The Soviet-bloc and Western arms proposals unveiled in Vienna today agree on several important principles, boding well for the new talks to cut conventional weapons in continental Europe.

Such efforts might resemble some proposals formally unveiled today for LaGuardia Airport in New York, where delays were temporarily being managed by landing restrictions based on a lottery system.

That proposal, the California Civil Rights Initiative, unveiled last fall and headed for the ballot next year, was the first major move anywhere in the country to do away with affirmative action.

FARMERS in Northern Ireland will be paid to allow more public access to land designated as environmentally sensitive under proposals unveiled today by Agriculture Minister John Gummer.

The latest UN peace plan followed proposals unveiled on May 10 by ex-king Zahir Shah which called for the establishment of a national committee including mujaheddin leaders, free elections and a parliamentary system.

The proposal unveiled today would set aside $32 billion for mass-transit programs in the six years from 1992 to 1998, just as the earlier House proposal would have done over a five-year period.

The proposal unveiled on Tuesday would reimburse the city the same amount, $78 million annually, but allow the city to levy a $1 tax, instead of 50 cents.

A proposal unveiled yesterday for a new $105 million building for the school's engineering school and art studios seeks to break down the psychological barriers.

The consensus of the speakers, which included a number of elected officials, was that the proposal unveiled last week would do little good in solving the enormous problem of homelessness in New York.

The Kremlin's latest proposals to rejuvenate the Soviet economy, unveiled to an incredulous citizenry this week, are widely viewed by Western analysts as too little, too late.