September 7, 1990

LEAD: An angry Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, before leaving on a delayed trade mission to Europe today, accused Lieut. Gov. Evelyn Murphy of plotting a palace coup and planning to take over the state government while he was away so she could impose her own plan for solving the Massachusetts budget crisis.

LEAD: In a civil suit aimed at crippling what Federal prosecutors said is Mafia control over New York City's carpenters union, the Government yesterday charged the president and three top officers of the union with systematically accepting bribes from contractors.

LEAD: The Federal Trade Commission today charged Capital Cities/ABC Inc. and the College Football Association with illegally conspiring to limit the number of college football games shown on television.

LEAD: An advertising blitz whose cost would be impressive for a mayoral or Senate race started this morning for a candidate running for an office that few voters ever hear about.

LEAD: For Dawood Ismail, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait brought a free fall of a kind most people experience only in their nightmares, from an air-conditioned apartment and a salary of $21,500 a year in the oil-producing kingdom to a dog's life in the desert.

LEAD: Moving to take the lead and the spotlight in New York City's fight against crime, the City Council leadership introduced a bill yesterday to hire 5,000 more police officers in the next 18 months and to set a mandatory level of no fewer than 32,000 officers for the Police Department.

LEAD: FEW buildings have been able to evoke as powerful a sense of both grandeur and intimidation as those of Ellis Island: for 32 years the immigrants' gateway to the United States, the island symbolized this country's majesty but also its willingness to reject the unwanted.

LEAD: A Federal judge's ruling that the Government acted illegally in seizing the Franklin Savings Association has raised questions about the Government's ability to regulate - and avoid huge losses at - institutions that use highly sophisticated investment strategies.

LEAD: Widely heralded as the American chain with the best customer-service skills, Nordstrom Inc., the West Coast fashion retailer, invades the highly competitive New York area today with a store in a shopping mall in Paramus, N.J., about 15 miles across the Hudson River from Manhattan.

LEAD: Mounting problems with real estate loans along much of the East Coast cut profits of the nation's commercial banks to $5.3 billion in the second quarter, 15.9 percent below those of the first three months of the year, the Government reported today.

LEAD: The Prime Ministers of North and South Korea concluded two days of talks today and agreed to resume their conversations in the North Korean capital in about five weeks.

LEAD: The Oil Jolt