LEAD: Buyers of New Jersey cooperative apartments created on or after May 9 must be given a deed along with the bill of sale. The new requirement, the first of its kind in the nation, is contained in the Cooperative Recording Act signed in January and it has both positive and negative implications for buyers.

POSTINGS: New Jersey Law; Now Co-ops Need a Deed

LEAD: FOR the last year, the only construction in this city's business district has been a 600,000-square-foot shopping mall being developed by the Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation of Youngstown, Ohio.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: New Orleans;
Tower Rising Above a Mall

LEAD: IN AN ACT OF HOMAGE TO HIS THEATRICAL past and the little-known cultural history of his race, Lonne Elder 3d, best known for his play ''Ceremonies in Dark Old Men'' (1969), has resurrected the life of a renowned 19th-century black actor, Ira Frederick Aldridge, and brought him home at last to America.

A Playwright Honors His Past and His People

LEAD: WITH demand for affordable housing remaining strong in the San Francisco region, some builders are taking on complicated projects in an effort to develop the remaining land.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Vallejo, Calif.;
2,900 Houses For 900 Acres

LEAD: Beginning next Sunday, rent-stabilized tenants whose leases are expiring will receive new state-mandated lease-renewal forms. Because landlords must offer a lease renewal between 120 and 150 days before its termination, the first tenants to find the form in the mail will be those whose leases end in September and October.

POSTINGS: New State Forms; Renewing A Lease

LEAD: WHEN the 64-store Columbia Mall opens two miles north of here next fall, its developer hopes to draw shoppers from a population of about 120,000 in rural northeastern Pennsylvania that does not have easy access to a large shopping center.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Bloomsburg, Pa.;
Anticipating The Competition

LEAD: EDITH WHARTON was 38 years old before anyone other than her editors at Charles Scribner's Sons thought her letters worth preserving. By 1900 she had been publishing fiction for nine years, and was the author of a book on house decoration and a well-received volume of short stories. She had been married for 15 uneasy years to Edward Wharton of Boston, and was now living in Newport, R.I., and New York City with annual trips to Europe.

'We Can Still Save Fiction in America'

LEAD: A five-year, $100 million project being built in Fishkill, N.Y., is grounded in microprocessors and home furnishings. The first of six office buildings, a four-story, 120,000-square-foot structure, will be ready for occupancy in June. Its first tenant, with 6,200 square feet, will be the Intel Corporation, the world's largest maker of microprocessors.

POSTINGS: Fishkill Project; The Rush To Dutchess

LEAD: IT was just more than a month ago that Peter W. Delaney talked to one of Liza Minnelli's representatives and described the quarters the superstar will use Satur-day night, when she officially opens the newly renovated County Center here with a gala concert to benefit a performing-arts trust.

A Frenetic Pace Prevails as the Big Night Nears

LEAD: MARK JOHNSON did not mind being overshadowed by Patrik Sundstrom in the Devils' 10-4 victory over the Washington Capitals Friday night.

Sports of The Times; Hockey Wins but Loses

LEAD: The Pentagon is considering adding Coast Guard vessels to the Navy fleet in the Persian Gulf, Defense Department officials said today.

U.S. IS CONSIDERING COAST GUARD ROLE IN GULF DEFENSES

LEAD:  INTIMATE MATTERS  A History of Sexuality in America.  By John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman. Illustrated. 428 pp. New York: Harper & Row. $24.95.

WORK AND LOVE: REVOLUTION AND AFTER

LEAD: A strange calm descended on the campaign trail last week. Not only the Republicans but now also the Democrats seem very close to having their nominee, months before the national conventions. Suddenly, the talk among politicians about endorsements, momentum and delegate counts gave way to some hard thinking about how Michael S.

DUKAKIS STRATEGY: GRAB FROM BUSH, BORROW FROM JACKSON

LEAD: VICTOR CROMWELL, 68 years old, became a television cameraman when the networks were still in their infancy. Now, with early films of rare and one-of-a-kind shows, he is making sure remnants of those years are not thrown away.

Ex-Cameraman Donates One-of-a-Kind Films to Yale

LEAD: GOVERNOR KEAN added luster to the state's dance community on April 14 when he proclaimed, a bit belatedly, ''New Jersey Dance Month.'' The designation formalizes what has been evident this spring: that dance flourishes in New Jersey's fertile artistic landscape.

With Too Much Festivity for a Week, State Celebrates Dance Month

LEAD: The World of New York/Magazine, Part 2

Special Today

LEAD: France goes to the polls Sunday for the elimination round of a two-stage presidential election in which President Francois Mitterrand, a Socialist, and Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, the neo-Gaullist leader, are expected to emerge victorious.

French Election Tests Mitterrand And 3 Rightists

LEAD: AS good as he may be -and he will probably be very good - the first player the Jets draft today is unlikely to turn the club into a winner in 1988. But it's a start. Again. The likely starting point, if the clubs ahead of the Jets draft to form, will be the offensive line. The Jets pick eighth. They would probably like to take Paul Gruber of Wisconsin.

N.F.L. Draft '88; ... BUT SO DO THE JETS

LEAD: LONG ISLAND MACARTHUR AIRPORT, which had its busiest year in 1987 and expects to break that record for passengers this year, is at the center of a controversy in which business leaders want to expand the airport's capacity and residents of the area want just as fervently to prevent any further disruption of their lives.

Airport Growth: Problems Amid Promise

INSIDE

LEAD: In an atmosphere of hope, confusion and fear, tens of thousands of aliens are scrambling to apply for legal status before the nation's landmark amnesty program is to end in less than two weeks.

THRONGS OF ALIENS SEEKING AMNESTY AS DEADLINE NEARS

LEAD:             Voters who went for       ...Reagan in '84 but expect to vote Democratic   10%        ...Reagan in '84 but are unsure about this year   20       ...Reagan in '84 and expect to vote Republican   36       ...Mondale in '84 and expect to vote Democratic   27       ...Mondale in '84 and are unsure about this year   6     

How 1984 voters feel now

LEAD: Private Terms ran his record to 7 for 7 by scoring a 1 1/2-length victory over Seeking the Gold and Cherokee Colony in the $599,000 Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct yesterday. The race considerably brightened the outlook for the Kentucky Derby May 7, because the first five Wood finishers finished just four lengths apart in a very quick race, and all ran well enough to earn a trip to Churchill

PRIVATE TERMS WINS

LEAD: WITH Congress still debating a trade bill and New Jersey businesses eager to keep their new momentum, the Kean administration is moving ahead with plans to expand the role of its Division of International Trade. The proposals, if approved by the Legislature, would double the division's budget and include a major higher-education center.

Kean Presses Plans to Promote Foreign Trade

LEAD: Before the era of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, readers' letters were regarded as fit to print in the Soviet press only if they made a point that the authorities wanted to make, and they were severely edited for that purpose.

April 24, 1988

Headlines from April 24, 1988

POSTINGS: New Jersey Law; Now Co-ops Need a Deed

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: New Orleans; Tower Rising Above a Mall

A Playwright Honors His Past and His People

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Vallejo, Calif.; 2,900 Houses For 900 Acres

POSTINGS: New State Forms; Renewing A Lease

Billboard 200

Dirty Dancing

Bad

More Dirty Dancing

Faith

Kick

Historical Context for April 24, 1988