June 3, 1983

A Manhattan jewelry manufacturer suspected of heading a conspiracy that resulted in the slayings of two Federal witnesses and three CBS technicians was charged yesterday with trying to have a lawyer killed. The jeweler, Irwin M. Margolies, was accused in Federal court of paying a gunman $15,000 to murder the lawyer, David Blejwas. Mr. Blejwas had helped expose a $5.7 million fraud by the jeweler. Mr. Margolies, according to the charges, tried to arrange the killing during the last five months from inside a jail where he has begun serving a 28-year term for his conviction in the fraud case. John S. Martin Jr., the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, who announced the charges, said the murder plot failed when the gunman hired by Mr. Margolies, another inmate, informed Federal law enforcement officials. The complaint against Mr. Margolies is before a Federal grand jury for action, Mr. Martin said.

Modern communications is making it easier for investors and small securities firms to get an inside view of Government securities prices that were once the exclusive domain of firms specializing in that market. While major securities dealers rely primarily on telephone calls and personal visits with their customers, modern technology is making bid and asked prices available to thousands of potential customers who have video screens operated by Telerate Systems and Reuters Inc. In recent months, two developments have dramatically broadened the availability of information about the Treasury securities market. In early April, Newcomb Securities began a brokerage operation in which quotes were published on thousands of video screens operated by Reuters. Yesterday, Telerate announced that 16 primary dealers in Government securities would publish quotes for Treasury and agency issues throughout the business day.

A picture caption in Business Day on Tuesday, accompanying an article on productivity, misidentified two men. William J. Baumol was on the left and Edward N. Wolff on the right.

The Reagan Administration has recalled Philip C. Habib, the Middle East special envoy, and several ambassadors for a high-level policy review next week on what the United States should do to end the impasse that developed after Syria's refusal to withdraw its forces from Lebanon. Nicholas A. Veliotes, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, disclosed the plans for the review in testimony today before the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on the Middle East. He said Secretary of State George P. Shultz would consult with President Reagan as part of the overall discussion. Mr. Habib, who has been in the Middle East since the conclusion of the Israeli-Lebanese troop withdrawal accord by Mr. Shultz, has returned to the United States. After a few days in California he is to come to Washington, Mr. Veliotes said. The other Middle East special envoy, Morris Draper, is already in Washington.

The promoters of the New York Grand Prix auto race said yesterday that they were dropping plans to hold the event this September in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, but intended to go ahead with the race next year. The promoters said it would be impossible to complete an environmental impact study required by state law before the the scheduled beginning of the three-day event on Sept. 22. ''I don't think there's any doubt in anybody's mind that the Grand Prix can successfully complete the environmental review,'' said Lloyd Kaplan, a spokesman for the promoters. ''But it's a process that most of the time takes six to eight months. We don't have that much time left.''