LEAD: A VOTING deadlock in the Suffolk County Legislature last week portended difficulties for County Executive Patrick G. Halpin in dealing with the 18 legislators.

IMPASSE PORTENDS TROUBLE FOR HALPIN

LEAD: THINGS CHANGE ALL THE time in Hollywood. Stars come and stars go. Raunchy teen-age comedies clogged the theaters like cholesterol in aging arteries for six years, then disappeared overnight, to be replaced in the fall of 1987 by courtroom melodramas and steamy love stories. Three months ago, the stock market crash put upstart companies at risk, those fragile new movie makers dependent on stock sales and one hit movie.

NOW PLAYING: THE NEW HOLLYWOOD

LEAD: Though Waterfront Invest once won an award for historic preservation, the group's current Jersey City project certainly does not fit that category. ''We have taken an extremely ugly, black-looking building and turned it into something quite nice,'' said Robert Fioretti, Waterfront's managing partner for Riverview Terrace.

POSTINGS: Warehouses to Condos; Ugly Duckling

LEAD: NEW JERSEY has taken the national lead in attempting to provide qualified interpreters for non-English-speaking people in court, a response to a 1985 State Supreme Court task force that found that language services in state and municipal courts did not meet minimum levels of competence.

STATE TAKING LEAD IN COURT TRANSLATION

LEAD: On their painted, icy field, the Cleveland Browns disposed of one bad memory and one real obstacle today by beating the Indianapolis Colts in their American Conference semifinal playoff game.

BROWNS STOP COLTS: Kosar's Passing Leads 38-21 Triumph

LEAD: The key recommendations for reordering the regulation of the nation's financial markets included in the report of a Presidential commission are likely to be tied up in Congressional debate and may never be acted on, lawmakers and regulatory experts said today.

Steps Urged in Report on Market Are Likely Never to Be Acted On

LEAD: Initiative 300 critics is that by strict enforcement of the tough constitutional language, the electorate's support of the constitutional amendment will weaken.

Restricting Farming to Farmers

LEAD: HE used to joke when he talked about the difficulty of getting into professional golf events without a tour card.

WORLDWIDE ODYSSEY LEADS TO PGA TOUR

LEAD: AS sharp and as cold as a knife blade that had been left overnight on the ice along the Lake Erie shore, the wind sliced through the 78,586 customers pounding their mittens together on the slopes of Cleveland Stadium's tundra. This was pro football the way it always is here during the Super Bowl playoffs.

Bernie Kosar's Climate

LEAD: THEY were taking turns at the microphone a few weeks ago in the auditorium of Shearson Lehman Brothers' data-processing center in downtown Manhattan. About 225 managers entrusted with carrying out the firm's merger with E. F. Hutton & Company lined up to give their weekly progress reports to Leonard V.

Swallowing Hutton in 1,200 Bites

LEAD: BUILDERS are transforming 11,000 acres of farm and timberland here into a huge development with an 18-hole golf course as its centerpiece.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: SPARTANBURG, S.C.;
Golf and Lakes Spur Project

LEAD: Howard Goldberg remembers the first tour he led of Roosevelt Island in 1963. Student firemen leaped from buildings set ablaze as part of their graduation ceremony. The training center is no longer on the East River island; neither are the almshouse, the prison and the New York City Lunatic Asylum.

POSTINGS: Roosevelt Island Tour; 25th Anniversary

LEAD: The Air Force is secretly developing a long-range reconnaissance aircraft that will incorporate technology designed to permit the plane to evade detection by radar, Defense Department officials say.

U.S. IS DEVELOPING SURVEILLANCE JET THAT ELUDES RADAR

LEAD: Christopher James's garden photographs are part of a curious collection of sculptures, paintings, drawings, old engravings, modern installations and photographs both old and new that goes under the title ''Classical Concerns'' at the Twining Gallery (586 Broadway, through Jan. 20). With ghostly statues from Muriel Castanis's ''Toga Series'' and enigmatic monuments like Christopher Hewat's ''Musee Ruse N314,'' the concerns are classical more in the post-modern way of Charles Jencks than in the traditional way of Henry Hope Reed.

CRITIC'S CHOICES;
Art

LEAD: The front-runners for the Republican Presidential nomination, Vice President Bush and Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, attacked each other sharply today, each accusing the other of having something to hide.

Bush and Dole Attack Each Other As Iowa Race Takes Negative Turn

LEAD: REAL ESTATE brokers are warning that this city, the financial center of the Pacific Northwest, is about to experience a jump in office vacancy rates because the pace of downtown construction shows no signs of slowing.

A Worrisome Glut in Offices

LEAD: The prospects for peace in Central America appear bleak as the region's leaders prepare to meet next week to judge the results of the peace plan they signed five months ago.

LATIN PEACE HOPES SEEM TO BE BLEAK BEFORE KEY TALKS

LEAD: Most builders in New York City's northern suburbs are making two mistakes, according to Anthony J. Amicucci. Either they overestimate how many people can afford high-priced, Westchester County houses, or they underestimate what customers will pay for homes farther north.

POSTINGS: Putnam Project; Northward Ho!

LEAD: TRAIN passengers to Wilmington used to arrive at a rundown railroad station in an equally shabby neighborhood.

A Revival By the River

LEAD: In an experiment intended to cut through red tape and create a new management model for large urban school districts, the Dade County Public Schools have turned the running of 32 schools over to teams that include teachers and parents.

Miami Schools: Laboratory for Major Changes

LEAD: ON the surface, there was nothing new in last week's 55-minute reorganization meeting of the County Board of Legislators. Edward J. Brady, a Thornwood Republican, and Diane A. Keane, a Rye Republican, were re-elected as the respective chairman and vice chairwoman of the legislative body, 16 of whose 17 members were returned to office in last November's election.

LEGISLATORS PREDICT A SESSION OF POLITICAL DRAMA

LEAD: DAY CARE centers use space where they can find it, in buildings ranging from former funeral homes to old fire houses. Efforts are now being made to encourage the use of space in buildings that have traditionally been associated with children: public schools.

SCHOOL SPACE URGED FOR DAY CARE

LEAD:  Panama General on Visit  Manuel Antonio Noriega, the military strongman who has been criticized by Washington, is in the Dominican Republic on what he called a private visit. Page 12.  Vikings and Browns Win  In the N.F.L. playoffs, the Vikings stunned the 49ers, who had the season's best record, 36-24.

INSIDE

LEAD: JUST about the minute Bob Horton arrived in town two years ago as the new chairman of the Standard Oil Company, he slashed the budget for the big bash the company was planning to celebrate the opening of its new headquarters on Public Square here. They still had the party, but it was not nearly as much fun.

B.P. AMERICA'S 'HATCHET GENTLEMAN': Robert B. Horton; Cost-Cutter With a Soft Touch

PROSPECTS

Leonard Patrick Komon is a Kenyan professional long-distance runner and was the world record holder in the 10 kilometres.
His 10K world record in 2010 with a time of 26:44 is a 17 seconds improvement on the previous best. He won a half marathon with 59:14 in 2014 (Berlin), which was the fastest debut half marathon in history at the time.

January 10, 1988

Headlines from January 10, 1988

IMPASSE PORTENDS TROUBLE FOR HALPIN

NOW PLAYING: THE NEW HOLLYWOOD

POSTINGS: Warehouses to Condos; Ugly Duckling

STATE TAKING LEAD IN COURT TRANSLATION

BROWNS STOP COLTS: Kosar's Passing Leads 38-21 Triumph

Billboard 200

Dirty Dancing

Faith

Bad

Tiffany

Whitesnake

Notable Births

Historical Context for January 10, 1988