LEAD:  Feminists and the Law  Scholars are redefining legal theory to reflect women's real-life perspectives. The Law, page B9.  Drugs Among the Police  New York City has established a squad to look for drug-related crime at the precinct level. Page B1.

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LEAD: The New York City Police Department, trying to keep narcotics corruption from increasing among officers, has established a special undercover squad to look for drug-related crime at the precinct level.

New Drug Unit Checks Police On Corruption

LEAD: The space shuttle Discovery, picking up the baton from the fallen Challenger, raced into orbit Thursday carrying five experienced astronauts and the nation's hopes for revival of its civilian space program.

Long Hiatus Ends

LEAD: Salomon Inc. said yesterday that the Department of Energy was seeking $311 million in payments for suspected oil pricing violations by its Phibro Energy subsidiary from 1978 to 1980.

Salomon Says U.S. Seeks $311 Million in Oil Penalties

LEAD: Grand Metropolitan P.L.C., the owner of the Inter-Continental Hotels Corporation, may be close to a deal to sell the luxury chain to the Seibu Saison Group of Japan for substantially more than $2 billion in cash, Japanese and American investment bankers said yesterday.

Grand Met Hotel Sale Indicated

LEAD:  TRACK AND FIELD: Two sisters-in-law, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Florence Griffith Joyner, each won a second gold medal. Kersee became the first American woman to win the Olympic long jump. Joyner set a world record in the 200-meter sprint.  BASKETBALL: The Soviet Union captured the gold medal with a 76-63 victory over Yugoslavia.

OLYMPIC HIGHLIGHTS

WEEKENDER GUIDE

LEAD: The United Nations peacekeeping forces, which for 40 years have been deployed to reduce tensions in the world's trouble spots, were named here today as the 1988 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

U.N. Peacekeeping Forces Named Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

LEAD: Gathered anxiously in front of their television screens, millions of Americans watched the space shuttle Discovery thunder spectacularly into orbit yesterday morning amid applause and cheers but, most of all, amid an overwhelming sense of relief.

Shouts, Tears and Applause Amid a Vast Wave of Relief

LEAD: In the belief that the biotechnology industry is about to become a major source of important new drugs, the big pharmaceutical companies are racing to strengthen their ties to the industry's most promising members.

Drug Makers Try Biotech Partners

LEAD: A Federal district judge today blocked completion of the $2.6 billion merger of Lucky Stores Inc. and the American Stores Company, saying the deal violated antitrust laws because the deal would ''substantially lessen competition.''

Food Store Tie Blocked In California

LEAD: MORE than any other season in recent memory, this fall has begun with a rich and varied spectrum of photography shows. Those that can be seen this weekend run from surveys of individual artists' careers to a group exhibition of work reclaimed from obscurity - with a number of high-quality shows of new images added for good measure.

The Fall Photography Season: Sly Portraits and Radical Still Lifes

LEAD: Vice President Bush takes glee in terming ''the Massachusetts miracle,'' a slogan adopted by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis for the state's economic upturn, ''the Massachusetts mirage.'' He calls his Democratic opponent the nation's leading taxer, spender and borrower, saying that Mr. Dukakis is presiding over the erosion of his state's manufacturing base.

Fiscal Experts Give Dukakis More Credit Than Bush Does

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: An international arbitration panel ruled in Egypt's favor today in a dispute with Israel over a border enclave, but left it to the two sides to work out a final section of the boundary.

ARBITRATORS RULE IN FAVOR OF EGYPT ON SINAI ENCLAVE

LEAD: Acupuncture appears to be a surprisingly effective way to treat crack addicts and help them stay away from crime and out of jail, the New York City Probation Commissioner and drug-treatment experts said yesterday.

Acupuncture Seems to Ease Crack Addiction, Study Says

LEAD: Stocks snapped out of their lethargy yesterday, propelling the Dow Jones industrial average to a hefty 33.78-point gain, the biggest since a jump of 52.28 points on Sept. 2.

Market Out of Doldrums As Dow Surges 33.78

LEAD: A Federal appeals court ruled yesterday that the Board of Contract Appeals of the General Services Administration did not have the authority to void a contract that the United States Postal Service awarded without bidding to the Perot Systems Corporation.

Court Rejects Bar by G.S.A. To Perot Pact

LEAD: Alla Rakha, the tabla drummer who has helped carry Indian music around the world since his duets with Ravi Shankar in the 1960's, said he is ''very happy'' that Indian music has reached the Western audience during this century. ''But I have one gripe,'' he said. ''Everybody seems to think that Indian music is ethnic music, and it is not.

Pop/Jazz; The Rhythms And Ragas Of Ancient India

LEAD: An Olympic official said Thursday that he would recommend that weight lifting be dropped from future Olympic Games because of drug use by some athletes.

Citing Drug Use, Olympic Official Proposes a Ban on Weight Lifting

LEAD: Whites on Yonkers's East Side say their opposition to low-income housing is not black or white, it's green. (They're not racist; they're protecting property values.) A bit farther north, whites in the Mayfair section of Greenburgh aren't being racist either. But when the Town Council approved a homeless facility in their area, they filed petitions to secede and form their own village.

Our Towns; How Mt. Vernon Avoided Racism: It Voted Yes

LEAD: At a Free South Africa conference here last weekend, a crowd of liberals applauded the arrival of the senior Senator from Connecticut, Lowell P. Weicker Jr. They nodded when the rambunctious Republican from Greenwich reminded them that he was the first, and so far the only, Senator to be arrested at an anti-apartheid demonstration.

Foe Slowed by Weicker's 2-Party Appeal

LEAD: Because of the Jewish holidays of Shemini Atzereth and Simhath Torah, which conclude the harvest festival of Succoth, alternate-side parking will be suspended in New York City on Monday and Tuesday. Other regulations remain in effect.

Parking Rules

LEAD: Waking from her afternoon nap, the toddler pulled on her shoes before calling out to be lifted from her crib.

At Group Foster Home, The Hunger Is for Love

LEAD: Charles Addams, the cartoonist whose macabre humor brought a touch of ghoulishness to The New Yorker's glossy pages for five decades, died yesterday at St. Clare's Hospital and Health Center, 415 West 51st Street. Virginia Stuart, director of community relations at the hospital, said Mr. Addams died in the emergency room after being brought to the hospital by ambulance.

Charles Addams Dead at 76; Found Humor in the Macabre

Natalie Eggermont is a Belgian physician, politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of the Workers' Party of Belgium, she has represented West Flanders since June 2024.

Natalie Eggermont, Belgian politician

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Eglė Staišiūnaitė is a Lithuanian athlete who specialises in the 400 m hurdles.

Eglė Staišiūnaitė, Lithuanian hurdler

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Alvah Robert Holbert was an American automobile racing driver who was a five-time champion of the IMSA Camel GT series and the fifth driver to complete the informal triple Crown of endurance racing. He once held the record with the most IMSA race wins at 50.

September 30, 1988

Headlines from September 30, 1988

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New Drug Unit Checks Police On Corruption

Long Hiatus Ends

Salomon Says U.S. Seeks $311 Million in Oil Penalties

Grand Met Hotel Sale Indicated

Billboard 200

Appetite For Destruction

Hysteria

Tracy Chapman

Cocktail

Roll With It

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for September 30, 1988