LEAD: LOW petroleum prices in recent years have all but halted American development of alternative energy sources, but in Norway and several other countries, the extraction of electrical energy from ocean waves has become a reality.

WAVE ENERGY CONVERTED INTO ELECTRICITY

LEAD: When utility executives boast about their accomplishments these days, they talk about the spanking new plants they did not build.

MAKING POWER COST-EFFECTIVE

BUSINESS DIGEST: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1987

LEAD: President Reagan and senior Administration officials are scheduled to meet on Tuesday to discuss the direction of the ''Star Wars'' program and how to go about consulting with Congress and the allies on the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, officials said today.

'STAR WARS' FOCUS OF REAGAN MEETING

LEAD: Vatican Inquiry on Seattle  The Vatican named three bishops to study the Archdiocese of Seattle, where Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen was disciplined. Page A16.  Dollar Plunges  The dollar had its biggest drop in months when Treasury Secretary Baker said no meeting was planned to stabilize the currency.

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LEAD: HUMAN growth hormone, long available in minuscule amounts to help abnormally short children reach normal adult height, is finally being produced in mass quantities by genetic engineering techniques, opening the door to a wealth of potential new medical uses. But experts fear that plentiful supplies may also encourage abuse - that practitioners of ''cosmetic endocrinology'' will use the hormone to increase athletic prowess or to increase the height of children in the belief it will improve their social and economic prospects.

SUPPLY OF GROWTH HORMONE BRINGS HOPE FOR NEW USES

LEAD: The Commerce Department today announced sweeping proposals to streamline the nation's system of export controls.

U.S. MAY RELAX EXPORT CONTROLS FOR TECHNOLOGY

LEAD: A compact coastal snowstorm, briefly heralded as the Blizzard of '87, brushed by the New York City region yesterday, but buffeted much of southern New Jersey and parts of the New England coast with high winds and heavy snows.

SNOWSTORM JUST BRUSHES NEW YORK

LEAD: After tracing good times and bad in 13 years of marriage and describing moments of happiness and anguish with Baby M, Mary Beth Whitehead said on the witness stand today:

MOTHER OF BABY M GIVES OUTLINE OF HER LIFE

LEAD: A cluster of disputes between the United States and its European allies is spreading a mood of malaise within the Atlantic alliance and raising questions about the Reagan Administration's command over the foreign policy agenda.

EUROPEAN OFFICIALS, FEELING U.S. IS ADRIFT, QUESTION REAGAN'S GRIP ON FOREIGN AGENDA

LEAD: The First Interstate Bancorp today abandoned its effort to acquire the BankAmerica Corporation, ending one of the longest and bitterest takeover battles in banking history.

Interstate Ends Bid for BankAmerica

LEAD: The leading merchant banks have long been the pillars of the London financial establishment - advisers to prime ministers and royalty, alumni clubs for Eton and Harrow, as British as Big Ben.

BRITISH GUARD IS UP ON BANKS

LEAD: For more than a century, farmers here have taken the cool brown water of the Arkansas River, channeled it into their fields in shallow ditches, and watched the land explode with color and crops.

DRY CITIES OF WEST BUY UP FARM WATER RIGHTS

LEAD: T. Boone Pickens today abandoned his third attempt to acquire the Diamond Shamrock Corporation, leaving analysts uncertain about whether he intends to attempt yet another bid or will turn his sights on a different energy company.

PICKENS GROUP GIVES UP DIAMOND SHAMROCK BID

LEAD: President Reagan is expected to support a health insurance program for catastrophic illness that would expand Medicare coverage of elderly people, Administration officials said today. The decision would end more than two months of debate that produced an impasse within the Administration.

REAGAN EXPECTED TO BACK PROPOSAL ON MAJOR ILLNESS

LEAD: AMERICAN colleges face growing charges that they are using secret quotas in admissions. The prime target, according to critics, are students of Asian descent. Women may be next, these critics say.

THE TROUBLE WITH QUOTAS

LEAD: On Feb. 21, it will be exactly 200 years since the Confederation Congress, sitting in New York, called for a national convention in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation.

BEYOND FIREWORKS: NEW YORK'S CEREBRAL SALUTE TO 1787

LEAD: A state appeals court ruled yesterday that the Long Island Lighting Company, as a private corporation, does not have the legal authority to carry out an emergency evacuation plan at its Shoreham nuclear plant.

LILCO LACKS AUTHORITY TO OVERSEE SHOREHAM EVACUATION, COURT SAYS

LEAD: A Queens grand jury has voted criminal indictments - including several murder charges - against 12 youths in the racial attack last December that resulted in the death of a black man in Howard Beach, law-enforcement officials said yesterday.

12 YOUTHS INDICTED IN QUEENS ATTACK THAT LED TO DEATH

LEAD: Robert M. Wilkis, a former investment banker, was sentenced yesterday to two concurrent prison terms of one year and one day for participating in an insider trading scheme with Dennis B. Levine.

LEVINE ASSOCIATE SENTENCED

LEAD: The dollar was battered yesterday in waves of heavy selling after Treasury Secretary James A. Baker 3d said no meeting of the Group of Five finance ministers had been planned to stabilize the currency.

DOLLAR FALLS SHARPLY IN HECTIC DAY

LEAD: THE recent discovery of a wildly speculative manuscript by Freud, which had long been thought lost, promises to touch off a new round of debate about the influences that spawned psychoanalytic thought.

LOST PAPER SHOWS FREUD'S EFFORT TO LINK ANALYSIS AND EVOLUTION

LEAD: SOME suburban coupon clubs are cutthroat, but the Elmont Coupon Club has never been that way. ''There's another group - I won't mention who they are,'' said Jo Ann Mehnert, the Elmont president. ''They're so organized, they have all their coupons in loose-leaf notebooks.''

FOR THE COUPON CLUB, SHOPPING IS AN ART

LEAD: HIGH-INTENSITY marketing of health maintenance organizations has produced disappointing results for some of the main players in the New York mega-market of 17.8 million people. The prepaid health plans, known as H.M.O.'s, spent well over $10 million on the first burst of commercials. But fewer than 100,000 new subscribers have signed on, according to preliminary figures obtained recently from the four H.M.O.

Business and Health; H.M.O. Drive Falters in Area

LEAD: For at least four years before filing for bankruptcy last December, executives of the Wedtech Corporation prepared falsified financial statements that likely misled bank lenders, stockholders and bond investors, according to law-enforcement officials working on the case.

OFFICIALS ON CASE ASSERT WEDTECH FALSIFIED REPORTS FOR A LONG TIME

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February 10, 1987

Headlines from February 10, 1987

WAVE ENERGY CONVERTED INTO ELECTRICITY

MAKING POWER COST-EFFECTIVE

BUSINESS DIGEST: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1987

'STAR WARS' FOCUS OF REAGAN MEETING

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Billboard 200

Slippery When Wet

Different Light

Night Songs

Licensed To Ill

The Way It Is

Notable Births

Historical Context for February 10, 1987