LEAD: Not since the election of Judge John F. Hylan, a former locomotive engineer, as Mayor in 1917 have New York City's voters been asked to accept so much on faith.

Campaign Matters; Asking Voters To Accept Much On Sheer Faith

LEAD: Voters are facing a dramatic choice in New Jersey Tuesday between a Democratic candidate for governor who offers a return to activist government and a Republican who promises to continue the Reagan agenda with a battle against big government, taxes and crime.

In New Jersey, Florio and Courter Stress Stark Contrasts

LEAD: Members of Lebanon's Parliament met today in a remote mountain village and elected a new President, Rene Moawad, a Maronite Catholic described as commanding the respect of many of the factions involved in the 14-year-old civil war that has killed 125,000 people.

Lebanese Elect New President; Pact Is Ratified

LEAD: The Federal authorities indicated yesterday that they are looking for a man from Peru, his Colombian wife and at least three others in connection with a record-setting seizure of cocaine Friday night in a Queens warehouse.

Couple Sought in Record Drug Seizure in Queens

LEAD: David N. Dinkins and Rudolph W. Giuliani sparred over integrity and job qualifications, traded charges of distortion and then, with much discussed, shook hands perfunctorily yesterday after a televised free-for-all that characterized their second and final scheduled encounter of the New York City mayoral campaign.

Free-for-All Mayoral Encounter Displays Rivals' Temperaments

LEAD: After expressing intense interest early this year in regulating leveraged buyouts and their financial underpinning, high-risk, high-yield ''junk bonds,'' Congress's attention has waned. The lawmakers lost enthusiasm in part because the market for such transactions has weakened, but for political reasons as well.

Legislation On Buyouts Is Unlikely

LEAD: The December and January issues of Ms. magazine have been canceled and the magazine's new owner, Dale W. Lang, intends to transform it into a subscriber-supported publication without advertising, editorial employees said yesterday. The new magazine would come out once every two months.

Ms. Reported As Canceling Two Issues

LEAD: While the Great Northern Nekoosa Corporation contemplates a $3.1 billion takeover bid from the Georgia Pacific Corporation, other paper- products companies are wrestling with the question of whether, given the downturn expected in the industry during the next year, this is a good time to acquire a paper company.

Paper Companies Contemplate Hard Times

LEAD: Wall Street may be a glamorous place where high-powered people earn absurd amounts and live the fast life. But it also has a treacherous side. Memories are short, loyalty has no currency and reputations can come unraveled overnight.

Wall Street's Treacherous Side

LEAD: Americans' growing appetite for chicken has produced a bonanza for the poultry business, but increasingly for workers like Betty Harpe or Betty Henry it is producing something else: a workplace that labor leaders consider among the most injurious in the nation.

Worker Injuries Rise In Poultry Industry As Business Booms

LEAD: At Dr. Giovanni del Gizzo's storefront office in East Harlem, patients began lining up as early as 5 A.M. They sat for hours in a crowded, smoky lobby for what was often only a 30- to 45-second consultation with the doctor, who almost invariably handed them a prescription for a battery of drugs worth $150 or more.

Doctor Who Billed Millions Is Cut by New York Medicaid

LEAD: Vladimir Horowitz, the eccentric virtuoso of the piano whose extraordinary personality and skill overwhelmed six decades of concert audiences, died suddenly early yesterday afternoon at his home in Manhattan, apparently of a heart attack. Though standard biographies list his birth date as Oct. 1, 1904, Mr.

Vladimir Horowitz, Titan of the Piano, Dies

LEAD: Executives at the Walt Disney Studio say ''the second golden era of animation'' has begun.

Disney's High Hopes for Afternoons

LEAD:  No Majority in Greek Vote  The conservative New Democracy Party led the balloting but failed to gain enough votes for a parliamentary majority. Page A8.  Route Closes for Emigres  Washington has closed off an important immigration route sooner than many Soviet Jews hoping to use it had expected.

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LEAD:  THE ECONOMY  Congress has lost its enthusiasm to regulate leveraged buyouts and ''junk bonds,'' in part because the market for such transactions has weakened. But there are political reasons as well.  [ Page D1. ] Paper-products companies are wrestling with whether this is a good time to acquire a paper company, since an industry downturn is expected in the next year.

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: East Germans, with a few belongings packed into tiny rattling automobiles, are swarming through a narrow neck of northwestern Czechoslovakia to new lives in the West.

Over an Eventful Weekend, The Emigres Find New Lives

LEAD: A cast of unknowns named Werner, Dressel and Epps made their first catches as Jets today, a symbol of how far this club has scrambled for healthy performers.

Late Kick By Leahy Saves Jets

LEAD: The Giants are for real, all right.

Hostetler Sparks Giants

LEAD: Thousands of East Germans left for West Germany today as the Government said that new laws making it relatively easy for citizens to travel to the West would be ready by Christmas.

10,000 MORE FLEE AS EAST GERMANY VOWS EASY TRAVEL

LEAD: In the 10 days since the Tokyo Motor Show opened here, more than 1.7 million people - over 1 percent of Japan's population - have come to look at automobiles that park themselves, that unlock by reading their owners' fingerprints and that pump jasmine through the air-conditioner to keep weary drivers alert.

U.S. Auto Makers Are Few As Japan Shows Technology

LEAD: With near perfect weather conditions for the first time in years, the New York City Marathon produced a series of startling developments yesterday, starting with an unexpected winner who ran alone and unchallenged the last 13 miles and the highest finishes by Americans in seven years.

Ikangaa and Kristiansen Win Marathon

LEAD: ''Thank heaven for muscle memory,'' said Paul Fetscher, a 43-year-old Manhattan real-estate agent, who, in spite of fatigue, yesterday finished in 2 hours 52 minutes his 19th of the 20 New York City Marathons ever run. He missed only the first, in 1970. No other runner has competed in as many.

From Farm And Abbey To Finish

LEAD: Because of Election Day, alternate-side parking rules will be suspended in New York City tomorrow. Other regulations remain in effect.

Parking Rules

LEAD: In Gov. Mario M. Cuomo's favorite metaphor, New York State is just one big not-so-happy family.

Budget Pains In New York

LEAD: Minority shareholders in the POP Radio Corporation, a New York company that operates an in-store radio and advertising network, have filed a class-action lawsuit to stop the company's proposed merger with its majority owner, the Heritage Media Corporation, according to documents released yesterday by spokesmen for the shareholders.

POP Radio Sued on Merger

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Jozy Altidore, American soccer player

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November 6, 1989

Headlines from November 6, 1989

Campaign Matters; Asking Voters To Accept Much On Sheer Faith

In New Jersey, Florio and Courter Stress Stark Contrasts

Lebanese Elect New President; Pact Is Ratified

Couple Sought in Record Drug Seizure in Queens

Free-for-All Mayoral Encounter Displays Rivals' Temperaments

Billboard 200

Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814

Girl You Know It's True

Dr. Feelgood

Steel Wheels

Pump

Notable Births

Historical Context for November 6, 1989