August 21, 1984

Text of statements, page B8. WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 - Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro and her husband today released a mass of financial records intended to quiet the controversy over the handling of their finances. The documents answered many questions but also raised some new ones. The records confirmed earlier reports that the Democratic nominee for Vice President, and her husband, John A. Zaccaro, had underpaid their 1978 income taxes because of an error for which they blamed their accountant. The accountant agreed in an interview that he had been responsible. But the records also showed that Mrs. Ferraro, a Queens Congresswoman, had received income from a real estate business she owns jointly with her husband. This raised questions about whether she had failed to meet ethics rules of the House of Representatives by not reporting this income.

For the first time since David Stull opened his jewelery store on this village's fashion alley more than six years ago, he is staying open long after the sun has set. He is not alone. Faced with declining sales, about 40 merchants in this resort area have lengthened their days. ''These good times are tough times for us,'' said Mr. Stull, the owner of Job's Lane Jewelers and vice president of the Chamber of Commerce.

George P. Shultz voiced confidence that freedom would someday be restored to the Soviet-dominated countries of Eastern Europe. In a speech to the annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago, the Secretary of State echoed a theme struck by President Reagan on Friday in opposing the ''subjugation'' of Eastern Europe. (Page A1, Cols. 3-4.) India's main opposition parties joined in calling for rallies and demonstrations Saturday outside Government offices to protest what they consider Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's increasing disregard of democratic practices. The opposition parties rarely act together. (A3:4-6.)

''Patience is a virtue in foreign affairs as much as in our personal lives.

In a world where people can count the number of molecules on a pinhead, oil experts cannot seem to determine how much of the most widely used energy source is in commerce or even what it costs on a given day. Last month, for example, assessments of daily production by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ranged from 17.2 million barrels to 18.6 million - a variation greater than the initial oil shortages of 1973 or 1979. Similarly, the two major domestic oil price reporting services disagreed nearly every day on the price of heating oil and gasoline at New York Harbor. Yet oil sales and investments add up to a multibillion-dollar business daily. Major government and corporate policy decisions are based on oil supplies and prices. But most of that money is spent and decisions made on the basis of information that is often very uncertain and sometimes wrong, oil experts agree.