October 12, 1981

An article Saturday incorrectly identified th e Human Resources Ad- ministrator w ho assigned an inv esti- gation into a suspicious fire to the In- spector General's office rather than to the Bureau of Client Fraud Investigation. It was the former administrator, Stanley Brezenoff.

It surprised no one here during a scholarly three-day conference on Dwight D. Eisenhower that he seems in retrospect a more skillful and attractive statesman than he appeared to many intellectuals during the 1950's and early 60's. For one thing, the academics had convened at Eisenhower College - which is an official national memorial to the 34th President - for an occasion billed as ''a celebration.'' For another, a revisionist version of Eisenhower - shrewd, commanding, constant and, above all, a man of peace - has been taking shape for more than 10 years among liberal journalists and historians and has quickened in the last year. And so they came here from around the country - historians, political scientists and former Presidential advisers on arms and intelligence. They talked about Eisenhower. He died in 1969, soon after the private college that bears his name opened its doors. He would have turned 91 on Wednesday.

UP on the Grand Concourse, the thick, gray Bronx County Courthouse towers above the facade of the Yankee Stadium bleachers. But for Rick Cerone, the two landmarks are interchangeable. Even though the 27-year-old catcher hit a home run last night as the Yankees advanced to the American League championship series against the Oakland A's, he remains on trial in George Steinbrenner's courtroom, where the principal owner is both the judge in a powdered wig and the executioner in a hangman's hood. ''If we lost,'' Rick Cerone was saying at his locker, ''It might have been my last game as a Yankee.'' If the Yankees lose the last game to the A's this week, or if they lose the last game of the World Series, that may turn out to be Rick Cerone's last game as a Yankee, too.

Thirty years ago Abdullah al-Salim al-Sabah, the Emir of the British Prot e ctorate of Kuwait, signed a new royalty agreement with the Kuwait Oi l Company, the British- and American-owned enterprise that dominate d the Kuwaiti oil scene. Soon he was receiving more than$2.5 million a week. Within a year the British Foreign Office dispatched a high-ranking official to help determine how Kuwait could invest the Emir's vast wealth outside the sheikdom without causing foreign policy problems. Today the British are gone, Emir Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah reigns over an independent nation and the oil company has been nationalized. However, with oil revenues pouring into Kuwaiti coffers last year at the rate of $290 million a week, according to a Bankers Trust estimate, both the need to invest abroad and foreign fears about the impact of such investments loom larger than ever.

Steve Rogers outpitched Steve Carlton today for the second time in a week as the Montreal Expos defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, 3-0, and won the National League's Eastern championship. It was the first division title for Canada since the Expos joined the major leagues 13 years ago, and they won it by eliminating the team that took the pennant and the World Series one year ago. They also won it only five weeks after dismissing Dick Williams as manager and replacing him with Jim Fanning, a vice president of the club who had never managed a team in the major leagues. But the most remarkable achievement for the Expos was probably their consecutive victories over Carlton, the fourth-ranking strikeout pitcher in history and three times the winner of the Cy Young Award as the league's best.