February 2, 1985

Stafford Township, a rural community of 11,000 people near the New Jersey shore, has two Mayors these days. And that has created no end of problems. One day in mid-January, for instance, the first Mayor to reach the Township Hall, Wesley K. Bell, dismissed the township's administrator and clerk, solicitor, auditor and engineer with directives at 8:31 A.M., 8:33, 8:34 and 8:50. The deposed officials had been appointed by his rival, Carl W. Block. Mr. Block has held office since Mr. Bell was unseated in a disputed recall election Dec. 6, 1983.

President Reagan's military budget calls for a surge of new spending on nuclear weapons and space research with the aim of giving the United States a strong bargaining position in talks with the Soviet Union on arms control, according to budget documents prepared by the Pentagon. The $313.7 billion budget would nearly triple spending on the antimissile space weapons research program, to $3.7 billion, and includes a stepped-up $4 billion program for more MX missiles. These and other proposals are ''vital to the success of genuine arms reductions,'' according to the Pentagon. The documents, including details of the military proposals, were prepared as briefing papers for members of Congress and were intended for public release Monday. They were obtained from Congressional sources.

The chief executive of a major West German manufacturer of engines and turbines for the military was shot and killed today by two assailants who came to the door of his home outside Munich. The terrorist group known as the Red Army Faction took responsibility. The killing of the businessman, Ernst Zimmermann, the 55-year-old chief executive of the giant Motoren und Turbinen Union M"unchen G.m.b.H., appeared to mark an increase in a terrorist offensive that the group began in December. At the same time, according to officials here, the slaying seemed to fit an emerging pattern of coordination among a scattering of small, underground terrorist groups in several Western European countries.

A group of 13 industrialized nations and the World Bank today pledged more than a billion dollars to establish a new fund for long-term economic help to African nations suffering from famine and economic collapse. Officials here said the purpose of the fund, the Special Facility for Sub-Saharan Africa, is to make famines in Africa less likely. The fund is distinct from the emergency food supplies that Western nations are now sending to famine-stricken parts of the continent. All Technically Eligible Under the terms of the fund, all African countries are technically eligible for assistance, including those, like Ethiopia and the Sudan, that have been receiving substantial famine-relief supplies from the West.

The budget President Reagan will send to Congress next Monday shows the deficit declining to $144.4 billion in the fiscal year 1988, far short of the Administration's target of $100 billion, according to budget documents obtained today. The documents show $47.5 billion worth of reductions in projected spending for the fiscal year 1986, starting Oct. 1. Of these, $38.8 billion, or nearly 82 percent, is in domestic programs and $8.7 billion is in the President's military budget, according to the documents. The proposed savings in nonmilitary programs in 1986 are reductions from what spending would be if such programs were increased only by the rate of inflation and by the expected caseload growth for benefit programs. Savings Short of $50 Billion Even with the savings in the military budget in 1986, Pentagon spending next year would still increase $30 billion above 1985. But nonmilitary spending, excluding interest on the national debt, will decline by just over $30 billion.