LEAD: Even before Daniel P. Kearney left the offices of the Resolution Trust Corporation's Oversight Board Friday night, his replacement, William Taylor, the acting president and chief executive, was on the premises.

Greenspan's Man on Savings Board

LEAD: With world attention focused on Colombia for President Bush's summit conference on drugs, the country's most prominent cocaine traffickers made a grab for the spotlight today by turning over to the authorities an enormous complex of cocaine-processing laboratories.

Drug Bosses Give Up Laboratories On Eve of Bush Visit to Colombia

LEAD: The American Telephone and Telegraph Company said yesterday that it would greatly expand its translation services to provide businesses and consumers with telephone interpreters who can help with 143 languages and dialects, 24 hours a day.

A.T.&T. Is Adding More Translators

LEAD: A panel of experts convened by the National Academy of Sciences said today that the United States had fallen decades behind Europe in the development of contraceptives and called for Government action to stimulate research on birth control.

U.S. Is Decades Behind Europe In Contraceptives, Experts Report

LEAD: A lawyer for Covenant House and a young priest have acknowledged providing false identity papers to a 26-year-old drifter who has emerged as the central figure in accusations against the founder of the organization, the Rev. Bruce Ritter.

How Covenant House Gave Drifter a False ID

LEAD:    THE DREXEL COLLAPSE       A disparate collection of groups are owed money by Drexel Burnham Lambert, including Japanese banks, insurers and the Federal Government. [Page D1.]      Groupe Bruxelles Lambert said it would write off its entire $92 million investment in Drexel Burnham Lambert Group Inc.

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: The financial crisis at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., which on Tuesday resulted in the largest bankruptcy filing in Wall Street history, has left a disparate collection of groups owed money by the firm, including Japanese banks and insurers and the Federal Government.

  For Drexel, Creditors Galore

LEAD: If and when Trump v. Trump goes to court, the main attraction in what already promises to be the most talked about and written about divorce proceeding in years could be four documents of about 35 pages apiece, each filled with paragraph after paragraph of fine print.

In Trump v. Trump, the Focus Is on Lots of Fine Print

LEAD: Amid the great wave of women sweeping into the American labor force in recent years is a group whose numbers are increasing even faster: women who hold more than one job.

For Many Women, One Job Just Isn't Enough

LEAD: As the nation's defense recedes as an overriding issue and the environment becomes a more important one for Republican candidates, the White House chief of staff's role is being watched with alarm by many environmentalists and with concern by some Republican strategists and officials.

Who's Environment Czar, E.P.A.'s Chief or Sununu?

LEAD: Leaders of both Germanys today welcomed the agreement of the wartime Allies to join in shaping a united Germany. As if to begin the process, Bonn approved a supplementary budget of $4.1 billion, most of it to shore up East Germany until reunification could be achieved.

Upheaval in the East;   BILLIONS IN HELP FOR EAST GERMANY APPROVED BY BONN

LEAD: China today announced the replacement of the entire leadership of the People's Armed Police, the 600,000-member national security force that is supposed to be the principal mechanism for maintaining order.

China Shuffles Armed Police Leadership

LEAD: Prospectuses for Saks Fifth Avenue and Marshall Field show that both companies have produced profit margins about twice the norm for department stores catering to higher-income clientele.

Good Profit Margins Shown At Saks and Marshall Field

LEAD: Charles J. Hynes, the new Brookyln District Attorney, has spent much of his first month in office making charges. But they are not the kind that prosecutors usually make. These are about the record of his predecessor, Elizabeth Holtzman, who was elected New York City Comptroller in November.

Hynes, Taking Over Brooklyn Job, Takes On Holtzman

LEAD: From the stables of a Tudor manor house near Bath, Thomas Messel and a team of Gloucestershire artisans produce furniture and decorative accessories that are in the spirit and style of the 18th century, without being retrospective.

Decoration Of Old Is Recast For Today

LEAD:    Drexel's Diverse Creditors    In Wall Street's largest bankruptcy filing, Drexel Burnham Lambert revealed a diverse list of creditors, from Japanese banks and insurers to the Federal Government. Page D1.       Perrier Recalled Worldwide    The sparkling bottled water was recalled throughout the world after traces of the toxic chemical benzene were found in bottles tested in Denmark and the Netherlands.

INSIDE

LEAD: The Federal Government yesterday sued six longshoremen's locals and 44 union officials and reputed organized-crime figures, including John Gotti, in an effort to end what the authorities say is Mafia domination of the New York and New Jersey waterfronts.

U.S. Sues Longshoremen's Locals And 44 People, Citing Ties to Mob

LEAD: As New Jersey Blue Cross and Blue Shield sends out new bills this month, the corporation's higher premiums pose for many policyholders an insurance crisis that overshadows the state's long, rancorous auto-insurance problems.

New Jersey's Second Crisis In Insurance: Health Costs

LEAD: With the reunification of Germany now accepted as inevitable in Western Europe, governments from Brussels to Rome are bracing for the emergence of a single German nation rich and powerful enough to dominate European affairs.

Upheaval in the East: Western Europe;   On Germany, Not All Is Joy

LEAD: James Benagh, the first New Yorker to be granted an official permit to beg, is understandably circumspect about precisely where he works. ''Just say Times Square,'' he said yesterday. At 8:37 A.M. on Feb. 5, Mr. Benagh assured himself of a footnote in the annals of panhandling. He filled out Form 3136/7-85, begrudgingly provided by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Metro Matters;   For Legal Beggar In New York City, It's a 9-to-5 Job

LEAD: Few companies were as closely tied to the ''junk bond'' factory at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. as the First Executive Corporation, and today the big Los Angeles insurer is paying the price.

High-Risk Strategy Taking Toll

LEAD: IT was not one of those great moments in interior design, like the day Billy Baldwin lacquered Cole Porter's walls brown. Still, the night the decorators ate dried flowers deserves a mention in any account of the evolution of post-modern potpourri.

What's That Smell? Probably, It's Potpourri

LEAD: Source Perrier announced today that it was withdrawing every bottle of its sparkling mineral water throughout the world after traces of benzene, a toxic chemical, were reported in bottles tested in Denmark and the Netherlands.

Perrier Widens Recall After New Finding

LEAD: A new Indian Airlines plane, flying for less than two months in this country, crashed today in the southern city of Bangalore, killing at least 89 people. About 50 survivors were reported taken to hospitals from the fiery crash site.

Crash of Indian Airlines Plane Kills 89

LEAD: WITH a wave of her silver wand, a fairy princess wearing a sparkling pink gown and tiara opened the mirrored portal known as the Magic Door. Inside was the Magic Nursery, a room decorated in spare-no-expense style, with soft lighting, plush pink carpeting and white lace.

Magic and Money: Show and Sell at Toy Fair

Callum Robilliard Turner is an English actor. After beginning a career as a fashion model, he began working in film and television. He had lead roles in the drama film Queen and Country (2014) and the mystery miniseries Glue (2014), and played Theseus, the brother of Newt Scamander, in the fantasy films Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022).

February 15, 1990

Headlines from February 15, 1990

Greenspan's Man on Savings Board

Drug Bosses Give Up Laboratories On Eve of Bush Visit to Colombia

A.T.&T. Is Adding More Translators

U.S. Is Decades Behind Europe In Contraceptives, Experts Report

How Covenant House Gave Drifter a False ID

Billboard 200

Forever Your Girl

Girl You Know It's True

Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814

...But Seriously

Cosmic Thing

Notable Births

Historical Context for February 15, 1990