LEAD: Nearly 100 days ago, Lisa Steinberg was fatally beaten in her family's Greenwich Village apartment. Not only could it happen again to someone else, it has.

Metro Matters; Long After Lisa, Tragedy of Abuse Can Still Happen

LEAD: Federal regulators will meet on Wednesday with representatives of several California savings and loan institutions to discuss a proposal for breaking up the troubled Financial Corporation of America, a spokesman for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board said today.

Talks Set on Savings Unit Breakup

BUSINESS DIGEST: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1988

LEAD: From the day the National Basketball Association awarded Chicago the All-Star Game, the expectation was that it would be a weekend made for Michael Jordan. It was.

Jordan Scores 40 And Wins M.V.P.

LEAD: When his name surfaced last month in connection with a Congressional appropriation of $8 million to build schools in France for refugees from North Africa, Zev W. Wolfson was appalled.

New Yorkers & Co.; Bold on Charity, Bashful on Publicity

LEAD: The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation announced yesterday that it had agreed to acquire I.M.S. International for $1.77 billion in stock.

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LEAD: At 6:15 A.M. yesterday, the Jersey City Chief of Police, John Fritz, walked into Police Headquarters at 8 Erie Street, went to his third-floor office and locked the door. He took his .38-caliber off-duty revolver from a safe and sometime in the next three hours, police officials said, sat down in his high-backed executive's chair and killed himself with a single shot to the right temple.

Police Chief Of Jersey City Kills Himself

LEAD: When the Rural Justice Center looked for a place exemplifying some of the most vexing problems of rural justice in the United States, it came here to Robeson County, which has a volatile population mix of whites, blacks and Indians, and a District Attorney who has put more people on death row than any prosecutor in the United States.

INDIAN HOSTAGE CASE BRINGS UP QUESTIONS ABOUT RURAL JUSTICE

LEAD: Israeli soldiers firing into a stone-throwing crowd killed three Palestinians in this tiny village today as demonstrations flared all along the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

FIVE MORE DEAD IN ARAB PROTESTS

LEAD: There was the unmistakable air of carnival today, as if some zany festival of democracy had erupted in this ordinarily earnest Midwestern city.

Air of Zaniness Brushes Iowa Just in Time for Caucus Day

LEAD: In an action reflecting the growing crisis in relations between Panama and the United States, the Panamanian Government has recalled three senior diplomats, including its Ambassador to Washington, for ''urgent consultations,'' state-controlled radio stations and newspapers here said today.

PANAMA RECALLS ENVOYS FROM U.S. AS CRISIS DEEPENS

LEAD: For the second consecutive game, the Cornell University basketball team is involved in a fight, this one against Syracuse in the Carrier Dome. It starts when Greg Gilda of Cornell and Derrick Brower of Syracuse begin bumping and pushing under the basket. Punches are thrown and both are ejected, as is Derrick Coleman of

Battling Athletes Hurt Sports' Image

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LEAD: A decade after it began accumulating a vast stock of rundown apartment houses, New York City finds itself unable to manage them, repair them, return them to private landlords or improve the abysmal conditions for the tens of thousands of people living in them.

New York City, the Landlord: A Decade of Housing Decay

LEAD: Anna Mikhailovna Larina was barely 17 years old when the Bolshevik revolutionary Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin proposed to her. By the age of 22, she was his wife, a budding economist and a mother. By 24, she was his widow, inheriting scorn and infamy.

Widow of Bukharin Fulfills Her Mission 50 Years Later

LEAD: North Korea's demand to be a co-host of the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, South Korea, is tied to its desire for reunification with South Korea, a senior North Korean sports official said Saturday night.

Games Symbolic To North Korea

LEAD: This year's tax filing season will be a historic, if confusing, time for American taxpayers as they grapple with the intricacies of the vastly revised Federal income tax system for the first time.

New Income Tax Rules Mean Work and Confusion for Filers

LEAD: This week's meeting of the Federal Reserve, which stands almost alone these days in managing the economy, will provide important indications of its goals for growth and interest rates and will test its resistance to political influence.

Fed's Talks This Week To Yield Signs on Goals

LEAD: A strike by production workers at the Ford Motor Company's 21 plants in Britain, which started late tonight, is the first national walkout in a decade at the nation's leading car maker.

Strike Begins Against Ford In Britain

LEAD: In almost every high-profile case tried recently in the New York courts, judges have been sealing documents, holding secret hearings, curbing lawyers' out-of-court remarks or taking other actions to limit the access of news organizations and the public to sensitive information.

PRESS CURBS INCREASING IN COURTS

LEAD: As Governor Cuomo and Mayor Koch presented their budget plans for next year recently, a listener could be forgiven for wondering if the two men lived in the same state. Despite the stock market plunge in October, Mr. Cuomo, who presented his budget to the State Legislature last month, gave an optimistic appraisal of the economy.

KOCH AND CUOMO: A CONTRAST IN BUDGET FORECASTS

LEAD: They came, they skied, they chatted.

Theme of Economic Forum Is a Tighter Belt for U.S.

LEAD: Rupert Murdoch announced yesterday that he had agreed to sell The New York Post to Peter S. Kalikow, a New York City real-estate entrepreneur. But the $37 million sale is contingent upon significant concessions from The Post's labor unions, and Mr. Kalikow has given no guarantee that the newspaper will be kept open in any case.

Murdoch Agrees to Sell The Post to Developer

LEAD: As giant banks flounder and regional banks flourish, the turmoil churning the nation's banking system is beginning to show up in the rankings of the nation's largest banking companies.

Regionals Rise in Bank Ranking

LEAD: Sometimes you get a little grouchy, said Stephen Taylor Woodrow, when you hang on a museum wall for six hours a day, covered with black spray paint.

This Painting Shakes Hands And Audiences

Keegan Orry Meth is a former Zimbabwean cricketer. He played domestically for the Matabeleland Tuskers and represented Zimbabwe in international cricket. An all-rounder, he bowled right-arm medium-fast and generally batted in the lower middle order.

February 8, 1988

Headlines from February 8, 1988

Metro Matters; Long After Lisa, Tragedy of Abuse Can Still Happen

Talks Set on Savings Unit Breakup

BUSINESS DIGEST: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1988

Jordan Scores 40 And Wins M.V.P.

New Yorkers & Co.; Bold on Charity, Bashful on Publicity

Billboard 200

Faith

Tiffany

Dirty Dancing

Kick

Bad

Notable Births

Historical Context for February 8, 1988