American Notes JUSTICE

While three of Ronald Reagan's former aides were being grilled on Capitol Hill, two others were enduring rough treatment in the courts.

Onetime White House Political Director Lyn Nofziger was indicted last week on six conflict-of-interest charges by a federal grand jury in Washington. Within months after Nofziger left the Administration in January 1982, the grand jury said, he lobbied the Administration on behalf of the National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, the Fairchild Republic Co. and the Wedtech Corp., which is accused of paying off public officials in exchange for lucrative no-bid Government contracts. Nofziger was indicted under the 1978 Ethics in Government Act, which prohibits high public officials from lobbying their former agencies for one year after leaving their posts. If convicted, he ( could face up to twelve years in prison.

In Washington's federal district court, meanwhile, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson postponed until October the perjury trial of another onetime top Administration official, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver. Deaver is accused of lying to a congressional subcommittee and a federal grand jury about his lobbying activities; Jackson put back the trial to settle the issue of whether prospective jurors should be questioned in public or private.