September 28, 1983

The Environmental Protection Agency said today that it had found unexpected leaking of chemicals at the Love Canal in Niagara Falls, N.Y., calling into question last year's Federal declaration that the area was safe to live in. The agency said a ''total review'' was needed of the scientific data amassed by the agency last year and used as the basis for the declaration that the area - a block and a half to six blocks from the contaminated canal - was habitable. The canal, where thousands of tons of toxic chemical wastes were dumped in the 1940's and 1950's, was declared a Federal emergency area in 1980. Hundreds of families were moved from their homes in 1978 and 1980.

A caption accompanying a photograph of the Avon Half Marathon in some editions of Sunday's sports section misidentified the runner shown behind the leader. She was Laurie Binder.

Gordon Peter Getty got there the classic way. He had wealthy parents. Sam M. Walton did it by selling things cheap. J.R. Simplot did it with potatoes, Robert Vesco fled with millions. All did what most Americans only dream about doing - they struck it rich - and they all show up on the second annual Forbes 400 list, a gossipy and not scrupulously precise ranking of the richest people in the country compiled for the latest issue of Forbes magazine.

Eastern Airlines' chairman, Frank Borman, urged employees in a taped message yesterday to accept a 15 percent cut in wages by Nov. 1 and another 5 percent cut in labor costs on Jan. 1, and warned them that they could be voting for their jobs. The three major unions representing most of the 37,500 employees have already indicated they would reject the request, and two reaffirmed that rejection yesterday. Mr. Borman reminded employees in a message taped Sunday night that he was speaking to them about 26 hours after Continental Air Lines had filed for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code. He said at the end of his message that ''in my estimation, you will be voting on your job.'' The message was played to most of the airline's employees yesterday.

The former chief of staff of the Environmental Protection Agency charged today that the Office of Management and Budget improperly promoted industry's efforts to influence the agency's rulemaking. John E. Daniel, who was chief of staff to the agency's former Administrator, Anne McGill Burford, testified before a Congressional investigative committee. He said that the budget office had tried to dictate regulations to the agency, threatened reprisals, urged that cost factors be built into health rules when the law prohibited them, and showed proposed rule changes to officials of the industries being regulated before the changes were available to the public. Christopher C. DeMuth, the budget office's assistant administrator for information and regulatory affairs, said that the office occasionally did discuss environmental rules with affected industries to help formulate decisions.