December 1, 1981

A sports article on Sunday about Olympic board sailing omitted attri- bution for an assessment that a licens- ing agreement prevented the West German-produced Windglider from being imported into the United States. It should have been attributed to Tom Ehman, executive director of the United States Yacht Racing Union, and Robert Bavier, a United States delegate to the International Yacht Racing Union's permanent commit- tee. M&L Imports of Gloucester, Mass., says it began importing the Windglider in June, and disputes the account of Mr. Ehman and Mr. Ba- vier.

It is lunchtime here at the Seymour Smith Elementary School, and the fourth grade is lined up against the wall. The kitchen staff is busy loading gravy-smothered pork onto rice, the kind of dish that has been served up in the immaculately scrubbed cafeteria for years. But the lunch costs 10 cents more this year than it did last year, and because of new Federal guidelines, fewer youngsters qualify for a free or reduced-cost meal. Many youngsters who used to get lunch for free now must pay 40 cents, while many of those who once could get it for 10 cents now must pay the full price of 70 cents. As a result, requests for hot lunches have fallen off 21 percent, and more youngsters are bringing sandwiches from home.

The United States and the Soviet Union began talks today on reducing nuclear weapons in Europe, and spokesmen for both sides expressed satisfaction with the results of the first meeting. The chief American negotiator, Paul H. Nitze, and the chief Soviet delegate, Yuli A. Kvitsinsky, discussed ground rules and what were described as some broader issues for 90 minutes at the Soviet Mission and agreed to begin full sessions with their two delegations on Tuesday. Mr. Nitze, characterizing the meeting as ''cordial and businesslike,'' said at a news conference that ''the stakes are very high for all of us.'' A Soviet spokesman, Vladimir Yevdokushin, reported that the first contact between the two Ambassadors was ''very constructive, with both sides striving for agreement.''

The American Telephone and Telegraph Company notified the Federal Communications Commission today that it wanted to start a long-awaited data communications network within six months as the initial offering of a separate subsidiary for unregulated, competitive services. The filing was A.T.& T.'s first formal announcement of a start-up date for the subsidiary, which was authorized last year by the commission as the vehicle for A.T.& T. to expand from regulated telephone service into a number of new unregulated telecommunications fields. The commission had given the telephone company until January 1983 to start the subsidiary, but said that A.T.& T. could begin within 180 days of the filing of an acceptable capitalization plan. The new network, called the Advanced Communications Service, would be the foundation for the various computer-to-computer transmissions and services that are expected to be a major part of the subsidiary's business. The system would provide A.T.& T. customers with a network for computer processing and storage and retrieval of data.

''The people have selected Tom Kean'' - Representative James J. Florio conceding New Jersey gubernatorial election. (A1:2.)