on fire early yesterday in what Police and Fire Department officials called an apparent case of racially motivated arson.

A Row House Is Set Afire; Bias Is Cited

LEAD: Lured by huge fees, glamorous clients and the explosion of drug prosecutions, a fraternity of lawyers specializing in drug cases is flourishing, especially in places like South Florida, Texas and Los Angeles.

  Drug Lawyers' Quandary: Lure of Money vs. Ethics

LEAD:    COMPANIES       The Government ordered New York Telephone and New England Telephone to pay a $1.4 million fine for what it called an illegal scheme that inflated profits at customers' expense. [Page A1.]      Mazda's new compact utility vehicle will be built by American workers and managers at an existing Ford plant in Louisville.

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: ''I thought it might be my daughter's bus,'' said Elizabeth Monroe, who stopped by the side of the road with a small bunch of flowers, daisies, she left as a memorial next to the huge tree that still bears a raw white scar where the bus crashed into it.

Our Towns;   School Bus Crash Leaves 2 Dead And Questions

Randall Enrique Delgado is a Panamanian professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves and Arizona Diamondbacks, and in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) for the Uni-President Lions.

Randall Delgado, Panamanian baseball player

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Tariq Sims is a Fiji international rugby league footballer who plays as a Second-row, Loose forward and Prop for the Catalans Dragons in the Super League.

Tariq Sims, Australian-Fijian rugby league player

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Camille Simoine Winbush is an American actress and singer, best known for her roles as Emma Aimes on short-lived sitcom Minor Adjustments, Vanessa "Nessa" Thomkins on The Bernie Mac Show and as Lauren Treacy on the popular teen drama The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Her work in television has earned her three Image Awards and a Young Artist Award.

February 9, 1990

Headlines from February 9, 1990

Ford Plant to Build New Vehicle for Mazda

Noise Rules for New Nightclubs Approved

Holiday on Monday

Lukewarm Ending for Auctions

In Reversal, White House Backs Curbs on Health Claims for Food

Billboard 200

Forever Your Girl

Girl You Know It's True

...But Seriously

Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814

Cosmic Thing

Notable Births

Historical Context for February 9, 1990