LEAD: David N. Dinkins is waiting, taking a measure of his city, his prospects and his own heart.

To Run or Not to Run: Dinkins's Struggle

LEAD: Continuing a decline that began in September, orders for American-made machine tools dropped 19.5 percent in October, according to a report scheduled to be released today by the industry's trade association.

Machine Tool Orders Drop For 2d Month

LEAD: The man picked by President-elect Bush to serve as national security adviser has proposed consideration of a number of far-reaching measures to curtail military spending, including transferring military units from active to reserve status and cutting back on aircraft carrier operations far from United States territory.

MILITARY SAVINGS SUGGESTED TO BUSH

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: Phil Simms and Carl Banks could not play because of bruised right shoulders. The Giants' running game gained only 14 yards on 17 carries. The Giants' quarterbacks were harassed all night by a strong, aggressive defense.

Giants Defeat Saints at Wire

LEAD: Continuing disagreement among OPEC oil ministers, uneasiness about the dollar and a slew of economic reports are all likely to keep credit market participants in a defensive, uncertain frame of mind this week.

Credit Markets; Defensive Mood Seen On Bonds

LEAD: This year four pharmaceutical companies are expected to have drugs that each generate annual sales of a billion dollars or more. Such sales were unheard of just a few years ago, and the companies have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to use their windfall profits to develop major new drugs.

Companies Search for Next $1 Billion Drug

LEAD: THE recruitment of first-rank high school athletes is at best a peculiar process, governed by a byzantine array of National Collegiate Athletic Association rules and by the desires of teen-aged heroes accustomed to commanding adult attention.

The Recruiting of Kenny Anderson;
Coaches Take Turn Wooing, Waiting

LEAD: President Mengistu Haile Mariam of Ethiopia, the leader of one of the world's most rigid Marxist-Leninst states, says that the election of George Bush presents ''a new opportunity'' for improved relations with the United States.

Ethiopia's President Looks Toward Better U.S. Relations ETHIOPIA: AT A GLANCE

LEAD: The United States, which set out three years ago to restore American competitiveness by championing a strong yen, has ended up speeding Japan's emergence as a financial superpower and challenger to American economic leadership.

U.S. Currency Policy Speeds Japan in Vast Economic Role

LEAD: The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, known in municipal finance circles as a cash machine because of its easy ability to generate money, is facing a cash shortfall and trying to slash next year's spending by $150 million.

Port Authority Faces Shortfall And Cutbacks

LEAD: Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, warned that ethnic agitation in the Transcaucasus and the Baltic republics could be ''disastrous'' to his efforts to introduce greater openness to the country's economy and society.

Gorbachev Sees Peril in Unrest

LEAD: Arab diplomats said today that they had the votes in the United Nations General Assembly to move part of this year's session to Geneva so that Yasir Arafat can address the Assembly on Palestinian independence.

ARAB OFFICIALS SAY VOTES ARE IN HAND TO MOVE U.N. TALKS

LEAD: The Jets and the Dolphins traveled 3,111 feet today, more than 10 football fields, to produce another of those zany, emotional shootouts that have marked their intense rivalry.

Jets Outshoot Dolphins

LEAD: In denying a visa to Yasir Arafat, Secretary of State George P. Shultz has made a strong personal statement expressing visceral contempt for terrorism and left an imprint on Middle East policy that could last well into the Bush Administration.

Shultz's 'No' to Arafat; Personal Disgust for Terrorism Is at Root Of Secretary's Decision to Rebuff the P.L.O.

LEAD: A Texan for Commerce  A Houston financier, Robert A. Mosbacher Sr., is to be chosen as Commerce Secretary. Page A20.  Secrecy for a Shuttle Flight  The space shuttle flight this week, the second mission since the Challenger disaster, is a strictly military operation cloaked in secrecy.

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LEAD: Mention tipping to most people and they will matter-of-factly suggest a gratuity of 15 percent. But in the argot of racial integration, the figure cited more frequently is closer to 50 percent. When members of minority groups collectively constitute half the population of a given school or neighborhood, many experts agree, the balance tips and white flight begins.

Metro Matters; Racial Tipping Is a Pivotal Issue In Fighting Bias

LEAD: When the Reagan Administration reports that manufacturing is thriving in the United States, it bases its optimistic assessment on a Government statistic that is probably exaggerated, the Commerce Department now admits.

Strength in Manufacturing Overstated by Faulty Data

LEAD: The Congressional committees charged with supervising the nation's nuclear weapon industry largely overlooked evidence of the severe safety and management problems that have become public knowledge in recent months, legislators, environmentalists, nuclear scientists and other specialists say.

Trouble at Atomic Bomb Plants: How Lawmakers Missed the Signs

LEAD: Community School Board District 9 in the Bronx, the center of scandal in the last several weeks, has been the target of allegations of mismanagement, patronage and misuse of money since the New York City school system was decentralized 18 years ago.

School Board 9 in Bronx Has a History of Accusations

LEAD: In an unexpected move that could send oil prices plummeting again, Saudi Arabia demanded today that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries adopt a floor price of $15 a barrel for the oil it sells.

New Demand by Saudis Endangers OPEC Accord

Assignment From Moscow: Get U.S. Crime War Secrets

LEAD: In Bangkok, in Singapore and in Jakarta, the word reached Bob Dole.

Will Bush and Dole End Their Grand Old Rivalry?

LEAD: AROUND 2 P.M. on Nov. 9, Kenny Anderson ended one of the most rigorous recruiting processes in recent New York City basketball history. The 6-foot-2-inch guard from Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens announced that he would accept a basketball scholarship to Georgia Tech next fall.

The Recruiting Of Kenny Anderson; Star Stands Firm With His Decision

LEAD: Along Dock Street, at the main gate of the big Lenin shipyard, candles flicker amid flowers at the foot of towering steel crosses, recalling workers slain by the police during food riots in 1970. A decade later, on a legendary day in August 1980, accords were signed here between workers and Government representatives, giving birth and recognition to Solidarity, the

Unmaking of Solidarity's Birthplace

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Joe Cole, English actor

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November 28, 1988

Headlines from November 28, 1988

To Run or Not to Run: Dinkins's Struggle

Machine Tool Orders Drop For 2d Month

MILITARY SAVINGS SUGGESTED TO BUSH

BUSINESS DIGEST

Giants Defeat Saints at Wire

Billboard 200

Rattle And Hum (Soundtrack)

Giving You The Best That I Got

Appetite For Destruction

New Jersey

Cocktail

Notable Births

Historical Context for November 28, 1988