March 9, 1983

In an article on the Crisfield restaurant that appeared yesterday on the Washington Talk page, a remark about Patricia Harris, the former Secretary of Health and Human Services, was incorrectly attributed. The observation was made by Toni Farello, a waitress at the restaurant.

The Reagan Administration announced today that it planned to sell the nation's four weather satellites and the Government's lone satellite for surveying land resources to private industry. The plan calls for industry to operate the satellites and three ground control stations but sell the data back to the Government for further distribution and perhaps to commercial users as well. The sale would require Congressional approval. Several lawmakers expressed concern today but withheld judgment pending more details.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee adopted a compromise resolution today calling for a ''mutual and verifiable freeze and reductions in nuclear weapons'' by the United States and the Soviet Union. The compromise, designed to attract maximum support in both the House and Senate, was approved by a vote of 27 to 9 as supporters and opponents held rain-drenched demonstrations outside the Capitol. Earlier, the demonstrators clogged the corridors, searching out offices of committee members and subjecting them to intense lobbying. The resolution originally called for a nuclear freeze to be ''followed by'' reductions in nuclear weapons. But the committee accepted a proposal by Representative Ed Zschau, a freshman Republican from California, that urged concurrent action on both the freeze and nuclear arms reductions.

WHAT do you do if not one, not two, but four of the finest chefs in France show up at your door one morning, laden with fresh ingredients and eager to try some of their specialties in your kitchen? I recently had that pleasure, when Michel Rostang, Paul Genin, Jean-Paul Lacombe and Michel Chabran - whose restaurants rate six Michelin stars among them - were my guests for a day of extraordinary cooking. The array of dishes they turned out was, as one might expect, impressive: a lobster with Sauternes sauce; a quick saute of bay scallops with tomatoes and olive oil; an appetizer of baked oysters with watercress. Each was nothing short of exemplary. But there was another dish, boneless chicken legs and thighs stuffed with morels and chicken livers and steamed, that was simply dazzling. Granted, it requires time and several steps, but it is well within the scope of any fairly experienced cook who cherishes his or her palate and those of a few fortunate guests.

The Southern Industrial Banking Corporation announced yesterday that it was filing for protection under the bankruptcy laws. The Southern Industrial, a finance company, is owned by C.H. Butcher Jr., brother of Jake Butcher, whose United American Bank of Knoxville failed last month because of problem loans. That failure added to the troubles at Southern Industrial. The bankruptcy announcment followed demands by Tennessee authorities that Southern Industrial stop taking money from the public without fully disclosing its business practices and financial condition.