LEAD: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries begins a crucial meeting here Monday after initial negotiations among its key oil ministers failed to bridge a wide gap between Iraq and Iran.

Meeting To Open on OPEC Rift

LEAD: The training program for New York City's new Police Cadet Corps was sharply revamped this year after a confidential report warned that the on-the-job experiences for the first group of recruits might have backfired.

Police Revise Training of New Cadet Corps

LEAD: Larry Davis won his second courtroom victory in nine months yesterday when a Bronx jury acquitted him of attempted murder of nine police officers in a blazing shootout in 1986.

Jury in Bronx Acquits Larry Davis In Shooting of Six Police Officers

LEAD: In a heavy, unending rain, the Philadelphia Eagles scored three odd touchdowns today and upset the Giants, 23-17, in overtime.

Giants' Overtime Loss Is Hard to Take

LEAD: Some nuclear energy experts fear the implications of an order by President Reagan providing for Government control of civilian nuclear plants in a national emergency.

A-Plant Orders: Is It a New Era?

LEAD: COMPANIES  The battle for RJR Nabisco took an unexpected turn. An investment group led by First Boston said it was considering an offer worth up to $26.8 billion, a bid that could be twice the previous highest price paid for a U.S. company. Nabisco extended the bidding deadline until Nov. 29, giving its three suitors time to reformulate their proposals.

BUSINESS DIGEST

LEAD: At a time when electric utilities are cautiously increasing their generating capacity and pondering the uncertainties of technologies like nuclear power, an experiment here in the cleaner burning of coal might provide a new option.

New Kentucky Power Plant Offers Cleaner Coal Option

LEAD: ONE wall of Brian O'Neill's office is lined with grainy posed portraits of hockey's legends. Their uniforms are simply striped, the blades of their sticks are straight, their noses and occasional teeth not quite so.

O'Neill Answers Calls of Violence

LEAD: rrWhy would the Government want to gag Michael Levine?

Metro Matters; A Book of Secrets And the Agent Who Told Them

LEAD: A fast, accurate and relatively inexpensive test for AIDS virus infection is close to receiving approval for use in doctors' laboratories and hospitals, industry executives, securities analysts and researchers said last week.

AIDS Test Ruling Seen For Company

LEAD:  New Afghan Talks Urged  As Mikhail S. Gorbachev concluded a visit to New Delhi, Soviet and Indian leaders said new talks on Afghanistan may be needed. Page A3.  Onassis Empire: No Change  Christina Onassis' death heralds no change in the family empire founded by her father, Aristotle S.

INSIDE

LEAD: The new B-2 Stealth bomber might be difficult for enemy radar to detect, but its effect on the Northrop Corporation has been impossible to miss.

Northrop At Key Point On Bomber

LEAD: The E train was the train of choice early yesterday morning for Ross Harper and dozens of other homeless people, who tried to sleep their way through the trip to nowhere that began and ended and began again at the 179th Street subway station in Jamaica, Queens.

For Shelter, Homeless Take the E Train

LEAD: The Bills turned a gloomy, rainy Sunday into a celebration. They clinched first place in the American Conference Eastern Division today in a 9-6 overtime victory over the Jets, launching an uninhibited outburst, with fans tearing down the goalposts and prancing.

Bills Clinch A.F.C. East Crown

LEAD: In the competitive world of professional and amateur sports, where the rewards are lucrative and victory is considered the only success, many athletes feel they are under increasing pressure to do whatever it takes to win. For some, that means using performance-enhancing drugs like anabolic steroids, which are a practical means of gaining an edge but also present the athletes with three troublesome questions:

Victory at Any Cost: Drug Pressure Growing

LEAD: The record bidding battle for RJR Nabisco Inc. took a new turn yesterday with the announcement that a dark-horse competitor was considering making an offer of $23.8 billion to $26.8 billion, a bid that would almost double the previous highest price paid for any corporation.

RJR NABISCO GETS A TENTATIVE OFFER ABOVE $23 BILLION

LEAD: Just after Richard R. Green was chosen to be the new Schools Chancellor of New York City, Mayor Koch offered to have Mr. Green's mother stay overnight at Gracie Mansion for her son's installation ceremony in March - or whenever she wished.

Schools Chancellor and Koch: Strain in a Wary Relationship

LEAD: President-elect Bush will retain Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and Education Secretary Lauro F. Cavazos, bringing to three the number of Reagan Cabinet officers he has selected to serve in his administration, senior Bush aides said today.

Thornburgh and Cavazos to Keep Cabinet Positions, Bush Aides Say

LEAD: Many dreadful sounds have reverberated through the yawning rotunda of the old Octagon on Roosevelt Island, the heart of New York City's first municipal insane asylum. But the noises that now shatter its silence are the final ones - as floors, walls and ceilings come crashing down.

A Historic Asylum Needs Urgent Care

LEAD: After years of criticizing what he called the failings and frustrations of Israel's ''national unity'' government, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said today that he was willing to join another one, even if Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir headed the government for its entire term.

PERES, REVERSING POSITION, ENTERS FULL LIKUD TALKS

LEAD: The New York State Attorney General's office and the Better Business Bureau are looking into the Creo Society, a producer of glittering charity fund-raising parties that attract affluent and prominent New Yorkers.

Gala Charity Faces Inquiry Over Funds

LEAD: Thomas F. Quinn, the suspected mastermind behind a huge securities fraud, has a secret worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Or so investigators believe.

Case of the Missing $500 Million

LEAD: A fire engine that came to the aid of a man who collapsed in a Queens restaurant arrived without emergency equipment that could have helped save his life, the Fire Department said yesterday.

A Fire Engine Lacks the Gear To Save a Life

LEAD: Agents with the Internal Revenue Service and the Securities and Exchange Commission over the weekend searched the account records of Blinder, Robinson & Company in Denver, the nation's largest penny-stock broker.

Records Searched at Penny-Stock Broker

LEAD: SOME lucky taxpayers will be able to file amended returns for 1987 and claim refunds as a result of retroactive provisions in the Technical Corrections and Miscellaneous Revenue Act of 1988, which President Reagan signed into law last week.

Tax Watch; Changes Allow Refunds for 1987

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November 21, 1988

Headlines from November 21, 1988

Meeting To Open on OPEC Rift

Police Revise Training of New Cadet Corps

Jury in Bronx Acquits Larry Davis In Shooting of Six Police Officers

Giants' Overtime Loss Is Hard to Take

A-Plant Orders: Is It a New Era?

Billboard 200

Rattle And Hum (Soundtrack)

Appetite For Destruction

Cocktail

New Jersey

Giving You The Best That I Got

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for November 21, 1988