March 3, 1986

Hollywood is trying to expand its hold over the exhibition outlets for the movies and television shows that it produces by buying television stations and movie theaters. In mid-February, for example, MCA Inc., the parent company of Universal Pictures, bought television station WOR in New Jersey for $387 million. The 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation last year purchased six television stations in major cities. And both Columbia Pictures Industries and MCA recently bought theaters. Owning the final outlets for programs is not a new business for the movie makers. Their grip was so strong in the late 1940's that the Government separated the functions in a series of antitrust orders. Many of the big movie makers were forced to split their theater and production activies, and are still subject to those orders unless they win special permission from the courts.

In a stinging rebuke to Mayor W. Wilson Goode, a special commission has concluded that the city's top officials were ''grossly negligent'' in the May 13 confrontation with the radical group Move and has called for a grand jury investigation. The commission, which was appointed by the Mayor, criticized virtually every step in the conflict, which resulted from an effort to evict the group. When police officers dropped a bomb on the Move house, a fire started that killed 6 adults and 5 children and destroyed 61 row homes, leaving 250 people homeless. ''The plan to bomb the Move house was reckless, ill-conceived and hastily approved,'' the commission concluded in a draft report. ''Dropping a bomb on an occupied row house was unconscionable and should have been rejected out-of-hand by the Mayor, the Managing Director, the Police Commissioner and the Fire Commissioner.''

Scientists at the National Cancer Institute say in a new study that there is little evidence that formaldehyde causes cancer among the 1.4 million workers who are exposed to the chemical. But the significance of these findings is questioned by some experts who would prefer to await more detailed analysis. The four-year study, which is to be made public Monday, said workers exposed to formaldehyde had experienced slight increases in certain types of lung and prostate cancer, but that exposure to the chemical ''did not, however, show a consistently rising risk with level of exposure.'' ''These data,'' the report concluded, ''provide little evidence that mortality from cancer is associated with formaldehyde exposure at levels experienced by workers in this study.''

MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1986 International Restoration of Filipino human rights began with President Corazon C. Aquino's ''Proclamation No.1'' restoring the writ of habeas corpus. She said new government structures would be formed to hear and act on recommendations and complaints of citizens. [ Page A1, Column 6. ] A West Bank Mayor was shot dead as he was walking from his home to City Hall. A spokesman for the Israeli Civil Administration in the occupied territories said Mayor Zafer el-Masri of Nablus, a Palestinian appointed by Israel who was regarded as an alternative to the slogans of the Palestine Liberation Organization, had been killed by a single assailant. The central area of Nablus was under curfew, and access to the city was blocked by the Israeli army. [ A1:2. ] Palestinians in Israel-occupied land say they have been stunned, dismayed and frightened by the rupture in the yearlong effort by King Hussein and Yasir Arafat to devise a joint position on Middle East talks. Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip say they were even more disconcerted by King Hussein's call on them last week to decide who should lead them. [ A3:1. ] A cut in Brazil's interest rate on nearly a third of the country's foreign debt was agreed on by a group of international banks which made $31 billion in loans. The agreement was reached Saturday night after about a month of negotiations and a day after President Jose Sarney ordered sweeping economic changes to combat Brazil's soaring inflation.

The Koch administration has begun pressing the cable-television companies that serve Manhattan to upgrade their systems and to offer at least double the number of channels they now provide to subscribers. As part of the campaign, the city has threatened to hold up the $110 million sale of the franchise in northern Manhattan to Time Inc., which holds the franchise in the southern half of the island, until agreement is reached on the improvements. ''I may not oppose the transfer if I am assured that the systems will be upgraded,'' said Morris Tarshis, the city's Director of Franchises. ''I want them to bring it up to the state of the art.''