LEAD: This is the story of a near miss in the troubled world of data gathering.

For Gatherers of U.S. Data, A Close Call Last Month

LEAD: Congressional negotiators announced today that they had agreed on a $305 billion military programs bill that for the first time forces cuts in spending on the Pentagon's ''Star Wars'' program.

LAWMAKERS AGREE ON 'STAR WARS' CUT

LEAD: A Federal appeals court has set back efforts by family-planning groups in New York State to continue providing abortion information to clients without losing Federal funds.

Funds Barred For Advisers On Abortion

LEAD: The Attorney General of New York said yesterday that three men had been indicted for running a company that had illegally transmitted about $70 million to the Dominican Republic and elsewhere in Latin America in more than 500,000 transactions.

3 Are Indicted Over Money Transfers

LEAD: A white-haired woman put on a scratchy recording of ''New York, New York'' at a Brooklyn community center the other day and claimed the first dance with Rudolph W. Giuliani, gently nudging another woman aside.

Campaign Profile; Warily, Giuliani Learns To Embrace the Voters

LEAD: Laura DePasquale moved here five years ago from Jersey City because she liked the character of the town. ''Part of that is there are no taverns,'' Mrs. DePasquale said. ''In Jersey City, I lived down the street from a bar, and I wanted to get away from that. I selected this town for several reasons, and no bars is one of them.

Our Towns; Bar-less Town Looks to Build On Shot and Beer

Business Digest

LEAD: In another indication that future corporate takeovers may not heavily rely on debt, one of the largest leveraged buyout firms is trying to raise $3 billion from institutions to invest in publicly traded companies without borrowing.

Leveraged Buyout Leader Shifts Attention

LEAD:  U.S. and Central America  While denouncing Nicaragua for ending a truce, the United States has resisted provisions of a regional peace accords. News analysis, page A8.  Council Race in Yonkers  The Yonkers City Council race is seen as a referendum on the disputed housing desegregation plan that has dominated local politics.

INSIDE

LEAD: In a deal that reflects the continuing consolidation of the world auto industry and the eagerness of big car makers to acquire prestigious brands, the Ford Motor Company announced today that it plans to buy Jaguar P.L.C. for a total of nearly $2.38 billion.

Ford to Buy Jaguar for $2.38 Billion

Pop/Jazz; 9 Days and Nights of the Blues

LEAD: The largest study measuring fitness ever carried out suggests that even modest amounts of exercise can substantially reduce a person's chance of dying of heart disease, cancer or other causes.

Exercise and Longevity: A Little Goes a Long Way

LEAD: Seeking to reduce wild price swings that have unsettled the financial markets in recent weeks, the New York Stock Exchange yesterday announced strict limits on the computerized trading of stocks.

Exchange Curbs Computer Trades To Reduce Stock Price Volatility

LEAD: NEW YORK is one of the most expensive dining cities in the world; it is also one of the cheapest. You can have a transcendent feast for $100 at the Quilted Giraffe, or a platter of lemon-grass chicken at Saigon in Chinatown for $5.95. Finding the best dining bargains in town requires persistence and a resilient stomach, as I learned on a recent tour of about three dozen inexpensive restaurants in Manhattan.

Strategies for Dining Cheaply and Well

LEAD: The Boeing Company, once fiercely independent and self-reliant, is turning to partnerships with the Japanese in the belief that there is no better way to preserve its position as the world's leading aircraft manufacturer. But the emerging alliance is not without a conflict: while the Japanese try to learn everything they can about making airplanes,

A Japanese Strategy for Boeing

LEAD: The Upper West Side of Manhattan is likely to support David N. Dinkins, the Democratic mayoral candidate, in next week's election, but not necessarily with the passionate embrace that might once have been expected from this traditionally liberal neighborhood.

A Neighborhood Wavers In Its Liberal Tradition

LEAD: Integrated Resources Inc., the burdened financial services concern, said today that it had agreed to sell several large businesses to Broad Inc., a competitor based here, for about $170 million.

Integrated Plans to Sell Units for $170 Million

LEAD: The paradox of Virginia's hard-fought gubernatorial election is that L. Douglas Wilder has worked as hard as he can to avoid any direct discussion of race in his campaign just as the nation, and even the world, look to the possibility that he will become the first black ever elected governor of an American state.

A Black Candidate in Virginia Runs for Office, Not History

LEAD: Because of the New York City Marathon, these streets will be closed to traffic in Manhattan for much of Sunday morning and afternoon: First Avenue from 59th Street to the Willis Avenue Bridge, Fifth Avenue from 136th Street to 102d Street and Central Park South from Fifth Avenue to Broadway. In addition, some traffic lanes on the Queensboro Bridge, the Willis Avenue Bridge, the Madison Avenue Bridge and the Verrazano Narrows Bridge will be closed.

Traffic Alert

LEAD: A three-month telephone strike by two unions representing 60,000 workers of the Nynex Corporation is beginning to hurt the regional Bell telephone company's bottom line, Nynex officials and telephone industry analysts say.

Strike Begins to Squeeze Nynex

LEAD: With Brazilian presidential elections two weeks away, one of the country's most popular television personalities has suddenly entered the race, and a public opinion poll shows that he could win.

TV Celebrity Joins Presidential Race in Brazil

LEAD: One year after Yonkers was almost bankrupted by contempt fines when four City Councilmen refused to comply with a housing desegregation plan, the entire seven-member Council is up for election in a vote widely seen as a referendum on the plan.

Housing Plan Dominates Yonkers Race

LEAD: With the reluctant agreement of the Bush Administration, Senate Republicans today effectively abandoned their effort to win a cut in the capital gains tax this year. They did so by giving up their plans to attach the measure to the three major spending bills under consideration.

REPUBLICANS DROP EFFORT IN SENATE TO CUT GAINS TAX

LEAD: The Cuomo administration ordered a 2 percent cut in the operating budgets of state agencies today, saying the reduction was needed because the state had overestimated tax revenue and faced a potential deficit of almost $300 million this year.

2% Cut in Agencies' Budgets Is Ordered by Cuomo Administration

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November 3, 1989

Headlines from November 3, 1989

For Gatherers of U.S. Data, A Close Call Last Month

LAWMAKERS AGREE ON 'STAR WARS' CUT

Funds Barred For Advisers On Abortion

3 Are Indicted Over Money Transfers

Campaign Profile; Warily, Giuliani Learns To Embrace the Voters

Billboard 200

Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814

Girl You Know It's True

Dr. Feelgood

Steel Wheels

Pump

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for November 3, 1989