BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: Vietnamese refugees sailing for Malaysia say they are being brutalized and robbed by Thai fishermen roaming the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea.

Thai Fishermen Again Brutalizing Vietnam Refugees, Survivors Say

LEAD: Reports to the Federal Election Commission tell how much money each candidate has raised. Chart showing 33 contests, page B8.

WHO RAISED WHAT

LEAD: Eight months before a general election that will probably include some of the most costly Senate contests ever waged, the 27 incumbents facing re-election had amassed $63 million to finance their campaigns.

SENATE CAMPAIGNS RAISING HUGE SUMS FOR RACES IN FALL

LEAD: In the end, after all the increased security and worry about another outbreak of rowdyism in the stands, the Mets provided the most effective form of crowd control today. It took them barely five innings to quiet Riverfront Stadium and just one more to begin emptying it.

Gooden Silences Reds, 11-0

LEAD: THE ultimate for the Devils this season was to make the playoffs. Then the ultimate became being the Patrick Division champions. Now, the ultimate goal is to have their names engraved on hockey's most coveted prize.

Devils Reaching Farther

LEAD: In the face of rising hospital and nursing home costs, more Americans are receiving sophisticated medical care at home, from cancer chemotherapy drugs to kidney dialysis.

The Boom in Home Health Care

LEAD: Almost 800 homeless families in New Jersey are facing eviction from the motels where they have been living as the state moves to enforce a limit on emergency housing.

Housing Jersey's Homeless: Counties Pushed to Bear Load

LEAD: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ended four days of meetings early today without an agreement on a production cut. OPEC officials said the cartel would meet again next month.  The failure here is bound to depress oil prices by at least $1 a barrel, an analyst said, because the oil markets had been anticipating some kind of decision to reduce output, which would have propped up oil prices.

No Accord By OPEC On Oil Cuts

LEAD: The Reagan Administration has told Congress that it wants to increase arms sales abroad substantially this year to more than $15 billion worth of weapons. This is $3.3 billion more than the United States sold to other countries last year.

WHITE HOUSE SEEKS INCREASE IN SALES OF ARMS OVERSEAS

LEAD: Professors from America's leading business schools may soon be teaching Western business practices to top civil servants and managers in the Soviet Union.

Now Russia Wants to Learn The Way U.S. Managers Do

LEAD: In the latest round in its battle to gain control of the USG Corporation, Desert Partners L.P. said yesterday that it would pay $45 a share in cash for 39 million outstanding shares if a friendly deal could be worked out.

USG Suitor Alters Terms Of Its Bid

LEAD:  House Aide Falls to Death  The chief aide to a Maryland Congressman plunged from the 24th-floor of a hotel in Manhattan the day an article on his activities was published in Washington. Page B1.  26 Slain on Sri Lanka Bus  At least 26 passengers were killed on a Sri Lankan bus when Tamil rebels set off buried explosives beneath it, military officials said.

INSIDE

LEAD: Growing numbers of poor, young teen-agers are abusing crack in New York City, but there is practically no place for parents or social-service agencies to send them for drug treatment, according to experts in drug abuse and youth issues.

Young Crack Addicts Find There's No Help for Them

LEAD: Rick Pitino threw the coaching book at the Boston Celtics today. The Knicks trapped and they pressed. They tried a small lineup and a big lineup. They played Patrick Ewing and Bill Cartwright, their 7-foot centers, with three guards.

Celtics Waste No Time

LEAD: The chief of staff to a Maryland Congressman died yesterday when he plunged from a 24th-floor window of the Helmsley Palace hotel in Manhattan, the police said. They said it was apparently a suicide.

House Aide Dies in Plunge From a Hotel

LEAD: Spurred by the declining value of the dollar, a resulting pickup in exports and a rapid upgrading of its factories, the industrial establishment of the Midwest has begun almost overnight to catch up with the the rest of the country's economic recovery.

Rise in Exports Spurs Job Boom in Midwest

LEAD: TERRY O'REILLY, the Bruins' bully-turned-coach, actually cringed his way through the series with Montreal that earned Boston the privilege of facing the Devils in the Prince of Wales Conference championship series, which begins tonight.

Bruins' Tenacity Returns

LEAD: A man with a history of mental illness, who apparently went berserk and clubbed a woman to death with a two-by-four in Harlem Saturday, collapsed in a crowded cell at Police Headquarters yesterday and died soon afterward.

Suspect Held in Fatal Clubbing Dies in Custody

LEAD: Three British servicemen were killed and three wounded in a bombing and a shooting in the Netherlands today, and the Irish Republican Army said it had carried out the two attacks.

3 British Servicemen Are Killed In I.R.A. Attacks in Netherlands

LEAD: Samuel M. Ehrenhalt has an odd passion for statistics. Nothing sets him to dancing like a good strong quarterly report in employment. A steep trend line in new-business formations makes him break into song.

New Yorkers & Co.; Keeper of That Statistical Song and Dance

LEAD: For the last 15 years, Representative William D. Ford, whose constituents are blue-collar and white-collar auto and steel workers in the western suburbs of Detroit, has been trying to legislate prior notice of factory shutdowns or layoffs.

Trade Bill Options: Pass, Fail or Punt

LEAD: Herb Schmertz voted to move the Mobil Corporation's headquarters from Manhattan to suburban Washington. Now he'd like to shift the nation's capital away from Washington.

Metro Matters; Parting Shots By a Molder Of Public Images

LEAD: Most mornings, Zhame Daragma, a Palestinian from the West Bank town of Tubas, climbs into his car and drives north into Israel where he shows up on time for work in this quiet Jewish village.

Many Arabs Working in Israel Voice Mixed Views on Unrest

LEAD: About 500 people clashed with the police in the northern city of Gdansk today, and official May Day parades in several other Polish cities were countered by demonstrators bearing banners of the banned Solidarity trade union.

500 Clash With Police in Gdansk Amid May Day Protests in Poland

Neftalí Feliz Antonio is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Detroit Tigers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Milwaukee Brewers, Kansas City Royals, Philadelphia Phillies, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Feliz won the American League Rookie of the Year Award in 2010.

May 2, 1988

Headlines from May 2, 1988

BUSINESS DIGEST

Thai Fishermen Again Brutalizing Vietnam Refugees, Survivors Say

WHO RAISED WHAT

SENATE CAMPAIGNS RAISING HUGE SUMS FOR RACES IN FALL

Gooden Silences Reds, 11-0

Billboard 200

Dirty Dancing

Faith

More Dirty Dancing

Bad

Kick

Notable Births

Historical Context for May 2, 1988