February 19, 1986

A dispatch last Thursday from Hanover, N.H., about The Dartmouth Review misstated the affiliation of Gregory A. Fossedal, a founder of the magazine. He continues to support The Review but is no longer a director.

A real-estate partnership involving William C. Brennan, the former State Supreme Court justice who was convicted of bribe-taking, and Anthony R. Ameruso, the city's Transportation Commissioner, is under investigation by Federal and city authorities. The two men were part of a group of political figures who more than quadrupled their money in four years through the purchase and subsequent sale of a parking lot at Varick and Spring Streets in downtown Manhattan, law-enforcement officials said yesterday. ''We became aware of a transaction involving the purchase of real estate by Judge Brennan and Mr. Ameruso during the Brennan investigation, and it continues to be a matter of interest to us,'' Raymond J. Dearie, the United States Attorney in Brooklyn, said last night. A Diverse Group Rachel Gordon, assistant commissioner of the city's Department of Investigation, said the department was also looking into the transaction.

Congressional pressure mounted today for an end to United States assistance to the Philippine Government of President Ferdinand E. Marcos, but the White House said it was ''far premature'' to cut off aid and close the two United States military bases there. The growing emotion on Capitol Hill was demonstrated tonight when the Senate agreed to vote Wednesday on a resolution condemning the ''widespread fraud'' in the Philippine voting and requesting President Reagan to convey the Senate's findings to Mr. Marcos. Aid Suspension Is Urged Another key Congressional figure added his voice to the criticism of the Manila Government when Representative Dante B. Fascell, Democrat of Florida, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, wrote to President Reagan, urging him to suspend all aid to the Philippines. Mr. Fascell maintained that the United States would suffer ''inevitable damage'' if it failed to distance itself from Mr. Marcos. Mr. Fascell was part of a chorus of voices on Capitol Hill today urging a cutoff of aid to the Marcos Government, a chorus that included Senator Jim Sasser, Democrat of Tennessee, who insisted that the United States end its support for the ''corrupt, authoritarian regime'' of Mr. Marcos.

The top Morton Thiokol engineer present at the Kennedy Space Center before the Jan. 28 liftoff of the space shuttle Challenger said tonight that he had argued for hours with space agency officials not to launch the craft because of low temperatures. He said that he persisted even after his own superiors had overruled him and given the agency a go-ahead. The engineer, Allan J. McDonald, a 26-year veteran of Morton Thiokol Inc., which made the solid-fuel booster rockets for the shuttle, said that at a closed session last Friday before the Presidential panel investigating the explosion he recounted his ''somewhat heated'' exchanges with officials of the space agency. Notes to Commission He said in a telephone interview tonight that those exchanges centered on the rocket seals that have become a major suspect in the explosion that killed the shuttle's seven crew members.

The most explosive storm system to hit the region in decades battered the West over a broad front today, causing flooding, mud slides, high winds and avalanches from central California to northern Utah. At least 10 people have died or are missing as a result of violent storms that began sweeping off the Pacific Ocean Thursday night and have drenched the region relentlessly since then. Meteorologists expect heavy rain at least through Thursday. According to disaster assistance officials, tens of thousands of families in California, Nevada, Utah and southern Oregon have been forced from their homes by overflowing rivers and reservoirs or by huge mud slides.