June 30, 1983

Secretary of State George P. Shultz and the Soviet Ambassador, Anatoly F. Dobrynin, have met privately almost a dozen times since the beginning of the year, and top Administration officials say President Reagan is now considering whether to broaden the contacts and press to meet with Yuri V. Andropov. Officials said that although Mr. Reagan was now ready to explore areas of possible agreement, he was undecided between two strategies: seeking better relations piecemeal on individual issues or trying to negotiate an overall solution to disputes on trade, regional conflict, human rights and arms control. Reagan Limits Agenda The officials said the talks between Mr. Shultz and Ambassador Dobrynin were serious but that it would be inconsistent with that seriousness to give any details. But they also acknowledged that nothing concrete had been accomplished and that breakthroughs were not immiment. These and other officials said that so far Mr. Reagan had given Mr. Shultz the flexibility to discuss anything with Mr. Dobrynin but had limited the actual agenda to the opening of consulates in New York and Kiev, cultural exchanges, renewal of a five-year grain agreement and exploring whether it would be useful for the Secretary to visit Moscow this summer.

The Republican-controlled Senate defeated a bill that would have limited each taxpayer to a maximum of $720 in tax reduction under the 10 percent tax-rate cut that takes effect on Friday. The House had approved such a ceiling despite President Reagan's promise to veto any limit on the third year of his reduction in income tax rates. (Page A1.) Unemployment is not likely to decrease much in the near future, according to President Reagan's top economic advisers. Despite the optimism expressed by Mr. Reagan at his news conference, his advisers also believe that the rate of inflation has stopped declining and will soon begin rising slightly. (D1.)

A map in Metropolitan Report on June 22 with an article about downtown Brooklyn incorrectly depicted the boundaries for proposed housing and the extent to which the land would be developed. Housing has been recommended only for parking lots or vacant parcels in the area bounded by Boerum Place, Flatbush Avenue, Atlantic Avenue and Livingston Street.

A picture caption yesterday with an article about purloined Carter campaign documents misidentified the source of the book shown. It was made available to the White House this week by Patrick H. Caddell, a Carter aide.

and the 150 or so characters they portrayed - stood in the garden behind Miss Simms, talking to planters and trees, feathers and fences. One told a blade of grass the myth of Persephone and Demeter, while another rendered a Haitian folk tale to a large rock. This apparently bizarre tableau was nothing beyond the ordinary for those who came here recently to learn from Laura Simms how to tell a story. The 12 students paid $450 to sequester themselves with Miss Simms - a professional storyteller who has spun her tales at Town Hall and the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan - and such guest instructors as an ethnomusicologist, a professor of Jungian psychology and a business agent. They sang and danced and exercised and emoted something in the manner of Method actors, all of toward the end of mastering one story by week's end.