March 15, 1984

Three Senators bent on curbing oil-industry mergers have negotiated an agreement for a common bill under which large acquisitions would be barred for six months, one of the Senators, Howard M. Metzenbaum, said today. The proposed legislation, which would declare a moratorium effective Feb. 28, would apply to any company with crude oil reserves of 100 million barrels or more, a level that would cover about the 50 biggest. It would thus block the Standard Oil Company of California's proposed $13.2 billion takeover of the Gulf Corporation and the Mobil Corporation's proposed $5.7 billion acquisition of the Superior Oil Company.

''I am very concerned about the United States and its double standard everywhere.

The Rev. Joseph A. O'Hare, who began his career as an educator and has spent the last 12 years on the Jesuit magazine America, was named yesterday to be the next president of Fordham University. Father O'Hare, who has a doctorate in philosophy from Fordham, will succeed the Rev. James C. Finlay, who will retire on June 30 as head of the Jesuit-founded university. The announcement was made at a news conference at the university by William Hughes Mulligan, a retired Federal judge who is vice chairman of the board of trustees. In reaching outside the academic world for a president, the trustees selected a man who has repeatedly won prizes from the Catholic Press Association for the column and editorials that he writes for his magazine. Since 1975, he has been the editor in chief of the magazine and president of its publishing company, America Press Inc. Earlier in his career, Father O'Hare, who is 53 years old, was on the faculty of Ateneo de Manila University, a Jesuit school in the Philippines.

An aide to Edwin Meese 3d, the Presidential counselor, has said that he cannot find a document requested by Congressional investigators, according to materials made public today by a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The missing document from Mr. Meese's 1980 Reagan campaign files consisted of a handwritten note stating: ''Roger Stone bagman for paid informant in McGovern campaign, kept his mouth shut so they can't touch him, a Congressional investigator said in a statement released today. The investigator said the note also indicated that Mr. Stone had called Mr. Meese ''on 5/ 29 and 6/4.'' Mr. Stone, identified in a Senate report as a minor figure in the Watergate scandal, when he 19 years old, was a political director for the Eastern region in the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign and is serving in a somewhat similar position in the President's current campaign.

The nation's six major auto makers reported today that sales in the March 1-10 period surged 31.5 percent from a year earlier, continuing the stronger- than-expected pace that has prevailed since December. Analysts and industry executives said the early-March figures showed that sales could be expected to remain strong for the remainder of the model year. The companies - General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, American Motors, Volkswagen of America and American Honda - said they sold 211,240 cars in the period, which had nine selling days this year and last, when they sold 160,617. The seasonally adjusted annual sales rate was 8.1 million domestic units in the period. Most analysts had expected sales in the first quarter of about 7.5 to 7.8 million domestically produced units, but an 8.3 million rate for the month of January and an 8.5 million rate in February caused some to revise their forecasts for the year and brought about some minor adjustments in production schedules by the manufacturers for the second quarter.