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SHALAMSHEH, Iran, Oct. 3--Iraqi forces, apparently resigned to a long and hard war of attrition with Iran, battled today for control of the major oil port of Khurramshahr.

WARSAW, Poland, Oct. 3--Defying the Government, the new independent trade unions mounted an impressive show of strength today by calling hundreds of thousands of workers out on a one-hour nationwide protest strike.

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 3--Diplomats here say that the border war between Iraq and Iran appears to have as much to do with President Saddam Hussein's ambitions to be the leader of the Arab world as it does with the few miles of disputed territory.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3--The Government reported today that its Producer Price Index for goods ready to sell to retailers slipped by two-tenths of 1 percent in September, the first decline for any month in four and a half years.

From sprawling Van Cortlandt Park in the North Bronx to the Art Deco splendor of Rockefeller Center, New York City land has an assessed valuation of more than $65 billion. Yet it is a legacy of wealth that to a large degree cannot be tapped by the money-pressed city.

PARIS, Oct. 3--A terrorist bomb exploded tonight in front of a Jewish temple here, killing 4 people and injuring 12 more.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3--Paul A. Volcker, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, said today that interest rates may have "jumped and anticipated too much" in response to the central bank's efforts to hold down the growth in the nation's money supply.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3--Alarmed by intelligence reports that Iraq was planning to launch air and helicopter strikes against Iran from nearby Oman last weekend, the United States and Britain exerted considerable diplomatic pressure to prevent the widening of the conflict, diplomatic sources said today.

SETUBAL, Portugal, Oct. 3--A boisterous, cacaphonous campaign for a new Parliament to be elected Sunday officially came to an end today, with honking motorcades littering the streets with leaflets and leaders of the three principal coalitions making their last pitches at rallies.

DURANGO, Spain, Oct. 3 (UPI)-- Gunmen who were thought to be Basque separatists ambushed a police car in this northern city today, killing two police inspectors and their driver.

BLACKPOOL, England, Oct. 3 (Reuters)--The opposition Labor Party formally concluded its most divided and bitter annual conference in years today, still in confusion about how to elect its next leader.

EAST BERLIN, Oct. 3--The East German urged his visitor into the sitting room, where a television set at full volume showed Helmut Schmidt at a rally. "I want to hear the Social Democrats' election spot first," the man said. "Then we can talk."