LEAD: None of the roughly 1,000 American women and children trapped in Kuwait and Iraq left today, despite President Saddam Hussein's promise on Tuesday to permit them and other Westerners to depart. Baghdad said that it would require each one to procure an exit visa first.

NO U.S. HOSTAGES RELEASED;   No Americans Permitted to Go After Iraqi Vow

LEAD: RICHARD EKSTRACT has long had a passion for Italian food and wine, siestas, Palladian architecture and the Tuscan countryside. He has studied Italian and thinks he was Italian in another life.

A Grand House Sticks Out Its Tongue

LEAD: HOME is the two top floors of a condominium apartment building in Manhattan, near Central Park, which were demolished and rebuilt over the past year as a French palace. It is a work in progress: a butler in a white jacket serves soft drinks in crystal goblets as workers on tall ladders adjust the wiring for a chandelier in the rotunda.

Try to Tell a Widow That Life Goes On

LEAD: Lost amid the billion-dollar development deals approved by the Board of Estimate in its final meeting, which ended on Monday, was a modest proposal for a 28-story office building on West 34th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues.

Metro Matters;   2 Unlikely Allies Strike Deal On Office Tower

LEAD: An investigation by the State Commission of Correction has concluded that correction officers on Rikers Island used excessive force during the Aug. 14 melee that left more than a hundred inmates and guards injured.

Panel Affirms Claims of Beatings at Rikers Island

LEAD: From the Mississippi River delta to the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky to the high plains of North Dakota, rural America suffered far greater losses in population during the 1980's than had been expected, according to preliminary figures from the 1990 census.

Census Data Show Sharp Rural Losses

LEAD: Two major indexes of consumer confidence, which for many economists is the most sensitive measure of a nation's vulnerability to recession, plunged sharply in August, indicating that frightened Americans might finally be pushing the United States into a recession, after months of weak economic growth.

Consumer Confidence In Worrisome Drop

LEAD: Donald J. Trump is about to enter Round 2 of his financial crisis, and the sale of the Plaza Hotel is likely to be part of it.

  Trump Crisis Approaching 2d Phase

LEAD: As the other great harbors of Nassau County have succumbed to mistreatment and pollution, Oyster Bay Harbor has remained relatively untroubled: a home or rest stop for dozens of species of waterfowl and fish, a place where people can still swim, sail and harvest the oysters that flourish in its waters.

Development Proposal Roils Oyster Bay

LEAD: SOOT can be sublime. Those who doubt it need travel no farther than Trinity Church, which looms at the foot of Wall Street in lower Manhattan. For most of this century, the moody, pinnacled facade of the church, Richard Upjohn's 1846 Gothic Revival masterpiece, has been distinguished by a jet-black layer of grime.

  The Soot Is Gone, But What Is Lost?

LEAD: Six months after it began conducting AIDS tests in all autopsies, the New York City Medical Examiner's office has found infection rates as high as 38 percent in some groups.

Autopsy Tests For AIDS Find 1 in 7 Infected

LEAD: Despite denials just a day earlier, the Bank of Japan said this morning that it was raising its discount rate for the fifth time in a little more than a year. The new rate is 6 percent, from 5.25 percent, effective today.

Japan Lifts Discount Rate to 6%

LEAD: After weeks of deliberations, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries authorized its key oil producers today to begin pumping all the oil they can immediately, averting a feared shortage that has sent prices surging on world markets.

NO U.S. HOSTAGES RELEASED

LEAD:    Consumer Confidence Down       Two major indexes of consumer confidence plunged sharply this month, indicating that the economy may be sliding into recession. Page D1.       Japan Raises Interest Rate       The Bank of Japan raised its discount rate, which it charges commercial banks, to 6 percent from 5.25 percent to fight inflation.

INSIDE

LEAD: Oil prices fell sharply yesterday as traders responded to the decision by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to allow an immediate increase in oil production, as well as to reduced fears of war in the Persian Gulf.

Oil Drops Nearly $2 A Barrel

LEAD: Japan unveiled a long-awaited program on Wednesday night to help finance the international effort against Iraq, but the package drew unusual criticism from American officials for the absence of direct tangible aid to the military buildup in the Persian Gulf.

  Japan Promises Grants and Food, But Lack of Arms Aid Nettles U.S.

LEAD: In a shock to the computer industry, a virtually unknown California inventor has been issued a patent that he says covers a fundamental development of the computer revolution - the microprocessor.

  A Chip Patent Is Granted That May Rewrite History

LEAD: The lines of oil wells that stretch across Lake Maracaibo here are pumping higher volumes of crude to help offset the shortage caused by the embargo of oil from Iraq and Kuwait.

Venezuela's New Oil Prominence

LEAD: Preliminary 1990 census figures show New York City with a population of 7,033,179, significantly smaller than the Census Bureau estimated in 1988 and at least 600,000 people short of estimates by city planners and at least one outside expert.

In New York, Low Count Draws Chorus of Criticism

LEAD: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is trying to smooth the way for development of a huge office tower on Madison Avenue as a necessary first step in its efforts to buy Grand Central Terminal and begin a $400 million renovation of the mid-Manhattan landmark.

Transit Agency Seeking To Buy Grand Central

LEAD: The phone call to Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d on Aug. 22 at his Wyoming ranch was not the first to interrupt his vacation, but it was one of the most important. The Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard A. Shevardnadze, called Mr. Baker's remote mountain retreat to say Moscow was leaning toward supporting a United Nations resolution giving the world's navies the right to enforce the international trade embargo against Iraq.

THE U.N.'S WATERSHED: A SPECIAL REPORT:   CONFRONTATION IN THE GULF;   Putting Teeth in an Embargo: How U.S. Convinced the U.N.

LEAD: A painting of a crucifixion scene that has hung on the wall of a school auditorium in upstate New York for 25 years must be taken down, a Federal judge in Syracuse ruled today.

Mural of Christ Must Be Removed

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: After weeks of negotiations between the Department of Correction and lawyers for inmates, a Federal judge yesterday approved a revision of the rules on the use of force by jail guards that have been at the heart of the recent turmoil at Rikers Island.

U.S. Judge Approves Order On the Use of Force in Jails

LEAD: WHEN I go home at night, the light is different from what it was only a few weeks ago. Inside the bus it is cold, but outside heat is rising up from the sidewalks and pushing down from the sky. The people streaming into Penn Station are jacketless if they are men and bare-armed if they are women, and the boys on bikes are stripped to singlets and shorts.

CLOSE TO HOME

Bernard D.H. Tellegen was a Dutch electrical engineer and inventor of the pentode and the gyrator. He is also known for a theorem in circuit theory, Tellegen's theorem.

August 30, 1990

Headlines from August 30, 1990

NO U.S. HOSTAGES RELEASED; No Americans Permitted to Go After Iraqi Vow

A Grand House Sticks Out Its Tongue

Try to Tell a Widow That Life Goes On

Metro Matters; 2 Unlikely Allies Strike Deal On Office Tower

Panel Affirms Claims of Beatings at Rikers Island

Billboard 200

Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em

Wilson Phillips

Flesh And Blood

Mariah Carey

Compositions

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for August 30, 1990