April 12, 1982

Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. traveled to London Sunday with a loose package of negotiating ideas that he hoped would help end the dispute over the Falkland Islands. Argentine officials and foreign diplomats said, however, that they were not optimistic about the prospects for a settlement. The package of ideas Mr. Haig took to London, the Argentine officials and foreign diplomats said, includes a simultaneous pullback of the British Navy and a withdrawal of Argentine forces from the islands, but only after Britain recognizes Argentine sovereignty. Britain has entertained the proposal in the past of giving Argentina sovereignty while allowing Britain to administer the islands, as Britain does in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong. But the Argentine package rules out British administration.

Carrying a silver cross that glinted in the sunshine and swinging a thurible of incense, clergymen and choir members wound through the ivy-covered front garden at the Church of the Transfiguration at Fifth Avenue and 29th Street. At their feet were signs of springtime rebirth. Daffodils poked their yellow caps through the greenery. Overhead, in a budding tree, sparrows chirped noisily. The church group stood before an 86-year-old limestone statue of Christ the King that had been toppled and smashed by vandals just four months ago. But yesterday, as Christians celebrated Easter and the Resurrection, congregants of the church saw their statue restored and blessed.

Bright balloon clusters danced above the elegant pews and the ''Hallelujahs'' were syncopated in St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church on Park Avenue yesterday, where Easter arrived at the 9 A.M. communion service like a gospel jubilee with country-jazz overtones. There was foot-tapping and hand-clapping and bell-ringing and guitar-strumming amid the Byzantine grandeurs of the 62-year-old church, long regarded as the city's most fashionable starting point for the Easter parade. ''Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea - joy to you and me!'' proclaimed the choir of adults and children in green and blue robes. From packed balconies and extra chairs in the sanctuary, the congregation sang out the 1,600-year-old Nicene Creed to the beat of a guitar, a tambourine and a piano that was downright honky-tonk.

Harlem Commonwealth Council Inc. has obtained effective control of the Freedom National Bank, the only black-owned bank in New York, following its purchase of a large block of the bank's convertible preferred stock. James H. Dowdy, a bank director and president of the Council, said last Friday that the purchase ''effectively defeats any attempt'' by an outside investor group to gain control of the bank. Travers J. Bell Jr. and associates have been accumulating Freedom National's common stock and, according to Mr. Dowdy, recently stated their intention to the Comptroller of the Currency to make a tender offer for a majority of the shares. Mr. Bell controls Daniels & Bell Inc., the only New York Stock Exchange member firm owned by blacks.

One member of the jury that convicted Luis Marin on Saturday night of arson and murder in the Stouffer's Inn fire indicated today that the panel had decided on the verdict in large measure because of the defendant's own accounts of the events. Mr. Marin, a 26-year-old former coffee waiter at the hotel in Harrison, N.Y., never took the witness stand. But testimony by others citing his varying accounts - of starting an accidental fire and putting it out, leaving the building and saving guests - seemed instrumental in the guilty verdict. The juror, Anthea Frankl of Ossining, said, ''We decided in the end that he started the fire so he could put it out and be a hero.'' The prosecution had offered that as a motive, saying Mr. Marin had sought the hero role in an effort to avoid being dismissed from his job.