THE VENICE SUMMIT : She’ll Be Off to Sweden as Conference Opens : Nancy Reagan Plans Anti-Drug Mission Today

Nancy Reagan plans to fly to Sweden today while President Reagan joins six other heads of government at the opening of the economic summit here.

It will be the eighth foreign country Mrs. Reagan has visited in her international campaign against drug abuse.

“She always likes to learn what other countries are doing and share with them what we are doing in the United States,” said Elaine Crispen, the First Lady’s press secretary.

During her two days in the Stockholm area, Mrs. Reagan plans to visit several drug programs, meet with a group of expectant mothers who are trying to kick the drug habit and attend a musical performance by a group of artists campaigning against drugs.

Mrs. Reagan will have lunch with Queen Silvia and meet separately with Ingrid Carlsson, wife of Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, and Lisbet Palme, widow of Prime Minister Olof Palme, who was assassinated in February, 1986.

Invitation to Sweden

The First Lady, who will be visiting Sweden for the first time, was invited by Health and Social Affairs Minister Gertrud Sigurdsen.

The Reagans spent Sunday relaxing and reading briefing materials at Villa Condulmer near Venice. The day was a quiet respite after their trip to Rome on Saturday for a meeting with Pope John Paul II.

The White House released photos which the President and Mrs. Reagan had taken of each other at the villa, using a camera given to the First Lady by the White House Press Photographers Assn.

The President snapped his wife posing in front of a carriage used by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi when he traveled to Villa Condulmer in the 1850s. Mrs. Reagan posed for her husband outside the carriage house, standing beside a bronze-and-stone head that was done last year by American sculptor George D. O’Neill Jr.

Crispen said the Reagans took other pictures around the pool, in the gardens and inside the villa. One showed Mrs. Reagan standing next to a piano.