LEAD: The Iraqi Government announced tonight that it would withdraw from the Iranian city of Dehloran as part of a plan to refrain from holding any Iranian territory.

Iraqis Say They Plan To Give Up All Land Captured Inside Iran

LEAD: Tiffany's is ready. All its salespeople have been instructed in basic Japanese, including counting. The Fifth Avenue jeweler has laid in a trove of medium-sized, 18-karat-gold Elsa Peretti heart necklaces, which, at $350 apiece, are the single most popular item among Japanese customers.

New York Visitors: Japanese Take Over

LEAD: The kind of ''partnership and shared responsibility'' that the Rev. Jesse Jackson is seeking for himself and his followers in the fall campaign exceeds what any loser in a Presidential nominating race has ever sought or been granted.

Jackson Seeks Unusual Role In Campaign

LEAD: Florence Griffith Joyner is for real.

Griffith Joyner Keeps Going

LEAD: With Governor Cuomo unable to win support in the State Legislature for his plan to close the Shoreham nuclear power plant, the battle now moves onto the plain of public relations as the Governor and his opponents take their cases to the people of Long Island.

Rebuffed, Governor to Take His Shoreham Plan to L.I.

LEAD: The continuing rally in the dollar has had short-term benefits, including making imports cheaper and reducing the prospect of higher inflation. But it also hides real long-term dangers, including a slowdown in economic growth and a widening, rather than narrowing, United States trade deficit, according to three new economic studies.

Long-Term Dangers in Dollar Rise

LEAD: After more than two days of toil, engineers at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida yesterday pinpointed the source of a leak in a small, hard-to-reach space shuttle fuel tank and struggled to find a way to fix it.

SHUTTLE ENGINEERS LOCATE FUEL LEAK

LEAD: The other day, prior to the opening of training camp, the Jets ran their 1987 highlight film for some guests at their Hofstra training camp. The closest this Walt Disney version of ''Towering Inferno'' came to reality was to describe last season as ''a roller coaster ride.''

Youth Will Be Served In Jets' Plans for 1988

LEAD: The A. H. Robins Company's bankruptcy reorganization plan appears to have been approved by all the groups asked to vote on it, lawyers involved in the case say. The plan would create a trust fund valued at $2.47 billion to compensate women injured by Robins's Dalkon Shield birth control device, pay off all other creditors in full and allow Robins to merge with the American Home Products

Lawyers Say Robins Plan Has Approval of Creditors

LEAD: Governor Cuomo said yesterday that several factors - the public safety, the independence of the police and Constitutional protections such as the First Amendment -had outweighed the state's desire to arrest Tawana Brawley's mother, Glenda, for contempt of court when she left a Brooklyn church Saturday.

Cuomo Sees Risk in Arrest Of Brawley

LEAD:  Shultz Criticizes Seoul  The Secretary of State assailed South Korea's tendency to close its markets while expecting open markets in the United States. Page A3.  Mandela Turns 70  Nelson Mandela, turning 70 today after more than 25 years in prison, is sometimes portrayed as holding South Africa itself prisoner.

INSIDE

LEAD: More than 600,000 Mozambicans, fleeing the cruelty of war, have crowded into this tiny country over the last 20 months. Hundreds more come across the border each day, with no end in sight.

600,000 Mozambique Refugees Tax an Already Desperate Malawi

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LEAD: For those eager to witness a real floor fight, they will have to wait until later this week and move a mile or so downtown. The Mets and the Braves emptied their benches in the seventh inning this afternoon, but once they converged near the mound, they milled more than they mauled and exchanged more yawns than they did hostilities.

Long Balls, Bit of Anger Spur Mets

LEAD: Fears of a resurgence of inflation cast a pall over the credit market last week, and investor confidence in fixed-income securities is expected to be further undermined in the foreseeable future.

Inflation Fear Casts Pall on Bond Market

LEAD: Since 1948, only two New York-bred candidates have been nominated for the national ticket by either major party.

Metro Matters; A History Maker Recalls the Door That She Opened

LEAD: After the scandal that forced him to resign as Chancellor of New York City's public schools, many of Anthony Alvarado's friends and colleagues advised him to find another line of work or even leave town.

On the Road Back: Alvarado Vitalizing a School District

LEAD: Canada, with the world's second-largest area, and the United States, with the world's largest free-market economy, are fast forging a colossal continental economy of nearly 260 million consumers. And they are doing this quietly, almost without noticing it themselves.

U.S.-Canadian Trade Outpacing the Treaty

LEAD: Michael S. Dukakis arrived here today for the Democratic National Convention that is to nominate him for President on Wednesday, pledging to seek unity but insisting that he, not the Rev. Jesse Jackson, must be in charge.

DUKAKIS ASSERTS CONTROL AND ASKS DEMOCRATIC UNITY

LEAD: The May Department Stores Company said yesterday that it was holding discussions with several parties to sell 50 percent of its interest in 28 shopping centers across the country.

May Stores Talks of Sale Of Mall Stake

LEAD: Sigmund Freud, long scorned by Soviet doctors as a quack and by Communist ideologists as a heretic, is now being hailed as a visionary as a small band of psychiatrists here tries to give a society in turmoil new ways to understand itself.

In the New Soviet Psyche, A Place Is Made for Freud

LEAD: ''We don't like to cause pain,'' Jay Goldsmith insisted. It's just that in the game he plays of trying to turn bankrupt companies into money, pain comes with the territory.

New Yorkers & Co.; The None-Too-Gentle Art Of the 'Bankruptcy Boys'

LEAD: The rusting rides and peeling concession stands have been spruced up. Once again crowds march along the ancient boardwalk to the thumping cadences of rap music and stroll in the amusement park to the strained voices of carnival barkers. It's summertime. Coney Island is vibrant again. Attendance is strong.

Faded Funland: Fears and Hopes

LEAD: As of a week ago, the contra guerrilla movement appeared to be in disarray. Congress was not disposed to provide it with new aid, and the Administration was reduced to seeking diplomatic backing from Guatemala, Costa Rica and other Latin American countries that have made clear they will not provide it.

Sandinistas' Rationale; They Say Crackdown Against Opposition Was Necessary to Derail Lethal Campaign

LEAD:  INTERNATIONAL A2-9  Refugees have flooded into Malawi from Mozambique. In the last 20 months, more than 600,000 Mozambicans fleeing civil war have crowded into Malawi, a poor nation that cannot feed its own people. Page A1

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July 18, 1988

Headlines from July 18, 1988

Iraqis Say They Plan To Give Up All Land Captured Inside Iran

New York Visitors: Japanese Take Over

Jackson Seeks Unusual Role In Campaign

Griffith Joyner Keeps Going

Rebuffed, Governor to Take His Shoreham Plan to L.I.

Billboard 200

OU812

Hysteria

Faith

Dirty Dancing

Appetite For Destruction

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for July 18, 1988