LEAD: YOUNG people are increasingly confronted by such grim issues as AIDS, drug and alcohol abuse and suicides by youths, and the schools are finding it necessary to be the ones to tell about them.

Schools Are Called On To Teach Harsh Truths

LEAD: Israeli Air Force planes attacked Palestinian areas near the southern Lebanese port of Sidon today, and as many as 41 people were reported killed and 40 wounded.

ISRAELI WARPLANES ATTACK IN LEBANON

LEAD: FOR decades, the bluebloods of Fifth Avenue and the bourgeoisie of Central Park West - ever mindful of each other, but glad to be a half-mile apart - have treated Central Park between them like a demilitarized zone.

Central Park West Gains on Fifth Ave.

LEAD: In its next incarnation, Gimbels East, on Lexington Avenue between 86th and 87th Streets, might be gone in spirit but not in body.

POSTINGS: Gimbels East Conversion; Contextual Plan

LEAD: Ron Guidry and someone disguised as Ron Guidry pitched for the Yankees yesterday as they edged the California Angels, 7-6. The question is: Which was the real Guidry?

Guidry Proves Baffling

LEAD: WHAT is loose in the woods in Connecticut? Nearly everything from bears, coyotes and bobcats to squirrels, mice and shrews.

NATURALISTS LIST THE BEASTS AMONG US

LEAD: WHEN thousands of South Koreans defied thousands of riot police in June during protests calling for democracy, Kim Jung Ryu was there. The 30-year-old banker said that while he feared he would suffer reprisals, he was tired of waiting for his country's political system to catch up with its rapid economic development.

South Korea's Politics of Prosperity

LEAD: If its owners can win a zoning change from industrial to mixed-use, a 28-acre waterfront site in St. George, on the north shore of Staten Island, could become a development combining elements of Battery Park City and South Street Seaport.

POSTINGS: City-Within-a-City; St. George Seaport

LEAD: HENRY KRAVIS was in the middle of a safari in the Kenyan bush two years ago when he decided to call his office in New York. Once he got through, he received news of a far more interesting hunt: His partner, George Roberts, told him that the board of the Beatrice Companies had just forced out the chairman, James L.

Shaking Billions From Beatrice

LEAD: ''I'VE been around horses all my life,''

AS TAX RELIEF ENDS, YONKERS RACEWAY PONDERS THE ODDS

LEAD: The leader of the failed military rebellion, in his first public statement since the Aug. 28 uprising, called on Filipinos today to support him in his struggle against the Government of President Corazon C. Aquino.

Rebel Officer Urges Struggle Against Aquino

LEAD: THE search for a language transcending all languages is one way of resolving the opposition between unity and multiplicity that has tion between unity and multiplicity that has never ceased to intrigue the human spirit. never ceased to intrigue the human spirit. Another way of resolving the conflict is translation.

EDITH PIAF AMONG THE PYGMIES

LEAD: A SHARP drop-off in the numbers of students enrolled in occupational education courses and how best to include AIDS education in the classroom curriculum will be among the top concerns facing Long Island educators as 404,000 students return to Nassau and Suffolk schools this week.

IN SCHOOLS, INCREASE IN PUPILS FORSEEN AFTER DECLINE

LEAD:  MAN OF THE HOUSE  The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O'Neill. With William Novak. Illustrated. 387 pp. New York: Random House. $19.95.

AN OLD FOX KNOWS MANY THINGS

LEAD: NEVER have the two countries had more in common than today, when Chris Evert from the United States meets Natasha Zvereva of the Soviet Union in a matchup of underdeveloped tennis nations.

Sports of The Times; Third World Tennis

LEAD: Administration officials say the United States will officially encourage charitable assistance for Vietnam in exchange for increased cooperation from Hanoi in resolving cases of Americans missing in action during the Vietnam War.

U.S. TO ALLOW AID TO HANOI IN RETURN FOR DATA ON G.I.'S

LEAD: MIKE PORT, the California Angels' general manager, looked ahead to the remainder of the season and said: ''There will be a lot of good baseball over the next 30 days. I hope we play some of it.''

Baseball S O S: Stretch Pitching

LEAD: WHEN the 1984 World's Fair opened on the downtown riverfront there was great hope that the area, filled with dilapidated 19th-century warehouses, would emerge after the fair as this city's newest residential neighborhood.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: New Orleans; Revival Stirs Along the River

LEAD: DEVELOPERS and speculators may find it more costly and cumbersome to do business in Vermont as a result of legislation that went into effect this summer.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Montpelier, Vt.;
Taxes Raised On Land 'Flips'

LEAD: THE 600-room Vista International Hotel, which opened with fanfare two years ago, has been rescued from foreclosure by a sale to a local financier, Frank Morgan, with the help of one of the city's old-line development firms, the J. C. Nichols Company.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Kansas City, Mo.;
Partners Revive Troubled Hotel

LEAD: The Soviet space program, once wrapped in secrecy, has begun to offer a diverse line of goods and services to all who have the money.

SOVIET BEGINS SALE OF SPACE SERVICES

LEAD: IT has long been considered the bedrock of Westchester Republicanism, but Democrats are chipping away at the county's northern tier, determined to break off a seat on the Board of Legislators in at least one of the four districts.

DEMOCRATS PRESS FOR A NORTHERN BOARD SEAT

PROSPECTS

LEAD: Sometimes, watching John McEnroe at his best means suffering McEnroe at his worst, a combination of tennis and tantrums that has made him not only arguably the best player of his generation, but also the most controversial. In a performance that was vintage McEnroe in all respects yesterday, he brought the crowd at the Stadium Court to an emotional boil and tottered on the edge of disqualification from the United States

McEnroe Wins Noisily

LEAD: On a tranquil, tree-enveloped block in Harlem's historic Mount Morris section, a turn-of-the-century apartment building that had fallen to the city for failure to pay back taxes is now on the road to becoming a condominium.

POSTINGS: Harlem Conversion; The Palm Trees

Emir Preldžić is a Bosnian-Turkish professional basketball player for KK Orlovik Žepče of the Basketball Championship of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He also represented the Turkish national basketball team. He is 6 ft 9 in tall and he mainly plays the small forward position, but he also has the ability to play as a power forward, shooting guard and point guard.

September 6, 1987

Headlines from September 6, 1987

Schools Are Called On To Teach Harsh Truths

ISRAELI WARPLANES ATTACK IN LEBANON

Central Park West Gains on Fifth Ave.

POSTINGS: Gimbels East Conversion; Contextual Plan

Guidry Proves Baffling

Billboard 200

Whitney

Whitesnake

La Bamba

Hysteria

Bad Animals

Notable Births

Historical Context for September 6, 1987