LEAD: The owners of Madison Square Garden, which is in the process of an unexpectedly costly overhaul, are preparing a plan for luxury courtside and rinkside seats that could cost as much as $70 apiece for Knicks and Rangers games in the 1991-92 season, according to former executives at the Garden.

Tickets;   Madison Sq. Garden Planning $70 Seats To Pay for Face Lift

LEAD: President Bush went to Capitol Hill today to rally Republicans around a plan that would cut the Federal budget deficit without raising income tax rates. But House and Senate negotiators predicted that a final budget deal would likely include some increase in income taxes on the wealthy, as well as a rise in gasoline taxes.

  TAX RISE FOR RICH IS SEEN AS A PART OF A BUDGET DEAL

LEAD: The German police raided the headquarters of the former East German Communist Party on Thursday night as part of an investigation of charges that the party hurriedly transferred $63 million to Moscow, a state security official announced today.

  Berlin Police Raid Ex-Communists After Moscow Is Sent $63 Million

LEAD: As the immediate shock of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait recedes with the summer heat, a significant debate is under way among Saudis about this nation's relationships with other Arabs and the prospects of war with Iraq.

  Crisis Impelling the Saudis To Debate War and Allies

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LEAD: Sid Davidoff was no political novice. But when he saw New York State Assembly bill A-10238 in 1984, he says, he could not believe his well-traveled eyes.

Politics of Voting Machines: 6-Year Fight for $300 Million

LEAD: In an important foreign policy defeat for the Administration, the Senate overwhelmingly voted tonight to cut military aid to El Salvador by 50 percent in 1991, largely in response to the killing of six Jesuit priests last year.

Senate Votes to Cut Salvador Aid In a Major Policy Defeat for Bush

LEAD: In a sign that after 11 weeks the United Nations sanctions are beginning to damage the Iraqi economy, the Baghdad Government announced today that it would begin rationing gasoline next week.

  IRAQ RATIONS FUEL AS U.N. SANCTIONS HINDER REFINERIES

LEAD: What Cincinnati did to Oakland in Cincinnati twice, Cincinnati did to Oakland in Oakland last night.

World Series

LEAD: At a time when Washington's politicians and New Jersey's voters are gagging over taxes, Senator Bill Bradley, the architect of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, is barely uttering a word here on the very issue that gained him national attention four years ago.

For an Expert on Tax Code, Bradley Is Strangely Silent

LEAD: Like the hardy insects that are predicted to survive a nuclear war, the Volkswagen Beetle may never die.

Mexico City Journal;   Miss the VW Bug? It Lives Beyond the Rio Grande

LEAD: ''The crisis of the consumer market cannot be eliminated until the machines that produce shoes, fabrics and other goods begin working faster than the mint.''     - President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. [6:6.]

Quotation of the Day

LEAD: International    2-6       Iraq will begin rationing gasoline next week, the Baghdad Government said. The announcement is a sign that after 11 weeks the United Nations sanctions are beginning to damage the Iraqi economy.    Page 1       President Bush remains determined to force President Saddam Hussein to withdraw from Kuwait.

News Summary

LEAD: The trial of a British shipping company and seven employees, charged with manslaughter after a Channel ferry capsized and killed 192 people in 1987, ended abruptly today when the judge ruled that the prosecution had failed to produce sufficient evidence.

British Clear Company In 192 Deaths on Ferry

LEAD: An article in Business Day on Sept. 13 about a claim filed by Stephen L. Lane against Drexel Burnham Lambert to recover money lost in commodities trading by his wife, Trina, who was then a Drexel broker, misstated the length of time the Lanes have been married. It is 19 years.

Corrections

LEAD: An article on Tuesday about budget problems at the Metro-North Commuter Railroad and the Long Island Rail Road misstated restraints placed on their spending in 1991. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which supervises the railroads, has told them to limit spending increases to 3.7 percent in 1991, not to cut spending by 3.7 percent.

LEAD: The prospect that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher would gamble on calling and winning a general election next year has receded sharply after a stunning loss by her Conservative Party on Thursday in voting to fill a vacancy in Parliament.

TORIES LOSE SEAT IN SPECIAL VOTING

LEAD: A headline yesterday about currency swindles in Germany referred incorrectly in some copies to the amount involved. It was reported to be at least $328 million. In some copies the article also appeared with an incorrect byline. It was by John Tagliabue, not Paul Tagliabue.

LEAD: A Congressional move to impose higher tariffs on China involving billions of dollars of exports collapsed today when the Senate missed a voting deadline, thereby enabling China to continue getting low duties at least through the end of next June.

Congressional Attempt to Impose Higher Tariffs on China Collapses

LEAD: A film review of ''The Kill-Off'' in Weekend yesterday misstated its rating. The movie is unrated; it does not have an R rating.

LEAD: An appeals court eliminated a former dictator, Efrain Rios Montt, from the November presidential election today by ruling that his past activities disqualified him.

Court Bars Former Dictator From Elections in Guatemala

LEAD: The Pentagon said today that it was shipping 400 to 500 of its top battle tanks to Saudi Arabia from storage depots in Germany.

  U.S. TO SEND TANKS FROM NATO TO GULF

LEAD: The next space shuttle mission will carry aloft an 11-ton spy satellite meant to peer down on Iraqi troops and military gear involved in the Persian Gulf crisis, an industry journal reported yesterday.

  SPY SATELLITE AIM IS TO TRACK IRAQ

LEAD: President Bush said today that he was as determined as ever to force President Saddam Hussein of Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait.

  Bush Describes Himself as 'Determined' on Kuwait

LEAD: The contrasting Western and Muslim faces of this former French protectorate mix comfortably in the bustling streets of downtown Tunis as car horns honk over the sound of midday prayers and girls in tight jeans move past women draped in traditional Arab gowns.

  Tunisians, Seeking Roots, Turn Toward Iraq

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October 20, 1990

Headlines from October 20, 1990

Tickets; Madison Sq. Garden Planning $70 Seats To Pay for Face Lift

TAX RISE FOR RICH IS SEEN AS A PART OF A BUDGET DEAL

Berlin Police Raid Ex-Communists After Moscow Is Sent $63 Million

Crisis Impelling the Saudis To Debate War and Allies

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Billboard 200

Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em

Listen Without Prejudice; Vol. 1

Mariah Carey

Wilson Phillips

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