LEAD: The Department of Energy said today that it would sharply reduce the amount of radioactive material it plans to bury in the nation's first permanent nuclear waste repository because of water leaks.

U.S. SCALES BACK PLAN FOR BURIAL OF ATOMIC WASTE

LEAD: Last Friday after third-period remedial math class, the teacher, Lynn Prestia, handed out paychecks to three of her Red Bank High students. To earn the money, they had attended class for five straight days, were on time, did the homework and brought their supplies. Travis Patton had two perfect weeks.

Our Towns; Where Students Make the Grade And $25 a Week

LEAD: With grace and a suggestion that he was available for the Vice-Presidential spot, Representative Jack F. Kemp withdrew from the Republican Presidential race today. He promised teary supporters that there was ''no way'' this would be his final bid for the White House.

Kemp Bows Out But Drops Hint On No. 2 Spot

WEEKENDER GUIDE

LEAD: Pressing his campaign for Arab-Israeli peace talks, Secretary of State George P. Shultz today urged Israel to rethink its concept of defense and to address the ''ticking demographic time bomb'' of an Arab population under occupation.

Shultz, Seeing Arab 'Time Bomb,' Urges Israelis to Rethink Borders

LEAD: In a cluster of garden apartments here, almost 200 people from across the country wait, hoping the heart or liver or kidney that they need will be found in time.

On the List, Awaiting a Call for a Transplant

BUSINESS DIGEST: FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1988

LEAD: Colt Industries said yesterday that its directors had approved a $660 million buyout led by senior management and a Morgan Stanley & Company investor group.

Colt to Go Private for $660 Million

LEAD: Faced with a steady cooling in America's love affair with Scotch whisky and other so-called brown goods, the Seagram Company Ltd. said yesterday that it would buy Tropicana Products Inc., makers of Tropicana orange juice, for $1.2 billion from the Beatrice Company.

Seagram to Buy Tropicana Products

INSIDE

LEAD: THE artist David Hockney peers down at a 17th-century Chinese scroll unrolled before him, depicting the emperor's voyage on the Grand Canal. As he leads us through the 72-foot-long painting, picking out bonsai-tree merchants and monks with begging bowls, he meditates about ways of seeing - including how the camera frame defines our vision in the very film we're watching.

New-Fashioned Films From Novice Directors

LEAD: FOR millions of people, the name Cole Porter is synonymous with ultra-sophisticated love songs like ''Night and Day,'' ''I Get a Kick Out of You,'' and ''What Is This Thing Called Love?,'' songs that examine passion with a jeweler's eye and a wry, incisive wit. But Porter connoisseurs, of which there are a growing number, are just as likely to dote on brilliant obscurities like ''The Tale of the Oyster,'' a parody of a Schubert song that was dropped from the 1929 show ''Fifty Million

A 12-Hour Marathon Of Porter Melodies

LEAD: He held on for dear life, as if a tornado were going to rise up at any moment and blow them out of the proper groove and -back to the Bronx! - ''The Bonfire of the Vanities,'' Tom Wolfe (1987)

Bonfire in Bronx!!! Wolfe Catches Flak!!!

LEAD: A task force appointed by the State Education Commissioner is expected to recommend that schools throughout New York be restructured to give teachers a greater decision-making role in areas ranging from textbook selection to hiring practices.

New York Panel to Urge Broader Role for Teachers

LEAD: The New Jersey Chancellor of Higher Education said today that he would convene a meeting of student and fraternity leaders across the state to re-examine the role of student organizations in the wake of the death of a Rutgers University freshman during a fraternity initiation party.

Jersey Examines Drinking On Its College Campuses

LEAD: Two years ago Igor Muradyan, a young economist living in Yerevan, joined a small group of Armenian intellectuals for what they took to be an exercise in democracy.

A Test of Change Explodes in Soviet

LEAD: Stock prices dropped sharply yesterday, with the Dow Jones industrial average falling 48.24 points to close at 2,026.03. That was the Dow's third-biggest point drop of the year.

48.24 DROP PUTS DOW AT 2,026,03

LEAD: As many as a dozen more subpoenas have been sent by the United States Attorney to current and former employees of Jamie Securities, the investment firm run by John A. Mulheren Jr., according to Wall Street professionals with knowledge of the Government investigation.

Jamie Subpoenas Reported; Trader Is Released to Clinic

LEAD: The price of oil has fallen by a sharp $3 a barrel in recent weeks, and some analysts predict that it could go lower by summer. But the major American oil companies, believing that the price drop is transitory, are significantly increasing their spending to find new oil and gas.

Search for New Oil Is Growing

LEAD: DINNER for two in the average New York restaurant has broken the three-digit barrier, and with a little imagination when it comes to wine, the damages could easily surpass $150. Add to that expense drinks before dinner, miscellaneous service tips, the coat check fees, cab fare, maybe a baby sitter and a trip to the dry cleaner afterward to get that chocolate stain out of your new silk tie, and you may resort to looting the Christmas

Where Two Can Dine for Under $50

LEAD: The Army and Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. have settled a four-year dispute over accusations that the Army was fraudulently overcharged for helicopter spare parts. The Army said today that Bell had agreed to pay the Government about $88 million.

BELL COPTER AND ARMY SETTLE CASE

LEAD: Senator Bob Dole tonight canceled his television advertisements for the Illinois primary. Several top aides urged him to concede the state, and thus almost certainly the Republican Presidential nomination, to Vice President Bush.

HE CANCELS TV ADS

LEAD: Suffolk County's civil suit against the Long Island Lighting Company accuses the utility of repeatedly lying to and filing false documents with regulatory commissions in its efforts to complete its Shoreham nuclear power plant.

Suffolk Suit Accuses Lilco Of Lying

LEAD: THE term ''the conventional wisdom'' has become so much a part of the language that people forget that the phrase was coined by John Kenneth Galbraith just 30 years ago in ''The Affluent Society.''

Economic Scene; Is 'Conventional Wisdom' Wise?

LEAD: Long the target of rumors that it would be forced to cut its dividend, the Manufacturers Hanover Corporation yesterday laid out the reasons it believes that move would be unnecessary.

Manufacturers Hanover Sees No Dividend Cut

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March 11, 1988

Headlines from March 11, 1988

U.S. SCALES BACK PLAN FOR BURIAL OF ATOMIC WASTE

Our Towns; Where Students Make the Grade And $25 a Week

Kemp Bows Out But Drops Hint On No. 2 Spot

WEEKENDER GUIDE

Shultz, Seeing Arab 'Time Bomb,' Urges Israelis to Rethink Borders

Billboard 200

Dirty Dancing

Faith

Kick

Tiffany

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Notable Births

Historical Context for March 11, 1988