LEAD: THE climatic history of the last half-million years is largely a history of ice and cold, punctuated every 100,000 years or so by brief, glorious intervals of unusual warmth called interglacials. If nature takes its course, scientists say, the current interglacial - the one in which human civilization developed - should begin to end within the next 2,000 years or sooner.

In the Ebb and Flow Of Ancient Glaciers, Clues to Next Ice Age

LEAD: Millions of people were unable to make long-distance calls yesterday after the American Telephone and Telegraph Company suffered a major failure in the computer program that operates its new long-distance switching equipment.

Computer Failure Disrupts A.T.&T. Long Distance

LEAD: The Chase Manhattan Corporation, parent of the Chase Manhattan Bank, reported yesterday that fourth-quarter profits fell 36.4 percent and that it had a loss for the year.

Chase Profit Off in Period; Loss for Year

LEAD: This country today became the last of the Soviet Union's East European allies to strip the Communist Party of its dominant role, following the others in a halting transition to multiparty democracy.

Upheaval in the East: Bulgaria;   BULGARIAN PARTY LOSES DOMINANCE

LEAD: For four years, Emily Rosen, who is 17 years old and a senior at Greenwich High School, has been trying to get a teen center built in this pleasant Fairfield County town of 60,000.

Our Towns;   In Greenwich, Teen-Agers Want Their Own Room

LEAD: In an energetic first day in office, David W. Johnson, the Campbell Soup Company's new president and chief executive, outlined his plans to revitalize the big food company, pledging to maintain its independence and to increase profits by curbing costs and possibly pruning operations.

Campbell Soup's New Chief Offers Strategy for Growth

LEAD: Facing a possibly protracted slowdown, Apple Computer Inc. said today that it would begin a number of cost-cutting measures. These measures include a reduction of employees at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.; a revised profit-sharing plan; less frequent salary increases, and the elimination of company cars for executives.

Cost Cuts Announced By Apple

LEAD: The Atlanta newsletter that in May broke the story of the merger of Ernst & Whinney and Arthur Young, two large accounting firms, has been temporarily blocked by the surviving firm from publishing an article on the merger in its January issue.

Court Blocks a Newsletter From Printing Ernst Article

LEAD: When Federal regulators seized control of New Jersey's largest savings institution last month, one of the troubled properties that came with it was Port Liberte, a storybook development of sumptuous town houses rising above lazy canals on the cluttered waterfront here.

A Storybook Development With an Uncertain Ending

LEAD: SCIENTISTS are inserting human genes into plants and turning the plants into miniature factories that can produce large quantities of useful human proteins.

Human Genes Turn Plants Into Factories For Medicines

LEAD: THE secret of emotional health among older men is not a successful career, a happy marriage or a stable childhood, new findings suggest. It lies instead in an ability to handle life's blows without passivity, blame or bitterness.

Men at 65: New Findings On Well-Being

LEAD: This overbuilt city, only a few years ago an illustration of solid growth in the West, has now become a clear example of the difficulty the Government faces in selling the vast real estate holdings it has acquired in the savings and loan crisis.

Where Savings Crisis Hits Hard

LEAD: Crowds of angry protesters invaded the 3,000-room state-security headquarters today, destroying files and furniture in a show of popular frustration with the pace of change.

Upheaval in the East: East Germany;   Angry Crowds of East Germans Ransack Offices of Spy Service

LEAD: The money was easy, and there was confidence that companies would never stop rising in value. Some people who had gone deeply into debt to buy companies had become very rich, and others were determined to follow.

Loan Spree Seems Over

LEAD:    New Age: Hold the Ice    The next ice age is expected to begin within 2,000 years. But scientists say global warming may alter the course of nature. Science Times, page C1.       A Peaceful, Uneasy Feeling    Military instructors are finding that with East-West tensions easing, war games aimed at the Soviets are growing increasingly irrelevant.

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LEAD:    THE CAMPEAU FILING       Campeau's American retailing operations filed for bankruptcy protection, saying they had debts of about $7.5 billion. The filing will enable Federated Department Stores and Allied Stores to keep their 260 department stores open while plans are made to stock merchandise, reschedule debt payments and reorganize the company, perhaps selling some divisions.

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: Some prices for stocks traded on the New York and American stock exchanges, as well as for stock options, may not reflect the final close in the tables beginning on Page D11 because of a telephone company circuit failure in New York that interfered with delivery of the markets data to The Associated

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LEAD: A state judge has ruled that a Long Island nursing home cannot collect fees of more than $100,000 for continuing to care for a comatose woman whose family wanted life-sustaining treatment stopped.

Nursing Home Is Denied Fees In Coma Case

LEAD: The Soviet Union declared a state of emergency in parts of Azerbaijan tonight and ordered army, navy and K.G.B. security forces to help contain ethnic hostilities that officials portrayed as verging on civil war.

Upheaval in the East: Azerbaijan;   GORBACHEV ISSUES EMERGENCY DECREE OVER AZERBAIJAN

LEAD: A din filled courtroom 941 at State Supreme Court in Brooklyn the other day as Justice Nicholas Coffinas looked down from the bench. Before him was a spindly young man who had been caught with an unregistered pistol. Minutes before, an admitted burglar had his turn before the judge. Then had come a purse snatcher, a man accused of selling drugs and a man charged with splitting another man's lip in a street brawl.

Din of Assembly-Line Justice in New York

LEAD: After months of dropping all-but-delicate hints, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo on Tuesday will formally recommend suspending the next phase of the state's income-tax cut, aides to the Governor said today.

After Months of Unsubtle Hints, Cuomo to Seek a Hold on Tax Cut

LEAD: The Rorer Group Inc. said yesterday that it was negotiating with a company that might acquire 68 percent of Rorer's stock for cash and stock rights. The deal, if completed, values the drug company at $73 a share, or $2.3 billion.

Rorer Is In Talks To Merge

LEAD: Janet Jackson will be in, Michael Jackson will be out. Cellular telephones will be everywhere, until they are replaced by flip-top, hand-held ''personal communicators'' in ''Star Trek'' style.

In, Out and Over; Trend Industry Looks Back at the 90's

LEAD: The American retailing operations of the Campeau Corporation filed for court protection from creditors yesterday, saying they had debts of about $7.5 billion.

CAMPEAU INVOKES BANKRUPTCY CODE FOR ITS BIG STORES

LEAD: HEALTH-INSURANCE executives say their business has changed radically in the last two years in the nation's struggle with double-digit growth in medical spending. Many insurers say their traditional work of assuming risks has been eclipsed by services to help their customers' health dollars go further.

Business and Health;   Health Insurers' Changing Role

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January 16, 1990

Headlines from January 16, 1990

In the Ebb and Flow Of Ancient Glaciers, Clues to Next Ice Age

Computer Failure Disrupts A.T.&T. Long Distance

Chase Profit Off in Period; Loss for Year

Upheaval in the East: Bulgaria; BULGARIAN PARTY LOSES DOMINANCE

Our Towns; In Greenwich, Teen-Agers Want Their Own Room

Billboard 200

Girl You Know It's True

...But Seriously

Storm Front

Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814

Forever Your Girl

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for January 16, 1990