LEAD: Pressed by widespread public anger over steep rate increases for cable television service, Congress is close to imposing modest controls over prices. But disputes over proposals aimed at fostering competition could derail the legislation and leave the industry a winner by default.

Congress Is Close to Regulating Price of Basic Cable TV Service

LEAD: Tattered, penniless and weary, but jubilant just the same, thousands of Albanian refugees sailed today into Western Europe and, they were certain, to a better life.

Evolution in Europe;   To Albanians, 'Ciao Italia!' Means Haven

LEAD: Parliament's lower house today approved a plan that would give every citizen a share in any of several thousand companies now owned by the state.

Evolution in Europe;   Lower House in Poland Approves Bill to Make Citizens Stockholders

LEAD: The Communist Party suffered additional major defections today as the Moscow and Leningrad City Council leaders quit the party and insurgent forces began moving slowly toward forming a national opposition coalition.

Evolution in Europe;   2 TOP CITY CHIEFS QUIT SOVIET PARTY AS CONGRESS ENDS

LEAD: Apparently concerned that he will receive a lengthy suspension from baseball, George Steinbrenner is preparing a legal attack based on the assertion that baseball's investigation of him was biased.

Baseball;   Steinbrenner Legal Strategy: Baseball Inquiry Was Unfair

LEAD: In the 20 months since the United States Supreme Court outlawed racial quotas that favored white applicants to the huge Starrett City housing complex in Brooklyn, the black and Hispanic families who had sought apartments for years have remained stuck on a long waiting list.

Starrett City Keeps Apartments Vacant Despite Waiting List

INSIDE

LEAD: Luther Henry Tindal, who is 45 years old and looks 60, and his wife, Linda, 34, rest on a dust-caked couch outside their $125-a-month cinderblock shack here, smoking discount cigarettes and drinking discount beer.

Days of Fruit Tramp's Painful Harvest Fade

LEAD: ''I want to change my life. I want to lead a better life. I don't want Communism.''     - Eno Vaso, an Albanian who fled to Italy. [5:5.]

Quotation of the Day

LEAD: International    2-5       The Communist Party defections continued as the Moscow and Leningrad City Council leaders quit the party and insurgent forces began moving slowly toward forming a national opposition coalition.    Page 1       Thousands of Albanian refugees sailed into Western Europe and, they were certain, to a better life.

News Summary

LEAD: Lucy Gaspe gazed up St.-Michel Street, past a crowd of reporters and television crews, past knots of police officers with pump-action shotguns crouching behind a wall of sandbags, to a barricade of upturned police cars and a front-end loader at the crest of the hill.

Oka Journal;   Mohawks Make a Point: They Are Distinct, Too

LEAD: An article on Monday about an exhibition of art labeled ''degenerate'' by the Nazis misstated the dates. The show, ''1937: Modern Art and Politics in Prewar Germany,'' will be at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from Feb. 17 to May 12, 1991, and at the Art Institute of Chicago from June 20 to Sept.

Corrections

LEAD: A picture yesterday with an article about the discovery of a gene that causes a nervous system disease was mislabeled by The Associated Press and published in error in some copies.

LEAD: Zewdu Sahelu, a 55-year-old Ethiopian Jew who has never been to school and can neither read nor write, arrived in the capital here two months ago from his farm, expecting to go to Israel.

Strain on Ethiopian City: Stranded Jews

LEAD: Because of an editing error, the introduction to a table on Thursday listing the assets of Gov. Mario M. Cuomo of New York characterized it incompletely. It showed assets of Mr. Cuomo's wife, Matilda, along with his.

LEAD: Thirty-nine Haitians fleeing their impoverished Caribbean island drowned when their sailboat capsized and sank in choppy seas while being towed by Bahamian authorities, Government officials said.

Bahamas Facing More Questions As It Buries 39 Drowned Haitians

LEAD: Three ministers resigned from the Indian Cabinet on Friday, threatening the survival of Prime Minister V. P. Singh's coalition Government, an aide to a minister said today.

Three Indian Ministers Resign

LEAD: In a break from past policy of shunning the Cambodian Government, the Bush Administration announced today that it had accepted an offer by Phnom Penh to cooperate in examining what could be the remains of Americans missing in action from the Vietnam War.

U.S. Policy on Cambodia Shifts a Bit

LEAD: Following is the text of the statement by Gavriil K. Popov, the City Council chief in Moscow, and Anatoly A. Sobchak, his counterpart in Leningrad, announcing their decision to quit the Communist Party, as translated by The New York Times:

Evolution in Europe;   Text of Statement by Two Soviet Officials

LEAD: Stung by a decision last week by 24 Western nations to deny economic aid to Romania, Government officials here assert that this punishment was mistaken and that it will help keep Romanians impoverished while hurting the nation's efforts to set up a market economy.

Evolution in Europe;   Stung by Denial of Western Aid, Romanian Officials Say Aim Is Democracy

LEAD: More than 20,000 people gathered outside government buildings in Bucharest today in the biggest opposition protest since the December uprising that ousted Nicolae Ceausescu, the Communist dictator.

Evolution in Europe;   20,000 in Bucharest Demand Release of Student

LEAD: Czechoslovakia is to evacuate its women and children living in Cuba as a diplomatic dispute with Havana worsens, Prague television reported today.

Evolution in Europe;   Prague Will Pull Some Citizens From Cuba

LEAD: Fang Lizhi, China's most prominent dissident, said today that he planned to study in the United States for at least six months beginning in January. He also said that while he was there he would meet with exiled Chinese dissidents and speak out against his country's Government.

Chinese Dissident to Study in U.S. (and to Speak Out)

LEAD: Chancellor Helmut Kohl will fly to Moscow late Saturday for some personal diplomacy with President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, hoping to convince the Soviet leader to drop his remaining objections to German unification within NATO, West German officials said today.

Evolution in Europe;   Kohl Will Meet Gorbachev Today in Moscow on Unity

LEAD: Anti-German remarks by one of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's closest Cabinet allies has plunged her Government into crisis and forced its deep divisions over the European Community into the open.

Evolution in Europe;   Remarks on Germany Prompt Tory Upheaval

Paulo Jorge Velez Muacho is a Portuguese lawyer, politician and member of the Assembly of the Republic, the national legislature of Portugal. A member of the LIVRE party, he has represented Setúbal since March 2024.

July 14, 1990

Headlines from July 14, 1990

Congress Is Close to Regulating Price of Basic Cable TV Service

Evolution in Europe; To Albanians, 'Ciao Italia!' Means Haven

Evolution in Europe; Lower House in Poland Approves Bill to Make Citizens Stockholders

Evolution in Europe; 2 TOP CITY CHIEFS QUIT SOVIET PARTY AS CONGRESS ENDS

Baseball; Steinbrenner Legal Strategy: Baseball Inquiry Was Unfair

Billboard 200

Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em

Step By Step

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

Wilson Phillips

Poison

Notable Births

Historical Context for July 14, 1990