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LEAD: THE adorable genius of Jean-Honore Fragonard looks perfectly at home in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
LEAD: IS it possible anymore for an audacious theater artist to go ''too far''? As experimental theater and performance activity reaches a peak of excitement around Manhattan this weekend, performers will be flinging down the gauntlet to fearless, inquiring audiences in work that tests as many different kinds of limits as there are artists willing to defy convention.
LEAD: Nicaraguan rebel officials today bitterly criticized the House vote denying the contras further aid but vowed to continue fighting.
LEAD: In a move to restore investor confidence in the stock market, the board of the New York Stock Exchange voted unanimously yesterday to restrict a form of computerized stock trading that had been blamed for accelerating the market's chaotic plunge in October.
LEAD: A small group of lawmakers in the House of Representatives is trying to block the sale of the Navy's most sophisticated air defense system to Japan, an export that would be worth at least $500 million.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 3, 1988, covering February 5, 1988.
George Michael
Tiffany
Soundtrack
INXS
Michael Jackson
1988Karin Ontiveros, Mexican model[†]
Karin Cecilia Ontiveros Meza is a Mexican TV host, model, sportscaster and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Nuestra Belleza México 2010 and represented Mexico at Miss Universe 2011.
1988Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.[†]
Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno was a Panamanian dictator and military officer who was the de facto ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989. He never officially served as president of Panama, instead ruling as an unelected military dictator through puppet presidents. Amassing a personal fortune through drug trafficking operations by the Panamanian military, Noriega had longstanding ties with American intelligence agencies before the U.S. invasion of Panama removed him from power.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]