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LEAD: The White House Chief of Staff, Howard H. Baker Jr., said today that President Reagan had no intention of asking Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d to resign because he is under investigation for his involvement in an Iraqi pipeline project.
LEAD: The rules governing many corporate takeovers are about to change dramatically, all with the stroke of a pen in Wilmington, Del. The state's Governor, Michael N. Castle, is expected to sign tomorrow a bill that makes unfriendly takeovers harder.
LEAD: The New York City Board of Education will be spared a 2.5 percent spending cut that the Koch administration plans to impose on all other city agencies, city and education officials said yesterday.
LEAD: The Washington Redskins' starters were about to be introduced today before Super Bowl XXII when Don Breaux, who coaches the running backs, walked over to Timmy Smith, his prize rookie.
LEAD: The most exciting Super Bowl in history may have been played in the second quarter of today's game here.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 27, 1988, covering February 1, 1988.
Tiffany
George Michael
Soundtrack
INXS
Michael Jackson
1988Brett Anderson, American baseball player[†]
Brett Franklin Anderson is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2009 to 2021 for the Oakland Athletics, Colorado Rockies, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, Toronto Blue Jays, and Milwaukee Brewers.
1988Heather O'Rourke, American child actress (born 1975)[†]
Heather Michele O'Rourke was an American child actress. She had her breakthrough starring as Carol Anne Freeling in the supernatural horror film Poltergeist (1982), which received critical acclaim and established her as an influential figure in the genre. She went on to reprise the role in Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986) and Poltergeist III (1988), the last of which was released posthumously.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]