June 28, 1985

When Ikuo Takeuchi's company asked him to move to a new job far from home, he agreed to go. But he had to leave his family behind so his son could keep his place in a well-known high school. A year later, Mr. Takeuchi collapsed and was hospitalized for severe asthma. When his wife visited his small Tokyo apartment, she found he had not eaten breakfast for six months. Then she saw a bottle of whisky on the table. ''Apparently, he was drinking alone, and I was really concerned,'' said his wife, Yumiko. 'I don't get too worried when he goes out to drink with his colleagues. But when you drink alone, you tend to drink too much.''

The Supreme Court ruled today, 5 to 4, that a worker who resigns from a labor union during a strike may not be penalized by the union for doing so. The decision, which upheld an interpretation of Federal labor law by the National Labor Relations Board, was a setback for organized labor. A number of unions have rules prohibiting resignations when a strike is imminent or in effect. Members who resign and return to work are typically assessed fines equivalent to their earnings during the strike.

''These violent acts constitute a worldwide problem, are not limited by geographical or political boundaries and no nation and no airline of the world is immune to such acts.'' -Assad Kotaite, president of the International Civil Aviation Administration's council. [A1:5.]

In a sharply worded off-the-record speech here, President Reagan's budget director, David A. Stockman, has sounded a new alarm that Federal budget deficits have become intractable and that sizable tax increases may be the only solution ''consistent with fiscal sanity.'' He also said that the Administration, the Republicans in the Senate and, to a greater extent, the Democratic leadership of the House of Representatives had not ''come clean'' with the figures they have been using to calculate the deficit reductions in the two conflicting budget proposals before Congress. If the Securities and Exchange Commission had jurisdiction over the executive and legislative branches in such matters, Mr. Stockman said, ''many of us would be in jail.'' Another Big Deficit Seen The dispute over the budget for the fiscal year 1986 has arisen because of the President's refusal to raise taxes, the House's refusal to eliminate cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security beneficiaries and the Senate's opposition to further reductions in military spending.

In a vote widely regarded as a severe defeat for President Reagan and his civil rights policies, the Senate Judiciary Committee today rejected the nomination of William Bradford Reynolds to be Associate Attorney General. The 10-to-8 vote was quickly followed by two votes in which the committee refused to send the nomination to the Senate floor with either no recommendation or an unfavorable one. This appeared to kill the nomination, although in theory the full Senate could still bring it to the floor by a parliamentary device rarely used in such circumstances. Two Republicans Vote No On the initial tally, two Republicans and all eight Democratic members of the committee voted against Mr. Reynolds, who has been chief of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department since 1981.