February 11, 1981

Cynthia B. Dwyer, who spent more than nine months in a Teheran jail on espionage charges, was in Dubai yesterday on her way home to Amherst, N.Y. yesterday. She had stopped briefly in Dubai on the Persian Gulf after leaving Iran and her husband, John F. Dwyer, said she was expected to arrive in New York this afternoon by way of Switzerland. Mr. Dwyer, chairman of the English Department at Buffalo State College, said that he spoke with his wife for about five minutes while she was in Dubai and that ''she seems wonderful.'' He said they did not discuss her months in jail or the espionage charges. ''That was the least of our concerns,'' he said.

A smoky fire raced through some upper floors of the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel tonight, injuring at least 30 people. The Associated Press reported that more than 70 people were injured and taken to hospitals. The fire, which started shortly after 8 P.M., was controlled 90 minutes later. It occurred less than a mile from the darkened MGM Grand Hotel, where a Nov. 21 fire killed 85 people and injured more than 700.

New York State's Industrial Commissioner, Philip Ross, told the Senate Labor Committee today that his appointed successor, Meyer S. Frucher, had offered to keep him on a state payroll for a transition period. But he denied assertions that the offer had been made in return for a pledge to give favorable testimony on Mr. Frucher's nomination by Governor Carey. At a news conference after the closed hearing, Mr. Ross said Mr. Frucher had suggested that Mr. Ross's temporary unspecified job be paid for with funds from the Federal Comprehensive Employment and Training Act. Mr. Ross said that this proposal ''made me indignant'' and that he had told Mr. Frucher that he considered such a use of CETA funds improper.

The Polish Supreme Court today rejected an appeal by private farmers that they be allowed to form an independent trade union. The court's ruling was softened somewhat by a complicated decision saying, in effect, that farmers had rights under international law to unionize but had no such right under Polish law because they were self-employed, not employees. Instead, the court said, the case should go before the Warsaw city administration, which could register the farmers' organization as an ''association'' - a grouping without collective bargaining rights. Elsewhere in Poland, the labor picture eased after the abrupt removal last night of Prime Minister Jozef Pinkowski and his replacement by Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, Minister of Defense since 1968.

There is considerable hope in Western Europe that President Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. will bring flexibility, nuance and coherence to the management of American foreign policy. But remarks from the new Administration in Washington have already modified this optimism without fatally damaging it. Several European leaders have questioned whether harsh remarks by Mr. Reagan and Mr. Haig in their first few weeks in office about the Soviet Union can serve a constructive purpose. Others were struck by the apparent lack of coordination and sensitivity to the internal political problems of some allies that permitted Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger to reopen discussion on stationing neutron weapons in Europe. Allies Are Now More Watchful Although Mr. Haig sought to smooth out the neutron weapons issue, the result is a more watchful attitude toward the Administration. Interviews with policy makers in six member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the months leading up to the inauguration reflected a generalized hope that Mr. Reagan would bring more firmness to American policy while dropping his intense antiSoviet attitudes and his commitment to return the United States to a position of military superiority.