April 4, 1985

The Senate Armed Services Committee today rejected a Republican-led proposal to cut military personnel by 175,000 soldiers and civilians, Congressional sources said. The action, in a closed session, came as the committee was completing work on President Reagan's military budget for the next fiscal year. Senate aides who have been present for two days of debate and votes in the committee said it appeared likely the panel would vote Thursday to recommend that the President's military budget be cut by $10 billion. The aides said the committee had drafted such a bill by trimming a variety of programs, without canceling any major weapons systems.

Sales of new domestically made cars rose moderately throughout March, gaining 6.9 percent in the last 10 days of the month from the 1984 period, the major manufacturers said today. ''This was pretty much in line with what we're looking for,'' said Jean- Claude Gruet, a securities analyst who covers the auto industry for Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. ''The 10 days came in a little lower than the numbers we've seen in the last 8 to 10 weeks, but it is still in the expected range.'' In the period, which had 9 selling days this year and 10 last year, the companies sold a total of 301,496 cars, or 33,500 a day. For all of March, sales rose 5.6 percent, to 768,927 units, bringing the seasonally adjusted annual selling rate to 8.4 million.

A new genetically engineered drug is nearly twice as effective as medication now used in halting heart attacks, a major Government-sponsored study shows. The experimental drug dissolves blood clots, which are the major cause of heart attacks, suffered by more than 670,000 Americans a year. If such blood clots are not dissolved within hours, permanent and often fatal damage to the heart muscle results. The damage is called myocardial infarction.

THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1985 International Israel apparently violated an international agreement on Tuesday when it transferred 1,100 Lebanese detainees from southern Lebanon to Israel, the Reagan Administration said. The State Department said the transfer of the Lebanese ''is prohibited regardless of motive'' under terms of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, which deals with the treatment of prisoners. (Page A1, Column 6.) The State and Defense Departments are arguing about the circumstances surrounding the slaying of an Army major in East Germany by a Soviet soldier. Officials from both departments said the dispute had revived some fundamental disagreements between the two agencies over how to deal with the Soviet Union. (A1:5.)

An obituary on March 28 of Frank H. Bartholomew, chairman emeritus of United Press International, incorrectly located his alma mater, Oregon State University. It is in Corvallis, not Portland.