December 10, 1982

With reservoir levels continuing to drop despite recent rains, the Delaware River Basin Commission has doubled its cutback in New York City's daily water allotment from three upstate reservoirs. Dawes Thompson, a spokesman for the commission, said from Trenton yesterday that water in New York's Pepacton, Cannonsville and Neversink Reservoirs had slipped to 93.3 billion gallons Wednesday, 34.4 percent of their capacity, requiring another cut of 120 million gallons a day in the amount the city can take from them. On Nov. 10, the commission, which regulates the use of Delaware River water, issued a drought warning when storage in the reservoirs dropped to 106 billion gallons, 39.2 percent of their capacity. The commission also cut the city's allotment from its normal 800 million gallons a day to 680 million gallons, effective Nov. 13.

Leon Jaworski, the Texas lawyer who earned national fame as special prosecutor in the Watergate case, died today at his ranch near Wimberley, Tex. He was 77 years old. According to Jack Proctor, a partner at the Houston law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski, Mr. Jaworski died, apparently of a heart attack, while working on a field at the 300-acre ranch, about 35 miles southwest of Austin. He was found by the ranch manager. Gibson Gayle, managing partner of the law firm, said that Mr. Jaworski had been suffering from cancer of the pancreas since February but that it had appeared to be under control.

President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq of Pakistan said in New York yesterday that there was a ''hint of flexibility'' in the Soviet attitude toward its military intervention in Afghanistan and that the Soviet leadership might recognize a need for an early resolution of the Afghan crisis. But Mr. Zia said his Government would refuse to accept the Soviet Union's ''rigid insistence'' that Pakistan hold direct talks with the Soviet-supported Afghan Government of Babrak Karmal. In a luncheon speech at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel before the Foreign Policy Association, Mr. Zia also made these points: - The six-year, $3.2 billion United States aid package for Pakistan reaffirmed by President Reagan during Mr. Zia's official visit to Washington ''has laid the foundation for a credible and enduring relationship.'' - His Government is determined to pursue ''a relationship of good neighborly cooperation'' with its traditional enemy, India.

Most of the members of the Civil Aeronautics Board said today that they favored taking a major step in deregulating the sale of airline tickets, thus ending a 40-year-old system under which tickets can only be sold by the airlines and accredited travel agents. Four of the five members of the C.A.B. said at a hearing that they would vote in favor of eliminating ''exclusivity,'' under which ticket sales outside the airlines themselves are limited to agents accredited by the Air Traffic Conference of America, an industry trade group. The agents receive commissions averaging about 10 percent of ticket prices. If exclusivity is eliminated in a C.A.B. vote, expected next week, then anyone could approach an airline and negotiate an agreement to sell tickets on the airline's routes. Also, airlines would be free to approach retail stores, companies such as American Express and other outlets to handle their tickets.

A Detroit dispatch by United Press International yesterday incorrectly described a judge's action involving James R. Hoffa, the teamsters union president who disappeared in 1975. The judge declared him ''presumed dead.'' A corrected article is on page D17.