LEAD: The jury in the trial of Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr. convicted him today of one misdemeanor count of drug possession and acquitted him of another misdemeanor drug charge. But it failed to reach a verdict on the 12 remaining charges, including the most serious ones.

Barry Guilty on One Drug Count; Mistral is Declared on Felonies

LEAD: In a few days, when the thunder fades and the earth stops shaking, the people of this small town in the Black Hills will raise the window shades and peek outside their doors again.

Dakota Town Shaken by 250,000-Biker Rally

LEAD: Frustrated by the wave of costly and slowly resolved asbestos cases, 10 Federal district judges with the heaviest caseloads agreed today on how to consolidate tens of thousands of cases clogging dockets around the nation.

10 Federal Judges Agree on Plan To Consolidate Asbestos Lawsuits

LEAD: A Federal judge ruled today that the United States had violated its extradition treaty with Mexico by abducting a Mexican doctor accused of involvement in the torture slaying of an American drug agent. The judge ordered that the doctor be returned to Mexico.

Judge Tells U.S. to Free Mexican Abducted in Drug Agent's Death

LEAD: Pentagon officials said today that the American force mobilized to defend Saudi Arabia against possible Iraqi attack could reach 100,000 in a matter of months, and President Bush warned Baghdad not to try to ship oil through an undeclared allied naval blockade.

  U.S. Says Its Troops in the Gulf Could Reach 100,000 in Months

LEAD: Arab countries moved tonight to confront Iraq's thrust into Kuwait by voting to send troops to Saudi Arabia, with only Libya and the Palestine Liberation Organization openly backing the isolated Iraqis in the crucial decision.

CONFRONTATION IN THE GULF    ARAB VOTE TO SEND TROOPS TO HELP SAUDIS; BOYCOTT OF IRAQI OIL IS REPORTED NEAR 100%;   Baghdad Isolated

LEAD: The international embargo of oil shipments from Iraq and Kuwait has choked off nearly all petroleum exports from those two countries, oil company executives and industry analysts said today.

CONFRONTATION IN THE GULF    ARABS VOTE TO SEND TROOPS TO HELP SAUDIS; BOYCOTT OF IRAQI OIL IS REPORTED NEAR 100%;   No Shipments Seen

INSIDE

LEAD: Rebel fighters here and around the country are sharply criticizing a human rights accord recently reached with the Government and are pressing their commanders to take a harder line in coming talks in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Among Salvadoran Rebels, A Split Over Rights Accord

LEAD: ''We have decided to respond to the request by Saudi Arabia and other gulf states to deploy Arab forces to support the armed forces there to defend its lands and its regional security against any foreign attack.''     - Resolution adopted by the Arab League. [1:6.]

Quotation of the Day

LEAD: International    2-9       Arab states voted to send troops to join American forces in Saudi Arabia, leaving Iraq isolated with only Libya and the Palestine Liberation Organization openly backing the isolated Iraqis in the crucial decision.    Page 1       American forces in the Middle East to defend Saudi Arabia against a possible Iraqi attack could reach 100,000 in a matter of months, Pentagon officials said.

News Summary

LEAD: An article last Saturday about Soviet-Japanese diplomacy incorrectly characterized a planned visit to Tokyo next month by Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze. It will not be the first visit since World War II by a Soviet official of that level; Mr. Shevardnadze went to Tokyo in 1986.

Corrections

LEAD: Indian border guards shot and killed 12 Muslim separatists today who had crossed over from neighboring Pakistan to campaign for independence of the disputed territory of Kashmir, the police reported.

Indians in Kashmir Shoot 12 Who Entered From Pakistan

LEAD: Five West African countries began moving army troops toward Liberia today in an effort to end the seven-month-old civil war there.

5 NATIONS MOVING TROOPS TO LIBERIA

LEAD: With the 1990 figure for foreigners applying for asylum in West Germany passing the 100,000 mark this week, and hundreds of thousands of East Germans and ethnic Germans from farther east in Europe jamming into the country, feelings against non-Germans and non-West Germans are rising.

Flood of Foreigners Seeking Asylum Angers West Germans

LEAD: An article on Aug. 2 about the social season in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., incorrectly described the criminal conviction of Peter M. Brant, a Greenwich, Conn., polo player and racehorse owner. He was convicted of willful failure to maintain tax records, a misdemeanor, not tax evasion, a felony. Two corporations of which he was president, the BATO Company and Riviere du Loup Newsprint Ltd., pleaded guilty to willfully filing false tax returns, a felony.

LEAD: An article in Science Times on Tuesday about links between explosive anger and brain injury or disease misidentified a drug that shows promise in treating the problem. It is propranolol.

LEAD: The South African Army has sent troops to reinforce police battling protesters and rioters in clashes that have claimed at least 42 lives in three days of upheaval, arson and looting in the Indian Ocean city of Port Elizabeth.

Pretoria Sends Troops to Aid In Fighting Unrest in South

LEAD: An article on Thursday about a report by the New York Public Service Commission on Con Edison's role in a steam-pipe explosion in Gramercy Park misstated the utility's action on a $59,000 fine levied by the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Con Edison is appealing the fine, imposed for violations of health and safety standards stemming from the blast; it has not paid it.

LEAD: An article on Tuesday about problems in raising funds to fight AIDS misidentified an administrator at the Whitman Walker Clinic in Washington. He is Jim Graham. The article also misidentified a vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She is Dr. Ruby Hearn.

LEAD: Asked several months ago about the position of Hun Sen, the young and highly visible Cambodian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, a Cambodian official smiled broadly. ''Don't forget Hun Sen is only No. 3 in the party,'' he said. ''Chea Sim is No. 2.''

Political Rivals Jockey in Phnom Penh

LEAD: To the thousands of Austrians who came here this week for his funeral, Bruno Kreisky, who died last month, was more than the country's longest-serving postwar Chancellor. As an architect of the country's neutrality who helped make Vienna the third capital of the United Nations, the former Chancellor led

Cold War's End Leaves Austria Seeking a Role in the New Europe

LEAD: As the crowds of shoppers promenade up and down Malczewskiego Street clutching brown bags bulging with produce, Adam Smith's invisible hand is meting out some rough supply-and-demand economic justice.

Warsaw Journal;   Winning Shoppers' Hearts and Minds

LEAD: The recent deaths of about 30 patients in a state-run women's psychiatric hospital - from malnutrition, the hospital union says - has focused attention on the virtual collapse of Argentina's health-care system.

Argentine Deaths Bring Focus on Health Care

LEAD: Following are excerpts from a statement by President Saddam Hussein of Iraq as read by an announcer today on Baghdad television and radio. The statement was carried by the Iraqi press agency I.N.A. and translated from Arabic by Reuters.

  Excerpts From Hussein's Statement Declaring a Holy War

Lenka Juríková is a Slovak former tennis player.

August 11, 1990

Headlines from August 11, 1990

Barry Guilty on One Drug Count; Mistral is Declared on Felonies

Dakota Town Shaken by 250,000-Biker Rally

10 Federal Judges Agree on Plan To Consolidate Asbestos Lawsuits

Judge Tells U.S. to Free Mexican Abducted in Drug Agent's Death

U.S. Says Its Troops in the Gulf Could Reach 100,000 in Months

Billboard 200

Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em

Wilson Phillips

Flesh And Blood

Step By Step

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

Notable Births

Historical Context for August 11, 1990