LEAD: Rudolph W. Giuliani, in an appeal largely directed at white New Yorkers, declared yesterday that yearnings for racial peace should not become the deciding factor in his campaign against David N. Dinkins, the city's first black major-party candidate for mayor.

GIULIANI DISCOUNTS COLOR AS AN ISSUE

LEAD: IT'S fortunate that the people who deliver the mail rarely carry it in shoulder bags nowadays. The proliferation of glossy full-color catalogues might give the letter carrier a decided tilt.

Help for Shoppers In the Postal Pantry

LEAD: More than 100 youths moving in packs rampaged through parts of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx yesterday, attacking pedestrians, robbing stores, and slashing one man with a knife, the police said.

67 Arrested In Rampages On Halloween

LEAD: Israeli soldiers cleared roadblocks today, ending a six-week state of siege here, and the residents of this Palestinian town cheered.

West Bank Town Elated but Poorer As Israel Ends Six-Week Tax Siege

LEAD: Seeking financial help to develop its next important aircraft and hoping to sell more planes in Japan's booming market, the Boeing Company has invited Japan's three largest aerospace companies to join it in a $4 billion project to build a 300-seat passenger plane.

Boeing Seeks a Deal With the Japanese To Build New Plane

LEAD: There was a point, late in his career, when people thought Hemingway might be slipping. Then he wrote ''The Old Man and the Sea'' and won the Nobel Prize for literature. The book's cover says the story of an elderly man's fight with a big fish has ''the simplicity of a fable, the significance of a parable and the drama of an epic.

About New York; A Fishy Epic: Not-So-Old Man Versus the Sea

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: Saying he does not want to ''miss something'' in the rapidly shifting terrain of East-West relations, President Bush announced today that he would meet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev of the Soviet Union in December for two days of unstructured talks.

'Interim' Sessions

LEAD: For 10 years, Boston's dining scene has been stirring to life. The city's Yankee clubs and old-style French restaurants got a wake-up call from nouvelle cuisine when L'Espalier opened in 1979. In the early 80's, during the era of the ''new American cuisine,'' Panache, Seasons at the Bostonian Hotel and the Colony became headquarters for the New

In Boston, No-Nonsense With Style

LEAD: The Georgia-Pacific Corporation today offered $3.1 billion in cash for another forest-products giant, the Great Northern Nekoosa Corporation.

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LEAD:  New Findings in Jet Crash  Metallurgical findings raise the possibility that an engine crack that led to the DC-10 crash in Iowa in July could have been detected. Page A20.  Colombian Cocaine Flows  Cocaine shipments from Colombia to the United States are returning to earlier levels after being briefly cut by Bogota's crackdown.

INSIDE

LEAD: During the last few years, as Japan's larger real estate companies poured billions of dollars into overseas investments, the prestigious Mitsubishi Estate Company stood apart, being content to collect rents from its vast holdings at home and to watch their value soar.

Many Japanese Wary On Mitsubishi U.S. Deal

LEAD: A California savings and loan executive paid himself and family members $34 million from the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association in the three and a half years before its demise, Federal regulators told Congress today.

Savings Institution Milked By Its Chief, Regulators Say

LEAD: When Avon Products Inc. said in September that its advance sales in the United States seemed to be plummeting, indicating a poor Christmas season, top executives said they did not know why.

Avon Discovers High Prices May Lower Holiday Sales

LEAD: Warren E. Norquist may not cut much of a figure at the local mall, but he was clearly born to shop. As worldwide director of purchasing and materials management for the Polaroid Corporation here, he spends $900 million a year, nearly half the money taken in by the large camera, film and electronics company, with the energy and sophistication of a teen-ager buying clothes or videotapes.

Keeping Tabs on the Mega-Shoppers

LEAD: Ending a long political deadlock, the Bush Administration and Congressional leaders compromised today on an increase in the minimum wage to $3.80 an hour next year and $4.25 in 1991.

Bush and Congress Reach Accord Raising Minimum Wage to $4.25

LEAD: In St. Albans, tidy houses stand sedate on trim lawns under the leafy plane trees of the side streets. Blocks away, or just around a corner, boarded-up stores and littered lots are scattered between thriving businesses.

St. Albans Sees Itself As a Bastion For Dinkins

LEAD: The Soviet legislature approved an economic plan and budget for 1990 yesterday, but not before overwhelmingly rejecting a Government proposal to increase the prices of cigarettes, beer and delicacies.

Soviet Deputies Reject Proposal for a Sin Tax

LEAD: Because of All Saints' Day, alternate-side parking rules are suspended today. Other regulations remain in effect.

Parking Rules

LEAD: In a sign of continued but slow growth, the Government's chief economic forecasting gauge inched ahead two-tenths of 1 percent in September for its second straight monthly advance.

Indicators Rose 0.2% In September

LEAD: AS much as food is a part of life, in many cultures it is also essential to the rituals of death and mourning. The feasting at an Irish wake, the funeral pies of the Pennsylvania Dutch, the custom among the Jews of bringing food during shiva, the week of mourning, and leaving the favorite foods of the deceased in the tombs of ancient

Day of the Dead Feeds Body and Soul

LEAD: Paving the way for an all-out fight between the General Motors Corporation and the Ford Motor Company for Jaguar P.L.C., the British Government said today that it was willing to lift a restriction barring anyone from buying more than 15 percent of Jaguar's shares until the end of the next year.

Britain Eases Curb On Jaguar

LEAD: Eastern Europe has not been on the formal agenda of a Soviet-American summit conference since World War II, but it will certainly be a major topic when George Bush and Mikhail S. Gorbachev hold their shipboard summit meeting in December.

East Europe as Catalyst

LEAD: The negative campaigning by the candidates for governor of New Jersey is troubling many people who are expected to vote on Nov. 7.

Negative Race Disgusts Many Voters in New Jersey

LEAD: Brooks Brothers, the staid, sedate, venerable, buttoned-down and buttoned-up clothing retailer, is taking the first step toward loosening its rep tie and cruising into the 90's. A $7 million facelift has added shiny escalators and bright lights to its flagship Madison Avenue store at 44th Street.

November 1, 1989

Headlines from November 1, 1989

GIULIANI DISCOUNTS COLOR AS AN ISSUE

Help for Shoppers In the Postal Pantry

67 Arrested In Rampages On Halloween

West Bank Town Elated but Poorer As Israel Ends Six-Week Tax Siege

Boeing Seeks a Deal With the Japanese To Build New Plane

Billboard 200

Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814

Girl You Know It's True

Dr. Feelgood

Steel Wheels

Pump

Historical Context for November 1, 1989