LEAD: President-elect Bush today announced his choice of Gov. John H. Sununu of New Hampshire as White House chief of staff, despite criticism from Jewish groups and opposition from some senior aides.

DESPITE CRITICISM, BUSH PICKS SUNUNU AS CHIEF OF STAFF

LEAD: Benazir Bhutto, whose party won the largest number of seats in National Assembly elections Wednesday, asked the Acting President of Pakistan today to give her the chance to form a government.

BHUTTO SAYS VOTE GAVE HER MANDATE

LEAD: RJR Nabisco's stock price gyrated yesterday as rumors filled a void of hard information on prospects for the auction of the huge food and tobacco company.

Nabisco's Stock Price Gyrates

LEAD: The search for four East Lyme, Conn., teen-agers who disappeared here on a night out last weekend ended today when a police diver found their car with four bodies in it in the muddy Mill River below the Chapel Street bridge.

4 Missing Teen-agers Found in Car on River Bottom

LEAD: The spoils of a little-publicized drug war lay on a table in the office of Phillip Halpern, a United States Attorney in San Diego. There were bottles, vials and a syringe, all filled with anabolic steroids, confiscated by Federal authorities during arrests in steroid-trafficking cases.

Drugs That May Build Bulk Pull Weight on Black Market

LEAD: Two Canadian psychologists have demonstrated for the first time that there is a relationship between monthly fluctuations in female sex hormones and a woman's ability to perform certain tasks.

Female Sex Hormone Is Tied To Ability to Perform Tasks

LEAD:  MARKETS  A forceful effort to support the dollar was made by the United States and 10 of its allies, but the move had mixed results. The coordinated intervention was the first such effort during the dollar's 11 percent decline in value since August. The intervention helped the dollar rise, after it reached a 40-year low against the yen in Asian trading.

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: In his first public rebuke of New York City's Schools Chancellor, Mayor Koch pointedly criticized him yesterday for his handling of the arrest of a Bronx elementary school principal on a drug charge.

Koch Rebukes Schools Chief Over Handling of Drug Case

LEAD: When Hamish Maxwell, the chairman of Philip Morris, was orchestrating his company's takeover of Kraft Inc., he said one of the rationales for the huge merger was to create a colossus that could sell Cheez Whiz and Jell-O around the globe.

Building a Global Supermarket

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LEAD: President Reagan, trying to give new momentum to negotiations to lower trade barriers, retreated today from a hotly contested proposal he made last year that all countries end agricultural subsidies by the year 2000.

Reagan Retreats on His Call For End of Global Farm Aid

LEAD: The United States and 10 of its allies stepped forcefully into the foreign-exchange markets yesterday to support the tumbling dollar. But their coordinated buying of dollars had mixed results.

U.S. and 10 Allies Support Dollar In Market, but Results Are Mixed

LEAD: Reaching a statistical milestone today that seems to symbolize Japan's growing influence over the world's finances, Tokyo's stock market and its currency both reached record highs for the era since Japan emerged from the ruins of World War II.

Yen and Tokyo Stocks at a Milestone

LEAD: The Holly Farms Corporation, the nation's fifth-largest processor of fresh chicken, has agreed to merge with Conagra Inc., the second largest, in a stock deal valued at about $55 a share, or $957 million.

Holly Farms And Conagra Set Merger

LEAD: Some ''greedy and corrupt'' New York City health inspectors simply ''put their fingers in the air'' when they walked into restaurants to show how large a payoff they wanted from the owners - two fingers for $200 and five fingers for $500 - a Federal prosecutor said yesterday.

Officials' Role In Bribe Case Is Outlined

LEAD: After a year of poking through musty warehouses, old file drawers and long-unopened closets, the New York City Transit Authority has assembled a prodigious pile of knickknacks and industrial-strength antiques from the subway's past.

Attention, Riders: Subway's Now on Sale

LEAD: QUIETLY and steadily, befitting his work, Richard Dieb enkorn has amassed the respect from peers and critics that few living artists attain. No one deserves it more or has sought it less aggressively than this painter. During a career spanning four decades, Mr. Diebenkorn has transformed himself from a West Coast apostle of the New York School into a maker of figurative pictures and then back into an abstractionist - this time one whose gridded images, awash in soft cool colors, evoke strongly the landscape of southern

Review/Art; The Elegant, Playful Images Of Diebenkorn

LEAD: In the last two years Attorney General W. Cary Edwards - a likely Republican candidate for governor - has made 300 speeches touting his Action Plan for drug enforcement. His 172-page book reads like a primer of modern police work. It has 13 chapters, 9 appendixes, many subheads. It talks of a new state task force, of everything the cities will have to do to crack down, of a new computer system called Nomad to coordinate it all.

Our Towns; Stop the Drugs! A Clamor Rises Across Jersey

LEAD: Lisa Steinberg appeared at school with a black eye, an extensively bruised forehead and many other bruises on her legs and back several weeks before she died, a student teacher said yesterday.

Teacher Testifies She Reported Seeing Bruises on Lisa Steinberg

LEAD: NO matter where humans have put their hands to the arts, the fingerprints eventually show up in New York. The city, particularly Manhattan, showcases the art of the world in galleries and museums that specialize in displaying the cultural esthetic of one part of the globe or another.

Ethnic Centers Beckon To Cultural Globe-Trotters

LEAD: Housing construction in October posted the biggest increase in eight months and the highest annual rate since April.

Housing Construction Soared 7.2% in October

LEAD: Three police officers have been indicted by a Brooklyn grand jury on assault charges in the case of a 40-year-old man who died in January after he was taken into police custody, law-enforcement officials and the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association said yesterday.

3 Officers Are Reportedly Indicted in Death of Man in Custody

LEAD: PRESIDENT-ELECT BUSH has tried this week to quell the anxieties in the stock, bond and foreign-exchange markets. But the markets have remained disconsolate and have refused to let him enjoy his Florida vacation.

Economic Scene; Bush's Efforts To Calm Markets

LEAD: A Westchester County grand jury today indicted the director of the Playland Amusement Park on charges of using park employees to assist in Republican Party mailings and to perform other tasks unrelated to their jobs.

Jury Accuses Playland Chief Of Misconduct

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November 18, 1988

Headlines from November 18, 1988

DESPITE CRITICISM, BUSH PICKS SUNUNU AS CHIEF OF STAFF

BHUTTO SAYS VOTE GAVE HER MANDATE

Nabisco's Stock Price Gyrates

4 Missing Teen-agers Found in Car on River Bottom

Drugs That May Build Bulk Pull Weight on Black Market

Billboard 200

Rattle And Hum (Soundtrack)

Appetite For Destruction

Cocktail

New Jersey

Giving You The Best That I Got

Notable Births

Historical Context for November 18, 1988