January 25, 1984

Because of editing errors, an article Jan. 17 on women holding office in the United States incorrectly described findings by the Center for the American Woman and Politics at Rutgers Unversity. The center's recent study deals with women who hold office at the municipal, county and state levels. It said 52,000 elected officials were women, some white and some from minority groups.

The pace of the spring and summer couture shows quickened today as seven designers introduced their collections. The group included one house that has never shown before. The big two are Emanuel Ungaro, who moved to the head of the fashion establishment by developing an individual medley of new and old elements of design, and Karl Lagerfeld, who took over the direction of the Chanel collection a year ago. And it was Jules-Francois Crahay, who helped put the house of Nina Ricci on the high fashion map more than 20 years ago, who scored a striking success with his clothes for Lanvin today. In the past his peasant themes have been too overwhelming, his romanticism uncontrolled.

Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan said today that if President Reagan is re-elected he is likely to propose far-reaching changes in the nation's tax system early next year to try to reduce Federal budget deficits. The changes, the Secretary said, could include a ''simplified'' tax system that would eliminate many of the present income tax deductions and also lower tax rates. In an interview, Mr. Regan also said that a second Reagan Administration would hope to persuade Congress to bring the rate of spending increase well under the rate of the increase of Federal revenues and thus narrow the deficits over a prolonged period. His comments suggested an effort to alter the terms of the taxation and spending debate that has stalemated efforts in Congress and the Administration to deal with Federal budget deficits, which the Administration expects to approach $200 billion for several years.

Funds for school health programs for New York City's 800,000 public school students, sharply cut during the fiscal crisis nearly a decade ago, will be more than doubled over the next three years, city officials said yesterday. Under the new program, schools in poor neighborhoods will receive proportionally more health services than those in wealthier districts. Deputy Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. said that in doing this the city was officially recognizing that students from poverty-stricken families required more preventive medical and dental services than students from middle-class neighborhoods. For many schoolchildren, the health care they get in school is the only health care they get.

Social unrest is increasing in France as workers and farmers continue to protest the Government's new austerity policies. The protests are directed at Government plans to lay off thousands of workers in industries that are suffering losses, like steel and shipbuilding. And the discontent is also focused on programs to reduce inflation and cut the soaring cost of agricultural subsidies by paying farmers less for what they produce. Today, more than 3,000 workers from the Nord-Mediterranee group of shipyards marched through Paris to protest a plan that would eliminate up to 6,000 jobs.