February 4, 1983

In response to growing Congressional pressure for programs to create jobs, President Reagan has ordered a study of whether to speed up Government construction projects to make jobs available sooner than scheduled. ''The President, after hearing the criticisms from the Hill about no immediate effect of a jobs program, authorized the staff to look into this,'' Larry M. Speakes, the White House spokesman, said today. He emphasized that Mr. Reagan had not yet approved the idea of a Federal construction speedup and that if he did, it would involve no additional budget expenditures. Even so, the White House comments clearly were offered in response to the growing demands in Congress for some early emergency measures to deal with persistently high unemployment, which was 10.8 percent in December.

International Americans and Israelis agreed to build a formal boundary to separate their military forces in an effort to avert confrontations. The accord came after a series of incidents in which Israeli forces tried to patrol in and around the zone controlled by the 1,300-man Marine Corps contingent of the international peacekeeping force in Lebanon. (Page A1, Column 1.) Salvadoran troops reoccupied the smoldering town of Berlin after 500 guerrillas who seized it on Monday withdrew, according to the Government commander. He said that fighting erupted as some of his 1,000 troops pursued the retreating rebels, and reported that 3 of his soldiers were killed and 13 wounded. He put the guerrilla casualties at 50. (A1:2-3.)

A porter at an Upper West Side residential hotel shot four people to death there yesterday morning, beginning with his wife, a young man and a girl in his apartment and ending five hours later with the hotel's owner, the police said. After the final burst of gunfire, in which the owner's wife was also wounded, the porter wandered around for a few minutes outside the the hotel, at 77th Street and Broadway. He then returned to the lobby, where he waited calmly until officers arrived and arrested him, the police said.

Ten Fire Department inspectors and 12 plumbing contractors were arrested yesterday on bribery charges and accused of overlooking possible safety violations at more than 50 apartment buildings in Manhattan. Law-enforcement officials said that most of the evidence against the suspects had been obtained in the last two years by two men who posed as a corrupt inspector and a corrupt contractor. The bribes ranged from $15 to $100 for each inspection, an indictment said. It added that the payoffs had been made since 1976.

Warren M. Anderson, the leader of the Republican majority in the State Senate, said yesterday that the state budget proposed Monday by Governor Cuomo benefited New York City at the expense of the rest of the state. ''If this is sharing the pain, it hurts on a selective basis, at best,'' said Senator Anderson, who is from Binghamton. ''After an early reading of this proposed Cuomo budget, I believe that perhaps a more equitable approach can be developed.'' Mr. Anderson, a key figure in Albany, made his statements in a memorandum ''to editors and publishers.'' The memo was mailed to newspapers in upstate New York and on Long Island but not in New York City, according to the Senator's spokesman, Charles Dumas.