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Begin and Peres do battle on TV A3 U.S. summons Habib from Middle East for consultations A3 Reporter's Notebook: On Haig trip, a fuse is lit A4 Haig meets Reagan and voices re- gret over U.N. dispute A5 Hungarian troop moves said to worry Poles A6 Nationwide hunt under way for ousted Iranian President A6 Vietnam exodus on rise again A6 Around the World A7 Government/Politics Legislation to loosen food safety laws is introduced A10 3 Reagan officials affirm Federal aid for basic science research A15 Budget plans differ mainly on cuts in entitlement programs A15 Civil Aeronautics Board modifies rule for smokers on planes A17 Supreme Court ruling terminates clam fishermen's pollution suit B3 3,000 apply for 236 subsidized apartments in South Bronx B3 General Around the Nation A10 Jersey commuters grumble as fare rises continue B1 46 Toms River commuters find a way to "beat" company B2 New boss reportedly named for Bruno crime "family" B4 Industry/Labor TV advertisers meet with conser- vative group to avert boycott A10 Tentative air controllers' pact is termed top U.S. offer A17 Car-rental agencies in New York City gird for summer demand B2 Obituaries William Bliss Harris, former sen- ior editor of Fortune A17 Features/Notes Issue and Debate: Should U.S. sell radar planes to Saudis? A2 Weekend Weekender Guide C1 Walt Disney exhibition at the Whitney Museum C14 Antique fire engines at Valhalla C28 Theater: Broadway C2 "Scenes and Revelations" at Circle in the Square C3 Dance: Frederick Ashton talks about his long career C16 Screen: All of Satyajit Ray's films at the Modern C1 "The Great Muppet Caper" opens C8 "For Your Eyes Only," new Bond film C8 "Dandy" and "High Heels" at the Thalia C8 "Dragonslayer" opens C10 At the Movies C12 "Stripes," with Bill Murray C16 Rock films at Harold Clurman Theater C18 Music: Kool Jazz Festival opens 10-day stand C1 Art Blakey tribute at festival C6 Art: Gallatin collection at Wash- burn Gallery C21 Rodin works at National Gal- lery in Washington C23 Auctions C24 "Episodes," group show at Borgenicht Gallery C26 Books: "Riddley Walker" by Rus- sell Hoban reviewed C25 Restaurants C20 TV Weekend C27 Style The Evening Hours A16 As the royal wedding nears, the social whirl intensifies A16 Sports Dolphins' Griese retires A18 Six hours of talks yield no progress in baseball strike A19 Kuhn calls compensation issue vital to game A19 Hearns knocks out Baez in fourth to retain title A19 Vasquez linked to 1974 bribe offer to another jockey A19 Kite leads Memphis golf by shot A20 McEnroe, Connors advance to third round at Wimbledon A21 Red Smith on the boxing jungle, Houston version A22 Rosario wins by knockout in 2d A22 News Analysis Hedrick Smith on crucial win for Reagan economic plan A15 Gene I. Maeroff on Koch plan to expand Board of Education B1 Editorials/Letters/Op-Ed Editorials A26 The time for a transit tax is now Yet another casino caper Justice on the run Peter Passell: heavy oil Letters A26 Tom Wicker: busing after a dec- ade A27 Flora Lewis: Franco-American blinkers A27 Stephen F. Cohen: the parity prin- ciple in U.S.-Soviet relations A27 Henry S. Reuss: how to bring in- terest rates down A27

THE first weekend of New York's 10th consecutive summer jazz festival, which opens this afternoon, will highlight jazz drumming, jazz singing and jazz tradition, indoors and outdoors, live and on film. The first official event of the 10-day Kool Jazz Festival, formerly the Newport in New York Jazz Festival, will take place at Carnegie Recital Hall today at 5 P.M., when the veteran jazz pianist Cedar Walton will give a one-hour solo program in a series that will continue every day through July 4, except this Sunday. The programs will all be in the same hall, same time, but with a different pianist each day. Tomorrow the pianist will be Joanne Brackeen, an adventurous modernist. The really festive part of the festival will get under way this evening, when two major programs will be held at 8 P.M., ''The Art of Jazz Singing'' at Avery Fisher Hall and ''The Blakey Legacy'' at Carnegie Hall.

Mayor Koch and Luesther T. Mertz receiving flowers yesterday from neighborhood children before Mr. Koch spoke at ground-breaking for reconstruction of the Elgin Theater, at Eighth Avenue and 19th Street, as a dance theater.

A sports article yesterday about hearings by the State Racing and Wagering Board incorrectly identified the president of the Jockeys Guild. The organization's president is Bill Shoemaker.

A coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats in the House of Representatives, spurred by President Reagan's personal lobbying, today overturned the Democratic leadership and laid the parliamentary groundwork for adoption of the White House budget cuts in a single package. The House first voted, 217 to 210, to reject an attempt by the Democrats to split into six separate votes the President's request for $5.2 billion in additional budget cuts in the fiscal year 1982. The House then voted, 214 to 208, to allow the President's package to be voted upon as one entity. Although a procedural vote, it constituted a stunning victory for the President. The vote showed a core of 29 conservative Democrats who voted with the Republicans, in an alliance that threatens to undermine the control of the House Democratic leadership.

After three days of intensive lobbying by the Byrne administration, New Jersey's Legislature today approved a $350 million water-supply bond issue and two bills that would give the state broad powers to deal with allocation of water and to prevent future water shortages. The measures moved through both the Senate and the Assembly without serious opposition after Governor Byrne's top aides spent much of the week winning support from recalcitrant Senators who almost doomed the package during a Senate vote on Monday. The bills were withdrawn Monday as they headed for certain defeat in the Senate. During the week, amendments were added, including one prohibiting the transfer of water from vast underground aquifers in South Jersey's Pine Barrens to deficit-prone North Jersey. Steady administration lobbying continued until new votes were taken in the Senate in late afternoon and passage assured.

An article in The Times yesterday on opposition to the sale of Awacs aircraft to Saudi Arabia incorrectly reported the party affiliation of Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon. Mr. Packwood is a Republican.

''The reason women are exempt from registration is not because military needs can be met by drafting men.

A group of international banks agreed today to general terms of a compromise plan for deferring repayment of about $2.37 billion in bank debt that Poland is scheduled to pay this year. The agreement, which is not yet complete, apparently means that a sharp difference of opinion between United States and European banks over the handling of Poland's outstanding private bank debt has in large measure been resolved. American banks had favored a postponement until the end of the year of any effort to renegotiate the repayment terms of Poland's $13 billion in bank debt, while European banks had sought to renegotiate the loans and to provide new credits.

Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, the United States subsidiary of the huge Canadian liquor company, offered $2.5 billion yesterday for 40.7 percent of the outstanding shares of Conoco, the nation's ninthlargest oil company. Hours after the announcement by Seagram, the foreign suitor that Conoco had turned away last week, Cities Service called off its merger discussions with Conoco. ''I regret that Seagram has seen fit to interfere with the proposed consolidation, and thereby prevent the shareholders of Cities Service and Conoco from benefitting from the unique company we were in the process of creating,'' said Charles J. Waidelich, president and chief executive officer of Cities Service. Cities Service management was on its way to Tulsa, Okla., from New York late yesterday and was unavaiable for further comment. However, a spokesman for Cities Service said that Seagram's tender offer - for more than $10 a share above the price at which Seagram last traded - was ''the only reason'' for calling off the merger discussions. Some analysts said that a Conoco Cities Service merger might have been opposed by Conoco shareholders on the grounds that it might have diluted earnings-per-share.

IN the world of cinema there have been two Satyajit Rays. To those who sought his work in the art houses and universities of the West, Mr. Ray has been the director who struggled against great odds to produce spare and sensitive films on the lives of unknown Indians - a poor Bengali making films about poor Bengalis. Closer to his Calcutta home, however, Mr. Ray has been a box-office success, attracting audiences of all ages by ranging over country and city, reality and fantasy, sadness and humor. Now, for the first time anywhere (India included) all the works of this multitalented film maker have been collected into one retrospective, and New York audiences will have the opportunity to see the whole Satyajit Ray - in more than two dozen feature films, television films and documentaries. The occasion is the first segment of Film India, a four-month survey of the world's most prolific film industry, sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art, where the screenings are taking place beginning this weekend and continuing through July 24; the Asia Society, and the Government of India's Directorate of Film Festivals.

International An accord on a new Sinai peace force to patrol the vast desert after the scheduled final withdrawal of Israel from the Egyptian territory next April 25 was announced by Egypt, Israel and the United States. The agreement must be ratified by the Egyptian and Israeli parliaments, but the senior American negotiator seemed confident of their approval. The multinational force of 2,000 to 3,000 members may include 800 Americans. (Page A1, Column 6.) A sharp cut in Britain's naval forces to permit development of the Trident nuclear missile system was set in a major restructuring of defenses. Despite the cuts, the British Government insisted it was holding to its commitment to NATO to increase military spending by 3 percent a year after adjustment for inflation. (A8:3-6.)