May 15, 1982

The Soviet Union formally advised Britain today that Moscow regarded the war zones around the Falkland Islands as unlawful. In a statement read to the British Ambassador, Sir Curtis Keeble, at the Foreign Ministry, the Soviet Union also rejected what it described as warnings by Britain to the Soviet Union and denied any involvement in the conflict between Britain and Argentina. The statement carried no suggestion of any Soviet threat to use military or other active means to lift the British blockade. Briton Expresses Surprise A British spokesman said Sir Curtis ''expressed surprise at the terms of the oral statement, which he considered ill-founded.'' (In Washington, the State Department withheld official comment on the Soviet statement, but one official said that it was consistent with Moscow's ''position of growing support for Argentina.'' Page 4.)

A Federal district judge overturned the bribery conviction of former Representative Richard Kelly today, saying the Government had used ''outrageous'' tactics in the undercover Abscam inquiry. Judge William B. Bryant said that agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, posing as representatives of wealthy Arab sheiks seeking immigration assistance, should have stopped importuning Mr. Kelly after he rejected their initial bribe offers. Instead, the judge said, they persisted in applying pressure on the Florida Republican until he finally accepted $25,000 and stuffed it into his pockets. Judge Bryant's evaluation of the Abscam inquiry differed from those of judges in New York and Pennsylvania. Lawyers said that the conflicts among the rulings increased the likelihood that the Supreme Court would review the tactics of the investigation, including such questions as how the Government selected its targets and whether the agents offered excessive inducements to commit crimes.

Visiting a farm for the first time since he took office, President Reagan found out at first hand today that not everyone is happy with the way his policies have brought food prices down. Sitting on a bale of hay, surrounded by about 300 dairy farmers and other residents of Landenberg, Pa., Mr. Reagan heard a torrent of complaints about his Administration's recent proposal to reduce dairy price supports. In response, he pledged that he would not ''pull the rug out all at once'' by seeking drastic new reductions in supports. First-Hand Complaints Mr. Reagan also heard the farmers complain about high interest rates, foreign competition and curbs on American exports. So, what had been billed by the White House as a colorful opportunity to photograph the President turned into a dramatic illustration of his political difficulties with farmers.

Two Dominican Republic diplomats have been accused of conspiring with several other men to smuggle millions of dollars' worth of heroin into the United States. The charges were disclosed by Federal authorities yesterday before a hearing began in United States District Court in Brooklyn for one of the diplomats, Dante Sanchez, a vice consul. According to a Federal prosecutor, Mr. Sanchez was arrested May 6 outside the office of the Dominican Consulate, 1270 Avenue of the Americas, at 51st Street, and is being held in $1 million bail. The prosecutor, Joan Azrack, said the 25-year-old Mr. Sanchez had limited diplomatic immunity that did not cover the drug case. She identified the other official as Rafael Pena, the first secretary at the Dominican Mission to the United Nations. Because Mr. Pena has full diplomatic immunity, she said, he cannot be arrested unless the Dominican Republic waives his immunity. She said the Dominican Government had not yet responded to a United States request for a waiver.

A Communist Party official in Guangdong Province was dismissed from his job at a petroleum plant and expelled from the party recently for ''feudal thinking'' after he and his wife - they already had six daughters -tried once more to produce a son. Elsewhere in this coastal province, two women were locked up for 15 days as ''sorceresses'' for inciting pregnant women at their farm commune to flee from family-planning workers. All but 9 of the 325 women with unauthorized pregnancies were later given abortions and intrauterine devices. Those incidents, reported by the Canton radio, are but two skirmishes in a desperate battle that the provincial authorities have been waging over birth control. Harsher reports reaching Hong Kong last summer charged that thousands of pregnant women in eastern Guangdong were rounded up and forced to have abortions.