July 9, 1983

Leading his family on a forced march through Manhattan, Tom Sparacio of Snohomish, Wash., looked over his shoulder to announce that the next stop on their sightseeing tour was the New York Stock Exchange. His 6-year-old son, Jeff, could not wait to see the cows and pigs. This is tourist season in New York, a time when an inordinate number of pedestrians seem to be looking up and walking into things, when people with cameras around their necks can be seen greeting total strangers on the subways, when New Yorkers are asked to open their couches to visitors and when even hot dog vendors and pigeons are expected to pose for family albums. The first man in Budweiser shorts - imprinted with dozens of copies of the beer company's logo - has been sighted in Times Square. ''We're going to the Empire State Building,'' said the man, Earl Williams of Kansas City, Mo., who also wore an Atlantic City T-shirt. ''Then my wife wants to go to '21' for lunch.'' Mr. Williams said he had no reservations, he would surprise them.

A Federal judge said today that he would give final approval to the breakup of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company once certain changes were made to protect the principle of universal telephone service at a reasonable cost. The ruling by District Judge Harold H. Greene was the latest of several that he has made on different aspects of the huge divestiture plan. If A.T.&T. and the Justice Department accept these conditions, then the divestiture of A.T.&T.'s 22 local phone companies would go ahead unimpeded by further legal hurdles. It is now scheduled to be completed in January.

The number of people with jobs rose sharply last month and the unemployment rate, when the armed forces are included, declined to 9.8 percent of the labor force from 10 percent, the Department of Labor announced today. The civilian rate of unemployment, not counting the military, declined in June for the fourth consecutive month, to 10 percent from 10.1 percent in May. The June rate was the lowest since the 9.9 percent recorded last August. The total number of people with jobs rose by 1.2 million from May to June, one of the largest monthly gains on record, and the number of payroll jobs increased by nearly 350,000.

President Reagan today underlined his concern about the investigation of his 1980 campaign by interrupting a meeting of his senior staff and dictating an order that every Administration worker, ''including me,'' cooperate fully. ''We want the truth,'' Mr. Reagan was quoted as saying in a detailed description issued by the White House of the President's sudden visit to the routine morning meeting of his ranking assistants as they gathered across the hall from the Oval Office. ''In view of all that's been going on, I thought they should hear it directly from me,'' Mr. Reagan later told reporters, and promised to take ''whatever action should be taken,'' including staff dismissals, if wrongdoing was uncovered. Orchestration Is Denied The Federal Bureau of Investigation and a Congressional committee have begun inquiries into the 1980 Reagan campaign's possession of some of President Carter's private papers, which campaign aides used in preparing Mr. Reagan for a televised debate with Mr. Carter.

After his visit to the Soviet Union, Chancellor Helmut Kohl is said to believe that Yuri V. Andropov would like to improve relations with the United States and that Moscow might make a counteroffer this fall at the stalled talks in Geneva on mediumrange missiles. According to one of the Chancellor's closest aides, the Soviet leader told Mr. Kohl that there was still ''a margin of flexibility'' in Moscow's negotiating position and that he was interested in sealing an accord with the United States before the December deadline for the deployment of new American medium-range missiles in West Germany, Britain and Italy. While offering no specific concessions, Mr. Andropov apparently wanted to persuade Mr. Kohl that Moscow was not blocking a Geneva accord, according to the aide, who asked not to be named. ''We can't say that there will be a result in Geneva,'' said this official, who took part in the Moscow talks. ''But they haven't decided that there will be no result.''