October 30, 1987

LEAD: The stock market collapse has reshuffled yet again the complicated politics of trade legislation, raising questions about what kind of bill will emerge from a Congressional conference committee or whether there will be a trade bill at all this year.

LEAD: Soviet analysts believe that deployment of President Reagan's anti-missile defense system, coupled with an agreement to cut long-range nuclear weapons in half, could give the United States a decisive military advantage, the chief of the Soviet General Staff has declared.

LEAD: It was a little more than three years ago that Richard K. Rein, a writer in Princeton who thought he knew a story when he saw one, proposed a story to a local publication about the way the big hotels out on Route 1, just east of town, were competing for the good opinion of corporate travel agents.

LEAD: For the last few years, the fast-growing Nasdaq over-the-counter market has been the darling of investors and corporate issuers.

LEAD: Mayor Koch announced yesterday that he had dismissed Dr. Elliot M. Gross, whose performance as Chief Medical Examiner of New York City has been under official scrutiny for almost three years.

LEAD: Federal officials began a major trial of a drug to treat Alzheimer's disease although they knew that the smaller study that prompted the trial was deeply flawed.

LEAD: Stock prices moved strongly and broadly higher yesterday, with the Dow Jones industrial average climbing more than 90 points as Wall Street appeared to accept a lower level for the dollar on foreign exchange markets.

LEAD: THE annual convention of departed New Yorkers will reune in New York tomorrow, as it does every Halloween, when the spirits of New Yorkers long gone are believed to return to the city that once knew them as flesh and blood. Now, one must regretfully concede that there are New Yorkers whose credence in such goings-on matches their belief that they will live to ride on a Second Avenue subway.

LEAD: The manager of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's re-election campaign is in her Washington headquarters, if you can call it a headquarters.

LEAD: Takeover stocks climbed sharply yesterday in a generally strong stock market, encouraged by comments from Representative Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who said he was willing to consider changes in proposed taxes on acquisitions.

LEAD: President Reagan today nominated Douglas H. Ginsburg, a conservative judge who has been on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since last November, to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court.

LEAD: A judge in Manhattan signed a court order yesterday forbidding New York City from transferring any city jail prisoners to a temporary jail barge docked on the Lower East Side.