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LEAD: A Federal judge said yesterday that the A. H. Robins Company must set aside about $2.5 billion in its bankruptcy reorganization plan to compensate the women injured by its Dalkon Shield birth-control device.

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LEAD: Jascha Heifetz, the violinist whose name for more than half a century was synonymous with perfection of technique and musicianship, died late Thursday evening at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 86 years old and lived in Beverly Hills.

Jascha Heifetz Is Dead at 86; A Virtuoso Since Childhood

LEAD: Caspar W. Weinberger does not feel all warm and fuzzy inside about the summit meeting.

Washington Summit Song Is Off Key for Weinberger

LEAD: Frustrated by an impasse in the discussions between Texaco Inc. and the Pennzoil Company over a $10.3 billion judgment, a group of Texaco's shareholders yesterday bypassed the company's management and agreed with Pennzoil on a $3 billion plan to end the dispute.

Texaco Stockholder Group Agrees With Pennzoil on $3 Billion Pact

LEAD: With only a few hours left before the scheduled end of the summit meeting, American and Soviet officials were still wrangling at the White House over how to overcome their differences on how strictly a 1972 treaty limits the ''Star Wars'' missile defense program.

How the U.S. and Soviet Officials Agreed to Disagree on 'Star Wars'

LEAD: President Reagan, obviously upbeat and enthusiastic about the summit meeting that ended Thursday, said today that he and Mikhail S. Gorbachev had established ''an entirely different relationship'' from what existed previously.

PRESIDENT UPBEAT ON RELATIONSHIP WITH GORBACHEV

LEAD: South Korea's presidential campaign entered a climactic phase today in a swirl of warnings about violence and charges that brutality and fraud were being used to win votes.

FEARS OF VIOLENCE DOMINATE KOREA CAMPAIGN'S LAST DAYS

LEAD: The complainant in a sexual-misconduct trial retracted her accusation yesterday that a judge had humiliated her by ordering her on her hands and knees to re-enact a rape. She said the Brooklyn District Attorney's office had coerced her into making the false accusation, according to her lawyer.

Woman Withdraws Complaint on Judge Pressed by Holtzman

LEAD: ''I don't think just because he wears Gucci shoes and smiles occasionally and acknowledges that he's got a wife before his funeral means that the Soviet Union has changed its basic doctrines.'' - Caspar W. Weinberger.  [ 1:5. ]

Quotation of the Day

LEAD:  International 3-11  After the U.S.-Soviet summit, President Reagan said he and Mikhail S. Gorbachev had established ''an entirely different relationship.'' The White House mood was a combination of exhaustion and exhilaration. Page 1  Strong differences on'Star Wars' remain between the United States and the Soviet Union despite President Reagan's assertion that the discussion about the issue was a victory for his position, officials said.

NEWS SUMMARY: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1987

LEAD: Eleven people, including four children, were killed today when a car bomb wrecked a barracks for Civil Guard families in this northern Spanish town.

11 KILLED BY BOMB IN NORTHERN SPAIN

LEAD: A report yesterday about the marriage of Richard Edward Gutman to Rosann Seasonwein misstated the bridegroom's former marital status.

CORRECTION

LEAD: The crossword puzzle clues yesterday omitted an entry for 33 down. It should have been Wag.

LEAD: The Sports of The Times column yesterday and its picture caption misidentified the former women's world darts champion. She is Sandy Reitan.

LEAD: Because of an editing error, an article yesterday about the New York State Thruway Authority misstated the amount needed by the authority to repair and maintain all roads and bridges by 1996. It is $1.71 billion.

Correction

LEAD: At least 57 schoolchildren on a holiday outing to a library were killed and 58 were injured today when their bus collided with a train at an unmarked crossing, hospital and security personnel said.  [ Reuters, quoting police sources, reported that the toll could reach 65. ]  Most of the victims were thought to be about 10 years old.

Egypt Bus Crash Kills At Least 57 Children

LEAD: The South African police imposed harsh restrictions today on Govan A. Mbeki, the former national chairman of the outlawed African National Congress, who was released from prison last month after serving 23 years of a life sentence for plotting to overthrow the Government.

South Africa Restricts a Freed Dissident

LEAD: The four leading presidential candidates united today in opposition to the army-dominated provisional Government and, in a hardening of their position, demanded that the Government step down.

Four Haiti Candidates Unite And Demand Regime Resign

LEAD: An article on Wednesday about the funeral of the author James Baldwin misstated the frequency of funerals held in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan. Funerals are held there regularly.

LEAD: Four decades ago, Antonio Cafiero was part of the feverish multitude that swept Juan Domingo Peron to power and set Argentina on a path of social and industrial change.

On Selling Peronism With No Peron and Little Ism

LEAD: The nation's two top opposition leaders called today for a nationwide dawn-to-dusk general strike Saturday to force the President, Lieut. Gen. H. M. Ershad to resign.

Bangladesh Opposition Urging National Strike

LEAD: As a convoy of oil tankers under United States Navy protection approached from the south, helicopter minesweepers from this American warship spent the last five days trolling their gear through the shipping channels of the northern Persian Gulf.

A Gulf Patrol: Tense Moods Despite a Lull

LEAD: An important committee of the General Assembly voted overwhelmingly today to condemn a Congressional attempt to close the Palestine Liberation Organization's observer mission here.

U.N. Panel Assails Congressional Move On P.L.O. Mission

LEAD: At least three more Palestinians were killed today by army gunfire in the occupied territories, and the army bolstered its forces there in anticipation of further disturbances.

December 12, 1987

Headlines from December 12, 1987

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Jascha Heifetz Is Dead at 86; A Virtuoso Since Childhood

Washington Summit Song Is Off Key for Weinberger

Texaco Stockholder Group Agrees With Pennzoil on $3 Billion Pact

Billboard 200

Dirty Dancing

Bad

Whitesnake

A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

Faith

Historical Context for December 12, 1987