June 21, 1981

Two weeks ago, Tracy Austin sat in a locker room in West Berlin and cried, her body encased in eight icebags and her hopes of playing at Wimbledon diminished by persistent back pains and limited mobility. Today, on the eve of tennis's most celebrated tournament, Miss Austin achieved a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Andrea Jaeger in the final of the $125,000 BMW event. The triumph, in 1 hour 13 minutes, must be taken as a sign that she has regained much of her form and movement at the right time. In sweeping the final Wimbledon tuneup for the second straight year, Miss Austin ran through six opponents (Betsy Nagelsen, Anne Hobbs, Joe Durie, Anne Smith, Barbara Potter and Miss Jaeger). She considered her renewed confidence more important than having to decide whether to accept the $18,000 in prize money or a car valued at $28,000 (she already has one BMW and two Porsches).

LAST fall, with little fanfare and almost no publicity, state laws governing the categories and powers of ''peace officers'' were amended. Concluding that the new law has eliminated both their authority and their liability protection, in the past month or so auxiliary police units in most Westchester communities have suspended operations. Although there is no countywide organization of these auxiliary police units, they exist in almost every community in Westchester and voluntarily supplement regular police units. Rushed through in the closing days of the spring 1980 legislative session, the ''Omnibus Peace Officer's'' bill designated peace officers, prescribed their powers and mandated training programs. For each of the 44 job categories listed, which included such positions as correction officials and city marshals as well as auxiliary police, the bill outlined under what circumstances the powers of a peace officer could be assumed.

The Reagan Administration and the air traffic controllers' union intensified talks today with only slightly increased hopes of averting a threatened Monday strike that would severely curtail air travel and have serious economic effects. However, after 10 hours, the two sides adjourned their talks and planned to resume tomorrow at 2 P.M. They had apparently not made enough progress to meet the union's criterion for postponing the nationwide walkout, which is set to start with Monday's day shifts. M. The president of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, Robert Poli, was asked as he left the talks at 10:30 P.M. whether he was more optimistic than he was this morning. Union Head Not Optimistic ''No, I am not more optimistic,'' he said, and his demeanor reflected it. Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis, who had emerged a few minutes before, seemed less downcast. ''We really hope to work something out tomorrow,'' he told reporters, ''so that there'll be no strike.''

They always seem to wear the skimpiest of bikinis, and they often carry weapons - a gun, a knife, a spear, perhaps even a miniature Abomb. Their hair is always long, their smiles are always pouty and their names are always memorable. First there was Honeychile Rider (played by Ursula Andress), and later came Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman) and Kissy Suzuki (Mie Hama) and Tiffany Case (Jill St. John) and Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles). In the film business, they are known as ''the Bond girls,'' because they are the chief love interests of James Bond, British Secret Service Agent 007, in the Ian Fleming adventure series. And now, with the 12th Bond film, ''For Your Eyes Only,'' set to open on Friday at local theaters, another Bond girl has been added to the roster. Her hair is long, her smile is pouty, and her real name is more memorable than that of the character she plays. She is Carole Bouquet, a darkhaired, green-eyed, 23-year-old French actress who won acclaim in 1977 for her performance in Luis Bunuel's Academy Award nominated film, ''That Obscure Object of Desire.''

It will probably be remembered as just another of Ronald Reagan's impetuous shots from the hip. But the President's attack on House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill last week - he accused him of ''sheer demagoguery'' in a postscript to a news conference -helped Congressional Democrats appear, however briefly, very much like a unified opposition. Mr. O'Neill, who looks to have acquired a political second wind lately, responded with a carefully placed shot to the President's supply side. ''The issue is the programs he's been sending to the Congress,'' he said. ''They are all geared to the wealthy of America.'' Other good Democrats professed outrage, and there was talk of punishing some boll weevils - Representative Phil Gramm, chief among them -for their turncoat votes in the seemingly endless budget battle. (Administration's second agenda, page 4.)