January 12, 1982

International Soviet support of ''suppression'' in Poland was assailed by the Western alliance, which warned that Western Europe may join the United States in imposing economic sanctions against Moscow. The tough statement issued at the end of the first emergency meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was the first suggestion that Western Europe might join in sanctions. (Page A1, Column 6.) Poland's economy is still paralyzed, according to a Polish Government economist, who blamed American sanctions for the nation's continuing economic doldrums and implied that the sanctions would prolong military rule. Restoring the economy has been a key goal of the military regime, but according to the official, Wladyslaw Baka, the economic outlook is not good. (A9:1-3.)

In the northeast corner of Italy, where most women concentrate more on polenta and chicken than cold-rolled steel, Cecilia Danieli has carved out an unusually successful career as the head of of Italy's leading builder of steel mills and steel-handling equipment. The company she runs, the Danieli Group, with about 1,500 employees and revenues of roughly $100 million a year, developed the compact steel mills known in the industry as mini-mills. These mills have revolutionized steelmaking and tilted the world steel market in the last two decades by giving scores of countries in Africa, South America and the Far East the me ans to produce steel cheaply and efficiently. Though women have recently broadened their rights in Italy, and have long made a significant mark in the apparel and fashion businesses, the 38-year-old Mrs. Danieli, married and a mother of three children, is one of a handful who have reached the top in the male domain of heavy industry.

Now that the martial-law Government has quelled open resistance in Poland for the time being, it is faced with a more daunting task - trying to govern the country. The difficulties are formi dable. The Commun ist Party, which is still nominally the leading institution in th e country, is in total disarray, beset by a flood of resignations an d split in the upper ranks over the question of what to do next. The economy is in shambles, lacking in resources and productive capacity even to begin its own rege neration. Unless there is largescale as sistance from outside, its downward spiral will not be arrested in t he foreseeable future.

Only a few of the 39 state legislatures convening this month are expected to alleviate the effects of reductions in Federal spending for social welfare programs. No state is planning to increase spending to make up for all the Federal cuts, and most states are making few moves to offset the effects on the poor. Such states as Oklahoma and Louisiana, which have the resources to increase spending, generally lack the desire to do so. States such as New York, Connecticut and Michigan, which have a need to continue social services at relatively generous levels, lack the money to do so. Those findings emerged from an inquiry by The New York Times into the 50 states' responses to budget cuts proposed by President Reagan and approved by Congress last year.

When Jerry Fisher lived in Leningrad a decade ago, he recalled, ''my job was an engineer for refrigerators; it's the same what I got here - a refrigerator.'' He was standing in the cold bedroom of his apartment in Rego Park, Queens, where the radiators have been dead since Saturday. Mr. Fisher, a cabdriver, came home from work at 5 A.M. yesterday to find his wife huddled under two comforters. In the next room the Polish nursemaid had taken his 9-month-old son out of the crib and into her own bed, clasping the baby to her body for warmth.