November 30, 1984

''Once we went down toward that operating room, I was relieved because I felt that my husband was fading away from me, and now I feel I have him back again and that I have another chance.'' - Margaret Schroeder. (A1:1.)

President Reagan tentatively decided today to freeze overall spending in the 1986 budget at the current level, according to Administration officials. The officials said that under the overall freeze many programs, especially nonmilitary domestic programs, would have to be cut or even eliminated so other programs whose budgets Mr. Reagan does not want to freeze could expand. The President has said he will not reduce benefits in Social Security, whose costs will grow as more people become eligible. And even if he accepts a slowdown in the rise in the military budget, such spending would still rise somewhat in 1986. A decision to maintain current total spending levels thus would mean cuts of about $45 billion in areas outside such programs as Social Security and the military, said the officials, who spoke on condition they not be identified.

A Time magazine correspondent testified yesterday that a key part of a disputed article about Ariel Sharon was based on ''my evaluation - my analysis.'' The correspondent, David Halevy, conceded that his sources for the article had not given him the specific contents of the secret appendix of an Israeli report. His testimony focused on a major issue in Mr. Sharon's libel case against Time in Federal District Court in Manhattan. In the article, which brought on the libel case, Time said that Mr. Sharon had discussed revenge with Phalangists shortly before their massacre of Palestinians in Lebanon and that the discussion was mentioned in the secret Appendix B of the official Israeli report on the massacre.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1984 International The discharge of a Salvadoran officer accused of organizing the 1981 murders of two United States labor advisers and the head of the country's land redistribution program has been ordered, according to a close aide of President Jose Napoleon Duarte. Mr. Duarte ordered the discharge to be immediate and without pension. It is believed to be the first time a Salvadoran army officer accused of human rights violations has been dismissed. (Page A1, Column 3.) 770 Poles have jumped ship this year from the ferry Rogalin in ports in West Germany, the only Western door still ajar for Poles. Some of the Poles call it a flight from economic misery, corruption, political oppression and fear. (A3:1-3.)

A state judge today barred new commercial connections to the aged sewer system that serves Boston and 42 other cities and towns, dumping tons of raw sewage into the harbor. The order by Judge Paul Garrity of the Superior Court permits new housing connections but effectively calls a halt to a commercial building boom that is proceeding at a rate of $500 million a year. The order's force extends through most of the Boston metropolitan area, which has a population of 2.5 million. The ruling came almost two years after City Attorney William B. Golden of Quincy, on a morning run, was revolted by a tide of human waste along the beach of Boston Harbor and later filed suit on behalf of the city.