January 7, 1985

Secretary of State George P. Shultz said today that he was carrying ''some very interesting and reasonable positions'' to present to Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko when Soviet-United States arms control talks resume here on Monday. He did not specify, in a news conference aboard his plane on his way here, what those ''positions'' were. But some American officials said Mr. Shultz was given additional flexibility by President Reagan two days ago in discussing possible restraints on development of an antisatellite weapons system, something that Moscow seeks to halt. In his arrival statement this morning, Mr. Shultz said he had been sent here on ''a mission for peace,'' but he was deliberately cautious about predicting the outcome of the first important Soviet-American arms control exchange in 13 months.

The hand-painted sign over the cluttered cubicle read Computer Butik, forcing a French word into Hungarian. Inside, in a cramped space perhaps eight feet square, a salesman in his 20's was bobbing and weaving and trying to serve a dozen customers at once, amid wooden shelves bent under Dutch-built Philips computers, Casio keyboards from Japan and assorted calculators in crushed cardboard cartons. ''We improvise a lot,'' the salesman said, settling onto a crate in a small back room to explain to a visitor how the computer business works in this Eastern European country. ''My boss, the owner, went down a list of state-owned companies, things like farms and factories, until he came up with the seed money he needed to get started,'' he said. ''We rent the booth from the department store, and we get the equipment anywhere we can, sometimes from local manufacturers, sometimes from people who bring it back from trips to the West.''

W. Wilson Goode likes to describe Philadelphia as ''a city on the move,'' an expression that many people here would also apply to the outgoing, perpetually busy man who has now served a year as Mayor. For both Mayor Goode and the city he leads, it was a year of highly visible successes and few setbacks, a year in which so many people found his enthusiasm for his job infectious and in which comment from the press here was so favorable that one critic complains he is being ''deified.'' Such criticism as the Mayor has encountered has been muted, generally involving suggestions that his assertions were overstated and he had been too quick to compromise. Sometimes the drama of setbacks has worked in his favor. A sequence of events last month could hardly have been improved if he had written a script himself. On a single day, Dec. 15, he emerged successful in a struggle to resolve a transit crisis and in a fight to prevent the Eagles football team from moving to the Sun Belt.

Charts and tables summarize the negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union. Page A9.

It is a place where, every week, New Yorkers recount tales of broken lights, invisible signs, mysterious diseases and miraculous coincidences - each story offered as proof that a motorist did not deserve a traffic ticket. It is a place where, each year, 1.5 million motorists go to settle summonses or to have their day in court, and where drivers sometimes wait in line an hour just to ask what line to wait in. And as the lines grow longer and tempers grow shorter these days at the offices of the state's Traffic Violations Bureau, judges as well as drivers say it is fast becoming a place where legal gridlock seems to rule. ''This is like the Soviet Union!'' a driver screamed the other day after being found guilty of disregarding traffic markings at the Lincoln Tunnel. Administrative Judge Edward P. Collins also told him to pay the 12 unpaid fines he had received since 1980.