February 24, 1984

The State Education Commissioner presented revised requirements yesterday for all high school students in New York State that call for an extra year of social studies, mathematics and science in order to graduate. The plan also would require three years of a foreign language for a Regents diploma, which is pursued by 45 percent of the graduates, almost all of whom are college-bound and must pass special examinations at the end of each course. The plan, developed under the direction of Education Commissioner Gordon M. Ambach, will be considered by the State Board of Regents today in Buffalo. The plan softens an earlier proposal that called for adding two years of mathematics and sciences to the requirements for a Regents diploma. The earlier plan was redraftedafter eight months of deliberations and hearings. In addition, the idea in the original plan of lengthening the school year by 10 instructional days has been abandoned.

David, the bright, cheerful boy who spent all but the last 15 days of his 12 years of life in a sterile plastic bubble, had a death "as amazing as his life," his doctor said today. Conscious, alert and making jokes to the last, David made his last gesture, a wink at his doctor before he slipped into a sedated sleep that ended at 8 P.M. Wednesday when Dr. William T. Shearer pronounced him dead. Doctors had suspected David was sickening from a bone marrow transplant intended to release him to a normal existence. But an autopsy showed no clear evidence that the transplant had instead hastened his death, hospital officials said, and doctors are still trying to determine what finally overwhelmed his defenseless body. Among the last things David said, Dr. Shearer reported at a news conference this morning, was a seeming acknowledgment that he was dying.

International Rebel units of the Lebanese Army reappeared on the streets of West Beirut under the control of Shiite and Druse militia leaders opposed to President Amin Gemayel. According to Western intelligence officials, about 40 percent of the 37,000-man Lebanese Army is either openly supporting the anti-Government Moslem militias or refusing to leave its barracks. Israeli planes bombed targets in the mountains east of Beirut in what the Israeli radio said was an attack on Palestinian guerrilla bses. It was the third Israeli air strike since Sunday.

Friday TRIBUTE TO PAUL JACOBS Nearly 30 colleagues of Paul Jacobs, the pianist who died last September, are gathering at Symphony Space, Broadway and 95th Street, tonigh at 8 for a concert in his memory. The performers will include James Levine, Gilbert Kalish, Ned Rorem and members of the New York Philharmonic, for which Mr. Jacobs was pianist and harpsichordist. He was also a teacher, lecturer and writer. This will be a marathon program, including works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy, Frescobaldi, Mozart, Schoenberg and Stravinsky. It's free. PARK AVE. JAZZ SERIES IS BACK

%TAn article in Business Day Wednesday about New York radio stations misstated the number of listeners toWKHK, now WLTW. There are about 800,000, according to Radio and Records, a trade publication.