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The New York State Comptroller, Edward V. Regan, said yesterday that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey overstated its financial problems two months ago when it announced a deferral of $272 million in mass-transit projects in the two states. He asserted that the authority did not need the increases in bridge and tunnel tolls it said were the only way these projects could be resumed.

DETROIT, July 11--The foreign policy platform headed for approval by the Republican National Convention contains some of the most alarmist rhetoric either major party has used against the ...

ZURICH, Saturday, July 12--Richard I. Queen, the American consular officer who was released by his Iranian captors after 250 days as a hostage, arrived in Zurich yesterday and was hospitalized for observation of what was said to be a neurological disorder.

TEHERAN, Iran, July 11--The Iranian Government, which said yesterday that it had smashed a plot by military officers, announced today that 17 armored division officers had been arrested as participants and placed on trial in the southern city of Ahwaz.

WASHINGTON, July 9--In a term marked by sharp divisions, emotionally charged cases and intense public scrutiny, the Supreme Court maintained its traditional commitment to civil rights and even devised some new tools for the enforcement of those rights.

ZAGREB, Yugoslavia, July 11--Milovan Djilas, this country's most eminent dissident, has come under increasing criticism by the Government recently in what could be a signal of a harsher attitude toward dissidents in the post-Tito era.

MIDDLETOWN, Pa., July 11--The venting of radioactive krypton 85 gas from the damaged Three Mile Island nuclear reactor was completed this morning after 13 days, half the time expected. The Government said that the population had been exposed to radiation that was no more than 4 percent of the officially permissible level.

WHITE PLAINS, July 11--Justice Isaac Rubin of State Supreme Court today rejected an effort by Jean Reuven Harris to upset her indictment in the March 10 shooting death of Dr. Herman Tarnower, author of "The Complete Scarsdale Diet." The justice indicated she would probably stand trial in September on a second-degree murder charge.

KINGSTON, Jamaica--The daily count of dead and wounded in the violence in the Kingston slums has become a statistic as commonplace as the weather report: Recently a youth was stabbed to death and set afire by killers who fought off horrified passers-by, a child was shot in school, a police station was attacked with guns and bottles.

ANKARA, Turkey, July 11--A mechanized battalion of the Turkish Army and riot policemen raided the Black Sea town of Fatsa today after reports that it had become a leftist revolutionary center.

WASHINGTON, July 11 (AP)--The Carter Administration is changing ambassadors in eight Latin American countries, increasing the number of career diplomats in the area and replacing some political appointees.