January 29, 1989

LEAD: The success of warehouse outlet stores in the New Jersey Meadowlands about a mile west of the Lincoln Tunnel is leading to yet another one, on a three-acre site at the intersection of County Avenue and Metro Way in Secaucus. The proposed warehouse would adjoin the Hartz Mountain Industries Harmon Cove development, one of several that together house more than 100 retail outlets selling clothing and housewares at better than bargain-basement discounts (60 percent below ordinary retail prices is not unusual).

LEAD: Before Louisiana State's game with Georgetown today, there were suspicions that Chris Jackson, the Tigers' outstanding freshman guard, was a regional phenomenon at best, more hype than substance.

LEAD: In the four years since a shuttered General Motors Corporation factory here re-opened as a joint venture with the Toyota Motors Corporation, the resurrected assembly plant has been hailed as proof that a labor and management utopia could be created in American heavy industry.

LEAD: Working through its embassy in West Germany, Iran has secretly enlisted companies from Germany, Asia and the United States to expand its limited stockpile of the chemicals needed to make poison gas, according to Federal court records and American officials.

LEAD: There is a large bulletin board in the rear of the Nets' locker room. The coaching staff uses it to keep track of the National Basketball Association standing.