LEAD: A Continental Airlines DC-9 jetliner crashed this afternoon while taking off in a severe snowstorm here, killing 26 people and injuring 56, officials said.

Plane Crashes in Snow at Denver; 26 of the 82 Aboard Are Killed

LEAD:  On Your Own: Skiing. If you give your skis a regular tuneup, you'll be able to leave your skiing partners in a cloud of powder, page C10.  Keeping Fit. Many scientists agree that, to be fit, you should burn 2,000 calories a week. How to stoke your furnace, page C11.

2 New Features In Sports Monday

LEAD: Diplomats who glance up on their way to the handball court or the hair salon at the new American embassy residential compound in Moscow see a defiant exclamation overhead.

Spy Scandal: U.S. Embassy Still Troubled

LEAD: Market results on a recent morning at the Hunts Point Terminal in the Bronx were, as always, mixed: radishes and papayas closed higher, spinach and cantaloupes took a dive, while leeks and lemons held about steady.

After Year as Cooperative, Hunts Point Assesses Gains

LEAD: The authorities are investigating at least 11 cases in which elderly patients at a Long Island hospital either died or encountered serious breathing difficulties while under the care of the same registered nurse, the president of the hospital said yesterday.

L.I. Hospital Investigates 11 Cases

LEAD: As calls for a new international meeting to help reassure world financial markets have increased in recent days, so has the debate about whether a currency agreement reached last February was the underlying cause of the stock market plunge last month.

New Questions About Louvre Pact

LEAD: The Kerr-McGee Corporation, after years of tests and studies, is spraying thousands of acres of pastureland in eastern Oklahoma with a fertilizer recycled from radioactive wastes.

Converted Radioactive Waste Used to Fertilize in Oklahoma

LEAD: Having suffered for months from a dearth of new bond issues and ruinous price-cutting, municipal bond departments on Wall Street predict a further contraction of the industry.

Municipal Bond Units In Retreat

LEAD: In the last weeks of her life, 5-year-old Tamika Greene had repeatedly been whipped with an electric cord, forced to overeat until she threw up, and finally poisoned. Last summer, her father was convicted in Manhattan of murdering her and another child.

The Other Victims: Four Case Studies of Fatal Child Abuse

LEAD:  Conflicting Computer Policy  Although the U.S. barred M.I.T. from buying a Japanese computer, the Air Force had previously installed a unit from the same company. Page D1.  Arc Is a Space Illusion  An enormous blue arc in the distant universe turns out be an optical illusion, astronomers said.

INSIDE

LEAD: The military contracting industry, which was riding high only several years ago as the Reagan Administration pursued the largest arms buildup in American peacetime history, is now heading into what may be its most difficult and competitive era.

Military Contractors Squeezed

LEAD: While most of her classmates are still asleep, Tareebia Wakley is up at 6 A.M. each weekday to get ready for a 45-minute bus ride from a motel in Poughkeepsie to Oakside Elementary School here.

Ordeal for Homeless Students in Suburbs

LEAD: Two months before the Defense Department blocked the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from obtaining a Japanese-made supercomputer, the Air Force installed a $33 million computer system built largely by the same manufacturer, according to Government and industry officials.

U.S. Policy Conflict on Computers

LEAD: The Senate is poised to approve a major housing bill for the first time in seven years, setting up a possible veto battle with President Reagan, who says the legislation is a budget-buster.

REAGAN VOWS VETO

LEAD: The two-seater, $55,000 Allante model was billed as the ''new spirit of Cadillac'' when it was introduced last March. But judging from sales thus far, the spirit may still be willing, but consumer interest is weak.

Cadillac's Allante Is Struggling to Find Its Niche

LEAD: SOONER or later, the cycles get them all. The Game - Harvard versus Yale - is a good excuse to tailgate, but usually produces little more than the bragging rights for beleaguered heads of commerce. The Big Game - California versus Stanford - makes national news only when a student musician is run over at the end of a last-second kickoff return.

Still Big After All These Years

LEAD: Since the day President Reagan sent his $1 trillion dollar 1988 budget to Congress last January, Democratic leaders and some Republicans in Congress have called for a meeting with Mr. Reagan on deficit reduction.

Deficit Talks: Politics Takes Seat at Table

LEAD: Hard experience has taught the nation's bankers to be skeptical of Congress. Still bitter about the moratorium on expanded banking businesses that was imposed by Congress last summer, they have started a new lobbying campaign to defend their industry's interests on Capitol Hill.

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LEAD: It wasn't a pretty game, but the Jets' 16-9 victory over Kansas City this afternoon may have convinced Coach Joe Walton that leadership and emotion - qualities he has believed to be missing - have returned to the team.

McNeil, Klecko Power the Jets

LEAD: The United States has accepted a Soviet offer to inspect several old radars that some conservative senators have asserted may violate the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, Administration officials said today.

U.S., After a Debate, Accepts Soviet Offer To Examine Radars

LEAD: From outside, the building in Corona, Queens, looked as if it had been abandoned years ago. A layer of grime coated the windows and a rusting metal grate stretched across the storefront. But Charles DeSiervo knew better. He found a battered door on the side and pushed it open.

New York Is Fighting Spread of Sweatshops

LEAD: A punishing, back-and-forth struggle between the Giants and Eagles that sidelined Lawrence Taylor, Joe Morris and Brad Benson came down to a bare-footed kicker's 39-yard field-goal attempt today.

Giants Beat Eagles On Allegre's Kicks

LEAD: The stock market's historic collapse on Oct. 19 so far appears to have caused barely a ripple in the spending habits of people who like imported cars, exotic vacations and high fashion.

Big-Ticket Purchasing Seems Steady, for Now

LEAD: The comments and questions from the audience about last week's public repudiation of Boris N. Yeltsin by the Communist Party bristled with anger and disillusionment.

MOSCOW FORUM AUDIENCE RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT THE YELTSIN AFFAIR

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November 16, 1987

Headlines from November 16, 1987

Plane Crashes in Snow at Denver; 26 of the 82 Aboard Are Killed

2 New Features In Sports Monday

Spy Scandal: U.S. Embassy Still Troubled

After Year as Cooperative, Hunts Point Assesses Gains

L.I. Hospital Investigates 11 Cases

Billboard 200

Dirty Dancing

Tunnel Of Love

Bad

Whitesnake

A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

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Historical Context for November 16, 1987