LEAD: Things hummed along at the Gay and Lesbian Switchboard.

About New York;   Gay Dentists? Flirting Advice? Call the Hot Line

LEAD: Two months ago the Home Dish Satellite Corporation was a flourishing New York City company, beaming hard-core sex films to 30,000 subscribers around the country and soft-core ones to 1.2 million customers.

Obscenity Law Used In Alabama Breaks New York Company

LEAD: The outspoken head of the Federal savings and loan bailout came under White House pressure today, with the President's chief spokesman saying that ''we are interested in getting new leadership'' in the rescue effort.

WHITE HOUSE SEEKS A 'NEW LEADERSHIP' AT SAVINGS AGENCY

LEAD: After an 11-month decline, the nation's manufacturing economy expanded in April, stimulated by strong levels of new orders, particularly from foreign customers, the nation's purchasing managers reported yesterday.

Purchasers' Economic Index Rises

LEAD: The House today narrowly approved the Democratic majority's $1.2 trillion budget for 1991, calling for $24 billion less for the military than President Bush proposed and $5.6 billion more for domestic programs.

House Backs $24 Billion in Cuts From Bush's Plans for Pentagon

LEAD: The Chrysler Corporation said today that its first-quarter profit declined 79.8 percent, reflecting an industrywide sales slowdown and the high cost of discount programs.

Chrysler Net Falls By 79.8%

LEAD: The new chief executive of the Campbell Soup Company yesterday cut nearly 19 percent, or 364 jobs, from its headquarters staff in Camden, N.J.

Campbell Cutting 364 From Staff

LEAD: The leaders of the European Community may still be uncertain about what a united Europe will mean, but that does not faze Robert Maxwell, as he prepares to introduce what he calls ''Europe's first national weekend newspaper.''

Maxwell Is Ready to Start European 'National' Paper

LEAD: New York's Chief Judge today declined to force private lawyers to donate free legal services to the poor immediately but warned that he would impose such a program in two years.

Chief Judge Presses Lawyers On Legal Work for the Poor

LEAD: The White House announced that President Bush would meet with the prime minister of the Lithuanian independence government. Page A10.

Bush to Meet With Lithuanian

LEAD: THIS is the tale of a mother, a daughter and codfish puffs.

  A Mother, a Daughter, a Bond in Codfish

LEAD: Just in time for summer, the Cola Wars sizzled again yesterday, as Burger King announced it was switching to Coke from Pepsi as its soft-drink supplier.

New Coke Conquest: Burger King

LEAD: THE highway runs down from Santiago toward Punta Arenas and, yes, the South Pole, but we weren't going that far, my leathery-faced driver and I. We were turning right near San Fernando, about three hours south of the capital, and heading into the Colchagua Valley to Peralillo. It was the fourth day of a weeklong trip through what is probably the most exciting wine region in the world right now.

  Land of Promise Seizes the Moment

LEAD:    THE ECONOMY       L. William Seidman came under public pressure to step down as head of the Government agency that is managing the Federal savings and loan bailout. The pressure on Mr. Seidman, chairman of the Resolution Trust Corporation, comes at a time when the agency is gearing up to spend almost $1 billion a day over the next two months to cover losses on the insolvent savings and loan associations it is trying to sell.

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: A New York City Council committee yesterday unanimously approved a bill to stiffen penalties for people responsible for buildings with fire-safety violations, including illegal social clubs. The bill would also create a temporary commission to study how the city can help clubs run by legitimate community groups comply with safety laws.

A Council Panel Back Harsh Fire-Code Fines

LEAD: President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and the Kremlin leadership were jeered today by throngs of protesters who were allowed to march through Red Square at the end of the annual May Day parade.

Evolution in Europe;   GORBACHEV JEERED AT MAY DAY RALLY

LEAD: John Emil List was sentenced today to five consecutive life terms for the murders of his wife, mother and three children 18 years ago, and as he was led away, the packed courtroom burst into applause.

Family Killer Sentenced to 5 Life Terms; No Parole for 75 Years

LEAD: For the 16th month in a row, the number of Soviet Jews arriving in Israel increased sharply in April and for the first time exceeded 10,000, Israeli immigration officials said today.

Israel Reports an April Influx Of 10,000 Jews From U.S.S.R.

LEAD:    Lawyers Told to Help Poor    New York's chief judge told lawyers that if they don't voluntarily expand free legal services to the poor by 1992 he will force them to. Page B1.       Chrysler Earnings Tumble    The auto maker's profit fell 79.8 percent in the first quarter because of an industrywide slowdown, but analysts had been expecting worse.

INSIDE

LEAD: A veteran police officer was shot in the neck and critically wounded early yesterday by a man he had stopped for driving a stolen car the wrong way on a one-way street in Brooklyn, the police said.

Officer Shot After Stopping Car in Brooklyn

LEAD: While the auto-industry sales slump eroded the Chrysler Corporation's overall market share and profitability, the company's Jeep line remained a trusty and profitable product. Jeeps, along with mini-vans, now account for nearly all of the company's automotive profits, some analysts say.

Trusty, Profitable Jeep Faces New Challenge

LEAD: After celebrating the release of the second hostage in two weeks, President Bush is turning his attention to the delicate diplomatic task of obtaining the freedom of more American captives without breaking his pledge not to negotiate with Iran.

Hostage Sleight of Hand

LEAD: AND now, monsieur and madame, here are today's specials: One neon-blue catfish. One half of a cow. Blackened pork chops, frozen. Fake caviar, 150 gallons of it. A platter of ham bones: no ham; just the bones. Eyeballs on baked potatoes. Nine all-white entrees on all-white plates in an all-white restaurant.

There's a Parody On My Plate!

LEAD: It is spring and the Hudson River is bursting with striped bass, a species once prized in New York by sportsmen and chefs. But for one band of fishermen, this is bad news.

Hudson's Toxic Striped Bass Disrupt the Season for Shad

LEAD: An abatement of political violence appears crucial to the ultimate success of talks scheduled to begin here on Wednesday between the Government and its leading anti-apartheid opponent, the African National Congress.

As South African Rivals Spar, Political Violence Mushrooms

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May 2, 1990

Headlines from May 2, 1990

About New York; Gay Dentists? Flirting Advice? Call the Hot Line

Obscenity Law Used In Alabama Breaks New York Company

WHITE HOUSE SEEKS A 'NEW LEADERSHIP' AT SAVINGS AGENCY

Purchasers' Economic Index Rises

House Backs $24 Billion in Cuts From Bush's Plans for Pentagon

Billboard 200

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814

Soul Provider

Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em

Forever Your Girl

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Notable Deaths

Historical Context for May 2, 1990