LEAD: As many military commanders have, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis this week found his counterattack on defense and foreign policy battling bad weather, in this case the powerful hurricane that was blowing political coverage off the top of the evening news.

Dukakis Faces Powerful Foe In Camera-Hogging Hurricane

LEAD: Nothing raises the ire of Vito Menza, a former school board member here, as much as talking about the whites who left Hillside after the state ordered the desegregation of the public schools in 1983.

Bias Order Is Again Splitting Town in Jersey

LEAD: When Michael Dukakis said he was proud to be a card-carrying member of the American Civil Liberties Union, George Bush shot back, ''I am not and never will be,'' and said that was typical of Mr. Dukakis's liberalism.

Our Towns; Hello? A.C.L.U.? I'm a Republican, But I Need Help!

LEAD: In a mild surprise, the International Olympic Committee voted to award the 1994 Winter Olympic Games to Lillehammer, Norway. Page D19.

'94 Winter Games Awarded

LEAD: Retail sales dropped two-tenths of 1 percent in August, the Commerce Department reported yesterday. Many economists said the small decline should not arouse any serious concerns about the economy's health.

Retail Sales Down, but Just a Bit

LEAD: After a decade of turbulent change, Detroit is returning to the tried and true. Rear-wheel drive is making a bit of a comeback.

A Revival for the Rear-Wheel-Drive Car

LEAD: A commission sponsored by 18 foundations yesterday appealed to local officials in New York City and New Jersey to resist neighborhood opposition and help encourage a major expansion of drug clinics to end the backlog of addicts seeking treatment.

Panel Asks for Major Expansion of Drug Clinics to Combat AIDS

LEAD: The outer edges of Hurricane Gilbert began licking the Gulf Coast today as Jamaica and the Yucatan Peninsula picked up the pieces left by one of the fiercest storms in history.

EVACUATIONS RISE

LEAD: Mitch Pow went bargain hunting in this ungainly prairie suburb last April and bagged a whopper: a $110,000 town house, slashed to $77,000 after the owner defaulted on his federally insured mortgage. The Department of Housing and Urban Development, which sold the home to recoup losses, even contributed $3,000 in closing costs.

Playing the Housing Slump: The Quick and the Indebted

LEAD: This nation, for centuries a victim of foreign invasions, is pouring all the fury at its past and pride in its present into an Olympics meant to prove Korea's worth to the world.

Among South Koreans, Olympics Foster True Believers and Infidels

LEAD: ''BOOKS are for traveling,'' proclaims this year's New York Is Book Country fair (to be held this Sunday on Fifth Avenue). Yes indeed. But it isn't necessarily travel books that we want to take on our travels.

A Book Fair That Transports Voyagers to Faraway Places

WEEKENDER GUIDE

LEAD:  Contras Agree to Talks  Nicaraguan rebel leaders said they had decided to resume negotiations with Managua in an effort to ''resuscitate the hope of peace.'' Page A3. indicted Ashland Oil over the collapse of a storage tank that spilled 500,000 gallons of oil into the Monongahela River on Jan.

INSIDE

LEAD: Senior executives of the Hospital Corporation of America, the nation's largest hospital operator, said yesterday that they might propose a leveraged buyout for $47 a share, or $3.3 billion.

At Hospital Giant, Hint Of a Buyout

LEAD: Even before the nation's commercial space-launching industry lofts its first payload into orbit, it faces severe problems from intense foreign competition and weakening demand for its services.

Shaky Start for Rocket Business

LEAD: The protest was planned with almost military precision. Just before 6 P.M., 13 experienced mountain climbers, spaced precisely 80 feet apart, vaulted over the side of the Triborough Bridge, plummeted exactly 70 feet to the end of tether lines, and hung above Hell Gate for nearly six hours, nibbling trail mix and waiting for New York

Dangling From Bridge For a Cause

LEAD: Mario Biaggi's long political success ended yesterday when he was defeated in a Democratic primary for the House of Representatives. The State Senate minority leader, Manfred Ohrenstein of Manhattan, handily won renomination and almost certain re-election for a 15th term, despite being under a state indictment.

BIAGGI IS DEFEATED IN CONGRESS RACE BY ASSEMBLYMAN

LEAD:  COMPANIES  Hospital Corporation of America may receive a buyout offer of $47 a share from its senior executives. The proposal is dependent on the executives' ability to secure financing and would be worth $3.3 billion. The deal, which would be subject to approval by the company's outside directors, reflects the impact of changes in Federal health-care policies on the hospital industry.

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: IT has been a long time since the Metropolitan Museum presented an exhibition of 20th-century art for which the public can be grateful. Two recent exhibitions are typical. The David Hockney retrospective was a crowd pleaser devoted to an artist whose fluid narratives have more to do with seduction than substance.

Review/Art; Met Retrospective Explores Boccioni And Futurism

LEAD: The Public Service Company of New Hampshire, which entered bankruptcy in January because of its inability to get an operating license for the Seabrook nuclear plant, said yesterday that its president had stepped down because of ill health.

Ill Health Forces President To Quit at Seabrook Utility

LEAD: The Zayre Corporation said yesterday that it would sell its Zayre discount department stores to its nearest competitor, Ames Department Stores Inc.

Ames to Buy Discount Unit From Zayre

LEAD: We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming for this special bulletin: Not since the Sunday night in 1938 when Orson Welles told millions of radio listeners that the Martians had landed at this pastoral crossroads has there been so much excitement here.

Celebrating the Day the Martians Landed

LEAD: Starting on Monday, the suggested newsstand price of The Times on weekdays within 75 miles of New York City, and on all of Long Island, will be increased to 35 cents. The change is prompted by rising production costs, including an increase in the price of paper. The newspaper's Sunday price will not change, nor will its weekday price outside the 75-mile area.

To Our Readers

LEAD:         *3*** COMPANY REPORTS **    *3* Cooper Companies Inc (NYSE)       Qtr to July 31   1988   1987                     Sales   215,700,000   171,100,000              Net loss   b61,000,000   d1,800,000              9mo sales   675,400,000   384,000,000              Net loss   b92,400,000   cd56,800,000              Share earns   -   2.50            

Cooper Companies Inc reports earnings for Qtr to July 31

LEAD:         *3*** COMPANY REPORTS **    *3* TCBY Enterprises Inc (OTC)       Qtr to Aug 31   1988   1987                     Revenue   32,703,061   24,453,807              Net inc   7,890,500   4,946,647              Share earns   .30   .19              9mo rev   72,788,543   51,011,450              Net inc   15,068,333   10,208,833              Share earns   .57   .38            

TCBY Enterprises Inc reports earnings for Qtr to Aug 31

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September 16, 1988

Headlines from September 16, 1988

Dukakis Faces Powerful Foe In Camera-Hogging Hurricane

Bias Order Is Again Splitting Town in Jersey

Our Towns; Hello? A.C.L.U.? I'm a Republican, But I Need Help!

'94 Winter Games Awarded

Retail Sales Down, but Just a Bit

Billboard 200

Hysteria

Appetite For Destruction

Tracy Chapman

Roll With It

He's The D.J.; I'm The Rapper

Notable Births

Historical Context for September 16, 1988