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Clearly worried about its survival, the Chrysler Corporation has reportedly decided to ask for freezes on employee wages and supplier prices as part of a $1.5 billion savings plan that it hopes will persuade the Government to authorize additional loan guarantees for the company.

BRUSSELS, Dec. 12--The Atlantic alliance officially told the Soviet Union today that intervention in Poland would bring basic changes to the international situation and effectively destroy workable East-West relations.

Fire Department officials knew that nylon rescue ropes were deficient five months before two firemen plunged to their deaths last June in Harlem at the end of a rope that snapped, New York City's Department of Investigation said yesterday.

WARSAW, Dec. 12--Backing the Communist authorities, the Roman Catholic Church today condemned acts by political dissidents and extremists that "could raise the danger of a threat to the freedom and statehood of the fatherland."

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12--"Hardright" conservatives made a frantic rearguard effort last weekend and early this week to try to block the selection of Donald T. Regan as prospective Secretary of the Treasury after learning that he had contributed to the political campaigns of liberal Democrats.

LONDON, Dec. 12--Armand Hammer, the industrialist and art collector, today bought the Leonardo da Vinci notebook "Of the Nature, Weight and Movement of Water" for $5,126,000, the highest price ever paid at auction for a manuscript.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12--The Senate passed and sent to President Carter today a three-year extension of the revenue-sharing program for distributing Federal money to cities and states.

SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 12--A year ago today, Maj. Gen. Chun Doo Hwan, then an unknown army officer, seized control of downtown Seoul. He then rose to command the South Korean Army and, with its backing, became President.

LIMA, Peru, Dec. 12 (AP)--Cuban exiles pressing for quick admittance to the United States said today that a sixday hunger strike had been met with discouraging silence by American officials here. They also said conditions in their refugee camp were deteriorating and that most of the hunger strikers were ill.

A spokesman for anti-Government forces in Angola said today that the guerrillas had recently captured two Soviet airmen, and he displayed photographs of the captives as evidence.

TOKYO, Dec. 12--Secretary of Defense Harold Brown urged Japan today to step up its military spending in the 1980's. In his talks with Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki and Defense Minister Joji Omura, Mr. Brown said that the "U.S. and NATO ...