September 27, 1985

The Senate today voted to provide $7.5 billion over the next five years to clean up hazardous waste dumps. The vote of 86 to 13 reflected the broad public acceptance and political potency that the hazardous waste legislation has acquired since it was first enacted five years ago. The money for the cleanup is to be raised from several sources, but under the Senate bill the bulk of the funds would come from a new broad-based tax on manufacturers and processors of raw materials with sales of $5 million or more annually. The tax, eight-hundredths of 1 percent, would be paid on the value of the materials manufactured or processed. The money would go to clean up toxic chemicals, metals and other hazardous materials that have been deposited in landfills or elsewhere in such a way that they threaten public health or the environment.

Mayor Koch and Governor Cuomo carved up the remains of Westway yesterday, agreeing to give at least 60 percent of the nearly $2 billion in Federal funds and local grants to mass-transit projects and about $800 million to a new highway between the Battery and West 59th Street. Deputy Mayor Robert Esnard said the highway would carry cars and trucks along the route of West Street and 12th Avenue. He said it probably would resemble Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive, the six-lane undulating route along the East River, but would have traffic signals. Earlier yesterday, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council, a 10-county agency headed by the Westchester County Executive, Andrew P. O'Rourke, voted at the World Trade Center to withdraw Westway from the Interstate highway system and to submit a package of substitute projects instead. ''That puts the last nail in the coffin of Westway,'' Mr. O'Rourke said.

It is becoming increasingly clear that last Sunday's five-nation accord to work together to lower the dollar was largely aimed at putting pressure on Japan to follow through on past pledges to strengthen the value of the yen. A stronger yen would help cut the United States trade deficit, by making Japanese imports more expensive for Americans to purchase and by making United States goods less expensive in Japan. Japan left the Group of Five meeting with the ''understanding that the major issue is the exchange rate between the dollar and the yen,'' said a senior official at the Bank of Japan. [Monetary officials familiar with the talks also said the strengthening of the yen was a major focus of the meeting. Page D6.] In the past, Japan has pledged certain economic steps that would have the effect of improving America's balance of trade. Japan is believed to have reiterated those pledges at the Group of Five meeting. Also, judging from action in the foreign currency markets over the past four days, Japan apparently said it would intervene heavily by purchasing yen for its central bank.

A senior member of the K.G.B. has defected and is providing information to the West about Soviet espionage operations in Europe and the United States, Reagan Administration officials said today. Some officials said the defector, Vitaly Yurchenko, 50 years old, had also identified several employees of the Central Intelligence Agency as Soviet agents. It was not clear from the accounts whether those reportedly involved were contract employees or full-fledged C.I.A. officers. The defection of Mr. Yurchenko would be the latest in a series of episodes this summer that have rocked intelligence agencies in both the East and the West, including the defection of the K.G.B. station chief in London and the defection to East Germany of the chief West German spy-catcher.

Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said today that he had told President Reagan that Canada was interested in negotiating a liberalized trade agreement between the two countries. ''Economics, geography, common sense and the national interest dictate that we try to secure and expand our trade with our closest and largest trading partner,'' the Prime Minister told the House of Commons in a short statement. 'Broadest Possible Package' ''We seek to negotiate the broadest possible package of mutually beneficial reductions in tariff and non-tariff barriers between our two countries,'' Mr. Mulroney said. Canada's leaders have striven in recent years to find a way to guarantee access to the huge United States market. But protectionist sentiment in the United States has been sharply rising, reflected most recently in several speeches by President Reagan intended to blunt even tougher talk in Congress.