December 29, 1983

A common sight in the corridors and lounges here is of an impeccably dressed Communist diplomat speaking perfect English who moves from group to group, clasping hands, smiling, joking and shaking his head in what appears to be good-humored despair about the latest foreign policy pronouncement of the United States. The diplomat is Oleg A. Troyanovsky of the Soviet Union, by most accounts, one of the most skillful and knowledgable delegates in the 158-nation world body. Mr. Troyanovsky, who went to high school in Washington when his father was the first Soviet Ambassador there, heads the largest mission to the United Nations and, by common consent, one of the most successful. 'Cultivate the Third World' The Soviet Union, weak and isolated in the first decade or so of the United Nations' existence, has over the years made adept use of the organization, becoming perhaps its single most powerful and influential member.

News Analysis When analysts plot economic growth strategies for New York City, they often think of Manhattan, of office towers and of increasingly technical white-collar jobs. They don't think of fish. But for three years, planners at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have done a lot of thinking about fish, and the result, disclosed recently, has been one of the more unusual economic development initiatives to be charted for the city. Under the plan, which would cost about $30 million, several all-butabandoned piers in Brooklyn's Erie Basin would be converted into a ''fishport'' - a nesting ground for what the authority hopes would be a new commercial-fishing industry in the metropolitan area.

In unusually strong language, Yuri V. Andropov has chastised his countrymen for creating economic bottlenecks, making extensive planning errors and failing to meet such longstanding targets as increased output of consumer goods. Mr. Andropov, who is both head of state and of the Communist Party, was absent from today's opening of the winter session of the Supreme Soviet. The absence marked the third time in little more than seven weeks that the Soviet leader has missed a major political event. (Page A8.)

A dispatch from Washington by The Associated Press yesterday about the Energy Department's delay on a burial site for nuclear waste incorrectly listed the states under consideration. They are Mississippi, Nevada, Louisiana, Washington, Utah and Texas.

J. Hugh Liedtke, chairman of the Pennzoil Company, said yesterday that Gordon P. Getty, head of a trust that controls 40 percent of the Getty Oil Company's stock, had agreed to meet with him soon to discuss a ''restructuring'' of Getty Oil. Such a meeting, implying at least a willingness by Mr. Getty to listen, would come on the heels of Pennzoil's surprise offer Tuesday evening to pay $100 a share in cash for 16 million Getty shares, enough to give the big natural resources company 20 percent of Getty at a cost of $1.6 billion. The offer put Pennzoil in the middle of a legal dispute between the management of Getty Oil on one side and the Sarah C. Getty Trust and the J. Paul Getty Museum that together control 52 percent of the stock on the other. Moses Lasky, Mr. Getty's lawyer, said he had received a ''courtesy call'' from Pennzoil telling him Mr. Liedtke would call his client. ''Mr. Getty,'' he said, ''is conscious of his fiduciary obligation as a Getty director and a trustee to keep his eyes and ears open to anything that's for the benefit of the stockholders and the beneficiaries.'' He declined to comment further.