December 22, 1983

The former administrator of a financially ailing Queens hospital and a monitoring group charge that the hospital admitted patients unnecessarily and gave them treatments they did not need. The administrator, who has been dismissed by the owners of the center, Boulevard Hospital in Long Island City, also charged the hospital improperly withheld refunds due thousands of patients and used hospital employees for the owners' personal chores. ''We admitted patients who weren't sick to keep up occupancy,'' said the former administrator, John Jenkins. ''We'd do anything we could to pack them in,'' he said. ''We'd keep deposits. When you're cash poor, you don't pay back deposits.''

The dirty white Jeep ranch wagon with bullet- proof windows charged through the nearly deserted streets of Tripoli, engine roaring, tires squealing. As it screeched to a stop, it would pitch forward, the doors would pop open and out would step Yasir Arafat, invariably dressed in olive drab, invariably grinning. Often, as the siege of this northern Lebanese city stretched over nearly seven weeks, his eyes were red- rimmed, his face drained; yet he managed to bluster his way through it all. Without the guns or manpower to fend off an attack by Syrian-supported dissidents within the Palestine Liberation Organization, Mr. Arafat mounted a public relations campaign that brought him through the shelling of Tripoli and the nearby refugee camps as the man the world still thought of when it thought of the Palestinians.

A pickup truck packed with explosives blew up outside a French military command post in East Beirut tonight five minutes after a bomb exploded in a crowded hotel bar in the western part of the city. At least 19 people, including a French soldier, were killed in the two blasts and more than 40 were wounded. The explosion at the French post, close to the National Museum on the green line dividing the city's Christian and Moslem areas, seemed to be part of a continuing campaign of violence against the 5,800-man multinational force made up of American marines and French, British and Italian soldiers, according to Arab commentators. Unknown Group Makes Claim A rightist radio station received a call from someone claiming to represent a previously unknown group called Black Hand, which the caller said was responsible for both explosions. The caller did not have a Lebanese accent, the radio said.

''No compelling governmental purpose justifies a prosecutor's use of peremptory challenges solely on the basis of race.'' - Judge Eugene H. Nickerson of Federal District Court in Brooklyn. (A1:3.)

George A. Sawyer, former Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Shipbuilding and Logistics, said today that while he was in the Government he had removed himself from all contract decisions affecting his former employer, John J. McMullen Associates. Mr. Sawyer said in an interview that he had gone out of his way to avoid the perception of a conflict of interests by telling his deputy to handle matters ''where I had knowledge that McMullen Associates was directly involved or they would be directly affected.'' Mr. Sawyer said that he did not know whether his instructions to his deputy were in writing or given orally but that he also told Navy Secretary John F. Lehman Jr. that he would disqualify himself. The usual practice in the Government is for officials to delegate responsibility to their deputies on matters on which they wish to disqualify themselves. Often, this action is in writing and is widely circulated.