LEAD: The Boeing Company said today that it would finance by itself the development of its proposed 767-X aircraft. Three Japanese aerospace companies will be substantial suppliers for the 300-seat twin-engine plane but will not be partners, Boeing said after months of industry speculation about possible

BOEING TO FINANCE NEW 767-X AIRLINER WITHOUT JAPANESE

LEAD: It all seemed innocuous enough. In January, President Mobutu Sese Seko announced that he would hold a series of public hearings throughout Zaire, ''a direct dialogue with the people,'' to better gauge their concerns.

Simple Request by Zaire's Leader Spurs Troubling Torrent by Critics

INSIDE

LEAD: Twenty years ago, Bonwit Teller and Saks Fifth Avenue, two of the nation's most celebrated fashion retailers catering to affluent customers, were roughly equivalent in size and approach.

The Decline of Bonwit Teller: Did Time Pass Retailer By?

LEAD: Teen-agers who were with Phillip C. Pannell when the black youth was shot dead by a white policeman said today that they had been ''fooling around'' with a BB pistol before officers confronted them.

Teaneck Youths Say BB Gun Was Waved Just Before Killing

LEAD: A subway rider who was beaten and robbed Thursday night on a Brooklyn express train drew a pistol from beneath his trench coat, shot one of his four assailants to death and then calmly walked off into the night at the next station, the police said.

A New Case of Subway Revenge: Beating Victim Is Sought as Killer

LEAD: In Harlan County, where the coal tipples jut out from the black hills like ungainly prehistoric birds, coal is still king, but it rules a forlorn, beleaguered kingdom.

In Appalachia, Vast Change but New Troubles

LEAD: In New York State politics, bad habits are generally not broken through gentle persuasion. It takes a crisis instead. This was well demonstrated on Thursday, when the Governor, the Comptroller and the State Legislature's leaders agreed to abandon the longstanding practice of borrowing billions of dollars each spring to pay for routine expenses like aid to school districts and local governments.

New Discipline in Albany;   Struggling With $5 Billion Deficit, New York Tries to End Its Cycle of Spring Borrowing

LEAD: President Mikhail S. Gorbachev issued an ultimatum to Lithuania today, saying that if the republic does not rescind its strongest independence measures within 48 hours, he will order other republics to start cutting off needed supplies.

  GORBACHEV WARNS LITHUANIA OF BAN ON MAJOR SUPPLIES

LEAD: The Israeli Navy sank a dinghy carrying four Palestinian guerrillas trying to enter northern Israel from the Lebanese coast, members of the Lebanese and Israeli security forces said today.

Israelis Are Reported to Sink Dinghy Carrying 4 Guerrillas

LEAD: ''Other constituent republics are asking quite aptly why they should continue supplying products to Lithuania at the expense of their own needs.''     - President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. [1:6.]

Quotation of the Day

LEAD: Hoping to prevent Congress from cutting aid to El Salvador when lawmakers return to work next week, Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d is lobbying Democratic leaders to give the Administration time to encourage peace negotiations between the Salvadoran Government and leftist guerrillas.

Baker Presses Lawmakers to Back A Strategy of Talks in El Salvador

LEAD:    International#2-5       Lithuania received an ultimatum from President Gorbachev. He said that if the republic did not rescind its major independence measures within 48 hours, he would order other republics to cut off supplies.     Page 1       Imposition of economic sanctions against Lithuania would violate Moscow's stated policy of seeking to resolve the stalemate without force, President Bush said.

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LEAD: An agreement to end a yearlong trade dispute between India and Nepal is in danger of falling victim to the unsettled political situation in Katmandu and to India's preoccupation with a steadily worsening crisis in Kashmir.

India-Nepal Accord on Ending Trade Dispute Is Near Collapse

LEAD: A leader of the Chinese student movement that was crushed in Tiananmen Square in June said here today that she was able to avoid arrest for 10 months thanks to the help, protection and encouragement of ordinary Chinese citizens.

Tiananmen Protest Leader Credits 'Lots of People' for Escape to West

LEAD: A picture caption yesterday about the new President of Taiwan referred to the island incorrectly in some editions. It is not a colony.

Corrections

LEAD: An article yesterday about tuna fishing methods referred incorrectly to the president of the American Tuna Boat Association. He is August Felando.

LEAD: A headline on Thursday on a review of a music-theater work by William Bolcom and Arnold Weinstein misstated its title. It is ''Casino Paradise,'' not ''Cinema Paradise.''

LEAD: Because of a transmission error, an article yesterday about responses to the census misattributed three statements by Boston residents.

LEAD: King Birendra met today with the principal Nepalese opposition leader and reportedly approved the formation of a new government that could be led by the opposition.

Nepal King Opens Way to Democratic Government

Colombian Rebels' Arms Go, But Where's Bolivar Sword?

LEAD: Wary as only a gulag survivor can be, Morris Hershman stands alone and theoretically triumphant amid the throngs of Soviet citizens who wait outside the American Embassy these troubled days, taunted by the hope of emigration.

Upheaval in the East: Moscow Journal;   U.S. Passport Takes Gulag Survivor Halfway Through the Looking Glass

LEAD: Invoking the spirit of Good Friday and Easter, President Bush said today that people ''ought to forgive'' Germans for the Holocaust but should not forget history's lessons.

Upheaval in the East;   On Forgiving the Germans

LEAD: Speaking with unusual force about the Lithuanian crisis, President Bush said today that he and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain found reports of a Kremlin ultimatum to the Baltic republic ''deeply disturbing.'' Mr. Bush said imposition of economic sanctions against Lithuania would violate Moscow's stated policy of seeking to resolve the stalemate over

Upheaval in the East;   New Soviet Threat 'Disturbing' to Bush

LEAD: Following is the text of a letter to the Lithuanian leadership sent today by President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Prime Minister Nikolai I. Ryzhkov, as translated by Tass, the official Soviet press agency:

Upheaval in the East;   Text of Kremlin's Letter of Warning to the Lithuanians

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April 14, 1990

Headlines from April 14, 1990

BOEING TO FINANCE NEW 767-X AIRLINER WITHOUT JAPANESE

Simple Request by Zaire's Leader Spurs Troubling Torrent by Critics

INSIDE

The Decline of Bonwit Teller: Did Time Pass Retailer By?

Teaneck Youths Say BB Gun Was Waved Just Before Killing

Billboard 200

Nick Of Time

Forever Your Girl

Soul Provider

Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814

Alannah Myles

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for April 14, 1990