May 30, 1981

The executive directors of three city hospitals - Harlem, Cumberland and Elmhurst - are being replaced, the president of the city's Health and Hospitals Corporation disclosed yesterday. Stanley Brezenoff, who was named president of the corporation last March, said in an interview that he had asked for the resignations of Inder Persaud of Cumberland, which is in Brooklyn, and Marvin Durrell of Elmhurst, in Queens, as part of a series of changes contemplated in personnel and structure of the agency for greater efficiency. Mr. Brezenoff said Dr. Anthony Summers, the acting director of Harlem Hospital, has withdrawn his name from consideration for a permanent appointment. He withdrew after corporation officials said they had learned that he had used $2,000 in Harlem Hospital's budget to provide a summer job for his son at another hospital, Mr. Brezenoff said.

President Reagan has invited Democratic Congressional leaders to the White House on Monday for a ''last chance'' meeting on a tax compromise White House officials said today. If the meeting shows no basis for compromise, several White House sources said, Mr. Reagan was prepared to move in two directions. They said he would seek a legislative alliance with the conservative Southern Democrats who helped him pass his budget reductions and begin a ''public outreach effort'' to create voter demand for passage of his tax reductions. In what his advisers described as a final effort to work out a compromise on the tax plan, Mr. Reagan has set 11 A.M. Monday for a meeting with House Speaker Thomas J. O'Neill Jr.; Representative Jim Wright, the House majority leader; Representative Dan Rostenkowski, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee; Robert C. Byrd, Senate minority leader, and Senator Russell B. Long, the senior Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee.

The Air Force tonight arrested one of its missile-launching officers at an air base in Kansas and charged him with making three unauthorized visits to the Soviet Union's Embassy here. The Strategic Air Command identified the officer as Second Lieut. Christopher M. Cooke, 25 years old, of Richmond, who has been assigned to the Titan missile complex at McConnell Air Force Base near Wichita, Kan., since last June.

Leaders of the United Mine Workers today approved a proposed agreement to end a strike by 160,000 coal miners, quickly accepting the terms negotiated with the mine operators early this morning. At a news conference this afternoon, Sam M. Church Jr., the union's president, called the agreement ''probably the best that will be negotiated this year in any industry.'' He said that the agreement, running to October 1984, would give U.M.W. members a 38 percent increase in wages and benefits and include most of the provisions whose omission in a previous settlement led to its rejection by the rank and file. The 36-to-2 vote today by the union's bargaining council, a tally then made unanimous, seemed to give the new tentative settlement a better chance of ratification by the soft-coal miners, who struck 64 days ago. A secret-ballot vote by the membership is scheduled for June 6.

President Reagan's special envoy, Philip C. Habib, said today that he believed a negotiated end to the crisis in the Middle East was ''achievable,'' but he cautioned Syria and Israel against continuing to build up combat forces along the Lebanese border. Speaking to reporters at the White House after conferring with Mr. Reagan and other senior officials on his three weeks of shuttling between Israel, Syria and Lebanon, with a side trip to Saudi Arabia, Mr. Habib said he would return to the Middle East next week. When he began his mission in the Middle East May 7, he said, it looked as if war would erupt between Syria and Israel over Syrian antiaircraft missiles in Lebanon. Syria began deploying the missiles in eastern Lebanon April 29, the day after Israeli jets shot down two Syrian helicopters. Israel immediately demanded that the missiles be withdrawn.