November 8, 1984

The United States, concerned that a Soviet freighter that has reached Nicaragua might be carrying advanced fighter aircraft, warned Moscow on Tuesday that it would not tolerate the delivery of such planes, the State Department said today. A department spokesman, John Hughes, said the warning was conveyed to Soviet officials in both Washington and Moscow. Other Administration officials said the freighter, which was shadowed by United States Navy ships and planes as it approached Nicaragua, docked at the Pacific port of Corinto this morning. The Administration officials said the Government did not know whether the ship was carrying Soviet MIG warplanes. President Reagan, speaking at a news conference in California, said, ''We cannot definitely identify that they have MIG's on there, or planes of any kind.''

An article in the Ideas and Trends section of The Week in Review on Sunday misstated the position of the A. H. Robins Company on intrauterine birth control devices. Robins, which manufactures the Dalkon Shield, is urging women still using that device to have it removed because ''continued use may pose a serious personal health hazard.'' But the company has formally taken no position about the use of any other brand of intrauterine device.

A headline on Sunday with an article about the Veterans Administration misidentified the hospital criticized in a report to the agency. It was the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Hospital in Montrose, N.Y., unrelated to Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan.

The morning after a fire destroyed the synagogue that housed his yeshiva in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, Rabbi Yaakov Mosbacher received offers from other Bensonhurst schools, synagogues and even churches for classroom space. But the rabbi turned them all down. He said he wanted to move the yeshiva, with its 45 students, out of the neighborhood altogether. The fire, which the police said was set early Halloween morning by an arsonist, destroyed more than a building. It wounded the pride of Bensonhurst, where the large Jewish and Italian groups have lived together in harmony for decades. Both Christian and Jewish leaders were quick to condemn the arson. They called it ''an isolated incident'' clearly not indicative of the generally good relations that prevail in the community. But the next day, an attempted arson occurred at a synagogue two blocks away.

Business leaders were strong supporters of President Reagan's re- election bid and have been quick to cheer his overwhelming victory. But these corporate chieftains are also voicing concern that Mr. Reagan has yet to tackle the problem he promised to solve four years ago. Yesterday, reporters of The New York Times asked business leaders: ''What is the single most important thing President Reagan should do to help your company and the economy at large?'' One answer was sounded repeatedly: lower the Federal Government's budget deficit sharply and quickly. Despite Administration contentions that large deficits do not drive up interest rates, many of the business people interviewed seemed to think that borrowing by the Government to finance its spending has kept interest rates uncomfortably high. Several of these business leaders called for cuts in Federal spending. Some said tax increases might also be necessary.