January 26, 1982

The Whittaker Corporation, a diversified manufacturing company, announced yesterday a $668 million tender offer for the Brunswick Corporation, a major producer of recreational products. Whittaker, which is based in Los Angeles, said that it would pay $320 million in cash for Brunswick stock and debentures in the first phase of its proposed acquisition. The manufacturer said that the second phase would involve an exchange of Whittaker stock for Brunswick. Whittaker valued the second phase at $348 million.

An explosion shattered a basement classroom at Camden County College's Urban Center today, injuring 50 students and faculty members. Two of those injured were reported in critical condition with head wounds and two were listed in serious condition. The condition. The rest were released after being treated at hospitals in Camden.

Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski today attacked the economic sanctions imposed by the United States, insisted that martial law was justified to avoid civil war and called for ''sacrifice and labor'' from the people to lead Poland out of its crisis. In a speech to Parliament, General Jaruzelski, who is Prime Minister, Communist Party leader and head of the rul- Excerpts from speech, page A8. ing Military Council, set no date for lifting martial law. He said he wanted to end it ''as soon as possible'' but it depended on conditions in the country. If all remains quiet, he said, some restrictions could be eased or lifted by the end of next month. He then added: ''Poland is exhausted. Poland has been exposed to danger. The antisocialist forces and foreign broadcasts excite actions of terrorism. Let there be no mistake. The only result of such actions would be a lengthening and sharpening of the state of war.''

''Man cannot live by cheese alone.'' - The Rev. J. C. Crawford, of Newark. (B3:6.)

NEARLY a decade after American psychiatry deleted homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses, the profession remains polarized in its views, to judge by the vigorous debate at a major symposium on homosexuality last weekend. Some professionals, primarily classical psychoanalysts, insist that homosexuality is inherently abnormal; others more sociologically oriented maintain it is a normal variant of human sexual behavior. Some say dissatisfied homosexuals should be offered therapy to help them become heterosexuals; others, especially homosexual psychiatrists, say unhappy homosexuals should be helped only to become happier with their sexual orientation. Whatever their views, nearly all denounced homophobia (fear and hatred of homosexuality) and prejudice, which they said pervades the psychiatric profession as well as society at large. Dr. Judd Marmor, a Los Angeles psychiatrist who is a professor emeritus at the University of Southern California, asserted that homosexual physicians were still denied res idency training in psychiatry by mosthospitals and that no psychoanalytic institute would knowingly accepta homosexual trainee.