January 13, 1990

LEAD: Campeau Move Is Examined

LEAD: The East German Prime Minister bowed today to growing pressure from the public and the opposition and scrapped plans to form a new security service, at least until after the elections scheduled for May.

LEAD: Sweeping aside much of the secrecy that has governed the production of nuclear weapons since World War II, the Energy Department announced today that it would prepare two comprehensive studies on the public health and environmental consequences of its program to clean up and modernize atomic weapons plants.

LEAD: Paced by big increases for energy and tobacco, producer prices jumped seven-tenths of 1 percent in December to bring 1989 inflation by this measure to 4.8 percent, the highest rate since 1981.

LEAD: A trail-blazing attempt at cooperation among American manufacturers in the face of a challenge from Japanese industry is being abandoned because it has failed to attract enough investors, people in the computer industry said today.

LEAD: Monday is the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Here are holiday schedules. NEW YORK Government offices: Closed. Post office: Express Mail and special delivery only; main post office open at 33d Street and Eighth Avenue. Banks: Closed. Parking: Alternate-side rules suspended.

LEAD: Bowing to demands of thousands of irate demonstrators, leaders of Rumania's governing Council of National Salvation agreed to outlaw the Communist Party. Page 7.

LEAD: President Mikhail S. Gorbachev implored Lithuanians today to remain within the Soviet Union, warning that secession would mean economic calamity for this tiny republic, while weakening Soviet security and endangering his own position and program.

LEAD: Barnstorming across Lithuania this week, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev has undertaken the most desperate diplomatic endeavor of his career: a campaign to preserve the integrity of the Soviet Union by personal persuasion.

LEAD: Defense Secretary Dick Cheney announced today that he had imposed a freeze on civilian hiring through Oct. 1, a move that Pentagon officials said would probably eliminate more than 50,000 jobs from a work force of 1.05 million civilians.

LEAD: Some weeks ago, a big fellow in a Times Square saloon had presented himself as the best pinball player in the world. ''The Joe Montana of the Silver Ball'' was a phrase that kept careening around one columnist's gray matter. Probably just another barroom braggart, but still . . .

LEAD: At least 88 residential cooperatives with nearly 9,000 apartments in the New York City area are facing severe financial difficulties. And the number of such co-ops is growing, causing concern among owners and in the State Attorney General's office, which monitors co-op conversions.