June 15, 1984

The House of Representatives voted today to admit possibly several hundred thousand aliens to the United States as temporary workers to harvest fruit and vegetables. By a vote of 228 to 172, the House approved a proposal to create a special foreign-worker program for producers of perishable crops. The proposal was offered by Representatives Leon E. Panetta, a California Democrat, and Sid Morrison, a Washington State Republican. It was strongly supported by farmers, food processors and agricultural officials of some states.

Because of an editing error, a passage in an article yesterday on a treatment for genital herpes incorrectly suggested the availability of the drug Zovirax for oral use. As noted elsewhere in the article, oral use awaits approval of the Food and Drug Administration, which is is still evaluating the treatment.

Four days before the filing deadline, the number of applicants for two coming vacancies on New York's highest court, including the position of chief judge, is ''much too low,'' the chairman of a special judicial screening panel said yesterday. The turnout has been so disappointing that the panel has extended the deadline to June 28, according to the chairman, Mendes Hershman, head of the Commission on Judicial Nomination. Mr. Hershman, citing the confidentiality requirements under state law, would not disclose how many applications had been received so far for the seats on the tribunal, the State Court of Appeals. The number of applicants for the two vacancies has increased in the recent days, he said, but the total is still expected to be substantially lower than the number last year, when there was only one seat on the court open.

O tell me all about Anna Livia! I want to hear all about Anna Livia. Well, you know Anna Livia? Yes, of course, we all know Anna Livia. FOR those who do indeed know Anna Livia, or who want to hear more gossip about A.L.P. (and her husband H.C.E. also known as Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker and Here Comes Everybody and Hush! Caution! Echoland!), or who would like to eat a kidney for breakfast (vicariously, of course), or take a walk along the strand (while sitting down) or want to hear about a Molly who would rather avoid books ''with a Molly in them,'' the place to be tomorrow is Symphony Space.

The Kremlin's spokesman said today that Moscow favored the idea of a Soviet-American summit conference, but that the timing would depend on the preparation of issues to be discussed. The spokesman, Leonid M. Zamyatin, head of the Communist Party Central Committee's International Information Department, spoke to reporters here before President Reagan's news conference in Washington. Echoing American insistence that any meeting of the two countries' leaders should be well prepared, Mr. Zamyatin said such a meeting would require ''proper preparation and issues that require the participation of the general secretary.'' Konstantin U. Chernenko, the Soviet leader, is general secretary of the Communist Party.