LEAD: A Swiss shipping magnate was the unexpected beneficiary of a $10 million donation from the Sultan of Brunei that had been intended for the Nicaraguan rebels.

NORTH'S $10 MILLION MISTAKE: SULTAN'S GIFT LOST IN A MIXUP

LEAD: DANIEL MAIMIN, a student at the Dalton School on the Upper East Side, always knew that one day he would be a developer. When he was 14 years old, though, he started working as a volunteer in a soup kitchen to meet a school requirement for social service. It changed his ideas about homeless and hungry people - and about developers.

YOUNG, PRIVILEGED VOLUNTEERS LEARN THAT HUNGER HAS A FACE

LEAD: Senatorial candidates supported by President Corazon C. Aquino appeared today to be headed for an overwhelming victory.

AQUINO CANDIDATES FARE WELL IN VOTE FOR NEW CONGRESS

LEAD: The red neon clock on Broadway read 1:36. Not even 25 minutes remained before curtain time and Helen Scaroulis tapped her foot at the corner of 47th Street and waited for her friend, Olga Brett, to arrive. They were going to a show.

WILD WEDNESDAY: THE MATINEE CRUSH

LEAD: FOR many people, it has become the first thing to tune in to in the morning and the last before going to bed. It pervades television and radio news. And every hour, on average, 6,000 New Yorkers telephone for information about it.

WHAT'S IN THE FORECAST? EVERYONE WANTS TO KNOW

LEAD: THE cooking of the South - embracing as it does such foods as corn pone, turnip greens, hush puppies, spoon bread, country ham, grits and red-eye gravy -lends itself to caricature and stereotype and all the cliches of the marketplace. To speak of the present state of the art as ''nouvelle Southern'' strikes some as ridiculously highfalutin and a contradiction in terms.

BLENDING OLD AND NEW IN SAVANNAH

LEAD: At the 125-year-old red brick Pacific High School, across the street from the Board of Education headquarters in Brooklyn, students attend classes in rooms with boarded-up windows, the lone science laboratory is inoperable and one of just four toilets is usually not functioning.

NEW YORK SCHOOL BUILDINGS SCARRED BY YEARS OF NEGLECT

LEAD: The House of Representatives voted today to reduce spending for research into missile defenses next year to $3.1 billion, half a billion dollars less than the amount being spent this year.

HOUSE CUTS FUNDS FOR 'STAR WARS' IN TACTICAL MOVE

LEAD: In what is believed to be a medical first, a healthy human heart was taken from a living person and transplanted into another human, doctors in Baltimore said yesterday.

IN 3-WAY TRANSPLANT, LIVING PATIENT DONATES HEART

LEAD: Weighing the lure of a new technology against the political power of the nation's recording industry, Congress will soon decide whether to allow into the country - and under what conditions - a new kind of Japanese high-fidelity tape recorder that may make the Walkman even smaller and the tape deck disappear.

THE RECORDING INDUSTRY HOPES TO BAR TAPING FROM COMPACT DISKS

LEAD: Officials of the Corning Glass Works were outraged when they discovered that Sumitomo Electric Industries of Japan was using, without permission, their patented manufacturing process to make optical fiber, the thin glass wires widely used in telecommunications.

U.S. LAWS OFFER LESS PROTECTION THAN THOSE OF MAJOR TRADING PARTNERS

LEAD: Wedtech Sues Adviser  The Wedtech Corporation accused the financial adviser to Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d of conspiring to defraud the company of more than $1 million. Page B1.

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LEAD: A CULINARY generation gap? Yes. In this country, members of the old guard, producing classic French cuisine, vie for customers with members of the new guard, American chefs producing an often idiosyncratic cuisine. What, if anything, do these Americans owe to their classic French forebears? Which cooking style holds the greater allure for restaurant-goers?

CHEFS' DEBATE: INNOVATION VS. CLASSIC FRENCH FOOD

LEAD: After 51 days and 5,000 miles at sea, the pariah garbage barge Mobro can come home again - but it probably won't.

PATH CLEARED FOR THE RETURN OF L.I.'S TRASH

LEAD: By all the laws of supply and demand, commodity prices should not have jumped sharply this week. That they did, despite the worldwide glut of most materials, underscores the extent to which prices are responding to speculation and to the fear that the American economy is suffering once again from inflation.

COMMODITY OUTLOOK: NO BIG PRICE RISES SEEN

LEAD: The Wedtech Corporation yesterday accused a financial adviser to Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d of conspiring to defraud the company of more than $1 million.

WEDTECH, ALLEGING FRAUD, SUES AN ADVISER TO MEESE

BUSINESS DIGEST: WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1987

LEAD: Treasury Secretary James A. Baker 3d said today that he could see ''good evidence'' that trade imbalances were starting to ease. Coincidentally, West Germany ordered a reduction in a key interest rate - a move of the kind that Mr. Baker has been urging to help the lagging world economy.

BAKER SEES TRADE GAP SHRINKAGE

LEAD: A Federal judge rejected a request yesterday by Government prosecutors for a two-month delay in the insider-trading trial of three senior Wall Street figures.

DELAY IN FIRST INSIDER TRIAL IS BARRED

LEAD: President Reagan said today that he did not solicit money for the Nicaraguan rebels in private meetings with King Fahd of Saudi Arabia in 1985.

REAGAN DENIES ASKING SAUDIS FOR CONTRA AID

LEAD: Alice McCarver knew there was no chance at reconciliation with her husband when she left home for what she thought was a weekend trial separation and called her apartment -only to find the tape on the answering machine had been changed to the first person singular.

Stories of the City; The Art of Being Telephone Hip: Wait for the Beep

LEAD: United Airlines announced yesterday a $2.1 billion airplane deal aimed at protecting the carrier and its parent company, the Allegis Corporation, from a hostile takeover.

BOEING GETS BIG STAKE IN ALLEGIS

LEAD: In a move that could profoundly change the way political campaigns in New York City are financed, lawmakers in both houses of the State Legislature introduced a bill today that would significantly reduce the maximum contribution individuals can make to candidates for city offices.

BILL ON ETHICS WOULD LIMIT CONTRIBUTIONS

LEAD: Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir attacked Foreign Minister Shimon Peres's proposal for an international Middle East peace conference today, describing it as a ''perverse and criminal'' idea that must be ''wiped off'' the Cabinet table.

PERES CALLS OPPOSITION 'ARROGANT'

LEAD: Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi sent at least 5,000 more paramilitary policemen to the Punjab today as his Government assumed direct command of the campaign to curb terrorist attacks by Sikh extremists in the northern state.

GANHDI BOLSTERS FORCES IN PUNJAB

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May 13, 1987

Headlines from May 13, 1987

NORTH'S $10 MILLION MISTAKE: SULTAN'S GIFT LOST IN A MIXUP

YOUNG, PRIVILEGED VOLUNTEERS LEARN THAT HUNGER HAS A FACE

AQUINO CANDIDATES FARE WELL IN VOTE FOR NEW CONGRESS

WILD WEDNESDAY: THE MATINEE CRUSH

WHAT'S IN THE FORECAST? EVERYONE WANTS TO KNOW

Billboard 200

The Joshua Tree

Slippery When Wet

Licensed To Ill

Look What The Cat Dragged In

Graceland

Notable Births

Historical Context for May 13, 1987