June 20, 1981

George Washington's false teeth were reported missing today from the National Museum of American History. The teeth, made of gold and ivory and not wood, as rumor would have it, were fashioned in 1795 by his dentist, John Greenwood, according to Ellen McCalester, librarian at Mount Vernon.

The Security Council unanimously approved a resolution today that ''strongly condemned'' Israel's destruction of an Iraqi nuclear reactor. The resolution, the product of negotiations between the United States and Iraq, Council speeches, pages 4 and 5. also urged Israel to open its nuclear plants to international inspection. Today's action, however, imposed no new burden on either Israel or its military suppliers. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, the American delegate, said that Israel warranted condemnation for failing to exhaust all diplomatic recourses to deal with its concern that Iraq would build a nuclear bomb. ''The means Israel chose to quiet its fears have hurt, and not helped, the peace and security of the area,'' she said.

INTERNATIONAL A unanimous Security Council vote approved a resolution that "strongly condemned" Israel for its destruction of an Iraqi nuclear reactor and urged Israel to open its nuclear plants to international inspection. The resolution was agreed to on Thursday by the United States and Iraq. Jeane K. Kirkpatrick, the chief American delegate to the United Nations, said Israel deserved condemnation for not using all diplomatic means to deal with its concern that Iraq would build a nuclear bomb. She said, however, that "nothing in the resolution will affect my Government's commitment to Israel's security." (Page 1, Column 6.) Iraq intended to build a nuclear bomb, according to a former inspector for the International Atomic Energy Agency. The former inspector, Roger Richter, told a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that international safeguards would not have detected Iraq's secret production of plutonium, which is needed for a bomb. He also said that his concern over the agency's constraints on inspection of the Iraqi nuclear reactor led him to report to the State Department last year. He said that on the basis of available information, Iraq had an "aggressive, coordinated program" to develop the ability to make nuclear weapons in the next five years. (1:4-5.)

The Monday deadline for a threatened strike by air traffic controllers that would seriously disrupt air travel nationwide was eased conditionally today when the president of the controllers' union said he would delay a walkout if an agreement seemed near and talks were continuing. Airlines report that they have received many phone calls requesting information about flights next week but that reservations for the weekend have not risen substantially in anticipation of a strike. Should there be a strike, regularly scheduled flights of 500 miles or more are to continue on schedule under a priority system set up by the Federal Aviation Agency. (Page 48.)

A former inspector for the International Atomic Energy Agency said here today that Iraq had been planning to develop atomic bombs using the nuclear reactor destroyed by Israel and that international safeguards would not have detected secret production of plutonium in the reactor for weapons. The former inspector, Roger Richter, was one of three people familiar with nuclear reactors to testify this morning that Iraq was capable of using the reactor bombed on June 7 to produce plutonium, which can be used to make atomic weapons. But neither of the other witnesses, Robert Seldon, head of the applied theoretical physics division at Los Alamos Laboratory, nor Herbert J.C. Kouts, chairman of the department of nuclear energy at Brookhaven National Laboratory, would say under questioning if he believed that Iraq was in fact planning to use the reactor to produce fissionable material for weapons. Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mr. Richter said his concern over agency constraints in inspecting the Iraqi reactor led him to report his misgivings to the State Department last year. He said that he had never personally inspected the reactor, explaining that checks of the Iraqi plant had been conducted only by Soviet or Eastern European members of the International Atomic Energy Agency.