LEAD: Hundreds of the aging and once stately houses of worship that helped give Brooklyn the name ''City of Churches'' are in severe disrepair, with many congregations closing off parts of the buildings because they are unsafe.

Brooklyn Congregations Struggle to Repair Old Churches

LEAD:  FRIDAY   STEPPING OUT IN BROOKLYN   Celebrate Brooklyn, the spirited summerlong festival of the performing arts in Prospect Park, turns to dance this weekend. Several renowned companies, presenting works ranging from classical ballet to Irish step-dancing, will take the stage tonight, tomorrow and Sunday at 8 P.M.

GOING OUT GUIDE

LEAD: The seven candidates seeking their parties' nominations in primary elections next Tuesday in the Fourth Congressional District are fighting summer more than each other.

Candidates Combat Summer Doldrums

LEAD: THE outdoor sculpture season has begun to reflect the state of sculpture in general. The amount of outdoor sculpture continues to increase: there are currently four large shows. But as the cost of living and working in Manhattan continues to rise, more outdoor sculpture is being made and exhibited elsewhere: this season there is a significant shift toward other boroughs, particularly Queens.

City as Sculpture Garden: Seeing the New and Daring

LEAD: Mayor Koch said yesterday that the city plans to end its year-old contract with a private concrete company and seek a new supplier to start producing reduced-cost concrete to break a monopoly in Manhattan.

New York Plans to End Concrete Pact

LEAD: IS it outrageous? Imaginative? Unexpected? Then it's probably part of Serious Fun!, a distinctly offbeat festival that begins tonight at Alice Tully Hall and runs through Aug. 2.

Offbeat Antics, All in Serious Fun

LEAD: A high-ranking Afghan diplomat on his way to buy an air-conditioner at an appliance store in Queens has been accused of ramming a woman in a dispute over a parking space.

Afghan Diplomat Accused Of Auto Attack on Woman

LEAD: On Wall Street, where quick action now rules over measured deliberation, and a meritocracy has replaced the gentleman's club, one of the last guardians of the old style has finally joined the fray.

A WALL ST. SECTOR BLOSSOMS

LEAD: Up and down these suburban streets the friendly developers go, knocking on doors. They want to buy three or four nice homes in a row, tear them down and squeeze in a condominium. It's very profitable.

Comes a Knock: The Developers Want Your Yard

LEAD: Lee Alexander, a Democrat who ruled Syracuse as Mayor for 16 years while earning a national reputation as a spokesman for the nation's cities, was indicted today on charges that he masterminded a scheme that brought him $1.5 million in kickbacks from city contractors.

EX-MAYOR INDICTED IN SYRACUSE BRIBES

LEAD: Administration officials, frustrated and disappointed by recent Soviet attitudes toward arms control talks, say prospects for a fall meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, are fading.

U.S. FEARS SOVIET IMPERILS A SUMMIT BY STAND ON ARMS

LEAD:  British Airlines to Merge   British Air is to take over a rival, strengthening its position against the huge American airlines formed by mergers. But some discount fares could be lost. Page D1.  Takeover String Continues   Kohlberg, Kravis, which has spent $30 billion on companies, offered to buy Jim Walter, a builder of low-cost houses, for $2.03 billion.

INSIDE

LEAD: A marked improvement in ties between Moscow and Bonn has set the stage for a milestone official visit to West Germany in September by Erich Honecker, the East German leader, according to West German officials and Western diplomats.

East German to Visit Bonn; Trip Reflects Shift by Soviet

LEAD: The most pathetic victims of AIDS are the children, most marked at birth with a disease that both kills and stigmatizes.

CHILDREN WITH AIDS

BUSINESS DIGEST: FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1987

LEAD: Japan, stunned by American fury over the sale of sensitive technology to the Soviet Union by the Toshiba Machine Company, agreed today to demands that Tokyo clamp down on exports of such equipment to hostile countries, the Commerce Department said.

Japanese Agree to U.S. Demands On Controlling Technology Sales

LEAD: The Jim Walter Corporation, one of the nation's leading builders of low-cost houses, said yesterday that it had received a surprise takeover bid for $50 a share, or $2.03 billion in cash.

KOHLBERG, KRAVIS BIDS FOR JIM WALTER

LEAD: Lyn Nofziger, the former senior political adviser to President Reagan, was indicted today on conflict-of-interest charges related to his lobbying on behalf of the Wedtech Corporation, a Government official and others close to the investigation said.

U.S. Grand Jury Indicts Nofziger In Wedtech Case

LEAD: The American Telephone and Telegraph Company said yesterday that second-quarter profits jumped 41.2 percent, helped by gains in its long-distance telephone business and early success in controlling costs.

A.T.&T.'s PROFITS RISE BY 41.2%

LEAD: British Airways announced yesterday that it would take over its smaller rival, British Caledonian Airways, to increase its already formidable position as a worldwide carrier.

BRITISH AIR WILL BUY BRITISH CALEDONIAN

LEAD: Driven by concerns that the war between Iran and Iraq could disrupt oil supplies from the Middle East, world crude oil prices have moved above $22 a barrel in volatile trading this week. However, energy experts in the United States said yesterday that the market's fears have exceeded the realistic prospects of a cutoff of crude oil supplies or even of a substantial reduction in Middle East shipments.

OIL MARKETS: UP, BUT UNEASY

LEAD: The perjury trial of Michael K. Deaver was postponed today for at least three months after defense lawyers said they would appeal to the Supreme Court an order requiring that the jury selection be conducted in public.

DEAVER TRIAL DELAYED FOR MONTHS AS DEFENSE APPEALS ORDER ON JURY

LEAD: Rear Adm. John M. Poindexter testified today that when he resigned last November, neither Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d nor Donald T. Regan, the White House chief of staff, asked him who had approved the diversion of Iran arms profits to the Nicaraguan rebels.

ADMIRAL RECALLS NO POINTED QUERY WHEN HE RESIGNED

LEAD: The stock market yesterday continued its most recent surge - one that many on Wall Street find somewhat perplexing, even unnerving.

DOW TOPS 2,500, THEN EASES BACK

LEAD: PROPHECIES are based on ''imperfect knowledge,'' Oliver Wendell Holmes, the jurist, once observed. Yet ''every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy,'' he said. And prophecies don't always come true.

Economic Scene; UNCERTAINTIES OF TRADE GAP

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July 17, 1987

Headlines from July 17, 1987

Brooklyn Congregations Struggle to Repair Old Churches

GOING OUT GUIDE

Candidates Combat Summer Doldrums

City as Sculpture Garden: Seeing the New and Daring

New York Plans to End Concrete Pact

Billboard 200

Whitney

The Joshua Tree

Whitesnake

Bad Animals

Girls; Girls; Girls

Notable Births

Historical Context for July 17, 1987