July 10, 1981

The cool bronze of the Hans Christian Andersen statue in Central Park offered relief to a resourceful passer-by.

In a second sucessive day of token strikes, 6,000 employees of the state-owned airline stopped work for four hours this morning in a dispute over the employees' demand that they be allowed to elect their own general manager. The protest, which was believed to be the first strike affecting civil aviation in the Soviet bloc, caused a cancellation by the airline, LOT, of eight domestic flights and delays or cancellations of 14 international flights, according to organizers of the strike. The action, coming after a one-hour walkout by 40,000 dock workers yesterday, raised fears that labor unrest might be starting up again, at a time when the Communist Party is preparing for an emergency congress next week to consider changes in the party's statutes, leadership and policies. 3 Dissidents Ordered Rearrested In another development, the Supreme Court ordered the rearrest of three anti-Communist dissidents who are being tried on charges of plotting violent overthrow of the country's constitutional system. The three, along with a fourth man, also on trial but at liberty because of ill health, belong to a right-wing organization called the Confederation of Independent Poland.

A roller-skating elephant will be at Fordham University in the Bronx this morning but not to attend classes. The pachyderm will appear along with jugglers, clowns, acrobats and aerialists in a twohour performance by the Big Apple Circus, the one-ring big top that gives its audience a close look at things. All spectators are seated within 20 feet of the ring in the 1,100-seat tent. Today's 10:30 performance will be the first of 12 given through July 16. There will be three performances tomorrow and two on Sunday. The site is at the corner of Fordham Road and Southern Boulevard, across from the New York Botanical Garden. It can be reached by taking the IND's D train to Bedford Park Boulevard, then the No. 17 bus to Southern Boulevard, or the IRT's No. 4 to Bedford Park Boulevard, then the No. 17 bus. Tickets are $5 for adults, $4 for children. Reservations: 369-5110.

A major New York City museum will have a suburban satellite for the first time when the Whitney Museum of American Art opens a branch in this Fairfield County community on Tuesday. The museum will be housed in 3,600 square feet on the ground floor of the new 15-story headquarters building of Champion International Corporation and will be totally supported by the corporation, a major manufacturer of building materials and paper products. The negotiations that brought the Whitney to Stamford were the result of a longstanding relationship between the museum and Champion, according to Andrew C. Sigler, chairman and chief executive officer of the corporation. The museum is virtually undetectable from the street, and its logo is split by an aluminum divider in the picture window.

Brazil, the world's largest coffee producer, cut its quoted prices on wholesale coffee exports by almost 50 percent yesterday, with the top grade dropping to $1.07 a pound from $2, effective Monday. ''The Brazilians are facing reality.'' said Walter Emery, director of commodity research at the Commodity Research Bureau. Through its marketing agency, the Brazilian Coffee Institute, Brazil has been trying to keep the price of coffee up, despite steadily falling coffee prices in a glutted world market. Yesterday, according to some coffee importers, Brazil formally gave up the fight.