October 6, 1986

Oil ministers from the 13-member Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries begin an emergency meeting here Monday to seek a credible oil-price-support agreement. There were indications members might seek to roll over the current accord reached in August, to win time to negotiate a permanent settlement. Failure to do so would likely cause oil prices to resume a slide that was halted in August, after OPEC adopted an interim price-support system limiting its global production to 16.8 million barrels a day, from a January-to-August average of about 18.6 million. It would also weaken the commitment of non-OPEC countries - including Mexico, Egypt and Norway - that offered voluntary export cuts to back the OPEC effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was still President when the Allen-Bradley Company began making resistors for radios here. Thirty years later, after chips had rendered electrical components largely obsolete, Allen-Bradley moved the remnants of its resistor line to El Paso and nearby Juarez, Mexico, to take advantage of cheap, nonunion labor. Blue-collar cities such as Milwaukee know those stories all too well, but this one did not end there. In the same eighth-floor space where it once assembled the resistors, Allen-Bradley is now making a new line of motor controls known as contactors. But the real product here is the production line itself, which offers a bittersweet vision of how American manufacturing can save itself. Allen-Bradley's new contactor line employs only a handful of workers, but it bristles with computerized manufacturing controls and machinery - all designed and manufactured by the company itself. The production line is meant as a showcase for the technology that Allen-Bradley believes can help American companies not only survive but also excel in world markets without abandoning old hometowns like Milwaukee.

Nine New York City high schools have state-paid programs that are dispensing contraceptives at the schools or at affiliated clinics as part of their general health-care services, according to a new report by the Board of Education staff. The president of the board, Robert F. Wagner Jr., said yesterday that he only recently had become aware of the policy. But he said he supported the birth-control services and believed that the health clinics should be introduced at more high schools. Some of the clinics first began operation in 1984. Marion Schwarz, the coordinator of youth services at City Hall, who was instrumental in getting the health clinics in the schools, said there had been no announcement of the contraceptive services because the clinics were not required to ''itemize every service.''

The Bills had 12 players on the field, one too many, but not one of them covered Mickey Shuler, the Jets' tight end, as he ran alone toward the Buffalo goal line. Up the field, Shuler's quarterback, Ken O'Brien, let fly with his 39th pass of the day. Shuler caught that pass and went on to the Bills' end zone for a 36-yard touchdown play with 57 seconds left on the game clock. Pat Leahy kicked for the conversion point and the Jets won today, 14-13. Deservedly? Not according to Jim Kelly, the Buffalo quarterback.

The president of the Transit Authority, David L. Gunn, will announce today that his agency is halfway to a goal many thought unattainable: 3,026 of the authority's approximately 6,000 subway cars are clean. Of course, that means that an equal number are not clean, and neither are most of the system's 463 stations. Further, the crime rate on subways is edging up, and many lines provide stubbornly sporadic service.