March 6, 1985

Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger said today that he would suspend for 30 days a small part of the Pentagon's payments to the General Dynamics Corporation while the Defense Department looks into possibly improper billings by the nation's largest military contractor. In a speech at an American Legion convention here, Mr. Weinberger also announced a review of billing procedures and a tightening of claims for overhead expenses of all major military contractors. The General Dynamics suspension involves payments for general and administrative costs, or overhead. This is 8 percent of the company's Government billings, according to a statement issued by General Dynamics. A Pentagon spokesman, Michael I. Burch, told reporters the 30-day suspension represents about $40 million.

The South Korean Government announced today that 14 banned politicians would be removed from a blacklist. They include the two most prominent opposition figures, Kim Dae Jung and Kim Young Sam. The decision erased the last vestiges of a ban imposed in November 1980 after Gen. Chun Doo Hwan seized power in a military coup. The blacklist initially contained 811 names. But since Mr. Chun became President in early 1981 it has been whittled down, and by last Nov. 30 all but the 14 had regained their rights. A Government statement said the ban had been dropped because ''a new political climate is now prevailing amid stability born of a harmonizing blend of freedom and order.'' But it warned against ''a regression into the old era,'' referring to the pre-Chun days as a period when politics was ''characterized by corruption, demagoguery, violence and intrigue.''

A photograph of bacteria in Science Times yesterday with an article about gonorrhea vaccines was incorrectly attributed. It was provided by the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

After a rocky entry into the computer business last year, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company is looking to a new organization, a new leader and - later this month - a distinctive new personal computer as it struggles to compete with the International Business Machines Corporation. A.T.&T. has long been regarded as a major contender in the computer market, because of its unparalleled telecommunications experience, its innovative Bell Laboratories and its hefty wallet. But A.T.&T. executives interviewed last week conceded that in its first year, the drive to challenge I.B.M. on its own turf largely failed. Only now, they say, is the company overcoming the internal chaos caused by A.T.&T.'s split-up and misdirected marketing strategies. ''I can't say that our execution last year met the expectations of outsiders, or even ourselves,'' said James D. Edwards, the energetic former I.B.M. strategist who was installed as president of the computer systems group last October as part of a broader effort to bring order to A.T.&T.'s twice-reorganized Informations Systems group. ''But I think that our product plans are finally coming together.''

Two top employees of the New York City Medical Examiner's Office were removed from their jobs yesterday and transferred out of the agency, according to the Health Department. The employees - Patricia H. Woods, the office's administrative manager, and William Kelly, its inspector general - were replaced by three workers from the department, which oversees the office. Miss Woods was described by staff members as ''dictatorial,'' according to a city report released earlier this week.