LEAD: The United States has dispatched two aerial refueling planes to the United Arab Emirates and sent combat ships to sea in a rare exercise with the Persian Gulf nation after Iraqi threats to use military force against the Emirates and Kuwait, Bush Administration officials said today.

U.S. Deploys Air and Sea Forces After Iraq Threatens 2 Neighbors

LEAD: A House panel asked a special prosecutor today to broaden his investigation of former Housing Secretary Samuel R. Pierce Jr. to determine whether Mr. Pierce illegally steered Government-related business to his former law firm.

Lawmakers Ask Broader Inquiry On Reagan's Housing Secretary

LEAD: A day after President Bush announced his choice of David H. Souter for the Supreme Court, a sharp dispute broke out today in Congress and among interest groups over how far the Senate should go in eliciting his position on abortion.

Bush's Court Choice;   SENATORS DIVIDED ON ASKING SOUTER HIS ABORTION VIEW

LEAD: A defense lawyer in the Central Park jogger trial inadvertently elicited testimony from a prosecution witness yesterday that added incriminating details to the confession introduced by the prosecution.

Lawyer's Questions in Jogger Trial Appear to Hurt Client

LEAD: When lawyers assess a candidate for the Supreme Court, they generally make comparisons to known judicial quantities. That is how the lawyers of New Hampshire are describing Judge David H. Souter, whom they have followed from private practice in Concord to the State Attorney General's office to the state and

Bush's Court Choice;   Ascetic at Home but Vigorous on Bench

LEAD: THE American love affair with the horse, born on the frontier and branded on the national psyche by movies and television, is thriving in the gentrified enclaves of horse shows, equestrian arenas, exclusive estates and the suburban settings of backyards.

Boots and Saddles For a New Breed

LEAD:    THE ECONOMY       The lobbyist who helped investors buy troubled savings and loans claimed to be entitled to a multimillion-dollar share in a deal in which $1.85 billion in subsidies went to one client. [Page A1.]  Thornburgh said the Justice Department would need at least five years to prosecute the most serious cases of savings fraud.

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: New York City, threatened with a state ban on all new building in a third of Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn and Queens because sewage treatment in those areas is inadequate, has agreed to enforce far-reaching water conservation measures.

Pact Reached To Save Water In New York

LEAD: The machinery is deafening, the floors are messy, and the pungent air is thick with flies on a summer day inside the Plastics Again polystyrene recycling plant here, an hour's drive west of Boston. But the scene is enough to delight a plastic manufacturer.

  Giving Polystyrene Another Chance

LEAD: American Airlines Inc. today withdrew plans to add surcharges of $1 to $4 at five airports that the carrier said were charging ''exorbitant and intolerable'' landing fees.

Plan for Fee At Airports Is Scrapped

LEAD: Labor leaders at The Daily News announced yesterday that they would organize an ''all-fronts boycott'' against the newspaper.

Unions Prepare Boycott Against The Daily News

LEAD: Despite heavy program selling, stock prices recovered some ground yesterday in strong trading. But many investors remained cautious in the wake of Monday's big selloff.

Gingerly, Dow Gains 17.82 Back

LEAD: Economists, demographers and city planners say the population of New York City has continued to grow and is now larger than ever - 8 million - an assertion that challenges official estimates, demographic trends and conventional wisdom.

New York City Still Growing, Studies Assert

LEAD: The selloff in the stock market on Monday, which many analysts attributed to weak profits, actually came at a time when company earnings seem to be rising again.

Few Heads Are Turned By Profits' Turnaround

LEAD: Eastern Airlines has failed to reach a plea-bargaining agreement in a Federal investigation of past maintenance practices, and a grand jury is expected to indict the carrier this week on criminal charges, Eastern's court-appointed trustee and Federal officials said yesterday.

Talks End; Charges Seen At Eastern

LEAD: The United States and the European Community, failing to make progress at talks in Geneva in resolving a festering trade dispute over farm subsidies, suspended negotiations today for a month.

Stalled Geneva Farm Talks Are Suspended for a Month

LEAD: THE nonprofessional actor-waiter with the ''Hi, I'm. . .'' introduction who does not know ''Who gets the fish?'' is as much a part of the social history of the 1980's as ''Have a nice day.'' But at a time when the restaurant industry is suffering, the fallout is serious.

New Focus On Service: Relearning a Lost Art

LEAD: Harvard University archeologists excavating Canaanite ruins surrounding the site of the ancient port city of Ashkelon have unearthed a ''golden calf'' that was an object of worship dating from the second millennium B.C.

Archeologists Unearth 'Golden Calf' in Israel

LEAD:    Stocks Move Back Up    The Dow Jones industrial average rose 17.82 points, to 2,922,52, but many investors remained cautious in the wake of Monday's selloff. Page D1.       Airline Drops Fee Plan    American Airlines decided not to add surcharges of $1 to $4 at five airports that the carrier said were charging ''exorbitant'' landing fees.

INSIDE

LEAD: Today is the first anniversary of the death of 45-year-old Steve Rubell, that loquacious scamp who made his mark by being in the right place at the right time in a town where that is often all that matters.

About New York;   Nights of Glitz, A Velvet Rope And Memories

LEAD: WHEN McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's announced in recent days that they would fry their potatoes in all vegetable oil instead of a mixture of beef tallow and vegetable oil, it was just one more sign that fast-food chains have learned a lesson: to survive in today's health-conscious society, they must provide more nutritious alternatives to double cheeseburgers and fried chicken.

  The Slimming Of Fat Fast Food

LEAD: In a country where power has long been a game of older men, Boris N. Yeltsin's choice of a 32-year-old banking specialist to run the Finance Ministry of the vast Russian republic raised some eyebrows.

Evolution in Europe;   As Yeltsin Sets Quick Tempo, Gorbachev Tries to Keep Beat

LEAD: A lobbyist who helped investors buy troubled savings institutions claimed to be entitled to a multimillion-dollar share in a deal providing $1.85 billion in Federal subsidies to one client, a Senate committee disclosed today.

Panel Says Ex-Bush Aide Claimed Millions From a Savings Unit Deal

LEAD: President Bush may get a third chance to appoint a member of the Federal Reserve Board if Martha R. Seger resigns.

Seger May Quit Fed's Board

LEAD: Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, provided little hope today to politicians who want to see interest rates lowered and bank regulations eased.

Greenspan Emphasizes Fight Against Inflation

Thodoris "Theodoros" Karapetsas is a Greek footballer.

July 25, 1990

Headlines from July 25, 1990

U.S. Deploys Air and Sea Forces After Iraq Threatens 2 Neighbors

Lawmakers Ask Broader Inquiry On Reagan's Housing Secretary

Bush's Court Choice; SENATORS DIVIDED ON ASKING SOUTER HIS ABORTION VIEW

Lawyer's Questions in Jogger Trial Appear to Hurt Client

Bush's Court Choice; Ascetic at Home but Vigorous on Bench

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

Historical Context for July 25, 1990