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Index clouds drift awayA2Diplomats estimate 60 have died in Moroccan riotsA2Bonn's military chiefs to discuss general's ousterA3Around the WorldA5 Government/PoliticsCommunist Party nominates Gus Hall and Angela DavisA9Reporter's notebook: Elevating Glenn's first in spaceA11Betty Lall to seek Congressional seat again in ManhattanB5 Washington TalkHandel's heyday in the capitalA18First principles of artful ambiguityA18Fortress on the alert in a siege by the unknownA18 Industry/LaborLenny Siegel, Silicon Valley's computer industry gadflyA8 Education/WelfareNinth graders improve scores on tests in ConnecticutB2 ReligionClergymen trade pulpits to aid religious unityB5 ObituariesEdward J. Daly, chairman of World AirwaysD25 GeneralAbortion foes rally in capitalA8Trial of Carolina Klansmen and American Nazis opensA12Army may resume wound testing of pigs and goatsA17State's chief judge urges 30 more judgeshipsA26Yale club pays homage to Elizabeth I on 425th anniversaryB113 are indicted in Manhattan on cocaine ring chargesB3

In a major victory for the Manville Corporation, United States Bankruptcy Judge Burton R. Lifland refused yesterday to dismiss the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings the company filed 17 months ago to try to resolve thousands of asbestos- related lawsuits against it. Judge Lifland also agreed to appoint someone to represent the thousands of future asbestos claimants the company expects. His decision is the first in the nation to say that courts can deal now with the claims that will arise as more workers develop the asbestos-related diseases that often do not manifest themselves until 20 or 30 years after exposure to asbestos. Such future claims - by some estimates, up to 100,000 new cases - were what motivated Manville's Aug. 26, 1982, bankruptcy filing.

The General Services Administration concluded in an official report today that Charles Z. Wick, director of the United States Information Agency, violated Federal regulations by secretly recording telephone calls. New Federal regulations will be proposed to restrict tape-recording a call without notifying all parties, according to Frank J. Carr, an Assistant Administrator of General Services, who prepared the report. There is no penalty for violating the Federal rules against secret recording. Other Regulations Cited Meanwhile, the Archivist of the United States said in a letter to the Information Agency that it might have violated other Federal regulations by routinely destroying transcripts of many of the telephone calls recorded since 1981.

The Supreme Court ruled today that states may carry out the death penalty without first conducting a special review to insure that the sentence is in line with other sentences imposed in the state for similar crimes. Ruling 7 to 2 in a California murder case, the Court said that the procedure known as ''proportionality review'' was required neither by its own death penalty precedents nor by the Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. The decision, written by Associate Justice Byron R. White, overturned a ruling by the Federal appeals court in California. That court prevented California from executing Robert Alton Harris, who was convicted of killing two teen-age boys to use their car for a bank robbery, until the state's Supreme Court determined whether the sentence was proportional to other death sentences imposed in California for similar murders.

WHAT are we to make of it all? Dr. Jeffrey Masson, a Freudian scholar and provocative critic of the establishment, maintains that the light he has shed on the so-called seduction theory of Freud is, in effect, such a powerful attack on orthodox analysis that it will undo it. And the documents Dr. Masson unveiled point to a greater meanness of spirit than ever seen in Freud's official biographies as well as suggesting a previously unknown suppression of information. But the new scholarship on Sigmund Freud must be placed, after all, in the broad perspective of science history and in the context of an overall understanding of Freud's impact on psychotherapeutic thinking. It seems clear that Dr. Masson has added substantial new information and insights that increase our understanding of psychoanalysis and its origins. But it also seems clear, in the view of the experts on psychoanalysis - inside and outside of the establishment - who were interviewed in recent days, that he has overstated the implications of his work.

The Queen swept into the Great Hall, followed by nearly 300 of her devoted subjects. For several hours, she feasted on a Sur-Loyn of Roast Beef, Buttered Colliflowers, Taffety Tarts and Raisins of the Sunne. Her court lutanist played ''Greensleeves,'' the air her father, King Henry VIII, was said to have composed for her mother, Anne Boleyn. The Queen was Elizabeth of England - not today's monarch, but the first of that name, as portrayed by Marie Borroff, professor of English at Yale University.

AGROUP of scientists studying the naked mole rat, a rare hairless rodent that lives in East Africa, have recently found that the seldom-seen creature has one of the most bizarre social behavior patterns of any mammal in the animal kingdom. Little had been known about the three-inch-long rodents, which spend their entire lives in underground colonies. The researchers, however, found to their amazement that communities of up to 80 or more of the rodents lead an existence in a closed-in underground complex like that of an insect colony and, in many ways, behave exactly like insects. Their findings included these unusual behavior patterns never before known to exist in rodents: - One female, selected by methods still unknown, becomes the ''queen'' of the colony and, like the queen in a wasp colony, is the only breeding female in the community. The mole rat queen becomes much larger than other females in the colony.

An article and a picture caption yesterday about inspections of unheated New York City apartments misstated the number of inspectors in the field citywide on Sunday. There were 80.

The American Telephone and Telegraph Company surprised many in the office computer industry earlier this month when it picked little-known Convergent Technologies Inc. to supply ''certain products'' exclusively for its information systems division. The choice was a fortunate one for Convergent, which is counting on such developments to pull it out of a period of slumping profits. But it was also an indication of the rising, albeit precarious, fortunes of the five-year- old company. Led by a flamboyant and perceptive president, Allen H. Michels, Convergent has developed a reputation as an innovative designer and high-volume manufacturer of desktop workstations.

Astronomers get, well, starry-eyed thinking of all that the large space telescope should accomplish. From an orbital vantage point its finely polished 94-inch mirror should bring into focus heavenly vistas never before seen, objects 50 times fainter and seven times farther away than anything ever glimpsed through ground-based instruments. The view is certain to bring a galaxy of discoveries as well as some profound changes in man's understanding of the universe. A year ago, however, these visions of discovery seemed on the verge of vanishing into a black hole of technical and management troubles. The guidance sensors for pointing the telescope were suspected of being deficient. Dust contaminated the mirror. Alignment of instruments in flight suddenly seemed to be an engineering impossibility. Costs were soaring and schedules unmet. Though all the problems have not

The Marines could not be withdrawn suddenly from Lebanon without raising questions about the United States commitment to ''moderation and negotiation in the Middle East,'' according to President Reagan. In a policy statement, he said the Soviet Union, Syria and Iran were complicating efforts to bring about Lebanese national unity. (Page A1, Column 6.) Bills to bring the Marines home from Lebanon ahead of the current schedule will be acted on swiftly, Democratic leaders pledged as Congress returned to work after a two-month recess. As the second session of the 98th Congress began, leaders of both parties predicted that the election- year session would be short, unproductive and partisan. (A1:5.)

-grade pupil and his mother were waiting for Peter Romano when he arrived the other day at their home, a two-family house not far from Prospect Park in Brooklyn. The child had not been in class for a month, though he left for school most mornings, and Mr. Romano, an attendance teacher, was trying to find out why. The mother said she had no idea that her son was a truant, and the boy, at first unresponsive and sulking, finally conceded that he hung around the school building, but did not go to class. Mr. Romano quickly diagnosed the problem. The boy, almost 15 years old, had been held back twice and towered over his classmates at the junior high school. He said he felt like a failure and did not think he could ever catch up. So why go to school?