July 15, 1980

ON the day before the first lunar landing in July 1969, the Apollo II astronauts were orbiting the moon and, on instructions from Mission Control, investigating the crater Aristarchus. They were seeking the source of a phenomenon that had puzzled astronomers for years, a strange glow that occasionally flared out of Aristarchus.

COVE POINT, Md., July 14--The map on John Van Dyke's office wall shows at a glance just what has gone wrong. The sea lanes, where more than a half-dozen model ships would normally be depicted shuttling from the Algerian port of Arzew to this port, are vacant.

WASHINGTON, July 14--The Treasury Department will enter the gold medallion market for the first time tomorrow, providing United States investors with an American alternative to the South African Krugerrand and other foreign coins and medallions that now dominate sales in this country.

WASHINGTON A SCIENTIST studying the ecological role of commercial food fish in the Amazon River Basin has found the first sub stantive evidence of a relationship between trees and fish that is one of the more unusual examples of mutual dependence.

An off-duty New York City police detective died early yesterday five hours after he was shot repeatedly while trying to stop a robbery in a Queens social club.