BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: Pete Rose, baseball's career hit leader, was sentenced today to five months in a Federal correctional institution for filing false income-tax returns.

Rose Sentenced to 5 Months For Filing False Tax Returns

LEAD: In a transaction that could pave the way for building new nuclear plants, the Consumers Power Company said yesterday that it had arranged to sell a major part of a 19-year-old reactor to the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, a reactor manufacturer. Consumers Power, the biggest utility in Michigan, had already announced that the Bechtel Power

A Nuclear Step and Maybe a Leap

LEAD: The taxi industry in New York City has undergone sweeping changes in the last 18 months that have made the business less rewarding for drivers and owners.

Higher Fares, Less Reward: New York Cabs Hit a Slump

LEAD: Almost 16 years after he resigned the Presidency in disgrace, Richard M. Nixon was hailed today as a statesman and a peacemaker as he presided over the dedication of the $21 million Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace in this small Orange County town.

Another Nixon Summit, at His Library

LEAD:    South Korea to Open Border       South Korea announced that it would open its tightly sealed border with North Korea for five days next month for free travel between residents from both sides. Page A3.       A Cheaper Rival to Hubble       Europeans have developed a ground-based telescope that promises to work as well as a perfectly functioning Hubble Space Telescope, and at a far lower cost.

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LEAD: MANY concertgoers consider hearing music out of doors an inherently less focused undertaking than listening to a performance in a concert hall. That view is not groundless: outdoor concerts are often built on decidedly ''lite'' fare, and encourage the notion that the performances, like Baroque Tafelmusik, are being offered as pleasantly innocuous dinner music.

Outdoors, Concert Fare That's Serious And Rare

LEAD: Because of the Third Avenue Summerfest, Third Avenue in Manhattan will be closed Sunday from 42d to 57th Streets from 8 A.M. to 8 P.M.

Traffic Alert

LEAD: For his first meeting with officials of Kubota Ltd. in 1986, Allen H. Michels decorated the offices of his Silicon Valley computer company with pictures of tractors. It was a sign of respect for the Osaka-based farm equipment manufacturer that was to end up investing $45 million in Mr. Michels's company, the Ardent Computer

Kubota Is Put in Middle Of an East-West Clash

LEAD: When Pennsylvania passed the toughest anti-takeover law in the nation three months ago, the move was seen as a favor for the state's companies, protecting them from unfriendly bidders. But in the last couple of weeks, many of Pennsylvania's largest and best-known corporations, including the Westinghouse Electric Corporation and the H.

Many Companies in Pennsylvania Reject State's Takeover Protection

LEAD: The American Express Company reported yesterday that second-quarter earnings edged up 1.2 percent from the quarter a year earlier and that revenues fell slightly.

American Express Net Rises 1.2%

LEAD: Offering what is believed to be their final forensic evidence, the prosecutors failed again yesterday to link scientifically three defendants to the rape and attempted murder of the Central Park jogger.

Scientific Link Is Still Missing In Jogger Trial

LEAD: Pollution problems at properties the Government has taken from failed savings institutions will add billions of dollars to the cost of the savings and loan bailout, Government officials and environmental experts said today.

Pollution Raises Cost Of Bailout

LEAD: The House ethics committee voted today to recommend that Representative Barney Frank receive a formal reprimand from the House for his relationship with a male prostitute, Congressional officials said.

Formal Reprimand of Rep. Frank Is Urged by House's Ethics Panel

LEAD: Like many houses here, 128 Main Street was built in the colonial style around 1790. And like many such homes, during the late 19th century, as this became a tourist area, the colonials were embellished with Victorian-style additions, including a small front porch.

Our Towns;   The Porch War: Will 19th Century Win Over 18th?

LEAD: IF you're 10 years old and you want to be a firefighter, all you can do is play with the garden hose and wait. Major league baseball player? Join the Little League. But if you want to be a professonal actor - right now - you just might have a shot.

They're Young, Bright and Talented, And on Broadway

LEAD: Supporters of a major bill to prevent job discrimination, approved by the Senate Wednesday night, said today that they would work with the White House to avert a veto.

ACCORD IS SOUGHT ON RIGHTS MEASURE TO AVERT A VETO

LEAD: Argentina, which agreed last month to sell its national telecommunications company to Spanish and American interests, has now agreed to sell a majority share of the national airline, Aerolineas Argentinas, to a consortium led by the Spanish airline Iberia.

Argentina Agrees to Sell Majority Share of Its Airline

LEAD:    Friday       DANCING IN THE PARKS

WEEKENDER GUIDE

LEAD: As a leader of the student protests that gripped Wesleyan University this spring, Nicholas B. Haddad cultivated an image as an angry young man with vague Middle-Eastern roots who knew well the ways of violence.

Death of a Student Rebel: Who, Unmasked, Was He?

LEAD: There are not many bright spots in the New York economy these days, and one of the few can be found in the unlikeliest of places: Buffalo.

From Rust Belt to Money Belt in Buffalo

LEAD: China issued a stern and disappointed response to the announcement that the United States was withdrawing support for China's closest ally in Cambodia. Page A2.

U.S. Shift Dismays China

LEAD: The American Telephone and Telegraph Company said yesterday that its earnings had fallen 6 percent in the second quarter. It attributed the drop to lower equipment sales and rentals, higher income taxes and the costs of introducing a combination calling card and credit card.

Earnings Decline 6% At A.T.&T.

LEAD: The man of the hour of German unity may be Chancellor Helmut Kohl, but the man who first saw it coming is certainly Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher.

  Kohl Gets German Spotlight But Genscher Had the Vision

LEAD: The decision by the United States to alter its Cambodia policy and talk directly to Vietnam is another indication of the growing Soviet-American accord on regional conflicts, this time at the expense of Beijing, the main ally of the Khmer Rouge guerrillas.

Hanoi's Partial Victory;   U.S. Shift on Cambodia Is Latest Example Of Pact With Moscow on Regional Disputes

Lars Unnerstall is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Eredivisie club Twente.

Lars Unnerstall, German footballer

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Herbert Turner Jenkins was an American law enforcement official and the longest-serving police chief of Atlanta.

July 20, 1990

Headlines from July 20, 1990

BUSINESS DIGEST

Rose Sentenced to 5 Months For Filing False Tax Returns

A Nuclear Step and Maybe a Leap

Higher Fares, Less Reward: New York Cabs Hit a Slump

Another Nixon Summit, at His Library

Billboard 200

Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em

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

Step By Step

Wilson Phillips

Pretty Woman

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for July 20, 1990