LEAD: After four days of futile talks, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries failed today to reach an agreement to end the rampant discounts and runaway oil production that are undercutting the cartel.

OPEC Unable To Set Accord On Oil Output

LEAD: LOCAL governments and some school districts in the county, facing unexpected rises of as much as 70 percent in the health-insurance premiums they pay on behalf of their employees, are exploring the feasibility of withdrawing from the state health plan and becoming self-insured.

COMMUNITIES SEEK OPTIONS TO STATE HEALTH PLAN

LEAD: MAYOR Keith L. Gillins wants to know if there is an investment banker in the house. Fillmore, Utah, the city he runs, needs a new pool where children can learn to swim; the old one, he said, is ''pretty dilapidated.''

Cold Winter on Wall Street

LEAD: Secretary of State George P. Shultz issued a plea to NATO nations today to increase spending for conventional weapons.

SHULTZ ASKS NATO TO RAISE SPENDING ON NON-ATOM ARMS

LEAD:  Troubles in Cambodia  In a country short of food, money and expertise, a longer than usual dry season may seriously cut back crops when the chief aid donor, the Soviet Union, is complaining that its assistance is being wasted. Page 26.  Surrogate Mothers at Issue  State legislatures are preparing to consider a variety of bills to regulate surrogate motherhood.

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LEAD: The three major television networks have drastically altered their approach to covering Presidential politics for 1988, no longer assigning correspondents and crews to travel with every candidate, as in past campaigns.

Networks' Approach To the '88 Campaign Takes On Lean Look

LEAD: JUST last spring, New York City was, as its political leaders were delighted to report, wealthy. It was rolling in money that was going to buy all sorts of things that politicians like to give to the people who elect them: More police officers, more teachers, better schools, cleaner streets.

City's Mood Dips From the Celebratory to the Cautionary

LEAD: IF a recession develops in the wake of the stock market's collapse in mid-October, business leaders and economists say that Westchester would once again fare better than many other parts of the state or the nation. But they add that structural changes in the county's economy have stripped away some of its traditional insulation against an economic downturn, so that the effects of a decline would be more pronounced and widespread than before.

HOW VULNERABLE TO A RECESSION IS THE COUNTY?

LEAD: As offices encroach upon bedrooms throughout the suburbs, Stamford, Conn., which is dominated by office buildings, is enjoying a spurt of residential construction. First was The Classic, 17 floors and 144 condominiums at the intersection of Forest Avenue and Greyrock Place just north of downtown. Construction began in the summer and is scheduled for completion at the end of next year.

POSTINGS: In-Town Developments; Against the Tide

LEAD: The developers of Park Place, an office building now under construction in Peekskill, N.Y., at the northern tip of Westchester County, are hoping to lure tenants from the higher rent districts to the south: not Madison and Park, but White Plains and Yonkers. The building being constructed by the partnership of Donald Moore, Thomas Kennedy and W.

POSTINGS: Park Place in Peekskill; 200,000 Square Feet, With Atriums

LEAD: OUTSIDE there is the chill of a damp fog rising from the snow. Inside the hotel lobby, where solemn Soviet Olympic hockey hopefuls in lush fur caps brush wordlessly past their chattering counterparts from the United States, there are strings of colored lights and poinsettias as red as the shiny jackets worn by the fresh-faced, bare-headed members of the United

Bringing Up a 'Family' With Eyes on Olympics

LEAD: A NEIGHBORHOOD here that has not seen a new single-family house in nearly 40 years is getting 40 houses that will be rented to low-income working families.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: KANSAS CITY, MO.;
New Houses For the Poor

LEAD: HIS instant success as a professional football player, Bo Jackson says, has heightened his determination to excel at baseball. Motivated by a challenge that he says he doesn't feel so intensely in football, he prefers to make baseball his long-term career.

Bo Jackson: Baseball in the Long Run

LEAD: The Islanders, who had just lost two consecutive games for the first time this season, had added incentive to snap out of their losing ways: They wanted to keep the Devils out of first place in the Patrick Division.

Islanders Regroup And Win

LEAD: When the closing bell rang on Oct. 19, at the end of the worst day in the history of the New York Stock Exchange, a characteristically American era came to an end.

THE PLUNGE: A STUNNING BLOW TO A GILDED, IMPUDENT AGE

LEAD: By the many hundreds of thousands, South Koreans poured into the streets and broad plazas of their major cities today to protest past repression and affirm their hope for a more democratic future.

Korean Throngs Bring Campaign To Home Stretch

PROSPECTS

LEAD: A weekly column on health and behavior. This week: The urgent need to monitor medication as the body ages.

New in the Magazine: Body and Mind

LEAD: BECAUSE of its complexities and frequent twists and turns, understanding the status of the Long Island Lighting Company application to operate the Shoreham nuclear power plant in the face of broad local opposition has never been easy.

SHOREHAM'S FUTURE: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

LEAD: Michael Porter's act may be news to many college basketball fans, but for Jerome (Pooh) Richardson, U.C.L.A.'s backcourt flash, Porter's high-flying acrobatics are old hat.

St. John's Defeats U.C.L.A.

LEAD: CONDOMINIUM developers are turning to clearance sales, low down payments and other marketing techniques to help sell an overload of new condominium apartments in Manhattan. But sales activity has grown sluggish as the financial trauma on Wall Street intensifies a traditional winter downturn.

Battling the Doldrums in Condo Sales

LEAD: First, vaudeville stopped being funny. Then a fire burned off the top floor. Finally, Jersey City, itself, began to slip. All in all, Florida Flats had hit hard times.

POSTINGS: In Jersey City; Seriously, Folks

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LEAD: ONE morning in New Orleans I went to a jazz funeral. The deceased was Thomas Jefferson, a trumpet player, gone now at 65. His own band was going to play. It was cool and cloudy when my wife and I, with the baby in his stroller, joined a crowd gathered on the sidewalk and street outside the funeral home.

In and Out of Storyville: Jazz and Fiction

LEAD: LAST August, after Olga Racz retired from her job as a secretary in Los Angeles, she moved here to live in a condominium near her daughter's home.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: MONTPELIER, VT.;
Condo Option Gaining Favor

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December 13, 1987

Headlines from December 13, 1987

OPEC Unable To Set Accord On Oil Output

COMMUNITIES SEEK OPTIONS TO STATE HEALTH PLAN

Cold Winter on Wall Street

SHULTZ ASKS NATO TO RAISE SPENDING ON NON-ATOM ARMS

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Billboard 200

Dirty Dancing

Bad

Whitesnake

A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

Faith

Notable Births

Historical Context for December 13, 1987