December 25, 1985

Federal prosecutors today accused a messenger employed by a court reporting company here of giving Soviet operatives portions of a transcript of a top secret Congressional hearing on military communications. Congressional sources said today that the hearing included a progress report on a wide array of sensitive military communications systems, including an airplane designed to relay orders to nuclear missile submarines. On the basis of new testimony by Michael Giglia, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a Federal magistrate today ruled that the prosecutors had ''just barely'' succeeded in overcoming a motion by defense lawyers to dismiss the charges against Randy Miles Jeffries. Doubts by Magistrate The magistrate, Jean F. Dwyer, had criticized the strength of the case at a court hearing on Monday. She said today: ''Frankly, I don't think the case has gained much weight overnight.''

Throughout Silicon Valley, the homeland of the nation's electronics industry, thoughts are turning to toys - and not only because it's Christmas. By day, for example, LuAnn Piccard helps design supersecret computers for Hewlett-Packard. By night, she designs toys. So does Jef Raskin, who started the Macintosh project at Apple Computer and now heads his own computer company. They are among the growing number of flashy entrepreneurs and technical whiz kids who are designing toys - with and without electronics - for others or who are starting their own companies in hopes of creating new Apples in the toy industry.

College students in the New York metropolitan area are returning to churches and synagogues, enrolling in religion courses and volunteering for charity work in numbers that many chaplains believe suggest a spiritual renaissance on campus. Catholic, Protestant and Jewish chaplains said they had observed a deeper commitment to faith along with a keener appreciation of tradition among students. ''People are coming back to religion in a way that some of us once went to the counterculture,'' said Rabbi Ruth Sohn, the assistant Jewish chaplain at Columbia University. ''Religion is being seen as an alternative to the values - or lack of values - in the mainstream.''

A longtime member of the ruling Politburo was ousted today from his job as head of the Communist Party in the city of Moscow, the Tass press agency announced. Western diplomats said that the removal of the Moscow city leader, Viktor V. Grishin, likely to be followed by his retirement from the Politburo, was an important step in Mikhail S. Gorbachev's campaign to retire senior officials and consolidate his power. Mr. Grishin has served on the Politburo for nearly a quarter century, longer than any other current member. He was made a candidate, or nonvoting, member in 1961, under Nikita S. Khrushchev, rising to full member in 1971, under Leonid I. Brezhnev.

From a balcony of the Government Palace, President Alan Garcia Perez first reprimanded the 20,000 slum-dwellers gathered in Lima's main plaza for being noisy and disorderly. ''If you've come to hear me, then you're going to listen in silence,'' he ordered impatiently. Then, in a 45-minute message that combined the inspirational tone of a preacher and the assertiveness of a caudillo, he reviewed his achievements to date, won applause for freezing gasoline prices for a further six months and demanded to know whether his audience would also stand by him in the difficult times ahead. But by then the crowd seemed thoroughly convinced, shouting an enthusiastic ''Si'' to a list of closing questions designed to test its loyalty.