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WASHINGTON, Dec. 7--Presidentelect Ronald Reagan's transition team for the Central Intelligence Agency has proposed several sweeping changes in the organization and operations of the nation's intelligence programs, including increased emphasis on covert action abroad, according to Mr. Reagan's advisers.

LISBON, Monday, Dec. 8--Gen. Antonio Ramalho Eanes won a striking victory over his main right-wing challenger this morning in Portugal's second presidential election since the 1974 revolution.

HARTFORD, Dec. 7--When the celebrities at a charity fund-raiser the other night were asked to stand up and talk about the greatest handicap each had overcome, Harry J. Gray, the chairman and chief executive officer of the United Technologies Corporation, joked that his biggest handicap used to be that the Government would only let him acquire one company at a time.

WHITE PLAINS, Dec. 7--The Westchester County Executive said today that he would ask his counterparts from across the state to urge the State Legislature to permit counties to adopt their own fire codes.

Under a tightened admissions policy, thousands of ill people who would have been accepted a few years ago into New York State psychiatric hospitals are being turned away, and they are packing New York City's hospitals beyond capacity.

With interest rates rising toward record levels, many economists see the nation's economy sliding back into a recession that could last at least until next summer.

PHILADELPHIA AT the far end of the locker room, the television lights shone on Tim Mazzetti, whose 37-yard field goal with seven seconds remaining had given the Atlanta Falcons a 20-17 victory yesterday over the Philadelphia Eagles.

SEATTLE, Dec. 7--Billy Taylor had not seen anything like it in his three seasons with the New York Giants. So after he had gone easily through the pile of Seahawks, on his way to a shockingly simple 30-yard touchdown run that gave the Giants a 27-21 victory over Seattle, he turned around to see what had gone wrong.

CHICAGO, Dec. 7--Even before its troubles began with the House subcommittee on commerce, consumer and monetary affairs, the American Invsco Corporation, the nation's largest converter of rental units into condominiums, had perceived a slowdown in the conversion boom because of high interest rates.

When they first arrived in New York last summer, the city's new Grumman Flxible 870 buses carried messages on their lighted front signboards like "Have a Nice Day." That may have been their first mistake--New Yorkers ...