LEAD: The Arizona House of Represenatives late today impeached Gov. Evan Mecham for ''high crimes, misdemeanors and malfeasance in office.''

HOUSE IMPEACHES ARIZONA GOVERNOR

INSIDE

LEAD: As Palestinian protests head into a third month, what began as a spontaneous outburst of stone-throwing is developing a new underground leadership and organization in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

From Palestinian Rage, New Leadership Rises

LEAD: Senate Democratic leaders threatened tonight to delay approval of the new missile treaty with the Soviet Union after efforts to reach a compromise with the Administration on a key arms issue appeared to collapse.

Key Democrats Threaten to Stall Missile Treaty Over ABM Dispute

LEAD: Growing unrest and threats of vigilantism among the Jewish settlements rooted like citadel-suburbs amid resentful Arabs are posing new problems for the Israeli Army as it faces a third month of Palestinian protest.

Israeli Army Also Worried By the Settlers

LEAD: Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, the military ruler of Panama, in effect sold his government to drug traffickers for millions of dollars in bribes and turned Panama into a capital of international cocaine smuggling, the Justice Department charged in two indictments made public today.

NORIEGA INDICTED BY U.S. FOR LINKS TO ILLEGAL DRUGS

LEAD: The United States Patent and Trademark Office, in a new policy that could substantially change how lifestock and poultry are sold, has determined that companies holding patents on new animal forms have the authority to require farmers to pay royalties.

Farmers to Face Patent Fees To Use Gene-Altered Animals

LEAD: A drug court has been strikingly successful in cutting a backlog of cases that almost overwhelmed judges and prosecutors in Manhattan last year when crack-related arrests soared, officials say.

DRUG COURT CUTS NEW YORK BACKLOG

LEAD: A Communist Party commission reviewing the purge trials of the 1930's announced today that Nikolai I. Bukharin, among the most prominent victims of Stalin's terror, was wrongly convicted and executed.

50 Years After His Execution, Soviet Panel Clears Bukharin

LEAD: ''In plain language, what he did was he utilized his position to sell the country of Panama to drug traffickers.'' - Leon B. Kellner, a Federal prosecutor, speaking of Gen.

Quotation of the Day

LEAD: Historians on a panel assigned to examine President Kurt Waldheim's wartime record said today that they might have to extend their work because of a disputed document said to have been discovered in Yugoslavia.

Panel on Waldheim May Extend Work to Check Disputed Telegram

LEAD:  International 2-5  Panama's strongman was indicted. Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega sold his position to drug traffickers for millions of dollars in bribes and turned Panama into a capital of international cocaine smuggling, the indictments say. Page 1  News analysis: The indictment holds little promise of leading to the arrest of General Noriega, and it complicates efforts by the Reagan Administration to ease the Panamanian leader from power.

NEWS SUMMARY: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1988

CONTRA AID CUTOFF: A SETBACK, NOT A DEATH BLOW

LEAD: Alfonso Robelo has resigned as one of the six leaders of the Nicaraguan Resistance, the contras' political organization, the group's headquarters announced here today.

A Top Contra Official Resigns

LEAD: Two Scandinavians working for the United Nations were reported kidnapped in southern Lebanon today. No group claimed responsibility, but the police here said the kidnappers were Palestinian guerrillas loyal to Abu Nidal.

2 Europeans Seized in Lebanon

LEAD: Because of a computer error, the film review of ''The Unbearable Lightness of Being'' in Weekend yesterday included a phrase erroneously in the second paragraph. The passage should have read: '' 'Take off your clothes,' says Tomas. After three seconds of playing hard-to-get, the nurse does. On the other side of a frosted-glass window several other hospital employees watch Tomas's technique with admiration.

Correction

LEAD: An article yesterday about redistricting of seats in the House misidentified the Representative from the 11th District in New York. He is Edolphus Towns, Democrat of Brooklyn, not Major R. Owens.

LEAD: The World Bank and several Western nations will resume agricultural development aid to Ethiopia, which has agreed to create new incentives for food production to combat a famine, United Nations officials and diplomats say.

West to Resume Farm Aid to Ethiopia

LEAD: A brief article in Weekend yesterday about Grecian music gave an incorrect date for a performance by Microcosmos. The group will play at 8 P.M. tonight, not tomorrow, at the Ethnic Folk Arts Center, 179 Varick Street.

LEAD: Uganda is beginning fuel rationing after years of periodic fuel crises. The Energy Ministry this week ordered all vehicle owners, including those with tractors and motorboats, to register at their nearest filling stations within 10 days.

Ugandans to Ration Fuel

LEAD: Because of editing errors, articles from Washington on Jan. 30 and 31 about the Iraqi oil pipeline project, and an article on Feb. 2 that incorporated the error, misidentified a law against bribery of foreign officials by American companies. The law is the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, not the Federal Corrupt Practices Act.

LEAD: A picture caption on Jan. 11 about the participation of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis in a forum at Miami Shores, Fla., misidentified the sponsor. It was the Forum of North Dade, a nonpolitical organization, not the Democratic Party.

LEAD: Do not be misled by the snow falling through the pines or the crust of ice across Lake Paijanne. On these frigid shores, 52 years ago, occurred one of the holy moments in the history of warm-water fishing.

100 Million Lures Later, and They're Still Fishing

PANAMA AT A GLANCE

LEAD: President Daniel arap Moi dissolved Parliament today to prepare for general elections March 21, and released nine political prisoners who had been held without trial.

Kenyan Disbands Parliament And Frees 9 Before Elections

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February 6, 1988

Headlines from February 6, 1988

HOUSE IMPEACHES ARIZONA GOVERNOR

INSIDE

From Palestinian Rage, New Leadership Rises

Key Democrats Threaten to Stall Missile Treaty Over ABM Dispute

Israeli Army Also Worried By the Settlers

Billboard 200

Faith

Tiffany

Dirty Dancing

Kick

Bad

Notable Births

Historical Context for February 6, 1988