LEAD: Leaders of the Nicaraguan rebels today asked President Reagan to seek Congressional approval for renewed military and non-lethal aid for the guerrillas, but to hold the military aid in escrow unless the Nicaraguan Government fails to comply with terms of a peace plan now being negotiated.

Nicaraguan Contras Ask Reagan For Escrow Fund Linked to Talks

LEAD: Apparently impervious to the occasional but persistent mosquitoes, Larry Penny looked fondly out over a three-acre pond here.

TURTLES AID FIGHT AGAINST L.I. DEVELOPMENT

LEAD: To those seeking to decipher the mystery of his violent death, Irwin Schiff has bequeathed an even more haunting legacy -the mystery of his life.

THE ENIGMATIC LIFE AND VIOLENT DEATH OF IRWIN SCHIFF

LEAD: The General Electric Company said yesterday that it had awarded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company a $300 million contract to design and install a telephone network that would connect the company's 700 facilities around the nation into one of the largest private phone systems in the country.

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LEAD: The Soviet Union today welcomed the offer by Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany to dismantle 72 medium-range nuclear missiles in West Germany if Moscow and Washington agree to scrap all medium- and shorter-range rockets.

HINTS PACT IS NEAR

LEAD:  Friday  SUMMERGARDEN FINALE  Summergarden, the Museum of Modern Art's free outdoor concert series presented amid works by some of this century's greatest sculptors, ends its 12th summer season this weekend with performances tonight and tomorrow at 7:30. The program features the American premiere of Josef Matthias Hauer's 1936 work ''Dance Suite No.

WEEKENDER GUIDE

LEAD: A series of electronic problems and a leaky firehose forced postponement today of the first test firing of the space shuttle's redesigned booster rockets.

Problems Delay Test of Rocket For the Shuttle

BUSINESS DIGEST: FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1987

LEAD: A Federal appeals court today struck down a Minnesota law that required women under 18 years old either to notify both parents or to obtain judicial approval before getting abortions.

Appeals Court Voids Minnesota's Limits On Minors' Abortion

LEAD: Along a stretch of the Long Island Rail Road in Brooklyn, nine young people toiled in a driving rain yesterday removing a varied collection of car parts, mattresses, tires and just plain trash from the tracks.

A GROUP LOVES NEW YORK, AND CLEANS IT

LEAD: Administration officials reported today that the Soviet Union was seeking to join the international organization that sets the rules for trade in textiles.

Moscow Asks to Join Textile Pact

LEAD: The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation said yesterday that it was expanding its A.C. Nielsen market-research operations by acquiring Information Resources Inc., a test-marketing company.

NIELSEN ACQUIRES KEY RIVAL

LEAD: The dollar slipped closer to critical levels in relation to the yen and mark yesterday.

Dollar Falls Nearer Key Test Levels

LEAD: Alll along the rock-strewn Connecticut shoreline a familiar movie soundtrack seems to be running through almost every beachgoer's mind: dum-dum dum-dum dum-dum . . . ''Jaws.'' In the last three weeks, from Greenwich and Stamford to this little community hard by the Rhode Island border, people have been seeing sharks in the water.

Our Towns; Summer Reruns Along the Sound: Jaws I, II, III . . .

LEAD: Medicaid patients requiring relatively low levels of medical care are finding it increasingly difficult to get into nursing homes in New York State because the homes no longer consider them profitable.

Nursing Homes Want Fewer of the Not-So-Ill

LEAD: Is the glow off I.B.M.'s shares? Or is Wall Street overreacting?

I.B.M. Drop: Differing Views

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LEAD: Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk has revealed a 25-year-old secret: During the final days of the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, President Kennedy was prepared to make a critical concession to Moscow to avoid a war if the Russians refused to pull their forces out of Cuba.

Rusk Tells a Kennedy Secret: Fallback Plan in Cuba Crisis

LEAD: JAZZ was not born in Greenwich Village, but it has been thriving there since its early years. There have been lean years for jazz in the Village, but there was always a Barney Josephson, who made his Cafe Society Downtown a mecca for blues, boogie-woogie and idiomatic swing, or a Max Gordon, maintaining the Village Vanguard's commitment to quality through every vicissitude.

RELIVING ALL THE JAZZ AGES AT GREENWICH VILLAGE FESTIVAL

LEAD: The new head of the Federal Aviation Administration urged the country's senior airline pilots today to renew their commitment to ''vigilance in the cockpit'' against disastrous mistakes.

NEW CHIEF OF F.A.A. WARNS AIR PILOTS ON COCKPIT SAFETY

LEAD: Prices of Treasury bonds fell sharply yesterday, raising yields to their highest level of the year. The persistent selling pressure was caused by further weakening of the dollar against foreign currencies and signs that the Federal Reserve has tightened monetary policy slightly.

Bond Yields Rise To High for Year

LEAD: Hundreds of dissident soldiers attacked the presidential palace, took over portions of at least two military bases and knocked four of the capital's five television stations off the air today in what appeared to be an attempt to overthrow President Corazon C. Aquino.

DISSIDENT SOLDIERS IN MANILA ATTACK PRESIDENTIAL PALACE IN APPARENT COUP ATTEMPT

LEAD: ONE night in a Greenwich Village restaurant several years ago, Maura Moynihan and Adam Green spontaneously transmogrified into matching alter-egos named Jackie and Jerry Diamond.

ONE DUO'S COMIC ARSENAL FOR 'DOUBLES'

LEAD: ART people tend to look down on design. Not much, but a little bit. Stylish and provocative as a spoon, a fork or a flashlight may be, or even an automobile or a helicopter, one and all of them are thought to rank lower in the scale of human achievement than a great painting or an unforgettable sculpture.

SENSUOUS DESIGNS BY MARIO BELLINI IN MUSEUM SHOW

LEAD: Three Brooklyn teen-agers who had never been in trouble with the law were arrested yesterday on an informer's tip and accused of pouring gasoline on and setting fire to a young couple they found asleep under a blanket in Prospect Park in the predawn darkness Wednesday.

3 YOUTHS HELD IN SETTING FIRE TO 2 IN PARK

Caleb Moore was an American professional snowmobile racer, a quad freestyle motocross rider, and the only person to date to die as a result of injuries sustained during the X Games. During his X Games career, Moore claimed four medals.

Caleb Moore, American snowmobile racer (died 2013)

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John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics. He received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. He also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 and the BAFTA Fellowship in 1980.

August 28, 1987

Headlines from August 28, 1987

Nicaraguan Contras Ask Reagan For Escrow Fund Linked to Talks

TURTLES AID FIGHT AGAINST L.I. DEVELOPMENT

THE ENIGMATIC LIFE AND VIOLENT DEATH OF IRWIN SCHIFF

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HINTS PACT IS NEAR

Billboard 200

Whitney

Whitesnake

Bigger And Deffer

La Bamba

Bad Animals

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

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