LEAD: ON a grassy site here surrounded by cornfields and dense woods, not far from Princeton University, scientists want to build a machine of vast complexity and cost that they hope will lead to a powerful new source of energy half a century from now.

Next Bold Step Toward Fusion Proposed

LEAD: Christine Todd Whitman, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate in New Jersey, smiled patiently as a stream of bleary-eyed commuters whisked past her into the Jersey City PATH station, taking little notice of the woman who hopes to unseat Bill Bradley, the state's most popular elected official.

Bradley Foe Sees Her Chance in Tax Issue

LEAD: LIKE adolescents, the Himalaya Mountains are young and fast and restless, and their bodies just will not stop growing.

Himalayas' Rise Overturns Ideas About Peak-Building

LEAD:    THE ECONOMY       President Bush and Congressional leaders agreed on stopgap spending legislation that averted a suspension of most Government services. The agreement came shortly before the Senate adopted the broad outline of a budget identical to the one the House approved earlier in the day. [Page A1.

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: As word of New York City's financial distress circulates from the corridors of government to the financial marketplace, an almost forgotten state agency is re-emerging as a major focus of power in the city's future.

Control Board Is Re-emerging As Power Focus

LEAD: The nation's three big long-distance telephone companies have sharply increased spending on advertising and marketing this year and are going after one another this fall with television and print campaigns whose tone is becoming nastier.

Big 3 of Long-Distance Slug It Out

LEAD: At least 19 Palestinians were killed and more than 100 wounded today during an hourlong battle outside Al Aksa Mosque between Israeli policemen and thousands of Arabs hurling rocks and bottles at Jews praying at the Western Wall below.

  19 Arabs Killed in Battle With Jerusalem Police

LEAD: Celso Milagro, who was running for Mayor, died on a cobblestone street here, holding the hand of his 3-year-old daughter.

Guatemala's Campaign Trail: Murder Shadows Candidates

LEAD: Philips N.V., the Dutch electronics company that created the cassette tape, announced yesterday that it was developing a digital tape recorder that will also be able to play conventional analog cassette tapes.

Philips Making a Digital-Analog Recorder

LEAD: The wind rushed through the trees of a Harlem park the other day, knocking a few acorns to the ground and startling Nierobie Hardy to his feet. He jerked his head around, as if searching the shadows for a sniper.

Teen-Agers Seek a Path Back From the Edge

LEAD: Scandinavian Airlines System flew out of John F. Kennedy International Airport for 40 years, but as of Sept. 30 it had moved all 20 of its weekly flights to Newark International Airport.

Newark's Rise as a Global Airport

LEAD: New York City's economic weakness and budget problems are starting to spill over into the financial markets, which may make it increasingly costly for the city government to issue bonds to raise needed funds.

New York City's Budget Problems Threaten to Raise Borrowing Cost

LEAD: Ending the latest budget showdown, President Bush and Congressional leaders agreed Monday night on stopgap spending legislation that averted a suspension of most Government services this morning.

  IMPASSE ON BUDGET IS ENDED; STOPGAP SPENDING MEASURE AVERTS FEDERAL SHUTDOWN

LEAD: As Washington's diplomatic relations with Hanoi begin to thaw, the Administration is under increasing pressure to end the 15-year-old trade embargo that excludes American business from the country that many economists and business executives say could become Asia's next industrial tiger.

U.S. Urged To End Hanoi Trade Curb

LEAD: Three unions are expected to present to the UAL Corporation's board today an offer to buy the parent of United Airlines for about $160 a share, or a total of $3.5 billion. Of that, only about $70 a share will be in cash, while the rest will mostly be in notes secured by airplanes, a person involved in the union bid said yesterday.

Lower Bid For UAL Is Expected

LEAD: When Gov. Mario M. Cuomo presented his first Decade of the Child awards last month, it was a celebration of small and poignant victories over the unfathomable plagues of modern childhood.

After 3 Years, Gains in 'Decade of the Child' Are Isolated

LEAD: Although the British pound jumped and the London stock market soared in response to Britain's formal entry into the European Monetary System, some economists warned yesterday that the euphoria might not be long-lived and that the British economy still faced difficult tests.

Hard Tests Seen for British Despite European Linkup

LEAD: When school started this year, Richard Cooney, the East Hampton High School athletic director, called a mandatory meeting for all athletes and parents to announce a ''new quality of life contract.'' Any athletes caught drinking, using drugs or smoking cigarettes - even in their living rooms - would agree to be suspended for 20 percent of the season.

Our Towns;   Sign or Sit Out: School Drug Pact Angers Athletes

LEAD:    2 Americans Share Nobel Prize in Medicine       Two American physicians who pioneered organ and tissue transplants, helping tens of thousands of patients, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.      One of them, Dr. Joseph E. Murray of

INSIDE

LEAD: During the giddy 1980's, restaurants from Columbus Avenue to TriBeCa reverberated with customer boasts of shrewd real-estate deals and tales of manic co-op profits. But the binge in housing prices did not bring universal cheer. For many people, high rents and heavy mortgages cast an anxious pall. Economists worried that the escalating cost of housing put New

Realty Slump Traps Some as Buyers Nibble Warily

LEAD: The tumble in New York City housing prices, after years of growth, has dislocated the market, disrupted lives and disconcerted people. Page B1.

New York Housing Slump

LEAD: Brazil's new Government has uncovered a 15-year-old secret military program to make an atom bomb, the nation's top science official says.

Brazil Uncovers Plan by Military To Build Atom Bomb and Stops It

LEAD:       HORSE RACING       Grass Mark for Expensive Decision       Expensive Decision set the world record for a mile on the grass yesterday while holding off Who's to Pay and Great Commotion in a tight photo-finish to win the $95,700 Kelso Handicap at Belmont Park. Expensive Decision's time of 1:32.52 over the hard Widener turf course bettered the grass mark of 1:32 3/5 set by Royal Heroine at Hollywood Park in 1984, and was the third-fastest mile run over any surface, after Dr.

Results Plus

LEAD: NATURAL nutritional goodness, agronomic adaptability and culinary versatility combined with human scientific ingenuity are rapidly moving the simple potato into center stage in the fight against world hunger.

As Its Virtues Emerge, The Potato Goes Global

LEAD:    INTERNATIONAL    A3-14       At least 19 Palestinians were killed and more than 100 wounded during an hourlong battle outside Al Aksa Mosque between Israeli policemen and thousands of Arabs hurling rocks and bottles at Jews praying at the Western Wall below.    Page A1

NEWS SUMMARY

Kevin Kampl is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig. Born in Germany, he has represented the Slovenia national team at international level. Besides Germany, he has played in Austria.

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Jacob Ryan Lamb is an American professional baseball infielder who is a free agent. He made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2014, and was an All-Star in 2017. He has also played in MLB for the Oakland Athletics, Chicago White Sox, Toronto Blue Jays, Los Angeles Dodgers, Seattle Mariners, and Los Angeles Angels.

October 9, 1990

Headlines from October 9, 1990

Next Bold Step Toward Fusion Proposed

Bradley Foe Sees Her Chance in Tax Issue

Himalayas' Rise Overturns Ideas About Peak-Building

BUSINESS DIGEST

Control Board Is Re-emerging As Power Focus

Billboard 200

Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em

Wilson Phillips

Mariah Carey

Blaze Of Glory/Young Guns II

Listen Without Prejudice; Vol. 1

Notable Births

Historical Context for October 9, 1990