LEAD: Philips N.V., the Dutch electronics giant, is expected to announce on Monday that its chairman, Cornelis J. van der Klugt, is stepping down more than a year earlier than planned because of pressures resulting from the company's surprisingly poor earnings for the first quarter.

Chairman of Philips Is Said To Be Stepping Down Early

LEAD: The Knicks were forced to try to win with a foul-plagued Patrick Ewing yesterday, but they weren't successful. The Detroit Pistons, the National Basketball Association's defending champions and best defensive team, didn't allow it to happen.

Knicks Tumble To Pistons

LEAD: Faced with public opposition that underscores Bolivians' deep-seated distrust of big capitalism and foreign business, the Government has backed away from a proposed mining accord with an American company.

  U.S. Company Loses Bolivian Mining Deal

LEAD: In the middle of March, about 60 economists and lawyers began convening each day at a Government country house in the pine woods outside Moscow. Their assignment was to draft laws and decrees that would transform the lethargic, state-planned Soviet economy into a free market, and do it quickly.

  How Gorbachev Rejected Plan To 'Shock Treat' the Economy

LEAD: Nearly three years ago, Northville Industries discovered that for more than a decade one million gallons of leaded gasoline leaked slowly and imperceptibly from a pea-sized hole in an eight-inch pipe at a storage terminal near here, spreading over 30 acres and almost seven feet deep in some places.

Gas Spill Cleanup Turns L.I. Backyards Into Field Labs

LEAD: Shouting anti-Korean slurs, a mob of up to 15 black youths armed with a baseball bat, knives and bottles attacked three Vietnamese men on a Brooklyn street early yesterday and fractured the skull of one victim before fleeing into the night, the police said.

Blacks Attack 3 Vietnamese; One Hurt Badly

LEAD: It took Eddie Quiles exactly half an hour on a recent Saturday to knock on nine apartment doors in the South Bronx and compile one of the sorriest records in the annals of door-to-door canvassing - three households did not answer, four asked him to come back later and two told him to get lost.

Census Knocks, but Few Want to Answer

LEAD: Argentina is suffering through one of its worst recessions since the 1930's. Thousands of people employed by private companies have lost their jobs, and for the first time in 40 years, the hard times might even result in layoffs among the millions of workers on the public payroll.

Argentina's Painful Path to Efficiency

LEAD:    Anger Rising in Romania    With the first elections after four decades of Communist domination approaching, people in the cradle of the revolt, Timisoara, like many other Romanians, are expressing not hope, but anger. Page A11.       Defacing Jewish Graves    Thousands went on a pilgrimage of protest and penitence to the Jewish cemetery in France where 34 graves were desecrated.

INSIDE

LEAD: Speculating about a possible deal involving Donald J. Trump's three casinos has almost replaced slot machines as the most popular game in Atlantic City.

Excitement At Casinos: Is Trump Dealing?

LEAD: The Dow Jones industrial average is within a few points of setting a high, but many money managers remain dubious that the rally will continue. They note, for instance, that many stocks have not risen nearly as much as the Dow.

Market Place;   The Dubious View of the Rally

LEAD: For 20 years, blacks and whites at the high school in this rural Georgia town sat side by side in classes and Key Club meetings, marched in the band together and wore the same black-and-gold uniforms on the football team.

36 Years Later, an Integrated Georgia Prom

LEAD: GOLF may be sport's ultimate test of self-reliance, and perhaps no golfer has ever relied on himself as doggedly as Calvin Peete. A product of the streets of Detroit and the citrus groves of Florida who was one of 19 siblings, Peete never hit a golf ball until the age of 23. He has never had a formal lesson.

Big Role Model, Barren Stage

LEAD: The creators of The National thought they had a formula that could not fail: a daily sports newspaper packed with local and national news.

New Game Plan for Sports Daily

LEAD:    COMPANIES       Speculation that Donald J. Trump might be working out a deal involving his three casinos has almost replaced slot machines as the most popular game in Atlantic City. Mr. Trump has encouraged the speculaton by saying publicly that he is interested in raising cash and might consider selling or refinancing some of his properties.

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: Western Europe's Christian Democratic parties are trying to woo East bloc countries toward a form of capitalism that emphasizes Christian social values. Page A11.

West Offers New Way to East

LEAD: A month after a black youth, Phillip C. Pannell, was shot to death by a white police officer, significant differences remain between the police account of the shooting and accounts given by other witnesses.

Death in Teaneck; The Gun Question - A Special Report:   Police Version Still Contested A Month After Youth's Killing

LEAD: Despite repeated disappointments, many of the nation's top corporate executives say they think there is at least an even-money chance for a breakthrough in budget negotiations that begin on Tuesday in Washington, with a sizable number supporting such an agreement even if it includes an increase in personal income taxes.

Executives See a Chance Of Deficit Cut

LEAD: East and West German economic experts set the stage over the weekend for their political leaders to negotiate a treaty that would merge the two countries' monetary, economic and social policies by midsummer.

Evolution in Europe;   GERMANYS TAKE UP APPROVAL OF PACT ON ECONOMIC UNION

LEAD: This is the town that the F. D. Rich Company built. It was F. D. Rich that bulldozed virtually all of Stamford's decrepit downtown 25 years ago. And it was F. D. Rich that erected many of the high-rise office buildings that came to symbolize Stamford's rebirth as a corporate capital.

Main Builder In Stamford Is Faltering

LEAD: American and Philippine officials say the United States may have to relinquish at least one of its two huge military bases in the Philippines over the next 10 years because of rising opposition to the installations in the former American colony.

U.S. May Give Up One of Its Bases In the Philippines, Officials Say

LEAD: The zebra mussel, an aquatic invader from Europe, is rapidly advancing into New York State, threatening to become a major pest in the Hudson, Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers, marine biologists say.

Shellfish Is Tiny, but Problems It Could Cause Are Huge

LEAD: ''Let's suppose,'' E. Y. (Yip) Harburg once said, ''that God had had only the tune for 'Let there be light' and stood on the brink of eternity and sang, 'Da-da-da-da!'

  Making a Song More Than Just A Pretty Melody

LEAD: Gov. Jim Florio this spring is reversing many of the nationally praised education policies of his predecessor, Thomas H. Kean, moving away from reforms that were part of the ''back to basics'' movement of the 1980's and redirecting New Jersey's resources toward overcoming the effects of poverty on children.

Florio Shifts Policy From School Testing To More Aid to Poor

LEAD: A MAJOR new study by an award-winning Brooklyn research group has concluded that a domed sports stadium should be built in Coney Island and financed by a novel combination of bank loans and public donations.

May 14, 1990

Headlines from May 14, 1990

Chairman of Philips Is Said To Be Stepping Down Early

Knicks Tumble To Pistons

U.S. Company Loses Bolivian Mining Deal

How Gorbachev Rejected Plan To 'Shock Treat' the Economy

Gas Spill Cleanup Turns L.I. Backyards Into Field Labs

Billboard 200

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em

Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814

Brigade

Soul Provider

Historical Context for May 14, 1990