LEAD: Here are some things that you might not know about Michael S. Dukakis:

In Arts, Dukakis Selects Realism, Not Escape

LEAD: Stanley M. Friedman, the former Bronx Democratic leader, was convicted yesterday for the second time on charges stemming from New York City's corruption scandals.

Friedman Guilty in a Second Bribery Case

LEAD: When NBC commissioned a prime-time program about Satan worship narrated by Geraldo Rivera, they had hopes for a sure-fire ratings winner. But the show, which was broadcast last night, stirred such stout advertiser resistance that the network had to sell some commercials at rates as low as half-price, advertisers and N

Program on Satan Worship Spurs Controversy at NBC

LEAD: The Department of Energy has routinely awarded millions of dollars in performance bonuses over the last decade to contractors that run nuclear weapon factories racked by safety, health and environmental deficiencies, Government documents show.

Operators Got Millions in Bonuses Despite Hazards at Atom Plants

LEAD: The proposal to turn RJR Nabisco into a privately owned company represents a milestone in the brief history of the financial tool known as the leveraged buyout.

A Corporate Milestone; RJR Nabisco Bid Gives New Respectablity To Giant Deals Financed With Huge Debt

LEAD:  COMPANIES  The British Government blocked a takeover bid for Consolidated Gold Fields by companies affiliated with two South African mining groups. The Monopolies and Mergers Commission was ordered to study the effect of such an acquisition. [ D1. ] Shearson Lehman Hutton met with its competitor, Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts, in a meeting that was said to include talks on a possible combined bid for RJR Nabisco.

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: President Reagan has resolved a longstanding dispute between the State and Defense Departments over how much on-site inspection would be needed in a strategic arms treaty under negotiation with the Soviet Union, Adminstration officials said today.

REAGAN APPROVES LIMITED INSPECTION OF WEAPONS SITES

LEAD: Upward pressure on wages has abated somewhat, a favorable sign for containing inflation, Government figures indicated today.

Rate of Gain In Wages Holds Steady

LEAD: OAT-BRAN-MUFFIN mania has reached a fever pitch. Last week Between the Bread, a takeout business in New York City, was unable to supply its eager customers with oat-bran muffins because it was unable to get any oat bran. Demand for oat bran is so great, the supplier told the shop, that he could charge anything he wanted for it.

Oat Bran: The Muffin And the Mania

LEAD: After months of character attacks, the rivals in the race for a Senate seat from New Jersey have become engaged in what both acknowledge is a grudge match.

For Senate Rivals in Jersey, It's Personal

LEAD: With 300,000 Hispanic immigrants a year pouring into the South and the West, Spanish has supplanted English in some areas, and many Americans who say they feel like aliens in their own country are stepping up a battle to reaffirm English as the language of public life.

Hispanic Influx Spurs 3 Ballots on Language

LEAD: AROUND 2600 B.C., the Egyptians figured out how to make leavened bread. Making a great leap forward, the Dutch in the 16th century developed the ''olykoek,'' or oily cake, a doughnut without a hole. Moving closer to home, a Maine sea captain named Hanson Gregory, in 1847, punched a hole in his mother's dough to create the modern doughnut.

Pumpkin Doughnut: An Autumn Glory

LEAD: Stanley M. Friedman, the former Bronx Democratic leader who was convicted of Federal racketeering charges in 1986, was found guilty yesterday of state charges that he bribed a former New York National Guard general in an effort to sell a hand-held computer to the state militia.

Friedman Again Guilty In Graft Case

LEAD: While many stockholders are rejoicing at the flurry of huge corporate takeover attempts, bondholders are wincing at the damage inflicted on their holdings.

Buyouts Devastating Bondholders

LEAD: Voters are giving Vice President Bush a widening lead over Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll, but they say they dislike the choice they have been offered and regard the Presidential campaign as negative, uninteresting and insubstantial.

NEW POLL SHOWS ATTACKS BY BUSH ARE BUILDING LEAD

LEAD: The British Government today blocked a $4.9 billion takeover bid by the overseas investment arm of South Africa's Anglo-American Corporation and DeBeers gold and diamond group for Consolidated Gold Fields P.L.C., the mining company based in London.

Gold Fields Takeover Is Blocked

LEAD: Although Congress failed to pass legislation giving banks new powers to underwrite securities, at least three New York City banks and a large West Coast bank have asked the Federal Reserve Board to grant them the authority.

Banks Ask Fed for Power To Underwrite Securities

LEAD: Shearson Lehman Hutton and Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Company, the two Wall Street titans competing over a record buyout of RJR Nabisco Inc., held talks yesterday morning to discuss the possibility of a combined bid, according to Wall Street professionals with knowledge of the discussions.

RJR Nabisco Bidders Said to Talk

LEAD:  Rush in Election Spending  Independent groups, barred by law from coordinating efforts with their preferred candidates, are spending millions as the vote nears. Page A23.  Steroid Tests for N.F.L.  Starting next season, the National Football League intends to impose stiff penalties on players testing positive for steroid use.

INSIDE

LEAD: BY focusing on month-to-month changes in consumer spending habits, it is easy to get a distorted view of how people are spending their money. While much attention has been paid to the sluggishness in apparel sales, for instance, Americans seem to be spending about the same percentage of their incomes on clothing.

As Values in U.S. Shift, So Does Spending

LEAD: The building collapse that killed a man in midtown Manhattan Monday highlighted the reality that New York City annually makes only scores of random inspections aimed at detecting construction work for which no permits had been issued.

Cave-In Shows Infrequency Of Inspection

LEAD: Nancy Reagan told the United Nations today that the United States must do more to solve its drug problem itself through stricter law enforcement and education. She said the United States should stop blaming developing countries that produce most of the illegal drugs consumed by Americans.

Nancy Reagan, at U.N., Says U.S. Must Do More to Combat Drugs

LEAD: HALLOWEEN is a busy time for the novelist Stephen King, what with all those vampires, witches, zombies, cuddly pets-turned-bloodthirsty killers, possessed teen-agers and other socially maladjusted types rattling around his house in Maine. Nonetheless, he managed to squeeze in a business trip to New York last week and took time out one evening to share a monstrous steak with me at the Peter Luger restaurant in the Williamsburg section of

EATING OUT With Stephen King; Writer Eats Steak Before It Eats Him

LEAD: The board of Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, New York State's largest health insurance company, has ordered an investigation into allegations by a former treasurer that senior officials of the company had spent lavishly on perquisites and pensions.

Blue Cross to Study Executives' Spending

LEAD: A word of warning. This column will end with an attractive blonde in a flaming red dress dining on the hero, Louie. Laughing, she will dip Louie in butter to enhance his flavor and wash him down with white wine.

About New York; Louie, Louie: So Succulent At $11.76 a Pound

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October 26, 1988

Headlines from October 26, 1988

In Arts, Dukakis Selects Realism, Not Escape

Friedman Guilty in a Second Bribery Case

Program on Satan Worship Spurs Controversy at NBC

Operators Got Millions in Bonuses Despite Hazards at Atom Plants

A Corporate Milestone; RJR Nabisco Bid Gives New Respectablity To Giant Deals Financed With Huge Debt

Billboard 200

New Jersey

Appetite For Destruction

Cocktail

Hysteria

Simple Pleasures

Notable Births

Historical Context for October 26, 1988