LEAD: President Bush and President Mikhail S. Gorbachev issued a joint pledge today to act ''individually and in concert'' to reverse Iraq's conquest of Kuwait, even if that cannot be accomplished by peaceful means.

Confrontation in the Gulf;   BUSH AND GORBACHEV SAY IRAQIS MUST OBEY U.N. AND QUIT KUWAIT

LEAD: The Persian Gulf crisis could benefit some military contractors by increasing demand from Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries for certain airplanes, tanks and missiles, Government officials and industry executives say.

Crisis Aids Military Contractors

LEAD: The board of KPMG Peat Marwick, the world's largest accounting firm, voted over the weekend to support Jon C. Madonna, a 47-year-old auditor who heads the San Francisco region, as the firm's next chairman, a director who insisted on anonymity said yesterday.

Board of Peat Said to Back A New Head

LEAD: Ever since the wounds began to heal after the Civil War, the South has portrayed itself to potential visitors in mist-shrouded images of cotton barons and hoop skirts, mint juleps and white-columned antebellum mansions.

New South Has New Face for Black Tourists

LEAD: With the reunification of Germany only weeks away, airlines are lining up to provide service to an undivided Berlin that is quickly re-establishing itself as one of Europe's pre-eminent centers for business and government. And no carrier stands to gain more than Lufthansa A.G., the state-controlled West German airline that has been barred from flying here for 45 years.

Airlines Scramble to Serve Berlin

LEAD: The Democratic gubernatorial primary has veered closer toward becoming a referendum on whether Connecticut should continue to avoid an income tax on wages, or throw out the old ways entirely and think again.

Tax Issue Takes Center Stage in Connecticut's Primary

LEAD: A good place to view the intense pressure to be first, the incredible expense, the dedication and the hyperbole that surround Japanese high technology these days is Hitachi Ltd.'s giant research laboratory here in the suburbs of Tokyo.

Hitachi's Quest for Super Chips

LEAD: President Samuel K. Doe of Liberia was captured by rebel forces today, reportedly after being wounded in a gun battle in the capital, Monrovia.

Liberian President Captured by Rebels In a Fierce Gunfight

LEAD: It used to be that the fight against acid rain united New York and other Northeastern states like allies in wartime. Together they railed against dirty Midwestern power plants, filed lawsuits against the Federal Government and mourned the fate of their slowly dying lakes.

Coal-Plant Proposal Upsets New York's Neighbors

LEAD: After only eight months in office, Mayor David N. Dinkins is suffering from largely the same liability that undermined his predecessor, Edward I. Koch: the style that helped elect him is obscuring his substance.

Metro Matters;   Dinkins's Style And the Pressure To Sound Tough

LEAD: At the age of 10, in pursuit of the perfect serve, Pete Sampras spent hours watching Rod Laver matches on 16-millimeter film in his home in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., with his footwork coach, Del Little, and his mentor and coach, Dr. Peter Fischer.

The Mechanics Behind a Big Serve

LEAD: Mayor David N. Dinkins, citing violence that ''threatens to tear our city apart,'' appealed to the ordinary citizen yesterday to help ''take back our streets by night as well as by day.''

Dinkins Issues Call to Citizens To Fight Crime

LEAD: Just as it is about to cross the billion-dollar revenue milestone, the fast-growing Oracle Systems Corporation has stumbled. The software company said last week that it would report its first loss ever in the quarter that ended on Aug. 31.

Fast-Growth Oracle Systems Confronts First Downturn

LEAD: For the first half of their season opener against the Philadelphia Eagles tonight, the Giants were sloppy and sluggish, with a first-class case of the blahs. In the second half, they awakened, exploded with big plays and big hits and rolled to a 27-20 victory over perhaps their toughest division rival.

Giants Open In Style

LEAD: Ellis Island, the imposing and often difficult door to America for millions of the country's immigrants, reopened yesterday as a tourist attraction, the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.

Ellis Island Doors Reopening, This Time as Haven to Tourists

LEAD: After two years of difficult negotiations, the four Cambodian factions agreed today on a United Nations framework for a comprehensive peace settlement, the Indonesian Foreign Minister said here tonight.

Cambodian Rivals Said to Accept U.N. Peace Plan

LEAD:    Poor Nation's Costly Church    Pope John Paul II is to consecrate the largest Christian church in the world, scorned by many as extravagant, in the Ivory Coast. Page A3.       Steering Clear of Deer    Drivers and highway engineers are developing an array of alarms and diversions to avoid a growing menace to traffic: deer.

INSIDE

LEAD: The meeting between President George Bush and President Mikhail S. Gorbachev today was intended to send a signal to President Saddam Hussein of Iraq. But the signal that went forth from Helsinki was a mixed one.

Confrontation in the Gulf: Decoding the Signals;   The Superpowers Affirm Their Joint Aims But Iraq Could Focus on Their Differences

LEAD:    THE OIL JOLT       Bush and Gorbachev reaffirmed their commitment to reverse Iraq's conquest of Kuwait but reported no agreement on specific new measures to accomplish that aim. Some differences emerged at the summit meeting in Helsinki. [Page A1.]      The Persian Gulf crisis could benefit some military contractors by increasing demand from Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries for certain airplanes, tanks and missiles.

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: New York City's schools open their doors today to fresh swarms of students brimming with yearning and resolve, but who are in general poorer and, with the first influx of babies born to crack-addicted mothers, perhaps more troubled than ever before.

NEW YORK SCHOOLS OPEN, FACING TEST: DO MORE WITH LESS

LEAD: The men's final at the United States Open unfolded like an unrequited love affair yesterday, and by the end of it, one of the players was mightily upset. Unheralded and underestimated, Pete Sampras produced a barrage of bravura serves, one-way passing shots, and viperish volleys from start to finish while his opponent, the ultra-visible Andre Agassi, backed farther and farther into a corner, his persona and his tennis game reduced to silence, a most unfamiliar predicament.

Sampras Crushes Agassi to Claim Title

LEAD: * Del Monte Foods, San Francisco, appointed Norman S. Mackenzie executive vice president and chief financial officer.

EXECUTIVES

NEWS SUMMARY

LEAD: The Equimark Corporation, a banking company based in Pittsburgh, is looking for a new chairman and chief executive after the resignation of Alan S. Fellheimer, the brusque lawyer-turned-banker who salvaged the company only to see it fall on hard financial times again.

  Equimark Starts Search To Replace Chairman

LEAD: THIRTY-FOUR years after Nikita Khrushchev vowed that the Soviet Union would bury the West, Soviet society seems to have reached the brink of total capitulation.

  Moscow Giants?

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September 10, 1990

Headlines from September 10, 1990

Confrontation in the Gulf; BUSH AND GORBACHEV SAY IRAQIS MUST OBEY U.N. AND QUIT KUWAIT

Crisis Aids Military Contractors

Board of Peat Said to Back A New Head

New South Has New Face for Black Tourists

Airlines Scramble to Serve Berlin

Billboard 200

Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em

Wilson Phillips

Blaze Of Glory/Young Guns II

Mariah Carey

Flesh And Blood

Notable Births

Historical Context for September 10, 1990