LEAD: Building to a Super Bowl   How the Giants and Broncos built the teams that reached pro football's title game: First of a series on the Giants in the Super Bowl, Section 5.   'Frost Factor' in Britain   Britain's long freeze has started a debate on whether Margaret Thatcher's Government has been doing enough to fight the cold's effects.

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PROSPECTS

LEAD: American colleges and universities, which have operated for more than three centuries on the premise that the fruits of higher education are self-evident, are facing mounting pressure to prove that their students are being educated.

COLLEGES PRODDED TO PROVE WORTH

LEAD: IT is the confluence of the Rocky Mountain myths: here, in one glorious weekend, there is the convocation of cowboys, Indians and Broncos.

BRONCOS ARE PART OF DENVER LANDSCAPE

LEAD: The boat with a racing record so exemplary that she has acquired the nickname Kiwi Magic sailed in the America's Cup challenge finals today as if someone had cut a hole in her bag of tricks.

CONNER'S CREW SAILS TO 3-1 LEAD

LEAD: The President of Ecuador said today that he was punched, kicked and repeatedly told he was going to be killed during the 12 hours he was held captive Friday.

ECUADOR LEADER TELLS OF BEATINGS BY COMMANDOS WHO SEIZED HIM

LEAD: The Christiania office building in Tarrytown, N.Y., was dedicated in 1984 by Crown Prince Harald and Crown Princess Sonja of Norway, but even that royal cachet was not enough to make it profitable. Now Morris Bailey of Morris Bailey Enterprises in Manhattan's financial district is taking a crack. He purchased the six-story, 210,000-square-foot building at the end of last year for $35 million from Christiania, a Norwegian insurance company.

POSTINGS: New Try in Tarrytown; A Rent Reduction

LEAD: Striding through rice fields, Ka Christine, nine months pregnant, sang to herself with more enthusiasm than melody: ''Wave the red flag, advance the revolution.''

IN TRUCE, FILIPINO REBELS PRESS A POLITICAL WAR

LEAD: George Bernard Shaw's contemporaries would have been astonished to know that his plays were still being performed around the world toward the end of the 20th century (''You Never Can Tell'' is now winding up a revival in New York). A playwright was the last thing they considered him to be. If theater reviewers agreed on nothing else, they were certain that he could not write for the stage.

SHAW'S PLAYS GO ON TALKING TO MODERN AUDIENCES

LEAD: THE Steeplechase Pier, for nearly 90 years an amusement delight for millions of visitors, is to be demolished so its former archrival a half-block away - the Steel Pier - can become even larger and grander.

STEEL PIER TO GROW AFTER RAZING OF RIVAL STEEPLECHASE PIER

LEAD: Japan's central bank bought billions of American dollars last week, and officials in Bonn hinted at a tax cut to stimulate the West German economy. Both countries were also said to be considering lowering interest rates as they scrambled to slow the precipitous drop in the value of the dollar, which closed Friday at 153.10 yen in Tokyo and 1.8465 marks in

THE DOLLAR'S SLIDE RAISES U.S. HOPES

LEAD: Last year, Ecuador locked up Gen. Frank Vargas Pazzos, an Air Force commander, after he staged two revolts within a week. The authorities turned aside General Vargas's insistence that he was merely protesting against corruption in the armed forces. Later the national congress voted to grant the officer amnesty, and he became something of a folk hero.

DISSIDENTS IN ECUADOR AIR FORCE SIEZE PRESIDENT

LEAD: WHEN Bill Dillard was not on the road, singing and acting in musicals or playing his trumpet with Louis Armstrong, he lived in rental apartments in Harlem. Last year, at the age of 75, he and his wife, Celestine, became impatient with waiting lists for new rental projects and began looking for a better home outside Manhattan.

CO-OP HUNTING IN THE OUTER BOROUGHS

LEAD: TENS of thousands of Long Island residents and businesses are facing dramatic increases in the fees they pay for shipping garbage off the Island, local officials say.

OFF-ISLAND TRASH FEES RISING

LEAD: With six seconds remaining, a surprised Mark Bryant made a pair of free throws today that enabled Seton Hall to upset Georgetown, 66-65, in a Big East game at Byrne Meadowlands Arena. It was Seton Hall's second defeat of Georgetown this season, the only losses the Hoyas have in 14 games.

SETON UPSETS HOYAS

LEAD: CHINA'S sweeping economic reforms of the last few years had raised hopes that political liberalization would follow. For some Chinese, the hopes were personified by Hu Yaobang, the General Secretary of the Communist Party, who was expected to succeed Deng Xiaoping.

HU'S OUSTER RAISES TROUBLESOME QUESTIONS

LEAD: HIDEAKI NARA, 38 years old and out of work, sat in the unemployment office of this northern industrial city and stared at a card describing a job at a textile factory. The job would require him to move away from Muroran, where Mr. Nara lives with and supports his parents, and it would pay him less than he received as a welder with the steel company Nippon

A JOB CRUNCH JOLTS JAPAN

LEAD: WHEN Nick Schloeder got out of the service in the mid-1950's, he returned home to Baltimore to begin a teaching career and - he hoped - to find a job coaching football. Luckily for him, a classmate of his at Bucknell some years before was the head coach at a nearby Catholic high school, and he offered Schloeder a job as assistant.

Young Teaches Winning Course

LEAD: WHEN the Giants were winning six Eastern Division titles in eight seasons, from 1956 through 1963, their Hall of Fame defensive end, Andy Robustelli, was known as the Pope in the locker room. To his teammates, the Pope was infallible. When the Pope spoke, they agreed. They still do. When the Pope invited several Giants alumni to a dinner for the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness at ''21'' the other night, they agreed.

Old Giants Rate The New

LEAD: The opening of the Metropolitan Museum's expansive new Lila Acheson Wallace wing for 20th-century art is not only a major event in the history of this august institution, but in the history of New York as a center for that art. With the $26-million Wallace addition - housing an international survey of painting and sculpture from 1900 to now - the Met has established, in essence, a separate museum that becomes the fourth big one in Manhattan devoted solely to the present century.

THE MET MAKES ITS MOVE INTO THE 20TH CENTURY

LEAD: The controversy over arms sales to Iran has substantially altered the campaign for the 1988 Democratic Presidential nomination, politicians say, by increasing the value of the nomination and thus slowing the race down as potential candidates and political professionals reassess their hopes and interests.

IRAN AFFAIR RAISES DEMOCRATS' HOPES AND CAUTION ON '88

LEAD: WHEN Xanadome Structures Ltd., a small manufacturer of prefabricated homes, builds its new factory this spring, it will use a giant balloon to literally blow it up.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Mauston, Wisc.;
Blowing Up A Building

LEAD: SELF-CRITICISM is an art not many are qualified to practice. Despite our best efforts it is probable that, apart from the most immediate, pragmatic, technical revisions, the writer's effort to detach himself from his work is quixotic: knowing too much is a way of knowing too little; or, conversely, how can we expect to know more about ourselves than we know about anything else?

THE WORLD'S WORST CRITICS

LEAD: WITH electric rates in Westchester's Con Edison region down in 1986 for the second consecutive year, the push for cheaper power has lost some of its urgency, county officials say. Nonetheless, they add, it is an issue that they expect to re-emerge.

POWER COST IS DOWN BUT STILL AN ISSUE

LEAD: Lawyers for the two surviving victims of the Dec. 20 racial assault in Howard Beach declared a ''people's victory'' last week after Governor Cuomo assigned a special prosecutor to take over the case.

IMPASSE IN QUEENS ATTACK CASE ENDS

Danon Issouf Johannes Djourou Gbadjere, known as Johan Djourou, is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a centre back. According to his profile on the website of his former club Arsenal, Djourou possessed "pace, power and whole-hearted commitment" in addition to his versatility.

Johan Djourou, Swiss footballer

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Christopher Liebig is a German international rugby union player, playing for the Heidelberger RK in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team.

Christopher Liebig, German rugby player

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Grigoris Makos is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

January 18, 1987

Headlines from January 18, 1987

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PROSPECTS

COLLEGES PRODDED TO PROVE WORTH

BRONCOS ARE PART OF DENVER LANDSCAPE

CONNER'S CREW SAILS TO 3-1 LEAD

Billboard 200

Slippery When Wet

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band 1975-1985

Third Stage

The Way It Is

Different Light

Notable Births

Historical Context for January 18, 1987