LEAD: Less than three weeks remain for thousands of Soviet troops still in Afghanistan to withdraw through mountain passes dotted with hundreds of potential ambush sites, many of them occupied by thousands of Afghan guerrillas.

Rough Road Out of Kabul for Soviets

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LEAD: The continuing uncertainty over Long Island's future electricity costs and supplies is taking a rising toll on businesses on the Island, economists and business leaders say.

L.I. Businesses Feel the Toll Of Lilco's Uncertain Future

LEAD: Two representatives of the Unisys Corporation pleaded guilty today to charges of providing illegal campaign contributions to members of Congress.

2 Admit Illicit Political Donations In Military Procurement Inquiry

LEAD: As turmoil grows and security conditions worsen in Afghanistan, President Bush said today that the United States would try to help bring stability to that country after the Soviets complete their troop withdrawal.

Bush Says U.S. Will Seek a Role In Kabul's Post-Kremlin Stability

LEAD: The nation's economy grew at an annual rate of 2 percent in fourth quarter of 1988, reduced 1.1 percent by the summer's drought. Page 35.

G.N.P. Increases by 2%

LEAD: A gunman's rampage in a schoolyard in Stockton, Calif., and a wave of gang killings have dramatically improved the chances for laws banning the sale of military assault guns to the public.

Effort to Ban Assault Rifles Gains Momentum

LEAD: Capping its best week in eight months, the stock market surged ahead yesterday on buying by American and foreign institutional investors. Traders said buying was encouraged by a stronger dollar and by renewed indications that the Federal Reserve would not push up interest rates.

STRONGER DOLLAR HELPS STOCKS RISE

LEAD: Concerned that people were withdrawing deposits from savings institutions after reports earlier this week that the Administration might impose fees on accounts, President Bush sought today to assure the public that savings deposits are safe.

SAVERS ARE GIVEN BUSH'S ASSURANCE ON DEPOSIT SAFETY

LEAD: Nearing the end of a weeklong visit to India, Vietnamese officials said today that they they wanted New Delhi to play a major role in supervising a political solution to the decade-old war in Cambodia.

Visiting Hanoi Officials Seek Indian Aid in Cambodia Crisis

LEAD: ''The savings and loan deposits are backed by the full faith and credit of the Government, and they are sound, dollar-good.'' - President Bush.  [ 6:1. ]

Quotation of the Day

LEAD: President Bush's national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft, has selected a former State Department official to be his top assistant for Middle East and Persian Gulf policy, Administration officials say.

Scowcroft Names Chief Of Middle East Policy

LEAD:  International 2-5, 28  Bringing stability to Afghanistan after the Soviets complete their troop withdrawal will be an aim of United States, President Bush said. Page 1  Possible collapse of the Afghan Army is a danger to Soviet troops in the last three weeks of their withdrawal through mountain passes that hold hundreds of ambush sites and thousands of Afghan guerrillas.

NEWS SUMMARY

LEAD: An obituary yesterday about Robert W. Burmester, an accounting executive who died on Monday, misstated his age and misidentified his wife. He was 55 years old; his wife was the former Barbara Hosek.

Corrections

LEAD: A report in the TV Notes column on Thursday described a dispute over a Channel 13 program, ''The 11th Hour,'' about proposals for the old Penn Central rail yards on the West Side of Manhattan. John Young, an architect who gave the producers information about red tape in such projects, appeared on the program but did not speak.

Editors' Note

LEAD: A map on Thursday with an article about plans for a new Police Academy and new housing in the Bronx showed the locations incorrectly. A corrected version appears today on page 31.

LEAD: A report yesterday about the marriage of Randi Ellen Pearson misidentified the bridegroom. He is Andrew Noah Heine.

LEAD: An article yesterday about indictments of five New York City school officials carried an incomplete description in some editions for Silver Burdett & Ginn, depicted as the target of a bribe attempt, and omitted any comment from the company. Silver Burdett is a publishing company, and its comment is reported today on page 31.

LEAD: The Dutch Parliament today pardoned two Nazi war criminals who spent 43 years in prison and sent them home to their families in West Germany.

DUTCH FREE 2 NAZIS IN PRISON 43 YEARS

LEAD: Yasir Arafat, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, held his first official talks with the European Community today.

Arafat Meets Formally With European Community

LEAD: An article yesterday about an offer to purchase the unfinished United States Embassy building in Moscow referred incorrectly, in some copies, to a halt in construction. Work was halted in 1985, not last year.

LEAD: An article on the Washington Talk page yesterday about the Army's effort to eliminate contract fraud described an out-of-court settlement with the N. W. Ayer advertising agency incorrectly. In paying $700,000 to cover what the Army considered excessive labor costs, the agency admitted no wrongdoing.

LEAD: Andrzej Milczanowski took Solidarity's case for talks with the Government to the grass roots this week, and ran into a wall of suspicion and disbelief of the Government's intentions.

At a Solidarity Meeting, The Call Is for Strength

LEAD: Fifty people, including three children, were killed today and 46 injured when a military truck loaded with Haitian workers on their way to Dominican sugar fields flipped over. The truck was bound for the Jaina refinery. ''The driver was speeding and it looked like he fell asleep,'' said a survivor, Louis Raphael.

Truck Crash Kills 50 Haitians

LEAD: In a sharp break with past policy, Angolan officials now indicate that they will seek a political solution to their nation's long-running civil war.

Angola Gives Hints of Willingness To Seek Political Solution to War

Siem Stefan de Jong is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or striker.

Siem de Jong, Dutch footballer

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Lobsang Trinley Lhündrub Chökyi Gyaltsen was the tenth Panchen Lama, officially the 10th Panchen Erdeni, of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. According to Tibetan Buddhism, Panchen Lamas are living emanations of the buddha Amitabha. He was often referred to simply as Choekyi Gyaltsen.

January 28, 1989

Headlines from January 28, 1989

Rough Road Out of Kabul for Soviets

INSIDE

L.I. Businesses Feel the Toll Of Lilco's Uncertain Future

2 Admit Illicit Political Donations In Military Procurement Inquiry

Bush Says U.S. Will Seek a Role In Kabul's Post-Kremlin Stability

Billboard 200

Don't Be Cruel

Appetite For Destruction

Traveling Wilburys

Hysteria

Open Up And Say...Ahh!

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for January 28, 1989