November 5, 1984

One week after they upset the Washington Redskins, the Giants upset the Dallas Cowboys, 19-7, today. The victory, with the St. Louis Cardinals' 16-13 loss to the Los Angeles Rams, left the Giants, Cardinals and Cowboys tied for the division lead. The Redskins will also be 6-4 and tied for first if they defeat the Atlanta Falcons Monday night. If not, the Redskins will face an uphill battle in the tight Eastern Division race in the National Conference.

Wayne Frederick, a burly corn grower in this farm community where Herbert Hoover was born, is in the vanguard of an unsung but growing movement that is changing millenia-old agricultural techniques. He and thousands of other innovative farmers have abandoned tilling - the exhausting and costly process of turning over thousands of tons of earth to loosen the soil and bury harvest residue and weeds before planting. Instead of plowing under the messy residue, they simply plant under it in the spring. While the no-till technique has disadvantages that even its advocates concede will prevent it from being practiced by a majority of farmers, it does offer two huge advantages over traditional tilling: It greatly reduces erosion and it slashes fuel and equipment costs.

''In the last two or three months, we lost control of our business, and it was no joke.

An article in Business Day Oct. 16 about a lawsuit brought by the Chase Manhattan Bank against Arthur Andersen & Company misstated the legal status of a former officer of the Drysdale Securities Corporation. Peter J. Wasserman, its former president, was not charged with any criminal wrongdoing.

Federal agents in Ohio yesterday arrested four long-sought fugitives in the slaying of a New Jersey state trooper nearly three years ago. A fifth person accused of harboring them also was seized. In a statement issued in Washington late in the afternoon, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said three suspects were seized in a home in Cleveland early yesterday, while two others were taken into custody in a van near Deerfield, Ohio, 40 miles southeast of Cleveland. The suspects included Raymond Luc Levasseur, a reputed member of a New England-based revolutionary group who has been on the F.B.I.'s 10 most- wanted list since 1977, and Richard Charles Williams, one of two men indicted for the murder of Trooper Philip Lamonaco on a highway in New Jersey in 1981. Mr. Levasseur's wife, Patricia Gros, and Jaan Karl Laaman, both of whom had been sought for questioning in the trooper's slaying, also were taken into custody. No Trace of One Suspect But the agents found no trace of Thomas William Manning, the second man who had been indicted in the slaying. His fingerprints had been found on the killers' getaway car, which was found abandoned a few miles from the scene of the shooting.