LEAD: Born in the plenty of the Great Society and come of age in the stringent days of the Reagan Administration, a Bronx family-care clinic yesterday celebrated its 20th anniversary.

AMID LEAN TIMES, A CLINIC SURVIVES TO SERVE THE POOR

LEAD: The Bally Manufacturing Company said yesterday that it had signed a definitive agreement to buy the Golden Nugget Casino/Hotel in Atlantic City from Golden Nugget Inc. in a deal valued at $439 million.

Bally Signs Deal to Buy Golden Nugget Casino

LEAD: Extradition for Lebanese  The Justice Department said it would not seek the death penalty for a Lebanese hijacking suspect, clearing the way for his extradition. Page A5.  Nicaraguan Cardinal Beaten  The Roman Catholic Primate of Nicaragua was beaten, verbally abused and robbed over the weekend in Miami, relatives said.

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LEAD: The Islanders had talked about taking the giant step from being an also-ran to a contender, and they knew they needed to dominate the Flyers in order to achieve that.

FLYERS SURPRISED BY ISLANDERS, 3-1

LEAD: Nassau and Suffolk commuters today put together car pools, made hotel reservations and imposed on friends and relatives with apartments in Manhattan as they mapped strategies for getting to work with the nation's busiest commuter railroad paralyzed by a strike.

NEW TALKS TODAY; RIDERS ARE BRACED

LEAD: Workers walked off their jobs early yesterday at the Long Island Rail Road, shutting down the nation's busiest commuter line.

NEW TALKS TODAY; BUS RUNS PLANNED

LEAD: Pushed downward in fast-paced speculative trading, the dollar breached a psychological barrier of 150 yen in early trading here today.

NEW LOW FOR DOLLAR IN TOKYO

LEAD: IT has nothing to do with his generous waistline, but Bill Parcells seems to be two people. One is the highly successful football coach who will take his Giants into Super Bowl XXI against the Denver Broncos Sunday in Pasadena, Calif. The other is the little boy who grew up five minutes from where Giants Stadium would be built, dreamed of coaching the

THE TWO SIDES OF BILL PARCELLS

LEAD: Nothing has been swift about the completion of an appointment at the Grand Central Station Post Office. In three years, the Postal Service has narrowed the field to three from nine real-estate developers in a contest for a 99-year-lease at the Lexington Avenue site.

Wanted: Developer For New Skyscraper

LEAD: After the replacement of Hu Yaobang as Communist Party leader, China's intellectuals were warned today that the recent atmosphere of freer expression and discussion would be sharply curtailed.

CHINA VOWS CURB ON FREE DISCUSSION

LEAD: Backed by a declaration by the Surgeon General that cigarettes harm nonsmokers and a 1986 Supreme Court decision suggesting that the Government could prohibit cigarette advertising, advocates of such a ban are planning a major push for it in Congress this year.

BAN ON CIGARETTE ADS TO BE URGED IN CONGRESS

LEAD: For a time last week, the clock seemed turned back 15 years: Mario M. Cuomo, Queens lawyer, was once again mediating a racial dispute centered in his home borough but of interest nationwide.

CUOMO AND HOWARD BEACH: RECALLING POLITICAL ROOTS

LEAD: In 1970, a Hispanic tool-and-die maker and a Rumanian refugee joined forces and began to transform a small machine shop in the South Bronx into a $100 million-a-year military contractor listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

WEDTECH: RISE AND FALL OF A WELL-CONNECTED BRONX COMPANY

LEAD: The latest rise of the yen against the dollar has heightened concerns here about the effect that the shift in currencies is having on the domestic economy.

SOARING YEN STIRS CONCERN

LEAD: A week before a national election that it seems assured of winning, Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Government is growing deeply anxious about the implications of a rapidly sinking dollar and a rising mark for West Germany's export-based economy.

BONN UNEASY ON EXPORTS

BUSINESS DIGEST: MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1987

LEAD: In a world as unforgiving of mistakes as the microelectronics industry, most people would simply shrug it off if a high-tech equipment maker as small as the GCA Corporation ceased to exist in the midst of the computer slump.

BIG WORRIES OVER SMALL GCA

LEAD: The presidents of locals of the United Steelworkers union ratified contract concessions tonight with the USX Corporation that will mean wage cuts for its members and the loss of more than 1,300 jobs.

STEEL UNION LOCALS BACK USX PACT

LEAD: In its continuing investigation of the takeover business on Wall Street, the Securities and Exchange Commission has uncovered evidence suggesting that Ivan F. Boesky worked with several brokerage firms to systematically evade securities laws and profit from corporate takeovers, according to lawyers and other sources with knowledge of the inquiry.

S.E.C. IS SAID TO WIDEN ITS WALL STREET INQUIRY

LEAD: For more than a year, the Reagan Administration repeatedly ignored internal warnings that its arms sales to Iran were based on faulty intelligence, dependent upon unreliable middlemen and likely to fall far short of White House goals, according to a staff report prepared for the Senate Intelligence

A YEAR OF MISTAKES AND WARNINGS IGNORED IN IRAN DEAL, REPORT SAYS

LEAD: IT happened a long time ago back on a Georgia farm somewhere between Americus and Andersonville. Dan Reeves, who will turn 43 years old today, remembers he was 5 years old, and had been very sick.

REEVES GUIDED BY BASIC VALUES

LEAD: The centerpiece of a poster in the Michigan dressing room today was a big orange ''15-0'' - Syracuse's record entering its game with the Wolverines. But the Orangemen were upset today, 91-88, and after the game, someone had covered up the ''0'' with the number ''1.''

MICHIGAN UPSETS SYRACUSE BY 91-88

LEAD: Thomas W. Manning, an avowed revolutionary, was convicted today of murder while in the commission of felonies the shooting of State Trooper Philip J. Lamonaco in 1981.

GUILTY VERDICT AND MISTRIAL IN JERSEY TROOPER DEATH

LEAD: A leading Iraqi official has asserted that misleading intelligence information provided by the United States led last year to a major Iraqi defeat in the war with Iran.

IRAQ ASCRIBES A KEY DEFEAT IN '86 TO MISINFORMATION FROM THE U.S.

LEAD: There were rumors last week around the headquarters of Heublein Inc. in Farmington, Conn., that something was afoot, but the announcement that RJR Nabisco was selling Heublein to Grand Metropolitan surprised many employees.

Many at Heublein Surprised by Sale

Edgar Manucharyan is an Armenian former professional footballer who played as a forward.

Edgar Manucharyan, Armenian footballer

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January 19, 1987

Headlines from January 19, 1987

AMID LEAN TIMES, A CLINIC SURVIVES TO SERVE THE POOR

Bally Signs Deal to Buy Golden Nugget Casino

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FLYERS SURPRISED BY ISLANDERS, 3-1

NEW TALKS TODAY; RIDERS ARE BRACED

Billboard 200

Slippery When Wet

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band 1975-1985

Third Stage

The Way It Is

Different Light

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for January 19, 1987