April 4, 1986

The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia today released a special report that showed a pattern of academic abuse in the admission and advancement of student-athletes at the University of Georgia for the last four years. The report concluded that the preferential academic treatment was given because of pressure from the athletic department, headed by Vince Dooley, who is also the football coach. The report also said the university officers who had admitted authorizing the academic exceptions said they had acted with the knowledge of the university's president, Dr. Fred C. Davison. It is thought to be the first time that a university president has been so directly implicated in a system of preferential treatment for athletes. Although such treatment has been rumored at many schools many times, this is the first time it has been documented through an official investigation.

FOR many theatergoers, the 1971 Broadway revival of ''No, No, Nanette'' is synonymous with the nostalgia craze it created. That 70's fad saw vintage shows from the teens and 20's campily remounted with contemporary orchestrations, revised librettos and sometimes even new music. But not until this week could musical-comedy buffs hear the real ''No, No, Nanette'' in its complete form with its original orchestrations and book. On Wednesday, Carnegie Hall presented a concert performance of the classic 1925 show that symbolized the effervescent spirit of the jazz age. And this weekend, the conductor and musicologist John McGlinn will lead four more performances at Carnegie Recital Hall. A leading scholar of the American musical theater, Mr. McGlinn worked with the orchestator Hans Spialek in bringing the real ''On Your Toes'' back to Broadway in 1983 with its translucent musical textures intact. For the Houston Grand Opera, he also restored the authentic score of ''Show Boat,'' which toured the country and briefly came to Broadway in 1983. And last season, he served as artistic director and conductor of Carnegie Hall's Jerome Kern festival.

Two Manhattan real-estate developers have discovered a way to poke through a law that was designed to stop builders from putting up towers of 30 or 40 stories in prime residential neighborhoods on slivers of land as narrow as 20 feet. By using an obscure section of the city's zoning laws that allows them to call their projects ''enlargements'' of existing buildings rather than new buildings, the developers have obtained permits to build a 23-story, Popsicle-shaped tower on the Upper West Side and a 40-story, cleaver-shaped building on the Upper East Side. The tower section of the East Side ''enlargement'' exceeds the minimum zoning width by 10 inches. This discovery comes three years after the city, under pressure from preservationists and urban planners, enacted the so-called antisliver law, which greatly limited the height of new buildings that were less than 45 feet wide.

An international investigation of a midair explosion aboard a Trans World Airlines jet turned today to the possibility that a known Arab terrorist had planted a bomb aboard the plane. This line of inquiry by Greek, Italian, American and Egyptian investigators became known after Italy's Interior Minister told reporters that ''a suspect, known as a terrorist,'' boarded the Boeing 727 on Wednesday at its point of origin in Cairo and got off in Athens, the first stop. The airliner then flew on to Rome, where it picked up passengers for the return flight to Athens. Greeks Accept the Evidence The Italian Interior Minister, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, offered no details. But the Greek security police said they ''accepted the Italian evidence.''

The three Federal agencies that regulate commercial banks will ask Congress next week for broad powers to let troubled banks be bought by sound banks in other states. Responding to a crisis among Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana banks that have lent heavily to the oil and gas industry, the agencies are working on a joint appeal to Congress to relax Federal restrictions on interstate banking nationally. Regulators worry that a multibillion-dollar bank with extensive energy loans might fail, causing a crisis similar to the 1984 collapse of the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Company. A Way to Handle Problems The proposed change would create an opportunity for big, healthy banks to expand into new areas. But top regulators said today that interstate banking is not the aim in itself but only a means of dealing with the severe problems caused by the collapse of oil prices.