September 11, 1981

Harassed Sri Lanka minority hears call to arms A2 Iran names new police chief as Teheran clashes continue A3 U.S. reporter is ordered out of Egypt A3 44 senators reported to sponsor resolution against Awacs sale A4 Japanese Prime Minister views disputed Soviet islands A6 Around the World A7 Waldheim says he would welcome a third term A8 Turks worry about plans for re- turn to democracy A9 Bonn agrees to discuss U.S. troop support A11 Government/Politics U.S. reported working on plan to reuse atomic fuel A20 Immigration agency temporarily halts deportation of Haitians A24 Board finds canceled election also poses logistical problems B8 Senate again refuses to halt anti- busing filibuster B11 Judge O'Connor praised as she ends her testimony B12 General Around the Nation A16 Plan to share cleanup cost at Three Mile Island advances A21 Industry/Labor Volkswagen takes top position in fuel-efficiency ratings B10 List of Government ratings of fuel economy on '82 cars B10 Education/Welfare I.S. 231 in Queen appears to have qualfified for a $300,000 grant B2 Features/Notes Questions and answers on the New York City primary A1 About New York B3 Notes on People B19 Sports People D22 Weekend Weekender Guide C1 East Side, West Side - fairs are all over town C1 Guide to the pick of the region's apple crop C13 Governor's Cup yacht race set for tomorrow C28 Theater: Broadway C2 "Something Cloudy, Something Clear" at Bouwerie Lane C3 Screen: At the Movies C6 "Pixote," Brazilian film at Cinema Studio I. C6 "The Shooting Party," Che- khov film from Moscow C11 Godard's "Made in U.S.A.." at Thalia C13 Music: Haydn and Stravinsky sa- lute at Lin coln Center C1 Beethoven festival on L.I. C3 Jimmy Smith, jazz organist, at Fat Tuesday's C5 The Commodores singing at Music Hall C5 Sallie Wilson to appear at Marymount C13 Little Anthony tops oldies bill at Beacon C23 Art: Dutch printmakers at Met Museum C18 Auctions C22 Books: Publishing C24 "The Care of Time" by Eric Ambler is reviewed C25 Restaurants C16 TV Weekend C26 Style The Evening Hours B14 Montana gets flashy New York welcome B14 Secrets of buying perfume B14 Obituaries Arthur Smithies, Harvard econo- mist B16 Sports George Vecsey on Wim Rijsber- gen, the Cosmos' quiet weapon D20 Jets are favored, but Giants face another struggle D20 Borg, Connors win and will meet in Open semifinals D21 Parker symbolizes plight of Pi- rates D21 Dolphins rout Steelers, 30-10 D21 Few fans turn out for Canada Cup D21 Leonard's friend in Hearns corner D24 News A nalysis Clyde Haberman on political im- pact of enjoined primary B8 Editorials/Letters/Op-Ed Editorials A26 Big bad Wall Street Comfortable, in the dark Times Square gamble pays off Topics: extended engagements Letters A26 Tom Wicker: panic in Reagan- land A27 Flora Lewis: NATO's political gap A27 Charles T. Manatt: Democrats' stirrings A27 Dorothy Samuels and Arthur Ei- senberg: N.Y. voting districts A27

Business officials are stepping up their plans for spending on new plant and equipment this year, but the total is likely to be little changed from last year after adjustment for inflation, the Commerce Department reported today. A department survey in late July and August found entrepreneurs estimating that their capital investment this year would be about $321.5 billion, or 8.8 percent more than last year, the report said. A spurt in United States business investment is a major objective of the tax bill signed by President Reagan. But a top Commerce Department official said it was much too soon to give up hope that business executives would greatly step up their spending plans in light of investment incentives in the new law.

An airline price war yesterday drove down fares between New York and Miami and New York and the West Coast. By the end of the day, a traveler was able to pay just $69 to get from New York to Miami in economy class and only $179 to fly from New York to the West Coast on a standby basis. The burst of activity began when Eastern Airlines announced a series of sharp fare reductions that matched or undercut those set by the financially troubled Pan American World Airways on Monday in the major New York-to-Florida market and on transcontinental routes. Other Carriers Re-examine Fares Not to be outdone, Pan American quickly returned to the offensive yesterday by further trimming the rates it had barely begun to charge. Meanwhile, a number of the country's other major carriers, which were scheduled to put into effect some lowered fares in the next few weeks that were costlier than the new Eastern and Pan Am rates, said they would re-examine their positions.

THANKS to a lucky stroke of zodiacal chance, New York is about to savor the music of Haydn and Stravinsky in quantity during the coming season. In 1982, both composers will reach one of those roundnumbered anniversaries so beloved by music programmers - it will be Haydn's 250th birthday and Stravinsky's centennial - and the festivities in their honor will get off to an early start as the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society begins a weeklong Haydn-Stravinsky Celebration at Alice Tully Hall on Sunday night. It seems a fairly safe bet that the two composers would have approved of a festival in which they share equal billing, for in many ways they are kindred spirits. We know that Stravinsky thought highly of Haydn - at one point he even ranked him above Mozart. ''Haydn possessed in the highest degree two indispensable constituents, invention and method,'' Stravinsky observed some 40 years ago. Haydn might well have returned the compliment - certainly few 20th-century composers could compete with Stravinsky when it came to inventive ingenuity and refined methodology. Plans for the Chamber Music Society's homage have been on the drawing board for more than a year, and in the last few months Charles Wadsworth, the society's artistic director, has been busily working out the details with his customary enthusiasm.

''We do not interfere in the discussions between two branches of the American Government.