LEAD: The Rev. Bruce Ritter's Franciscan superiors have ended an inquiry into allegations of sexual misconduct against the 62-year-old priest and have directed him to return to a friary, the order said last night.

Franciscans Stripping Ritter of Special Status as Inquiry Ends

LEAD: THIS weekend, at clubs across New York City, youth is being served.

Music Beyond the Notes, By Six Rising Artists

LEAD: Congress must thoroughly re-examine the merits of a landmark immigration law because of a report today that said the measure had produced a ''widespread pattern of discrimination.''

STUDY FINDS BIAS, FORCING A REVIEW OF 1986 ALIEN LAW

LEAD:    FRIDAY       MURALS FOR BROOKLYN

WEEKENDER GUIDE

LEAD: Leaders of this republic's embattled independence government sent a signal of compromise to the Kremlin tonight, saying they were ready to discuss the difficult issue of a referendum on secession if President Mikhail S. Gorbachev agreed to talk with them.

  LITHUANIA OFFERS TO DISCUSS A VOTE ON ITS SOVEREIGNTY

LEAD: The Kentucky General Assembly voted yesterday to abolish its system of financing and operating the state's 1,500 public schools and to substitute an entirely new philosophy and structure of management.

Kentucky Acts To Reorganize School System

LEAD: Fred Hemsley is a man of routine. Each day he puts out the flag. Thursday nights he and his wife sing in their church choir. For 15 years Fridays have been the bowling night. They've been married 32 years; they've owned the same house 29.

Our Towns;   Layoffs and Age: Discrimination Or Prudence?

LEAD: Ruling in a bitter patent dispute, a Federal judge today ordered Motorola Inc. to stop selling what is perhaps its most important computer chip: the microprocessor used in machines made by Apple Computer Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., the Hewlett-Packard Company and Next Inc.

Motorola Told to Stop Selling Chip

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: After almost a year of supporting Frank Lorenzo's plans to rebuild Eastern Airlines, the carrier's unsecured creditors are apparently running low on patience. People close to the creditors' committee said yesterday that it was considering actions that could lead to the liquidation of the airline unless Mr.

  Eastern Is Pressed On Its Debt

LEAD: A doorman raced up the narrow back stairs of the Happy Land Social Club, a light wave of smoke trailing him. ''Fire! Fire!'' he shouted as he burst onto the dance floor, but the scores of revelers hesitated in fear.

Fire in the Bronx;   Fire Survivor Tells Of 'All the Screams' He 'Can't Forget'

LEAD: Harold C. Simmons, the Texas investor some would call a corporate raider, knew he had an image problem when he decided to seek control of the Lockheed Corporation. So he made a videotape to portray himself to institutional shareholders as a hardscrabble former drugstore owner who created an enormous fortune with brains, hard work and

Advisers in Forefront Of New Proxy Wars

LEAD:    Trouble for Abortion Bill       Idaho's Governor, who opposes abortion, hinted that he might nonetheless veto a restrictive bill. But he said threats to boycott potatoes or tourism would not sway him. Page A12.       Bogota Under Threat       Asserting that Bogota had betrayed a secret peace pact, Colombia's cocaine traffickers threatened to renew their war against the state.

INSIDE

LEAD: In his first address on AIDS since he took office, President Bush appealed today for compassion toward people infected with the AIDS virus and expressed support for a bill that would outlaw discrimination against people with AIDS and other diseases.

Bush, in First Address on AIDS, Backs a Bill to Protect Its Victims

LEAD: The outcome of the Lockheed Corporation's proxy fight with a group headed by Harold C. Simmons may not be known for several weeks, but it became clear at the company's annual meeting today that institutional shareholders have already become winners in the battle.

Lockheed Gives In to Big Holders

LEAD: German unity might seem to be the stuff of right-wing dreams. In fact, it has proved something of a nightmare for the far-right Republican Party.

  Bonn Far Right Loses Steam As Germans Focus on Unity

LEAD: New York's highest court today became the first in any state to rule that lawyers for criminal defendants cannot dismiss prospective jurors because of their race. In issuing the unanimous decision, the court also upheld the manslaughter convictions of three young men in the Howard Beach racial attack case.

New York Court Says Defendants Can't Reject Jurors Based on Race

LEAD: DANCE is an inherently metaphoric art. Two very different worlds are suggested by the mere presence of a single person or of two on an empty stage space. As much can be suggested about a human emotion in a moment's turn of a body or lifting of an arm as in long pages of philosophy.

Spinning Stories Metaphorically: Dances From Life

LEAD: The economic ladder in the social club business spans the gap between street-smart entrepreneurs in New York City's poorest neighborhoods and wealthy, established real-estate operators - and along the way, everyone seems to make money.

Fire in the Bronx;   Social Clubs Quickly Turn Heavy Profits for Investors

LEAD: Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, gave tentative support today to Treasury Department efforts to increase the regulatory power of the Securities and Exchange Commission and reduce that of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Greenspan Favors S.E.C. As Stock Futures Regulator

LEAD: As the average cost of a nursing-home stay climbs to nearly $30,000 a year, experts agree on one main piece of advice for those concerned about preparing for their old age: plan early for long-term care.

For a Comfortable Old Age, Plan for Care, Experts Advise

LEAD: The House of Representatives today passed a bill that would both expand day care programs and provide more money to programs that already exist.

House, 265-145, Votes to Widen Day Care Programs in the Nation

LEAD: LAST fall, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced plans to stay open late on Friday and Saturday evenings instead of Tuesdays, it seemed that another well-established tradition was being needlessly tinkered with; it wasn't broken, so why fix it? How could a museum hope to compete for attention on weekend evenings, hours already so flooded with entertainment options?

Weekends at Dusk, a New Met Museum

LEAD: The Mobil Corporation said yesterday that it would remove the word ''degradable'' from boxes of its Hefty plastic trash bags. In doing so, it is apparently bowing to demands from environmental groups and the threat of legal action by the attorneys general of eight states.

Mobil Ends Environmental Claim

LEAD: Federal figures show that enrollment by black students in American colleges rose from 1986 to 1988, reversing years of decline. Page A16.

More Blacks Attend College

Thomas Rhett Akins Jr. is an American country singer-songwriter. He is the oldest son of singer Rhett Akins.

Thomas Rhett, American country music singer and songwriter

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Michal Březina is a retired Czech figure skater. He is the 2013 European bronze medalist, 2011 Skate America champion, 2009 World Junior silver medalist and four-time Czech national champion. He also won the 2014-15 ISU Challenger Series. Michal represented the Czech Republic at the 2010, 2014, 2018, and 2022 Winter Olympics.

Michal Březina, Czech figure skater

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Harry Bridges was an Australian-born American union leader, first with the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA). In 1937, he led several Pacific Coast chapters of the ILA to form a new union, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), expanding its ranks to include thousands of additional warehouse workers. He served as ILWU president for the next 40 years.

March 30, 1990

Headlines from March 30, 1990

Franciscans Stripping Ritter of Special Status as Inquiry Ends

Music Beyond the Notes, By Six Rising Artists

STUDY FINDS BIAS, FORCING A REVIEW OF 1986 ALIEN LAW

WEEKENDER GUIDE

LITHUANIA OFFERS TO DISCUSS A VOTE ON ITS SOVEREIGNTY

Billboard 200

Forever Your Girl

Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814

Nick Of Time

Soul Provider

...But Seriously

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for March 30, 1990