With or Without Glowing Halo, This Doll’s Heavenly

--Heavenly Dolls Inc., getting a head start on Christmas, is selling Baby Jesus Dolls with glow-in-the-dark halos for $31.50. The Baby Jesus Doll is believed to be the first of its kind, said Rita Edler, founder of the Littleton, Colo., company. Edler, a former realtor, said she is not sure everyone will like her idea but that most people she has talked to are in favor of it and surprised that such a doll has not been made before. “I believe anyone who is a Christian would want one,” she said. The 13-inch long vinyl doll--in Anglo, Latino and black models--comes with a wooden manger, and a nontoxic glow-in-the-dark detachable halo, and a card with the words: “My name is Jesus. Jesus loves you. I am your friend. Please love me.” The doll comes dressed in a cream-colored gown with a gold cross on its chest, and is wrapped in a blue blanket. Edler said the halo snaps into the back of the doll’s head and is safe for children. The artificial hay in the manger is also nontoxic and non-flammable.

--Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will visit China and Hong Kong in October, 1986. She will be the first British monarch to visit China since the Communist government took power there in 1949. The queen, 59, and her husband Prince Philip, 64, are to visit China Oct. 12-18 and Hong Kong Oct. 21-23. Last December, Britain agreed to return the British crown colony of Hong Kong to China when Britain’s lease runs out in 1997. China has agreed to preserve the colony’s capitalist system for 50 years.

--”Miami Vice” star Don Johnson was named man of the year by Glamour magazine, which praised him as a “primal male with predatory eyes.” The magazine called Johnson the “pink-pants’d bad boy” who personifies “postmodern macho.”

--Gov. Robert Kerrey said he will not seek a second term, but he refused to discuss his future in politics or with actress Debra Winger. “I think I have consciously put those things out of my mind while I worked this (the reelection decision) out,” Kerrey, a Democrat, said in an interview following a news conference in Lincoln announcing his decision. Kerrey, 42, said he was “still enjoying the job” as governor, but would not say why he decided to leave it. “I need to find a little danger,” he said, without elaborating. “I don’t think the disappointments of the job or the frustrations had anything to do with my deciding not to run. I can’t know that for sure, but I don’t think it did,” he said. Kerrey, a Navy Vietnam veteran who was awarded the Medal of Honor, began a well-publicized relationship with Winger, now a regular visitor at the governor’s mansion, when she was filming “Terms of Endearment” in Nebraska in 1982.