LEAD: Wanted: a new public enemy. Height, weight, sex, age and racial origins immaterial as long as the public enemy is sadistic, effete and strictly dishonorable.

Villains of the World! Hollywood Beckons

LEAD: OPEC's lean years are over. After nearly a decade of steep falls in revenues, wild price fluctuations, shrinking demand for oil worldwide and confrontation with the West, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries seems to be coming into its own once more.

OPEC Is Back and Feeling Flush

LEAD: WITH birch trees and rhododendrons spread across their lush lawns, seven new town houses at the Racquet Club on Long Island Sound look like the pride of loving homeowners. But a wasteland of mud ponds and hardpan that surrounds this manicured oasis in Centerville, L.I., offers evidence of big plans gone awry.

Doldrums Troubling Housing Developers

LEAD: FEWER than 300 votes in each of two primary elections this month have changed the political map in Suffolk County while suggesting the strength of the Long Island property-tax revolt.

Tax Revolt an Open Question

LEAD: On a muggy September night with the moon over Miami, the Philadelphia Eagles finished their preseason schedule by edging the Miami Dolphins. The Eagles were dressing in their locker room, scurrying to return to Philadelphia to continue earnest work on a season full of promise.

Cunningham Draws All Eyes to Him

LEAD: AT his inauguration as President of South Africa last week, F. W. de Klerk assured his country and the world that an era of change lay ahead after four decades of apartheid. President de Klerk cast his inaugural address as a ''message of hope'' to a multiracial constituency whom he defined as ''all sensible South Africans'' and ''all reasonable people'' prepared to join his

Plumbing the Unknown in South Africa

LEAD: Last week the Ford Motor Company announced plans to acquire up to 15 percent of Jaguar P.L.C., the British maker of prestige automobiles. The offer was not welcomed by Jaguar, whose stock in London rose from $6.40 on Monday to $9.18 on Friday. The company is currently valued at about $1.68 billion.

Prospects; When Jaguar Is the Prey

LEAD: More than a year after the great housing boom of the 1980's came to an end in New York City and its suburbs, the inventory of unsold homes has grown, demand remains sluggish and experts see no clear signs of improvement.

New York Region's Housing: No Signs of Return to Boom

LEAD: One of the tallest buildings on the Upper East Side, a 46-story tower that is to house 163 condominium apartments, is under construction at the southwest corner of 88th Street and First Avenue on the site of what was a Children's Aid Society building. The $82 million project, named Leighton House and carrying the address 388 East 88th Street, is being undertaken by the General Atlantic Realty Corporation, which bought the society's five-story building.

POSTINGS: 388 East 88th St.; 46-Story Condo Rising

LEAD: He has three bullets in his body. His predecessor was assassinated. And when he goes on campaign trips, he takes along an emergency supply of his own blood. He is Senator Ernesto Samper Pizano, the governing party's leading presidential candidate, and his predicament points up the risks of political life in Colombia.

The High-Risk World Of Colombian Politics

LEAD: Since the last time the congregation of 59,075 gathered on a Saturday afternoon at Notre Dame Stadium last November, their Fighting Irish had convincingly defended a No. 1 ranking, won another unofficial national championship and withstood the sudden loss of several important players that complicates their effort to repeat.

Irish Hold Off Spartans

LEAD:  Special Reports in this issue include:  Consultant Bill Bain Gets Close To the C.E.O.'s.  The Rainmaker at Debevoise & Plimpton.  Dutch Treat in America.

SPECIAL TODAY: The Business World/Magazine Part 2

LEAD: The news that arrived from Milwaukee buoyed them in the late afternoon. Then tonight, the Baltimore Orioles, perhaps rejuvenated by a Toronto Blue Jays defeat, made the race in the American League East even tighter.

Yankees Help Out Orioles Cause

LEAD: With the Americans in good position to move up to a tie with the European team in the 28th Ryder Cup matches, two of the best United States pro golfers let the final four-ball match slip away over the last three holes today.

U.S. Misses Chance to Tie in Ryder

LEAD: Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d and Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze of the Soviet Union ended two days of talks here today by proclaiming progress on a broad array of arms control issues.

U.S.-SOVIET TALKS END WITH PROGRESS ON ARMS CONTROL

LEAD: A 60-foot-high clock tower is being built as the centerpiece of a small retail and commercial mall under construction in the Brewster, N.Y.

POSTINGS: Faux Colonial; Clock Tower Mall

LEAD: An official working group of the Soviet legislature has drafted a law that would legalize the creation of alternative political parties and give them equal rights with the Communist Party, according to those involved in the project.

SOVIET PARLIAMENT TO WEIGH A PLAN FOR RIVAL PARTIES

LEAD: How much simpler this country would be if it had stalled out at 13 states. Most of the complicated mountains, climates and ethnic cultures would lie west of the border, as would all of the intimidating plains and deserts. Visiting the Great Lakes would be a foreignJU adventure.

FROM THE CAMPUSES: ADVENTURES IN PUBLISHING

LEAD:  FARM  A Year in the Life of an American Farmer.  By Richard Rhodes.  Illustrated by Bill Greer. 336 pp. New York:  Simon & Schuster. $19.95.

A COVENANT WITHTHE SOIL

LEAD: Until last week it had seemed a fait accompli: In two years, Horst W. Schroeder, the 48-year-old president and chief operating officer of the Kellogg Company, would be the cereal giant's next chief executive. Yes, the 19-year Kellogg veteran had a reputation for being abrasive - at a company with a cozy, family-style culture.

Has Kellogg Lost Its Snap?

LEAD: Administration officials concede that the goal President Bush set forth in his drug-policy address to the nation three weeks ago - ''victory over drugs'' -cannot be achieved in this generation.

DRUG STRATEGY: The Real Goals - A special report.; President's 'Victory Over Drugs' Is Decades Away, Officials Say

LEAD: Goethe once described architecture as frozen music; if he was right, could cities be described as congealed concertos? Maybe this is stretching an already flimsy metaphor, but music, architecture and cities do share one striking characteristic. Just as agreeable music requires both solo and ensemble playing, and great architecture needs expanses of serenity to provide the setting for moments of soaring drama so, too, successful cities demand an underlying melody.

Architects Must Listen to the Melody

LEAD: Palestinian residents in this city and several nearby villages say groups of Arabs armed and trained by the Israeli military have formed loose militias and are regularly assaulting their neighbors, bolstering the army's effort to quash the Palestinian uprising.

Israelis Training Groups of Arabs To Halt Uprising

INSIDE

LEAD: Besides the ravages of its roaring winds and surging tides, Hurricane Hugo has left behind a vexing question with millions of dollars at stake: What can be rebuilt on South Carolina's battered coast?

After Hugo, a Storm Over Beach Development

Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach-Jauncey, formerly professionally known as Pia Romero, is a Filipino model, actress, and beauty pageant titleholder best known for winning the title of Miss Universe 2015. Previously, Wurtzbach won Binibining Pilipinas in 2015. She became the first Filipina to win in four decades.

September 24, 1989

Headlines from September 24, 1989

Villains of the World! Hollywood Beckons

OPEC Is Back and Feeling Flush

Doldrums Troubling Housing Developers

Tax Revolt an Open Question

Cunningham Draws All Eyes to Him

Billboard 200

Girl You Know It's True

Hangin' Tough

Forever Your Girl

Repeat Offender

Full Moon Fever

Notable Births

Historical Context for September 24, 1989