September 8, 1986

International The Soviet Union formally filed an espionage charge against an American reporter, Nicholas S. Daniloff, the Government-run televised evening news program reported. Earlier, Mr. Daniloff, the Moscow correspondent for the U.S. News & World Report, had telephoned a colleague on the magazine in Moscow to say he had been taken before an official proceeding and formally notified of the charge. Mr. Daniloff said the formal filing allows the investigation of his case to be prolonged for six months before it goes to trial, or, if a waiver is obtained, up to nine months. [ Page A1, Column 6. ] The filing of the espionage charge was ''a matter of utmost seriousness'' for the United States, the Reagan Administration said in stepping up its warnings to the Soviet Union. Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, said the United States had received ''no official notification'' that the Russians had formally charged Mr. Daniloff. [ A1:5. ]

When Congress reconvenes Monday after its three-week summer recess, the stage will be set for the last act of the long-running drama on tax revision legislation. Representative Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Senator Bob Packwood, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, plan to meet early this week to put the final touches on the legislation that was approved by a Congressional conference committee late on Aug. 16, the day after the rest of Congress left for the recess. Mr. Rostenkowski, an Illinois Democrat, said the House of Representatives would probably vote on the final bill next week. The vote in the Senate will most likely come later in the month.

Starting today, The Times is publishing a new weather report, with map and expanded forecasts from the meteorology department of Pennsylvania State University. Page B10.

Robert Campeau, who, through his Campeau Corporation, is pursuing the Allied Stores Corporation in a $3.11 billion offer, lacks neither luck nor ambition. Born poor in the hardscrabble nickel-mining town of Sudbury, Ontario, he discovered the lure of development in 1949 at the age of 25, when he was building a home for his family in Ottawa. It cost $5,000 to build, but before the house was even finished he accepted a $7,300 offer for it. The next year, Mr. Campeau built 250 houses in Ottawa, the first of more than 20,000 he would erect in Canada's capital. By 1977, homebuilding seemed small potatoes, and he abandoned the business in favor of his growing commercial and industrial development interests.

As if he did not have enough to read already, Brian F. Wruble now has Chicago's two daily newspapers delivered to his Manhattan home every morning. The reason: The Equitable Capital Management Corporation, which he runs, has invested $50 million in a $145 million leveraged buyout of The Chicago Sun-Times, and he wants to keep a close eye on his investment, as well as its competitor, The Chicago Tribune. ''We'll monitor this much more intensely than we would other kinds of investments'' such as regular stocks or bonds, said Mr. Wruble. His company has financed numerous leveraged buyouts in a variety of businesses, including last year's $59 million buyout of Ecolaire, a maker of equipment for electric utilities. Indeed, he must be more vigilant, since leveraged buyouts are unlike other corporate investments: They create much more financial pressure, and risk, by committing a significant share of a company's income to paying off the debt assumed in buying out the previous owners.

The management of CBS Inc., in a struggle with the largest CBS stockholder for control of the company, last night denied reports that it had spoken with Philip Morris Inc. and Westinghouse Broadcasting and Cable Inc. about buying CBS. David Fuchs, a senior vice president of CBS, said ''there is no truth at all to either the Philip Morris or Westinghouse'' speculation. Mr. Fuchs, however, declined to comment on whether CBS was talking with other potential investors. CBS's management is facing a crucial board meeting this week that may prove to be a test of the leadership of Thomas H. Wyman, the CBS chairman. Mr. Wyman and his aides will present to the board on Wednesday a gloomy early forecast for 1987, suggesting that next year may bring no improvement in a revenue picture that forced severe cost-cutting and the elimination of more than 700 jobs at the CBS broadcast group this year. The forecast also raises the possibility of more cutbacks at the network.

Gunmen tried unsuccessfuly to kill President Augusto Pinochet tonight in an attack that left five members of his police and military escort dead, according to Government officials. General Pinochet, 70 years old, appeared on television late Sunday with a bandaged left hand and said he had been hit by a piece of shrapnel during the ambush. He also showed his Mercedes-Benz car with 12 marks from bullets that had not pierced the reinforced glass. The car had been damaged by a hand grenade hurled under a rear wheel.

The massacre of Jews in Istanbul Saturday set off a political storm in Israel today, when Prime Minister Shimon Peres refused to hold the weekly Cabinet meeting until Ariel Sharon apologized for accusations that the killings were a result of peace overtures by Mr. Peres and his supporters in the Government. On a day when the Israeli Cabinet had been expected to discuss possible retaliation for the attack on the Istanbul synagogue, the meeting was canceled because of the storm over statements by Mr. Sharon, the Minister for Industry and Trade. Late tonight, Mr. Sharon submitted a second letter of apology to Prime Minister Peres after the first was rejected as inadequate. The Israeli radio quoted sources close to Mr. Sharon, a member of the Likud bloc, as saying Mr. Peres had accepted the second version of his ''retraction.'' But there was no confirmation of this from the Prime Minister, who leads the Labor Party.

The treatment of cocaine addiction is a fledgling field, with diverse methods being tried but too little scientific evidence of which ones work best, in the view of leading experts. The need for systematic study of different treatments has become urgent with the surge in use of crack, the experts said. Purer than cocaine powder and smoked rather than snorted, crack produces more intense highs than the powdered form, followed by more intense lows. It leads to addiction faster and in more cases. But no one knows why some cocaine or crack users become addicted, how many stop on their own or with the aid of self-help groups, and what proportion of those who enter treatment programs stay off the drug for good, said an authority on addictions, Dr. Herbert D. Kleber of Yale University.

A marvelous fourth-quarter mano a mano passing duel between two quarterbacks who waited three years to meet ended today with the Jets hanging on for a 28-24 victory over the Bills in the season's opener. Each team produced two touchdowns in the final quarter, but a record Rich Stadium crowd of 79,951 will remember Jim Kelly's smashing debut of three touchdown tosses - including two in the closing 15 minutes of the game. But the Jets' Ken O'Brien, who threw for a pair of scores, including one in the last quarter, was able to sustain a drive in the closing seconds to run out the clock. This is a Jets' team that, for this game at least, against an unknown defense, had the missing ingredient: time.

A United States Army counterterrorism team was sent to the scene of the hijacking in Pakistan on Friday, but it failed to get there before the incident ended in bloodshed, Administration officials said today. The officials said the Pakistani Government had given permission for the team to land at Karachi International Airport. They said the role, if any, of the American force had not been determined in advance. 'Pakistan Is Quite Competent' But in Karachi today, President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq appeared to dismiss the idea of such help. ''Pakistan is quite competent and confident to deal with such cases ourselves, and the Americans are fully aware of this,'' he said. ''I see no reason to ask for American help or that Americans would feel that they would have to offer help.''

Many of the candidates in Tuesday's Democratic primary took to the streets yesterday, shaking hands, working their way through crowded festivals and generally trying to increase voter turnout in the neighborhoods they are counting on for support. Mark Green, seeking the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate, took a walking tour up Broadway on the West Side of Manhattan and also visited a street fair in Co-op City in the Bronx. The West Side, Green supporters said, is considered a liberal Democratic stronghold that produces 35 percent turnouts in Democratic primaries, compared with a statewide average turnout of 25 percent. Co-op City, while more moderate, according to Assemblyman Eliot L. Engel, a Green supporter who represents the area, produces the borough's largest Democratic primary turnout and has ''issue-oriented and politically aware voters'' to whom Mr. Green is attractive.