Nov 11, 1997 9:05 AM

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Dan Rather, anchor for the CBS Evening News, least-viewed among the increasingly irrelevant major-network news shows, has signed a reported $7-million-a-year deal to stay with the network through 2002. Rather, 66, CBS News anchor since Cronkite stepped down in 1981, had been contemplating a leap to CNN.

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