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Date: 18 September 1987
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-11 Major obstacles to an arms treaty to eliminate medium-range missiles were overcome, and Washington and Moscow agreed tentatively to hold a summit meeting later this year, Administration officials said. Page A1
Date: 18 September 1987
By Peter J. Boyer
Peter Boyer
LEAD: Dan Rather's six minutes of ''black air'' one week ago has brought the CBS News anchor six days of intense attention of the most unwelcome sort.
Date: 17 September 1987
By Andrew Rosenthal
Andrew Rosenthal
LEAD: When Rowland Evans and Robert Novak suggested that Elizabeth Hanford Dole, the Secretary of Transportation, was being distracted from her official duties by making campaign appearances for her husband, political devotees speculated that the columnists had hidden motives.
Date: 17 September 1987
LEAD: The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the confirmation of Judge Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court will be televised live beginning at 10 A.M. today on the Cable News Network and on many affiliates of the Public Broadcasting Service, including Channel 13 in the New York area.
Date: 17 September 1987
By John Corry
John Corry
LEAD: IT may be cynicism; it may be sophistication. Whatever it is, it is a view now more widely expressed. What is the televised confirmation hearing for Judge Robert H. Bork all about? In effect, a chorus now says, it is all about how it looks on television. As Senator Orrin G. Hatch said sorrowfully, ''We look at things in terms of 30-second bites.
Date: 18 September 1987
By R. W.apple Jr., Special To the New York Times
R. apple
LEAD: Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s Presidential candidacy has been badly hurt by disclosures that he committed plagiarism in a law school essay and in speeches this year. But politicians in both parties and political consultants say it is not clear whether he retains a chance to win the Democratic nomination in 1988.
Date: 17 September 1987
By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
LEAD: THE MAKING OF McPAPER. The Inside Story of USA Today. By Peter Prichard. Foreword by Charles Kuralt. Illustrated. 370 pages. Andrews, McMeel & Parker. $19.95.
Date: 18 September 1987
LEAD: To the Editor:
Date: 18 September 1987
AP
LEAD: The British publisher Robert Maxwell said he had increased his stake in Guinness Peat Group P.L.C., a takeover target of Equiticorp Holdings Ltd., to 6.38 percent from 2.57 percent. Mr. Maxwell, who did not declare his intentions, said he owned 20.1 million of Guinness Peat's 309.8 million shares outstanding.
Date: 18 September 1987
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: A management-led buyout group said today that it had begun an $18-a-share tender offer for Restaurant Associates Industries, even as Anwar S. Soliman raised his competing offer. The management bid was valued at $99 million; Mr. Soliman's bid, at $20 a share, was valued at about $115 million. The bidding contest pits Mr.