LEAD: Harold Kern was grim and haggard as he stood in the small vestibule of the courtroom where the Howard Beach jury was deliberating.

Torturous Wait For Families Of Defendants

LEAD: With passion, anger and calls for unity, Michael Griffith was mourned on the first anniversary of his death yesterday at a crowded memorial service and Mass in a Brooklyn church.

500 MOURN MAN KILLED IN QUEENS

LEAD: Every weekday morning, Lee-Ann Messina takes the 7 A.M. ferry from New London, Conn., where she lives, to the tiny school on this island off the Connecticut coast.

A School Brings Change to a Tiny Island

LEAD: The Democratic Presidential candidates agree that the Federal budget deficit portends economic disaster, that President Reagan is to blame because of his tax cuts and increased military spending, and that among the pressing tasks for the next President will be to control the deficit.

Experts Fault Democrats On Economic Platforms

LEAD: The Jets' season lasted just long enough to tantalize and confound everyone again - players, their coach and their fans.

Eagles Win, 38-27, And Eliminate Jets

INSIDE

LEAD: A Government agency that helps finance American exports is incurring such losses that its capital will be wiped out within nine months, and it will ask Congress for a $3 billion bailout next month, its chief executive says.

U.S. EXPORT BANK SEEKS $3 BILLION

LEAD: The ''shebab,'' hot-eyed, desperate, angry young men, were gathered outside the tiny cinderblock dwelling - it would be hard to call it a house - mourning Abdul Salam Fteihah, who had been shot dead by the Israeli Army.

The Face of Rage in Gaza: Frustrated Youth

LEAD: With the long-sought settlement pact with Texaco Inc. set to be filed Monday, J. Hugh Liedtke stands at the twilight of a remarkable career of oil patch dealings with a challenge few industrialists could face in their wildest dreams: What to do with $3 billion.

A $3 Billion Question for Pennzoil

LEAD: Defying official recommendations, a growing number of doctors who treat carriers of the AIDS virus are prescribing a powerful, potentially toxic drug even before the patients develop serious signs of disease.

DOCTORS STRETCH RULES ON AIDS DRUG

LEAD:  THE ECONOMY  The Export-Import Bank will seek a $3 billion bailout next month. It is incurring such losses that its capital will be wiped out within nine months, its president has warned. For the latest fiscal year, its loss was a record $387 million. [ Page A1. ] Congress approved an emergency spending bill to keep the Government in business through midnight on Monday.

BUSINESS DIGEST: MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1987

LEAD: THE news spread quickly on that cool autumn evening in October 1976. The New York Nets, as they were known then, were on the West Coast, beginning their first season in the National Basketball Association. It was supposed to be a time for celebration for the team from a maligned league that played with a ball that critics said belonged on a beach, not a basketball court.

Swamped In New Jersey

LEAD: It has survived one of the fiercest, most unpredictable and costly legal battles in history. But Texaco Inc.'s problems are by no means over.

Texaco's Next Task Is to Rebuild

LEAD: Two months after black Monday and in the midst of its holiday fund-raising drive, the Salvation Army says collections in the New York area are running far behind last year's.

Market Slide Cuts Gifts To a Charity

LEAD: The White House and Congressional leaders reached agreement tonight on a compromise that would give $8.1 million in aid to the Nicaraguan rebels and sets up a possible showdown vote on American policy toward the contras in early February.

CONTRA AID ACCORD SET BY CONGRESS AND WHITE HOUSE

LEAD: The E. F. Hutton Group's efforts in the last two years to turn around the fortunes of the battered investment house by hiring away talent from other companies have turned out to be an expensive gamble that failed.

Big Payments For 5 Officials At Hutton

LEAD: On a weekend that many feared would be filled with tear gas and thousands in the streets, a group of women sat in a beauty salon, resigned to a new President most had voted against but determined that his new Government would be accountable to them.

Koreans' 'Taste of Freedom' Brings a New Self-Assurance

LEAD: It seemed like intermission in a play that already had lasted too long, and while few people milling about the lobby felt certain of the final outcome, many were willing to predict on what basis the critics would render their reviews.

Metro Matters; Howard Beach: The 'Other' Jury In the Long Trial

LEAD: The veil of secrecy surrounding trading in the Treasury and agency securities market ought to be lifted, at least partly, according to a report to be published today by the General Accounting Office.

Secrecy On Bonds Criticized

New Yorkers & Co.; Oatmeal Maker Hires Santa For a Battle With 2 Goliaths

LEAD: Wade Wilson passed for one touchdown and ran for another today as the Minnesota Vikings snapped a two-game losing streak and kept their playoff hopes alive with a 17-14 victory over the bumbling Detroit Lions.

Vikings Remain in the Hunt

LEAD: * C. R. Bard Inc., Murray Hill, N.J., a maker of surgical products, elected George A. Davis executive vice president and Terence C. Brady Jr. senior vice president.

EXECUTIVE CHANGES

LEAD: AFTER more than six months of speculation and debate, a committee of Delaware's bar association is on the verge of approving new rules governing corporate takeovers, lawyers say.

Business and the Law; Compromise Near In Delaware

LEAD: Syracuse University will be sending two football teams to the Sugar Bowl.

No Sugar Bowl II

LEAD: The judge presiding over the long-running legal battle between the Intel Corporation and the NEC Corporation of Japan has disqualified himself from the case and vacated an earlier ruling that was considered favorable to the American semiconductor industry.

Judge Quits Intel-NEC Case

Khristopher Adrian Davis, nicknamed “Khrush”, is an American former professional baseball left fielder and designated hitter. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics and Texas Rangers. Davis led MLB with 48 home runs in the 2018 season.

December 21, 1987

Headlines from December 21, 1987

Torturous Wait For Families Of Defendants

500 MOURN MAN KILLED IN QUEENS

A School Brings Change to a Tiny Island

Experts Fault Democrats On Economic Platforms

Eagles Win, 38-27, And Eliminate Jets

Billboard 200

Dirty Dancing

Bad

Faith

Whitesnake

A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

Notable Births

Historical Context for December 21, 1987