LEAD: AFTER a two-year building lull, a new surge of office construction has begun in this suburban city, threatening a new glut.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Pasadena, Calif.; An Office Glut On the Horizon?

LEAD: When the Iran-contra committees finish their public hearings next week and begin to prepare a final report, they will confront a hearing record riddled with conflicting and contradictory testimony.

MAJOR CONFLICTS SEEN IN TESTIMONY OVER IRAN AFFAIR

LEAD: A SCORE of new condominiums that have sprouted along San Juan's most attractive beaches attest to what economists and developers describe as a boom in construction. About 1,000 apartments are being built or have been finished in the last year, with the bulk of them costing between $100,000 and $300,000.

FOCUS: SAN JUAN;
Beachside Condos Increasing

LEAD: ON the face of it, Iran seems to be holding the world by the throat. Its strident calls for Islamic revolution have unsettled Moslem neighbors and Arabs of every political persuasion. Last week, during the annual pilgrimage to the Moslem shrine at Mecca, Iranian activists began chanting ''death to America, death to the Soviet Union, death to Israel'' in defiance of rules against political acts at the shrine.

Extreme Measures

Prospects

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FOOTPRINTS OF THE ANCESTORS

LEAD: AS the Iran-contra hearings draw to a close, current and former members of President Reagan's inner circle described how they and the President were deceived and betrayed over the sale of arms to Iran. Highlights of the week's events follow.

THE STORY UNFOLDS

LEAD: The process of choosing the Democratic and Republican Presidential nominees is going public and national in 1988 as never before.

DEBATES TO PLAY BIGGER ROLE IN '88

LEAD: FROM crisis to recovery, Stephen Berger has been a man at the center of New York City's economy, deftly pulling strings in business and government alike. Now, as executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, one of the world's largest transportation agencies, he is emerging as the power broker for the region.

PORT AUTHORITY POWERHOUSE: Stephen Berger; Revving Up the 'Economic Engine'

LEAD: Bet Twice held off Alysheba's late charge by just a neck today to win the $500,000 Haskell Handicap at Monmouth Park. It was an exhilarating chapter in their continuing rivalry and one that set the stage for yet another rematch in their duel for the 3-year-old championship.

BET TWICE EDGES ALYSHEBA

LEAD: AT Broadway and 20th Street in Manhattan, a mansard-roofed building from the 19th century looks to be a breath away from the scrap heap.

Despite Protections, Landmarks Decay

LEAD: THE 10th Pan American Games, an every-four-year Olympic-type competition for Western Hemisphere nations, will begin Saturday in Indianapolis and run for 16 days with an all-star cast.

Big Event With Disney Touch

LEAD: The disproportionate impact of AIDS among blacks and Hispanic people is leading civil rights groups and the Federal Government to shift resources to deal more directly with the threat the disease poses to minorities.

High AIDS Rate Spurring Efforts For Minorities

LEAD: FOR 87 years, the Consumers League of New Jersey has been involved in major social and economic issues, among them child labor, minimum wage, workmen's compensation, migrant farm workers, the metric system, occupational diseases, recycling, pure food and drugs and the elimination of sweat shops.

Consumers League: A Spry 87

LEAD:  U.S. Presses Pakistan   The United States will ask Pakistan to crack down on a private network thought to be getting material for the development of that country's nuclear arms program, Administration officials said. Page 3.  Violence in Family Courts   Amid eruptions of violence, family courts step up security and try to defuse the tensions of divorce, custody and other cases.

INSIDE

LEAD: The crisis that has erupted between Saudi Arabia and Iran after violent clashes Friday in the holy city of Mecca is a consequence of considerable political and religious frictions between the two largest countries on the Persian Gulf.

Behind the Saudi-Iranian Tumult, Political and Religious Frictions

LEAD: In the office of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration that covers Travis County, Tex., there is a file that reads like a roadmap to laborer Victor Nazario's death. For more than a year, the file shows, OSHA inspectors visited worksites of the Austin-based Bland Construction Company. Almost every time, they found workers deep in trenches that were not shored up or sloped to protect them from the cave-in accidents that kill scores of construction workers every year, about 10 annually in Texas alone.

Is OSHA Falling Down on the Job?

LEAD: IT'S BACK - NAPALM, FIREFIGHTS, BODY BAGS, Hueys, rice paddies, Victor Charlie, search-and-destroy, the quagmire, the Living Room War.

Is It Prime Time for Vietnam?

LEAD: BACK in 1929, in ''Red Harvest,'' Dashiell Hammett sent his San Francisco shamus, the Continental Op, to a town in Montana called Personville. (Among the locals, ''Poisonville.'') In this adventure - considered to be the first of the so-called ''rotten town'' novels of the period - the detective describes the place as ''an ugly city of forty thousand people, set in an ugly notch between two ugly mountains that had been dirtied up by mining.

CRIME IN EVERY HAMLET

LEAD: DEER, raccoons, geese and coyotes have been causing an increasing number of problems in the county in the last two years, according to Federal and state officials, local animal nuisance-control agents and residents. And, they say, efforts to cope with the problems are only short-term at best - because, first, there is no general firearms hunting season in the county and, second, most county residents don't want to harm wild animals.

GROWING COMPLAINTS CITE DAMAGE BY DEER TO SHRUBS AND CROPS

LEAD: On Dahill Road at 17th Avenue, a quiet corner in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, two adjoining apartment buildings, erected in 1928 with 31 rental apartments, are being transformed into 22 condominiums with entirely new layouts.

POSTINGS: Borough Park Conversion; 22 Walk-Up Condos

LEAD: Boxing has an undisputed heavyweight champion, and he is Mike Tyson.

TYSON UNDISPUTED AND UNANIMOUS TITLIST

LEAD: IT HAS BEEN NEARLY NINE YEARS SINCE THE exhibition ''New Image Painting'' opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in December 1978. In its own quiet way the show, which included the work of 10 painters then between the ages of 30 and 43, was a landmark. Organized by Richard Marshall, an associate curator who had at that time been at the Whitney for only three years, it was the first official recognition on the part of a major New

A Painting Landmark In Focus

LEAD: AFTER nearly a generation, the saga of one of Philadelphia's premier properties appears to be ending.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Philadelphia;
Mixed-Use on Rittenhouse Sq.

LEAD: On the prosperous side of a sundered Germany, in a nation that still lowers its voice because of the Nazi crimes, that is reluctant to translate its economic might into political clout and that is geographically and psychologically vulnerable to blandishments from the Communist East, a search for an acceptable homeland goes on.

August 2, 1987

Headlines from August 2, 1987

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Pasadena, Calif.; An Office Glut On the Horizon?

MAJOR CONFLICTS SEEN IN TESTIMONY OVER IRAN AFFAIR

FOCUS: SAN JUAN; Beachside Condos Increasing

Extreme Measures

Prospects

Billboard 200

Whitney

Bad Animals

Whitesnake

The Joshua Tree

Girls; Girls; Girls

Historical Context for August 2, 1987