LEAD: A crowd in a crime-ridden Bronx neighborhood took justice into its own hands Wednesday night, surrounding a fleeing robbery suspect and stabbing him to death, the police said.

Robbery Suspect Dies and a Neighborhood Is Silent

LEAD: Traditionally, tourists coming to New York City have braved the noise , the crime and the people. They are doing so this summer as well, but in smaller numbers than they did during the boom years of the 1980's.

New York Tourism: Some Ups, Some Downs

BUSINESS DIGEST: FRIDAY, AUGUST, 24, 1990

LEAD: Legend has it that the Iroquois who once populated this area believed that the Great Spirit observed the world from behind the thick curtain of Horseshoe Falls. If so, the Spirit has been a backstage witness to a summer that might have been a script by David Lynch: an eerie season of intrigue, dark comedy and tragedy that has been unusual even by Niagara Falls standards.

Siren Call of Niagara Falls and a Tragedy

LEAD: In the midst of the Persian Gulf oil crisis, much of the world's money is fleeing to safe harbors in Britain, Australia and Canada.

'Parking' Spaces for Jittery Dollars

LEAD: Valerie B. Salembier, president of The New York Post for nearly 17 months, announced yesterday that she was resigning as of today.

President Of New York Post Resigns

LEAD: State Comptroller Edward V. Regan, who has faced criticism over awarding lucrative state contracts to campaign contributors, relied on a New York consultant firm that contributed $10,000 to his campaign in investing state pension funds in a Boston office building. The property's appraised value has since declined by slightly more than a third.

Regan Used Advice of Donor On Investment That Declined

Eight fairy tails via the great Kurosawa. Two weak, the rest astonishingly beautiful, somber, mysterious.

Review/Film;   Kurosawa's Magical Tales of Art, Time and Death

LEAD: When Tom Bradley realized that the illness inside him was going public, he envisioned headlines: ''GAY AIDS TEACHER! PARENTS REVOLT! CLASSROOM MAYHEM!''

Our Towns;   For a Teacher Fighting AIDS, Love and Loss

LEAD:    Guam Abortion Law Voided    The most restrictive abortion law in the United States, permitting the procedure only to protect the life or health of a woman, was struck down by a Federal judge. Page A12.       Volunteer Prosecutors    Faced with a growing backlog of drug-related cases, officials in Washington State have begun deputizing lawyers from private firms to act as pro bono prosecutors.

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LEAD: American, French and British representatives agreed on the text of a Security Council resolution endorsing military action to enforce the embargo against Iraq, diplomats said.

Western Nations Back U.N. Gulf Resolution

LEAD: Even as commodity traders extended the upward march of oil prices in the futures market, investors continued to unload their holdings in oil companies and oilfield service companies, for the third consecutive day.

Market Place;   Why the Broad Selloff in Oil Stocks?

LEAD: The SmithKline Beecham Company said yesterday that it would bow to the inevitable and make its own lower-priced, generic copy of Dyazide, its widely used blood-pressure drug, which lost its patent protection three years ago. Rugby Laboratories will start selling the generic version for SmithKline in

SmithKline Will Produce A Generic of Its Dyazide

LEAD: A New York Times/CBS News Poll found that Americans had turned decidedly sour in their perceptions about the state of the economy. Such a sentiment frequently worsens the nation's actual economic condition.

Economic Pessimism

LEAD: Amid the military cargo planes and private jets that have long rolled along the runways at Stewart International Airport is a new addition these days: Boeing 727's.

At Stewart Airport, a Whiff of Success

LEAD: Because of the Pakistan Day Parade, Lexington Avenue will be closed on Sunday from 26th to 47th Streets from 1 P.M. to 4 P.M. For a related street fair, Madison Avenue will be closed from 23d to 26th Streets from 3 P.M. to 8 P.M.

Traffic Alert

LEAD: They went that-a-way. No, that-a-way. Well, then, maybe that-a-way.  Catching monkeys in Queens is no easy task. Just ask the A.S.P.C.A. Or the police officer with the peach.

New York a Jungle? Seems So to Monkeys

LEAD: Iraq warned the United States and more than two dozen other nations Thursday that if they challenged a deadline today and tried to keep their embassies in Iraq-occupied Kuwait open, as they have vowed to do, Baghdad would take it as an ''act of aggression.''

Confrontation in the Gulf;   BAGHDAD WARNS DIPLOMATS AGAINST 'ACT OF AGGRESSION'; HUSSEIN SHOWS OFF HOSTAGES

LEAD: In one of his few public appearances since the invasion of Kuwait, President Saddam Hussein of Iraq held a strained meeting today with British hostages that was shown on Iraqi television and broadcast abroad.

Confrontation in the Gulf;   Iraqi TV Shows a Smiling Leader With Grim-Faced British Captives

LEAD: New York may be the archetypal cosmopolitan city, but New Yorkers are notoriously provincial when it comes to acknowledging the extent of cultural life beyond the Hudson River or across the Throgs Neck Bridge. The fact is that while much of Manhattan dozes through August, museums and galleries at nearby points north, south, east and west offer the summer's most substantive and inventive exhibitions.

Art, Too, Finds a Summer Home Outside Manhattan

LEAD: Bozell, the giant New York advertising agency, has created a series of commercials for Valvoline Oil, but the real news is that the campaign will be broadcast next week during a special television program the agency also created for its client.

  And Now, A Show From Our Sponsor

LEAD: World Yacht is a rather grandiose name for a craft that rarely ventures beyond the Statue of Liberty. Yet for a dazzling sightseeing tour of New York Harbor combined with music, dancing and a surprisingly good meal, World Yacht can be enthusiastically recommended.

Up Anchor and Cast Off! A Nautical Night on the Town

LEAD: Crude oil prices climbed 71 cents yesterday, reaching $31.93 a barrel. Analysts attributed the increase to momentum from Wednesday's leap of $2.51 and anxiety over today's deadline set by Iraq for closing all embassies in Kuwait.

Crude Oil Up to $31.93 A Barrel

LEAD: As the third day of a water shortage on Rikers Island threatened the fragile mood there, relations between Mayor David N. Dinkins and the head of the correction officers' union turned even more bitter yesterday, with the union chief accusing the Mayor of siding with rebellious inmates because most of them are black.

Guards' Chief Says Dinkins Backs Inmates

LEAD: After more than a week of uncertainty, thousands of military reservists throughout the country will begin hearing today whether they are among the more than 40,000 ordered to leave their jobs and homes and report for active duty.

Confrontation in the Gulf;   Reservists to Learn Today if a Call-Up Changes Their Lives

Juan Pedro "Peter" Lanzani is an Argentine actor and singer and former child model. He is best known for his role on the Cris Morena television series Casi Ángeles playing Thiago Bedoya Agüero, and as a member of the music group Teen Angels. He is also known for his roles in Argentina 1985 by Santiago Mitre and El Clan by Pablo Trapero.

Juan Pedro Lanzani, Argentinian actor and singer

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Sergei Donatovich Dovlatov was a Soviet journalist and writer. Internationally, he is one of the most popular Russian writers of the late 20th century.

Sergei Dovlatov, Russian-American journalist and author (born 1941)

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Gely Abdel Rahman Arabic: جيلي عبد الرحمن was one of the leading Sudanese poets of the second half of the 20th century.

August 24, 1990

Headlines from August 24, 1990

Robbery Suspect Dies and a Neighborhood Is Silent

New York Tourism: Some Ups, Some Downs

BUSINESS DIGEST: FRIDAY, AUGUST, 24, 1990

Siren Call of Niagara Falls and a Tragedy

'Parking' Spaces for Jittery Dollars

Billboard 200

Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em

Wilson Phillips

Flesh And Blood

Mariah Carey

Compositions

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for August 24, 1990