January 10, 1984

The Secretary of the Navy has recommended that military officers be reprimanded for command failures associated with the Oct. 23 truck-bombing of the Marine compound in Beirut, Reagan Administration officials said today. They said the recommendation, which was submitted to Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger today, called for the issuance of disciplinary letters. The officials said more severe forms of punishment, including courts-martial, were precluded by President Reagan last month. The officials declined to say whether the recommendation by the Secretary, John F. Lehman Jr., covered both Navy and Marine officers or how high in the chain of command the reprimands might reach.

Administration officials said today that, while President Reagan remained opposed to increasing taxes to shrink budget deficits, his top aides were deeply divided on what course should be taken. This situation emerged from a luncheon today of the President with his top advisers. Officials said no final decision was made at the luncheon about proposing a tax increase, and they would not speculate whether the final decision would be for or against tax increases. ''There are a number of decisions on the table, a number of options and a number of extremely held views,'' Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, said at his daily briefing. ''The tax decision has not been made; it will be made this week.''

Efforts to separate factions in Lebanon appeared to have bogged down, and Government officials expressed pessimism over the chances of reaching an agreement soon. Syria, which had indicated it favored the proposed accord, appeared to have reversed itself. Also in Beirut, a French paratrooper was killed and two others were wounded in an attack by gunmen. (Page A1, Column 1.) Officers should be reprimanded for command failures associated with the Oct. 23 truck-bombing of the Marine compound in Beirut, according to a recommendation of Navy Secretary John F. Lehman Jr., Reagan Administration officials said. They said the recommendation, which was submitted to Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger, called for the issuance of disciplinary letters. (A1:1-2.)

The feeling this week at the Consumer Electronics Show here appears to be relief that the video game and home computer industry - in which some companies lost hundreds of millions of dollars during 1983 - still exists. Said William Grubb, chairman of Imagic: ''For this industry, 1983 was the year of humility.'' ''The phenomenon is over,'' said Roger Sharpe, the editor of Video Games magazine. ''The industry dug its own grave by thinking that all you had to do was put something in a box and the public would buy it. The question is where the industry will stabilize.''

Mayor Koch, declaring that his policies during the last six years had put ''the city back on its feet,'' said yesterday that no new taxes would be included in his preliminary budget for the next fiscal year. He also said that he would not seek to extend a two-year surcharge, scheduled to expire December 1984, on the city's income tax for residents and that he planned to overhaul municipal energy and financial taxes so the city could better compete with other localities for businesses. Mr. Koch also announced that he would support a City Council proposal to commit up to $100 million over the next four or five years for new housing for low- and middle-income families. Regarding education, Mr. Koch said he would decline the request of Schools Chancellor Anthony J. Alvarado that the Board of Education's $3.5 billion budget be increased by $440 million. Instead the Mayor criticized the cost of special education - now at $770 million. Budget aides said they would meet today with school officials to draw up unspecified reductions in the special education budget, which contains programs for handicapped pupils.