November 3, 1984

The Government announced today that two more Interior Ministry security officers had been ordered detained and a general suspended in connection with the abduction and slaying of a pro-Solidarity priest. At the same time, a Government spokesman said in an interview that an autopsy on the priest, the Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko, 37 years old, had confirmed that he had been murdered. The spokesman, Jerzy Urban, said that as a result of the autopsy, he expected that homicide charges would be filed within a day or so against the three Interior Ministry officers originally seized for the crime. The priest was abducted from his car in northern Poland on Oct. 19.

Violence ignited by the assassination of Indira Gandhi spread Friday, pushing the nationwide death toll close to 1,000, according to some estimates. At least 500 killings were reported in the New Delhi area alone. As this battered and fearful city prepared to receive more than 100 foreign dignitaries at Mrs. Gandhi's funeral and cremation today, her son and successor, Rajiv, was officially confirmed as Prime Minister on Friday. Applauded by Party Members To thunderous applause, members of Parliament from the governing Congress Party ratified his appointment by a party central committee. He was appointed Wednesday only hours after his mother was gunned down by assailants who have been identified by the police as two Sikh members of her security guard.

Deputy Mayor Kenneth Lipper yesterday sharply criticized the leadership of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and challenged management to set specific goals for improving the city's subway and bus service. Mr Lipper, who read from a statement approved by Mayor Koch, said the M.T.A. was relying too much on legislative changes that might never arrive. It is ''unsatisfactory for management to throw up its hands and say nothing is possible: or no responsibility can be placed on it, until extraordinary legislation is enacted,'' Mr. Lipper said. ''All government agencies and businesses must operate in imperfect worlds and are held accountable for relative performance within their own confines.''

On the eve of the funeral of Indira Gandhi, trains have been arriving at Delhi Railway Station from the countryside carrying the battered bodies of slain Sikhs. The deputy stationmaster at Delhi Railway Station said he had been told by witnesses that some of the Sikhs had been killed by gangs that boarded the trains. Other victims, he said, were apparently killed or wounded first, then thrown onto passing coaches. Since Thursday, when violence against Sikhs became widespread after Mrs. Gandhi's assassins were identified by officials as Sikhs in her security detail, at least 40 bodies have arrived, station officials said.

Seventeen years after defecting to the West, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin's only surviving child, has returned to the Soviet Union and had her citizenship restored. A brief announcement in the Government newspaper Izvestia and on Tass, the official press agency, and read on the evening television news said the Soviet authorities ''considered and complied with a request made by S. I. Alliluyeva, who has returned to Moscow, for restoring her to the citizenship of the U.S.S.R. as well as for granting Soviet citizenship to Alliluyeva's daughter Olga.'' Once Called Soviet a Prison Miss Alliluyeva, who had been living in Cambridge, England, for the last two years under the name Lana Peters, could not be immediately located in Moscow, and there was no ready explanation for her decision to return to the country she once called a prison. (Miss Alliluyeva's return left some Western acquaintances stunned and puzzled, but others who have been close to her expressed no surprise, saying she had been unhappy in the West in recent years. Page 4.)