Personnel

The United States has urged its diplomatic missions in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco to evacuate non-essential personnel and dependants because of security risks stemming from the Persian Gulf crisis. An embasssy official in Algiers said Thursday that many of those concerned plan to leave although the recommendation was not obligatory.

President Reagan has nominated Maj. Gen. Anthony Lukeman of the Marine Corps to receive a third star, the Pentagon announced Thursday. Lukeman serves as deputy assistant defense secretary for military manpower and personnel policy.

Torrance Airport Manager John S. "Jock" Cagaanan has been reassigned to other duties amid a city review, City Manager LeRoy J. Jackson said Wednesday night. "We're in a personnel investigation and review," Jackson said. He declined to elaborate.

The Garvey School District Board of Education has granted a 6% pay increase to classroom aides and clerical, maintenance, cafeteria and other non-teaching personnel. The contract for members of the California School Employees Assn. was ratified on Oct. 7 and runs through June 30, 1987. The Garvey School District includes parts of Rosemead, San Gabriel, Monterey Park and all of South San Gabriel.

James C. Miller III, the Reagan Administration's budget chief, canceled a Monday night speaking engagement at the Cosmos Club after learning his appearance at the male-only club for the capital's elite would violate federal regulations. The federal personnel rule was pointed out to Miller by Ann Lewis, executive director of Americans for Democratic Action, a liberal group that often leads the charge against Reagan Administration policies. Miller responded Monday with a letter to John B.

Deputy City Manager Sue Williams, the highest-ranking woman staffer at San Diego City Hall, announced Monday that she will resign Sept. 6. The 42-year-old Williams, who calls herself "a risk-taker," said she had not found another job. Rather, after 21 years in city government--working her way up from a personnel trainee to her $64,000-a-year post--Williams said she is now "looking for new challenges and something that will keep me from hitting the burnout level."

An Air Force spouse accused of fatally stabbing her husband in their quarters on a military base in Turkey was convicted of voluntary manslaughter Friday by a Los Angeles federal court jury. Latasha Arnt, 24, of Moreno Valley faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. The same jury acquitted her of second-degree murder, which carries a maximum life sentence.

John W. Macy Jr., a White House adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson, head of several federal programs under three other Presidents and the first chief of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, died Monday at his home in nearby McLean, Va. He was 69. Macy had been hospitalized most of the last six months with a heart ailment, a family member said.

A nationwide survey disclosed that nearly two out of five photocopies made in American offices are wasted, unnecessary or for personal use. The study, sponsored by Accountemps, a firm that supplies temporary office personnel, estimated that about 130 billion of the 350 billion copies that will be made this year are not needed, at a cost of about $2.6 billion, not counting the time spent standing by the copier.