LEAD: Both hands encased in plaster casts, Imad Omar Abu Rub explained from his bed in the Rafidiya Hospital what happened when the Israeli Army came to the Palestinian village of Qabatiya.

Arabs Recount Severe Beatings By Israel Troops

LEAD: A Federal judge declared a mistrial yesterday in the nine-month-old racketeering and drug trial of Gene Gotti and nine co-defendants. The judge said the Government's allegations of jury tampering had persuaded him such a move was needed.

MISTRIAL DECLARED IN LONG MOB CASE

LEAD: The arbitrator who found that baseball club owners acted in collusion against free agents after the 1985 season yesterday ordered that seven of those players be given a chance to be free agents again.

7 in Baseball Collusion Case Win Free Agency

LEAD: Top Pentagon officials have endorsed an armaments plan intended to maintain the military balance in Europe after the withdrawal of nuclear missiles under a new treaty.

Top Pentagon Officials Back Plan Keeping Arms Balance in Europe

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LEAD: One of three white teen-agers convicted of manslaughter and assault for attacking three black men in Howard Beach, Queens, was sentenced yesterday to the maximum of 10 to 30 years in prison by a judge who denounced him for the ''hatred'' and ''savageness'' shown by his actions.

HOWARD BEACH DEFENDANT GIVEN MAXIMUM TERM OF 10 TO 30 YEARS

LEAD: A divided Federal appeals court today struck down the law authorizing judges to appoint the special prosecutors who investigate suspected crimes by high-level officials of the executive branch.

U.S. COURT UPSETS LAW ON APPOINTING KEY PROSECUTORS

LEAD: The Martin Marietta Corporation won a contract yesterday to take the lead in developing a billion-dollar ''Star Wars'' computer complex. The complex would be able to simulate strategic defense systems and evaluate whether it is technically possible to repel a nuclear attack.

U.S. CHOOSES MARTIN MARIETTA FOR SIMULATION OF 'STAR WARS'

LEAD: ''What should be obvious to everyone here is that racism breeds hatred and hatred breeds racism and it is a vicious circle.'' - Justice Thomas A. Demakos of State Supreme Court in Queens.  [ 1:4. ]

Quotation of the Day

LEAD:  INTERNATIONAL 3-6, 28  Israelis are beating Palestinians under a new army policy. The policy is designed to end the wave of protests in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip that began in early December. Page 1  A curfew on an Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem was imposed by the Israeli police, who invoked emergency powers in the city for the first time since East Jerusalem was annexed in 1967.

NEWS SUMMARY: SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1988

LEAD: By 9 P.M. on Thursday, the Arthur Scargill gospel hour had begun at the Maltby Miners Welfare Club in this south Yorkshire coal-mining town.

Sermon at the Coal Pits: A Britain for Workers

LEAD: A picture caption in The Living Section on Jan. 6 about Les Chefs de France, a restaurant at Epcot Center in Orlando, Fla., misidentified the Disney character greeting visitors. It was Pluto.

Correction

LEAD: France and West Germany marked the 25th anniversary of their friendship treaty today by creating a joint military council and the legal basis for a French-German brigade. The leaders of the two nations also announced the formation of an advisory council to coordinate their economic policies.

Paris and Bonn Set Up Military Link

LEAD: An Article on Jan. 2 about the expiration of British copyrights to ''Peter Pan'' incompletely described the status of the United States copyrights to J. M. Barrie's work. The novel ''Peter Pan'' entered the public domain in the United States in 1986. The play ''Peter Pan'' is still protected under copyright in the United States.

CORRECTION

LEAD: Britain's High Court awarded more than $295,000 in compensation to a family whose father died when a English Channel ferry, the Herald of Free Enterprise, sank off Belgium in March, killing nearly 200 people.

Award in Channel Disaster

LEAD: When President Jaime Lusinchi took office in early 1984, his longtime liaison with his private secretary, Blanca Ibanez, seemed nothing out of the ordinary for a country where the extramarital relationships of prominent politicians have traditionally been heralded as signs of virility.

Caracas Journal; A President, a Liaison and a Lot of Political Clout

LEAD: Nicaraguan rebel leaders said today that they would ask Congress to approve renewed military aid to the contras but to put the money in an escrow account for 30 days while they hold peace talks with the Sandinistas.

Reagan Delaying Decision On Amount of Contra Aid; Rebels Back Escrow Idea

LEAD: A second Haitian opposition leader was detained at the airport here this afternoon in what many Haitians and some Western diplomats said appeared to be a Government effort to divert attention from the presidential elections last Sunday.

2d Haitian Leader Detained After Criticizing Vote

LEAD: Sandinista demonstrators attacked and broke up a meeting today at which speakers were demanding amnesty for prisoners.

SANDINISTAS HALT AMNESTY MEETING

LEAD: President Reagan decided today to postpone until the last minute a decision on how much aid he will request for the Nicaraguan rebels, White House officials said.

Reagan Delaying Decision On Amount of Contra Aid

LEAD: The police imposed a curfew tonight on A-Tur, an Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem, invoking special emergency powers in this city for the first time since East Jerusalem was captured from Jordan in 1967.

Israelis Impose Curfew On East Jerusalem Area

LEAD: Parliament decided today that President Kurt Waldheim will not deliver an address on the 50th anniversary of Hitler's takeover of Austria, but a Government commission decided to ask him to address another assembly.

Parliament in Vienna Bars a Waldheim Talk

LEAD: Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar called on the Security Council today to begin an urgent effort to end the Arab-Israeli conflict, saying a political solution was the only way to insure the safety of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

U.N. Chief Calls for Urgent Action By Council on Arab-Israel Accord

LEAD: Faced with internal dissent, the Palestine Liberation Organization has put off an immediate decision on whether to set up a government in exile, according to Western and Arab diplomats here.

P.L.O. Is Said to Delay on Government in Exile

LEAD: A bartender won $10 million in the Illinois lottery after hitting the wrong button on a computer and dispensing $50 worth of unwanted tickets that she had to buy herself.

Unwanted Lottery Ticket Brings Holder $10 Million

Charles Glen King was an American biochemist who was a pioneer in the field of nutrition research and who isolated vitamin C at the same time as Albert Szent-Györgyi. A biography of King states that many feel he deserves equal credit with Szent-Györgyi for the discovery of this vitamin.

January 23, 1988

Headlines from January 23, 1988

Arabs Recount Severe Beatings By Israel Troops

MISTRIAL DECLARED IN LONG MOB CASE

7 in Baseball Collusion Case Win Free Agency

Top Pentagon Officials Back Plan Keeping Arms Balance in Europe

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Billboard 200

Tiffany

Faith

Dirty Dancing

Bad

Whitesnake

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for January 23, 1988