January 1, 1984

The Soviet Government press agency Tass today dismissed United States officials' stated hopes of high-level talks on arms control next month as an attempt to ''instill complacency'' among Americans and Europeans. At the same time, Tass confirmed a State Department announcement Friday that Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko and Secretary of State George P. Shultz will meet Jan. 18 in Stockholm. They will be there for an East-West conference on security in Europe. But the press agency dispatch said that neither the East- West conference nor the Gromyko- Shultz talks ''can substitute'' for the suspended Geneva arms control talks.

''THE thing I'd love best is to be out of a job soon,'' said Joan Wright, a former Assemblywoman from Woodcliff Lake and, since last March, head of the state's Division on Women, ''but women have a lot of catch-up ball to play.'' Mrs. Wright considers her position an ''awesome responsibility.'' And although the division's accomplishments during the first eight months of her leadership have been organizational rather than activist, she already has received high marks from women's organizations throughout the state. The Women's Division, an arm of the Department of Community Affairs, was formed nearly 10 years ago to serve as an information clearing- house, providing referrals to county and private agencies that assist women, and holding seminars about pending legislation on issues that affect women.

The improbable season of the Seattle Seahawks continued in sensational fashion today as they defeated the Miami Dolphins, 27-20, to advance to the American Conference championship game next Sunday. A victory would put them in Super Bowl XVIII on Jan. 22 in Tampa, Fla. The Seahawks, who qualified for the playoffs as a wild-card team for the first time in their eight seasons, will play the winner of the other A.F.C. divisional playoff, the Los Angeles Raiders or Pittsburgh Steelers, who meet Sunday in Los Angeles Coliseum. The Seahawks defeated the Raiders twice in the regular season, 38-36 and 34-21, and lost to the Steelers, 27-21.

Governor Cuomo will propose next week that New York State take over the supervision of criminals convicted of felonies and sentenced to probation instead of prison, top state officials said today. The proposal will be part of an effort to overhaul probation, parole and other alternatives to incarceration and thus relieve the severe overcrowding both in state prisons and local jails, the state officials said. This effort will be the key criminal- justice initiative in the State of the State Message Mr. Cuomo submits to the Legislature on Wednesday, Mr. Cuomo's aides said. New State Agency Proposed Probation, the sentencing of a criminal to a term of supervision instead of prison, is currently the responsibilty of the counties or localities. Parole, the release of a criminal before the completion of his entire prison sentence, is handled by the State Division of Parole.

-estate developer, new owner of the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League, at the 68-story Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue: One does not see Donald Trump right away, though; one first must see the eight-minute slide show about Trump Tower and Donald Trump. One is ushered into a plush room - but everything about Trump Tower isplush, from the six-story-high atrium with waterfall in the marble lobby, to a pink marble football on a bronze tee in his office. (There is, however, a sense of style, and the lobby has a pianist and violinist playing in tuxedos, and the marble football has white cotton laces.) ''Can't I just skip the slide show?'' a visitor asks Trump's pleasant secretary. ''Mr. Trump would like you to see it,'' says the secretary, pleasantly, firmly.