December 4, 1984

Fifteen years ago, a student at the Columbia Law School drafted a law that the state eventually used to gain control over 800,000 acres of New York's fresh-water wetlands. Environmentalists hailed the law, which ended development in the wetlands, as landmark legislation and saluted its author, Nicholas Robinson, as the savior of the wetlands. But these days Mr. Robinson, now general counsel of the State Department of Environmental Conservation, is under attack by environmentalists. They charge that he is supporting a program that is leading to the destruction of the wetlands - the bogs, marshes and swamps that filter much of the state's drinking water.

Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan said today that he believes the tax legislation the President proposes to Congress next year will be quite similar to the sweeping plan the Treasury Department presented last week. He said he had not heard any specific reaction to the plan from President Reagan. But when the Secretary was asked after a speech at the National Press Club whether it was merely a Treasury Department proposal or one the whole Reagan Administration was behind, he said: ''What do you think I am? I'm part of the Administration.'' The Treasury also published today a detailed analysis of its plan, providing the rationale for its recommendations to include such items as fringe benefits, prize money and graduate fellowships (which now go untaxed) as part of taxable income and to abolish such popular deductions as those for state and local taxes.

The Scouting column in Sports Pages on Friday misstated the number of players from Indiana University, Louisville and Notre Dame who started the season in the National Basketball Association. The number is seven from each school.

Before dying from stab wounds, a 23-year-old drama student told doctors and nurses who were trying to save her life that she made a mistake in resisting the man who robbed her and tried to rape her in her Upper West Side apartment building, police officials said yesterday. ''All this for $12,'' the victim, Caroline Isenberg, was quoted by the officials as having said shortly after she was stabbed nine times early Sunday. ''I should have given him the money. I should have let him do it. I should have given in.''

Two conservative Republican Senators warned today that they might vote against the deployment of 100 MX land-based missiles if President Reagan did not stop abiding by provisions of the 1979 strategic arms limitation agreement with the Soviet Union. Senators Steven D. Symms of Idaho and John P. East of North Carolina gave the warning in a letter to Mr. Reagan, which they made public. Congressional conservatives have been pressing the Administration to renounce arms-control agreements with the Soviet Union on the ground that Moscow has been charged with violating them. New Talks Set for January The issue is sensitive for the Administration because Mr. Reagan, who has accused the Russians of cheating, is seeking new arms- control accords with the Soviet Union. Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko are to open arms-control talks early next month in Geneva.