  JAZZ demographers, if there are any, will mark 1991 as a turning point for the annual JVC Jazz Festival in New York City. This year, the median age of headliners plummets by at least a decade. After years of being dominated by venerable headliners -- many of whom are still part of this year's lineup -- the festival has also made way for a younger generation of musicians who want to join the mainstream instead of revolutionizing it.   At the same time, a counter-festival at the Knitting Factory, called What Is Jazz?, will present musicians outside JVC's mainstream, showing that not all young improvisers are willing to play by the rules of the be-bop tradition.

The Young Of Jazz: Not All Are Restless

  The New York City Council used its new power to overturn a landmarks designation for the first time yesterday, rejecting the landmark status granted to a brick row house that was once home to the composer Antonin Dvorak.    The decision allows Beth Israel Medical Center to proceed with plans to build an AIDS hospice on the site of the house on East 17th Street in Manhattan. In the 26-year history of the landmarks law, only about a dozen designations have been modified or overturned -- all of them by the city's Board of Estimate, which was abolished last year by changes in the City Charter.

For First Time, Council Uses Power to Block Landmark

  Safe Haven Street Fair: West End Avenue will be closed tomorrow from 72d to 79th Street from 11 A.M. to 6 P.M.

Traffic Alert

  By 6 to 3, the Supreme Court ruled that the police may board long-distance buses and request passengers' permission to search their luggage for narcotics. Page A13.

Court Widens Police Searches

Comic-book heroism in the late 30's. Sets and gimmicks much wittier than the people.

Review/Film; 'Rocketeer': Wings vs. Soul

  A private disagreement at the highest levels of the Government about how to mollify Congress and win more money for the faltering savings and loan bailout was resolved today with a decision to oust the manager of the taxpayer rescue.   Acceding to the Bush Administration, L. William Seidman, the nation's senior banking regulator, agreed to replace his protege, David C. Cooke. Mr. Cooke is a 24-year career official he named as executive director of the Resolution Trust Corporation when it was created in 1989.

Manager of Savings Bailout to Be Ousted

  Ouster in Savings Bailout    A high-level rift about how to mollify Congress and win more bailout money was resolved by ousting the taxpayer rescue's manager. Page D1. Deportation Plan Dropped  

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  Mayor David N. Dinkins announced yesterday that the city would mount a major campaign to evict public housing tenants who own guns illegally. In a dramatic reflection of his theme, his speech in a Brooklyn housing project was interrupted by the noise of nearby gunfire.   The plan, modeled on programs under which hundreds of drug dealers have been evicted, would be the most sweeping effort of its kind in the nation, although a similar effort has been mounted in Chicago. But civil liberties advocates in New York immediately challenged the constitutionality of evicting people merely for possessing guns illegally.

Dinkins to Crack Down on Guns in Public Housing

  Tony Randall and Jack Klugman will make their Broadway debut as "The Odd Couple" this Sunday. But they have been reunited for a while on Madison Avenue, much to the delight of a growing snack-foods company.   For the last three years, the pair have been portraying their comic "Odd Couple" characters -- fussy Felix and grouchy Oscar -- in television commercials for the Eagle Snacks subsidiary of the Anheuser-Busch Companies.

'Odd Couple' Join Snack-Food Fight

  The battle over the New York State social studies curriculum is fundamentally a battle over the idea of America.   Is the United States a land where immigrants and minorities mute their separate histories and traditions and to adopt a common, if amorphous, culture? Or is it a land where ethnicity should be celebrated over and above any shared heritage?

Arguing About America; A Common Culture or a Land of Diversity? That Is the Curriculum Debate in New York

  With a sweeping blueprint for amending the teaching of history and social studies in New York's public schools, state education officials today set in motion a sharp debate over how much to emphasize the roles of nonwhite cultures.    The revisions, offered by a state panel of teachers and scholars, presented a radically different program for public education in New York State.

PLAN TO EMPHASIZE MINORITY CULTURES IGNITES A DEBATE

  Less than a month before he was arrested on charges of stabbing a woman to death near Central Park, a mentally disturbed drifter sought treatment in Bellevue Hospital's emergency room. But he was sent away with a number for a cocaine hot line, hospital officials said.   The homeless man, Kevin McKiever, who is accused of the June 8 murder of Alexis Ficks Welsh, showed up at the hospital at 4 A.M. on May 14 and was released four hours later, said a hospital spokeswoman, Lorinda Klein.

Drifter Sought Bellevue Help Before Murder

  President Bush and President Francois Mitterrand of France have recently called for limiting arms exports, but their message has clearly not sunk in at the Paris Air Show, the world's largest showplace for fighter-bombers, attack helicopters and air-to-air missiles.    Since the 10-day show opened on June 13, dozens of combat aircraft have been parked on the tarmac at Le Bourget Airport, including an oversized Soviet MIG-31, a British Tornado GR, a French Mirage 2000 and a stubby Yugoslav G-4 Super Galeb bomber. But the aircraft drawing the most attention among the 400,000 expected visitors is Lockheed's F-117A Stealth fighter, whose pinpoint bombing wreaked so much damage on Iraq during the Persian Gulf war.

Selling Planes That Won the War

  WHETHER Joseph Papp or the organizers of the New York Philharmonic's free concerts in the park like it or not, they have given their audiences dinner theater. Look around the Great Lawn of Central Park during a concert or before a performance by the New York Shakespeare Festival any weekend, and all you see is people eating and drinking.   For some who find that culture makes them hungry, the solution is usually to be found in last-minute hot dogs from a pushcart vendor or the sandwiches and pastries sold outside the Delacorte Theater. But others devote the same kind of planning to the open-air feast as they would for a dinner party. It's not uncommon to see picnics in the park by candlelight with buckets holding bottles of wine and steaks sizzling on portable hibachis.

Hungry for Culture? Or Dinner? Have Both

  Gov. Mario M. Cuomo proposed legislation today that would create a no-fault system of malpractice insurance for newborns, compensating infants who suffer birth-related impairments even when it cannot be proved that physicians were at fault.    The long-awaited bill -- applauded by doctors and criticized by lawyers -- would revolutionize New York's system of medical liability. It would allow the families of injured infants to circumvent the court system and receive payments from a pool financed through assessments on physicians, nurses and other health-care providers.

Cuomo Plan On Insurance For Infants

  I.B.M. told Wall Street analysts yesterday that its earnings for the second quarter were likely to fall below expectations and hinted that new cost-cutting moves could soon lead to further special charges.   The International Business Machines Corporation, based in Armonk, N.Y., also broadened its explanation of why it is ailing as it struggles to return to earlier levels of profitability and dominance of the industry.

I.B.M. Sees A Gloomy 2d Quarter

  The German Parliament voted by a narrow margin today to move the seat of federal Government 350 miles eastward, from Bonn to Berlin, the country's historic capital.    The vote, taken after nearly 12 hours of vigorous and often bitter debate, was 337 for Berlin and 320 for Bonn, a small city on the Rhine that became West Germany's temporary capital in 1949 pending eventual reunification with East Germany. Over the years, Bonn increasingly took on the look of a permanent capital as its bureaucracy grew and hopes for unification faded.

BERLIN TO REGAIN FULL CAPITAL ROLE

  The Economy    A top official at Resolution Trust will be ousted by the nation's senior banking regulator. In an effort to mollify Congress and win more money for the faltering savings and loan bailout, L. William Seidman has agreed to replace his protege David C. Cooke, a 24-year career official who was named executive director of the agency when it was created in 1989.  [ Page D1. ]

BUSINESS DIGEST

  The Bush Administration will seek legislation to allow foreigners to own up to 49 percent of the voting stock of United States airlines, Transportation Secretary Samuel K. Skinner said today. The proposal is intended to attract foreign capital to shore up the troubled American industry.   In January, Mr. Skinner decided to allow foreign carriers to buy up to 49 percent of the equity of American airlines, but a 25 percent limit remained on voting rights. He said today that the change had proved insufficient to attract as much foreign capital as the airlines need.

Plan to Raise Foreign Cash For Airlines

  President Bush gave Boris N. Yeltsin a brief pat on the back today for pushing "democratic values and free market principles," but emphasized his own support for the Soviet President, Mikhail S. Gorbachev.    "We have been heartened and encouraged by President Yeltsin's commitment to democratic values and free market principles, and we look forward to working with him," Mr. Bush said in a Rose Garden appearance with the newly elected President of Russia before their meeting in the Oval Office. "But at the same time -- I want to be very clear about this -- the United States will continue to maintain the closest possible official relationship with the Soviet Government of President Gorbachev."

Bush Meets and Commends Yeltsin But Cites Support for Gorbachev

  A family of bookmakers in Westchester County developed what seemed to be a modern-day solution to an old problem: what to do with betting slips when the police come.   In the old days, the solutions involved a fire in the trash can, a flush of the toilet or an impromptu meal of the evidence.

Bookmakers' Computer Trips Them Up

  In decisions that could eventually change the makeup of state courts, particularly in the South, the Supreme Court ruled in two cases today that elections for judges are covered by the Federal Voting Rights Act.    The rulings could affect most parts of the country, because 41 states elect at least some of their judges and relatively few blacks or members of other minorities are represented on state courts.

COURT, 6-3, APPLIES VOTING RIGHTS ACT TO JUDICIAL RACES

  In a major libel decision, the Supreme Court ruled today that fabricated quotations attributed to a public figure may be libelous only if the alterations materially change the meaning of what the person actually said.   The decision reinstated a celebrated seven-year-old libel suit by a psychoanalyst, Jeffrey M. Masson, who has accused Janet Malcolm, a writer, of deliberately misquoting him in an unflattering profile in The New Yorker magazine that later appeared as a book.

Justices Refuse To Open a Gate For Libel Cases

  Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. and the Internal Revenue Service have reached a tentative settlement of the Government's $5.28 billion tax claim against the former Wall Street giant now in bankruptcy proceedings, the Federal judge overseeing the case said yesterday.    Federal Judge Milton Pollack said in an interview that a deal was struck between lawyers for Drexel and the I.R.S. late Wednesday. As a result, he said, he postponed a hearing scheduled for today on the I.R.S. claim.

Drexel and I.R.S. in Accord On $5.28 Billion Tax Claim

  INTERNATIONAL A3-8    President Bush praised Boris Yeltsin for pushing "democratic values and free market principles," but emphasized strongly that his first loyalty is to the Soviet President, Mikhail S. Gorbachev. Page A1    Talks on the nuclear weapons treaty between the United States and Soviet Union produced a narrowing of differences, but not enough to be able to schedule another superpower summit meeting, officials said. A6

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June 21, 1991

Headlines from June 21, 1991

The Young Of Jazz: Not All Are Restless

For First Time, Council Uses Power to Block Landmark

Traffic Alert

Court Widens Police Searches

Review/Film; 'Rocketeer': Wings vs. Soul

Billboard 200

Efil4zaggin

Spellbound

Out Of Time

Gonna Make You Sweat

Time; Love And Tenderness

Notable Births

Historical Context for June 21, 1991