April 13, 1990

LEAD: Alarmed by the growing number of flight delays in the New York area, airlines are pressuring the Government to revise the region's air traffic control system, much the way it did in Chicago last year. But some of the proposed changes are already meeting resistance from controllers.

LEAD: AS if egged on by increasing doses of sunlight, exhibitions of photography seem to have sprung up like so many rogue narcissus this month. Appropriately, many of the shows that are on view this weekend are fashionable blooms, in that they take their cues largely from fashion and its amiable cohort, glamour.

LEAD: EASTER weekend invites the indulgence of a leisurely late-morning or late-afternoon pastry with a coffee or tea. While New York cannot boast the number of eat-in bakeries or pastry shops found in European cities, it nonetheless has its share. Here is a sampling, divided geographically; shops on the West Side and East Side of Manhattan are listed from north to south.

LEAD: A computer programmer from Park Slope and a secretary from Williamsburg were chosen to fill the last two seats in a Brooklyn jury box yesterday, clearing the way for the start of the Bensonhurst murder trial on Monday.

LEAD: Despite a continuing slump in the personal computer market, the Intel Corporation today reported record first-quarter earnings. Intel's strong earnings, which exceeded the highest Wall Street estimates, were driven by demand for its 32-bit microprocessors, the 80386 and 80486, which form the heart of the most powerful