LEAD: NEW YORK CITY is barely a dot on the planet, occupying just 322 square miles of the earth's nearly 197 million, but this weekend it will overflow with outdoor performances, environmental exhibitions, street fairs, nature walks, cleanup projects and other activities on the 20th anniversary of Earth

To Celebrate and Protect the Earth

LEAD: In a deal announced today, Marshall Field & Company of Chicago, one of the oldest and grandest names in American retailing, is to be sold for $1.04 billion to another venerable retailer, the Dayton Hudson Corporation of Minneapolis.

Marshall Field Deal By Dayton

LEAD: A group of Congressional Democrats today declared the first phase of the 1990 census a failure. They called on the Commerce Department to consider using statistical methods to adjust the totals to make up for people not being counted.

Democrats Say A Failed Census Needs a Change

LEAD: Clashing theories of racial superiority articulated by two tenured professors, one white and one black, have been stirring turmoil at City College and have prompted the college's president to ask for an inquiry into the limits of academic freedom. The inquiry panel will study the professors' conduct as well.

Professors' Theories on Race Stir Turmoil at City College

LEAD: The oil reserve established by the Government 15 years ago as an insurance policy against supply disruptions is coming under new scrutiny as imports rise and the budget-conscious Bush Administration looks for ways to cut costs.

Oil Issue: How Much for Reserve?

LEAD: President Bush and President Francois Mitterrand indicated today that they put a higher value on improved relations with Moscow than on an immediate resolution of the situation in Lithuania.

Evolution in Europe;   Bush and Mitterrand Are Putting Moscow Ties Ahead of Lithuania

LEAD:    Albania Easing Its Isolation    After three decades of shunning the United States and the Soviet Union, Albania said it would seek relations with the superpowers. Page A7.       Recall on Infants' Cushion    A cushion believed responsible for the suffocation of 19 infants is being recalled by manufacturers under Government pressure.

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LEAD: Representatives of the Group of Seven industrial countries proposed a broad set of regulatory and banking reforms today to combat the growing problem of concealing illegal narcotics profits in banks and other financial institutions.

Group of 7 Asks Money-Laundering Curbs

LEAD: Pete Rose, who was suspended from baseball for life eight months ago, has agreed to plead guilty in United States District Court in Cincinnati today to two felony counts of filing false Federal income tax returns, according to court papers released yesterday.

Rose Set to Admit in Court Today That He Filed False Tax Returns

LEAD: Patrick Hildreth has always liked that little nightly spot on his local television station: ''It's 10 P.M.,'' the announcer intones. ''Do you know where your kids are?''

It Is 10 P.M., Parents; How Do You Plead?

LEAD: The Kremlin sharply increased its economic sanctions against Lithuania today, slashing supplies of natural gas to the republic only hours after completely halting the flow of crude oil there.

Evolution in Europe;   TOUGHENING STAND, MOSCOW CUTS BACK GAS FOR LITHUANIA

LEAD:    A NEW ERA AT EASTERN       A Federal bankruptcy judge accomplished what organized labor had sought for years. He took control of Eastern Airlines from Frank Lorenzo and appointed an outsider to run the troubled carrier, which had become a symbol of labor strife in the 1980's. The judge's goal is to keep the airline flying at least until it becomes palatable to a buyer.

BUSINESS DIGEST

WEEKENDER GUIDE

LEAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission today authorized the creation of a new market for stocks and bonds in a move that could increase the dominance of large investment firms in the United States financial markets.

S.E.C. AUTHORIZES A FREER MARKET FOR BIG INVESTORS

LEAD: The American Express Company, reflecting record losses at its Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc. subsidiary, reported the worst quarterly results in its history yesterday - a loss of $619.8 million in the first quarter, compared with a gain a year earlier of $251.9 million, or 59 cents a share.

American Express Has Worst Loss

LEAD: Intensifying an effort to uncover illegal narcotics profits, the world's seven leading industrial countries proposed broad regulatory and banking reforms. Their bid was joined by eight other nations, three well-known for bank secrecy -Switzerland, Austria and Luxembourg. Page D1.

New Push to Expose Drug Profits in Banks

LEAD: It's painfully easy for Alan Muller to remember the day he lost his job at the Grumman Corporation: Jan. 13, 1989. Friday the 13th.

Our Towns;   Price of Freedom And Budget Cuts: Retraining on L.I.

LEAD: A prisoner with a criminal record testified yesterday that Joseph Fama had confessed to killing Yusuf K. Hawkins in a jailhouse conversation last month. ''I shot him. I shot him. I can't bring the guy back,'' Mr. Fama told him, the prisoner said.

Fama Confessed, a Prisoner Testifies in Bensonhurst Trial

LEAD: Leaders of the Sandinista Government, the government-elect and the contra rebel army signed agreements today for an immediate cease-fire in Nicaragua's eight-year civil war and the complete disarming of the rebel army by June 10.

Cease-Fire Begins in Nicaragua As the Contras Agree to Disarm

LEAD: ONE thing is apparent in the art galleries this weekend: sculpture lives. In fact, it thrives in a state of unusual diversity. This sense of liberation is not particular to the medium; at the moment, many kinds of art are possible. Yet sculpture seems especially open, if only for purely physical reasons: to a greater extent than painting, sculpture can be made out of anything, and its new materials can in turn open up new meanings.

Review/Art;   Sculpture in the City, From Blankets to Bronze

LEAD: Saying the receding threat of conflict with the Soviet Union calls for major changes in military strategy, Senator Sam Nunn proposed today that the United States sharply reduce its nuclear and conventional forces in Europe.

Nunn Proposes Sharp U.S. Military Cuts in Europe

LEAD: A Federal bankruptcy judge Wednesday night accomplished what organized labor had sought for years: he took control of Eastern Airlines from Frank Lorenzo and appointed an outsider to run the troubled carrier that had become a symbol of labor strife in the 1980's.

Eastern's Fate Now With Trustee

LEAD: The Mexican Government warned today that it might curtail drug-control operations with the United States as a result of the arrest of a Mexican doctor who was brought to the United States this month to face charges in the 1985 slaying of an American drug agent.

Mexico Says Suspect's Seizure Imperils Aid to U.S. on Drugs

LEAD: A Democratic Assemblyman from Rochester announced today that he had abandoned his opposition to the death penalty, a move that could provide the last vote needed to override Gov. Mario M. Cuomo's veto.

Death-Penalty Supporters Gain Vital Vote Against Cuomo Veto

LEAD: Pro-Iranian kidnappers in Beirut announced today that they had postponed the freeing of an American hostage because the Bush Administration refused to meet their demand to dispatch a senior Middle East policymaker to Syria to coordinate the release.

MILITANTS DELAY HOSTAGE'S RELEASE

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April 20, 1990

Headlines from April 20, 1990

To Celebrate and Protect the Earth

Marshall Field Deal By Dayton

Democrats Say A Failed Census Needs a Change

Professors' Theories on Race Stir Turmoil at City College

Oil Issue: How Much for Reserve?

Billboard 200

Nick Of Time

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814

Forever Your Girl

Soul Provider

Notable Births

Historical Context for April 20, 1990