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LEAD: In a New York City crowded with museums dedicated to the past and present arts that elevate, the Police Museum is a singular institution. There, the station-house blotter merits the reverence accorded in other museums to a rare papyrus, and the nefarious arts share the spotlight with the devices that foil them.

LILY-IRONS TAKE HONORS AT POLICE MUSEUM

LEAD: This is normally a quiet time in Southampton, a time for gathering energy and patience as the community's year-round residents prepare for the summertime crush.

LAND-USE BATTLE DISTURBS SERENTIY OF SOUTHAMPTON

LEAD: As the sun breaks over Managua each day, thousands of enterprising vendors from the countryside make their way to city markets, laden with everything from meat and fruit to shoes and shampoo.

SANDINISTAS SEEKING WAYS TO HALT THE TIDE OF ILLICIT FOOD VENDORS

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LEAD: MIKE SCHMIDT, the National League's most valuable player three times, its home-run leader eight times and its runs-batted-in leader four times, was talking recently about a possible new contract with Philadelphia when he was asked how someone earning more than $2 million this year negotiates for more money.

BASEBALL'S BEST: A 'NASTY GUY'

LEAD: * Remember Craig Bodzianowski, the Illinois cruiserweight who strapped on a prosthesis and returned to boxing after losing part of his right leg in a motorcycle accident? He's now 17-0 (4-0 since the return) and headed for the biggest fight of his career, an April 12 meeting in Chicago with Alfonzo Ratliff, a former champion whom the World Boxing Council ranks 11th.

Catching Up

LEAD: After more than three years of debate, work is set to begin on a new Staten Island naval center that, its supporters promise, will bring hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of jobs to New York City and New Jersey.

AFTER 3-YEAR WAIT, WORK IS DUE ON S.I. NAVY BASE

LEAD: Hundreds of Moslem militia fighters who left West Beirut last month after the arrival of Syrian troops have moved to southern Lebanon to fight against Israel, according to members of the police force and reports in the press here.

BEIRUT MILITIAMEN MOVE ON ISRAELIS

LEAD: Earlier this month, when Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward predicted a summer of unrest in New York City, a number of black public officials called to complain. His remarks were inflammatory, they said. Also, the officials asssured him, they have matters well in hand.

FEAR OF SUMMER OF UNREST IN CITY: WHAT'S BEHIND IT

LEAD: Madison Avenue, which if nothing else strives to stay in tune with the nation's moods, is abandoning the warm, patriotic themes that were widely used in advertising for several years.

RED, WHITE AND BLUE IS OUT

LEAD: There are pockets in this city where the extraordinary has become commonplace, where AIDS has made disease and death the focus of daily life.

THE DEVASTATION OF AIDS: MANY DEAD, MORE DYING

LEAD: The Vatican's recent proposals urging governments to ban medical intervention in human reproduction raise serious constitutional issues that could soon emerge in state legislatures and the courts, legal scholars say.

LEGAL ISSUES SEEN IN VATICAN CALL FOR LAWS TO BAR BIRTH TECHNOLOGY

LEAD: For Alfa Romeo, the Italian maker of fast and expensive automobiles, there were days of glory, as when Dustin Hoffman drove a jaunty Alfa Duetto off into a Pacific sunset in ''The Graduate.'' And though the tale may be apocryphal, people here still relate how Henry Ford always tipped his hat when an

FIAT PLANS TO USE ALFA TO BUILD LUXURY SALES

LEAD: Despite months of study and tinkering by Federal regulators and the New York Stock Exchange, there is only one safe prediction to be made about this week's ''triple witching hour'': At 3:59 on Friday afternoon, stock tickers across America will start to go crazy.

'WITCHING' SUSPENSE IS BUILDING

LEAD: In an interview last October, Nahum Vaskevitch, the managing director in charge of Merrill Lynch & Company's merger team in London, said: ''We operate as one department worldwide. And I have always regarded my telephone here as another extension on the 45th floor of our merger and acquisition department in New York.

INSIDER FRAUD: GLOBAL SPECTER

LEAD: The board of Harper & Row has appointed a committee of outside directors to study alternatives to the two takeover offers it received last week, the company said yesterday.

HARPER BOARD PICKS ADVISORY PANEL

LEAD: The announcement Friday that Midland Bank P.L.C. had pulled out of stock trading represents the first major step in an inevitable consolidation of the British securities industry that will unfold over the next several months, according to bankers and brokers.

BIG BANG PRODUCES A CASUALTY

LEAD: John Thompson, when everything else was failing today, reached into the past and reminded his team of the Georgetown tradition. ''Let's go get them,'' he implored, ''like Georgetown.''

DePAUL TOPS REDMEN IN OVERTIME; GEORGETOWN ERASES 15-POINT LEAD; WILLIAMS SPARKS RALLY

LEAD: The National Football League's long and sometimes arduous negotiations to secure new television contracts ended this weekend with a three-year agreement that will put N.F.L. games on cable television for the first time.

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LEAD: St. John's wasn't given much of a chance to beat DePaul on its home court, where the Blue Demons had gone 16-0 this season before today. But the Redmen were only seconds away from victory when they lost their chance because of two blunders.

DePAUL TOPS REDMEN IN OVERTIME; GEORGETOWN ERASES 15-POINT LEAD; DEMONS TIE ON LATE FOUL

LEAD: Thirty-seven Russians rescued by helicopter from a capsized Soviet freighter in an Atlantic gale were taken to Washington like a band of tourists in vans yesterday, and Soviet officials said the sailors might even get a day on the town before flying home tomorrow.

RUSSIANS, SAVED, TAKE PEEK AT U.S.

LEAD: Damaged by enduring evidence of political corruption in and around the New York City government, by charges of mayoral inattention and even naivete, Mayor Koch has set out to change the way he runs his government and himself as he tries - three years ahead - to make re-election a stronger possibility.

WITH SCANDAL AND RE-ELECTION IN MIND, KOCH MELLOWS STYLE

LEAD: After nearly a year of negotiations, the United States and Canada are starting to make progress toward a trade pact that would eliminate tariffs and nontariff barriers between the world's two largest trading partners by the turn of the century.

U.S. AND CANADIANS OPTIMISTIC ON END TO TRADE BARRIERS

LEAD: At its most human and impassioned level, the Baby M trial was about two women fighting for one baby.

2 MOTHERS AND BABY M: FROM HARMONY TO DISCORD

Fabien Lemoine is a French former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Across his career, he played for Rennes, Saint-Étienne, Lorient, and Versailles.

March 16, 1987

Headlines from March 16, 1987

BUSINESS DIGEST

LILY-IRONS TAKE HONORS AT POLICE MUSEUM

LAND-USE BATTLE DISTURBS SERENTIY OF SOUTHAMPTON

SANDINISTAS SEEKING WAYS TO HALT THE TIDE OF ILLICIT FOOD VENDORS

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Billboard 200

Licensed To Ill

Slippery When Wet

The Way It Is

Invisible Touch

Control

Notable Births

Historical Context for March 16, 1987