December 18, 1981

Five former executives of O.P.M. Leasing Services Inc. pleaded guilty in Manhattan yesterday to charges of defrauding major lending institutions of $190 million in one of the largest fraud cases in the nation's history. The Federal fraud charges said the defendants had induced 19 banks, insurance companies and other lenders to buy more than 60 notes secured by falsified leases that supposedly existed between O.P.M. and the Rockwell International Corporation. About 25 percent of the notes were repaid, but much of the $190 million that O.P.M. obtained on the notes from 1978 to early this year was lost in the company's faltering business operations, according to investigators. O.P.M., a major computer leasing company based in Manhattan, last March entered Federal bankruptcy proceedings under Chapter 11 to obtain court protection from creditors while seeking to reorganize its finances.

The St. Patrick's Day parade will, after all, be held on St. Patrick's Day. Six days after after announcing that the 220-year-old New York City march, the city's biggest parade, would be moved from March 17 to the Sunday before the holiday each year, the parade chairman announced yesterday that it had been restored to the traditional date. ''It's the only day for the New York Irish,'' said the chairman, James J. Comerford. ''Marching on a Sunday is for the villages outside the city.''

The following article is based on information arriving from Poland. The Polish Government reported last night that seven people were killed Wednesday when policemen opened fire at a strikebound coal mine near Katowice in the southern industrial region of Silesia. It was the first official confirmation of deaths in five days of resistance to martial law. The Government also confirmed reports of widespread street clashes in the Baltic port city of Gdansk Wednesday night. The evening news broadcast said 160 policemen and 164 civilians were injured in Gdansk, where the Solidarity union movement was born in the summer of 1980.

Private trash collectors and their striking workers reached agreement early yesterday on a new contract and ended a 17-day strike that had left New York City cluttered with piles of garbage. The agreement calls for $81 a week in pay increases over three years, $3 more a week toward insurance benefits, and two more sick days added to the present four a year. The employers estimated the additional sick days to be worth $6 a week. That brought the overall package to an increase of $90 a week. Moving quickly after ratifying the contract by an overwhelming margin in midafternoon, members of Local 813 of the teamsters' union began to man the big private sanitation trucks and to start a massive city cleanup. More than 100,000 tons of garbage and rubbish had accumulated on city sidewalks, in alleys and in other storage areas during the strike.

The Federal Communications Commission today affirmed its decision in April to give telephone companies half of the new cellular radio business in each locality rather than open this new field to any company on an equal footing. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company, which pioneered the system designed to improve mobile telephone communications, is expected to be the leading beneficiary of the policy because its local operating companies already hold the franchises in the nation's largest cities. The F.C.C.'s action came despite reports that the April plan might be unraveling because the staff of the commission had reversed its recommendation, with the agreement of Mark S. Fowler, the agency chairman. Picford A. Wagner, an A.T.& T. spokesman, indicated that the company was gratified by today's A.T.& T. said it earned $1.96 billion in the fourth quarter, a 23.3 percent gain from a year ago. Page D4. decision and he said the first cellular service could be started by November 1983, with possibly 70 cities receiving it within five years.