November 30, 1980

DESPITE earlier indications that he might serve for only one term, Nassau County Executive Francis T. Purcell will seek a second term next year, barring any last-minute change of plans.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29--Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter's national security adviser, says the Presidential election demonstrated that the Democratic Party must abandon what he called its escapist approach to dealing, with the expansion of Soviet power and influence.

HARTFORD ALTHOUGH many of its deci sions have been challenged as short-sighted and possibly dangerous by a number of hospital administrators, the state body that regulates the budgets of medical institutions has in recent weeks received three positive evaluations of its record and its power to accomplish what it was set up to do: curb the rise in health-care costs.

PARIS "THE Western industrial countries no longer set the tone of the world economy," said Peter Oppenheimer, an Oxford University economist. "They are the reactors to events now, not initiators."

Michael Ray Richardson scored a 3-point basket with a second remaining to give the Knicks a 111-110 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers last night at Madison Square Garden.

WASHINGTON THE way things work here, one Westchester Representative, Richard L. Ottinger, is confident that he will be able to par lay his influence in nuclear-energy legislation to get better transportation programs for the residents of the county.

Musical superstars have always been with us, and have been handsomely paid for their services. From Paganini, Liszt, Malibran and Jullien through the decades, there have always been a handful or so artists at any given time who have Ingredient X--that combination of virtuosity and charisma--to an unprecedented degree.

UNIONDALE, L.I, Nov. 29--The Islanders' 5-1 triumph over the Detroit Red Wings tonight served as a portrait of two National Hockey League teams going in opposite directions. New York extended its unbeaten string to 13 games; the Red Wings, new coach and all, have yet to win a game away from home in 13 attempts.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 29--The Army-Navy game is a game that really doesn't matter, but it does.

AMMAN, Jordan, Nov. 29--The Syrians warned King Hussein of Jordan today that they would defend "national security and interests by all available ways and means, even if they were unbrotherly."