LEAD: The legal holiday for New Year's Day is Monday. Below are holiday schedules.  NEW YORK  Government offices: Closed.  Post office: Express Mail and special delivery only; main office open at 33d Street and Eighth Avenue.  Banks: Closed.  Parking: Sunday rules in effect.  Sanitation: No street cleanings or collection.

Holiday on Monday

LEAD: The Federal Aviation Administration yesterday announced strict new security measures, including emptying and searching the luggage of more passengers, for flights of United States airlines from 103 airports in the Middle East and Western Europe.

U.S. IS TIGHTENING SECURITY CHECKS ON FLIGHTS ABROAD

LEAD: The sign in a front window at the Mays department store on Fulton Street in Brooklyn reads ''Nice to See You Again,'' but after 6 P.M. tomorrow, the message to shoppers will be moot.

Grieving Workers Brace for Mays's Closing

LEAD: Aviation safety experts and Federal regulators say better maintenance programs must be developed for the nation's aging airliner fleet if the planes are to remain safe.

Changes in Maintenance Sought To Keep Old Planes Flying Safely

LEAD:  CLOSINGS: The Defense Secretary's commission recommended that 86 bases be closed and 5 more partly closed and the operations transferred to 54 other bases.  LAYOFFS: About 58,500 military and civillian employees would lose their jobs or be trensferred. But the panel said there would be 37,850 new jobs or assignments at other bases.

The Plan for Cuts

LEAD: Three sailors riding gargantuan seas in life jackets were plucked to safety, but two shipmates were dead adrift and six others missing and presumed lost yesterday after a freighter capsized and sank in a howling Atlantic gale off the New Jersey coast.

Death, Despair and Valor: The Sinking of a Freighter

LEAD: The United States should narrow its efforts to restrict exports of computer hardware and software to Communist nations and concentrate on certain advanced technologies that have crucial military applications, according to a report to be released today by the National Academy of Sciences.

U.S. Shift Urged On Export Rules For Technology

LEAD: A 34-year-old man being sought on charges of violating a court order to stay away from his estranged wife shot her to death and wounded his 2-year-old daughter here today before killing himself, the Suffolk County police said.

L.I. Man Fatally Shoots Wife, Then Himself

LEAD: For many of the 8,000 economists gathered in Manhattan this week, the law of supply and demand is more than an echo of Adam Smith. They are job-hunting, and the good news for them is that the demand for economists exceeds the supply.

Their Economic Priority: A Job

LEAD: Japan's newly appointed Justice Minister reversed himself and resigned this morning because he had received political donations from a company at the heart of a widening stock scandal.

JAPANESE MINISTER QUITS IN SCANDAL

LEAD: A Federal commission today proposed a sweeping plan to shut down 86 military bases and partly close five others to save $5.6 billion over 20 years.

PANEL ON MILITARY CALLS FOR CLOSING OF SCORES OF BASES

LEAD: In an effort to deal with overcrowding in New York State prisons and the growing number of new inmates who are drug addicts, a state legislator is proposing that certain prisoners who complete intensive drug-treatment programs be considered for early parole.

Early Parole Is Proposed In Drug Plan

LEAD: Supporters and opponents of a stiff rise in the Federal gasoline tax have begun to square off in what is likely to be one of the biggest political battles of the new administration.

Fight Over a Gasoline Tax Rise

INSIDE

LEAD: Stocks rallied to close moderately higher yesterday, led by strength in blue-chip issues, as the Dow Jones industrial average finished just short of its highest close in more than a year.

Dow's Close Is 2d Highest Since Crash

LEAD: Wall Street yesterday saw the first impact of Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc.'s $650 million proposed settlement of criminal charges on the firm's ability to do business, when a Federal judge used the settlement as a basis to delay a hostile takeover.

Citing Drexel Case, Judge Delays Takeover

LEAD: AS the last of its 31,622,400 seconds tick into oblivion tomorrow night, 1988 promises to go out with a ball, a bang and a bonanza of festive celebrations in New York City.

Lights! Champagne! Music! 53 Ways to Welcome the New Year

LEAD: The Justice Department announced today that it would ''aggressively'' investigate to determine whether Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr. has committed a crime.

U.S. Investigates Mayor of Capital; He Denies a Swirl of Drug Rumors

LEAD: School vacation has reached that critical point. The other morning, 6-year-old Erin Striebel watched ''Dirty Dancing'' on the VCR six straight times. She has now seen ''Grease'' more than 100 times. ''I love it,'' she said.

Our Towns; Cookie Sales 101, Or What to Do If 'Cute' Fails

WEEKENDER GUIDE

LEAD: A four-month investigation into allegations of police misconduct during a melee at Tompkins Square Park last summer has been severely hampered by a lack of voluntary cooperation by officers who were at the scene and by problems in identifying officers accused of abusing civilians, the head of the Civilian Complaint Review

Melee Inquiry Is Stalled, Board Reports

LEAD: At the Yale Center for British Art here, there is a retrospective exhibition of paintings, collages, constructions and mixed-media works by Victor Pasmore, an English painter who turned 80 years old this month. It is not a show that I shall feign to have looked at with an objective eye. It was Mr.

Review/Art; Art of Opposites: New Haven Show Of Victor Pasmore

LEAD: The Sudanese police fired on a crowd of demonstrators in Khartoum today as rioting and widespread strikes continued in the Sudanese capital and other parts of the country.

1 Killed, 40 Hurt, as Sudan Police Fire on Khartoum Demonstrators

LEAD: Amid rising criticism from Congress, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board today continued its campaign to rescue troubled savings institutions before the end of the year, announcing three transactions that will require $1.18 billion in assistance.

13 More Savings Bailouts Set

LEAD:  INTERNATIONAL  The U.S. should abandon its efforts to limit a wide range of computer exports to Communist nations and focus instead on restricting a narrower range of advanced technologies with military applications, the National Academy of Sciences says. The study contends the Soviet Union and its allies have gotten hold of many computer technologies despite the Reagan Administration's strict export controls.

BUSINESS DIGEST

Yuli Markovich Daniel was a Russian writer and Soviet dissident known as a defendant in the Sinyavsky–Daniel trial in 1966.

Yuli Daniel, Russian author and poet (born 1925)

Yuli_Daniel

Isamu Noguchi  was an American artist, furniture designer and landscape architect whose career spanned six decades from the 1920s. Known for his sculpture and public artworks, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces, some of which are still manufactured and sold.

December 30, 1988

Headlines from December 30, 1988

Holiday on Monday

U.S. IS TIGHTENING SECURITY CHECKS ON FLIGHTS ABROAD

Grieving Workers Brace for Mays's Closing

Changes in Maintenance Sought To Keep Old Planes Flying Safely

The Plan for Cuts

Billboard 200

Giving You The Best That I Got

Rattle And Hum (Soundtrack)

Cocktail

Appetite For Destruction

New Jersey

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for December 30, 1988