December 1, 1984

A Weather Underground fugitive who had been sought for two years in the $1.6 million Brink's robbery and murder case has been arrested in New Jersey by a police officer who became suspicious of her ill-fitting wig. New Jersey police officials identified the suspect as Susan Lisa Rosenberg, who also was sought on Federal charges that she aided the 1979 prison escape of Joanne Chesimard, a Black Liberation Army leader. Miss Rosenberg, 29 years old, and a companion, Timothy A. Blunk, 27, were arrested Thursday night in Cherry Hill, near Philadelphia. The police said the couple had stopped their car on Berlin Road, off Interstate 295, to unload 740 pounds of dynamite and weapons, including a submachine gun, into a rented roadside storage locker.

Middle- income residents of New York State who own property and itemize their deductions would owe much higher taxes under the Treasury Department's tax proposals than they do now, according to a preliminary analysis by an experienced accountant. For example, a family living in New York City with an annual income of $25,000 and typical deductions would owe 23 percent more in taxes under the Treasury plan, announced Tuesday. A family living in a suburb in New York State and working in the city with an income of $50,000 would owe 54 percent more. Both families were assumed to own their homes. The analysis showed, however, that New York State residents earning $25,000 and less who take the standard deduction would save considerably under the Treasury's plan and that a family with an income of $100,000 and typical deductions would have to pay approximately the same taxes as it now pays.

Donald J. Trump said yesterday that he had an agreement to buy the site of the proposed $1 billion Lincoln West housing and office complex on the West Side and that he planned to redesign the project. Mr. Trump, the 38-year-old developer of Trump Tower and the Grand Hyatt Hotel, among other projects, and the owners of the site said the sale price would be $95 million. Mr. Trump said he hoped to renegotiate a $100 million package of public amenities that the original developers had agreed to provide to the city and to change the name of the project. 'A Job Everyone Wants' ''My attitude is that I expect to work with the community,'' Mr. Trump said. ''What we want to do is a job everyone wants. The job they proposed was a job everyone didn't want.''

President Reagan tentatively decided today on cuts in the projected budgets for Medicaid and Federal housing assistance, according to Administration officials. He is also leaning toward a freeze on Federal salaries and on cost- of-living adjustments for all pension programs but Social Security, they said. The officials described the President as going through a slow and difficult process of making his initial, tentative decisions on a new budget while attempting to hold overall spending next year at this year's level. The White House staff has used the term freeze, but officials said the term was more useful politically than technically.

Capping a 22-year effort, representatives of nine major Protestant denominations yesterday approved a set of accords intended to provide the theological basis for the eventual merger of the churches. The Consultation on Church Union, meeting in Baltimore, resoundingly adopted a 48,000-word statement of agreement on key issues, including baptism, forms of ministry, creeds and worship. Although conceptual rather than practical, church officials say it helps remove the big theological roadblocks that have retarded unity. ''Division in the life of the church is a contradiction of its very nature,'' the statement says. ''The reasons for seeking unity among the churches are found in the Bible, in tradition and in the imperatives of witness and worldwide mission.''