LEAD: THE weeks of debate over the Suffolk County Legislature's toxic-ash testing bill will culminate Oct. 13, when the Legislature is scheduled to put the measure to a vote.

SUFFOLK DEBATES TOXIC-ASH BILL

LEAD: LLOYD CLARKE, a developer based in West Des Moines, Iowa, is sinking $50 million into 100 acres next to the biggest shopping draw in South Dakota.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Sioux Falls, S.D.;
Mixed-Use Near a Mall

LEAD: A bipartisan group of 40 prominent Americans, including advisers to several presidential candidates, has expressed concern that the United States and other Western countries are failing ''to respond creatively to the opportunities offered by the new directions in Soviet policy.''

OPPORTUNITY SEEN IN SOVIET CHANGES

LEAD: EIGHTEEN elephants barreled down an outdoor runway from their tents, veered into the backstage of the St. Louis Arena last month and staggered to a halt. Kneeling so that sequined riders could clamber aboard, they rambled onto the circus floor and filled the three rings of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Big Business Under the Big Top

LEAD: New Brand of Football  Pro football, of a sort, starts up again today as the N.F.L. tries to do what it has never done: continue play despite a players' strike. Some non-striking regulars will join replacement players; striking players are expected to man picket lines at the stadiums. Section 5.

INSIDE

LEAD: Legendary cities, from Camelot to San Francisco, including:

Sophisticated Traveler/Magazine Part 2

LEAD: ROGER CRAIG emerged from the tunnel connecting the locker room and the dugout. He was wearing a heavy San Francisco Giants windbreaker that concealed his uniform shirt, a synthetic warm-up, a cotton sweatshirt and a T-shirt. As he watched batting practice under a gray, misty sky, his right hand gripped a paper cup filled with coffee, steam escaping as if from a smokestack.

BRIGHTER DAYS AT CANDLESTICK

LEAD: Developers are famous for pinning the names of fashionable communities on their condominiums or town houses to help them sell. But the Related Companies of Manhattan, in a joint venture with Helmer-Cronin Construction of Stony Point, N.Y., has taken the practice a step further, and in a more authentic direction.

POSTINGS: The Victorian Touch; Double Cachet in Tuxedo

LEAD: A SAVINGS-AND-LOAN association in Pine Bluff, Ark., fails and one of its investments, a vacant new condominium project on Park Avenue, remains empty for years while the Federal Government tries to untangle the bank's finances.

Why Some New Condos Founder

LEAD: ON the eve of Judge Robert H. Bork's confirmation hearings, the question was whether the liberal opposition had a realistic chance of defeating the distinguished Supreme Court nominee. Three weeks later, as the Senate Judiciary Committee finished its inquiry and prepared for a vote this Tuesday, the question became whether the Reagan

The Bork Battle: Visions of the Constitution

LEAD: China issued a harsh attack on the Dalai Lama today, two days after a crowd of Tibetans stoned and burned a police station in Lhasa and at least six people were reported killed.

China Denounces Tibetan Leader As Responsible for Violent Protest

LEAD: THE old metaphysical poet, John Donne (1573-1631), has achieved the ultimate sign of immortality. There he was, paraphrased on the blackboard in the Detroit Tiger locker room, usually reserved for more contemporary quotes and imprecations.

GATHERING THE BIG ROSEBUD

LEAD: IT is a common enough occurrence for news as it grows old to turn into history but in my experience it is rare for history as it grows old to turn into news. Rare or not, something of the kind appears to have happened with respect to ''Here at The New Yorker,'' which, having been published back in 1975, may be said to have passed into history, but which has lately become news on the strength of the many changes that have been taking place at the magazine over the last couple of years.

STILL HERE AT THE NEW YORKER

LEAD: AFTER 12 days of negotiations, demonstrations, accusations, union meetings, owner meetings, sponsor pullouts, picket lines, egg-throwing, name-calling, team-restocking and growing public dissatisfaction with the football industry in general, the National Football League returns to action today. Sort of.

N.F.L. STANDBYS TAKE OFF

LEAD: Federal and state officials report a dramatic increase in syphilis that is concentrated among minority heterosexual men and women in a few urban areas.

SHARP RISE FOUND IN SYPHILIS IN U.S.

LEAD: A SINGLE GESTURE. IN our memories of Martha Graham's dances, there often remains one stabbing, bright moment that reveals the secret heart of the dance.

Martha Graham's Gift to Drama

LEAD: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN doesn't trust myths. For a decade, his songs have been whittling away at the notion that the American birthright is unlimited opportunity and rising expectations. Now, with the new ''Tunnel of Love'' (Columbia 40999 LP, cassette and CD, scheduled for release tomorrow), he's confronting another illusion: the myth of love as perfect bliss and panacea.

Springsteen Looks at Love

LEAD:  THE CHINESE EMPEROR  By Jean Levi. Translated by Barbara Bray. 341 pp. San Diego: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book/ Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. $18.95.

FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY

LEAD: The Mets ended months of wrangling and one week of speculation today when Frank Cashen announced that Dave Johnson would return as manager next year but not in 1989.

JOHNSON TO STEP DOWN AFTER '88

LEAD: IT has been four years since a Democrat has been elected to the Westchester Board of Legislators in one of the three Sound Shore districts, but the party is optimistic that a Mamaroneck Town Councilwoman and two political unknowns will have better luck this year.

DEMOCRATS SEEKGAINS IN 3 SHORE DISTRICTS

LEAD: When the history of suburban real estate development is written, Springhurst Park in Dobb's Ferry, N.Y., could be footnoted as having risen from one of the longest-running approvals struggles ever. It began in 1960, when the late Edward C. Iannace, a Westchester County developer, started seeking cluster zoning for his own eight-acre lot, which supported the family mansion - a nine-bedroom, 7,000-square-foot colonial.

POSTINGS: Dobbs Ferry Mansion; Lot Divided For Clusters

LEAD: If the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission grants a development team approval, a three-building complex in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn will become a retail ''mews,'' with about 20 shops on the first two levels and office space above. Situated in a historic district, the buildings, at 126-132 Greenpoint Avenue off Manhattan

POSTINGS: 20 Shops With Offices Above; A Retail 'Mews' for Greenpoint

LEAD: THE Soviet Union is moving to repair its troubled relations with Iran and at the same time expand Soviet influence among the Arab countries. After the 1979 revolution, Iran cut its economic ties to its superpower neighbor, shutting down a gas pipeline to the southern Soviet Union, and closing Soviet consulates.

Overtures to Both Sides

LEAD: ''EVERYTHING,'' AN operagoer who had just made first contact with Wagner's Wotan was overheard saying, ''is in there.'' The spontaneous exclamation resonates well with both the generalities and the particulars of the role, one of opera's richest and most difficult. Wotan - the Norse god Odin, All-father, War-father - wants to shape the world and everything in it as Wagner wanted to remake not just music but all of art.

THE GOD WHO HAS EVERYTHING

LEAD: THE serene beauty of the nine-hole golf course in a northern section of this university town belies the storm that has risen since its owner, David E. Maxson Sr., decided to sell the 99-acre parcel almost two years ago.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Amherst, Mass.;
Storm Over A Golf Course

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October 4, 1987

Headlines from October 4, 1987

SUFFOLK DEBATES TOXIC-ASH BILL

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Sioux Falls, S.D.; Mixed-Use Near a Mall

OPPORTUNITY SEEN IN SOVIET CHANGES

Big Business Under the Big Top

INSIDE

Billboard 200

Bad

Whitesnake

Whitney

La Bamba

Hysteria

Notable Births

Historical Context for October 4, 1987