November 16, 1982

Mayor Koch, who said recently that the size of the Police Department would decline this fiscal year because the city could not afford to replace all the officers who retired or resigned, has decided instead to fill all vacancies, City Hall officials said yesterday. They said Mr. Koch had changed his mind on how many new officers would be hired and was planning to provide enough funds for the department to send 1,384 recruits to the Police Academy in the first week of January and 854 more next June. The first class was scheduled to begin training last week, but Mr. Koch delayed it because of the budget problems. After announcing the delay of the first class last month, the Mayor had said repeatedly that the class, when it finally entered the academy, would replace only some of the officers lost through attrition. Last week, he got an agreement from the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association not to fight a temporary decrease in the size of the force, which now has 22,770 sworn officers.

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With new figures showing revenue from a New York State transit-tax package $250 million below expectations, legislative and transit officials are negotiating to try to hold down an anticipated increase next month in the 75-cent subway and bus fare. Beyond the problems with the tax package, which was passed in June 1981, the fare could also be affected by a decline in Federal subsidies and by the cost of last spring's settlement with 35,000 transit employees. The board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will meet early next month to determine the level of the fare increase. Stephen Berger, the chairman of the board's finance committee, said yesterday that he thought the new fare could be kept below $1. ''But we will have to see what the Legislature does,'' he said.

Leonid I. Brezhnev was buried today in front of the Kremlin Wall after a state funeral exceeding in scale and pomp anything seen in the Soviet Union since the death of Stalin in 1953. Before the largest gathering of foreign dignitaries ever assembled here under Communist rule, Mr. Brezhnev's coffin was borne atop a gun carriage into the heart of Red Square. After a lavish tribute from the new General Secretary of the Communist Party, Yuri V. Andropov, Politburo pallbearers carried the coffin to a spot behind the Lenin mausoleum that was symbolically the most distinguished burial place of any modern Soviet leader. Artillery Fires Salute There, to the strains of Chopin's ''Funeral March,'' the man who held the posts of head of state and party leader, the latter for 18 years, was laid to rest. As the red-satin cover of the coffin descended into the grave, field guns erupted within the Kremlin walls and tugboats on the Moscow River sounded sirens in farewell.

Mayors from around the country met in New York yesterday with leaders of business and labor, and when it was all over, they said agreement had been reached on an economic recovery program for America's cities. Mayor Coleman A. Young of Detroit, head of the United States Conference of Mayors, said the nation was facing a ''watershed economic crisis'' that went beyond political party labels. Mayor Koch, who arrived late after a morning of meetings on the city's budget problems, called for a ''substantial midcourse correction to get the country's economy moving again.'' Call for 'Bipartisan Support' Mayor William H. Hudnut 3d of Indianapolis, one of two Republicans among the 15 mayors at the meeting planned by the Conference of Mayors, called for ''bipartisan support'' for a program to rebuild the highways, roads and bridges that cities can not afford to replace on their own.