LEAD: With the final out of the final inning of the last game ever to be played in Comiskey Park, fans here today bid farewell to more than just 81 summers of baseball memories.

Ball Parks Crumble, But Some Fans Stay On the Field Forever

LEAD: The scene was as warm and as genuine as the gentle September sunshine that had flooded the field all afternoon.

Unexpected Success Overjoys the Pirates

LEAD: President Bush and Congressional negotiators agreed today to a deficit-cutting plan that includes major increases in taxes after Mr. Bush decided that the need for economic stability was worth the sacrifice of his main policies on taxation.

MANY IN CONGRESS CRITICAL;   Deadline Extended

LEAD: The Soviet Union established diplomatic relations with South Korea today, culminating a series of steps that began in June when the South Korean President, Roh Tae Woo, met with President Mikhail S. Gorbachev in San Francisco.

  SOVIETS FORGE TIE WITH SOUTH KOREA

LEAD: Mayor David N. Dinkins will propose paying about half the cost of hiring thousands of police officers through a new payroll tax to be levied on all workers drawing paychecks in New York City and their employers.

Dinkins to Seek New Payroll Tax To Pay for Hiring More Officers

LEAD: The stock market as a whole just finished one of its worst quarters ever. Virtually the only companies to show gains in a period dominated by crisis in the Persian Gulf were in natural resources, particularly oil.

Wall St. Endures a Painful Quarter

LEAD: ''If somebody asks me for a five-year plan, I can't do it,'' said Peter Mayer, the chief executive of Penguin Books. ''The books are not written yet. It would be a fraud.''

  Publishers of Trade Books Under Earnings Pressure

LEAD: Motorists are advised to avoid the area from 42d to 57th Streets from First to Eighth Avenues as more than 70 heads of state, including President Bush, visit New York City.

Traffic Alert

LEAD: The horse conquered the world, insisted Tony Aguilar, the singing star of countless Mexican westerns. Over the weekend, Mr. Aguilar and his horse settled for conquering the Bronx, as he presented his singing, broncobusting rodeo show to whooping, whistling crowds at the Kingsbridge Armory.

Memories of Home Bind Mexican Film Star to His Fans

LEAD: The Giants' defense was not as coldly efficient today as it was two weeks ago when it stifled the Dallas Cowboys in the Texas heat. But it was good enough and the offense was creative enough to rout the Cowboys, 31-17.

Giants Dispatch Cowboys To Go 4-0

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: The long-awaited agreement on the budget deficit, announced yesterday in Washington, might finally test the economic thinking that for a decade has driven the White House, Congress and millions of Americans to advocate a sharp reduction in the deficit.

Budget Pact Called Test Of Theories

LEAD: It was the end, the final act, hail and farewell, and maybe even auld lang syne, all the emotions and eulogies rolled into one afternoon before 39,195 fans in Shea Stadium, watching as the Mets came crashing down in their 159th game of a season they were supposed to dominate, but didn't.

It's All Over For Mets As Pirates Clinch Title

LEAD: Leaders from more than 70 nations came together here today in an extraordinary show of concern for the world's poorest children. They adopted a declaration and a plan of action committing them to drastically improving the lives of those children.

  World Leaders Endorse Plan To Improve Lives of Children

LEAD: Shortly after the contract between New York City and its teachers expired at midnight, union officials announced early this morning that they were ''very close to an agreement'' with the city on a pay increase.

Teacher Talks Show Signs Of Settlement

LEAD: As heads of state were arriving for the World Summit for Children at the United Nations over the weekend, Jonathan and Jonas Cosme were trying to hold their own.

Metro Matters;   Note to the U.N.: Talk to Jonas And Jonathan

LEAD: The Government is moving toward loosening, and perhaps scrapping, longstanding rules that limit ownership by the three major television networks of programs they broadcast.

  TV Rerun Ownership In Review

LEAD: A square city block in Williamsburg, overgrown with tall grass and wild shrubs, has become a battleground between Hasidic Jews and Hispanic residents in a struggle for control in the deeply split Brooklyn neighborhood.

Brooklyn Project Shakes Hispanic-Hasidic Peace

LEAD: The Supreme Court opens its 1990-91 term on Monday as an institution in transition, significantly changed by the unexpected midsummer retirement of its senior Justice, William J. Brennan Jr. The full measure of change will not become apparent until Justice Brennan's all-but-certain successor, David H.

Souter in the Wings As Court Starts Term In Era of Transition

LEAD:    Halt on Aid to Pakistan       The United States has decided to withhold aid from Pakistan as it seeks new assurances that Islamabad is slowing its nuclear weapons program, officials said. Page A3.       Iraqi Suggests a 'Debate'       President Saddam Hussein of Iraq, using both harsh and conciliatory language, suggested a ''debate'' with France on the gulf crisis.

INSIDE

LEAD: In a change in its manufacturing strategy, Apple Computer Inc. has entered negotiations with the Sony Corporation for Sony to produce an inexpensive notebook-computer version of the Macintosh, senior Sony officials said.

Sony, Apple Negotiating Laptop Deal

LEAD: It was an unhappy looking group that assembled in the Rose Garden this afternoon. In the politics of the moment, the budget deal does not give any of them, President Bush or the Congressional leaders, a winning hand.

MANY IN CONGRESS CRITICAL;   And the Victor Is: Bush?

LEAD: High on the lawn of Olana, a popular tourist attraction in the Hudson Valley, David S. Sampson looked south to a panorama of green on both sides of the Hudson River, framed by the Catskill Mountains to the west.

A Protected 'Greenway' Proposed Along the Hudson

LEAD: The Persian Gulf crisis, the unexpected cost of German unification and Margaret Thatcher's opposition are interrupting the European Community's headlong rush toward economic and monetary union. Page D1.

Europe Hesitates on Unity

LEAD: Night after night, resolve in their hearts and walkie-talkies in their hands, Ed Powell and James Burns set off on their self-appointed rounds. On rooftops glittering with crushed crack vials, in dark hallways littered with soda cans, along streets strewn with empty-eyed and defiant boys, they patrol a neighborhood in crisis.

On Dark Streets, 'Eyes and Ears' for the Law

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October 1, 1990

Headlines from October 1, 1990

Ball Parks Crumble, But Some Fans Stay On the Field Forever

Unexpected Success Overjoys the Pirates

MANY IN CONGRESS CRITICAL; Deadline Extended

SOVIETS FORGE TIE WITH SOUTH KOREA

Dinkins to Seek New Payroll Tax To Pay for Hiring More Officers

Billboard 200

Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em

Wilson Phillips

Mariah Carey

Blaze Of Glory/Young Guns II

Poison

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for October 1, 1990