LEAD: RAP music now has a criminal record. On June 6, United States District Court Judge Jose Gonzalez of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., declared that ''As Nasty as They Wanna Be,'' an album by the 2 Live Crew, a rap group that is based in Miami, was obscene in the three counties under his jurisdiction, making it the first recording to be declared obscene by a Federal court.

An Album is Judged Obscene;   Rap: Slick, Violent, Nasty and, Maybe Hopeful

LEAD: 

MEMOIRS 

By Andrei Sakharov. 

Translated by Richard Lourie. 

Illustrated. 740 pp. New York: 

Alfred A. Knopf. $29.95.

SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER

LEAD: Poor dad. He just wants to stretch out on a hammock and watch the clouds roll by. But no one will leave him alone. Not today.

For Today's Fathers, Their Holiday Seems a Bit Set in Its Ways

LEAD: ACROSS the New York region, there is good news for renters. There are many more apartments and houses available for rent; rents on market-rate units are either stable or falling, and landlords are courting tenants with aggressive promotions.

The Rental Market Loosens Up a Bit

LEAD: THE first formal step in a comprehensive $1 billion plan to develop the last massive tract of developable land in Nassau County will be presented to the Hempstead Town Board on Tuesday.

Roosevelt Raceway Plan Heads for First Test

LEAD:    DISTURBING THE PEACE    A Conversation with Karel Hvizdala.    By Vaclav Havel.    Translated by Paul Wilson.    228 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $19.95.

SPEAKING THE TRUTH

LEAD: TWICE a day, seven days a week, Stephen Dunlap stands on a boulder called Coach's Rock on the banks of the Housatonic River in Falls Village. With a stopwatch or video camera in his hands, he scrutinizes the performances of the half-dozen or more canoeists and kayakers below him, as they manuever their boats upstream and down, through pairs of poles suspended by wire above rushing whitewater.

Paddlers' Olympic Dreams Ride the Housatonic's Rapids

LEAD: ''We have already seen many serious problems,'' Frederick K. Mehlman, assistant attorney general in charge of the New York State Real Estate Financing Bureau, said earlier this year about financial difficulties at converted cooperatives and condominiums. ''Unless the real estate market picks up, we expect more problems over the next few months.

Postings: Avoiding Problems;   Co-op Seminar

LEAD: A 338-acre country club near the Hudson River in the village of Garrison in Putnam County, N.Y., is going to be redeveloped by a Japanese company as both a sports center and a housing development. The Garrison Golf & Country Club in the Town of Philipstown, about 40 miles north of Manhattan, was purchased in February by the Urban Life Company of Osaka for $18 million, according to a broker involved in the sale, William H.

Postings: Homes and Sports;   Putnam Project

LEAD: From one end of the country to another, candidates are suddenly finding themselves forced to take a stand on just the kind of visceral, uncompromising issue that politicians like to avoid: whether the Constitution should be amended to outlaw the desecration of the flag.

Politicians Forced to Confront Issue of Defacing Flag

LEAD: Two hours before the kickoff of the World Cup match between England and the Netherlands on Saturday night, Italian police officers and about 1,000 English soccer fans exchanged rocks and tear gas during a clash.

  Fan Violence at World Cup Finals

LEAD: For the last year, Edwin Moses has been serving many masters.

On the Run All the Time

LEAD: AN electronic scanning device that enables motorists to pay tolls without stopping is being looked to by transportation officials as a way to ease backups on some of the state's most heavily traveled roads, bridges and tunnels.

Scanning Device Speeds Taking of Tolls

LEAD: STRETCHED out on a cot in the Emergency Hospital, his head and left hand bandaged, a Romanian student leader who had been beaten by a squad of pro-Government vigilantes last week was asked about democracy's chances in Romania.

Altered States;   Free Choice Revives the Best And Worst of Eastern Europe

LEAD: A New Jersey woman with an interest in the arts whose husband is an estate developer has decided to strike out on her own by building two single-family town houses on the Upper East Side that will be priced at $6 million when they are completed early next year. The houses are being designed by the New York architectural firm of Gwathmey Siegel and Associates, which first gained renown for its designs of vacation homes in eastern Long Island.

Postings: East 85th Town Houses;   All in the Family

LEAD: Braxton Banks missed the 1989 Notre Dame football season because of a leg injury. Banks, a running back, toiled last March over a delicate decision: whether to return for his final season at Notre Dame and earn his degree in English, or enter the National Football League draft in April and lose his Notre

PRO FOOTBALL

LEAD: The group known as The Guerrilla Girls turned five a few weeks ago, but if they held an anniversary celebration, it was typically secret. Since 1985, this mysterious band of art-world women, who boldly - some would say presumptuously - call themselves the ''conscience of the art world,'' has regularly papered sections of lower Manhattan with smartly designed black-and-white posters.

  Waging Guerrilla Warfare Against the Art World

  Where's The Cash, Mr. Trump?

LEAD: FOR Charlotte Mandel, poet and publisher, recognition has come rather late in life. In an era when the fast track can lead to success at the age of 25 or even at 18, Ms. Mandel represents a different approach. She began both her careers well into her middle years.

Well Into Midlife, Woman Finds Recognition in Two Careers

LEAD: A development group that includes church, private business and state and municipal agencies will use $13.7 million in public and private funds to erect 105 affordable cooperative apartments in a cluster of nine modular buildings in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. The project, called Williamsburg Partnership Homes, will cover most of a site bounded by South Eighth and Ninth Streets, Driggs Avenue and Berry

Postings: Modulars in Williamsburg;

105 Affordable Co-op Apartments

LEAD: ''What are those empty bottles on the floor?'' the police officer asked the young man in a Yankee cap who sat behind the wheel.

Court Ruling to Give More Drivers Experience With Sobriety Checks

LEAD: The Public Broadcasting Service plans to offer air time for talks by the major parties' Presidential nominees in 1992.

Presidential Nominees To Get PBS Air Time

LEAD: Eric Sorensen, a tall blond from Nebraska, was acting in New York in ''As the World Turns'' and other television shows when he learned that he had the AIDS virus. Although he was well, he was forced to admit that illness and death could come any day.

After AIDS Diagnosis, Some Embrace Life

LEAD: AS proprietor of Nanlee's, a store in Huntington Station, Leo Gieser says he has been making an honest living selling magazines for 25 years.

Morality in Media Takes On Adult Stores

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June 17, 1990

Headlines from June 17, 1990

An Album is Judged Obscene; Rap: Slick, Violent, Nasty and, Maybe Hopeful

SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER

For Today's Fathers, Their Holiday Seems a Bit Set in Its Ways

The Rental Market Loosens Up a Bit

Roosevelt Raceway Plan Heads for First Test

Billboard 200

Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

I'm Breathless: Music From And Inspired By The Film Dick Tracy (Soundtrack)

Pretty Woman

Brigade

Notable Births

Historical Context for June 17, 1990