LEAD: Peace talks among warring Cambodian factions unraveled today, delegates to the negotiations said.

Talks Among Cambodia Factions Seem to Unravel Over Basic Issues

LEAD: Michael D. Dingman, chairman of the Henley Group, yesterday gave up his two-and-a-half-year battle for control of the Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corporation.

Santa Fe Stake Sold By Henley

LEAD: THE American lawn has a rich esthetic tradition. From the garage-door basketball hoop to the barbecue grill, it is a splendiferous outdoor sanctuary, a haven for pink flamingos, twirling plastic daisies, metal butterflies perched on windowsills and other ersatz flora and fauna.

Seeking a Satellite Dish Esthetic

LEAD: Economic growth slowed during the spring while inflation heated up, the Government reported today.

ECONOMY SLOWED AS INFLATION ROSE IN SECOND QUARTER

LEAD: In the most comprehensive report on nutrition and health ever prepared by the Government, the Surgeon General today cited fat as a leading cause of disease that should be reduced in most people's diets and said overconsumption of fats and some other foods was a major national health problem.

Major U.S. Report on the Diet Urges Reduction in Fat Intake

LEAD: Nearly 90 percent of the nation's publicly owned sewer systems met a July 1 deadline on pollution requirements set by the Clean Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency reported today.

Most Sewage Plants Meeting Latest Goal Of Clean Water Act

LEAD: Less than 24 hours after he stepped off an airplane from Ireland and into a crisis in New York City's ambulance service, Mayor Koch announced yesterday a series of steps he said should return the troubled service to its ''full operational strength.''

Koch Moves To Overhaul Ambulances

LEAD: Time has not mellowed William M. Kunstler, the 69-year-old lawyer who has spent much of this year in a Bronx courtroom defending Larry Davis, first against charges that the 22-year-old Bronx man murdered four drug dealers and now that he tried to kill nine police officers in a shootout 20 months ago.

At 69, Kunstler Is Still Moved by Fervor

Business Digest: Thursday July 28, 1988

INSIDE

LEAD: Vice President Bush has begun calling at least a dozen possible running mates, including several unexpected candidates, to ask if they would be interested in joining him on the Republican ticket, aides and advisers to Mr. Bush said today.

Bush Is Lining Up Prospects For No. 2 Spot on the Ticket

LEAD: Bolstered by record overseas earnings that more than offset a slight decline at home, the Ford Motor Company reported today that it earned a record $1.66 billion, or $3.43 a share, in the second quarter.

Ford Reports Record Net For Quarter

LEAD: It was only 6 o'clock on a recent Saturday night when the busiest emergency room in downtown Los Angeles, at the California Medical Center, ordered all ambulances diverted to other hospitals. The 13 beds were already filled: a woman delivering a baby, a boy with an asthmatic attack, a 6-year-old girl bleeding from apparent sexual abuse, a young man hurt in a car accident and, the last straw, a 48-year-old man in full cardiac arrest.

Crisis in Emergency Rooms: More Symptoms Than Cures

LEAD: CEILING fans turn slowly in the heat above a table set for lunch. Soft green plants and dozens of empty, moss-covered pots fill sand-bottomed potting shelves. Farther along in the 60-foot-long greenhouse, comfortable rattan furniture is arranged as a whimsical sitting room. Fanciful metal topiary frames stand empty.

Gomez: Putting Soul Into Interiors

LEAD: The Nomura Securities Company, the world's largest securities concern, said today that it would pay $100 million for a 20 percent stake in one of Wall Street's hottest mergers-and-acquisitions firms, a sure sign that a Japanese spree of buying American companies is just beginning.

Japan's Appetite for U.S. Mergers

LEAD: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is considering steps to take control of several of the First Republicbank Corporation's largest banks, a person close to the situation said today.

F.D.I.C. Said to Consider Seizing Republicbank Units

LEAD: The director of the New-York Historical Society, James B. Bell, resigned yesterday, saying in a letter to the society's trustees that turmoil at the institution had led him to leave the post, which he has held since 1982.

Historical Society Director Quits And Trustees Dismiss His Deputy

LEAD: rrMayor Koch and Comptroller Harrison J. Goldin have added another dimension to the historic antagonism that goes with their jobs. It's called character. Neither thinks the other has much.

Metro Matters; Koch and Goldin: The Feud Gets Down to Basics

LEAD: The nation's semiconductor industry today turned to a reluctant Robert N. Noyce, one of its founding fathers and most eminent scientists, to head Sematech, a research consortium aimed at helping American computer chip producers catch up with the Japanese in manufacturing technology.

Chip Pioneer to Head Consortium

LEAD: ALMOST every weekend, the message on Bryn Freedman's answering machine is the same:

She Works East, He Works West, But the Twain Meet

LEAD: In a summation laced with indignation and vitriol, the lawyer for Representative Mario Biaggi charged that Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d orchestrated corruption at the Wedtech Corporation and asserted that prosecutors had allowed Government witnesses to conceal millions of dollars in their haste to convict his client.

Jury Is Told Meese Planned Wedtech Graft

LEAD: The Rev. Jesse Jackson said today that he was trying to arrange a meeting with the Foreign Minister of Iran to open discussions on the release of American hostages in Lebanon.

JACKSON IS SEEKING TALK WITH IRANIAN TO FREE HOSTAGES

LEAD: The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new artificial sweetener for use by consumers or in prepared dry foods. It will compete with two others in the billion-dollar American market. Page B5.

New Sweetener Approved

LEAD: One man was killed and an off-duty correction officer was wounded outside St. Patrick's Cathedral during the afternoon rushhour yesterday, bringing a violent end to what had begun as a theft along the crowded Fifth Avenue sidewalk.

Officer Kills Theft Suspect In Midtown

LEAD: Yesterday's announcement of an alliance between Wasserstein, Perella & Company and the Nomura Securities Company is just the latest of several developments showing Japan's appetite for the American mergers-and-acquisitions business.

Yamaichi-Lodestar Deal Another Sign of the Trend

Gunnar Lúðvík Nelson is an Icelandic professional mixed martial artist, currently competing in the Welterweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, which was awarded by Renzo Gracie after impressive results at the 2009 IBJJF Pan-Ams and the 2009 ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship. Nelson is a member of Mjölnir MMA in Iceland, and SBG Ireland.

July 28, 1988

Headlines from July 28, 1988

Talks Among Cambodia Factions Seem to Unravel Over Basic Issues

Santa Fe Stake Sold By Henley

Seeking a Satellite Dish Esthetic

ECONOMY SLOWED AS INFLATION ROSE IN SECOND QUARTER

Major U.S. Report on the Diet Urges Reduction in Fat Intake

Billboard 200

Hysteria

Appetite For Destruction

OU812

Dirty Dancing

Roll With It

Notable Births

Historical Context for July 28, 1988