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LEAD: The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 3 today that public school officials have broad power to censor school newspapers, plays and other ''school-sponsored expressive activities.''
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL Japan will work to reduce its interest rates, as the U.S. has wanted, Prime Minister Takeshita told President Reagan. Both countries also agreed to intensify efforts to halt the dollar's decline. The Japanese leader also made several conciliatory gestures on the trade disputes that have marred bilateral relations.
LEAD: ''Mayor'' (the musical) has come to City Hall, three years after its debut, two years after its closing, and in a version not likely to please its creator, Mayor Koch.
LEAD: Amid new allegations that New York City's school custodians are guilty of waste and job abuse, officials of the Board of Education say they will try to use current contract talks to weaken the grip of the custodians' powerful union.
LEAD: Israel expelled four West Bank Palestinians today, taking them by helicopter to a lonely mountain road in southern Lebanon.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 13, 1988, covering January 14, 1988.
George Michael
Soundtrack
Tiffany
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
1988Kacey Barnfield, English actress[†]
Kacey Louisa Barnfield, also credited as Kacey Clarke, is an English actress. As a teenager she played Maddie Gilks in the long running British television series Grange Hill, on which she was in six series. As an adult, her roles have included Crystal in the American action film Resident Evil: Afterlife, and Katie Sutherland in British comedy The Inbetweeners. In 2014, Clarke was listed as number 99 in FHM's 100 sexiest women in the world.
1988Hakeem Nicks, American football player[†]
Hakeem Amir Nicks is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the North Carolina Tar Heels, and was selected by the New York Giants in the first round of the 2009 NFL draft. Nicks has also played for the Indianapolis Colts.
1988Jack P. Shepherd, English actor[†]
Jack Peter Shepherd is an English actor. He is known for portraying the role of David Platt on the ITV soap opera Coronation Street since 2000. For his portrayal of David, he has won various awards, including the British Soap Award for Villain of the Year in 2008 and Best Actor in 2018. In 2025, he won the twenty-fourth series of Celebrity Big Brother.
1988Georgy Malenkov, Russian engineer and politician, 5th Premier of the Soviet Union (born 1902)[†]
Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov was a Soviet politician who briefly led the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin's death in 1953. After one week, Malenkov was forced to give up control of the party apparatus, but continued to serve as Premier of the Soviet Union. He then entered a power struggle with the party's First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev which culminated in Malenkov's removal from the premiership in 1955 as well as the Presidium in 1957.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]