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7 iiv-5' III L-i. 1 If 5fc5 JKtf't SSgSuS Santa. Barbara, Calif. (AP) President Reagan is assembling his National Security Council to decide on resuming shipments of American-made war planes to Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin said yesterday that Reagan "has decided to right that wrong" and may lift the suspension today or tomorrow.

After spending 10 days at his ranch atop the Santa Ynez Mountains, Reagan was kicking off a five-day trip to Los Angeles today with a three-hour National Security Council meeting on the Israeli jets, the MX mobile missile system and the B-l bomber. Deputy White House Press "Secretary Larry Speakes characterized the session as "a review of foreign policy in general, with probably an emphasis on the Middle East" REAGAN SAID Thursday he would announce this week his decision on resuming deliveries of F-15 and F-16 jets to Israel, The shipments of four F-16s were held up. two months ago pending a determination of whether Israel's use of American-made planes to bomb Iraq's nuclear reactor June 7 violated an agreement to use them only for defensive purposes. The suspension was broadened after Israel's July 17 air raid on Palestinian guerrilla headquarters in Beirut Jn all, two F-15s, considered the most advanced fighter plane, and 14 F-16s have been withheld. Begin maintained that the reactor raid was a pre-emptive defensive strike because Iraq could have manufactured1 nuclear weapons for use against Israel.

In Jerusalem yesterday, Begin said "these are Israeli planes' and implied that Americans have no right to dictate how they are used just because they were manufactured in the United States. SPEAKES, HOWEVER, told reporters in Santa Barbara that "the Israeli government knows where we stand and what our laws require. Any country we sell arms to we expect to abide by U.S. law concerning these sales." Begin denounced the suspension as "absolutely unjustifiable." "A wrong was done to Israel," he said after a cabinet meeting to plot his strategy for Sept 8-9 talks with Reagan in Washington. "But now President Reagan has decided to right that wrong." Begin said the U.S.

would need up to seven days of preparations before the aircraft could leave for Israel. Secretary of State Haig met privately with Reagan yesterday and, along with Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger and others, was to attend the National Security Council meeting today. Speakes denied published reports that Haig was using his private meeting with Reagan to lobby for deploying the MX missile in land-based shelters. But Speakes said Haig was "not coming out to argue the MX." THE PRESIDENT said last week that final decisions on the MX and the B-l were unlikely to be made until he returns to Washington next month.

Sources familiar with the MX debate within the administration said Weinberger probably would not present his final recommendation but would report to the President on proposals to base the MX in a more politically acceptable way, to build a fleet of advanced bombers and to go ahead with development of a second-generation missile to be fired from Trident submarines. The sources said Weinberger has not yet decided on how to modernize the U.S. strategic bomber force. But he was expected to recommend building 100 B-l bombers that would incorporate technological advances made since President Jimmy Carter canceled production of the planes four years ago. Weinberger also was expected to recommend accelerated research on a stealth bomber that could elude Soviet radar.

The B-l fleet, expected to cost $18.7 billion, would be expected to fill the gap until the stealth would be ready in the 1990s. Tomorrow, Reagan will confer with economic advisers, to plot further budget cuts for fiscal years 1982 and 1983. On Thursday, he flies by helicopter to the nuclear carrier USS Constellation about 65 miles off the California coast to demonstrate his com-, mitment to rebuilding U.S. defenses by watching a display of firepower and training exercises. A profile in courage Sen.

Ted Kennedy watches his son Ted Jr. on cross-country skis yesterday at Charles River Park in Boston. Ted who lost a leg to cancer, was participating in summer festival for disabled, and he swung a menacing bat during Softball game. I htm reservationists battling Biiimore wrecker Kent Barwick, chairman of the landmarks commission, said he was told by city officials that the owners did not -Ljiave a demolition permit when the work began Saturday. He said the owners had only a letterpermitting some alterations but that he did not know if the letter covered all the work done on the hotel over the weekend.

In Manhattan Supreme Court, Justice Stanley Ostrau continued a re- straining order halting the gutting of the building until the hearing resumed late this afternoon. The Landmarks Conservancy, which was one of the groups that got the restraining order, was to present testimony from an architect on whether parts of the building can be saved while demolition continues elsewhere. The order was obtained last night by the Municipal Arts Society and the conservancy after a day of frantic legal By KATHARINE SCHAFFER and LARRY SUTTON Preservationists battled real estate tycoons in state Supreme Court today to determine the future of the 68-year-old Biltmore Hotel's classic gilded clock, plush lobby ornate ballrooms. At the same time, members of the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission met to consider whether the legendary hotel should be considered for New York's register of historic buildings. That status would prevent the hotel's destruction.

The commissioners asked the hotel's owners for permission to tour the hotel to determine what could be saved. There was no immediate reply from the owners, Paul and Seymour Milstein, who intend to convert it into an office huildine that will serve as the lawyer for the preservationists, found another judge who agreed with his argument that there are no bondsmen in the city during weekends, and there fore his clients could not meet the demand for a $75,000 bond. State Appeals Court Justice Leonard Sandler signed the second restraining order, which was delivered to hotel officials at 7 last night IN ARGUING AGAINST Roberts'" bond ruling, Howard had contended that the demolition was in fact going I on all day, in violation of the first restraining order. He was backed by" Barwick. Howard Rubenstein, public relations consultant to the Milsteins, said Zuccotti also had visited the hotel and insisted that the workers only were cleaning up debris from past orkmd removing a single hazardous overHang dismantling hotel fixtures Saturday.

The move took many of the building's employes and 150 guests by surprise. By Saturday night the preservationists had obtained a court order halting construction. The next day, lawyers for both sides traveled to Room 741 of the Klingenstein Pavilion of Mount Sinai Hospital to argue their case before ailing Acting Supreme Court Justice George Roberts. The lawyers for the hotel, former First Deputy Mayor John Zuccotti and Peter Fishbein, persuaded Roberts to agree to order the preservationist groups to post a $75,000 bond by 3 p.m. if they wanted a restraining order to be continued.

Roberts had granted the order from his hospital bed Saturday night When the preservationists could not post the bond, demolition of such fabled settings as the hotel's lobby, Pain Court and.ballrooms continued. JSoward I Kast rnast hearimiartprs of the SaW maneuvering. Francisco-based Bank vntktmmM.