September 2, 1980

PARIS, Sept. 1--The European Economic Community ordered a penalty duty on fast-growing imports of American polyester yarn today as ministers from the nine member nations returned from their August holiday.

TUSCUMBIA, Ala., Sept. 1--President Carter, opening his re-election campaign in an industrial and farming region of his native South, denounced the Ku Klux Klan at a Labor Day rally this afternoon and declared that the United States had been "inspired and gratified" by the gains made by workers this weekend in Poland.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1--A coalition of auto industry suppliers, joining in a campaign to curb imports of Japanese cars, has produced a lobbying battle plan that offers a rare glimpse into the way private companies operate to influence Washington decisions.

JERSEY CITY, Sept. 1--With the Statue of Liberty providing a background, Ronald Reagan formally began his fall campaign today with an attack on President Carter's economic policies that, aides say, is to be his main theme for the next two weeks.

WASHINGTON WITH all the evidence pointing to an enormous glut of medical doctors over the next decade, a high-level panel convened by the Federal Government is ex pected this week to urge stern measures to cut down the oversupply and to steer new physicians out of surgery, obstetrics and other badly overcrowded medical specialties.