LEAD: The Tishman Realty and Construction Company, which built the World Trade Center, Epcot Center and many other landmark developments, is finding it must expand into projects it once ignored, like prisons, schools and government buildings, in an effort to offset the downturn in the nation's real estate markets.

At Tishman, Fewer Glamorous Jobs

LEAD: Senior public officials and opinion-makers from Gov. Mario M. Cuomo on down have seized on the number 5,000 as their answer to how many more police officers New York City needs.

Politics of Police Strength;   New York City's Demands for More Officers Raise Questions About How to Use Them

LEAD: Twenty days after New Jersey enacted its death penalty law in 1982, Richard F. Biegenwald shot a teen-age girl to death in Asbury Park. Soon after, he became one of the first people sentenced under the law to die by lethal injection.

New Jersey's Death Penalty: Fair or Fake?

LEAD: ARCO said today that it had settled a 13-year dispute with Alaska by agreeing to pay $287 million in royalties on the production of oil from the North Slope.

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LEAD: Facing what may be the most critical choice of his presidency, Mikhail S. Gorbachev is once again widely seen to be seized by indecision.

  Hesitation on Soviet Economy

LEAD: Three lawyers in the suit that led to a United States Supreme Court decision that ultimately abolished the New York City Board of Estimate and altered the structure of the city government are claiming a total of more than $1 million from the city for legal work in the landmark case.

Lawyers in Landmark Estimate Board Suit Ask $1 Million

LEAD: GOOD gardeners know that spring begins in fall. The autumnal equinox is a week away, so it is time to stop procrastinating, decide which hardy flower bulbs to buy, and then plant the species that will brighten the scene when winter begins to fade.

  In Fall, It's Spring To Bulb-Planters

LEAD:    The Outlook on Souter       Senate hearings for the Supreme Court nominee begin today. Senators expect to vote for him, but not to learn his views on crucial issues. Page A18.       Cameras in U.S. Courts       In a three-year experiment, a few Federal courtrooms will be opened to coverage by radio and television for the first time in decades.

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LEAD: In response to a lawsuit brought by the Israeli Government, a justice in the State Supreme Court in Manhattan issued an apparently unprecedented order yesterday to temporarily block the United States publication of a book by a former member of Mossad, an Israeli intelligence service.

Judge Halts Publication of Book By Ex-Israeli Intelligence Agent

LEAD: For years, thousands of private vans have cruised city bus routes in Brooklyn and Queens and on Staten Island, poaching passengers and fares from the Transit Authority and other bus companies licensed to operate in New York City.

New York Fails to Deter Vans Used As Buses

LEAD: After years of debate, an accounting group yesterday abandoned its plan to propose a new way for airlines to treat frequent-flier miles when calculating their profits. The move is likely to please airline executives, who can report higher earnings using current accounting methods.

Accountants' Move Favors Airlines

LEAD: As dire predictions about the future of the Federal fund that insures deposits at banks continued to mount, lawmakers moved quickly today to propose regulatory reforms in an apparent effort to escape the political taint of another taxpayer bailout.

Lawmakers Rushing to Lift Caps on F.D.I.C. Premiums

LEAD: Like many investors, Stephen L. Lane, the president and chief executive of the Emerson Radio Corporation, lost millions in the market crash of 1987 and has filed a claim against his brokerage firm, the defunct Drexel Burnham Lambert, to recover his money.

Investor's Claim Has Marital Twist

LEAD: For an event of such historic dimensions, the signing today of the final settlement between the Germans and the World War II victors seemed almost lost in the tumult of more immediate concerns.

  A Historic Moment Slips By, Overtaken by Other Events

LEAD: The four wartime Allies who defeated Nazi Germany 45 years ago signed a treaty today relinquishing all their occupation rights, leaving the two German nations that emerged after the war finally free to reunite on Oct. 3.

  Four Allies Give Up Rights in Germany

LEAD: Iran's supreme religious leader called on all Muslims today to fight the American deployment of troops in Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf region, the official Iranian press agency reported.

  RESIST U.S. IN GULF, TOP IRANIAN CLERIC URGES ALL MUSLIMS

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: A storm of animosity, extraordinary in its extent and intensity, has burst out on Capitol Hill and in the country at large over what critics are portraying as paltry contributions by Japan and West Germany to the international effort to confront Iraqi aggression in Kuwait.

  Bonn and Tokyo Are Criticized For Not Bearing More of Gulf Cost

LEAD: The roof was a 7,500-square-foot colander, the 28 rooms were gray with mildew, 80 percent of the Italianate facade was either crumbling or missing, the kitchen was minus a ceiling, and the pipes made noises sinister even for country plumbing.

Country House Regains Glory

LEAD: Just how bad off are the large New York banks? Investors are acting as if many of them are in very poor shape.

Market Place;   Chase Faces Many Doubts on Wall Street

LEAD: By becoming the most vocal critic of Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr., Sharon Pratt Dixon was able to overcome formidable political odds and in the end easily win Tuesday's Democratic mayoral primary.

Barry Backlash: Capital Turned Upside Down

LEAD: POWERFUL contemporary images, arcane artifacts, down-to-earth housing solutions, touching tableaux of a bygone era and programs that could keep the most energetic New Yorker going at a fast clip for months are all part of ''Home: A Place in the World.'' This ambitious multicultural event is a collaboration of five New York City museums and the New School for Social

Lasting Visions of the Home

LEAD: During last year's New York City mayoral campaign, David N. Dinkins bristled every time his restrained, equivocal style was measured against the Rev. Jesse Jackson's, just because both are black. Why not, Mr. Dinkins argued persuasively, compare any of his white opponents to New York's glib Governor, Mario M.

Metro Matters;   Cuomo's Seizing Of the Moment On Police Hiring

LEAD: The New York Post, which has lost money for decades, is at death's door for the second time in two and a half years, and union leaders met all day yesterday with representatives of the paper's owner in an effort to hammer out an agreement that would keep it alive.

Post at the Brink Again as Owner Seeks Wage Cuts

LEAD: The Transportation Department said today that it would allow the Scandinavian Airlines System to buy out most of Frank Lorenzo's interest in Continental Airlines Holdings Inc.

S.A.S.-Lorenzo Sale Backed

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September 13, 1990

Headlines from September 13, 1990

At Tishman, Fewer Glamorous Jobs

Politics of Police Strength; New York City's Demands for More Officers Raise Questions About How to Use Them

New Jersey's Death Penalty: Fair or Fake?

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Hesitation on Soviet Economy

Billboard 200

Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em

Wilson Phillips

Blaze Of Glory/Young Guns II

Mariah Carey

Flesh And Blood

Notable Births

Historical Context for September 13, 1990